Posts Tagged ‘preview’
Monsoon Multimedia Devices Now Support iOS
Fifteen years ago the concept of watching television when not in the home seem farfetched at best. To put it quite frankly, why would you want to watch television outside of the home to begin with? This is why technology has transformed the way that we live our daily lives. The question is whether that [...]
Space Storms Can Be Your Eye In The Sky
Have you ever heard the weatherman refer to solar flares and wondered to yourself just what the heck he’s talking about? Well now is the chance for you to jump into the meteorologist’s chair, with the new iOS software, Space Storms. As hard as it may be to believe, the weather that takes place up [...]
Apollo-Browser for iPad Brings Facebook Chat to Life
Let’s face it folks, the iPad Safari broswer leaves something to be desired in the integration department. Once such area that has previously fallen flat is Facebook Chat from within the browser. But what if there were a way to get high quality browser experience, while also getting your social interaction in the same place? [...]
E3 TransGaming Studios Hands-On: KULA BLOX
Have you ever had one of those dreams where you were in a free fall, with nothing to stop your infinite drop into nothingness? Well in our last game of E3 2011, we got the chance to relive just that experience, except we were blocks, roughly shaped as savannah creatures. That’s right, I said SAVANNAH [...]
E3 SEGA Hands-On: Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing
Thanks to the invention of services like the PlayStation Minis, porting games from iOS to consoles has become a fairly common practice. This process has primarily been a one way street until recently, when SEGA announced that they had plans to move their console title Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing to the iOS. Everyone’s favorite [...]
E3 Chillingo Hands-on: Blobster
For Chillingo’s final trick of E3 2011 they showed of the new puzzle platfomer Blobster. As you can imagine with a name like Blobster you are placed in control of, guess what, A BLOB! Your blob is trying to do its part to protect the environment from an evil corporation bent on polluting everything. I [...]
E3 Chillingo Hands-on: Roll In The Hole
Next up in the Chillingo gauntlet of awesomeness was a game that was very obviously catering to the kind of audience that would have appreciated the publisher’s prior smash hit, Cut The Rope. No, Roll In The Hole isn’t a sequel or even really a spiritual successor as much as it is borrowing from a [...]
E3 Chillingo Hands-on: DrawRace 2
Developer RedLynx is well known for their PC and Xbox LIVE Arcade hits Trials and Trials HD. With the help of Chillingo, the independent studio is looking to follow up their 2009 freshmen release of DrawRace on iOS with a new sequel. This isn’t just any sequel though, it is a MASSIVE update to the [...]
E3 Chillingo Hands-on: Contre Jour
At this year’s E3 Chillingo had a very diverse offering including everything from zany fun to the downright visually striking. While there was plenty of the former on display, the upcoming Contre Jour definitely falls into the later category. This unique and aesthetically pleasing platformer was just the tip of the iceberg for their 2011 [...]
E3 Gameloft Hands-on: Silent Ops
I think it would be fairly safe to say that James Bond is not only a popular film character, but an amazing spy to boot. Channeling this collection of awesomeness, the last game that I was shown in my grand tour of Gameloft Grand Central Station at E3 was the espionage inspired Silent Ops. Though [...]
E3 Gameloft Hands-on: Let’s Golf 3
Golf is one of the genres of sport that transcends the fairways of Augusta National and transitions well to a digital gaming format. For this very reason golf titles have become increasingly popular on the App Store. Never one to miss out on an opportunity to bring another game to market, Gameloft happily showed off [...]
E3 Gameloft Hands-on: Block Breaker 3 Unlimited
With popular developer, Gameloft, people seem to forget the developer and publisher’s humble first forays onto the iOS platform in the form of Block Breaker Deluxe 2. Nearly three years later, the studio has decided to return their breakout gaming roots, debuting their newest installment in the franchise at E3 2011. However, this time out [...]
E3 Gameloft Hands-on: 9MM
At risk of beating the proverbial dead horse, it remains no secret that GameLoft has had much success with developing extremely similar ‘homages’ to popular games for iOS. In a rare attempt to break this cycle, the developer debuted 9MM at E3 2011. While it was supposed to be considered a completely new idea, not [...]
E3 Gameloft Hands-on: March of Heroes
Imagine that, a game that has a name that resembles “Brothers In Arms”, would end up being a military shooter. Pulling on the same same comradery heartstrings, Gameloft’s recently announced first person shooter March of Heroes is a very much cast from a similar mold. What sets this shooter apart from the many others on [...]
E3 Gameloft Hands-On: BackStab
Has the eighteenth century been mutilated and mined by developers until the cows come home? The simple answer to this question is an emphatic, “Heck no!” So it really makes perfect sense for teams to dig into this rich mine of exploitable historical content. Imagine a parallel universe where the worlds of Assassin’s Creed and [...]
