toucharcade — Semi Secret Software’s Canabalt [ $0.99 ] certainly wasn’t the first endless auto-running platformer around, but it’s definitely one of the most high profile and arguably set off the trend off hundreds of similar running games coming out on the App Store since its release in October of 2009. While some...
toucharcade — The ability that developers have to completely control the pricing of products they put on the App Store has really turned traditional software pricing models on their ear. Now 99¢ seems to be the price many game developers try to target, and finding any excuse to have a sale has...
imore — Facebook is the most popular photo sharing service on the web so it comes as no surprise that they released an app dedicated to the photo aspect of Facebook -- it's called Facebook Camera. With Facebook Camera, you can easily share multiple photos to Facebook, add filters to them, tag...
imore — Rumors of Reseach In Motion's iconic BlackBerry Messenger app wriggling its way over to iPhone may be coming to an end. Anonymous sources have claimed that new CEO Thorsten Heins shut down the idea of licensing BlackBerry Messenger to carriers and manufacturers as soon as he stepped in, and was...
lifehacker — Web/Android/iOS: Recently we created a 20 minute, randomly-generated exercise routine for people who are too busy to exercise. If you liked that, you're really going to like Sworkit. Just like ours, it generates random workouts that focus on various parts of the body (or all of it), but...
macrumors — At the introduction for the third generation iPad this past March, Apple invited a number of developers to showcase their apps designed for the Retina display-equipped new iPad. One of these was Autodesk, a major developer that has been prolific at writing apps for iOS. Their new app, Sketchbook Ink,...
imore — It's been about a week since Facebook released Facebook Pages Manager, and now Facebook has announced Facebook Camera -- an app dedicated to viewing and sharing photos to Facebook. The big talk on the internet, however, is that this app comes shortly after Facebook's acquisition of Instagram. This is particularly...
macrumors — As highlighted by our sister site TouchArcade, a group of independent developers across a broad array of platforms are having a weeklong sale on their apps celebrating their distribution through marketplaces that allow developers to set their own pricing. Operating under the banner of Because We May, the developers...
toucharcade — You love game sales, I love game sales, everyone in the whole flippin' world loves game sales. This one is a doozie. A ton of indie developers got together to do a promotion called Because We May. What's the story behind all this? Well, per the Because We May site: We...
slidetoplay — There are far too many games coming out on the App Store every day for us to review all of them fully. So, we have to pick and choose which games we're going to cover. These five games made the cut because there's something special about them-- they're independently developed,...
toucharcade — Zarksoft's ambitious sci-fi MMO-meets-strategy game, Empire of the Eclipse [Free], is now out and available on the App Store. We bring you this release update for two reasons: (a) we figure we owe you an official heads up after not mentioning the game's impending release in our weekly new releases...
148apps — While not a replacement for Instagram, Facebook Camera is a good first step in this month+ old union of the two companies. Released today, Facebook camera looks to streamline the viewing of photos and the uploading of them. The app allows you to apply simple filters to images, tag people,...
imore — A recent feature in Fortune took a deep dive into how Tim Cook has been changing Apple's inner-workers, corporate culture, and relationships with the outside world. The general conclusion, gleaned from many anonymous Apple employees, is that things are drifting more towards traditional, stiff corporate lifestyle, which is welcomed by...
imore — NPD recently published the results of their Q1 2012 mobile PC market research, and as you might expect, Apple's iPad has dominated competing mobile PC manufacturers. Again. After shipping 17.2 million iPads in the quarter, Apple has claimed 22.5% market share, compared to HP's 11.6%, Acer's 9% and Lenovo's 7.7%....
toucharcade — Some studios never drop the prices on their games, while other studios, like Epic and Chair Entertainment, do it rarely. Case in point: Infinity Blade 2 [$2.99] has seen only one price drop since its launch in November 2011. Today, marks only the second time Epic and Chair have fiddled...
slidetoplay — Starting today, Mini Motor Racing for the iPhone/iPad Touch is a free download! Its bigger, glossier cousin, Mini Motor Racing HD, is also up for grabs at the low, low price of zero dollars. The games’ developer, The Binary Mill, is participating in the Free App of the Day program,...
imore — IDC released their quarterly report on worldwide smartphone market share by operating system today, and the chart looks more or less as you'd expect: Android has kept ballooning (59% market share), while iOS maintained a respectable second place (23%), while Symbian (6.8%) and BlackBerry (6.4%) continued their downward spirals. Windows...
imore — The extremely popular Twitter client Tweetbot for iPhone and iPad has just been updated to version 2.4. It brings a new search view, keyword mute filters, offline favorite and read later support, and more. The update search view of Tweetbot 2.4 now shows nearby tweets added with the ability...
gizmodo — Blood runs thicker than water and, apparently, familial iPhones are more important than real police work. At least, that's the case in Berkeley, where Police Chief Michael Meehan ordered ten of his officers to look for his son's stolen iPhone. More »
slidetoplay — One glance at the art in Rage of Bahamut is enough to impress a passerby. One glance at the gaudy interface may be enough to lump it into the MMO browser games with classless advertisements many of us steer clear of. Picking it up and playing it, however, proves a...
148apps — David Haye’s Knockout Review By Jennifer Allen on May 24th, 2012 Our Rating: :: PUNCHING FUNUniversal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad A simple yet satisfying cartoon-style boxing game. Developer: Grubby Hands Price: $0.99 Version Reviewed: 2.0 Device Reviewed On: iPhone 4 Graphics / Sound Rating: 3.75 out of 5 stars Game Controls Rating: 3.75 out...
gizmodo — Apple's wireless Bluetooth keyboard plays wonderfully with all of the company's hardware, from laptops to iOS devices. But for whatever reason, Apple has limited its lovely aluminum remote to IR, so it won't work with your iPhone or iPad. So Satechi has stepped in to save the lazy day. More »
slidetoplay — Kids love things that are shiny and easily breakable, but there are other reasons why the iPad is such an easy sell for toddlers. Earlier this week, Ben Worthen, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, took an in-depth look at how tablets like the iPad engage young children. There's...
imore — A few days ago rumors coalesced around the idea that Apple was moving to a 4-inch screen on the iPhone 5 (or whatever Apple ends up calling iPhone 5,1). I went through the mental exercise of mocking up, and breaking down, the various 4-inch iPhone options to try and figure...
toucharcade — We've been waiting nearly three years for a follow-up to Defender Chronicles, the title that popularized the "vertical tower defense" style of gameplay and was one of the most beloved games from a still young iOS App Store back in 2009. Well, the time is finally upon us, as Defender...