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Zen Bound 2 coming in time for the iPad launch?

peej@allabouttheiphone.net — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:41:23 +0000

Secret Exit Studios' string-wrapping chillout game could be an impressive launch title indeed

Many of you seemed to miss out on Zen Bound, a game that showed off the 3D capabilities of the iPhone / iPod Touch to good effect. Basically a game that centred around wrapping solid objects in string to re-paint them, it's easy to see why Zen Bound picked up a cult following but didn't win many fans amongst the boob-jiggling-app brigade.
Now Zen Bound 2 is imminent, and it looks like the game's being touted as a launch title for Apple's new iPad. The bigger screen and faster processor should mean that string-wrappers get something of a treat.

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Raging Thunder 2 hits the iTunes store

peej@allabouttheiphone.net — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:12:29 +0000

Polarbit are on fire today!

We've already reported on Polarbit's sublime top-down racer Deliverace so we might as well let you know that Raging Thunder 2, the team's other racing game, has hit the iTunes store.

Looking very much like an iPhone version of classic Burnout, Raging Thunder 2 looks blisteringly fast and smooth.

Polarbit certainly look like a team to keep a close eye on. In the meantime, here's some footage of the game in action:

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Deliverace kicks the top-down racer genre up a notch on iPhone and iPod Touch

peej@allabouttheiphone.net — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:50:38 +0000

Sadly no banjo-playing freakazoids were in evidence, just super-smooth racers

New iPhone / iPod Touch racer Deliverace looks very like an old PC top-down racer, Ignition. And that's no bad thing.

Developers Pixelbite are rabid fans of games like Micro Machines and Mashed, so expect similar shenanigans in Deliverace (ace name!) The dirtiest tricks will win the day, as you and your opponents vie for top honours in deliciously designed mini racing tracks.

As ever, my babble doesn't do the game justice but perhaps this video will:

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EcoPunk also available free for 24 hours

HairyArse@allabouttheiphone.net — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:46:00 +0000

Grab it while it's hot

Nitako, the developer behing the excellent Rasta Monkey today confirmed that its brilliant isometric clean-em-up Eco Punk is available for the bargain price of zilch!

With UniWar also free for today, it's a great time to be an iPhone / iPod Touch owner.

Download by clicking the following:

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UniWar available gratis for 24 hours

HairyArse@allabouttheiphone.net — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:40:00 +0000

That's free to you and me

Awesome litte Advance Wars-esque strategy game, UniWar, on the iPhone and iPod Touch is now free for 24 hours.

This deceptively deep, turn-based strategy title was one of the first iPhone games to feature asynchronous gameplay with push alerts used to indicate when it's your turn.

With three races to select from and tons of different modes and settings to choose from, it's a fantastic package and one I'd wholeheartedly encourage you to buy at full price, never mind for free.

Why are you even still reading? Go and download it already.

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New gizmo turns iPhone/Touch into IR remote control

HairyArse@allabouttheiphone.net — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:36:47 +0000

Control your whole world using your phone

Hardware and software developer Thinkflood today took the wrapping off its cool new device, the RedEye mini, for the iPhone/iPod Touch.

This tiny IR 'dongle' plugs into your iPhone's 3.5mm earphone jack, leaving the docking port free, and when combined with the free RedEye app allows you to use your iPhone and iPod Touch as an all-on-one universal remote control. Using this combination of hardware and software it's possible to control your TV, AV Receiver, Blu-Ray player, DVD player etc etc.

And with plenty of customis...

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Canabalt developers are releasing Gravity Hook on iPhone / iPod Touch

peej@allabouttheiphone.net — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:42:32 +0000

Play it now for free on PC if you fancy a preview

I didn't like Canabalt, but there's no denying that Semi Semi Secret games are a talented bunch.

Before they produced Canabalt, they wrote a superb little flash game called Gravity Hook. Now it looks like you'll be able to play this on iPhone and iPod Touch soon - but here's a free PC preview of the game to get you hooked (hah, see what I did there? I made a funny).

Here's the URL for Gravity Hook HD. You can play it in a "virtual" iPhone-shaped window, and I DEFY you to see if you can last an entire lunch b...

