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I Love Katamari slowdowns now said fixed

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I Love Katamari ($7.99, App Store) has just been updated to 1.0.1, fixing many of the technical issues that users were having with the game, specifically related to the size of the Katamari players steer through each level.

Previously, accumulating enough objects to roll a very large Katamari would send the frame rate plunging quickly downwards. As making the Katamari larger is absolutely essential to completing the game, this was rather problematic and frustrating for a great deal of players.

Luckily, the new 1.0.1 fix is said to take away those frame rate problems and also adds a graphic to the game which shows you the tilt of the device relative to what it expects, making it easier to gauge what angle is needed to roll the Katamari at a glance.



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Final Fantasy's first iPhone outing is a mixed bag

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Square Enix on Monday night released Final Fantasy: Crystal Defenders ($7.99, App Store) and Final Fantasy: Crystal Defenders Lite (free, App Store), a tower defence game expressed using the world and characters from Final Fantasy Tactics A2, where you defend crystals using different units such as Black Mages.

A game developer with the resources of Square Enix, you would think, would be able to fairly easily produce a good, if not better game for the iPhone than smaller outfits. It seems that they've been able to produce an acceptable game, with the drawback that a pretty rubbish looking joystick takes up half of the screen.

To make things worse, this joystick controls a mouse cursor which is used to interact with the game itself, which possibly adds up to the ugliest and least intuitive control scheme for a touch screen ever devised. We should have sussed something was up from oddly shaped screenshots released two months ago.

Despite this, it seems that Square Enix's first foray into the app store has been saved by the game actually being quite entertaining, even if it is fiddly to control and fairly ugly. You can take a risk and buy it now, or wait to see if or when they integrate proper controls.

Nevertheless, it's curious to see that a lot of larger developers still manage to release sub-par products on the iPhone compared to independent developers with significantly smaller teams and development budgets.

Article by AppleInsider.


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Game roundup: Frenzic and Cube arrive at the App Store

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Posted Wed, Nov 19, 2008 4:00 PM by Sam Gwilym
Today there are two notable entries in games section of the App store, with the first of them being Frenzic ($4.99, App Store), by the Iconfactory. Frenzic, originally released for OS X, is a game that supposedly "makes Tetris and Bejeweled look like child's play".

Frenzic

Frenzic is noted for its highly addictive gameplay, which has you filling up empty circles with coloured pie pieces, with fully filled pies giving extra lives and points - and failure to fill empty circles costing you precious lives.

The online component to the game allows you to add friends, track stats, and look at high scores (with the added bonus of being able to compare high scores to people in your area using Location Services).Frenzic also has all the visual polish that the Iconfactory usually lavishes on its Apps, giving the game a consistently professional feel.

Frenzic


Cube

The other big release today was Cube (Free, App Store), by fernLighting. Cube is a first person shooter that features single and multiplayer and "fast oldskool gameplay". Cube is an open source effort, built on an entirely new and apparently unconventional engine, which features "very high precision dynamic occlusion culling with a form of geometric mipmapping on the whole world for dynamic LOD for configurable fps & graphic detail". Right on.

Frenzic


According to the developer, the game has had no features removed for the iPhone, keeping features such as in-game editing, cooperative editing, and demo recording, though they mention that some of these features are entirely impractical on the iPhone.

Having tried it, we can say it's quite impressive technically - it looks very good for a 3D game on the iPhone and has an acceptable framerate. However, there are big problems with the interface and controls, which cannot be reconfigured, the tiny menus, and the slightly grating music that you cannot seem to turn off. The most frustrating part is that its clear to see that if the interface was redone, there would be a really good multiplayer FPS for the iPhone existing this very moment. That day is sure to come, but not just yet.

Article by AppleInsider.


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FlightTrack tracks flights on your iPhone

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If you're the sort of person who spends a lot of time in airports, or have any loved ones consistently up in the air, FlightTrack ($4.99, App Store) by Ben Kazez may be the App for you. FlightTrack allows you to view real-time flight tracking maps, featuring routes, positions, weather and more.

FlightTrack gets its data from FlightView, a source which the US government and some of the world's largest airlines use for keeping tabs on airspace.

Using this wealth of data, it's possible to keep track of multiple flights, using flight numbers for reference, allowing you to see in-depth details about a flight (speed and altitude, for instance).

Currently FlightTrack is only able to track flights within the U.S., including inbound and outbound international flights, but the developer hints at this changing in future updates, along with information on Baggage Claim and Departure Gates.

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Article by AppleInsider.


