The guy who invented the wildly popular pull-to-refresh feature you see in so many iOS apps these days has a new app out starting Wednesday, his first since leaving Twitter. Letterpress is a simple, two-player word-based strategy game, and it’s free on the App Store.
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“Pull-to-refresh” inventor launches new iOS game, Letterpress 0
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25 Standout Apps From 2012 0
December 3rd at 7:32pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsAdditional reporting contributed by Fran Berkman and Jennifer Shore. Instagram, Twitter and Facebook were, without a doubt, the most talked about apps of 2012, but they're...
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The NRA’s New Target Practice App Teaches Four-Year-Olds to Shoot 0
January 14th at 7:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsHere is some free PR advice for the National Rifle Association: Now is not the time to release a target practice iOS app—especially one intended for kids. According to the NRA, the app is intended for children as young as age four....
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Top 5 Apps for Kids This Week 0
December 16th at 7:43pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsChris Crowell is a veteran kindergarten teacher and contributing editor to Children's Technology Review, a web-based archive of articles and reviews on apps, technology toys and video games. Download a free issue of CTR here. In this week's Top 5 Kids Apps, your kids can play with a spatial puzzle that lets them reassemble photographs they upload themselves. There's also a chance to learn and have fun with geography trivia and explore Australia with an illustrated story.
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EA Throws President’s Day Sale With Up To 90% Off iOS Games 2
February 18th at 6:24pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsEA is today throwing a President’s Day sale that has seen it slashing the prices of its iOS games by up to 90%. Over 55 games are included in the deal — including popular titles like Need for Speed Most Wanted, Mass Effect Infiltrator, and Dead Space 3 — and everything is just $0.99. We’ve got a complete list of reduced titles below.
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55 EA Games For iOS Are Now Just $0.99 For A Limited Time 0
March 27th at 9:44pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsEA’s on the loose with a machete, and it’s been slashing App Store prices like you wouldn’t believe. The company has reduced 55 of its best iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch games by as much as 90% for a limited time. Check out the massive list of titles below and grab yourself a bargain.
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6 Apps You Don't Want To Miss 0
April 13th at 7:57pm / 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 Facebook launched a whole new experience on Android, and a new iOS application made it easier than ever to keep up with everything that's important to you. A popular cloud storage service enhanced its experience on Android, and Turntable.fm launched a new music discovery app for the iPhone.
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Games for the weekend: Skylanders Cloud Patrol 1
May 17th at 11:07pm / GigaOM / 0 opinionsA carnival-style shooting game that resembles Fruit Ninja — except the targets are trolls, not fruit.
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Don’t make a costly mistake: Know Apple’s in-app purchase rules 1
June 8th at 9:47pm / GigaOM / 0 opinionsDid you know that you can lose points, virtual weapons, virtual currencies and other items you’ve bought in an app or game if you buy a new iPhone or even back up and restore your device?
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Apple touts App Store milestones for 5th anniversary 1
July 3rd at 10:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsMarking the fifth anniversary of the iPhone App Store, Apple has sent a poster to members of the press marking the many milestones the digital download destination has seen over its first half-decade.
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Dogfight With Your iPhone And Mac – ‘Sky Gamblers: Cold War’ Gets Its Wings In The App Store Today 0
July 19th at 7:04am / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsIf you like flight simulators, especially those of the more arcade variety, the Sky Gamblers series is a great place to start....
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Plants Vs. Zombies 2: Better Plants, Bigger Worlds, And Phenomenal Cosmic Powers 2
August 15th at 11:04pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsPopCap has finally gotten around to releasing the new zombie game that everyone and their grandmother has been waiting for – Plants vs Zombies 2: It’s About Time....
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'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2' Game Arrives for Mobile 1
September 19th at 6:05pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsThe weather forecast for your mobile device today is cloudy, with a chance of meatballs. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2, the sequel to the popular animated film is set to hit theaters later this month. PlayFirst in cooperation with Sony Pictures Consumer Products announced Thursday the mobile game for the movie, an addictive arcade game featuring characters from the film.