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Apple Contemplates Explicit Category for App Store

HairyArse@allabouttheiphone.net — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:02:02 +0000

The will it or won't it saga continues

Apple has been in the headlines a lot this week for its recent purge on all things naughty and salacious on the iTunes App Store.

The main bone of contention seems to revolve around Apple's supposed 'selective' removal of certain apps created by lesser-known companies. Meanwhile, apps by such celebrated publications as Playboy, Sports Illustrated, Zoo and Nuts magazine remain unscathed.

This tale took another turn towards the unexpected yes...

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PopCap giving away Peggle Nights

HairyArse@allabouttheiphone.net — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:08:02 +0000

For free. Gratis.

PopCap Games is giving away copies of its sublime Peggle Nights to anyone that signs up for its newsletter.

To qualify for this awesome freebie you simply need to head on over to the official PopCap Games website, click "Get our Newsletter" from the bottom right hand corner. Follow the on-screen directions to sign up for a free account. Wait for it to be verified and you'll be rewarded with a download of the full game to either use yourself or email to a friend.

If you've never played Peggle before, firstly, where the h...

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No Nazi Zombies for Infinity Ward's side of the CoD franchise

HairyArse@allabouttheiphone.net — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:00:33 +0000

Boosters the world over hand their heads

Robert Bowling, community manager for Infinity Ward, this week confirmed that the developer has absoultely no plans to follow in stable-mate Treyarch's foot-steps by releasing any Nazi Zombie addon packs for Modern Warfare 2.

In an emphatic statement released to IGN, Bowling said that:
"There will be no Nazis or zombies in any piece of Modern Warfare 2 downloadable content." which sounds fairly final to me.

Treyarch's Nazi Zombie addons have proved to be massively popular with the World at War community and have no doubt made a considerable su...

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iPhone Street Fighter IV Footage Surfaces

HairyArse@allabouttheiphone.net — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:18:44 +0000

Looks surprisingly authentic

When Capcom first announced the development of the seminal Street Fighter IV for the iPhone and iPod Touch, we all laughed and asked if they had been smoking illegal substances. But the first footage of the full game in action has surfaced and it actually looks surprisingly close to its console siblings.

With an on-screen virtual d-pad and buttons it still looks somewhat clunky and awkward but I can't help but be impressed by how authentic it looks.

Street Fighter IV is due fo...

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Major game publishers "completely ignoring / not concerned with" copyright-infringing apps

peej@allabouttheiphone.net — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:54:19 +0000

Want to make a fast buck? Throw together some game cheats into an app and flog 'em.

For 59p, pick a subject and you can pretty much guarantee that there's a slide puzzle on the apps store based on it. Using the basic dev kit, it's extremely quick and easy to knock up a saleable (!) app to flog on iTunes (and seemingly gain blanket approval by Apple).

More worryingly the same approach is being adopted by several app sellers. Using intellectual properties belonging to some of the biggest publishers in the games industry, app store sellers are able to produce game guides, hints and cheat applications. Often these come with imagery, screengrabs and icons ripp...

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Apple talks "boob app" cull numbers

peej@allabouttheiphone.net — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:37:09 +0000

"At least 5000 apps" have been dropped, says Big A

After the recent cull, Apple's moralistic crusade against sexually explicit content now has at least 5000 casualties. Previously approved apps have been unceremoniously removed from the store.

And yet...

Some notably big names seem to have slipped the net. Major publishers seem immune to the cull, with Playboy, Nutz, Zoo and FHM apps all seemingly still available from the apps store despite breaking some of the new app submission criteria detailed below.

Apps must not feature:

* images of women in bikinis
* image...

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Apple slams the barn door after the scantily clad horse has bolted

peej@allabouttheiphone.net — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:41:31 +0000

"banhammer" for tittilating titles, but also a few good games have been caught in the crossfire

Apple has had enough of your naked slide puzzles, your boob wiggling applications and your sexy trivia crap. That's the bottom (titter) line and Apple's new application screening process, coming a little late some might say, has been issuing swift and moralistic justice right across the iTunes apps store.

