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The Sims 3: Ambitions Now Available, Includes Babies

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Following up on its successful App Store adaptation of The Sims 3 and its spinoff World Adventures, Electronic Arts has released The Sims 3: Ambitions ($4.99), an expansion that introduces a variety of new character goals and gameplay objectives.

Ambitions includes a newly expanded Build Mode, which equips players with advanced home customization tools. The new Career Mode features several different jobs to pursue, each of which boasts its own unique set of goals, minigames, outfits, and locations.

And then there’s the babies. EA notes that babies are by far The Sims 3′s “most requested feature,” and Ambitions finally allows new parents to feed, clothe, and cuddle a newborn Sim. Aww.

If you have a favorite Sim that you’d like to introduce to parenthood, fear not — The Sims 3: Ambitions fully supports the exporting and importing of characters from The Sims 3 and The Sims 3: World Adventures.


RISK Review

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Developer: EA Games
Price: $4.99
Version Reviewed: 1.4.88

Graphics / Sound Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Game Controls Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 3.75 out of 5 stars
Re-use / Replay Value Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Overall Rating: 3.69 out of 5 stars

RISK is finally here! I have to admit that I’m a bit baffled as to why EA waited so long to release RISK on the App Store. Now RISK has to deal with “clone” competitors, too, many of which tout more features than this official version. Still, while this is a somewhat flawed and bare-bones release, it’s very approachable and is still a good strategy game overall.

For newcomers, RISK is a game of world domination. Three to six players compete on a single world map, vying for total control. Each turn consists of three phases: Draft, Attack, and Fortify. During Draft, you’re awarded troops based on how much territory you control, and you assign them to the territories you wish. Attack is straightforward: ordering troops to attack enemy territory, in which dice-rolling luck plays a large role. Finally, with Fortify, you can move troops from one territory to another, but only once.

Another feature: “risk cards” are earned for conquering territories. These can be traded in for extra troops at the start of your turn. Weirdly, the app doesn’t allow you to view which cards you have…only how many. Frustrating.

Also frustrating: while the game includes three AI difficulty levels, multiplayer is where the meat of any strategy game is. However, your only human-vs-human options are local WiFi / Bluetooth with up to four players, or Pass-n-Play with up to six. Really? Where’s the global internet competition? Add the lack of global multiplayer to a single available map, a relatively easy computer opponent, simple graphics, and no support for house rules, and it’s clear that this version of RISK is as bare-bones as they come.

RISK is still a solid, fun game; how could it not be? Strategy fans and RISK faithful in particular should enjoy it; the epic, sprawling games are highly engaging. Just be aware that there are many, many clones…some of which surely outshine this stripped-down port.

[ RISK Review is a post from 148Apps ]


EA Debuts iPhone 4-Optimized NCAA Football

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EA’s college football franchise NCAA Football arrives in the App Store today in two different flavors: NCAA Football ($6.99) for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and an enhanced NCAA Football HD ($7.99) specifically tailored for the iPhone 4.

The iPhone 4-optimized version of NCAA Football boasts high-resolution graphics suited for the device’s Retina display, eliminating many of the graphical flaws that would be apparent with pixel doubling.

Both versions of the game feature 55 collegiate teams, a season-long single-player mode that simulates all major Bowl games, a fully-featured Team Editor (allowing players to customize everything from jersey colors to fight songs selected from an iTunes playlist), and a multiplayer mode playable over a Bluetooth connection.


Electronic Arts Holding 99-Cent Sale for Next 48 Hours

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Savings alert! Electronic Arts has dropped the price of many titles in its App Store catalog to 99 cents. If you’ve been eyeing some of the company’s high-profile offerings for the iPhone and iPod Touch, now’s the time to check and see if you can score a few games for a fraction of their original cost.

The sale includes popular titles like Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Need for Speed Shift, and Dragon’s Lair. Be warned, though — you have only 48 hours to buy these games before they return to full price.


Skate It Rolls Into the App Store

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In preparation for the imminent launch of Skate 3 on consoles, EA has released Skate It ($6.99), a scaled-down iPhone version of its skateboarding franchise.

Skate It uses accelerometer and flick controls to trigger a variety of grabs, flips, and grinds. As with many skateboarding titles, players earn points for stringing together combinations of air and land stunts.

The iPhone version of Skate It also features a character creation mode, along with a replay recording feature that allows players to capture their best tricks and most painful failures.

(Related note: this incredible compilation video of bizarre Skate moments is pretty much guaranteed to instantly make you a fan of the series. My favorite starts at around 23 seconds in. Physics!)


EA Launches 2010 FIFA World Cup

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Following up on last year’s successful FIFA 10, Electronic Arts has released 2010 FIFA World Cup, a 3D soccer sim featuring 105 official league teams.

2010 FIFA World Cup boasts an overhauled control scheme, simplifying input to three clearly labeled buttons and a virtual control stick. The game includes four single-player modes, along with training and multiplayer options.