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Freeverse's Flick Fishing Game for iPhone

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Users first flick their wrist to cast, then use a virtual reel on the touch-screen to bring fish in. In order to avoid breaking the line, larger fish must first be brought to exhaustion. The game features six different locations to fish, from streams to oceans, and 12 tournaments for competition. Nine different combinations of bait and tackle can be used to catch dozens of fish species.


Flick Fishing


Available for $0.99 at Apple store.


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Quick App: WaKi SNAP! for the iPhone

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Nelson wrote in to tell us a little about WaKi SNAP!, a new game now available in the iTunes App Store:

WaKi SNAP! was created as our first project for the iPhone and we wanted to create something that used the touch capabilities of the iPhone in an innovative and immersive way…basically, something that allows two players to both enjoy the game on the one phone at the same time, which is different to the majority of the games out there.

We wanted to make something that was fun, simple to play, and almost universally known by both children and adults. The challenge was also to keep the interface as clean and minimalist as possible so that there was little clutter and the main focus was on displaying the graphics of the cards in as large a size as possible. Thus, WaKi SNAP! was born!

If you check it out, be sure to let us know what you think!


Article by TheiPhoneBlog.


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Chess with Friends now a global, free iPhone app

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Posted Tue, Nov 18, 2008 1:00 PM by Sam Gwilym
We recently wrote about the release of Chess with Friends (App Store, Free), a game which allows you to play Chess against anybody on your contact list, allowing you to make moves whenever it suits you.

When Chess with Friends was first released, it was only available in a handful of countries, due to Newtoy's servers only being able to handle contacts with 10-digit phonenumbers. As of this morning, however, Chess with Friends was added to all iTunes regions.

That's not all, though - Newtoy has also stated that they are changing the price of their Chess app from $4.99 to free, a move they say was motivated by seeing "the excitement that [their] '1000 free download' offer generated", preferring to "set the world on fire" before making a quick buck.

We've also had the chance to finally try out Chess with Friends myself, now that it's available to the world at large, and have been having a good time playing chess with the creators of Chess with Friends themselves. We were pleased to see that signing up was a fairly painless process, involving only putting in the details that you'd like to use to log in. One validation email later and we were good to go.

Inviting friends who don't yet have Chess for Friends creates a quick invite email for you, and now that the app itself is free we can't really imagine people are going to have much of an issue with downloading it and giving it a go. The option to go against a random opponent works well, and fortunately doesn't conceal the username of your opponent (you never know). There's also the Pass and Play move for those with more local friends, which works exactly how you'd expect it to.

The Games with Friends screen shows all of your Chess games, past and present, separated respectively by Your Move, Their Move, and Game Over. You can easily see what colour your pieces are from a quick glance, and you can also see when your opponent is actively looking at the game in play, signified by a pair of googley eyes.

Chess playing itself is simple, allowing you to move about pieces with a touch, and only making a move when you submit it, meaning you can't make a horrible mistake by mistouching. Captured pieces line the bottom of the board, and you can easily flick through past moves using a toggle at the bottom of the screen.

All in all, Chess for Friends is easily the most accessible and elegant form of Chess for the iPhone available, and it's now free. Yes please.

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Article by AppleInsider.


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New Game - Cosmic One For iPhone and iPod Touch

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oeFun released a new Cosmic One puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. At the beginning the game was free but now you can download it from the App Store and it costs $1.99.

To play Cosmic One you just need to use your catcher at the bottom of the screen to capture the falling tiles. Simply move the catcher by turning it with your thumb to match the symbol of the falling tile. If you want to drop the tile faster for more points, tap the top of the screen.

Cosmic One features an integrated online leader-board for high scoring and a scoring system that rewards quick and accurate play.

Features:

* Easy to pick up and play.

* Addictive, casual gameplay.

* Intuitive touch interface and controls.

* Supports left or right handed play.

* Pause / resume function for interrupted games.

* Integrated online high-score table shows your position and the top 10 players in the world.

* Compete with people from around the globe.

* Unique space themed ambient score enhances gameplay

* Work up a musical beat as you try to keep up to the game’s ever quickening pace.

* OpenGL ES / OpenAL for smooth graphics and sound.


