No, I’m not a Metallica fan… But yes, I did attend a Metallica concert a week or so ago, and I have to admit… It was a heck of a show. My ears took a beating, but those ol’ metal-heads can still bring down the house. Good times.
To enjoy Metallica’s music in perhaps, a more quiet and comfortable setting, the good folks at Tapulous have released Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica for the iPhone and iPod Touch. For $4.99 in the App Store (iTunes link), you’ll get 10 songs including:
Enter Sandman
King Nothing
Sad But True
Some Kind of Monster
All Nightmare Long
Master of Puppets
Seek and Destroy
Fuel
For Whom the Bell Tolls
One
You know the deal here. Tap your way through each track and make it to the end. There are many different game modes including an arcade mode, which pits you against the computer, which throws weapons at you as you try to punch out the song… There’s also a battle mode enabling you to play head to head against a buddy over Bluetooth. If you become too much of a master at it, there’s an ‘extreme’ mode which forces you to play in landscape to accommodate FIVE rails of tapping action.
I’m not sure have you tried out some of the Digital Chocolate’s 3D Rollercoaster games, but they rock. At least, I like them and I’m happy to say that they’ve bundled three available titles — the original, Jurassic and Haunted 3D Rollercoasters — into a single application simply called 3D Rollercoaster Rush Bundle Pack. Available for purchase for $7.99, the game promises to deliver hours and hours of entertainment, allowing you to compete across 120 different rollercoaster tracks. Plus, you can also go head-to-head with your friends via Bluetooth in both Jurassic and Haunted themes…
Enough said, you can grab the 3D Rollercoaster Rush Bundle Pack from here. It’s well worth the money spent, or at least me thinks so.
By Dusan Belic on Saturday, October 24th, 2009 at 6:44 AM PST In Gaming
Just in time for Halloween, Cellufun unveiled Hallofun, a series of games that allows users to “celebrate Halloween with their friends on their mobile phones.”
Here’s what’s it all about:
Cellufun’s users can decorate their homepages, dress up their avatars in costumes, knock on their friends’ doors and go trick-or-treating, pick pumpkins, and carve killer jack-o-lanterns. There’s also a Haunted Hay Ride, a Haunted House Maze, bonfire building, and a costume contest in which users can vote for the coolest costumes in Cellufun. Hallofun’s virtual costumes are available for free and for purchase (from $2-$4) and include Betty Boop, a French Maid, a Chef, an Astronaut, a Ninja, and dozens of others. Cellufun is also offering a limited edition Halloween Mobile Pet Bat and two Halloween Pet Dragons and is re-launching their Captives of Witch Hill adventure game with new graphics and story elements.
Hallofun is available in 10 languages and you can try it ou by pointing your mobile browser to m.cellufun.com and take it from there. Good luck!
If you haven’t heard of GameFly, it’s basically Netflix for video games: pay a monthly membership fee, and they’ll ship you rentals that you enjoy and send back at your leisure. Well, now they’ve launched a companion app for iPhone that lets you peruse cheats, controls, reviews, specs, and videos of your favourite games, sorted by platform and popularity. If you find something you like, you can also share a game via Facebook or twitter. The one gaping hole, of course, is the inability to manage your queue, something Netflix has managed to do just fine. The future of these mail-in services is also a bit doubtful, as competing channels that use digital distribution (namely GameTap) don’t have to deal with shipping costs. Still, good on GameFly for going mobile – download GameCenter for free from the iTunes App Store and get a 15-day free trial of the service, but if you’re packing a different device, their homepage is mobile-friendly. For a look at the features and a demo video, hit up their information page.
One of the top rated puzzle games for the BlackBerry Storm and Tour has expanded its device compatibility. Pixelated Plus (pictured above) is now available for the Curve 8900 and Bold 9700. Groovy. I actually have a similar game on my iPhone that I’ve played for a long time now, called Flood It! (iTunes link), and I love it. The premise of the game is the same: Flood the board with squares of the same color. I’ll let the official description do it some justice:
The object of the game is to change the colour of the squares until the entire screen is a single solid colour. This is done by using the coloured buttons on the bottom of the screen to change the colour of the square in the upper left hand corner and those surrounding it. Changing this square to the colour of those around it, allows it to slowly grow until it fills the entire screen. The ultimate goal is to do so in as few moves as possible.
Get ready to rumble, because a new Chuck Norris ‘Bring on the Pain’ game is coming to the iPhone real soon! In true Norris style, the game promo features the following tagline:
‘You may think you’re playing a Chuck Norris game, but Chuck Norris can’t be played’.
