Today, Directed Electronics released an iPhone app that replaces your keys and allows you to remote start your car with an iPhone or iPod Touch. The app is called Viper SmartStart, and expounds on the recently released app from Zipcar. Zipcar’s app allows Zipcar vehicle renters to lock and unlock their borrowed car doors. Viper […]
2XL Games’ much anticipated ATV game was released into the App Store tonight for .99. The game represents 2XL’s followup title to the technically impressive 2XL Supercross and seems to share the same graphics engine. Beyond moving to ATV’s, however, 2XL has added a lot of content to this new title, including freestyle levels, career […]
Gameloft’s Derek Jeter Real Baseball [App Store] joined the rest of their impressive sports lineup on the platform this evening. Featuring full 3D graphics, several different game modes ranging from home run derbies to full season modes, and full in-game commentary, Derek Jeter Real Baseball seems to display the same high quality production as other […]
The odds are against you when it comes to avoiding the poker sensation. Entire TV channels are dedicated to it, and the App Store is bursting at the sides with all the related games. You can’t even go ten minutes without some sort of advert trying to get you to gamble away your hard earned […]
According to Craig Harris of IGN, who, on the Nintendo teams’ weekly podcast, mentioned that World of Goo is coming to iPhone. Let’s hope he’s right because it would be a guaranteed hit. World of Goo is a physics based puzzle game for the PC and Mac and has recently been added to the Wii through […]
Google wave can be accessed from the Safari browser on your iPhone or iPod touch, as a web based application. To try it, you obviously would need to have a Google Wave account, and an iPhone or iPod touch. Open Safari, type in wave.google.com which will show you an error message, stating your browser is […]
Fellow wordsmiths may be happy to know that developer Mobile Pie has today announced Oh, My Word! 2 is on the way to the iPhone Fans of the iPhone’s, hangman-esque puzzler might also be delighted to know that this incarnation includes Plus+ Network capabilities to go alongside the new survival and time attack modes. The […]
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Forgetting that your zipper is undone when you go to meet your other half’s parents for the first time is only going to strain your relationship and attending a job interview with a blob of tomato ketchup on your shirt won’t earn you any […]
Namco has posted a series of screenshots from their upcoming Ace Combat XI game for the iPhone. The Ace Combat francise has been around since 1995 with versions of the game appearing on the Playstation, Playstation 2, Xbox 360, and PSP. Early impressions of the game describe the gameplay experience to be “smooth and easy […]
Pang (or Buster Bros.) was a popular 1989 arcade game that was subsequently ported to a number of home computer platforms. The basic gameplay has already spawned a number of App Store clones including Chippy [.99], Buster Boy [.99], LaserBug [.99], Bubble Pang Free [Free]. Player X, however, has brought an official Pang port to […]
For the first time on the App Store, you can play as SHREK! Challenge your friends in Multiplayer and Arena modes! Explore the world of DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek! ————————————— Once Upon a Time… Shrek and his friends are on a quest: To become the Kingdom’s Fastest Kart Racer! Race to your own Fairy Tale ending […]
A lot of indie iPhone developers have come from bigger game companies that failed to survive the credit crunch, with the unemployed ground floor troops setting up on their own in the handheld gaming world. Newly formed Riptide Games – founded by IGDA board member Brian Robbins – has a similar story, though it was born […]
Hopido is new puzzle game by Moido and is their first release for the iPhone. The game tasks you with revealing all of the tiles on a board by using a defined order in which the tiles can be turned over. You can progress by turning over most of the tiles however to successfully gain […]
True Axis’s Jet Car Stunts was described as “a fun, over the top, 3D driving game, with massive jumps, mid-air hoops, floating platforms, spiral roadways, outlandish maneuvers and impossible environments.” Controls are accelerometer based along with mid-air flight controls to nudge the angle of flight or adjust speed with air braking. We loved the look […]
Dragon Portals comes to us from MythPeople (casual games brand of Finnish-based 10tons Ltd), the same folks behind the wonderful Azkend (reviewed here). At its core we have basic match 3 gameplay but the innovative play mechanics and slick presentation create a very different feel that stands out from other titles in the genre. I would […]
A few weeks ago, TouchFoo teased us with a gravity defying trailer promising a fun, innovative, and action-packed platformer game for the iPhone. They have since fully delivered on that promise with the release of Soosiz [App Store]. The basic gameplay found in Soosiz is that of a traditional platformer, where you run and jump […]
There are few good excuses for driving like a maniac, but having just robbed a bank is one of them. With a hostage in the back seat and a phalanx of wailing sirens on your tail, a few swerves and dodgy corners are inevitable. In Car Jack Streets it’s not the post-felony frenzy that makes […]
There’s a lot going right now over at React Games, and it’s not just to do with the iPhone. The studio that brought a revamp of Free Fall Associates’ classic ’80s strategy / arcade game Archon [App Store] to the iPhone is about to release a separate single-player spin-off title that should give fans of […]
This week at AppTrawler we speak to the team at Etherfield Studios who are behind the addictive bouncing ball iphone game ‘Pitz’. The game revolves around a ceremonial rubber ball belonging to the god which must be returned by the second hour of night otherwise the Lords of the Night will not be appeased. See […]
The line-drawing genre has strangely chosen to go in every possible direction before it’s finally come around to the obvious playpen of sheep herding. Putting you in control of yokel farmer Peter, Peter und Vlad charges with herding your Bavarian flock into your barn through the now familiar line-drawing mechanic. The idea is to trace […]