Friday Five: May 7th, 2010

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Once again, it’s Friday. Phew. Aren’t you all glad that the week is over? I’m certainly relieved to get a breather, and what better way to celebrate with a smattering of interesting app releases from the previous week?

Ninjatown: Trees of Doom
Do you like ninjas? Cute things? If so, Ninjatown: Trees of Doom should suit your tastes. It’s a climbing game set in a vivid 2D world, filled with lush and vibrant artwork. You climb and fly and fling your way through the treetops in an attempt to impress the elder ninjas. This isn’t the Ninjatown game from the DS, but the style is the same, the tempo is fast, and the production values are high. How high can you climb?

$1.99

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

Flick Baseball Pro
Freeverse’s Flick series is almost legendary. Flick Baseball is the latest entry in the series, and as the name suggests it’s a 3D baseball simulation with an arcade feel. With a wide array of teams and plenty of fun action—pitching, batting, fielding balls—the game’s got plenty to keep you occupied. You can play quick sessions or full seasons, making it great for pick-up-and-play. As always with the Flick games, the controls are simple. This one looks like a lot of fun.

$2.99

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

Iron Man 2
Iron Man 2 is an official accompaniment to the movie in which you can suit up as either War Machine or Iron Man. Iron Man has speed and agility; War Machine has additional firepower. Both suits give you the ability to hover, fly, and run—and, naturally, beat up plenty of baddies. Most of the focus is on combat: in the ground or in the air, there are always bad guys to fight. The graphics look great, and iTunes user reviews report good controls as well. Looks like Gameloft’s pulled off yet another top seller!

$6.99

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-05-03 :: Category: Games / Action

$9.99

iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-05-03 :: Category: Games / Adventure

Iron Horse
Iron Horse is a simple railroad-themed reaction game in which you have to attach railway cars to moving trains. It starts easily, but as the game progresses your train speeds up and timing your taps becomes a delicate art. The simple premise makes it great for quick sessions. Iron Horse delivers gorgeous train designs along with the game itself, too; the trains used in the game are based on real-life machines. It looks like a lot of fun, which is no surprise; developers Garry Kitchen and David Crane have well-established pedigrees, including the Atari home version of “Donkey Kong” (Kitchen) and “A Boy and His Blob” (Crane).

$1.99

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-05-03 :: Category: Games / Action

$0.99
$1.99

iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-04-01 :: Category: Games / Action

StoryCorps
StoryCorps is a nonprofit project with a rather unique mission: to record the oral histories of everyday people. Since 2003, over 50,000 people have interviewed family and friends through StoryCorps. Their personal stories are recorded on a free CD for the participants, and a copy is added to the Library of Congress. The free iPhone app allows you to listen to recent clips and “selected favorites” from the StoryCorps archives. It’s a rich trove of oral histories, and many have been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition. Do yourself a favor…listen to a few. This app might be simple, but many of the audio clips are powerful nevertheless.

FREE!

iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-05-03 :: Category: Education

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Friday Five: April 23rd, 2010

Friday Five: April 23rd, 2010 is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website

It’s Friday, and that means that it’s time for another Friday Five: five interesting apps released in the past week. Enjoy!

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Mikado Defenders is a tower defense game, but with a feudal-era Japan theme. Mystical guardian spirits come to your aid, demons attack, samurai commanders can be recruited, and of course you can improve upon your castle. The traditional-style artwork provides a gorgeous backdrop. You can deploy samurai foot soldiers, archers, and other units. The result is an epic war between demons and Japanese warriors…a neat change from typical tower defense.

MIKADO DEFENDERS

Category: Games / Simulation
Released: 2010-04-19
Price: $2.99

mzl.zszltejq.320x480-75Slingshot Safari
Slingshot Safari is a cartoon-style game that tests your slingshot style against lions, tigers, cheetahs, and more. Animals react differently to your shots, but none of them will be too pleased when you try to shoot them—and you’re far from immortal! The graphics are funny, you can unlock eight levels, Plus+ is included, and the menagerie of ten different animals should keep your slingshot skills sharp.

Slingshot Safari

Category: Games / Action
Released: 2010-04-16
Price: $4.99

mzl.lxwyymzu.320x480-75How to Cook Everything
This extremely useful new app is essentially an iPhone-optimized cookbook based on the real-life one from Mark Bittman. Of course, there are many perks to having a cookbook on your iPhone or iPad instead of a physical book, especially when said book normally weighs in at 1,000 pages. In addition to the 2,000 recipes and 400 illustrations, you get full search capabilities, built-in timers, and shopping lists…all in the palm of your hand, and for only $1.99. The interface is easy to use, and the sheer wealth of information is staggering. No wonder it’s become a bestseller.

