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Scribblenauts team releases Run Roo Run for iOS with weekly updates

5th Cell, which is the development studio responsible for the wonderfully imaginative Scribblenauts, has released its first exclusive title for iOS called Run Roo Run. The premise behind Run Roo Run is a simple one: You play a mother kangaroo who travels across Australia in order to free her captured Joey. Run Roo Run will contain over 420 levels for you to maneuver across one screen at a time with its one-touch gameplay. The game will also have over 100 “extreme” levels, and every week, 5th Cell will offer 10 Read more

Star Marine: Infinite Ammo for iOS puts Contra in your pocket

One of the greatest video game franchises of all time has got to be Konami’s Contra series. There’s just something so satisfying about making your way through a number of interesting and detailed locales while shooting the snot out of anything that gets in your way. While Konami has yet to create an official port for mobile platforms, that won’t stop developer GlitchSoft from creating a side-scrolling shooter that pays homage to the great Contra. In Star Marine: Infinite Ammo, you play as Arc who has been captured by an Read more

T-Mobile’s Chief Technology Officer on the iPhone 5: “The next chipset will support AWS”

If you ignore the tiny regional players, it’s pretty much accepted that America has four wireless operators: AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon. Three of them now sell Apple’s iPhone, yet T-Mobile doesn’t, why is that? It all comes down to which frequencies T-Mobile decided to use for 3G, namely the “AWS” spectrum. AWS stands for Advanced Wireless Services and it uses the 1700 MHz band for uploading data and the 2100 MHz band for downloading data. Right now there are only a handful of operators using AWS, the largest being Read more

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Shazam launches Shazam Player music player app for iOS

Shazam today announced its rolling out its first new app called Shazam Player which is a free replacement for the iOS music player. The new app provides a respectable set of features which include synced lyrics, social sharing, smart playlists, bios and more. The mobile music company packed its new player with some prominent additions such as “LyricPlay.” The LyricPlay feature allow access to lyrics while tagging a song, which gives users the ability to pull up lyrics for many popular songs in their own library. Shazam Player also serves as Read more

Call of Duty Elite iOS App Released; Android version coming next week

It was nearly a year ago when I got to check out the Call of Duty Elite service before it officially launched with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. During their demo, Activision said it was planning to roll out Call of Duty Elite through four methods: web, TV via game console, in-game, and mobile. The first three methods simultaneously released with Modern Warfare 3, but mobile was still deep in development. Activision has finally made true on their promise of allowing Call of Duty Elite users access their information Read more

CES 2012: ION reveals iCade Core, iCade Mobile and iCade Jr. bluetooth controllers

Can you believe ION’s iCade was announced last year at CES? I certainly can’t as it feels the iCade has been on the market forever and has been a step in the right direction for third-party controllers to be used to get the most out of mobile gaming. It looks like ION is ready to set the mobile gaming controller bar higher as they’re announcing three new bluetooth controllers at CES: the iCade Core, iCade Mobile and iCade Jr. First up is the iCade Core which takes the original iCade Read more

iPhone 4S top-selling phone on AT&T, Verizon and Sprint

A report from Canaccord Genuity concludes that the Apple iPhone 4S was the top-selling phone on AT&T, Verizon and Sprint in November. Raise your hand if you’re surprised. No hands? I thought so. Yes, the iPhone is topping carriers’ sales charts once again. “IPhone 4S sales strength continues as distribution increases – Our November checks indicated iPhone sales remained strong in the US, particularly at AT&T and Sprint. Further, our checks indicated strong global share gains,” Michael Walkley of Canaccord Genuity writes. “With the iPhone 4S launching in new markets Read more

Is Siri causing iPhone users to go over data caps?

Apple’s golden-child voice recognition software, Siri, is causing owners of the iPhone 4S to use almost twice as much data compared with the handset’s predecessor, according to network firm Arieso. When Siri was first released to the masses it was called a “virtual personal assistant” and it is powered by a artificial-intelligence feature that allows iPhone users to schedule appointments, write text messages, check email and the local weather (checkout our review on Siri here). It is one of the major selling points of the iPhone 4S and it could Read more

Review: Super Crate Box for iOS – Addictive crate collecting 8-bit platformer at its best

Growing up a child of the 80s, I certainly have an appreciation for new games that pay homage to anything within the 8-bit to 16-bit era, especially when it comes to games that ramp up the difficulty meter to near impossible levels in order to give the current generation of gamers a nice kick in the pants. Vlambeer’s Super Crate Box has both qualities that I respect in a game, and if you decide to play it, will not only frustrate you, but it’ll most likely cause you to shout expletives at Read more

Infinity Blade franchise exceeds $30 million in earnings; Infinity Blade 2 earns $5 million

We all know how popular Epic Games and ChAIR Entertainment’s Infinity Blade series has been ever since the first game released last year, which is why it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone the Infinity Blade franchise has earned over $30 million in sales with Infinity Blade 2 earning over $5 million a month within its release. The Infinity Blade franchise isn’t made up of just both games on iOS, instead, it also encompasses its book, soundtrack, and its coin-op arcade game. Even though the Infinity Blade franchise isn’t strictly Read more

Apple iPhone 4S lands in China, other countries, Jan. 13

The iPhone 4S will be landing in China and 22 other countries starting Jan. 13 and this represents the fastest iPhone rollout ever for Apple. The iPhone 4S sports a similar physical design as the previous year’s model but it boasts an improved processor, an 8-megapixel camera, the voice-controlled Siri and the new iOS 5 software. Along with China, the latest iPhone will also be available in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Cameroon, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, China, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Grenada, Guam, Guinea Read more