Mike Schramm

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Mike has worked in the Joystiq Network since 2006, as lead blogger and senior editor on WoW.com and one of the founding editors on Massively.com. Currently, he is a contributing editor on Joystiq, and also writes and podcasts for various outlets, including The Unofficial Apple Weblog.

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Daily iPhone App: Siegecraft lays siege on the App Store

by Mike Schramm (May 22nd 2012 7:00PM)

When Siegecraft was first released on the App Store (by Crescent Moon Games, who have made some really amazing titles over the past few years), I remember it being marketed as "Angry Birds in 3D." And that description kind of works -- you are indeed flinging various weapons (though not of the ...

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Fieldrunners 2 coming next month

by Mike Schramm (May 22nd 2012 5:00PM)

Subatomic Studios, the makers of one of the iPhone's biggest early titles, Fieldrunners, have announced that a sequel is headed our way as soon as next month. The popular tower defense title is being updated with twenty new hand-painted levels, twenty towers (including a Link tower, which seems ...

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TiVo planning iOS streaming for this summer

by Mike Schramm (May 22nd 2012 3:00PM)

Here's some good news for TiVo users: The DVR company is planning to follow the lead of other broadcasting services, and provide for streaming of recorded TiVo content to iOS devices later this summer. To do so, you'll need to have a TiVo Premiere, which is the company's web-connected DVR ...

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Enter to win a prize pack from Universal Movie Tycoon

by Mike Schramm (May 22nd 2012 9:00AM)

Universal Movie Studios recently released an official iOS game, of all thing. Universal Movie Tycoon is a social free-to-play game that allows you to make and build Universal Studios with properties from the company's huge catalog. To celebrate the release of the game, Universal has teamed up ...

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Daily iPhone App: Dark Legends takes Spacetime's formula to the next step

by Mike Schramm (May 22nd 2012 8:00AM)

Spacetime Studios has made quite a name for itself with its popular mobile MMOs, Pocket Legends and Star Legends. The company was originally founded to make full-scale PC MMOs like World of Warcraft, but when the plug got pulled on a big project, Spacetime had to go back to the drawing board ...

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Coda 2 for Mac, Diet Coda for iPad available May 24

by Mike Schramm (May 21st 2012 7:00PM)

Coda is Panic's legendary Mac app for editing HTML and other web files, and today Panic has announced the followup to Coda, called (surprise) Coda 2. As you might expect, the hugemongous feature list over on the Coda site has web developers frothed up into a frenzy of anticipation. In addition ...

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Activision hires Team 17 founder to start new UK mobile studio

by Mike Schramm (May 21st 2012 6:00PM)

While EA has been bullish as all get out on its mobile and iOS properties, we haven't seen the other big dog in game publishing, Activision, act on the same impulses, despite a few hits with the Call of Duty Zombies games. But here's a first indication that Bobby Kotick and company do have a ...

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Daily iPhone App: Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode 2 brings Sonic back again

by Mike Schramm (May 21st 2012 8:00AM)

The big question with Sonic games is always if it's as good as the old titles on the Sega Genesis and the Dreamcast, and as usual, the answer here with Sonic 4 Episode 2 (yes, that's how they're releasing these) is unfortunately no. But that's not really a bad thing -- this is pretty good 2D ...

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Verizon not closing unlimited plans yet, but still trying to transition customers away

by Mike Schramm (May 21st 2012 7:30AM)

We reported that Verizon was going to shut down unlimited data plans when customers purchased new phones and shared data plans were available. The company now says that while it does want to try and phase unlimited data plans out, there will still be options for customers currently under ...

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MacStories looks at four years of the App Store

by Mike Schramm (May 18th 2012 3:45PM)

It's been almost four years since Apple debuted its App Store platform for iOS (and then the Mac), and MacStories has an in-depth look back at that time. In just four short years, Apple has gone from saying that all we'd need on iOS are web apps, to a millions of dollars a year industry that ...

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