ChilliFresh's Wobble iBoobs has been removed, with the developers sent a polite but finger-wagging mail that said:

"The App Store continues to evolve, and as such, we are constantly refining our guidelines. Your application, Wobble iBoobs (Premium...

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Ubisoft brings Rayman to your iPhone / iPod Touch

peej@allabouttheiphone.net — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:10:40 +0000

Oh god. Oh no, please no. Oh mercy! Please! Look, take my wallet, my wife, anything. Just noooo please.

Rayman! He's cute, he's cuddly, he has no limbs to speak of but he led something of a gaming revolution in the late nineties, early noughties. Winning millions of fans the world over, the cheeky gallic chappie has been sorely missed.

Sorry, sarcasm filter off. Rayman. You remember him, the infinitely smiling little bastard who jumped, slid and waved his way through several games before being hopelessly upstaged by a bunch of raving cartoon rabbi(d)ts.

Now you can relive the glory days on your iPhone / iPod Touch as Ubisoft are reviving Michel Ancel's hilar...

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Word Crasher mini review

peej@allabouttheiphone.net — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:53:49 +0000

Kevin Ng's superb word-game-vs-puzzler plays like a dream

Two things really float my boat on the iPod Touch when it comes to games. Word games - basically because anything that keeps my addled brain ticking over can only be a good thing, and physics games - because I like watching things slowly topple over and break.

Word Crasher for the iPhone / iPod Touch certainly ticks the first box and nudges the second, offering a new twist on the multitude of games vying for your attention and offering a very similar challenge, to take lettered tiles and form words from them.

Word Crasher feels a little like a cross between T...

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Gameloft Releases Brothers In Arms 2: Global Front

HairyArse@allabouttheiphone.net — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:19:36 +0000

Because we can't get enough WWII action.

Prolific mobile publisher GameLoft has certainly been curling the games out of late. And that trend continues as it this week released its latest iPhone / iPhone Touch WWII first person shooter Brothers In Arms 2:Global Front.

With 13 levels set across 5 locations there's certainly plenty on offer here. The game features vehicular combat with tanks, off-roaders and gliders all at your disposal. And there's no shortage of weaponry either, with the typical WWII machine guns, bazookas, sniper rifles and no doubt Call of Duty: World at War inspired flame throwers.

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Street Fighter IV coming to iPhone

HairyArse@allabouttheiphone.net — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:46:20 +0000

No, really.

Capcom has confirmed its plans to release seminal fighting game Street Fighter IV on Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch.

Few details have been confirmed other than that the game will be controlled using a virtual pad and buttons, which for a game as precise as SFIV is, seems a potential banana skin. But we'll reserve judgement until we've played it in full.

The game uses the sames assets as the console and arcade versions, though will obviously be toned down somewhat in order to run perfectly on what's clearly, a relatively speaking, limited hardware spec.
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Crazy Cat serves up a Wario-Ware-Esque experience on your iPhone

peej@allabouttheiphone.net — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:03:53 +0000

Dismember teddies? Someone call the Daily Mail!

I'm quite surprised no one's already done a Wario Ware knock off on the iPhone. Or maybe they have and they're hiding their light under a bushel.

No such behaviour from the developers of Crazy Cat which serves up the same minigame madness beloved of WarioWare titles on nintendo's hand helds. Looks exceedingly mental but that sort of game usually does well on the iPhone anyway so take a look.

Trailer:

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Steamballs applies an impossible amount of polish to the match-three game

peej@allabouttheiphone.net — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:57:18 +0000

Pool balls and clockwork steampunkery antics on your iPhone / iPod Touch

Like 'em or not, there are a lot of match-3 games on the iTunes Apps Store and it seems like everyone's looking for a new hook or wrinkle to make you buy their particular game.

Steamballs chooses to give players impossibly polished heath-robinsonesque machinery behind the basic match 3 concept, with a superbly rendered clockwork pool-ball-matching machine acting as the playing field for this puzzler.

You can see the teaser trailer for this potentially interesting game below. Of course, it'll all boil down to price in the end but fair play to the developers...

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