All Entries Tagged With: "app store"

Sony Drops Second App Store Smear Commercial

Posted by Paul Balsom | Aug 17, 2010 | Comments View Comments

Following their initial anti-Apple App Store smear commercial, Sony has released a follow-up commercial that aims to educate consumers about the inadequacies of the games available on Apple’s platform. The commercials star child-actor Bobb’e J. Thompson, who you may recognize from the movie Role Models.

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EA Mobile’s Madden NFL 11 Makes App Store History

Posted by Jason Coe | Aug 11, 2010 | Comments View Comments

Electronic Arts released Madden NFL 2011 for consoles earlier this week and EA Mobile was not far behind with the release of Madden NFL 11 for the iPhone and iPad. The game made app store history this week, marking the first time an iPad app priced above $10 has achieved both a top grossing and top paid #1 positions in the app store rankings for the iPad. The game has also averaged 4 of 5 stars, something that most developers would dream of achieving. Congrats EA!

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Game Preview: Meow Meow Happy Fight for iOS

Posted by Paul Balsom | Aug 04, 2010 | Comments View Comments

Big Pixel Studios is celebrating the launch of their new iOS game, “Meow Meow Happy Fight”, with some big promotions. The game itself will launch very soon on Apple’s App Store with a 66% discount off of the normal price, an older game Piyo Blocks 2 for 33% off, and the original Piyo Blocks game for FREE.

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Sentinel 2: Earth Defense for iPhone/iPod Touch is Free Today!

Posted by Paul Balsom | Aug 03, 2010 | Comments View Comments

Interested in a free game for your iPhone or iPod Touch? Well, in accordance with OpenFeint’s “Free Game of the Day” campaign, the Origin8 production Sentinel 2: Earth Defense is free on the Apple App Store today (Tuesday, August 3rd)!

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Reminder: Check out our Forum!

Posted by Jason Coe | Jul 31, 2010 | Comments View Comments

A reminder for those who haven’t checked out our new forum, please do so! If you happened to miss the memo click here. Our forum is open to both enthusiasts and developers and is entirely optimized for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, BlackBerry OS, Android OS, Palm, and more. Our forum also includes social networking features as well as OpenFeint and Plus+ network account support so you can find your friends.

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New Law Legalizes “Jailbreaking”, Installing Unapproved Apps

Posted by Paul Balsom | Jul 26, 2010 | Comments View Comments

A new set of government rules, announced today, includes the legalization of smartphone “jailbreaking”. “Jailbreaking” involves hacking a smartphone to allow the installation of “unapproved” applications for a given operating system. What has been a hazy “rule” for a long time, is now officially off the “naughty list” for all smartphone users.

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“Tron” Launches for iOS… and it’s Free!

Posted by Paul Balsom | Jul 20, 2010 | Comments View Comments

Good news, Disney’s Tron game for iOS released late Sunday night. The better news… it’s free! The year-long hype machine continues with this new iOS game that got some attention at this year’s E3 show.

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Apple Responds to iTunes Fraud

Posted by Jay Krishnaswamy | Jul 06, 2010 | Comments View Comments

Over the weekend we heard about the iTunes Appstore HACK! Apparently the developer was successfully able to take over 42 out of 50 Top Sales in the Book category. Apple recently responded and decided to just throw Thuat Nguyen the developer out of the app store. Apple recommends that if any fraudulent were made to cancel your credit card. Below is Apple’s full response:

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Superblox: Powers Unleashed is FREE for Limited Time

Posted by Paul Balsom | Jun 28, 2010 | Comments View Comments

Some of you may remember seeing Appmodo’s review of Superblox just two weeks ago. Well, for a “very limited time” “Superblox: Powers Unleashed” is FREE on the Apple App Store! When reviewed, this app was priced at $0.99 (down from $1.99), but for free, Superblox is a must.

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Angry Birds iPhone Promo Code Giveaway

Posted by Jason Coe | Jun 22, 2010 | Comments View Comments

If you haven’t gotten a chance to check out Angry Birds from Chillingo yet, you really are missing out. The game is super fun and the developers, Rovio Mobile, just pushed out an update yesterday which includes 15 new levels, themes, eggs, and more. To celebrate the new update, we’re giving a way a handful of promo codes for their iPhone version.

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How to Multitask on iOS4

Posted by Jason Coe | Jun 21, 2010 | Comments View Comments

If you haven’t heard already, iOS4 is now available to download via iTunes. There are over 100 new features in iOS4 and one of them is Multitasking. How do you multitask? Read on.

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iPad App Store Now 10,000+ Apps Strong

Posted by Mary Ann Neder | Jun 15, 2010 | Comments View Comments

Only Day 73 since the iPad’s launch and another milestone has been reached. The number of iPad-native apps now available in the App Store have just hit the 10,000 mark. This is quite a feat in itself, especially since it only took the iPad half the amount of time that the iPhone took to reach the same app count. Go to iPadmodo for more.

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GameFly Releases GameCenter App for Android and Palm

Posted by Jason Coe | May 05, 2010 | Comments View Comments

Video game rental subscription service, GameFly, have released their popular GameCenter app originally found on the iPhone, on Android and Palm devices. GameCenter provides a portal for gamers to follow up on the latest news, videos, cheats, releases and more for all the major video gaming consoles and handhelds including Playstation 2 and 3, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, Xbox, PSP, and mobile devices.

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Gameloft’s 1st Quarter Earnings Pull $44 Million

Posted by Jason Coe | Apr 28, 2010 | Comments View Comments

Gameloft has announced the company saw a 7 percent rise in revenue for the first half of 2010, which ended March 31st, to a tune of $44 Million USD (33 Million Euros). The increase in sales was due to a 37 percent increase in Europe, 34 percent North America and 29 in other countries.

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