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Atari follows up freemium Breakout Boost with paid Breakout Boost+

by Mike Schramm (Jan 25th, 2012)

A little while back, Atari continued its releases of updated classic games for iOS with Breakout Boost, a freemium version of the classic brickbreaking game that offers updated graphics and a few new mechanics to go with them. This week Atari announced another title called Breakout: Boost+, and ...

Daily iPhone App: Breakout Boost

by Mike Schramm (Dec 16th, 2011)

Atari's been on a remixing jag lately, and I was really impressed by the recent iOS take on Asteroids. Now with Breakout Boost, Atari aims to update another old gem. Unfortunately, this one isn't quite as successful. It certainly is Breakout, as you control a little paddle across the screen, ...

DIY breakout dock looks to get professional sound out of iPad 2

by Mike Schramm (May 31st, 2011)

The iPad is an excellent device for creating and editing sound, but sometimes, just using that headphone port isn't enough. For that, DIY musician Qubais "Reed" Ghazala built this custom-made iPad dock, which plugs the iPad into a whole row of various sound-related ins and outs, from a line ...

First Look: Chimps Ahoy!

by Erica Sadun (Jul 14th, 2008)

Griptonite Games' Chimps Ahoy! is a silly, fun breakout game. I'm not a huge breakout fan (to be fair, I'd rather clean my house and do my taxes) but Chimps' beautiful graphics and silly music won my heart. It's a graphic design tour de force. You play by throwing a coconut between a pair of ...

Ricochet Lost Worlds is fun - and it's 45% off at MacZOT today

by David Chartier (Jul 21st, 2007)

I own a Wii, and i installed Windows Vista in Boot Camp on my MacBook Pro primarily so I could play Half Life 2 and catch up with some of the other rockin' games coming out for PCs (buying Vista at OEM prices via a local computer shop numbed some of the pain). With all this rockin' gaming I have ...

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