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Five For Friday: Week of September 24, 2010

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Dark Void Zero:
Dark Void on the consoles may have bombed on the review charts, but the iPhone version is an utterly different story. 8-bit visuals, achievements, online leaderboards, and so much more make this side scrolling shooter a highly addictive game. Capcom, being the devilishly nice company they are, is even feeling a bit generous and letting you get it for a lousy $0.99 this weekend.

$0.99
$2.99

Dark Void Zero

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-04-12 :: Category: Games / Adventure

Mega Man II:
The Blue Bomber is back and better than ever. Enjoy the original NES game without having to do any funny stuff with ROMs and emulators. Enjoy all 14 levels and 8 bosses in this side scrolling shooter. Even better, this game is rocking a sweet sale right now. Capcom, we thank you for giving us a reason to skip out on chores this weekend.

$0.99
$2.99

Mega Man® II

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad

Our Rating: ★★½☆☆ :: UNDERACHIEVER
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Released: 2009-03-27 :: Category: Games / Adventure

Gangstar: Miami Vindication:
Gameloft is back at it with another edition of Gangstar. Hit the streets of Miami for over 75 missions of enemy sniping, car stealing, escorting, and car chasing entertainment. Of course, a criminal needs a sleek way of getting around town. Boost cars, motorcycles, boats, and helicopters to give those walking legs a break. Crime has never looked so good, or consumed so much time on the iPhone.

$6.99

Gangstar: Miami Vindication

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-09-23 :: Category: Games / Racing

iA Writer:
Sometimes you just need a distraction free writing zone. No noise, no auto correcting of grammar or words, not even toolbars bars stand in your way with this app. iA Writer will give you a distraction free writing area. Once that draft is completed, look at how long it will take to read with the included reading time feature. Sometimes you just need a minimalistic writing space to get your thoughts out. iA Writer is that place of writing Zen.

$4.99

iA Writer

iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-09-21 :: Category: Productivity

Numbers:
Numbers is not a new app by any means. What is new about it is a patch that now makes this app worth your money. Exporting to Excel files is FINALLY available after a long waiting period. All the complaining can finally be put to rest over this issue. If you need a good-looking, yet powerful, spreadsheet editor, this is worth your coin.

$9.99

Numbers

iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad

Our Rating: ★★★★★ :: BEAUTIFUL FORM
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Released: 2010-04-01 :: Category: Productivity

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Five For Friday: Week of September 10, 2010

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Every week, we endeavor to point the way to the games and apps that most made an impact in the App-o-sphere. Here’s this week’s picks:

Zombie Highway – Cars, guns, and zombies bring smiles to all the kids faces. What else do you really need to know to not already love this game? Steer the car to avoid obstacles that creep up in the way. Shoot zombies that are looking to get some juicy brain matter. Repeat until you are king of the Facebook rankings. Time to prove just how awesome those zombie survival skills are.

$0.99

Zombie Highway

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad

Our Rating: ★★★★☆ :: JUMPING ZOMBIES?
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Released: 2010-08-27 :: Category: Games / Action


The Hero HD – Those who don’t spend their days saving babies, putting out fires in a single breath, or stopping crime with a pinky finger can live vicariously through The Hero. Take up that iPad and enjoy the fun comic book style graphics. Prove those heroic deeds with online leader boards and achievements. Just leave the Superman costume in the closet, you are only playing an iPad game.

$1.99

The Hero HD

iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-09-09 :: Category: Games / Arcade

$0.99

The Hero – 2nd Edition

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad

Our Rating: ★★★★☆ :: STYLISH FUN
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Released: 2010-03-08 :: Category: Games / Action

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars HD – Time for iPad owners to rejoice and sing songs of praise. GTA: Chinatown Wars is finally getting the proper HD treatment. New controls specifically for the iPad are just the start here. Bigger, sweeter, and sexier visuals will grace your pupils. Game play will suck away hours of your time. Download this now…just do it!

$9.99

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars HD

iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-09-09 :: Category: Games / Adventure

$9.99

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad

Our Rating: ★★★★½ :: POLISHED
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Released: 2010-01-18 :: Category: Games / Adventure

GetGlue for iPad – GetGlue is a social network for entertainment buffs. Now iPad owners get to see what all this fuss is about. Check-in when you crack a new book or fire up that B-rated horror movie. Check out what friends are up to. Even find some new jingle that might become a new ring-tone. Round off all this fun with stickers for all those ratings your slapping down on those TV shows.

FREE!

GetGlue for iPad

iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-09-08 :: Category: Social Networking

FREE!

