Software developer Rockstar Games announced that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will arrive for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch handsets later this fall.
[iPhone Alley] According to Touch Arcade, the game, which is presently available for the Nintendo DS, follows the story of Huang Lee, a young Triad who travels to Liberty City after the mysterious [...]

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Tap Tap Revenge [iTunes link] has been updated to version 2.6, featuring compatibility with iPhone OS 3.0. By my knowledge, this is the first application to support proper compatibility with iPhone OS 3.0 features.
Using Apple’s upcoming Push Notification features, Tap Tap Revenge 2.6 would most likely advise you of incoming challenges that others have sent [...]

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The News & Observer shared with us a story of a man, 30 years of age, whom spent not but 6 weeks on the development of an iPhone game, which I’m sure many of you are well aware of to this day. That game is iShoot, and is available on the iPhone App Store for [...]

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App Name:
Escape

Developer:
Nuclear Nova Software

Version:
1.0

Publisher:
Nuclear Nova Software

Size:
4 MB

Category:
Logic & Puzzle Games

Price:
$2.99/$4.99

Around the middle of last October I reviewed the lite version of Nuclear Nova’s GL Golf.  Those of you who remember may recall that I wasn’t entirely too pleased with it, as among other things, it looked like an early [...]

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Here’s a quick bit of info before the day has ended. ROLAND IS OUT ON THE APP STORE. I know you’ve all heard of this game so no more further explaining. All I can say is get it now!

Features include:

Interactive Environments – Manipulate more than a dozen gizmos, including lifts, catapults and bomb dispensers
Fun with [...]

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Some very well developed games are cruising to the App Store recently including some new games from Tapulous, a clean Tower Defense game and for the ever anticipated Rolando that’s due out tommorow! But today, it’s Sim City that everyones eyes are on.
This EA Games release will almost has the same functionality as the PC [...]

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It’s a given that any new platform goes though its initial stage of growing pains.  Developers, new to the platform, struggle not only with learning to program on it, but ultimately with learning the finer points of programming on it — the little tips, tricks and secrets that can turn a mediocre project into a [...]

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There’s no doubt about it.  The App Store has exploded.  In the early days, for the first couple of months, I was able to keep up.  It was a challenge sometimes, keeping up with all the new freebies, but I managed it every few days.  But it has picked up more and more, and I [...]

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A few weeks back I had planned to start doing weekly digests of the previous week of releases on Frapstr, the Free App Store Review.  Partly to maintain a connection to its original home, but also to bring some cool stuff (and some crap stuff) to those who may not know about Frapstr or don’t [...]

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Oh man, I had such a tough time keeping this on the down-low when Mark let me in on this one last week.  Y’all know what a fan I am of LED Football, with all of its plasticky, bleepy, glowing LED retro goodness carved out of a solid block of volcanic awesome.
Well, the boys at [...]

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When we last left our friends at Iron Square, I had given their fun little virtual game show Mr. Trivia Lite the twice-over because they had spiffed up and fixed the issues with the first version I had reviewed and snarked all over for its habit of mangling the English language while conveniently ignoring my [...]

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Have a look at the two videos below, which show the final production of the new developers game; Apocalypse.
This guy has actually managed to create an entire iPhone game in no more than 30 days, sound, graphics, programing and all. That is quite the accomplishment if you ask me.
What’s even more impressive is the fact [...]

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It’s Tokyo Game Show time in the land of the rising sun, and it’s making veteran developers HudsonSoft giddier than a Japanese school girl.  So giddy that, from now until until midnight Sunday (Japan Standard Time — noon EST) they’re giving away three of their games to anyone who wants them.  Free!  Aqua Forest, Catch [...]

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Apparently the Tetris Company and Tetris Holdings LLC have complained about another Tetris-like game on which has been available on the App Store for over a month now.
The game was called “Shaker”, and had the basic idea of Tetris, but looked completely different from the original. Why Tetris took over a month to complain about [...]

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