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March 10, 2010

Games On Sale Today: GT Racing: Motor Academy, Sparkle, And Where’s Waldo?

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Wednesdays are apparently about games, games, and more games.  This morning we showed you a couple of quality games that were available for free, and now we have some quality games that are on sale.

GT Racing: Motor Academy ($6.99 -> $4.99): Gameloft’s racing simulator features a massive Career mode that will start you off by teaching you the driving basics and then sending you all around the world to compete on 14 different tracks. By winning races you will earn money to buy new cars and equipment, which will allow you to purchase new cards and equipment.

The game also features an Arcade mode, three different control schemes including accelerometer controls, the ability to view and upload replays to YouTube, online multiplayer, and over 100 licensed cars from 25 manufacturers.

GT Racing: Motor Academy’s price drop appears to be permanent.

Sparkle the Game ($2.99 -> $.99): From the creators of Azkend, Sparkle features familiar orb shooting gameplay where your launcher is in a fixed position on the map and you must fire like colored orbs in order to match three or more to clear the trail before they reach the hole.  You can switch the color of the orb you are firing by tapping the launcher, and tapping on an area of the map will launch the orb.

We have an in-depth review available for Sparkle if you would like to see how it compares to other orb shooters.

Sparkle the Game is on sale for a very limited time.

Where’s Waldo? The Fantastic Journey ($2.99 -> $.99): The most famous search and find book series available for the iPhone.  The game also you to scour the virtual globe in search of Waldo and his many friends.  It features hundreds of hidden items to locate within 12 different worlds.  It also contains other features that are meant to challenge your skills, such as paint splatters, screen shakes, and image flipping.

We also have an in-depth review available for Where’s Waldo? The Fantastic Journey.

Where’s Waldo? The Fantastic Journey is on sale for a limited time.

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March 9, 2010

Games On Sale Today: Mission: Deep Sea, FIFA 10, Deer Hunter 3D, And Diner Dash

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Since there really aren’t any new quality free games to talk about today, we went with a game sale post instead.  Getting a steal of a deal is better than nothing, right?

Mission: Deep Sea ($2.99 -> $.99): Developed by Hiccup Studios and published by Chilling, Mission: Deep Sea allows you to explore a beautiful 3D world beneath the sea as a turtle.  You will be controlling your turtle via multi-touch controls, with each of your fingers basically acting as the turtle’s fins.  It’s a rather neat experience.

Missions consist of getting to certain points on the map within a limited amount of time.  You can share your best times and challenge friends via Chillingo’s Crystal social network.

Mission: Deep Sea will be on sale for a limited time.  This is the game’s lowest price since launch.

FIFA 10 ($6.99 -> $4.99): FIFA 10 features a total of 30 leagues, 570 teams, and 12,620 players from all around the world.  And, if none of those 12,620 players interest you, you can always create and customize your very own superstar.  The entire list of teams and leagues included in the game at EA’s Facebook page.

EA hasn’t stated whether or not this is a permanent price drop or a limited time sale, so just pick this one up as soon as possible if you are looking for some mobile soccer action.

Deer Hunter 3D ($2.99 -> $1.99): Based on the hit PC game from Atari, Deer Hunter 3D features some of the best looking animals and hunting environments on the iPhone.  The game features tons of different animals to hunt, including deer, turkey, bear, and moose across four environments and 30 detailed locations.  Seasons and weather conditions change as you are on the hunt, and new weapons and skills can be unlock by bagging big kills.

The game also features the ability to view your grandest of achievements in the trophy room and the ability to brag and share them with friends.

Deer Hunter 3D is on sale for a limited time.  This is the game’s lowest price ever.

Diner Dash ($4.99 -> $2.99): The hit diner serving game has a whole new enhanced look and feel.  Tap, touch, or slide of your finger to seat and serve your customers as fast as possible in order to help Flo grow her diner into a 5-star joint.

The game features 50 challenging levels and five locations.  A brand-new restaurant with 10 additional levels can be obtained for $.99 as an in-app purchase.

Diner Dash is on sale for a limited time.  This matches the game’s lowest price ever.

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March 4, 2010

Adam’s Trouble Goes Free For A Limited Time

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Good news for all of you fans of  little addictive games, iPhone game developer Emantras is running a promotion today and is making Adam’s trouble, its top selling game, free for a limited time.

Adam’s trouble, which we mentioned back in January, consists of making Adam, the orange creature featured above, jump from platform to platform while avoiding toxic fuels. Here is a demo:

It’s free for a limited time, so go get it now.

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Vlingo 2.0 – Power Of Your Voice

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Voice activated apps are becoming a very popular category for the iPhone with standouts like Dragon Dictate and Siri commanding space on many iPhone home screens. One of the first apps in this category, Vlingo, has undergone some improvements eliminating the multitasking required to import your dictated content from app to app.

