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TUAW's Daily App: Space Storm

by Mike Schramm (May 26th, 2010)

Space Storm is about as conventional as space shooters get; enemies come into the screen from the right, and your ship flies from the left, blowing things out of the sky with a few different weapons and picking up health or power-ups along the way. In this case, though, conventional is good. The ...

Tag Games bringing Rock'n'Roll to the iPhone's accelerometer

by Mike Schramm (Sep 19th, 2008)

The folks over at Touch Arcade are doing a terrific job of keeping up with all the good-looking games on the App Store (and even some not-so-good-looking ones) but for my money, this one falls solidly into the first category. Rock'n'Roll is an accelerometer-based puzzle/platforming game (ported ...