The Walking Dead is an acclaimed comic book series and television show about survivors dealing with a zombie outbreak in the American South. It’s about human relationships, the strain put on these bonds by the need to survive, and the fact that the walking dead might not be the most monstrous things stumbling around this planet. These aspects of the comic series are all handled with equal grace by seasoned adventure-game developers Telltale Games. With The Walking Dead for iPhone and iPad, Telltale once...
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'Letterpress' for iOS: Tweetie creator emerges from year of silence with addictive word game 0
October 24th at 3:40pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsAlmost one year ago Loren Brichter left Twitter, largely leaving the public eye "to figure out what's next." But before he left, he adapted his award-winning Tweetie to become Twitter for iPhone and Mac, and crafted the beloved Twitter for iPad. Brichter's user interface paradigms (like swipe-across menus and "pull-to-refresh") served as inspiration for popular apps like Path, and like Sparrow, which he advised until it was acquired by Google. "He has influenced the way apps are designed more than...
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iOS Gamers: Modern Combat 4 Is Ready To Wow You 0
December 6th at 7:04pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsModern Combat 4: Zero Hour, the latest addition to Gameloft’s awesome first-person shooter series, has arrived on iOS in a bid to push the boundaries of mobile gaming even further. It promises to be “the most memorable action thriller ever,” boasting an intense solo campaign and a completely redesigned multiplayer mode. What’s more, its console-quality graphics look incredible on Retina display devices.
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NRA Generously Gives Us Free Shooting Games for Four-Year-Olds 2
January 15th at 8:50pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThe nation — and the world — has been shocked and saddened by recent gun violence tragedies. There is some consensus that enough is enough, that the way we treat guns, gun laws, and gun culture must change. And yet, the National Rifle Association (NRA), the largest pro-gun lobby and one of the most influential lobbying groups in the United States seems to exist in a bubble of insensitivity. The worse things get, the more they cling to their guns, their loopholes, their fundamentalist laws, and, now,...
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Top 5 Apps for Kids This Week 2
December 23rd at 7:37pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsIn this week's Top 5 Kids Apps, your kid will learn counting and language and scroll their way through a beautiful interactive e-book.
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Plants Vs. Zombies Goes Free On iPhone & iPad 2
February 21st at 7:44pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsPopCap’s beloved Plants vs. Zombies has today been made available for free in the App Store. The reduction applies to both the iPhone and iPad titles, which were previously priced at $2.99 and $6.99 respectively. If you don’t already have it, it’s well worth adding to your collection.
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Real Racing 3 for iOS needs to fix its payment model before it can shine 2
March 28th at 4:42pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsGame publishers always have to think about how to turn a profit on their mobile apps while trying to produce the best, most enjoyable experience for the player. With Real Racing 3 for iOS, Electronic Arts once again proves which is the company’s more important priority....
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Top 5 Apps For Kids This Week 0
April 22nd at 12:00am / Mashable / 0 opinionsA living xylophone, educational mazes, interactive ebook fairy tales and more Dr. Seuss short stories — all in this week's top 5 apps for kids.
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EA reveals 'Frostbite Go' game engine for Apple's iOS, Google Android 0
May 15th at 10:05am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsA mobile version of EA's powerful Frostbite engine, used to create recent titles in series such as "Battlefield" and "Need for Speed," will be coming to Apple's iPhone and iPad.
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6 Apps You Don't Want To Miss 1
June 9th at 1:05am / Mashable / 0 opinionsIt can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck -- Mashable takes care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite new and updated apps. This week, a new drawing app attempted to take on Draw Something, and a video app was dramatically updated for iPad. A exceptionally popular iOS app finally made its way to Android, and an Android-only app saw a huge update.
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Disney's 'Lone Ranger' Game Brings the Wild West To Your iPhone 0
July 3rd at 11:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsDisney's Lone Ranger isn’t just headed to theaters Wednesday. In conjunction with the film's release, Disney is also bringing the Wild West to your iOS device in the form of a mobile game. In the role-playing game-- aptly called The Lone Ranger -- the player becomes a Texas Ranger and fights alongside Tonto and the Lone Ranger to help defeat Butch Cavendish and his gang.
