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There's something for everyone in this week's Padvance Report. First, check out some startling numbers on how the iPad is annihilating physical media purchases made by business professionals. Next is a Flipboard-style app that's brilliant for sports fans but is plagued by performance issues. Wrapping it up is one of the best accessories for people that own MacBooks and iPads. Check it out!
In an App Store stuffed to the brim with clones and tired ideas, a game like Triple Town is a rare treat. Like chess, it’s a strategy game with a set of simple rules that govern the actions of a variety of pieces. Also like chess, the deeper you dig, the more complexity you unearth. To top it off, the game is mega-addictive, and it's free to play. Not bad for a game full of cartoon bears.
There are many signs of a good game, and one is discovering that you’ve lost an hour playing without realizing it. Puzzlejuice has that immediate effect. From the moment you open the app, play the quick tutorial, and enter the world of puzzle-block and word-tile madness, you’re hooked. Puzzlejuice is an enveloping world of gorgeous design, funky music, and falling blocks that you can’t help but fall in love with.
Here are a pair of interviews with Blue Microphones chief technology office Brian Biggott. Watch him give an overview of two of the company's upcoming iOS-compatible microphones: the Mikey Digital and the Spark Digital. Blue makes outstanding gear; I personally use Blue's Yeti for PC recordings, voice overs, and podcasts, as well as the enCORE 100 for interviews and karaoke. I'm thrilled that Blue is stepping its iOS efforts. Check out the interviews below and share your thoughts in the comments section.
iOS gaming is what we're about, but from time to time even iOS gamers like to do a little gaming on the side, if you know what we mean. If PC gaming is your thing, then no doubt you're already deeply familiar with the Steam gaming platform. Today Valve released a free iPhone app called Steam Mobile that lets you connect to your Steam account wherever you may be.
Before Nintendogs and other pet-raising simulators became a smash hit, and before Digimon reached the phase where fans would argue whether or not it was a rip-off of Pokemon, there were games like Hatchi: a simple, digital/virtual pet that occupied small keychains and electronic toys bearing black-and-white dot-matrix screens. You would basically hatch and raise your pet by doing everything one might do to a real pet: naming it, feeding it, playing with it, etc.
Last week, a group of professionals from all sectors of the mobile gaming world gathered around a conference table in Marseille, France to select the nominees for the eighth annual International Mobile Gaming Awards. Slide To Play was on the panel, along with journalists from other mobile gaming sites, game developers, and representatives from the hardware side of mobile gaming. Read on to find out more about the IMGAs, and the full list of nominees.
Spacetime Studios, the team behind Pocket Legends and Star Legends, has just announced their next game, a cross-platform horror-themed MMO called Dark Legends. The game is set to release on iOS, Android, and Google Chrome in the first quarter of this year.
Making a good platformer for the iPhone can be a challenge, which is part of the reason we’ve seen the auto-runner genre explode in popularity. The simpler control scheme lends itself well to a touchscreen, whereas more traditional platforming can be pretty unwieldy. However, once in a while a platformer comes along that works well in more than just one dimension of gameplay. For the most part, Paper Monsters is an example of said quality.
It's back (if only for a limited time)! If you missed out on this crappy Mario clone when it was originally released under the title Super Jump World Plus, you can get it now under the name Lep's World Plus. Click here to view it in iTunes. If you want to look before you leap, read on for the review, but do it quickly because the game could be pulled again at any time.
It's Wednesday again, and that means a new crop of big games will be hitting the App Store at 8pm Pacific. Read on to see our picks for the most notable games you'll be able to buy in a matter of hours. And when the clock strikes 8, our New Zealand links will magically transport you to the US App Store, allowing you to be among the first to play these brand-new iOS games.
Challenge platformers have seen a major resurgence ever since Super Meat Boy rose to popularity. iOS has seen many excellent incarnations of the subgenre, such as League of Evil and Mos Speedrun. On the other side of the spectrum are the attempts that fall far from the mark, Bit-1 being a prime example. The game lacks the speed, clever level design and tight controls that make challenge platformers so rewarding.
Our winners of this week's giveaway are in! Click ahead to see what genres your fellow Slide to Play readers love the best and why, as well as the winners of this week's promo codes.
Remember Tiny Tower? We placed it at #8 in our Best Games of 2011 list, and Apple flat-out awarded it their iPhone Game of the Year. Apparently Zynga, the publisher of such titles as Words With Friends and FarmVille, noticed the game as well, and they’ve made a pretty shameless clone of it, called Dream Heights.
Question: What does a big dragon eat? Answer: Whatever the heck it wants. Feed That Dragon, a new physics-based puzzle game from Miniclip, stars a voracious reptile who knows exactly what he wants for dinner: burgers, pizza, cake, doughnuts, and everything else that will potentially land him in the dragon hospital for a triple-bypass 10 years down the road. It's up to a hapless peasant named McDuff to feed the dragon. Unfortunately, it's a tedious and often frustrating job.
LostWinds has received a much-needed update that adds the option to use a traditional D-pad to control your character, as well as an option to slow down your jumps, making for more precise platforming. In a word, these new options are terrific.
On this week's podcast, we invited the developers behind the similarly-themed games Super Crate Box and Muffin Knight to discuss the difference between cloning and taking inspiration. Was it a civil conversation over tea and crumpets, or an all-out fight to the death? Listen to find out!
After a... rather substantial delay, we are very pleased to announce the new version of our fabulous free app, GameFinder! Feature list after the break!
Shooting gallery games are a good fit for touchscreen devices. Pro Police Training 2 takes the standard shooting gallery framework and adds a plethora of modes to try to keep the game from getting stale. Developer Zing Games also hopes that the added modes, as well as weapons and add-on perks, will keep you so addicted that you'll pay good money to keep the game going.
You've read about Razer's Project Fiona announcement and surely you've checked out Padvance's hands-on preview of this novel gaming tablet. Now watch this video interview with Razer product evangelist Hilmar Hahn! He gives an overview of what Project Fiona brings to the table and discusses Razer's plans with this powerful tablet PC. Check it out below.
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We've updated our GameFinder app to include better and improved features! It's now compatible with iOS 5 so make sure you update or download the app today.
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