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Kids Stay Busy With Toca House – iPad App Review

By | March 3, 2012 | No comment yet
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With their colorful characters and playful, yet realistic, graphics Toca Boca‘s iOS apps for kids are always surefire hits with iPad users of all ages. In less than one year this Swedish-based developer has created ten must-have additions to any app library. Toca House, the newest release, is a universal app that includes a series of mini games which take the weariness out of housekeeping.

Kids can iron, hang pictures, mow the lawn or deliver mail — and that’s just for starters. There are a total of 19 mini-games in Toca House, but each time a child opens the app they appear in a different order, and after 10 randomly selected chores, the apps workday ends.

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Unstoppable Gorg (on Sale until Sunday) – iPad Game Review

By | March 2, 2012 | No comment yet
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Unstoppable Gorg mixes b-movie sci-fi with castle defense gaming for a unique and challenging game that breaks the mold of this genre. Plan your defensive route carefully because you don’t have many options and the alien army is vast.

The game starts with a fantastic b-movie style newsreel, complete with model UFOs and overacting aliens. The whole vibe is very Ed Wood inspired and creatively presented. It is as though the developers just wanted an excuse to make a sci-fi movie.

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Preserve Precious Memories of Your Kids with Draw and Tell HD

By | March 2, 2012 | No comment yet
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Draw and Tell, from popular children’s app developer Duck Duck Moose, is a drawing app that’s aimed at children. With this app, kids can draw, color, add stickers, and then describe their drawings and their thoughts thanks to a built-in recorder.

This app gives kids a way to express their creativity, and then gives parents a special memento to hang onto afterwards.

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WrestleFest Pins The App Store For An iOS Takedown

By | March 2, 2012 | 1 comment
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THQ Inc. has teamed up with World Wrestling Entertainment to bring an updated version of the 1991 arcade game WWF WrestleFest to iOS. Play one of eight current and former WWE superstars as you travel down the road to Wrestlemania.

While very similar to WWF WrestleFest, this is not the same game as the 1991 Technos release. It is not a port of the original. That being said, this is a fun and challenging game in its own right.

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Save Your Fruit from Gluttonous Insects in Fruit Rumble – iPad Game Review

By | March 1, 2012 | 1 comment
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Fruit RumbleIt isn’t often that the hero who saves the day is a piece of fruit! In Fruit Rumble, you can be the fruit that saves the fruit bowl from insect predators by shooting projectiles (that I would call pits or seeds but the developer calls ‘dice’) and keeping the creepy crawlers away!

The graphics are quite spectacular and colorful. Even though the insects are cartoonish, I have to admit that with my real life fear of grasshoppers I felt a little anxious as those particular ugly little monsters hopped across my screen!

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Readability App Debuts for iOS

By | March 1, 2012 | No comment yet
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Fans of Readability will be pleased to learn that the web service now offers a universal iOS app that is free to download from the App Store. The site began as a web service that transforms an article’s interface to a less cluttered and more readable format, but moving to mobile is a natural extension for Readability.

The clean UI, which will be familiar to Readability users, was created by the Readability team in collaboration with Teehan+Lax, and the elegant typography was created by Hoefler & Frere-Jones.

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Relive Your Childhood Playing Games Like Rampage And Joust With Midway Arcade

By | February 29, 2012 | No comment yet
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If you’ve ever visited a beach boardwalk midway arcade, you’ll love what this app has in store for you. Not only can you play arcade classics like Spy Hunter and Defender, but you can also try you skills at roll ball and air hockey. The midway showroom looks like an arcade you may have frequented in 1985 and the games make you feel like you are back there again.

The initial download comes with Arch Rivals, Defender, Joust, Rampage, Root Beer Tapper and Spy Hunter, as well as roll ball, basketball, air hockey and pool.

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Spin Yourself a Web in Itzy3D – iPad Game Review

By | February 28, 2012 | No comment yet
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Itzy3DA lot of games feature a superhero-style leading character that seeks to save the world from evil. In this app, the hero is a spider and the villains are a hoard of fireflies unleashed upon the world when a meteor crashed.

How does a spider catch fireflies? With a web, of course! Help your spider to spin successful and strategic webs designed to catch as many of the delicious fireflies as possible!

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Enjoy Round-the-World Storytelling with Tales for Great Grandchildren for iPad — iPad App Review

By | February 28, 2012 | No comment yet
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You don’t have to be a great grandparent to enjoy Tales for Great Grandchildren. This charming iPad book for children stems from a collaboration between author John Jackson and illustrator Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini. The tales were inspired by Jackson’s trek around the Annapurna Himal in India and Nepal over 30 years ago.

The stories, which are recommended for 7 to 12-year-olds, include giants, animals, and one very beautiful lotus flower. All of the tales have morals — though like fables the point is often made by showing children what not to do — often with amusing or suspenseful results.

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Watch Sam and Ben Get in Double Trouble – iPad App Review

By | February 27, 2012 | No comment yet
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Sam and BenSam and Ben are wonderful twin boys with leading roles in this interactive eBook. While they may share the same birthday, they pride themselves on not being two peas in a pod. They do not look alike, act alike or even behave alike.

Once “squished together inside their mama’s belly”, Sam (with his golden hair that sticks up in every direction) and Ben (with his dark hair that curls into corkscrews) are as different as can be and their family is thrilled.

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