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  • Koi Pond HD Ripples Its Way onto the App Store

    Just a few hours after we gave you the heads up on a new preview video of Koi Pond HD, posted by TheBlimpPilots to @YouTube yesterday, the app showed up on iTunes for just £1.19/$1.99. (more…)

  • 180 – A Fun All-Action Puzzle Game for iPhone and iPad!

    180 which is developed by Headcase Games is a great match 3 puzzle game, all you have to do is flip and shoot your coins.

    The gameplay is easy to pick up. On the screen at the top are coloured coins with two sides, each side being a different colour. If you are happy with that colour you can leave it, if you want to change the colour you tap it and it flips over to the other colour.

    At the bottom you’ll find the coin you are going to shoot out next. When you are happy to fire the coin out you just tap the space where you want it to fly. If the coin happens to match any of the other coins of the same colour, equaling three or more, it clears them off the screen. The game involves that you keep on doing this, but beware .. don’t let them cross the line at the bottom, or the game is over!

    Where you can benefit with 180’s style of matching is the ability to flip these coins. You can see what colour is coming up next, so you then can change the colours at the top to try and match, ready for when that next coin shoots out. It adds a nice twist to the popular type of match-3 game already hugely popular in the app store.

    There are three modes in which you can 180:

    Endless – This mode sees how long you can keep the game going
    Score Attack – Within this mode you have 90 seconds to gain a high score
    Drop Attack – In this mode you get to add more lines to score points, choosing between a difficulty of either easy and hard

    The graphics are bright and colourful and whilst you are playing there are some nice sound effects to accompany them. Another great feature to this game is that it is @OpenFeint enabled, so you can compete and play against your friends and family, collecting trophies and achievements.

    There are so many games of this kind already available on the store, that I wasn’t sure how long my interest would last with 180. With the ability to flip the coins over though, it really (for me) made the gameplay a little more challenging than usual. 180 is a vibrant and colourful game in which you can use strategy and skill to gain those all important high score points. A puzzle game really for any age and one all the family can easily pick up and play.

    Gameplay [rating:4/5]
    Controls [rating:4/5]
    Graphics/Sound [rating:3/5]

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  • NimbleBit Unveil ‘Omium’, Their Next Game Headed to iPad! – [VIDEO]

    @Nimblebit, the developers behind the well loved iPad title Dizzypad, plus other iPhone-based games such as SkyBurger and Scoops, have today released a new video for its next game headed to iPhone. (more…)

  • Quick Blast: Penultimate for iPad

    Penultimate is a very intuitively designed note taking application for the iPad. With its iWork-esque interface and handy features, it’s a welcome addition to the selection of productivity applications currently available for the iPad.

    When you first launch Penultimate, you’re presented with a carousel of notebooks for your filling. One of them is blank, and another is a tutorial on all the different things you can do in Penultimate. The tools you’re able to use are quite basic; a pen with varying thickness based on your speed, an eraser, and a clear page button. What makes this application different from the already available iPad note taking applications is the simplistic and easy to use interface.

    Would I recommend this app to someone wanting a note taking and doodling application on their iPad? Yes, I would, as long as it’s understood that this is not an application for creating the next Picasso or for writing the next great novel.

    What would I change? It would be nice to have a highlighter and the option of a different color pen, but this is still a great application in its current state.

    iPad Integration [rating:3/5]
    Usability [rating:4/5]
    User Interface [rating:4.5/5]

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  • International iBookstores Start to Go LIVE. Slowly Filling Up With iBooks.

    After international versions of the on-device App Store started to go live on iPad’s around the world this morning, Italian blog @iPadevice is now reporting that Apple is pushing updates to its international iBookstores as we speak. (more…)

  • iPad Officially Outselling the Mac In US?

    RBC Capital Markets analyst, Mike Abramsky is today claiming that the iPad is actually now outselling Apple’s Macintosh computer in the US. (more…)

  • Apple Flicks Switch On International iPad App Stores – [Now LIVE]

    With just over a week away from the iPad going international in a further 9 countries, Apple has today flicked the switch on the international App Stores, with the on-device stores in now being available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. (more…)