GetGlue

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-06-22 :: Category: Social Networking

PhotoArtista: Oil – Time to take those boring vacation photos and add some punch to them. PhotoArtista will take that photo and turn into and oil painting that even Van Gogh will be envious about. Choose from several oil styles, bush sizes, stroke variations, and effects. There is enough here to keep artists busy playing around for hours.

$2.99

PhotoArtista – Oil

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-08-30 :: Category: Photography

$4.99

PhotoArtistaHD – Oil

iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-08-29 :: Category: Photography

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Five For Friday: Week of August 27, 2010

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Phantasy Star II – SEGA’s classic console RPG finally finds a home on the iPhone. Hundreds of items to find, dozens of places to explore, and countless hours of your life gone to this addictive RPG.

$2.99

Phantasy Star II

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-08-26 :: Category: Games / Adventure

R Type – That’s right, EA’s 80’s classic side scrolling shooter is finally available for play in the palms of your hands. Think you got the cojones to beat this abusively hard game?

$1.99

R TYPE

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-08-23 :: Category: Games / Arcade

Knight’s Rush – Knight’s Rush is the follow up to the immensely popular A Quest of Knights Onrush. Unlike Knights Onrush, you take control of one character and guide them through side scrolling beat ‘em up mayhem adventures. Think Castle Crashers meets the iPhone. Knights Rush will have you battling through eight worlds, fifty baddies, eight bosses, and the urge to curse Chillingo for their addictive gaming drugs.

$2.99

Knight’s Rush

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad

Our Rating: ★★★★☆ :: BUTTON MASHER
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Released: 2010-08-26 :: Category: Games / Arcade

Photoburst – There are times when your fingers just can’t tap the camera button fast enough to capture all the action of a scene. Photoburst will do all that tapping for you, right down to the millisecond. Capture all the action without all the finger frustration.

$0.99

Photoburst

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-08-09 :: Category: Utilities

Blancspot – Put a new spin on your music news with Blancspot. This image centric news app puts you right in the shoes of the photo journalist. Live Twitter feeds keep the news relevant and up to date. This is news you have to see to appreciate.

$2.99

Blancspot

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-08-19 :: Category: News

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Five For Friday: August 13, 2010

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Happy Friday the 13th, everyone! Make sure you keep your teenagers locked in tonight, and don’t let them talk to anyone named Jason. With that warning out of the way, here’s your weekly dose of what’s new and interesting in the App Store.

The Incident – A severely polished and classy take on the sky is falling genre. Dodge wave after crazy wave of falling cars and major appliances, only to use those same items to climb ever upward to your destination, the stars.

$1.99

The Incident

+ Universal App – Designed for iPhone and iPad
Released: 2010-08-10 :: Category: Games / Action

Ninjump – Jump like a ninja (because that’s what you are) up through the levels, between buildings and over laundry. Attack various creatures in match three stealthiness for stupidly awesome score and height boosts. Brag to all your friends.

FREE!

NinJump

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-08-12 :: Category: Games / Action

Ghosts N Goblins Gold Knights II – Capcom brings the sequel to its hardest game ever from the 1980s direct to your iPhone. You think you have what it takes? Well, do ya?

$4.99

GHOSTS’N GOBLINS GOLD KNIGHTS 2

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-08-12 :: Category: Games / Action

Times for iPad – Takes your RSS feeds and turns them into a lovely newspaper-style layout. If you long for the simpler days of flimsy newsprint paper and fingers stained with ink, this may be the app for you.

$7.99

Times for iPad

iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-08-10 :: Category: News

Slate Magazine – In a world of iPad apps that continually ask you to pay more for their content (I’m looking at YOU, Wired), Slate asks you to read their magazine, for free, on your iPad. What more can you ask for from their asking of you? Wait, what?

FREE!

Slate Magazine

iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-08-10 :: Category: News

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Friday Five: June 25th, 2010

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With iOS4 and the iPhone 4 hitting this week, it’s not so surprising that we’ve seen tons of new apps. This week’s Friday Five features a number of big-name efforts, many of which highlight the features of the iPhone 4 and iOS4. Let’s get started!

Farmville
The productivity-sucking, Facebook-spawned plague has been unleashed upon the App Store masses. Someone say a prayer for us all. The iOS version is supposed to sync with the Facebook version, so if you already have a farm, don’t worry about maintaining two! Just like on Facebook, you “grow” both plants and livestock and earn coins and XP for your troubles. This app also includes in-app purchase options for both coins and premium “Farm Cash.”

FREE!