Capcom Announces Street Fighter IV: Volt for iOS At E3
It seems like only yesterday that Capcom‘s “little fighter that could,” was announced to be coming to the iOS platform. Masses of gamers waited patiently to learn if Street Fighter IV was the portable combat experience that would prove the iPhone and iPod Touch to be viable for hardcore fans of the genre. We were [...]
Capcom E3 Preview: Monster Petshop
Nowadays Capcom is on board the freemium bandwagon in a big way. One such example of that is their upcoming title Monster Petshop. Modeled as a hybrid of time management games and Tamagotchi animal raising simulators, the upcoming time sink looks to dip into your inner nurturer, while still forcing players to be ruthless business [...]
Capcom E3 Preview: Dream Park
As I stepped into the demo for Dream Park, I couldn’t seem to shake this feeling that I have seen this game somewhere else. Echoes of PC gaming’s past were calling out the name of Rollercoaster Tycoon as I was shown the second of Capcom’s trio of upcoming freemium offerings. While the game doesn’t expressly [...]
Sonic Races Onto OpenFeint This Summer
Other than major console mascots like Master Chief and Mario, there are few animated characters that hold quite as much weight and blindly ravenous fan support as Sonic the Hedgehog. Though we are long past the days of Sega Genesis and Dreamcast, the blue tinted blur still maintains the love and affection of the masses [...]
Instamap Puts Geotagging To Shame
The idea of geotagging different forms of media has existed for quite some time. Recently we have seen this become even more mainstream with applications like Twitter and Facebook implementing the technology as well. Despite the information being recorded being rather mundane beyond geographic coordinates, a few apps have been able to make a practical [...]
Shop Using SnapTag To Ping The Crowd
Have you ever been shopping in a store and wondered if the price that was listed on a product was actually a discount? Being both a bargain hunter and penny-pincher, this is an issue that plagues me on a nearly daily basis. But what if you could use the power of the mob to determine [...]
Clarityn Predicts Allergies Thanks To Sneeze Alarm
For those that have suffered with the life-long affliction that are season allergies, you can confirm that it can make something as simple as a switch in seasons, a living hell. The problem is, you never know what kind of situation you are going to encounter until you walk out the door in the morning. [...]
Ice Tales Revives Retro Gaming
If there was one thing that made retro gaming great, it was the simplistic game designs. Never was the player forced to learn different key combinations or gestural controls to play a game, it was just easy and straightforward to understand. While this may not seem like a big deal to some, the newly released [...]
Swingball Pro Takes a Whack at iOS
This just in: products that exist in real life can exist in iOS games as well. Case in point is the new free game Swingball Pro, which is a physical game that exists in real life, manifesting itself digitally on the platform just a couple of weeks ago. The product, which appears to be a [...]
Make The World A Little Cleaner With iVac
When one thinks about vacuum cleaners, I would be willing to go out on a limb and conjecture that games are the furthest thing from your imagination. Vacuum manufacturer Electrolux is aiming to change all of that by introducing their new social marketing tool, interactive battle of the sexes and game, iVac. Tabulating totals of [...]
Word Collapse Stretches Your Vocabulary
When it comes to having a bountiful variety of words at your disposal, as a writer, this is pushed to its limits on a near daily basis. The new game Word Collapse turns that all on its ear, buy combining the worlds of crosswords and tile matching. Instead of looking for the perfect match three, [...]
Dog Yourself Photo Booth Embraces Your Inner Puppy
Everyone knows a crazy dog person. You know, that nutbag that instead of showing of pictures of their wife or kids, they whip out a rolodex containing pictures of their precious Fido. Chances are, if you don’t have that friend, re-evaluate your life, because it could very well be you. Here is the sad part: [...]
Viva la Egyptian Revolution
It seems like just yesterday that an upstart collection of citizens in Egypt started a movement that would change the course of history in the country forever. But have you ever wondered what a revolution looks like from the inside? Developer TechnoWireless has decided to take a step into the crowd of protesters, and give [...]
i.TV Updates To Universal App
When you watch as much television as I do (well, at least TIVO as much television as I do), it is essential to have a solid TV Guide style application at your instant disposal. While my previous go to app was actually the TV Guide Mobile on my iPhone, I was recently implored to take [...]
Candy Train Leaves The Popcap Station
PopCap is one of those companies that just keeps churning out quality game nuggets by the truckload. Thanks to their innovative new 4th & Battery studio, the developer has had even more of a chance to spread their wings. Their first release, Unpleasant Horse, was a great stride into the mini-game category of iOS, while [...]