All Entries Tagged With: "accelerometer"

Taxiball App Review for iPhone and iPod Touch: A Nice Twist on the Labyrinth Genre

Posted by admin | Jun 17, 2010 | Comments View Comments

Labyrinth games are part of a pretty popular genre that was one of the first to use the iPhone’s accerometer. Taxiball takes Labyrinth 2, puts an “everything pixel” city as the setting, adds a solid storyline, makes the already simple premise more enjoyable, and inserts some catchy beatboxing tunes in the background for you to enjoy. If I had to describe it in one sentence, that would be it, but I think I’ll just write a review!

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Marware Game Grip for iPhone 3G/3GS and iPod Touch 2G, The Best Accessory for Accelerometer Gaming

Posted by admin | May 06, 2010 | Comments View Comments

You have NFS Shift and Jet Car Stunts, but you can’t play. Why? You don’t have enough grip on the bare device to twist and turn it in ever which direction that’s possible. That’s why Marware’s Game Grip is there for you!

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Labyrinth 2 Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

Posted by Marne Cales | Dec 04, 2009 | Comments View Comments

Those old, tilting, wooden maze puzzles are frustratingly fun, aren’t they? Except, once you succeed, and get that little stainless steel ball from beginning to end, it’s not so interesting any more. Labyrinth 2 takes that old-fashioned toy into the 21st century, making it unbelievably entertaining but still keeping that nostalgic feel of a toy from a simpler time.

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Saga Catapult Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

Posted by Jason Coe | Aug 18, 2009 | Comments View Comments

Stunning graphics and easy controls are the name of the game for Saga Catapult, by Silverlode Interactive. Defend the city against an onslaught of orcs! As the last defender of your home, use your trusty catapult, along with a number of available upgrades, to keep the bloodthirsty horde at bay.

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Real Racing Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

Posted by Jason Coe | Jul 28, 2009 | Comments View Comments

Taking a dive into the world of racing simulation games, developer Firemint unleashes Real Racing into the App Store, much to the delight of racing fans everywhere. Priced at $9.99, some may show hesitance when dishing out that kind of dough for an iPhone/iPod Touch game. But let me assure you, that $9.99 goes a far way with Real Racing!

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Word Tower Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

Posted by Jason Coe | Jul 14, 2009 | Comments View Comments

Word Tower, by Little Red Bike Media, has gained a loyal following since its release earlier this year. The game incorporates many different, and popular, word and puzzle games to create a wickedly addictive scrabble/crossword/tetris experience you can’t find anywhere else. Read on to see just what makes Word Tower a winner!

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Buka Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

Posted by Jason Coe | Jul 09, 2009 | Comments View Comments

As more and more apps flood into the App Store, the challenge of finding an entertaining and worthwhile game become more and more challenging. And while the iPhone is a great new platform for experimentation in new forms of gameplay and interactivity, there is a definitive line between cutting edge and completely disastrous gameplay. But the newly released game Buka, by creators Hexage, manages to stay above the fray and deliver a fun and casual game experience with impressive graphics and smooth gameplay.

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Adaptunes Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

Posted by Jason Coe | Jul 08, 2009 | Comments View Comments

Many automotive manufacturers have integrated self adjusting volume controls based on the speed you are traveling into premium sound configurations on vehicles. For owners who do not have this luxury, “there’s an app for that” called Adaptunes for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

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Apple Secretly Purchases iPhone Cameras For iPod Video

Posted by Jason Coe | Jul 06, 2009 | Comments View Comments

The low end digital video camera industry is about to get turned upside down as reports from Asia indicate Apple has secretly purchased millions of cameras used in the iPhone 3GS for use in the next generation iPod Video. With expanded capabilities of light video editing and mobile uploading to video sites such as YouTube in the iPhone 3.0 software update, the cheap $10 dollar cameras embedded into the current iPhone 3GS phones and future iPod Video devices would help capture even more market share for Apple.

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Pocket God Episode 21 Flipping the Bird Sneak Peek

Posted by Jason Coe | Jul 06, 2009 | Comments View Comments

We’ve got a sneak peek image of the next Pocket God episode, episode 21 called “Flipping the Bird”. The next update includes a bird that flies around the top of the screen where you can “make him drop a bird turd by clicking on it” and a mini challenge that keeps track of the number of times you hit a Pygmy with one. Using the fire abilities of episode 20, you will be able to cook the bird as well and let the Pygmies eat it. You can also strike the bird with a bolt of lightning. Other features include an updated underwater area including fish, objects, and a WhirlPool similar to the Hurricane.

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Appmodo Traffic Leads To Faster Servers

Posted by Jason Coe | Jun 20, 2009 | Comments View Comments

We’ve had so much traffic lately from huge stories like iPhone MMS and tethering, interviews with app development companies like Bolt Creative, Apple releasing the 3.0 software update and of course our review of The Sims 3 being a hit, that we decided to upgrade our hardware to much faster servers resulting in much faster page load times. Enjoy!

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Apple iPhone 3G S Tear Down: Samsung Chipset, ARM Cortex A8 Processor, Power VR SGX Graphics for 720p Video

Posted by Jason Coe | Jun 19, 2009 | Comments View Comments

The team over at Rapid Repair were busy early this morning tearing down the new Apple iPhone 3G S to bare bones, exposing all of the somewhat unknown technology inside.

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Hackers Build FAKE iPhone OS Touch Screen Monitor

Posted by Jason Coe | Jun 18, 2009 | Comments View Comments

Found on Crunch Gear, the following YouTube video shows how a group of hackers were able to create a multi-touch iPhone monitor running iPhone OS 2.0 software. The monitor even has accelerometer support and gesture control! Details about the hack state the iPhone OS is “basically a Linux Mach kernel” allowing it to be bootable on Intel hardware within an emulator which you can see when they first fire it up. Very cool and interesting.

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BMW Z4 Experience Review For iPhone and iPod Touch

Posted by Jason Coe | Jun 09, 2009 | Comments View Comments

Our friends from Artificial Life, Inc. who have developed other popular titles for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch such as iDroids Mania and the Red Bull Air Race World Championship, are offering another title in their app lineup called the BMW Z4 Experience.

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