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Games for the weekend: Little Galaxy 0
October 18th at 12:37pm / GigaOM / 0 opinionsTraveling from planet to planet with little more than a little boy’s dream to be a great scientist some day, Little Galaxy proves to be a fun endless jumper with just enough physics to keep things interesting.
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Shooter Game Space Qube Lets You Order 3D Prints Of Your Voxel Creations 0
November 25th at 12:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsSpace Qube is a fun new addition for fans of voxel games with cool twist--you can bring the characters you build out of virtual reality and into real-life by ordering 3D prints of them. The retro-style space shooter for iOS gained traction after scoring the Best In Play award at this year's GDC, as well as placing as a Sense of Wonder Night's finalist at the Tokyo Game Show. Space Qube was was…
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20 social apps that got us talking in 2013 5
December 23rd at 12:08am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsAs we wind down the year, The Next Web compiled a list of some of the social apps that have made some significant moves in 2013. How did we qualify what a social app was? In our mind, it was a service that had a core functionality that enabled users to interact and engage with other people, either online or offline....
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Cut the Rope 2 review: Polished but uninspired physics puzzle game for iOS 0
January 28th at 9:42pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsYou’ve played Cut The Rope, right? No? Have you been living on the planet Glong? For the six people and a cat who’ve not played it, Cut The Rope is one of the most successful iPhone games ever—a cheery, simple but perfectly crafted physics puzzle game where you have to feed a series of sweets to a cute monster called Om Nom....
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Pointless-Quiz with Friends review: Name of BBC game show is fitting for the iOS version 2
March 16th at 7:22pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsOh, what a missed opportunity this is. The subtle delights of Pointless, the U.K.’s finest teatime quiz show, are squandered in this pale and joyless adaptation for iOS, which has none of the charm of its inspiration and a heap of technical problems....
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Infinity Blade II goes free for a limited time, PDF Expert 5 adds iPad support 0
May 30th at 2:51am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsTwo interesting new updates hit the App Store on Thursday as blockbuster iOS action game Infinity Blade II went free for a limited time and popular productivity app PDF Expert 5 added iPhone support in a new universal binary.
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It takes a ‘stache to recover your stash in the fun and adorable Leo’s Fortune 0
April 29th at 7:36am / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsLeo’s Fortune is one of the most beautiful iOS games I’ve seen in a while. But beyond its good looks, it also has an intriguing story, fun puzzles, and a ton of personality. Leo’s Fortune by 1337 & Senri LLC…
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Strategy sim Anno: Build an Empire sets sail for the App Store 0
July 18th at 4:44pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsFans of strategy simulation games can rejoice at the news that the popular Anno series — which first arrived on PC back in 1998 and has continued as a successful franchise to the present day — has landed on iPad.…
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WebMD updates Healthy Target, RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 goes free, Sony unveils Album of the Day app 0
August 15th at 12:51am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsA trio of interesting updates hit the App Store on Thursday, as WebMD added new coaching options to its Healthy Target feature, RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 became a free-to-play game, and Sony released a new music app that will give iOS users a discount on one album each day.
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Delivery routes make for a fun puzzler in Apple’s free App of the Week 1
October 24th at 5:04pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsIf you’re looking for a fun puzzle game to play over the weekend you can do a whole lot worse than RGB Express, Apple’s “App of the Week” which has gone free in the App Store. Arriving on iOS one…
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Get Wii-style bowling with an iPhone and Apple TV 1
January 16th at 5:44pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsTo get the fun of virtual bowling without a Wii, look no further than Bowling Central, a magical iOS app that lets you swing your iPhone around to send a virtual bowling ball to slamming into all the pins at…
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iOS Game Mr Jump Leaps To 5M Downloads After Four Days On The App Store 0
March 23rd at 5:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsThis weekend I jumped a lot, and more than a few of these jumps ended in death: I was playing Mr Jump, a new iPhone and iPad game that rewards pattern identification and memorization like the best of the old-school platformers. The game from France’s 1Button has already racked up 5 million downloads in just four days, and its simple in-app purchase and ad-based revenue model is earning…