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Daily iPhone App: Spellsword is a tiny bite of RPG action

by Mike Schramm (Apr 26th, 2012)

The iPhone's always been a great device for small flavorful bites of gameplay -- Canabalt's one-button jumping game probably set the course for this early on, but recently there's been a bevy of titles like these. Super Crate Box, Hookshot Escape, and Ziggurat have all offered up well-polished, ...

Daily iPad App: Marvel vs. Capcom 2 is gonna take you for a ride

by Mike Schramm (Apr 25th, 2012)

After quite a while, Capcom has finally released Marvel vs. Capcom 2 in the App Store, and you probably know right away if you want it or not. This Dreamcast-era fighting game might be a little silly and colorful, but it offers up some insane, excessive action that other fighting games have yet ...

Daily iPhone App: Lock 'n' Load makes dual stick fun again

by Mike Schramm (Apr 24th, 2012)

I can't keep up with everything Chillingo is putting out on the App Store lately -- they're really kicking out the jams over there. One of their latest titles is Lock 'n' Load, and even if, like me, you're tired of the well-traveled dual-stick shooter genre on iOS, this one's worth a look ...

Daily iPad App: Total War Battles brings big-time RTS to iOS

by Mike Schramm (Apr 23rd, 2012)

I first saw Total War Battles (now out on the iPad and iPhone) at GDC earlier this year, and walked away excited about its potential. The Creative Assembly has been making phenomenal Total War games for the PC for years, with deep, intelligent war strategy across several time periods. Now ...

Daily iPhone App: Sketch Nation Studio opens up game dev on the App Store

by Mike Schramm (Apr 20th, 2012)

Sketch Nation Studio started out as Sketch Nation Shooter last year, a "game" on the App Store that actually let you make your own shooter game by using scanned-in pictures and a few scripted sets of rules. As creator Nitzan Wilnai told me at GDC earlier this year, he heard from a lot of users ...

Daily iPad App: The Little Girl Who Could Fly is a delightful interactive book for children

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 19th, 2012)

Today we are stepping outside our typical app reviews for the iPad and looking at an interactive book. Because of their interactive elements, these titles stray over into the app category. This particular title, The Little Girl Who Could Fly from YellowPixie, is an animated, illustrated ...

Daily iPhone App: Bills is a colorful bill management and payment tracking app

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 19th, 2012)

Bills from Sockii recently landed in the iOS App Store, and we took the bill tracking app for a spin. Like its competitors, Bills has all the core features you need to track and organize your bills. It has statistics to let you see where your money is being spent, categories to help you ...

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 ...

Daily iPhone App: Posterity lets you remember the cute things your kids say

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 18th, 2012)

Parents, you know what it's like. Your child says the cutest thing and by the time you find a piece of paper to jot it down, you've forgotten half of what he or she said. Instead of rushing for a pen, you should grab your iPhone and launch Posterity. Posterity is a step up from your average ...

Daily iPad App: Bounty Bots is full of cartoony shooter action

by Mike Schramm (Apr 17th, 2012)

MunkyFun is the group of developers behind first-person shooter Archetype for the iPhone, so they know already how to put a console-style shooter on Apple's mobile devices. Archetype was published by Villian, but MunkyFun's latest title is self-published. It's called Bounty Bots, and it's ...

Daily iPad App: Soundbrush lets you create music with a brush

by Mel Martin (Apr 16th, 2012)

SoundBrush is a US $1.99 iPad app that lets you create original compositions by swiping your finger across the iPad screen. The description sounded a bit odd, but I had fun playing with SoundBrush and discovering what it could do. You can have a total of 4 instrumental lines -- piano, strings, ...

Daily iPhone App: SpellTower is a fast-paced word game with local multiplayer support

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 16th, 2012)

SpellTower is a challenging word game that was recently updated to version 3.0. This latest version includes retina graphics for the new iPad and local multiplayer support. Similar to Bookworm and other word games, SpellTower has a grid of letter tiles that you use to spell words by selecting ...

Daily iPad App: Murky Reef is a fun, underwater game that'll improve math and language skills

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 13th, 2012)

There are apps that teach your kids math and apps that teach your kids language arts and then there are some like Murky Reef by Frolyc that teach them both. Murky Reef targets the younger elementary group with a series of apps that teaches math, English, critical thinking and logic. All these ...

Daily iPhone App: Visual uses color to keep track of the time

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 13th, 2012)

I don't like to spend a lot of time keeping myself on schedule. When I have a 15-minute block to send off some emails, I want a timer app that's easy to setup and simple to use. One that'll let me see quickly how much time I have left before I have to move on to another task. That's where ...

Daily iPhone App: Time to Enjoy lets you find events based on time

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 12th, 2012)

Did you ever find yourself ready for a night out and clueless about where to go and what to do? If you need help finding a spur-of-the-moment event, then you should check out Time to Enjoy, a time-driven event calendar. Time to Enjoy is different than other event apps which list events based ...