Article by http://iphone.blogvasion.com/2008/11/new-game-cosmic-one-for-iphone-and-ipod.html


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liumsoft gets King’d: Releases a new King’s Corners Game for iPhone

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Sorry folks, you’re not going to get a full review out me on this one on opening day, but I can tell you I had a chance to spend sometime with King’s Corners during the beta period, and its actually quite a bit of fun. Now, this is not a game you’re going to spend hours and hours straight playing (maybe)… its one you’re going to find you spend a lot of time playing in small time segments like when you’re waiting for your doctor, or a friend. It’s the perfect time waster game where you only have a couple minutes between events. Anyway the game is out now, retails at 99 cents (iTunes), and frankly is well worth the buck!

From the website:

Long lines? Waiting rooms? A missing waitress? They all leave frustrating gaps in your day. Don’t get upset - get Kings Corners and fill the gaps!
Kings Corners is a great new solitaire game from Ilium Software, available for your iPhone™ or iPod® touch.
Can you fill all the face card slots before you run out of space? Or will you paint yourself into a corner? Kings Corners is easy to learn but challenging to master. It offers an exciting mix of both chance and skill.

Check it out on the King’s Corners page at Iliumsoft

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Dr. Pepper introduces free match-3 iPhone, web browser game

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Dr Pepper MatchcapsDr. Pepper has teamed up with Imaginuity NM to release a free-to-play, Flash browser games called Dr. Pepper Matchcaps. It is designed to run perfectly on the iPhone through Safari. If you don’t have an iPhone, don’t worry - you can enjoy the game in your regular Firefox or Safari browser as well. It will just temporarily resize the browser.

If you’re good at Bejeweled, or other similar match-3 games where you must shift a piece up, down, left or right to make three of a kind disappear, chances are you’ll be a natural at Dr. Pepper Matchcaps. There are seven different cap designs to work with, and no timers so you can enjoy a leisurely game. If you go for a few minutes without playing, a cap that is available to move and match with two similar caps will briefly sparkle to get your attention.

Advergames are commonplace on the internet, but this is the first example of a company actually creating an advergame specifically for the iPhone. I think its a great idea. This way, iPhone owners can play free games on their phones, instead of having to pay for games that may get old or take up valuable space.

Article by GamerTell


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Video: iPhone 3G Review of the Game Beer Finder

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Apple Iphone Download Site Reviews

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As the Apple iPhone continues to grow in popularity more and more iPhone download sites are springing up. With so many new download sites appearing it can be difficult to decide which one to sign up with. To make your decision easier here are some reviews of the top iPhone download sites.

#1 - iPhone Unlimited

iPhone Unlimited is highly recommended to every iPhone owner. As a member not only will you be able to download easy to use software to unlock your iPhone you will also get a lifetime membership to a download area literally crammed with software, music, movies, games and much more.

One of the best things about iPhone Unlimited is the excellent value for money. As your membership is a one off payment for unlimited lifetime access you don’t need to worry about paying for every single download or having to pay monthly bills. In addition some other sites offering lifetime access only provide you with the download area. At iPhone Unlimited not only do you get the download area but you also get the software to unlock your iPhone should you wish to use it on another network plus many other great tools.

The unlocking method provided by iPhone Unlimited is 100% safe unlike some of the cheap scams currently floating around on the internet that will damage your iPhone. If you want to unlock your iPhone take care and only use the safe software provided by iPhone Unlimited.

Click Here To Visit iPhone Unlimited

#2 - iPhone Nova

iPhone Nova is a very close runner up to iPhone Unlimited. There is a vast selection of downloads available including movie, music, TV shows, games and software. There are also a number of very useful tools to help you transfer your media on to your iPhone as well as DVD to iPhone tools. The site is very user friendly and easy to navigate.

At iPhone Nova you also get excellent customer support. There’s free 24 technical support to help you if you ever have any problems and free step by step tutorials to help you start making the most of your membership immediately. Like iPhone Unlimited your membership is a one time unlimited lifetime payment so again there are no per download or monthly fees to worry about.

If you are looking to copy your DVDs onto your iPhone then iPhone Nova would be your best choice. The free DVD to iPhone software that is included in your membership makes transferring your DVDs very easy indeed.

Click Here To Visit iPhone Nova

#3 - iPhone Download Pro

iPhone Download Pro is another impressive download site. Like the previous two sites it also provides you with plenty of features and an impressive amount of downloads. There is a very large selection of games, music, movies, TV shows, software and much more.

As with iPhone Nova there is also free 24 technical support to help you out should you need it and step by step video tutorials to assist you. Again your membership is a one time payment for unlimited lifetime access so you don’t need to worry about per download or monthly fees.

There is also free software to help you transfer your DVDs to your PC and to your iPhone which makes iPhone Download Pro even better value for money.

Click Here To Visit iPhone Download Pro

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