January 2009 News

“Keep it Up” lets you play with your balls on the iPhone

Published: January 30, 2009

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Keep it Up! ($.99)
No, it’s not the subject of a spam email, it’s an iPhone game! With a name like this I can’t help but make immature jokes, so to keep it from affecting the review, lets go ahead and get them all out of the way now. Also, if you have any to add [...]


Chess Lite & Chess Pro

Published: January 30, 2009

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Are you looking for the best Chess game on your iPhone? Have you been scouring the internet to decide on that perfect chess iPhone app? When you ask people if they want to play chess, do they always say no? If you answered yes to any of these questions, get a life, then read my [...]


Message in a bottle

Published: January 30, 2009

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The Blimp Pilots, creators of Koi Pond, have  released a new casual game called Distant Shore. The $0.99 game involves a chillaxing stroll across an endless beach, collecting seashells and sending and receiving messages from the outside world through the use of messages in bottles.
“Distant Shore allows iPhone users to communicate in a brand new [...]


GameLoft seeing growth in sales in 2008

Published: January 29, 2009

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According to GameLoft’s twitter feedthey have seen $145 million in sales for 2008, which is a growth of 15% year over year. Not really huge news but it makes me wonder if the launch of the iPhone app store had something to do with GameLoft’s growth. Seems like the mobile market was getting kind of [...]


Is Apple listening?

Published: January 29, 2009

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The iPhone gaming industry was abuzz today over a rumour that Apple are planning a premium games section on the AppStore. Pocket Gamer.biz reported the rumour earlier today, stating that Apple may plan to sell premium games for iPhone at a $19.99 price tag. However, they go on to say that this will be restricted to [...]


“Highway to the…” oops, wrong film!

Published: January 29, 2009

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Freeverse dropped us a note today to announce their new game ‘Days of Thunder’. Created in partnership with Paramount Digital Entertainment, Days of thunder will be the first stock car racing game for the iPhone, with drafting, pit stops, oh, and large explosions too… Hopefully there will be no Ginger australians to distract your eyes [...]


Payback …the review

Published: January 29, 2009

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Payback from Apex designs is the iPhone’s answer to the GTA series. It’s a sandbox style game where you play a wannabe British gangster rising up through the ranks of the criminal underworld. To get there you must punch, shoot, kill, steal, and speed your way through 6 chapters, which in turn will take you [...]


React for Free!

Published: January 28, 2009

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React, which I reviewed here is now available for free on the App store! Go get it while the gettin’s good.
While you’re at it, the devs of React would like you to check out Punch-O-Meter, which is a game that measures your “air punches” with the iPhone. It’s currently the #1 sports game on the [...]


Let ‘em Ride Pro Quick Review

Published: January 28, 2009

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Baccarat Pro not only impressed me, but taught me a new card game I’d never heard of. Looks like this is the constant goal of Avalinx, as Let ‘em Ride Pro did the exact same thing! Although it may not be the most exciting version of poker, Let ‘em Ride Pro is excellent in every [...]


Par 3 Golf II Quick Review

Published: January 28, 2009

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There are plenty of golf games out there for the iPhone. Many of them try to be too much, and fail due to falling short of a lofty goal. Par 3 Golf II isn’t an amazing game, but it’s simple and straighforward gameplay could work well for someone looking for a casual golf game.
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All Pangea games on sale until February 1st

Published: January 27, 2009

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Starting yesterday, January 26th, all Pangea games will be on sale for $.99. This will last untill Sunday, Feburary 1st 2009.


It’s Payback time!

Published: January 27, 2009

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James from Apex Designs contacted us today with news that Payback is ready. “After a delay caused by a bug in the App Store submission process, the iPhone/iPod Touch version of Payback is finally ready to go! It will now be released worldwide on 28 January.”
Look forward to our full review of this ambitious GTA [...]


iPGN Unleashed - episode 13

Published: January 26, 2009

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In this unlucky and un-organised 13th podcast, we talk Payback, Zombie Chavs, Hellfire and many more. Plus in our topic we dicuss forgotten gems of the appstore. news includes our new site look, bomer online and bobby carrot. Plus the regular top 5’s and AppStore reviews.

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HeroCraft brings iPhone goodies

Published: January 26, 2009

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Well known Russian mobile game developer HeroCraft is looking to bring some games to the iPhone, so hopefully we can be looking forward to some quality games coming out of these guys, after all, who doesn’t love some good quality games on our iPhones? Check back for reviews of these games as they come along. [...]


Ghostly reality

Published: January 26, 2009

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Developer Quin Genzel has created an innovative new game called R.I.P. In it you play a ghost who roams a graveyard, your aim is to return to your grave.
The innovation comes from the way you look around the 3D environment. Much like a VR headset, your viewpoint changes in relation to your iphones position… aim [...]


Peggle coming to an iPhone near you “this year”

Published: January 26, 2009

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PopCap game’s Peggle looks to be making an appearance on the iTunes app store this year sometime. On their Twitter, they claimed it as having a March release date, but that post has been since deleted and they are now claiming release date of this year sometime. For me it can’t come soon enough, Peggle [...]


Become a stunt pilot with ‘Flight Stunts’

Published: January 26, 2009

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Makayama Media have released Flight Stunts, a new flight sim game that promises fun over realism.
Fly 20 missions including control tower flybys, fighting MIGs, dropping paratroopers and manoevering an Airbus A319 under the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco.
Early user reviews on iTunes report on muddy graphics and weak controls, bringing concerns that the game perhaps [...]


Lucky 11s review

Published: January 25, 2009

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Here goes with my first review, as Nige’s better half, he suggested I tried this game, and I’m sure much to his annoyance I love it. As an iphone games network widow it means that while he’s making updates to the site or recording his latest views I can borrow his phone and spend hours [...]


Eye vs eye Quick Review

Published: January 24, 2009

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Eye vs eye sounds a lot more interesting than it actually is. That’s not to say it is a terrible game, but it’s not particularly deep. I had fun with it for a good five minutes and then lost interest.
The basic idea of the game is that you are shown a bunch of circles in [...]


Online bomber action comes to iPhone

Published: January 24, 2009

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Bomber Online is a BomberMan clone, and while we already have the official version available for some time now, this clone brings online multiplayer to the table with automatic matchmaking, player profile with picture, friend list . Up to 5 players can blow each other other to kingdom come across six themed worlds. Look or listen for [...]


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