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Splatter King Herschell Gordon Lewis to Produce iPhone Game

Herschell Gordon Lewis is best known for several luridly-titled exploitation horror films, starting with Blood Feast (with the tagline ‘A nightmare of pure gore in blood color!’) and continuing through Color Me Blood Red,  Two Thousand Maniacs, The Wizard of Gore, and ending with Gore Gore Girls. These over-the-top, low-budget films were a part of my [...]

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Should Apple Lose ‘App Store’ Trademark? Microsoft Challenge it in Europe

Although taking each other to court seems to be many tech company’s favorite pastime, this latest trip could result in a slightly more interesting conclusion than ‘fine, have some money to go away’.  Microsoft, along with Nokia, HTC and Sony Ericsson have challenged Apple’s trademarking of the phrase ‘App Store’ in Europe. Microsoft have been down this [...]

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Angry Birds Rio ‘Beach Volley’ Trailer *UPDATE: Now Live on iTunes*

*UPDATE: As expected, Angry Birds Rio and Angry Birds Rio HD version 1.1.0 has now been released.  You can download it now from iTunes.* There’s a good chance the first update to Angry Birds Rio will be here before the weekend, but if you can’t wait to see what it has in store, then take a [...]

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Gamebook Adventures 5: Catacombs of the Undercity iPhone App Review – It’s the Best Yet!

We reviewed the first three Gamebook adventures a while ago, and loved the mixture of brilliant writing, fitting illustrations and classic choose-your-own-adventure style.  We’ve recently been given the chance to get to grips with the fifth book in the series, entitled Catacombs of the Undercity. Like the previous books, it’s set in Orlandes City and this [...]

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Call of Cthulhu Coming to Take Your Sanity Points Soon!

Here’s some good news for fans of Chaosium’s RPG-take on Lovecraft’s Cthulhu legend, as they’ve teamed up with developers Red Wasp to bring Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land to iOS later this year. The game will be a 3D turn-based strategy RPG and according to Touch Arcade, who spoke to the devs, there’s a lot [...]

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Five Dubious iPhone Apps to Make You Shudder

It’s not all birds, zombies and Twitter clients inside the App Store, and despite Apple’s refusal to let in anything containing nudity, migrant smuggling or similarly distasteful subjects, some do slip through.  We’re going to highlight a few of the App Store’s less salubrious titles here. Just don’t take them as recommendations, OK? Kissisland Chasing Amazonian women around [...]

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ModulR Introduce Versatile iPad 2 Case and Accessories

ModulR have introduced a new line of versatile cases and accessories for the iPad 2.  Here’s how it works.  You buy their standard hard shell iPad 2 case, which comes with a hand strap, for $39.99; and then add a variety of mount, support and stand accessories to make it more flexible, and to fit [...]

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SharkEye iPhone Case Review and Video

Is it really possible to use a rugged iPhone 4 case everyday?  For me, the downside of cases which offer almost complete protection for your phone is the additional size and bulk – I just don’t want to carry them around.  I always knew there would be a sweet spot, where the phone is kept [...]

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We Want it Now! Games Needing an iOS Release – Rez

The first in an occasional series, here we talk about games we hope will one day appear on iOS. Originally released back in 2001 for the Dreamcast and the PlayStation 2, I first encountered Rez on a demo disc supplied with a PS2 magazine.  If I remember correctly it had a single level to play through, [...]

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Solar-Powered Soulra XL Dock Soaks up the Rays

New docks for the iPhone and iPod appear every week, and it takes a special one to catch our eye, however the new Eton Soulra XL has done exactly that.  This system moves on from last year’s smaller Soulra dock by increasing both the size of the solar panel and the power of the unit [...]

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