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Daily iPhone App: Mosaique is an original and inventive puzzle game

by Mike Schramm (May 16th, 2013)

Mosiaque is a very original puzzle game that I haven't quite figured out yet. It appeared on the App Store a little while ago from a company called Winning Blimp, and the core idea of the app is that you need to clear the screen of colored squares by firing them in from the sides. The issue, ...

Daily iPhone app: The Visible City celebrates Vancouver's neon past

by Mel Martin (May 10th, 2013)

In 1953, Vancouver was aglow with nearly 19,000 neon lights. Today, only a few dozen of those historic signs remain. Those interested in the city's glowing, buzzing past should check out The Visible City, an iPhone app from the Museum of Vancouver. This free app offers informative, colorful ...

Daily iPhone App: Daedalus Touch

by Steven Sande (Apr 15th, 2013)

If there's one thing bad about being a tech blogger, it's that you're constantly exposed to new and exciting hardware and software. More often than not, a first glance at an app turns into a buying opportunity, and the next thing you know you've spent anywhere from $0.99 to "a big amount" on ...

Daily iPhone App: JetSet Expenses

by Steven Sande (Apr 9th, 2013)

Capturing expenses can be a real burden on business travelers; I personally can't count the number of times where I ended up paying for something rather than being to have a company foot the bill, simply because I wasn't able to find a receipt or didn't log an expense somewhere. JetSet Expenses ...

Daily iPhone App: Hackycat makes kicking the cat fun

by Mike Schramm (Feb 18th, 2013)

Stick with me on this: Hackycat is basically a game about kicking cats. In real life, of course, I love cats, and would never want to kick one. But Hackycat, designed by a very talented artist named Ken Wong, is all about playing hackeysack with a bevy of cartoony, colorful and surprisingly ...

Daily iPhone App: After Burner Climax brings high flying action to iOS

by Mike Schramm (Feb 8th, 2013)

After Burner Climax was originally an arcade title, part of the old After Burner series (that was installed in an actual sit-in unit that spun around as you were flying -- pretty neat!). The title made the leap to Xbox Live Arcade and PSN a few years ago, and now Sega has released this version ...

Daily iPhone App: Zombies and Trains combine for gory fun

by Mike Schramm (Feb 7th, 2013)

Zombies and Trains is the latest app from Dragonhead Games, an indie dev based in Norway. It's a zombie app (which is fairly meh these days), but it features a pretty inventive control scheme and a whole lot of content to play through. The app is essentially an arena game, where you're ...

Daily iPhone App: Pixel People is free and simple, but also great fun

by Mike Schramm (Feb 4th, 2013)

Here's the thing about Pixel People: I don't think it's very deep, it's basically just a time-based town builder, and much of the "gameplay" is just smashing various objects together until they work. All of that said however, here's the other thing about Pixel People: I can't stop playing ...

Daily iPhone App: Food Run wants you to play with your food

by Mike Schramm (Jan 25th, 2013)

If the name Food Run sounds familiar, you've got a good memory. We featured it about a year ago (via the developer's blog post) as a gorgeous example of Retina display graphics. Now, a year later, the game is available from Pixels on Toast, and you can see those gigantic graphics in ...

Daily iPhone App: The Blockheads is another great take on sandbox survival

by Mike Schramm (Jan 15th, 2013)

We mentioned developer David Frampton's new iOS game The Blockheads when it arrived last week, but just in case you haven't gotten a chance to see and play it yet, here's one more spotlight on it as our Daily iPhone App. The Blockheads is a really great game -- it's Frampton's take on ...

Daily iPhone App: You Don't Know Jack returns in Facebook form

by Mike Schramm (Dec 17th, 2012)

You may be surprised to see the classic You Don't Know Jack here in this space again, as we've already covered it as a daily app. But that version is no longer on the App Store, and the new version that appeared yesterday is a completely different game, this time based on the Facebook version ...

Daily iPhone App: Theatrhythm Final Fantasy

by Mike Schramm (Dec 13th, 2012)

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy is a really interesting gift from Square Enix for Final Fantasy fans. It's a music game that was originally released on the Nintendo 3DS earlier this year, in which players can play a touchscreen game with songs culled from Final Fantasy soundtracks, supported by a ...

Daily iPhone App: Grand Theft Auto Vice City Anniversary is a great way to relive the memories

by Mike Schramm (Dec 6th, 2012)

I don't know why it's so unbelievable for me to see this game running in full motion on my iPhone's screen. The iPhone 5 is a powerful device, and we've seen quite a few console-quality titles on the App Store. But there's something special about this game, probably the most coherent and ...

Daily iPhone App: Recall helps you remember that recommendation

by Mike Schramm (Nov 15th, 2012)

Recall is an app that we were shown at WWDC last year, and it actually came out on the App Store last month, in a US-only release. But this week, the company behind the app has released it to a worldwide audience, and it's available now to everyone for a launch price of 99 cents. The idea ...

Daily iPhone App: Sonic Jump is Sega's first mobile-only iOS title

by Mike Schramm (Oct 18th, 2012)

Sega has released quite a few iOS games so far. Just search the App Store for "Sega" to bring up lots and lots of various Sega-made titles. Many of those games are published by Sega and developed by other companies. The games that Sega has made are essentially all ports, or games that appeared ...