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Friday, July 29, 2011

Blackberry Games : 3D Paddle Ball

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Paddle Ball 3D v1.1 by Dekerta Software


This fun 3D game is simple yet highly addictive!

Use a paddle to keep the bouncy balls in the room. You collect points every time a ball hits something, so if you are able to keep more than one ball in the room at a time, your score will increase exponentially!

The game starts off slow and easy, and gets faster and more difficult as time goes on.

You can even submit your score online to see how you compare to others around the world!



Paddle is a context-sensitive points-to analysis and call graph construction framework for Soot. Paddle supports several variations of context sensitivity, including the use of call site strings as the context abstraction, object sensitivity, and the Zhu/Calman/Whaley/Lam algorithm. Paddle uses binary decision diagrams (BDDs) to efficiently represent the context-sensitive analysis facts. Paddle is written in the Jedd language, which is compiled to Java.

Paddle is a component of Soot, rather than a standalone program. Therefore, Soot is required to use Paddle, and each version of Paddle is intended for a specific version of Soot. Paddle is distributed separately from Soot to avoid requiring Jedd to compile Soot.
emember the eviGroup Pad, the 10-inch tablet with 3G and a creepy looking AI slave built-in? We won't blame you if you forgot it, but maybe its more advanced cousin will be more memorable. If anything its name will be: Paddle. It's the same basic design as the Pad, a 10-inch keyboard-free tablet with netbook internals, but this one gets a swankier LED-backlit multitouch display along with SSD storage -- though a paltry 32GB max on flash is hardly an upgrade over the 320GB you can get on platters. Also new is an optional WiFi antenna to boost range and a new layer over Windows 7 called Scale that looks a little like being trapped on the inside of a paddlewheel of content
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FrEEday Vol 54

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Cordy
Nothing harkens back to the days of old school gaming like platformers.  Thanks to the rebirth of retro style gaming on iOS, this long lost but heavily appreciated gamestyle looks to be back in a big way.  Cordy is a perfect example of this, along with puzzle mechanics, mixing perfectly into a tremendous amalgamation of awesomeness.  The base game includes several free levels, along with more that can purchased should you see fit.  Take it out for a jump and let us know what you think.


Dice Soccer
Sports meets Magic: The Gathering in this hybrid sports and card game.  Yes, you read that right, SPORTS AND CARD GAME.  Structured much like traditional “battle” focused trading card games, Dice Soccer is the type of sports title that could pique the interest of even the most nonathletic souls.  Featuring over eighty different players to collect, filling in a wide variety of different positions, this is a control freak’s dream.  Time to hit the pitch, only without the whole cleats and sweat thing.


Tekken Bowl
To be blatantly blunt and totally look a gift horse in the mouth, who the heck asked for this?  Tekken, known worldwide for its hardcore arcade fighting games, taking a trip to the bowling alley?  What was once a mini-game in one of the full Tekken releases comes to iOS in beautiful bite sized chucks of bowling brawling.  Sadly you will not be able to throw down in hand-to-hand combat, but rolling a strike with a panda bear has to be the next best thing!


Puppy World
I am pretty sure that these is nothing on this planet that is cuter than a puppy.  Granted, my two dachshunds might have made me a bit biased on that front, but I can even remember as a kid wanting to have Digi-Pet puppies that I couldn’t get enough of.  Cuing on this prior nostalgia for inanimate animals, Puppy World was born.  With over fifty different breeds of canine to choose from, players should have many hours of cleaning digital defecate ahead of them.


Soccer Superstars 2011
Following the soccer theme from earlier, Soccer Superstars 2011 is another microtransaction based sports game from Japan that is bound to steal many hours from your life.  While not forcing players to spend any money out of pocket to upgrade their line-up and skill levels, it certainly helps to speed up the process of taking a team of zeros to unbeatable heroes.  If you are looking to not spend anything, however, the game is still fully featured and at your disposal, just be ready to invest an insane amount of micromanagement time.


Apps mentioned in this post: Cordy, Dice Soccer, Puppy World by OMGPOP, Soccer Superstars® 2011., TEKKEN BOWL


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Foo Fighters Tour Guide Gives Fans Some Rope For Their Upcoming Tour

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Foo Fighters fans excited for the band’s upcoming world tour have a new app to help keep track of the band’s upcoming tour dates. Foo Fighters Tour Guide allows users to see their upcoming tour schedule, and the setlist at each show. Users can post comments and reviews for each concert, and find info about purchasing tickets for future shows from within the app.

