TouchGrove’s LED Football strikes a familiar chord in the hearts of iPhone-wielding old school gamers everywhere by bringing back the joy of 9 volt battery-powered Mattel handheld games from the 1970s. TouchGrove’s newest game creation is a title for the iPad – LED Football Player vs. Player. It costs $2.99. (more…)
Freeverse has announced four games for the iPad – NBA Hotshot HD, Flick Fishing HD, Warpgate and CastleCraft. They’re priced at $2.99, $2.99, $7.99, and for free respectively. iPhone and iPod touch versions of the new games are also on the way. (more…)
Apple on Monday announced that it sold more than 300,000 iPads in the United States, as of midnight on Saturday, April 3, 2010. That number includes deliveries of pre-ordered iPads, deliveries to channel partners and sales at Apple retail stores. (more…)
Gendai Games has announced the expansion of GameSalad’s platform support to include the iPad. GameSalad now supports game creation on the iPhone, iPod touch, Web and Mac. (more…)
We don’t know for sure exactly how many iPads Apple had available to sell on Saturday, but one analyst says the number beat his previous expectations. (more…)
As expected, there was an excited crowd outside Apple’s 5th Ave. Apple Store on Saturday. Apple retail employees put on quite a show, cheering and clapping well before anyone even entered the store. You’ve got to give Apple employees credit, they sure know how to lay out the red carpet for its customers. (more…)
While it’s easy to discount some iPad reworks of existing iPhone games as mere updates, Firemint’s new game offerings for the iPad definitely fall into a category of their own. The games each feature extensive differences from their iPhone and iPod touch counterparts. (more…)
Taito and Square Enix on Friday announced the release of Morita Shogi HD, a $3.99 game for the iPad. It’s based on a previously released game for iPhone and iPod touch. (more…)
Gameloft on Friday announced the release of eight games for the iPad, all available from the App Store immediately. (more…)
I flew down to New York yesterday and picked up my new 64GB iPad from Apple to give readers an early look at it. I had used the iPad after the launch in January and wondered if my initial thoughts would hold true. They did. (more…)
FileMaker has introduced a version of its personal database software Bento for iPad, pricing it at $4.99. It’s a standalone version of the database software that also synchronizes with its Mac and iPhone counterparts. (more…)
Namco Networks is kicking off the launch of Apple’s iPad with three games for the new device – Pac-Man for iPad, Pool Pro Online and Noby Noby Boy, for $4.99, $6.99 and $1.99 respectively. (more…)
Freeverse has unveiled plans to release its first massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, called CastleCraft. It’ll work on the iPhone and iPod touch. It’ll be free to download. (more…)
TouchGrove is best known to iPhone and iPod touch users for its LED Football and LED Basketball games, simple games based on those classic 9 volt battery-powered handheld games from the 1970s. The company is breaking out of that mold with Air Harp, a new app designed for the iPad. (more…)
First the Mac, then the iPhone, now the iPad: Pangea Software has revealed iPad launch plans for its line of popular games. (more…)
Apple’s iPad won’t be released until Saturday, but some of the bigger news organizations have already posted their reviews. Two that I’ll focus on are the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal. (more…)
Apple on Monday released updates for its AirPort wireless base stations. (more…)
One of the major knocks about the iPhone has been its lack of multitasking. In other words, when you exit an app, it shuts down completely. (more…)
Memeo is bringing a reader version of its connect software to the iPad. The app has already been approved by Apple and will be available the day the iPad launches. (more…)
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is the venture capital firm behind the original “iFund,” which helped to fund development and publishing of numerous iPhone apps when Apple first announced plans to start the App Store. The company hosted a press briefing on Wednesday where they revealed plans to double the size of the iFund from $100 million to $200 million, with iPad the focus this time around. The briefing has included execs from Apple, Ngmoco, Shazam and others.
Live: Kleiner Perkins’ Doubles Down The iFund To $200 Million For the iPad [TechCrunch]
Dan Frommer suggests that it’s time for Nintendo to make a game for the iPhone. He makes the case for the iPhone OS by pointing to its increasing game sales numbers, and says he’d like to see the Super Mario Bros. series make it to the device – the original 8-bit games developed for the Nintendo Entertainment System. What Frommer doesn’t delve into is Nintendo’s insistence on keeping its crown jewels – properties like Mario, Zelda and the like – exclusively on its own systems: the “Mario and Sonic” Olympic games titles, for example, exist solely for DS and Wii – Mario was excised from Sega’s Sonic at the Winter Olympics title for iPhone.
Hey, Nintendo, we DARE you to make an iPhone Game [Silicon Alley Insider]
Apple on Tuesday released updates for iTunes, iPhoto and the VoiceOver Kit for iPod. (more…)
A new Facebook application from Vitrue lets users of the popular social network browse and share details about apps on Apple’s App Store. This isn’t Vitrue’s first attempt at sharing Apple content with Facebook users – they’ve also created an iTunes Facebook page that has grown to more than 3.2 million fans.
Apple’s App Store finds Facebook home [Industry Gamers]
In terms of the daily wear and tear that can occur with a laptop’s keyboard, there are many things to consider. Between dust, light, crumbs (should you nibble while you type), or just the oils from your fingertips that naturally occur, adding some level of protection may help prolong the life of your keys as well as your computer. (more…)
Tower defense games have taken on a life of their own recently, thanks to an influx of great iPhone and iPod touch games. It turns out that this subgenre of strategy gaming has been around for quite a while. Let’s use the WABAC machine to take a look at their history. (more…)
Industry analyst Michael Pachter says that Sony’s PSP is destined to finish behind the Nintendo DS platform and the Apple iPod touch, finishing in last place in the current play for market dominance for handheld game consoles. Pachter suggests that Sony is behind Nintendo in the “pure game front” and behind Apple when the iPod touch is considered, as well.
It’s not like actually having an iPad, but at this point it’s the next best thing. Apple on Monday posted several tutorial videos on its Web site explaining how the iPad works. (more…)
Apple on Monday released Mac OS X 10.6.3 fixing a number of issues including improving reliability of QuickTime X. (more…)
Apple’s Steve Jobs was named the world’s most valuable CEO in a recent list by Barron’s. In November 2009, Jobs was named CEO of the decade by Fortune. Over the last 10 years Jobs has been behind some of the most innovative products in tech, including the iPod, iPhone and the iPad.
“Probably the world’s most valuable CEO is Steve Jobs of Apple, as shown by stock dips on news of his medical problems,” the report said. “Apple recently hit a record, with a market value topping $200 billion, a reflection of the Street’s confidence that a healthy Jobs (at least from what we can tell) continues to keep Apple ahead of the game. Jobs likely accounts for $25 billion or more of Apple’s market value.”
Apple’s Steve Jobs named world’s most valuable CEO [AppleInsider]
Apple on Monday said that consumers could purchase an iPad at several locations on April 3, including Best Buy. (more…)