Everyone loves a great game of arcade air hockey, and now that fun is available on the iPod Touch and iPhone thanks to FlipSide 5. Touch Hockey is simple to learn and better yet, it’s a lot of fun to play. Just place your finger on the screen and guide the puck into the opponent’s goal while protecting your own, just as you would on a real table. The graphics are great and the sound adds a lot to game play experience. The puck’s movement is also extremely realistic as it hits the paddles.
One of the coolest features of Touch Hockey is the ability to play against friends on a local WiFi network. The game also includes instant replays of every goal, although this got increasingly annoying the longer I played. You’ll also have the option of increasing/decreasing the size of your goal to make things a little more interesting. Another thing to point out is that in order to play for free after 5 minutes of game play, ads begin to be displayed. A small price you’ll have to play for a free app that is definitely worth the download.
Touch Hockey: FS5
August 20th, 2009Extreme Waterslide Review
August 4th, 2009
Get soaked as you slide your way through twisting and turning waterslides in a unique racing game brought to you by Barclaycard. Waterslide Extreme features 9 stages where you’ll have to do your best to avoid flying off the edges of the various slides, collect points and avoid obstacles such as the evil lobster. Choose between male/female characters and enjoy the great graphics of the city landscape in this fast paced game.
The controls might take time get used to, but after a few practice runs you should be fine. Before you begin, make sure to change the view to 3rd person (from the default 1st person view). When going through steep turns, the 1st person view makes it almost impossible to see.
Overall, Waterslide Extreme is an enjoyable app, but one that doesn’t provide for lasting entertainment. Once you get the hang of it, it’ll take no time to get through all 9 stages leading to inevitable boredom. Nonetheless, well worth a free download.
iPhone 3GS Tops 1 Million Units Sold
June 22nd, 2009
Apple announced today that it’s latest iPhone, the iPhone 3GS, has topped the 1 million units sold mark as of Sunday, matching it’s iPhone 3G debut last year.
“Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.
“With over 50,000 applications available from Apple’s revolutionary App Store,
iPhone momentum is stronger than ever.”
What Apple has failed to mention is how many of the older iPhone 3G at the $99 price point were sold. Even if numbers were half as good as the 3GS, this could mark one of the most successful Apple product launches ever.
In addition, Apple has also announced that the iPhone 3.0 software, available to all iPhone users, was downloaded more than 6 million times. The new software features tethering, MMS and copy and paste functionality.
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iPhone Video Expected to Launch at WWDC
June 8th, 2009
In just a couple hours (10:00 AM Pacific, 1:00 PM Eastern) Apple Computer will be hosting their annual Worldwide Develops Conference in San Francisco. Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, Phil Schiller, will kick-off the event with a keynote where he is expected to talk about Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and the rumored new iPhone Video.
Many sources have provided speculative photos and information on what we can expect. Below is a summary. Read the rest of this entry »
Single File/iPhone Giveaway
April 30th, 2009
Here’s a new contest brought to you by andPOP.com
Colorado power-pop trio Single File may have just dropped their debut full-length,Common Struggles, on the world but that doesn’t mean the band is ready to stop delivering the goods.
To celebrate the album’s release Single File and andPOP have teamed up to give away an iPhone to one very lucky winner. The sweetest cellular device to hit the 21st century will come loaded up with Common Struggles featuring the songs “Girlfriends” and “Mannequin Loveseat.”
WoW Really on iPhone?
April 27th, 2009
Several websites are reporting that World of Warcraft may be a reality on the iPhone.
TouchArcade.com posted a YouTube that has since been removed by the user that they speculate could be World of Warcraft.
Escapist Magazine has posted a screenshot of the video on question.
An alternative link to the video can be found here, along with more information.
Topple (Lite) Review
April 1st, 2009
Think of Topple as a cross between Tetris and Jenga (but the bored, after-Jenga play, where you stack blocks to their noisy fall). Simply put, you have to stack blocks to a height goal. Like most good games, a simple premise usually means lasting power, which Topple has plus some fun visuals as well.
Each block has a spasmodic face that looks like it was designed by John Kricfalusi of “Ren and Stimpy” fame. If a block falls from the tower, it scrunches in fear or looks agape in horror.
When placed level, a block makes a “satisfied” face I like to call “post-potty”. Cuteness abounds! The accelerometer allows you to balance your blocks left or right to extend the life of your tower as you drop irregular chunks onto it, which adds to the cleverness of this app. On the downside, I experienced a bug while playing: music from your iPod might crash the iPhone to full rebooting. You can reduce the volume of the game music (why not just turn it off?) but that doesn’t seem to correct the problem.
Galcon (Lite) Review
April 1st, 2009
“Lite” is appropriate for this fun, yet strangely obsessive strategy game. Galcon is one of those OCD games: it’s a poke-and-watch game which doesn’t lend much to game excitement, but the satisfaction of winning is like cleaning the bathroom. Job done! Oh no, Dirty again!
Job done! Oh no…! Each screen is a system of planets that you and your opponent occupy. At the get go, you need to build up your resources by invading planets near your base and then en massing your armada to attack the enemy by sending wave upon wave of your own men to their doom, crashing into planets to claim them for your own. All the while, your enemy is doing the same. It takes a fast hand in the upper levels to control your ships and choose which planet to overtake. If you have an over active imagination you can imagine the exploding ships’ pilots screaming “I regret nothing!!” as they burn up
in the upper level of the planet’s atmosphere. If you don’t, you might
find this game a bit tedious after a while.
Funky Punch Free Style Review
April 1st, 2009
When developers push the iPhone into the realm of ambitious hand-held gaming situations, it’s limitations start showing. Just like a drunken pick-up at last call, FP:FS is sluggish, confusing and if you don’t know what buttons to push, then you’ve lost the battle. The game design is brightly coloured Manga-style but that falls away when the 3D characters appear for the actual fighting. 3D may be cool for the iPhone but FP:FS is nearly all sideways on.
Why not go retro and create well rendered 2D characters instead of blocky Mii-like players? The navigation is a bit choppy – titles are highlighted but you press A like a real controller to select, which is counter-intuitive for the iPhone. I got three tournaments into this game and gave up having forgotten the major combos moves, which never seem to be 100% responsive in the heat of the fight. As a caveat, I let my 12yr old nephew try it and he played so long he ran the battery down.