What the app’s real strength might be is that it allows users to view user-recorded media from shows. Photos of the concerts uploaded to Flickr can be searched for from within the app. As well, it’s possible to search for YouTube videos from each concert within the app, searching not just by each concert, but potentially by each song. Foo Fighters Tour Guide is available now for iPhone and iPod touch for $0.99, in time for the North American leg of the tour starting on August 7th.



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Around The Clock Games Brings Back Bonkheads

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Around the Clock Games have brought their mid-90′s Mac and PC platformer franchise to the iPad. Players control the troll brother Grag and/or Thog through 144 levels across a dozen environments, called Underworlds, with different level effcts. The game was designed around co-operative play, and the iOS version supports two player play as well, with one player on each side of the device. Players can use each other to help get each other through the levels, or hinder each other because it’s funny, or to help let out some passive aggression against the friend they’re playing with. The game’s been redesigned for iOS devices, with a control scheme optimized for touch screens, and the graphics & sound redone for this new release, though supposedly a lot of the code from the original game is the same. Bonkheads HD, the iOS version of the game, is available as a universal app for $2.99.



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Premium Games’ Revenue Decreases on the App Store as Free to Play Revenue Increases

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There is a major sea change occurring on the App Store for game publishers and developers. A clear shift is forming from the traditional premium release model to free to play and freemium titles, as the revenue for free games with in-app purchases dramatically increases, and the prices for paid games goes in the opposite direction.

According to a report recently released by Distimo, the average selling price of the 300 most popular premium games (meaning games that cost money to download) has declined from an average of $2.01 in June 2010, to only $1.44 in June 2011. This decline may be precipitated from an increasing number of publishers facilitating fire sales on their games; EA is particularly notable for their holiday sales where they drop the price on many games down to $0.99, a practice that became extremely lucrative for them when they held a variety of the top app positions on both the iPhone and iPad sides of the App Store.

However, just because the average price of games is on the decline, this does not mean that revenue is declining either; on the contrary, the total revenue from the top 200 grossing games increased by 79% from year to year. A big reason for this increase has come from free to play titles’ in-app purchases, a mechanism that has increased in usage over the past year to the point where in June 2010, revenue from free games’ in-app purchases rated as only 8% of total revenue for the top 200 games. As of June 2011, this rates as 52% of total revenue of the top 200 games on the App Store.

Not only are free to play games now becoming the biggest source of revenue for games on the App Store, they’re also potentially more open for competition. The top 10 publishers of free games account for 27% of the total downloads of the top 300 free games, versus the top 10 publishers of the top 300 paid games generating 54% of those downloads, and one of those publishers is one-man developer Andreas Illiger of Tiny Wings fame. According to Distimo, Tiny Wings generated more downloads than Gameloft’s numerous releases!

As other studies have shown, players who spend money in free to play titles spend more than on premium titles – Flurry notes that the average transaction in a free to play title is $14, a price point that only a few games (approximately 130 of 66,130 total games) have even reached, and a number that includes few notable titles outside of several Square Enix games released around that price point. Games that are shifting to a consumable in-app purchase model are finding that there is real money to be made there from the limited amount of players that do spend money in free to play titles, which appears to average about 3% of users that do spend money on in-app purchases, with some users that spend great amounts of money in these games.

The traditional way of selling games on the App Store is definitely changing, and this data shows that the rush to the bottom continues, as more games reach not just the $0.99 point of entry, but also by letting players download initially for free. However, revenue is still increasing; iOS devices are still being sold. There is still room to make money on the App Store, it’s just that the ways for doing so have dramatically shifted in the last year.



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Helion Review

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Helion Review

By
Sinan Kubba on July 29th, 2011
Our Rating: ★★★☆☆ :: LASER SHOW
iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad

Helion is a challenging sliding blocks puzzler with a slight twist of Pipe Mania, except insert lasers for pipes.

 

Developer: Tn
Price: $0.99
Version: 1.09
App Reviewed on: iPhone 4

Graphics / Sound Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
User Interface Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Re-use / Replay Value Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

Overall Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

The touch screen and the sliding-blocks puzzler together represent a marriage made in gaming heaven. It's a combination that just makes sense. Like peanut butter with jelly, like Ross with Rachel and Mario with his moustache, to imagine them apart is to imagine them weaker.

