Time Crisis Strike – the review
Namco’s Time Crisis franchise can be considered one of the oldest video game series on the market: almost every arcade world-wide has at least one of them in active service..and don’t get me started on...
View ArticleTwo billion apps downloaded from App Store
Apple’s press department has recently sent out an announcement claiming that two billion applications have been downloaded from the iTunes App Store since its launch. As the release contains some very...
View ArticleHandy Converter for iPhone / iPod touch – the review
Unit conversion has always been a core competency of mobile phones – Nokia’s smartphones even ship with a basic converter in ROM. Apple’s products currently don’t – which is why Handy Converter was...
View ArticleiMussolini – more “fun” for Apple
After the recent – and, in some countries, highly controversial – pulling of a few Nazi songs of questionable copyright provenience, Apple now has another issue on its hide: an application called...
View ArticleiTunes accounts being hacked
Centralized databases full of credit card records, etc are precious – it thus should come as no surprise that the iTunes App Store has been the target of all kinds of attacks recently. The latest...
View ArticleiAd filter hits Cydia
Even though Apple’s iTunes Store does not have the conversion rate problems known on other stores (like Nokia’s infamous Ovi), Apple has nevertheless decided to increase the amount of free apps...
View ArticleBritannica Concise Encyclopedia 2010 for iPhone – the review
Penreader has mobilized books and dictionaries in the past. They are thus well aware of the “added features” – for example, three random definitions are shown on the home screen of the app: Searching...
View ArticleFirst astroturfing case settled in the USA
If you have app stores, you have astroturfing – this age-old rule has been valid ever since the first ESD opened its store and added a rating system. Unfortunately, the recent FCC rules for online news...
View ArticleSpinballs for iPhone – the review
Puzzle games were among the first genres to hit mobile devices – games like Astraware’s infamous Bejeweled have become bestsellers. Spinballs wants to combine puzzle and action…but can it impress?...
View ArticleFokker Skurge – the review
Flight simulations have traditionally been an area where few developers manage to succeed – things like plane choice, realism vs arcade physics and other issues make creating bad games way too easy....
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