Excellent. ‘Chuck Norris: Bring on the Pain’ is said to arrive in the App Store within the next 2 weeks for $0.99. I may just have to buy it!
A quirky fact about Chuck Norris? Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) pays Chuck $0.99 every time he listens to a song. It’s true. Honest.
Are you a fan of games from the 90s that star earthworms that battle evil while wearing a robotic suit? Do you also enjoy playing games on your iPhone for countless hours until your battery is completely bone dry? If you answered yes to both of these questions, then this post is for you!
Gameloft announced today the release of the iPhone / iPod Touch version of Earthworm Jim. The game originally was released in 1994 for the Super Nintendo & SEGA Genesis consoles, and now you can relive the 16-bit, side-scrolling glory days through your iPhone / iPod Touch. Earthworm Jim stars Jim, who was once an ordinary earthworm until a suit dropped from outer space onto Jim, which then mutated him into a hero.
Run, gun, swing from hooks with your head, launch cows, bungee jump, rocket through speed levels and more!
Face 12 types of enemies and 9 bosses.
4 different styles of gameplay: Side-scrolling run & gun, space racing, bungee jumping and underwater levels
10 original environments divided into 16 levels
4 levels of difficulty, including the challenging mode of the original game
The re-mastered cult soundtrack
iPod library access to play your favorite tracks while playing the game.
As a special treat, Gameloft has supplied us with a US iTunes code to download Earthwork Jim for the iPhone / iPod Touch for free! Since I’m in a good mood, I’ll be giving it away to a lucky reader. You’ve got two ways of entering:
Commenting on this here article
Retweeting this article by clicking on the “Retweet” badge located underneath this article
The contest will officially end at 6:00pm EDT / 3:00pm PDT and I’ll contact the winner either via email or Twitter DM (depending on who is chosen).
[Update: The contest is now officially over. The winner has been chosen and the code has been sent to them. Thanks for playing!]
One of the most downloaded games for the past few days now, Fling is a unique puzzle game that I really get a kick out of. The object of the game is to clear the board of the fuzzy furballs by flicking them with your finger. However, it’s not as easy as it seems. You must ‘fling’ the furballs into one another, you can’t simply fling them off the board. Plus, if a furball is adjacent to another, you can’t fling them into one another. Make sense? Try out the free version (iTunes link) and you’ll get it, trust me.
Each puzzle has a single solution, and apparently the full version of the game features over 10,000 puzzles. Crazy! Play the game in ‘free-play’, which lets you play at your own pace and keep track of stats… There’s also an ‘arcade’ mode which pits you against the clock… Finally there’s a ‘challenge’ mode that makes you solve sets of puzzles within a certain amount of time, all the while trying to beat personal best times. Lots of game play options, lots of fun!
You’ve probably already heard about Pocket God, one of the most popular iPhone games around. It’s about to get the unofficial sequel (other company is behind the title) called Pocket Devil. As you can guess for yourself, the game sees you taking charge of purgatory and its many horned minions. You can either push them into suffering or everlasting peace.
Similarly to Pocket God, this is also an episodic game, and now we have the first chapter, Burn Baby Burn, available in the AppStore.
We’re curious to see whether it will fly as much as Pocket God did. If it does, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Bolt Creating (folks behind Pocket God) pushing some legal action against Pocket Devil’s makers – Eyedip…
Yep, I know there’s more than one of you out there that have been waiting for this one. Ever since Will gave us that awesome sneak peak of Rock Band from CTIA WITE 2009, this one has been highly anticipated. While the launch date wasn’t known exactly, we knew it was coming soon… and thankfully, it’s here!
Play the guitar, bass, drums or take the mic as the lead singer. Of course there are the standard levels of gameplay (easy, medium, difficult), plus you can play solo, crank up a quickplay, or hit the road in ‘Tour Mode’. You can also rock out with your friends via Bluetooth, or sync up via Facebook. There’s a handy ‘message center’ in the app that lets you check on your bands’ status, and you can even get push notifications when a buddy wants you to join him/her for a jam session.
In addition to the 20 songs that come with, Rock Band also an in-app music store that lets you purchase more music from the likes of the Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Lenny Kravitz, and more.
So far, there’s been nothing but glowing reviews. You can pick up Rock Band for $9.99 in the App Store (iTunes link). Expensive for sure, but me thinks this thing is going to be flying off the virtual shelves. I’m oh so tempted… I wish Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) hadn’t made it so easy to buy apps… Tap… tap… purchase!
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