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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 — [...]

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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 [...]

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Are you in the midst of creating an iPhone game? If so, you just may be entitled to enter this contest and have a chance at winning an extra $10,000 on top of the earnings you would make [...]

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Owing to how busy we’ve been around here working on various projects — including Frapstr’s site — I’m afraid I’ve been a bit out of touch with the jailbreak scene the last week and change.  I am now here [...]

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Those of you playing along at home will recall the small piece I did on iDefend Lite, wherein I pronounced it good but not perfect.  Well, I like Tower Defence games, and Landolphia liked my review, so after exchanging some pleasantries and Q&A, [...]

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Yep. We’re back again. Frapstr celebrated its 18th by getting smashed off its face and ending up two miles out in the Nevada desert with no memory of the preceeding events, and [...]

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Candywriter has announced the release of Imagine Poker 1.2 for iPhone/iPod Touch. Imagine Poker is your ticket to a Texas Hold ‘Em tournament with 21 characters from history whose exaggerated playing styles mimic their personalities. With 21 unique opponents in all, Imagine Poker Touch is designed to pack hours of entertainment in your pocket.

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The developers of BreakClassic and BreakTouch 3D posted on the TouchArcade forums on September 17th that Atari insisted they remove their game from the App Store.
Usually when this happens, the company asking [...]

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