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Rovio adds iOS-Android cross syncing for popular titles like Angry Birds 0
July 19th at 4:31pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsRovio, the maker of the now-ubiquitous Angry Birds series, has introduced a new cross-platform account that allows gamers to pick up where they left off, whether playing a title on Apple's iOS or Google's Android.
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Compellingly Frustrating ‘Doodle Fit 2: Around The World’ Is Apple’s App Of The Week 0
August 16th at 5:44am / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsApple spotlights a new iOS app each week as a special pick: the App of the Week. Last week, it was a gorgeously designed alarm clock, Rise, that caught Apple’s editorial fancy. This week, it’s Namco Bandai’s Doodle Fit 2: Around the World, a delightfully drawn puzzle game that’s sure to keep you frustrated yet coming back for more with its maddeningly simple concept.
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Amazon extends GameCircle achievements, leaderboards to Apple's iOS 0
September 19th at 11:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsAmazon continued to extend its reach across the assorted mobile platforms on Thursday, announcing that its GameCircle and Whispersync game-synching technologies were now available to developers programming for Apple's iOS.
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Our Favorite iOS, Android, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week 3
October 19th at 2:10am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsNow that the slow, languid summer months are far behind us, we're finally starting to see some major advancement in the app world. Whether it's a brand new payment system from the ubiquitous Square or something beautiful simply for beauty's sake, there's a whole lot of goodness just up ahead. And it starts right here....
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Final Fantasy IV: The After Years Now Available On The App Stire 1
November 25th at 5:04pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsFollowing up on the successful release of Final Fantasy IV on iOS back in 2012, publisher Square-Enix is following it up with a sequel, which follows up on the characters and events of that game twenty years later. It’s called…
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Games for the weekend: EPOCH.2 0
December 7th at 12:47am / GigaOM / 0 opinionsGet your swiping finger in shape this weekend because this weeks game is all about action. EPOCH.2 is a first rate action shooter that you will not want to miss.
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Toy Startup Roam And Wander Receives New Funding, Prepares To Expands Its U.S. Retail Presence 0
January 3rd at 12:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsRoam & Wander, the Hong Kong and Taipei-based children's entertainment startup that we profiled in June, is preparing to expand its retail operations into the U.S. just six months after its first plush toy, TuTu, was successfully funded on Kickstarter.
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As its developer promised, Flappy Bird is no longer available – but clones remain 1
February 10th at 3:28am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsAs he promised yesterday, Dong Nguyen, the developer of hit game Flappy Bird has pulled the game from availability on both Android and iOS (although its App Store page is still live at the time of writing.) In what look like a classic case of the artist growing to hate his creation, he tweeted yesterday “I cannot take this anymore,” and refused to sell the game on to any other publisher....
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MLB brings RBI Baseball back with iOS app, Cyber Dust aims to be Snapchat for texts 1
April 10th at 12:11am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsiPhone and iPad owners have new options for fun and communication after Major League Baseball released R.B.I. Baseball for Apple's mobile devices and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban brought his Snapchat-like test messaging service out of beta.
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Backed By Science Inc., FreeGameCredits.com Offers Exactly What Its Name Suggests 0
June 27th at 9:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsStartup FreeGameCredits.com doesn’t have the problem of an ambiguous name — just as you’d guess, it allows mobile game developers to run promotions offering in-game credits.The company is announcing today that it has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Los Angeles-based “startup studio” Science Inc. It’s also launching its first promotion…
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Watch Dogs mobile app is a hot mess of connectivity issues 0
May 27th at 7:35am / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsUbisoft’s highly-anticipated console and PC game, Watch Dogs, came out today. One of the cooler features of the release, though, at least from a mobile gaming standpoint, is an app for both iOS and Android that purports to be more…
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5 Can't-Miss Apps: Selfie Analyzer and More 0
July 27th at 12:05am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThis week's list includes an app that grades your selfies, a suite of photo-editing tools and an app that lets you create your own emoji.
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Moon Hunters asks, What kind of hero are you? 1
September 3rd at 4:04pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsSEATTLE — Tanya Short, fresh off the successful release of sci-fi-themed indie game Shattered Planet, thinks her new game has widespread appeal. For a game set in ancient Mesopotamia, that’s saying a lot. KitFox Games’ Moon Hunters, due out next…
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World of Warcraft isn’t the only video game celebrating an anniversary this year 3
November 20th at 5:44pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinions