News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Back in high school on the weekends, I could often be found playing side-scrolling action games that were fun and didn’t need to be taken too seriously. This idea has returned with HeavyMach, a side-scrolling tank game by developer IndieAn in which your tank must wipe out opposing forces to reach the next level. Grab power-ups, additional armour and weapons such as missiles, lasers and bombing runs to even the odds and you’re good to go.
Zombieville USA is a bloody, fun game from Mika Mobile. You control a lone scowling hunter in a town overrun with the lumbering (and, occasionally, scampering) undead. Luckily for you, you’re armed.
WordDigest, a $2.49 app from Global Delight, joins the already swelling ranks of mobile dictionaries for the iPhone and iPod touch. This dictionary hopes to distinguish itself by offering a collection of more than 147,000 words (with International Phonetic Alphabet pronunciations for 87,000 of them), thesaurus, and spellchecker. It also features integration with online sources like Answers.com, Wikipedia, and Wiktionary.
I was actively barracking for Assassin’s Creed: Altair’s Chronicles to succeed and prove Hideo Kojima wrong. Kojima, the celebrity developer of the Metal Gear series, professed that he was sceptical of the ability to adapt stealth gameplay to the iPhone. Assassin’s Creed, like the Metal Gear series, relies heavily on sneaking around enemies and disposing of guards quietly. The Assassin Creed universe is set in part during the crusades in a number of Middle Eastern cities.
Juxtaposer is a photo-editing app that allows you to combine multiple images to create a new—and often funny—result. You can put your friend’s head on your dog’s body, or your cat’s head on your dog’s body—that sort of stuff.
Bump has only been available for download from the App Store for a month, but already the social networking app has secured a place in iPhone app history. Bump became the one billionth download from the App Store when a Connecticut teenager selected the free app on Thursday.
Telstra has released The Official AFL App to coincide with the start of the 2010 football season, but while this is likely a welcome addition to any footy fan’s iPhone, t...
As I type these words, I am waiting for Apple's Developer Connection web site to ease up sufficiently for me to download the long-awaited Software Developer Kit for the iPhone (and iPod touch, just by the by). In a way, I hate developer-oriented announcements — "here's a really cool thing we're working on, and it's available now, and hoi polloi can have it in about six months". Actually, it's the six months I hate.