FarmVille by Zynga

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-06-24 :: Category: Games / Strategy

Eliminate:GunRange
I don’t know why Eliminate:GunRange is missing spaces in the title. I can tell you, however, that it’s ngmoco’s brand-new, iPhone 4-exclusive title. A spin-off of the popular Eliminate FPS series, GunRange is designed to take advantage of the iPhone 4’s gyroscope and Retina display. The game drops you into one of three shooting ranges and lets you blast away at targets using any of twelve weapons. Support for the iPhone 3GS and additional content are promised in the future.

$0.99

Eliminate:GunRange

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-06-22 :: Category: Games / Action

Windows Live Messenger
Despite the whole Apple/Microsoft battle, Microsoft has apparently seen fit to release a messenger client for its Windows Live service. It’s pretty much your typical IM app, with hooks in most major social networks (Flickr, Facebook, Youtube, MySpace, etc). In addition to chatting and sharing photos, you can access your Hotmail email account from within the app.

FREE!

Windows Live Messenger

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-06-21 :: Category: Social Networking

NPR Music
NPR is a wonderful, wonderful organization. It’s simply incredible how much they give away, for free. NPR Music follows their long-since-released NPR News app and gives you access to NPR’s musical selections. Listeners can choose from Classical, Hip-Hop, Jazz, and more. Live streams from over 75 public radio stations are available. Folks with new iPhones can take advantage of backgrounding, listening to music even when the app is closed.

FREE!

NPR Music

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-06-23 :: Category: Music

DC Comics
DC makes its iPhone debut with many familiar comics: Batman, Green Lantern, the Justice League, Sandman, and more. The app itself is something like a comic-store, from which you can download individual comics via in-app purchase. Most comics run $1.99 apiece. (A few freebies are available, too.) For viewing comics, there’s either a full-page view or a Guided Reading option; with the DC app, all of your comics are contained in one simple app. Comic lovers should at least download the free app and check out the full selection.

FREE!

DC Comics

+ Universal App – Designed for iPhone and iPad
Released: 2010-06-23 :: Category: Books

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Friday Five: June 18th, 2010

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It’s Friday! Hurray! Of course, for me it’s summer vacation and Fridays aren’t quite as exciting. But, we’ve still got our traditional sampling of delightful new releases from the past week, so that’s something. Big names like ngmoco and Illusion Labs make an appearance this week, as well as a few more mainstream companies like ESPN. Enjoy!

Godfinger
Godfinger from ngmoco allows you to build up a little world of cartoony followers and exert your godly powers on them. In Godfinger, you can be a kind, caring deity—performing Wonders and helping your civilization prosper—or a wicked demagogue, leaving a path of destruction in your wake. You can control sun, rain, lightning, floods, and fire. As you play Godfinger, your actions shape the terrain and your populace’s opinion. It’s almost ngmoco’s answer to Pocket God. Go on, give it a try and test out your godly abilities…Godfinger, like many of ngmoco’s newer games, is free.

FREE!

GodFinger

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-06-17 :: Category: Games / Action

Geometry Wars: Touch
Geometry Wars was already a classic Xbox game, but it made its iPad debut back in March. Now, it’s a universal app, meaning that iPhone and iPod owners can get in on the action! Geometry Wars is a simplistic arcade shooter with basic, geometric graphics and a strong retro theme. It also was one of the first major games to make good use of the dual-stick shooter system that’s so popular on the App Store today. The iPhone/iPad version also includes a brand-new mode, Titan, in which you gradually break giant foes apart into swarms of smaller pieces.

$4.99
$9.99

Geometry Wars™: Touch

+ Universal App – Designed for iPhone and iPad
Released: 2010-04-01 :: Category: Games / Arcade

ESPN Pinball
In honor of the World Cup, ESPN has a released a pinball app with some football-themed tables (ahem, soccer for us Americans). There’s also a Basketball table. The new pinball app is full of flashy graphics and boasts pass-and-play multiplayer, global and local leaderboards, and voice-overs from ESPN Sports Center host Jay Harris. It’s a marriage of a TV network, sports, and pinball…if that sounds a little strange, well, it is, but the game looks like some solid pinball fun nevertheless.

$3.99

ESPN Pinball

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-06-14 :: Category: Games / Sports

Onion News Network
Where would we be without the Onion? In case you haven’t heard of this magnificent publication, the Onion is a completely satirical news network with both an online and a print publication. (Yes, that’s right: you can get a real Onion newspaper.) Their stories are funny, witty, snide, and clever; you’d be crazy not to enjoy browsing them. The Onion’s new app gives you mobile access to the entire Onion archives, including both textual stories and videos. There’s not much more to say: it’s a typical newspaper app. The only difference is that the Onion is anything but a serious, esteemed publication. It’s here to make you grin, and, perhaps, think.

