And so iOS developers are beginning to port their apps to the Mac App Store. A few hours after the official announcement by Steve Jobs at the “Back to the Mac” event, Australian game studio Firemint (winners of two Apple Design Awards this year) has already confirmed that they’ll be bringing its blockbuster game Flight Control HD to the Mac. Read more
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Award Winning iOS Game Flight Control HD Coming to the Mac App Store
Blast From The Past: Old Sierra Games Coming To The iPad as Webapps
Retro gamers and iPad owners, this might as well be your best day ever: Touch Arcade spotted an interesting and independent project from Martin Kool, a guy who’s working on bringing old Sierra adventure games back to the iPad as web apps entirely based on open web technologies such as HTML, Javascript and CSS. Read more
Meow Meow Happy Fight HD Review & Giveaway!
Japan has seen its fair share of crazed destruction through a never ending slew of anime porn and giant robots, but just when you thought lolcats couldn’t get any crazier than tackling Godzilla in the nether regions, Happy Cat appoints a legion of ramen noodles and rice balls to tear down Tokyo alongside zombie children and teen pop-star superheroes. If an invisible issue of glamour girl chasing you down the street with a barrage of homing missiles isn’t enough to get the blood pumping, fist boxing an overly ripe squid while dodging phaser lasers from a secondhand R2-D2 might do the trick. Or everything will just blow up in smoke, as usual.
N.O.V.A. 2 Coming This Fall, More Footage Surfaces
N.O.V.A. is one of my favorite games for iPhone and iPad. I don’t usually talk about games here on MacStories, but N.O.V.A. 2 is a thing I’m excited about: a sequel to one of the most successful and critically acclaimed games in the App Store, which Gameloft has confirmed through its official podcast will be available “this fall on Apple devices worldwide”.
It’s likely that N.O.V.A.2 will come out before the holiday season in both iPhone / iPod Touch and iPad editions. Check out the screenshots and footage from the Gameloft podcast below. Read more
MacStories Giveaway: Win A Copy Of The Incident
The Incident is an insanely awesome game from Big Bucket Software which we’ve covered a few times in the past. Addictive gameplay, pixels all over the place, a great 8-bit soundtrack composed by Cabel Sasser. With the latest 1.2 update, the developers introduced an “endless mode”, bug fixes and the possibility to control the game on your iPad directly from your iPhone.
The Incident is a great game. Here’s your chance to win a copy. Read more
Scientific Success: The Physics of Angry Birds
Not only is Angry Birds a mainstream, blockbuster success, it turns out that scientists and physicists have been keeping an eye on it as well. Using the popular Tracker video analysis tool, physicist Rhett Allain analyzed the behavior in space of Angry Birds’ most important characters - the birds. Read more
Retinasizer Forces iPhone Games To Render in Retina Graphics
It sucks when you buy a $4.99 (or even more) game for your iPhone and you find out that the game doesn’t support the Retina Display. How is that even possible, 5 months after the release of the iPhone 4? I don’t know, but we might have a solution here: Retinasizer, a free tweak available in Cydia, can force games to run natively with high-resolution graphics on the Retina Display. Read more
The Incident: Whatʼs New In 1.2
The Incident (our previous review) is undoubtedly one of the funnest and most addicting games on the App Store today. The retro styled smash hit became immediately popular with everybody, young and old. This past couple of weeks Iʼve had the pleasure of testing out the newest update to The Incident.
One of the biggest complaints with the original version was the lack of an endless mode. Well, rest assured your wishes were heard and thereʼs a new mode called “Endless Nightfall.” Complete with awesome new music from Cabel Sasser himself, Endless nightfall has some awesome additions to an already awesome game.
My Very First App - Review & Giveaway
This review is a little different than most reviews on MacStories, it’s targeted towards children. I have a 4 year old son and a 2 year old daughter, so this app was an easy one for me to grab onto. For what it’s worth, I have always been very protective of my iPhone, afraid it could get scratched or dropped but I couldn’t help but to break my old ways and let my kids start playing with it. Read more