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Daily iPhone App: Spice Invaders

by Mike Schramm (Feb 9th, 2012)

If you're tired of tower defense games, I don't blame you. Feel free to skip this post, but let me say this before you go: I wouldn't spotlight yet another tower defense game if it wasn't special. That's why Spice Invaders has made the cut. The standard tower defense tropes are in place. Build and ...

Daily iPhone App: Seal Force

by Mike Schramm (Dec 28th, 2011)

Seal Force is an interesting app from Tactile Entertainment, makers of Pocket Creatures and the recent Pigs in Trees line-drawing game. It tries to combine two relatively new genres in iOS games: Line-drawing and running. You play as the Seal Force team (they have their own Saturday ...

Daily iPhone App: Gem Keeper

by Mike Schramm (Nov 3rd, 2011)

Gem Keeper is a relatively new game from developer NCSoft, which usually makes Korean MMO titles for the PC. The company has released a couple of apps for iOS, but this is the first full game made for North American audiences -- and it's a good one. It's a pretty basic tower defense title, but ...

TUAW's Daily App: Dungeon Raid

by Mike Schramm (Jan 25th, 2011)

I am a sucker for both puzzle games and RPGs, so Dungeon Raid is right up my alley. It's a puzzle game where you have to match up various icons on a grid, as you can see above, but the real draw here is that all of those icons map to various RPG abilities that then let you level and grind out a ...

TUAW's Daily App: Project Sanctuary

by Mike Schramm (Aug 25th, 2010)

Project Sanctuary is one of the best dual-stick shooters I've seen on the App Store yet. It's quick and responsive, and it's got a surprisingly solid back-end, which includes four different characters to choose from, multiple game modes and settings, and even an in-game talent tree where you can ...

Woz coming to the Big Bang Theory

by Mike Schramm (Jul 26th, 2010)

Our own Steve Wozniak is scheduled to appear on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory sometime later this year, the cast and crew told an audience at their Comic-Con panel this weekend. Woz is already no stranger to television, of course, but I think this is the first time he's appeared on a ...

Apple adds Comedy genre to iTMS, or: why I'm going broke

by David Chartier (Feb 15th, 2006)

Apple has sealed my death sentence by adding an all-inclusive Comedy genre to the iTunes Music Store. I call myself a dead man because this top-level genre covers everything from audio and video content to audiobooks from all the big names, and as soon as my fiancé finds out how much I'll be ...

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