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Classic Amiga Shoot-em-up Battle Squadron Coming to iPhone!

Sometime back, we posted ten Amiga games that we’d love to see on the iPhone, and although these lists are often nothing more than idle dreams, one of them is about to come true.  Cope-Com, the publishers of Battle Squadron, are currently hard at work converting the game for the iPhone! In a recent blog post, [...]

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New in the App Store This Week…

Browsing the App Store this weekend?  Here are fifteen new or updated apps for the iPhone and iPad worth taking a closer look at if you are: U-Ventures: Return to [...]

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Verizon and HBO Plan iPad TV Apps, How Much Would You Pay?

US network Verizon have talked of their plans to bring a live streaming TV app to the iPad, which would run alongside their FiOS service.  The app isn’t ready for release yet, but it does have a pre-production name of What’s Hot, and has been described by a Verizon representative as similar to their set-top [...]

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OpenFeint Plans Cross Platform Support, Introduces Gaming Invites

The gaming social network has reached version 2.6 and with it comes one major new feature and news of a second, intriguing one, as it tries to gain more users ahead of Apple’s Game Center release.  With 35 million registered users, Open Feint is hardly likely to disappear overnight though. With version 2.6 recently released, players [...]

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One Day Project iPhone Game Nears Release

Here’s an interesting project that deserves to get some attention.  The One Day Project is a collection of three iPhone games, each created in 24-hours and developed by three separate people, that are to be bundled together as one app.  The game is set for release on the 1st September and will be free to [...]

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People Magazine for iPad Out Now, Despite Early Problems

The iPad version of People Magazine has launched today, although earlier in the week there were concerns that it would be delayed thanks to disputes with photographers.  At least 12 photo agencies, who supply People with their paparazzi shots of celebrities, planned to withhold their pictures until an agreement was reached regarding a revised pay [...]

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Facebook iPhone app Update Adds Facebook Places

It’s not Foursquare, although the logo has both a four and a square, but it is Facebook’s version of the location-based social network, and it’s yours today.  Well, it’s yours today if you live in the USA, as by all accounts the service hasn’t launched anywhere else yet. Places works like this: when you arrive somewhere, [...]

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Bloody Hell!! iPhone App Review – Tap n’ Splat!

This game, as you’ll realize from the title above, is called Bloody Hell!!, it displays a stick man covered in blood as its iTunes logo and the aim is to shoot as many people, dogs and cats as possible.  It’s the epitome of violent games and one that would surely prompt much clicking of tongues [...]

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New ‘iPad is Delicious’ Ad and Featured Apps

Although we don’t suggest crunching down on a corner of your iPad to check whether Apple’s statement is correct, according to their latest TV advert, the iPad is delicious, playful, productive and a whole lot of other things too.  Rather than using a voiceover to describe what the iPad can do, this ad relies on [...]

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PadStand Now Available to Order

The PadStand is a competitively priced, great value iPad stand that is perhaps a little out of the ordinary.  Available from a UK-based company, the multi-coloured little stand can be used to hold your iPad in either portrait or landscape mode and is ideal for viewing pictures, videos or for using the iPad as an [...]

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