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Today’s Apple Event – Hands on with iPod Touch, Nano and More

Today Apple held its media event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and unveiled its work in significantly evolving a number of its mobile and media products. I had a chance to see it all first hand and spend some hands-on time with the fruits of the company's recent labor.

The [...]

Unreal Engine 3 Tech Demo ‘Epic Citadel’ Available for Free

As part of today's keynote, Epic Games showed a brief tech demo of the Unreal Engine 3 running on an iPhone. In a surprise twist of events, this very same tech demo just appeared on the App Store mere moments ago as a free universal app. If you've got an iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, 3rd [...]

Apple’s September Press Event – Where Can I Get That Guitar?

Apple's press event starts in just a few moments, which is currently being streamed live on apple.com. The catch is, you either need to be using an iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or Safari on a Mac. If you don't have any of these things, MacRumors has posted a workaround involving some trickery with the open [...]

Apple Media Event Today @ 10:00 AM PDT – Live Stream Available

We are mere hours away from Apple's latest media event held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA. Few people know for certain what will be discussed today, but the rumor mill is on fire with what could be a potentially redesigned iPod Nano or iPod Shuffle as well as [...]

Two Upcoming Games – ‘Cut the Rope’ and ‘Lost Company’

Cut the Rope – Already drawing comparisons to the incredibly popular Angry Birds [99¢/Lite/HD], Cut the Rope is a new physics puzzle game developed by Zeptolab and being published by Chillingo. In the game, you're tasked with feeding candy to a hungry little creature named Om Nom. For whatever reason, the candy is [...]

Venan Arcade Announces “Back to School” Sale on App Store Hits


Venan Arcade is sending students back to school in style, placing their hit titles on sale through Labor Day. From now through Monday, Ninjatown: Trees of Doom! is available for 99 cents (regularly $1.99), while Space Miner:Space Ore Bust is only $1.99 (regularly $4.99).

We previously reviewed both Space Miner:Space Ore Bust and Ninjatown:Trees Of Doom! [...]

A ‘Max Adventure’ Update, Level Building Video

Back in June at Apple's WWDC 2010 in San Francisco, we had a chance to sit down with Natalia Luckyanova of Imangi Studios, the folks who most recently brought us Harbor Master HD [free], to take a look at their upcoming dual-stick shooter Max Adventure, which we first previewed earlier in the year.
Max Adventure paints [...]

Griffin Readies PartyDock iPhone / iPad Accessory

Since Apple enabled peripheral support for iOS devices in iOS 4, we've been watching closely to see what creative control peripherals hardware developers will bring to the platform. The latest is the PartyDock, a multiplayer remote control dock for the iPhone 4 and iPad.
As TUAW reports, the PartyDock is an iPad charging dock that also [...]

Upcoming ‘Gun Bros.’ – Brothers from Different Violence-Prone Mothers

My favorite game that I played at the Glu iPhone Games event was Gun Bros. Gun Bros. is a top-down dual-stick shooter with a completely over the top style in just about every way. You play as one of two brothers, Percy or Frances Gun, as you destroy wave after wave of increasingly [...]

Upcoming ‘Magic Life’ – Turn Your Friends Into Toads and Pigs

One of the more interesting titles I was able to play at the Glu iPhone Games event is called Magic Life. Imagine the colorful, cartoony world and customization aspects of Animal Crossing; add in heaps of RPG elements, quests, and magical spells; and top it off with a strong social integration and you will [...]