The new World Cup tournament mode lets players take their favorite team through a series of qualifying matches, or skip straight to the finals leading up to the World Cup championship game.


Top-Selling Paid Game Apps: The Simpsons Arcade, Real Racing HD Lead Charts

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Every Monday, FingerGaming rounds up the most popular paid iPhone and iPod Touch applications, as current that day on the iTunes App Store. This week’s top titles are:

  1. The Simpsons Arcade ($0.99)
  2. Doodle Jump ($0.99)
  3. Monopoly ($2.99)
  4. The Game of Life Classic Edition ($1.99)
  5. Diner Dash ($0.99)
  6. Skee-Ball ($0.99)
  7. The Sims 3 World Adventures ($6.99)
  8. Words With Friends ($1.99)
  9. 5 Minutes to Kill (Yourself) ($0.99)
  10. All-in-1 Gamebox ($0.99)

EA’s The Simpsons Arcade climbs to the top of today’s chart after dropping in price to 99 cents. Last week’s sales leader Where’s Waldo? has since disappeared from the top ten entirely after a price increase to $2.99.

Monopoly and The Game of Life also enjoy new popularity this week following recent price drops, as EA’s The Sims 3 World Adventures finishes its debut week at seventh place.

Here are this week’s top-selling iPad applications:

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  1. Real Racing HD ($9.99)
  2. Scrabble for iPad ($9.99)
  3. Flight Control HD ($4.99)
  4. Plants vs. Zombies HD ($9.99)
  5. Need for Speed Shift for iPad ($14.99)
  6. Game Table ($0.99)
  7. Labyrinth 2 HD ($7.99)
  8. X-Plane for iPad ($9.99)
  9. Frogger Pad ($0.99)
  10. Words With Friends HD ($4.99)

Firemint’s upgraded HD version of Real Racing finishes as the iPad’s biggest-selling launch title. EA’s Scrabble also sees impressive sales in the iPad’s first week of release, as enhanced editions of Flight Control and Plants vs. Zombies follow close behind at third and fourth place.

Though the iPad-optimized version of EA’s Need for Speed Shift manages to take fifth place in spite of a high price point, 99-cent applications like Game Table and Frogger Pad also rank among the iPad’s top launch week sellers.

Illusion Labs’ Labyrinth 2 HD and Laminar’s flight sim X-Plane finish at seventh and eighth place, as Newtoy captures tenth place with Words With Friends HD.


EA Announces Skateboarding Sim Skate It

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As the once-dominant Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater franchise entered a steep decline on consoles, Electronic Arts picked up the slack with Skate, an innovative skateboarding title featuring a unique control scheme and emphasis on realism. The game won over extreme sports fans bored with the Tony Hawk series, spawning a console sequel and a spin-off title, Skate It, for the Nintendo Wii and DS.

EA announced today that it will bring Skate It to the App Store in May, complete with an overhauled control scheme suited to the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Skate It will use a gesture-based control system for skate tricks, allowing players to pull off ollies, grabs, and kickflips using finger swipes and flicks. The iPhone must be tilted to maintain balance during manuals and grinds, which can be used to link tricks into high-scoring combinations.

Skate It will feature a single-player campaign, a skate park construction mode, and a replay recording option when it launches in the App Store in May.




Daily Double: Sponge Dude…and EA Sales! Scrabble, Tetris, Madden, Rock Band, etc!

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Christmas is quickly approaching, and sadly, so is the end of many of these deals. But don’t despair yet, because the sales just keep rolling in. Namco just kicked off their “winter sale” yesterday, and EA is back in the game, too!

At least this is a nice surprise from EA! EAMobile just sent out two tweets saying, “The following titles will be up to 50% off for the rest of the holiday season! Happy Holidays everyone! Boggle, Madden 10, NBA Live, Rock Band, Surviving High School, Wolfenstein RPG, American Idol, and more!”

“And more?” Shockingly, that “and more” includes the likes of Scrabble, Tetris, and Need for Speed: Shift. Mysteriously, some titles that were supposed to stay at $0.99 ’til Christmas are now at higher prices (Auditorium is still on sale but now at $1.99), so don’t trust that these sales will last…especially on the games not named in that tweet. Grab ‘em while they’re here and all that.

