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New Prince of Persia on the way to iOS this summer

by Mike Schramm (Apr 12th, 2013)

Here's a nice blast from the past: Ubisoft has announced new Prince of Persia game, which is a remake of the second title in the series, made specifically for smartphones and tablets. Prince of Persia: The Shadow and the Flame is being remade as a 2.5D action title -- it seems to feature the ...

Daily iPhone App: QuestLord is a retro RPG trip back in time

by Mike Schramm (Feb 20th, 2013)

A lot of apps these days show that developers are always thinking about what they can do in a new way: How can we change up controls for a touchscreen device, or use the power of the iPhone to create a new experience? QuestLord, however, is very decidedly old school. It's an RPG from the ...

Create Retina-ready graphics for your website

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Nov 23rd, 2012)

If you're looking for something to do this weekend that doesn't involve fighting your way through massive crowds of holiday shoppers, you can work on bumping the graphics on your website up to Retina quality. Designer Chris Spooner took a look at his statistics and discovered that a good ...

Makers of PaintCode open CodeAutomat service, for turning SVGs into code

by Mike Schramm (Nov 12th, 2012)

I'm currently working on developing an iOS app in conjunction with a graphic designer, and because my design skills are pretty terrible, we set out to look for a solution to turn the scalable vector graphics (SVGs) he's designed into Objective-C code snippets I can insert directly in the app. ...

PIxelmator 2.1 offers Retina and iCloud support, more

by Mel Martin (Aug 9th, 2012)

Pixelmator has always been popular for the not-quite-ready-for-the-expense-of-Photoshop crowd. The image manipulation/retouching app for Mac is powerful, works well, and is good competition for applications like Photoshop Elements. Pixelmator 2.1 has just been released, and at a very attractive ...

Big updates for Fairway Solitaire and Junk Jack

by Mike Schramm (Aug 7th, 2012)

Two of my favorite iOS games from the last few years have gotten big updates today. Fairway Solitaire is a really brilliant puzzle/card game that combines golf and solitaire in a fun way, and it's gotten a big update that adds a whole bunch of ongoing content. The game now has a "Daily Mode" ...

Temple Run breaks 100 million downloads

by Mike Schramm (Aug 3rd, 2012)

There's big news from Imangi Software, the husband-and-wife team behind the breakout iOS hit Temple Run. The game has picked up 100 million downloads in within a year on the App Store. The team has a lot to show for it, like a long time on the Top Free apps chart, plenty of microtransactions ...

Cocos2D 2.0 available now

by Mike Schramm (Jul 9th, 2012)

After months of testing, the team behind the latest version of the extremely popular Cocos2D game engine for iOS has released version 2.0 of the framework, and it's available for download right now. The framework isn't completely compatible with version 1.0, so devs currently using the previous ...

Logoist for Mac: A simple way to create logos and other useful graphics

by Mel Martin (Jun 29th, 2012)

There are many apps that can be used to create backgrounds, logos, and other graphics. Usually, the better the output, the more expensive the program. Photoshop comes to mind as the perfect example of one of these apps -- it's pricey, but it can do just about anything in terms of creating ...

AutoDesk provides impressive 3D captures on an iPad with a free app

by Mel Martin (May 14th, 2012)

I'm always looking for impressive free apps to show what the iPad can accomplish, and I've done that this week with 123D Catch from AutoDesk. This iPad app (iPad 2 and new iPad only) allows you to use the iPad camera to photograph any object from a number of angles and elevations. Then the app ...

Daily iPad App: Fibble is Crytek's entry onto iOS

by Mike Schramm (Apr 18th, 2012)

If you had told me, just a couple of years ago, that Epic and Crytek would both have iOS apps in the store, I'm not sure I would have believed you. The Unreal Engine is one of the most popular graphical engines for major high resolution games, but Crytek is also very popular for its graphical ...

Dark Meadow getting an update and free version, coming to Android

by Mike Schramm (Mar 29th, 2012)

Dark Meadow is a title that's gained quite a bit of attention on the App Store since its release. It's a horror adventure game of sorts, though not that scary -- "dark fairytale" is what it calls itself -- with some really excellent graphics and pacing. If you've been turned off by the US$5.99 ...

NYT: New iPad screen could be too good for the web

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 22nd, 2012)

The New York Times points out what we (and Gruber) first saw when we fired up our new iPad -- most web images look terrible its Retina display. Companies that do business on the web now have a difficult decision to make about their graphics. Do they spend the extra cost to create, store and ...

New iPad uses Retina graphics assets for upscaling

by Mike Schramm (Mar 21st, 2012)

Touch Arcade noticed something interesting about the new iPad that you might not have seen yet. Specifically, it uses Retina Display graphics meant for the iPhone 4 and 4S displays when doubling the size of non-universal iPhone apps. This is a small use case these days, as many popular apps ...

Apple releases iMac Graphic, MacBook Pro EFI firmware updates

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 1st, 2012)

Apple recently released two firmware updates that address graphics problems in the iMac and select MacBook Pro models. The iMac update fixes a graphics issue in Lion that would lock up the all-in-one machine, while the MacBook Pro update targets 15-inch, late 2008 models with a flickering display. ...