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YouTube seals deals with major studios to compete with iTunes

by Dana Franklin (Apr 27th, 2011)

Google-owned YouTube plans to expand the premium on-demand video rental services offered through its website. Earlier this week, Google and YouTube reportedly closed deals with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Brothers, Universal and Lionsgate to offer filmed content from these studios as ...

Violet strikes again in the Mystery Next Door: an interactive iOS children's book

by David Winograd (Mar 13th, 2011)

Our friend Violet is back in the third original installment of this excellent modern series of interactive children's books from My Black Dog Books LLC. Violet and the Mystery Next Door (US$3.99) is a universal app that looks great in landscape mode on any iOS device. The book tells the story of ...

iMovie and Garageband now available for iPad

by Mike Schramm (Mar 10th, 2011)

As expected, iMovie and GarageBand are now available on the App Store for the iPad 2 when it releases later on this week. iMovie is actually just a universal update, since the app was already available for the iPhone, but it won't run on the original iPad (GarageBand will, however). Both apps ...

Adult Swim releases free universal app with full episodes in the app

by Mike Schramm (Feb 22nd, 2011)

Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming division has been surprisingly Mac-friendly -- not only has it produced a number of great iOS games already, but its shows have included a number of Mac references as well (always in the service of comedy, of course). I guess it's no surprise that Adult Swim ...

TUAW's Daily App: Super Soviet Missile Mastar

by Mike Schramm (Feb 8th, 2011)

Hail, comrades of Unofficial Weblog of Apple! Our kind and generous comrades at gaming developer The Behemoth (crafters of the great Castle Crashers entertainment for Xbox Live) have blessed the people of Mother Russia with a free iOS arcading game, available at the current time in your stores of ...

Doodle Jump makes deal with Universal, gets movie tie-in

by Mike Schramm (Jan 28th, 2011)

Here's an interesting story out of Macworld this week. Doodle Jump, recently featured as the Top Paid App of all time, is going to Hollywood, but not quite in the way you might think. Rather than a Doodle Jump movie, the movies are instead coming to Doodle Jump, as Universal has announced a deal to ...

Yelp's iOS app goes universal

by Mike Schramm (Dec 24th, 2010)

I have to say, I really like the Yelp app on my iPhone. Of course, I'm in LA where there are plenty of full listings for all kinds of things; I can see how Yelp might not be quite as useful in a less populated area. But when I need to find a new restaurant or where a certain retail place is, I've ...

Carcassone app going universal, gets higher price to match

by Mike Schramm (Dec 7th, 2010)

Carcassone, the iOS version of the European board game, has quickly become an App Store favorite after its release, and now iPad owners can get in on the fun. The app is going universal, so it will not only run on both devices natively, but it will also have a completely enhanced UI for the bigger ...

TUAW's Daily App: mGifts

by Mike Schramm (Nov 22nd, 2010)

It's Thanksgiving week, Black Friday is coming up quick, and that means that we're knee deep in gift-shopping season. If you don't quite know what you're getting or where to get it yet, mGifts can probably help. It can't actually recommend gifts for you (we here at TUAW can take care of that part), ...

John Carmack talks about Rage SD and HD, iOS, and what's next for iOS gaming

by Mike Schramm (Nov 19th, 2010)

We've all seen the potential of what a demo like Epic Citadel can do, but while work continues on Infinity Blade, John Carmack's id Software has released Rage, an iOS-exclusive tie-in to the big FPS console and PC title scheduled to come out next year. The game is a pretty incredible feat in and of ...

DOS emulator for iOS released, runs Windows 3.0

by Mike Schramm (Oct 26th, 2010)

This seems like the kind of thing that Apple wouldn't want on the App Store (and indeed, it may soon disappear when they figure it out), but then again, after the relaxing of the rules, maybe they're OK with this one. Touch Arcade has discovered iDOS on the App Store -- it's a DOSbox-based disk ...

TUAW's Daily App: Tilt to Live HD

by Mike Schramm (Oct 8th, 2010)

The quirky and fun Tilt to Live is one of the most-loved iPhone games out there, according to its fans, and now, lucky iPad owners get their very own version of the title with Tilt to Live HD. Rather than just a port, the big-screen version updates the graphics and brings a new model into the mix. ...

TUAW preview: Billabong Surf Trip

by Mike Schramm (Sep 10th, 2010)

Chillingo invited us out to the headquarters of surfwear manufacturer Billabong yesterday for a look at a new iPhone and iPad game called Billabong Surf Trip. The game is designed by a Portugese developer named Biodroid Entertainment (who told me that they've done some work on other consoles, but ...

TUAW's Daily App: No, Human

by Mike Schramm (Aug 30th, 2010)

No, Human is an intriguing little morsel of gameplay for both the iPhone and the iPad. The clever premise is that humans are planning to go out and explore the Universe, and the Universe, in turn, has decided that's not a good idea. So, you're actually playing against humans, lobbing fiery ...

iPad app dev sees 50% piracy rate

by Mike Schramm (Aug 24th, 2010)

We've heard horror stories of piracy from iPhone developers before, but PocketGamer has news of an iPad developer also suffering from a surprising amount of customers who likely didn't actually pay for their software. Qwiboo says that its iPad app, Aqua Globs HD, is seeing about 50% of its ...