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Flight Control soars to 2 million sales
Firemint are celebrating as their game Flight Control surpasses 2 million sales in the App Store. "Today we’re proud to announce that after 324 days, on 23 January 2010, Flight Control sold the 2 millionth download – that’s over 6,000 sales per day on average! We had particularly big days on 28 and 29 March 2009 when Flight Control suddenly exploded up the charts, with over 30,000 copies sold each day. Even 9 months after release, Christmas Day 2009 was also a great day with over 20,000 copies sold – many probably going to happy new owners of an iPhone or iPod touch!" Flight Control has held a high position in the top 100 paid apps in over 20 countries, and was feat…
Commodore 64 Review
For many people, the Commodore 64 (C64) is remembered with equal part nostalgia and frustration. It found its primary market in the UK, but even despite the video game crash of 1983 it still had a home in North America. If you're one of the few people lucky enough to have experienced the superior gameplay the system had at the time Commodore 64 by Manomio might just be for you. Much like Manomio's port of Flashback, this app is a licensed emulator of the C64. The menu system is easy t…
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Cross Fingers Review
Cross Fingers by Mobigames is about as polished as a puzzle game can get on the iPhone with a slick presentation and stunningly simple gameplay that will eat up all of your spare time. The challenge of Cross Fingers is a basic one with players invited to shift blocks of varying size and shape to fill the voids on the screen. Much like tangram puzzles, these voids can be comprised of extremely odd shapes and will require some logic to piece together the final composition. However, this…
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Skies of Glory Review
There's a kind of magic that comes from developers that use the free-to-download but pay-to-play model correctly and Skies of Glory by SGN will have you handing out cash almost willingly. As the name implies it's a flight simulator with arcade style dog-fighting. The game's set in World War II and takes players on a world-wide tour as you progress through the missions. Your accelerometer controls the basic tilt and lift of your plane, while touches and drags allow you to manipulate yo…
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Beat It! Review
For all aspiring DJs, music producers or sound mixers out there, Beat It! is the game for you. In this rhythmically driven puzzle game, players must mimic a small audio clip by cueing up different instrument tracks to match the original beat and add various items to the environment around you. You must try to replicate each track as quickly and as accurately as possible using nothing but your ears. Players place different instrument notes out on the 16 bar track by tapping where they…
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Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X Review
There's a danger in porting games from the current generation of consoles to hand-held devices simply because they tend to never capture what made the game so special in the first place. Tom Clancy's HAWX has been brought to the App Store by Gameloft and shatters any doubts about providing an authentic experience on your iPhone. HAWX is a dog-fighting flight simulator that errs more towards arcade gameplay than it does realism. The game's set in a semi-fictional modern technological w…
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Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom - Rainbow Ride Review
Get ready to go for a ride on a magical adventure with Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom - Rainbow Ride. You play Dora, a girl who has been summoned to the Crystal Kingdom because the Greedy King has taken all the colour crystals and hidden them in a rainbow, so now it's up to you to ride the rainbow on a magical shield and get all the crystals back. The game heavily relies on the player's ability to find a balance between speed and movement as players must guide Dora side to side on the…
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Need for Speed Shift Review
It's hard to put some prejudices behind and while racing games are generally fun, they also lack a lot of energy and feel like they're entirely interchangeable. Thankfully the cure to this lethargy is simple as Need for Speed Shift isn't just fast and furious, it's so good you'll be smiling in 60 seconds. One of the first solid features of the game revolves around your chosen difficulty settings. Depending on your selection features like auto-braking, steering assist, auto transmissio…
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Kim Rhode's Outdoor Shooting Review
Ethan Nicholas, the indie developer who brought us iShoot, has taken a break from rolling in all the money that his extremely popular debut app made him. Now he comes bearing a new game, and the high expectations we had for him were not unwarranted. Teaming up with Olympic skeet shooting gold medalist Kim Rhode, his hunting game Kim Rhode Outdoor Shooting is going for gold too. Hunting games have been somewhat hit and miss on the iPhone, but Outdoor Shooting is aiming to change that.…
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mondrian Review
Anybody familiar with the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian and his Neo-Plasticism artform may have an inkling to what this game is about. What is doubtful is that they expected to have the ghost of the man himself accompany the player on a quest to retrieve his paintings from all over the world. Mondrian is a block puzzler where the player must move coloured blocks around the level in order to recreate some of the paintings by Mondrian. Even though you are doing the dead man a favour, he is…
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Rhythm Racer Review
Rhythm Racer is a free futuristic 3D racing game which combines elements of “F-Zero” and “Guitar Hero” to deliver a fast paced, high volume racing experience which is unlike anything you've ever seen before. The goal of the game is to keep the music flowing and collect points by tiling your iphone and driving your ship through the rings and coloured spheres which appear on the track. Like Guitar Hero, the game will let you miss a few beats, however if you miss…
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Shaun White Snowboarding : Origins Review
Based on the legendary snowboarding figure, Shaun White: Snowboarding Origins is an extreme snowboarding game which gives players a chance the slice the ice in a free roam atmosphere with over 50 tricks to learn and a vast array of unlockable achievements. The goal for the game is to achieve the highest score possible by performing tricks which use a combination of grabs, spins and slides. The controls are fairly easy to learn and with a bit of practice players will be performing dari…
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Zwirn Review
Zwirn is an interesting game to say the least. Though first impressions are somewhat similar to Zen Bound, they are unfortunately only skin deep. Zwirn (German for twine) is a quirky puzzle game where players manipulate a piece of string from its starting point, and thread it around the level so it touches all black dots simultaneously by the time you reach the end. The first four levels are supposed to act as a tutorial, unfortunately they are not of much help. Rather than give you w…
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Free App of the Day: Reign of Swords
Reign of Swords is the feature app on Free App A Day Winner of Spike TV's Video Game Awards "Best Hardcore Mobile Game" of 2008! Winner "Best Strategy Game" of 2008 by IGN! “Mobile Battles: Reign of Swords” is an award-winning multiplayer strategy battle game with collectible units. “The first must-have game of 2008”, IGN Get it now on iTunes!…
Final Fantasy I and II coming to iPhone!
It's coming! Over 20 years since their original console releases, Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II are coming to iPhone and iPod Touch. The Announcement was made by Square Enix via their Twitter and Facebook earlier today. The release date is still TBA but in the mean time check out some of the stills.…
