Tag Archives: App Store

STOP RUNNING FOR ONE SECOND! In a not-so-shocking move, Temple Run 2 is will be available to play from tomorrow on North American iOS devices.

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The Pickford Bros, the duo behind successful iOS sports/puzzle game Magnetic Billiards, have released a video today revealing how they designed the game using just a piece of chalk and a chalkboard.

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Apple has provided a list of apps for iPhone and iPad which have been downloaded the most for specific regions, and the most prominent offerings on the list are games with Angry Birds the top of the pops.

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Following a report earlier that suggested an eReader sub-service would be introduced for Wii U, The Daily has said Nintendo is planning to introduce a “full blown” app store for the machine.

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The reliability of Apple’s App Review Board has been brought into question with the revelation that an apparently unplayable and blatantly copyright infringing title has managed to slip through the system unnoticed.

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Halfbrick have released a free update for its popular iOS title Jetpack Joyride.

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id Software has celebrated the Rage Facebook page reaching 100,000 ‘likes’ by making its iOS title available for free until August 24. Not something to get angry about, unless you have an Android handset.

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Are you tired of all those obsessively, overly heterosexual male characters in video games? Then you might want to scope out Supergay, which the developer says is the first gay superhero.
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Thanks to a new consumer protection law recently passed in Taiwan, Apple has agreed to implement a new 7-day return policy in the App Store in that country. The rest of the world is still waiting though.

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It’s more E3 shorts.

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Devices like the iPhone have taken the gaming world by storm as of late, but we’d be lying if we said the tiny tech titan hadn’t made a few enemies along the way. BioShock creator Ken Levine, however, thinks that those who view this as some sort of industry-damning app-ocalypse need to pull their heads out of the sand. Like it or not, the future is now. Adapt or get left behind.

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Some things in life are hard to explain. This post isn’t one of them. It’s just more shorts. .

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That incredibly high-budget-looking game’s price tag says “free,” does it?

Wait! Don’t buy it! It’s a trap!

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Apple has announced that there are now over 100,000 Appalicious offerings available on the App Store.

That’s a lot of games and applications, there.

“The App Store has forever changed the mobile gaming industry and continues to improve,” said Travis Boatman, VP of EA Mobile. “With a global reach of over 50 million iPhone and iPod touch users, the App Store has allowed us to develop high quality EA games that have been a huge success with customers.”

Full PR mail after the break.

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A free version of Puzzle Quest will be hitting iPhone and iPod Touch’s App Store next week.

Also, Chapter 2 of the iPhone Puzzle Quest trilogy will be free to owners of Chapter 1, and will include 20 more hours of gameplay when it goes live in the next week or two.

If you like puzzle games on the go, it may be worth looking into.

In a telephone interview with the New York Times, Apple mogul Steve Jobs has said that there will be around 160 games for iPhone when the App Store launches later today.

The piece says that 500 applications will be released in total, and that a third of those will be games. Our crack team of gibbering monkeys makes that around 160 titles all together.

The better news is that around 90 percent of these game will sell for $9.99 or less so there should be something for everyone.

“The reaction we have gotten so far has been really strong,” Jobs said. “The quality and the sophistication of the applications you can write for the iPhone is in a different class.”

More through the link.

By Mike Bowden