TETRIS®
Our Rating: :: AVERAGE

Category: Games / Puzzle
Released: 2008-07-11
Price: $4.99 ON SALE: $2.99

Need for Speed Shift

Category: Games / Racing
Released: 2009-12-18
Price: $9.99 ON SALE: $6.99

SCRABBLE
Our Rating: :: RECOMMENDED

Category: Games / Word
Released: 2008-07-11
Price: $4.99 ON SALE: $2.99

Boggle
Our Rating: :: FUN BUT NEEDS POLISH

Category: Games / Word
Released: 2009-08-31
Price: $1.99 ON SALE: $0.99

MADDEN NFL 10 by EA SPORTS
Our Rating: :: IT’S MADDEN

Category: Games / Simulation
Released: 2009-09-09
Price: $6.99 ON SALE: $5.99

NBA Live by EA Sports
Our Rating: :: UNINSPIRED

Category: Games / Simulation
Released: 2009-10-26
Price: $6.99 ON SALE: $4.99

ROCK BAND
Our Rating: :: GARY CHERONE-ESQUE

Category: Games / Music
Released: 2009-10-19
Price: $6.99 ON SALE: $4.99

Surviving High School

Category: Games / Simulation
Released: 2009-11-16
Price: $2.99 ON SALE: $1.99

Wolfenstein RPG

Category: Games / Action
Released: 2009-05-15
Price: $1.99 ON SALE: $0.99

American Idol: The Game

Category: Games / Music
Released: 2009-05-06
Price: $1.99 ON SALE: $0.99

THE GAME OF LIFE Classic Edition
Our Rating: :: CLASSIC

Category: Games / Board
Released: 2009-08-13
Price: $4.99 ON SALE: $2.99

YAHTZEE™ Adventures

Category: Games / Board
Released: 2008-11-14
Price: $2.99 ON SALE: $1.99

Today’s Appvent Calender freebie, Sponge Dude, is a physics-based combination of puzzle and platformer. The main character is an elastic sponge, who is sadly missing his arms and legs—meaning that you need to help him reach the end of each level using different mechanics like bombs (open doors and propel the sponge) and balloons (for flying). It looks a bit crude, and certainly isn’t on the level of previous offerings like MiniSquadron, but might be worth a look.

SpongeDude

Category: Games / Puzzle
Released: 2009-11-12
Price: $1.99 ON SALE: FREE

Phew…this article is getting pretty long. But one quick PSA: If you own an iPhone and have yet to experiment with a GPS app, you may want to give Copilot a try. Don’t worry—this one isn’t one of those $100+ apps; instead, it’s normally priced at $35 and is on sale for a mere $19.99! Here’s what founder Jeff Scott had to say whilst reviewing it in our September GPS round-up:

“CoPilot live is one of the newest contenders in the iPhone GPS arena. And I must admit that before the iPhone version I had never heard of them before. This could be why I was so pleasantly surprised by this GPS app. It’s fairly full featured, fast, and I think it’s my new favorite GPS app.”

It’s a newbie in the arena, sure, but given both its solid performance and its killer price, brand name doesn’t matter all that much!

CoPilot Live North America
Our Rating: :: IMPRESSIVE

Category: Navigation
Released: 2009-08-14
Price: $24.99 ON SALE: $19.99


Daily Double: Cabby and Squarepeg Game for Free; EA Games Super Sale!

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We have three deals for you folks today. First of all, EA has ten games on sale, many of which are a measly 99 cents. Some of the higher-priced ones are still good deals, too; Command & Conquer, for example, just received a multiplayer-enabling update and is now half-priced! EA Games has announced that these ten sales will last ’til Christmas, with no new ones forthcoming. Check out the list from yesterday’s post here.

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Now for our normal Appvent Calender goodies. “Cabby” is a flying taxi game with 3D graphics, and it looks pretty darned good! Here’s the description from the developer:

“Cabby is a side-on 3D thrust-based game which puts the player in the driving seat of a flying taxi! Select from 10 different vehicles and fly through 15 unique levels, collecting customers and parcels as you go. Get your customers to their destinations as quickly as possible to earn a big tip!”

Sporting ten different vehicles, fifteen levels, and both Career and Arcade modes, Cabby looks like a nice little game. And, heck, who doesn’t like flying taxis?

Cabby

Category: Games / Arcade
Released: 2009-11-16
Price: $0.99

Air Cadets
In keeping with the Appvent Calender theme, the developers of Cabby have decided to make one of their other games free, permanently! Air Cadets is a simple airplane simulator with accelerometer controls. If you’re looking for a new toy, you might as well give this one a shot.

Air Cadets

Category: Games / Action
Released: 2008-12-05
Price: $0.99

Squarepeg Game
Meanwhile, we have yet another free app for you folks to try! Squarepeg Game is billed as “Sudoku, but with shapes!” It’s a different spin on the traditional peg puzzle, in which you must get all your shapes down their appropriately holes. This free brain teaser comes with 16 free levels for your enjoyment, though you can also download more. The graphics aren’t what I’d call slick, but, hey, it’s a free puzzle, right?

Squarepeg Game

Category: Games / Educational
Released: 2009-12-07
Price: FREE

That’s it for today’s Daily Double! Let us know if you plan on delving into EA Games’ mega-sale…I’m curious as to what you think. Personally, I was hoping to get The Sims 3 at a lower price or something, but it’s not a bad deal nevertheless.