While it's unsurprising that the marketplace is dominated by these games, in no way does that mean there isn't room for one more, especially if said game has the noble aim of doing something a bit different. So, here is Helion, a sliding-blocks puzzler with a twist reminiscent of the classic Pipe Mania game.

In Helion, the idea is to ensure that the blocks firing laser beams are firing them towards a receptor block. Each firing block fires a specifically colored laser, and that laser must reach a receptor block of the corresponding color. This isn't just a matter of lining up these blocks in parallel, as firing blocks and receptor blocks will only fire and receive in one direction; for example, a firing block's laser may go upwards through the puzzle, but the receptor block only receives on its left side.

This is where the Pipe Mania similarity comes in. Blocks with a diagonal line in their centre can reflect lasers in different directions. By the later levels, puzzles are filled with these blocks to assist the guidance of multiple lasers to multiple receptor blocks, and the lasers starting twisting and turning around the puzzles in very confusing ways. What doesn't help is the proficiency of obstacle blocks that simply stop lasers as well as channel blocks that only allow them to pass in one direction.

As expected, the interface works very neatly. Sliding blocks around the puzzle is easy, particularly because of the ability to send multiples down a row or a line via one click. The puzzles themselves are appreciably tough, so while the game fails to introduce enough new elements to really change things up, the difficulty climb in the second half of the campaign does leave me feeling satisfied at the end of the particularly beastly offerings.

Besides that lack of diversity in the puzzles, I find the game's grey palette very, very dull. The game is supposed to look futuristic in an industrial way, but this is negated by the visual detail being fairly basic and the interface in general feeling a little clunky and coarse. Meanwhile, although the mirror mode for the campaign offers a modicum of longevity and future modes are noted as promised, it would be nice to see a little bit more replay value from Helion; the campaign doesn't last that long.

For the length it does last, though, Helion is fun enough puzzling debut by Tn. The game does stamp its individuality, even if it's just a little bit of individuality, on an already much ploughed genre.


Helion


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Our Rating: ★★★☆☆ :: LASER SHOW
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Released: 2011-03-31 :: Category: Games

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MacBook Air Sets New Notebook Standard

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Reviewer Jim Dalrymple writes in The Loop that the new 13-inch MacBook Air combines all the capabilities required for doing day-to-day work with optimal screen size and resolution. Dalrymple also praises the device's spacious keyboard, "amazing" battery life, and pre-installed OS X Lion. He concludes: "The 13-inch MacBook Air is the computer that all other laptops will be measured against. It has power, portability, and a sleek design that is only matched by other MacBooks."

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Five For Friday: Week Of July 29

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The Economist World in Figures 2011 Edition.

This iPhone reference app pubslihed by The Economist Magazine has facts and stats about over 190 countries around the globe. Whether looking for trivia or doing market research The World in Figures has tons of data and the ability to let users compare countries side-by-side.


Futurama Head in a Jar

From the sublime to the silly, but fun. MTV released Futurama Head in a Jar on the tail of Comic-Con – where it was previewed – as a free iPhone entertainment app this week. As the name implies, users geet to create their own Groening-style heads with customizable hair, eyes, and even species. The decapitated go right into the Head Museum where head-collections can live on prominently displayed on shelves of their own.



NASA Visualization Explorer

The space shuttle’s missions have been grounded permanently now, but that doesn't mean reaseach done in space is dead. There is the International Space Station, of course, but NASA also has a fleet of research spacecraft in use as well. Nasa Viz allows iPad users to access the most advanced research finding from those vehicles along videos on space-related topics. The app contains stunning photographs, lots of text information and both mini documentaries and animated simulations. NASA promises one fresh story a week.


Gesundheit!

There's been a veritable flood of hot new games released in the last week from almost every major gamehouse. Konami's entry, Gesundheit! is the one we most want to just stop and look at. It's an arcade puzzler with solid gameplay, but the hand-drawn art elements both in the cut-scenes and within the game itself are nothing short of breath taking. The soundtrack is almost as pleasing to the ears as the graphics are to the eyes. We can't wait to start playing.