The popularity of these types of apps are obvious. It’s a great way to increase your efficiency without having to navigate menus and buttons and also serves as a safer alternative to using your device while driving. Push a button. Say your command and the application handles the rest. Although speech recognition isn’t 100% perfect, the makers of the app do promise that the app learns your tendencies and corrects them over time. Like Dragon, you’re also prompted to an optional loading of your contacts to Vlingo’s servers to improve recognition.

With this latest offering, Vlingo has undergone some minor UI changes and now sports a big dictation button that you can press and hold or tap and speak to begin your commands. Using commands like “call”, “search,” “Facebook/Twitter update,”or “text/email,” you can perform web searches (Google, Yahoo or Bing), update your status on social networks or send messages to anyone.

Although the app is free, the messaging functions will constitute an in-app purchase costing you $6.99 for either SMS or Email or you can get both services for $9.99. The benefit of this feature is that the messaging is integrated into the app to facilitate transmitting the message, and helping to reduce further multitasking . Emails are easily sent in app while SMS is streamlined with one button copy and paste into your messaging app.

Depending on your need for a streamlined messaging experience, Vlingo does offer great value to the iPhone user when it comes to voice assisted applications. And at a cost of nothing, it’s worthy of a look and spot in that valuable iPhone home screen space.

Vlingo is available for free, now in the App Store.

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March 3, 2010

MacHeist Returns: Offers 7 Mac Apps For Less Than $20

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Software bundle website, MacHeist, has unveiled its latest offer. The ‘nanoBundle2‘ was made public as midnight struck on Wednesday, revealing a range of seven Mac OS X applications.

For those unaware, a typical MacHeist promotion sees a number of Mac applications being made available at a discount rate (sometimes even for free), but only for a limited time. Following a build-up of teasing tweets this past week, the bundle is now available, with the latest collection of software including:

MacJournal (Retail: $39.95)

Writing software, MacJournal, from Mariner Software is an Apple Design Award winning application which claims to be perfect for any amount of writing, whether that’s just a quick small list, a more detailed blog entry or a full-on book.

RipIt (Retail: $19.95)

RipIt is a simple DVD importing tool from ‘the little app factory.’ The application aims to make the process of importing your DVD collection onto your Mac as simple as it is for CD’s. You can even compress your DVD’s for portable use on an iPhone.

Clips (Retail: $27)

Ever went to copy something and suddenly stopped, remembering that you may already have something stored on your computers clipboard? Conceited Software are offering clipboard management application, Clips, as the solution to just that problem.

CoverScout (Retail: $39.95)

Equinux’s CoverScout is one of several currently available apps that will take an ever-growing iTunes library, then find and replace any missing cover-art. Developers Equinux claim that due to the visual nature of humans, music with no cover-art is more likely to be ignored when browsing your collection.

Flow (Retail: $25)

Flow is an FTP client from Extendmac which boasts not just a fresh clean user interface but also claims to take advantage of the latest OS X technologies. Beyond its basic FTP capabilities, Flow also has live editing and other development tools. It also is an Apple Design Award winner.

Tales Of Monkey Island (Retail: $34.95)

Although currently locked, Telltale Games’ adventure title Tales Of Monkey Island will be unlocked for all MacHeist customers once 50,000 bundles have been sold. Once that goal has been reached, six episodes of pirate based fun will be yours.

RapidWeaver (Retail: $79)

RapidWeaver, the last application in the latest MacHeist bundle, is a website creation tool from Realmac Software. The application has similarities to that of Apple’s iWeb.

The nanobundle2 is available now for just seven days, so if you were looking to buy any of the above applications now would clearly be a good time. If you were to purchase each of the included applications separately it would cost an excess of $266. So buying through MacHeist not only donates money to charities (over $1.5 million since the heist’s began), but it could also save you up to $246!

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February 12, 2010

Low Grav Racer 2 Goes Free For A Limited Time

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A quick note to notify you that the great racing game, Low Grav Racer 2, reviewed last month by Trevor, is now available for free for a limited time.

As a reminder:

Low Grav Racer 2 is another great racing game for the iPhone, and is right near the top with Asphalt 5 for arcade racers. If you like a futuristic theme akin to F-Zero it may put this game over the top. The races are fun and provide the most challenge of any racing game in the App Store.

Just go grab it. It’s free, you can’t go wrong.

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February 8, 2010

Tapulous’ Riddim Ribbon with The Black Eyed Peas Now Available in App Store

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Riddim Ribbon, featuring the Black Eyed Peas [$2.99 - iTunes link] has just boom, boom, pow’ed its way onto the iTunes App Store.

Created by Tapulous, the developers behind Tap Tap Revenge, it brings the type of high octane, musical, iPhone and iPod touch-optimized gameplay they’re famous for but takes it in a whole new direction — first person front facing racetrack forward!

