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iConquer 2.4
iConquer is one of those applications that I can't have on my Mac. Is it because it is too lame to sully my precious Mac? No, hardly! iConquer has this uncanny ability to steal time. I side down at my Mac with the intent of doing some work and 5 hours later my eyes are blurry and I have lost the Sub-Sahara for the 15th time.
iConquer 2.4 adds some cool graphing abilities, as well as real time scoring. The full version costs $19.99 but there is a free demo available.
[via MacNN]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Rob Erekson said 7:17PM on 7-05-2006
Thanks, just what I needed....I just wasted about 15 minutes playing this game.
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Dinesh said 7:46PM on 7-05-2006
Is this Universal app ?
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Noel said 8:00PM on 7-05-2006
uh.... so is this a game, a map, a personal time organizer, or what? Would like to know what the hell it's supposed to do, otherwise I might as well not even read the entry. "Hey everyone, Scott McNulty just wasted 5 pointless hours" is hardly newsworthy. Usually you write to a higher standard and I think you're of the "better" TUAW bloggers... but this?
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Brash said 8:07PM on 7-05-2006
Noel, even a cursory glance at the map would show it to not conform to any known map of the world. It is obviously the game RISK.
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kevin said 8:16PM on 7-05-2006
Spectacular game. It looks gorgeous, and I just spent the last hour playing it. You're right though; it's a deadly time waster.
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Kevin said 8:21PM on 7-05-2006
http://sillysoft.net
Try Lux Delux, with the online feature it's even more addicting, I play it hours on end
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Scott McNulty said 8:48PM on 7-05-2006
Noel, thanks for the compliment... I think. ;) I figured, as Brash pointed out, that the graphic accompanying the post was enough to convey that this is a Risk type game (pictures worth 1000 words and all that jazz).
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Alexander Dimitriyadi said 10:03PM on 7-05-2006
Am I the only person who noticed that one of the leaders of the world is Bill Gates????
Mr. McNulty, was this a easter egg when you took that screenshot?
:-D
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Dave Jeffery said 10:07PM on 7-05-2006
> Mr. McNulty, was this a easter egg when you took that screenshot?
It's a default name for one of the computer opponents.
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Micah Acinapura said 12:58AM on 7-06-2006
I play LUX!!!!!
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RDC User said 12:59AM on 7-06-2006
This game has frustratingly and unrecoverably crashed deep into the game on the few occasions that my buddies and I have played this. Maybe this update fixes this. Maybe you will get to the end-game and never find out who wins.
If it weren't for the crashes we have endured, I would be all about this game. The interface is somewhat less confusing than Lux Delux's. I like the default maps.
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KBall said 1:26AM on 7-06-2006
Can you change the difficulty? I couldn't find a way, and I just dominate this game on whatever the default is.
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Micah Acinapura said 1:26AM on 7-06-2006
after playing this now I can say that this has a better interface, but I think lux is better
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John Russell said 3:28AM on 7-06-2006
Lux is the best.
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SRSco said 4:26AM on 7-06-2006
BTW, the dude that runs kavasoft likes to rip people off with his iTunes catolog app.
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Europe.m said 7:29AM on 7-06-2006
And why you can't play it on your mac?
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Alain Meyer said 9:33AM on 7-06-2006
Hey,
Is there anyway to partner with other people?
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Ben C said 9:40AM on 7-06-2006
>2. Is this Universal app ?
Yes. Go to the MacNN page this blog post links to and you'll see that it is indeed a Universal Binary.
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kevin said 11:04AM on 7-06-2006
i agree with noel, i seriously had no idea what the hell this thing was from reading the post. i assumed it was some kind of mapping application or google maps thing. and the comment about the map having no semblance to any known map.. are you kidding? i see 6 major continents right there of our "known world."
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IdeaHamster said 6:03PM on 7-07-2006
Did anyone else notice that one of the "What's new?" features is "Improved compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard." WTF!?!?!
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