TableTop

TableTop is a portable expandable recording studio for iPad. Users are presented with a variety of devices: samplers, mixers and sequencers, and many mode modular devices for IAP to be arranged and used as the project demands. The GUI is clean and while it seems intended for serious musicians, users with little experience are reporting they are able to make some great-sound tracks too.



Apps mentioned in this post: Futurama Head in a Jar, Gesundheit!, Gesundheit! HD, NASA Visualization Explorer, TableTop, The Economist World in Figures 2011 Edition


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BBC iPlayer Puts the BBC on the iPad

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Ages ago, when mankind first learned of fire and kept small dinosaurs as pets, I used to work in a very large bookstore. One of those big ones that sold DVDs and wooden toys on top of books and stuff. Stick with me, the bit about the DVDs is important. So, having worked in a store that sells DVDs I’ve come to learn something about our society: American people go absolutely nuts for British television.

Seriously, so many people would spend upwards of $80 or more on a single season of some show about a woman who marries people and lives in wine country or something. And maybe solves murders. Average citizens solve a lot of murders over there, don’t they?

Perhaps it’s because they’ve finally realized that their shows have a massive global appeal, or maybe it’s because they finally got the funds together, but BBC Worldwide has created (and is unleashing) their BBC iPlayer: an iPad app that allows a fairly extensive (1500 hours worth on day one) amount of their catalog to be streamed digitally. The managing director of BBC.com (Luke Bradley-Jones) has told guardian.co.uk that the service will feature newer episodes but also grant users access to “… the best from the catalogue stretching back 50 to 60 years.”

Some content is available for free (add-supported, of course), but subscriptions are available for €6.99 (roughly $10) a month and €49.99 (about $72) a year. Sure subscription fees are always daunting, but considering the fact that most BBC enthusiasts plunk down more than triple that in a year or less, I think this seems like a great deal. Especially when considering the perks that the US version will include: 3G and Wi-Fi streaming, as well as (this is the big one) downloading videos directly to the iPad for offline viewing. I mean seriously, who wouldn’t be willing to pay a little bit each year to be able to load up some Doctor Who, Primeval, Top Gear and more, whenever they’d like? Imagine how awesome those commutes would be.

The BBC iPlayer is due out “Thursday” in 11 Western European countries, but US, Canadian and Australian residents will have to wait until later this year. Bummer.

[via guardian.co.uk] [ image credit: guardian.co.uk ]



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22 Days HD Review

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22 Days HD Review

By
Jennifer Allen on July 29th, 2011
Our Rating: ★★★★☆ :: SHALLOW
iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad

22 Days HD offers some great looks but doesn’t back it up with features.

 

Developer: Omar Sosa
Price: $1.99
Version Reviewed: 2.0
Device Reviewed On: iPad 2

iPad Integration Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
User Interface Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Re-use Value Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

Overall Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

22 Days HD looks beautiful. Offering a clean and attractive interface, it looks like the kind of app that users would be happy to have displayed on their fridge with the iPad Smart Cover or in some other very obvious location. Underneath that stylish exterior however, there’s not much to see. A clear sign of style over substance indeed.

It’s a reminder app and one that at first seems to do everything just right. Users can set as many events as they want, they can arrange recurring events, link contacts to birthdays, add an image either from the app’s attractive library or the iPad camera roll. They can even get the app to recommend a list of popular public holidays according to their geographic location. As the user gets more involved with the app however, the more apparent the issues become.

There’s no way of arranging events according to type. This can make for an increasingly cluttered view. For instance, there’s no way of just checking birthdays or just checking work related dates. Things that would be great to divide up in some way. It’s handy to be able to consult all the dates at once sometimes (such as to avoid clashes) but the option to look at categories individually would have been hugely useful. There’s also no way of checking what day of the week an event is with the date being the only option offered. In the case of birthdays, there’s also no way of entering the age of the person for that birthday – something that’s often useful especially when it’s a big event (such as a 40th/50th etc). Finally, there’s no way of syncing dates elsewhere such as with Google Calendar. The only way of sharing content is via Twitter or Facebook.

It’s unfortunate that 22 Days HD lacks so many useful features as it is a very visually attractive app. Without such features however, it’s a hard one to sell to anyone other than those looking for great looks over practicality. Maybe with an update or two, this could be an easier app to recommend.



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