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  • Layers [Updated (x2)]

    As many of you now know, I work as the visual director at iPhone GUI design studio, RFlyGD. Being involved in the design industry has it’s ups and downs just like any other business sector.

    The most important aspect for me is being able to create professional content, even when on the move, all the time, every time. You can probably imagine the excitement that hit me when I came across an iPhone application which was capable of both multi-layering and file export to .PSD (Photoshop document) .. (more…)

  • Copterkid [Updated]

    What do you get when you strap a cap with a propeller onto a kids head?

    In their debut app for iPhone (and iPod touch), Rishi Modha and Anirudh Sharma, two university graduates from the newly founded London based iPhone development studio FIPLAB, bring a uniquely designed, side scroller to the platform.

    The guys were kind enough to hook us up with a copy.
    So, How well does Copterkid play out? .. (more…)

  • Baseball Slugger

    I feel I must start by saying that I’ve never understood the American (and Japanese) obsession with Baseball, never understood how an entire nation could get excited about what is, effectively, a game of Rounders, or how a World Series only has entrants from one country. So it was with some trepidation that I picked up a copy of Baseball Slugger: Home run 3D Race by Com2us Corp but boy, was I in for a surprise. (more…)

  • Chillingo Announces Crystal

    In the iPhone gaming community for the last few months we’ve started to see a rise in the amount of social gaming platforms integrated into applications from Ngmoco’s Plus+ network to Open Fient from Aurora Feint now. There has been a lot of hype surrounding the various platforms with more and more games integrating them and utilizing the social aspect of game play from titles such as Pocket God, Sneezies, StickWars and Aurora Feint (all using the Open Feint platform). (more…)

  • iTwitter

    With so many twitter clients both free and paid for, does the iPhone really need another one? Well, Nibiru Tech Ltd seem to think so with the release of iTwitter v1.0.

    I can imagine, like myself, most (if not all) serious Tweeters, if that is in fact the correct term, have already tried a number of Twitter clients and have long since settled on their favourite, be it Tweetie, Twitterfon, Tweetdeck, Twitterific, I’ll stop now as it would take far too long to list every client available. So can iTwitter really hope to prise you away from your current client? (more…)

  • One Year of the App Store

    On Tuesday 7th July Apple officially started celebrating the App Store’s birthday, we’re bring you this article today on Saturday 11th July because this is the official date the App Store launched on iPhone and iPod Touch, as most would agree, a remarkable day that has changed the way we look at mobile phones, iPhones and iPods forever. (more…)

  • Wordulous

    Wordulous is the latest release from 99games Online Private Limited, an anagram game where you have to try and make as many words as possible from the six letters provided before the time runs out. Fans of scrabble and the like are sure to find this little app appealing. (more…)