FREE!

Onion News Network

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-06-11 :: Category: News

Foosball HD
Illusion Labs has long expressed an interest in touchscreen gaming on larger screens (think back to their tabletop demo of Touchgrind) and now they’ve released an impressive iPad-only title: Foosbal HD. Foosball HD takes full advantage of the iPad’s large screen, transforming it into a top-down view of a foosball table designed perfectly for “local multiplayer”: both you and your friend just play foosball! You can also play against the computer, of course, but multiplayer is the real draw. Foosball seems like a natural fit for the iPad, and it’s great to see Illusion Labs putting the iPad to good use. Sorry, iPhone users; this one isn’t for us.

$2.99

Foosball HD

iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-06-11 :: Category: Games / Simulation

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Friday Five: May 14th, 2010

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Fridays are the perfect time for reflecting on the past week…and Fridays at 148apps are no exception. Here are five interesting apps released in the past week for your perusal!

Inkstrumental
ustwo seems to enjoy creating unique apps, such as the masterfully titled “…“. Inkstrumental is their newest app, and it’s a funky one. The point is to create your own weird music videos and strange soundtracks, using the 31 creatures included. See, each character will emit a musical sound when you tap it. A “VIP character” allows you to record your own sounds, too. By mixing them together against different backdrops you create a unique mash-up of noise and your very own music video. It might not be as complex as other sound-mixing apps, but Inkstrumental is intuitive and packs a ton of character. Who couldn’t love these fuzzy creatures? As an added bonus, you can share your masterpieces by in-app uploading to YouTube.

$3.99

Inkstrumental

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-05-07 :: Category: Entertainment

Nirvana Revenge
By now it’s an established fact that the Tap Tap Revenge series reigns supreme when it comes to iPhone rhythm games, at least in terms of popularity. Nirvana Revenge is the latest spin-off, featuring—you guessed it—hits from Nirvana. Fourteen songs are bundled with the app, including songs like Smells Like Teen Spirit, Breed, Heart Shaped Box, and Lithium. (Note that the fourteen includes three live versions.) The songs give you a good sampling of the band’s work, and you get to tap along to the fourteen tracks for far less than they would cost on iTunes. This being a Tap Tap game, you also have a few neat features like four difficulty levels and four boss tracks thrown in. If you’re a Nirvana Fan looking for a gaming fix, you’d better check out Nirvana Revenge.

$4.99

Nirvana Revenge

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-05-12 :: Category: Games / Action

Komenten
To quote Komenten’s description: “A comet has been born, please take good care of it!” Komenten is a colorful space exploration game in which you zip around the galaxy like an intergalactic tourist. There’s no real objective, but the vivid watercolor graphics coupled with the soundtrack make a relaxing, beautiful ride. Even if you don’t usually enjoy non-traditional games, I’m willing to wager that anyone in touch with their inner child could easily get lost in Komenten’s vibrant, bizarre world. The universe is such an exciting place—why not explore it?

$2.99

Kometen

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-05-12 :: Category: Games / Adventure

Zombie Infection
Gameloft just keeps rolling out games. Zombie Infection is one of their latest titles, and if it looks familiar, well, chances are that’s because it’s highly similar to Resident Evil. That doesn’t stop Zombie Infection from being a technically stunning title, however, and Gameloft’s new zombie game is sure to devour both your brains and your free time. Zombie Infection comes with a 12-level campaign mode in which you switch between ex-soldier Damien Sharpe and journalist Alex Rayne, as well as a Survivor Mode. There are tons of enemies, including mutated and infected animals, plenty of weapons, a sinister zombie-filled storyline, and top-notch 3D graphics. In short? Gameloft does it again…this time, with zombies!

$6.99

Zombie Infection

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-05-10 :: Category: Games / Action

StreetSpark
StreetSpark is one of those apps that needs a large user base to function, which is probably why it’s free! StreetSpark is a location-based dating app that takes your location and searches for nearby users who match your profile (they call this a “Spark”). With an eye towards safety, StreetSpark doesn’t reveal your location or personal contact info. Instead, you can chat in-app or meet up in one of StreetSpark’s HotSpots, which give StreetSpark users discounts and offer users a place to congregate. Think FourSquare, but for dating. It’s a really interesting use of the location feature, and thankfully it looks like the app’s developers are aware of privacy concerns. Sadly, it’s currently limited to the UK, but the developers plan to expand to other countries (and, for that matter, handsets) in the future.

FREE!

StreetSpark

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-03-10 :: Category: Social Networking

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