How to Cook Everything

Category: Lifestyle
Released: 2010-04-17
Price: $1.99

media.3Field Agent
Like making money? Of course you do. Field Agent is a new app that aims to help you do just that. It lists simple, easy-to-do jobs—going to Wal-Mart and taking a picture of a product, filling out a survey, visiting a website—and then pays you for them. It’s not just pennies, either; all jobs pay at least $3, and some can dish out as much as $12. Money is transferred to you via PayPal. Who knew that your iPhone could do anything but suck your wallet dry? The only downside right now is the lack of jobs, but the app is free to use, so you might as well check what’s nearby!

Field Agent

Category: Business
Released: 2010-04-17
Price: FREE

media.1Fruit Ninja
Fruit Ninja is the epitome of simple, easy-to-play, and addictive. Fruit is tossed onto the screen and you have to slice it before it falls back down. The graphics are bright, the touch controls are simple, and a few neat extras like dangerous bombs and Plus+ integration are included. The premise is certainly unusual, and intentionally silly. Looks like ninjas can make a mean fruit salad.

Fruit Ninja

Category: Games / Action
Released: 2010-04-20
Price: $0.99

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Friday Five: April 9th

Friday Five: April 9th is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website

This week was packed with iPad releases, but the iPhone side of the store still has tons of stuff to offer! This week’s Friday Five comes with the usual variety of five interesting new releases. It’s a good thing that Apple announced folders along with iPhone OS 4.0 yesterday…at the rate of awesome new apps, I know that I at least will be exceeding the current limit.

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Pocket Legends

With Apple’s announcement of an upcoming “Game Center” (aka, Xbox Live for the iPhone), it’s clear that they’re focused on the iPhone as a gaming device. But while we’ve got plenty of shooters, physics puzzles, racing games, and so on, there’s one genre that has yet to take off…massively multiplayer online games. Pocket Legends aims to change that with a game that could almost be dubbed “World of Warcraft for the iPhone.” Sporting dungeon crawls, oodles of enemies and loot, character customization, strategic skills, and three classes, Pocket Legends has all the trappings of a typical MMORPG. If you’re into MMO’s at all, download it. You’ve got nothing to lose, after all—this one is free!

Pocket Legends (3D MMO)

Category: Games / Role Playing
Released: 2010-04-08
Price: FREE

Pocket Legends for iPad (3D MMO)

Category: Games / Adventure
Released: 2010-04-02
Price: FREE

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Sketch Nation Shooter

Doodle games are all the rage thanks to Doodle Jump, but Sketch Nation Shooter takes it a step further by allowing you to use your own doodles! At its most basic level, this is a simple shooter. But what makes it great is that you can create your own levels, using either artwork from the game’s library or your own photos. You can then upload your own levels and download tons more that other users have created. You’ll need a Facebook account, but that seems like a small price to pay for a potential treasure trove of extra levels.

Sketch Nation Shooter

Category: Games / Action
Released: 2010-04-06
Price: $0.99

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Orion Racer

Orion Racer is a futuristic 3D racing game featuring hyper-paced action on 10 unique tracks in outer space. We’ve seen racing games before, but, hey, who doesn’t like outer space? Orion’s tracks come packed with loops, powerslides, and high speeds, and you can race in four different modes and with four different “futuristic” vehicles. One of those four game modes is actually a 2-Player option, allowing you to race a friend. And isn’t competition what games are for?

Orion Racer

Category: Games / Racing
Released: 2010-04-08
Price: $2.99

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Sonic Wire Sculptor

In an inventive twist, the Sonic Wire Sculptor turns your 3D drawing into sound. As you draw in the 3D space, the app transforms your lines into musical notes. The result encourages experimentation and, when handled correctly, can produce some truly cool stuff. Focus on the music or the visual art; either way, you’ll end up with something unique. Oh, and don’t worry about being the next Mozart or Picasso. The interface is simple, and “creativity” is easy to come by. Think of it like an audiovisual sandbox.

Sonic Wire Sculptor

Category: Music / Music
Released: 2010-04-01
Price: $3.99

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ABOVE

Getting tired of Doodle Jump? ABOVE is another climbing game, but with vastly different graphics and a completely different theme. A bunch of mysterious platforms have appeared, and it’s your duty to explore as high as possible without falling. The graphics are bright and gorgeous, and the game comes packed with achievements. It’s simple, sure, but ABOVE looks airy and fun. The iPhone is the platform where games must be both hardcore (aka crazily addictive) and casual (in this case, easy to learn). ABOVE is certainly hoping to nail that sweet spot.

ABOVE – Insanely Addictive!

Category: Games / Action
Released: 2010-04-03
Price: $1.99

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