Urban-rivals Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Devs quickly move to new models after in-app purchase change

by Mike Schramm (Oct 17th, 2009)

It was just yesterday that Apple announced they would allow free apps to enable in-app purchases, and developers are already jumping on the "get the app for free, buy the content later" business model as quickly as they can. ngmoco came out swinging, as Touch Arcade reports, with both a free intro ...

iPhone TCG to charge $9.99 for in-app purchases

by Mike Schramm (Sep 25th, 2009)

Just the other day I was talking about how prices were all over the place for in-app purchases, and now here's a company that's just going all out with the microtransaction model (or macrotransaction, maybe, in this case). Urban Rivals is an online MMO trading card game, and they're going to start ...