Software
Game Room: Blades of Fury for iPhone
by admin on Oct.02, 2009, under Software
Fans of fighting games, your wait is over. You can finally see how your friends’ swordsmanship matches up against your trusty battleaxe. Thanks to Blades of Fury, a new multiplayer fighting game for the iPhone and iPod touch developed by Gameloft, you can unleash devastating melee attacks, bone-crunching throws, and awe-inspiring magic, all from the comfort of your mobile device.
Brain Quest Blast Off for iPhone
by admin on Oct.02, 2009, under News, Reviews, Software, iphone
If you have a child in elementary school, you’re probably familiar with Brain Quest: it is most visible in the children’s book sections of bookstores, in the spot reserved for educational items that aren’t quite books but aren’t quite toys, either. In physical form, Brain Quest is a deck of attached cards. The long, thin cards have questions on the front and answers on the back. There’s no “object” to flipping through the cards and tossing questions to your kids, except to interact and learn and think. You don’t score points. You either get the question right or wrong, and then you move on. Simple, but deceptively fun and addictive.
Educate Me: Each of the Brain Quest subjects provide a variety of question/answer formats, including multiple choice, word scramble, fill-in-the-blank, right or wrong, and ‘fun’— which is a flash card reviewWhile the Brain Quest decks edge closer to the “Edu” side of the “edutainment” equation, the iPhone games based on this question-answer format fall closer to the “tainment” side.
reQall, Evernote work together to retrieve your notes
by admin on Oct.02, 2009, under Reviews, Software, iphone
A pair of productivity powerhouses are sharing their superpowers in a partnership that would make the Wonder Twins envious. reQall and Evernote announced the other day that users of their respective products will be able to easily share, link, and find information across their services.
Dexter The Game for iPhone available now
by admin on Sep.27, 2009, under News, Software, iphone
Season four of Dexterstarts up in just a few weeks, and Mark Ecko Entertainment is ringing things in with Dexter The Game for iPhone, available for $6 on Apple’s App Store.
You know Dexter? The Showtime series about Dexter Morgan (played by Michael C. Hall), full-time blood spatter analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department as well as surreptitious serial killer? Guy who fingers rows of blood-smeared microscope slides? Best cinematographic title sequence in the history of modern television?
Review: Ramp Champ for iPhone
by admin on Sep.21, 2009, under Ipod, Software
Ramp Champ’s gameplay couldn’t be more simple: you flick your finger to toss a ball up a ramp and up onto a game board, all in an attempt to hit objects labeled with various point values. Clear the right objects and more objects appear, leading to even bigger point totals. You have nine balls to toss; when you’re done, you receive tickets (yes, the old tear-off red kind) based on your performance. You can use tickets to buy virtual prizes at the carnival gift shop, and stock your virtual trophy wall. Denizens of 1980s arcades may remember these fellows.
The game comes with four built-in levels, each with an array of sound effects and lovingly depicted objects. Each level comes with a series of challenges of escalating difficulty, and you receive a trophy for each challenge you complete. For example, I got a trophy once I cleared all four seahorses out of Breakwater Bay and then hit the opened clamshell twice, dislodging a black pearl.