Bundled tracks:

  • Boom Boom Pow
  • I Gotta Feeling
  • Meet Me Halfway
  • 8 remixes

Downloadable levels ($0.99):

  • Tiësto: Louder Than Boom
  • Tiësto: Escape Me
  • Benny Benassi: Satisfaction

Also noteworthy:

  • “For a limited time only: purchase the game and get a FREE MP3 download of a Meet Me Halfway remix, downloaded straight to your iTunes!”

Video after the break, and if you try Riddim Ribbon out, let us know what you think!

[via 9to5mac]

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75% Chance iPhone Remains AT&T Exclusive iPhone Carrier in 2010

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Credit Suisse Research analyst Jonathan Chaplin thinks we can expect Apple’s iPhone to remain exclusive to AT&T for an additional 12-18 months, long past some people’s expectations (and recent rumors). Not only will it remain exclusive, Chaplin says, but the delay will have a major negative impact on Verizon, causing him to lower his rating on Big Red from “Outperform” to “Neutral” and cut his share price target from $32 to $30.

“Our analysis suggests that Apple will eventually sell the device at all carriers; however, there is a much greater probability that AT&T keeps exclusivity for another 12-18 months than investors realize,” Chaplin wrote. “We think this has profound impacts for Apple, the carriers and the other handset OEMs.”

Credit Suisse is 75% certain that AT&T will keep their stranglehold on iPhone for the rest of this calendar year.

“We conclude there is only a 50% probability that it (exclusivity) ends in 2010,” Chaplin wrote. “Next, we try to determine whether AT&T bids for another year of exclusivity if exclusivity does end in 2010. We conclude they would and they can afford to compensate Apple such that Apple would be economically indifferent. Our approach yields a 25% probability for this outcome. Taken together, we see a 75% probability that AT&T keeps exclusivity for another year.”

Those of us here at TiPb have often wondered “analyst” predictions were any more reliable than magic 8-ball results, so we will ask you, our readers — will we ever see an iPhone on Verizon or is Steve out to bury them for rejecting the iPhone the first time around? Sound off in the comments!

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Quick App: Doodle Army

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If cartoon violence is something you love, then Doodle Army [$0.99 - iTunes Link] might be right up your alley. It provides more comical 2D side-scrolling cartoon action than any other game I’ve found in the App Store.

The object is simple — keep progressing while disabling all of the attacking stick figures. You start out with four different locations, including Boot Camp, Rice Paddy, Beach Bunker, and Sand Dune. 25 different weapons are at your disposal that will vary by location. Weapons such as a pistol, shotgun, assault rifle, machine gun, grenade launcher, and even flame thrower are all included. You are even given a choice of control style with two different options, shooting at tap/drag or use of an onscreen dial.

At the end of the day, Doodle Army is a pretty decent game for the money. It provides you with some nice variability with the included weapons and landscapes which will help keep your interest in playing. If you are a fan of 2D side scrolling games along with a low price price, Doodle Army is worth checking out.

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January 28, 2010

Classics Developers Proud To Have Influenced iBooks, App Available For Free For A Limited Time (Updated)

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Update: So there is a bit more to this story than once thought.  Apparently Delicious Library, a media manager for Mac OS X created by Delicious Monster, was the first known piece of software to use a virtual bookshelf to display content.  According to TechCrunch, Wil Shipley, the founder of Delicious Monster, believes Apple borrowed the idea for iBooks without licensing it.  This is fairly believable considering some of Delicious Monster’s original employees actually work for Apple.

It’s possible that Apple took the design from Delicious Monster, and it’s possible that the Classics developers did so as well, but in the end it’s a difficult argument to make.  I mean, where would you put virtual books?  On a virtual bookshelf, right?

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During yesterday’s iPad presentation, it became apparent that Apple’s iBooks UI designers were at least somewhat influenced by iPhone developers Andrew Kaz and Phill Ryu’s Classics eBook reader design.  But honestly, how couldn’t they be?  Classics has a simple and elegant UI that makes it a joy to use.  Instead of getting upset over the similarities, Andrew Kaz and Phill Ryu are actually proud to have influenced Apple’s iBooks design, and have decided to thank all of their supporters by allowing everyone to download their app for free for a limited time.

Classics‘ bookshelf design looks a lot like Apple’s iBooks‘ and it acts pretty much the same as well.  You can view all of the books on your virtual bookshelf with a simple flick up or down, tap on a book to open it, and tap and hold to drag and sort your books.

Classics also features an intuitive  interface that allows you to flip virtual 3D pages by dragging your finger across the screen.  The pages track your finger’s movements, so you are able to peek at the next page while finishing a sentence if you wish.  You can also view how far along you are in a book via a progress bar at the top of the page, and the app is able to remember your place in a book when you close out of it and marks it with a satin bookmark.

The app contains a wide variety of classic books, such as The Time Machine, Gulliver’s Travels, Dracula, Pride and Prejudice, The Art of War, and many more.

Classics is normally available in the App Store for $2.99, but you can download it right now for free.

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