Plushed – a platform game by BlackSmith Games coming soon to an iTunes App Store Near You.

Blacksmith games announces its first iPhone and iPod Touch game which is called Plushed. It is a platform game with unique game play.

You can help the main character (surprise: a bunny, turning into a bunny knight later) during his journey.

Control different items with your finger or by shaking your iPhone to attract enemies, defeat level bosses, to solve tasks and to do many other exciting things. Furthermore, Plushed offers over 20 unique and unprecedented characters. Every character has different qualities, which will amaze you.

The game’s design has a distinct visual style that merges the happy world of childhood fairytales with a somewhat macabre twist and dark humor.

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Game Features

– more than 20 unique and funny characters from a pizza eater to a batcow
– unique game play
– marvelous story
– hand-drawn backgrounds and game assets
– professional character animations
– 3 world bosses you have to defeat
– 9 big and unique levels
– 4 mini games for more fun
– original soundtrack
– This game is designed specifically for the iPhone
– utilizes its touch specific features as well as the built-in accelerometer
-…and many more surprises

Story

What happens when the fairytale world of a cute little girl turns into a cursed kingdom where she is queen? Her favorite plushie sets out to save her, of course. Guiding her loyal plush through several haunted meadows and creepy castles, you must use your wits to bring down the Evil voodoo mouse and his army of wacky minions! It’ simple; get to the castle, save the princess. You’ve seen it before, but not like this. PLUSHED! The adventures of the reluctant bunny knight

Character Concepts

The video shows the special way of direct interaction between the player and the world. In the first scene the bunny collects a Pizza. After that the player drags the Pizza around which wakes the Pizza Eater up. Then, in order to reach the Ladybug-coins, the player has to “feed” the Pizza Eater by dropping the Pizza  above his head so that the Pizza Eater can be used as a trampoline.

This scene makes the unique interaction of the game (in the game the player will have the possibility to interact with pizzas, mirrors, keys and more), which is used in the same way in the further levels, very easy to understand for the casual gamer.

Video of the Game Play

Taxi Jam now available for $0.99!

Ever called a taxi and wondered why it was taking so long to get to you? Or sat in the back seat and thought it was taking too long to get where you wanted to go?

Taxi Jam is your chance to show them how it should be done!
Your job as the cab driver is to navigate through the city streets to pick up your fare before they get fed up waiting and change their mind. Get to them in time, then drop them at their destination as fast as you can to earn points.

As you speed through the streets, watch out for fire trucks, police cars, buses and bikes! Accidents will cost you!

If the hazards of the city traffic weren’t enough, in Taxi Jam you’re not just the driver, you’re also the Taxi Controller.

You have to decide how many cabs you need on the city streets at one time. Too few and you might miss the fares. Too many, and you’re quite literally going to run into trouble!

With beautiful graphics, great sounds, and intuitive tap and slide controls, Taxi Jam is as addictive as it gets!

Main Game Features

– Control just one taxi or pull as many out of the rank as needed
– Stunning graphics and sounds
– Highly addictive game play
– Intuitive point and drag interface
– Three addictive levels (New York, London, Paris)
– Save and view high scores on the online leader board
– Playable in either landscape or portrait mode
– Developed exclusively for the iPhone or iPod touch.

Check out Taxi Jam on iTunes for $0.99!

New version of Touch KO gives gamers more combo punches for what we paid for.

Touch KO has just been updated to version 1.1. The new version gives the gamer more value for his money in return for punches in the game. You have a chance to imagine yourself as Mike Tyson pulling heavy punches to someone in the game.

Here are the new features of the game:

a.  A new hard mode has been added with steeper difficulty ramp                    and new  Artificial Intelligence in the game.

b.  You can pause the game by tapping the timer and tap the screen to      skip slow-mo replays.

c.  Positional audio bug for users wearing headphones has been fixed.

d. Now combos are more powerful.

e. The bug that causes southpaw players to crash when knocked out has been fixed.

Check out Touch KO in iTunes for $4.99.

Underground – a debut shooter game with graffiti soon to hit the iTunes App Store

Take a journey with a graffiti artist through the underground transport system as they battle through their inner demons on a mission to rectify a previous art crime. You will get to experience the world from a graffiti artist’s viewpoint.

Fight your way through a series of street art inspired levels and lift the curse that seems to haunt their every move. Unfold the story as you stop at each beautifully 3D rendered station and get closer to the truth behind the myth.

Classic 2d side scrolling shoot ‘em up game play takes you on a trip through the thoughts and anxieties of our cursed artist as they make their way to their final destination.

For the iPhone and iPod touch – Underground is a horror/graffiti themed
side scrolling shoot ‘em up. This game is different compared to other shooter game because it utilizes graffiti backgrounds as the landscape as the game’s landscape. I have included the video that depicts the game play so you can see whether it is a game worth buying. For myself, I am very impressed with the video itself. You have to see the video to believe it!

Main Game Features include:

• Classic 2D side scrolling SHMUP
• Uses the iPhone and iPod touch’s tilt and multi touch controls
• Over 60 different enemies with a vast range of behaviors
• 11 different weapons
• 3 levels of difficulty over 12 levels
• Power-ups include shield and slow motion “Bullet Time”
• Story mode with real-time 3d cut scenes
• Shoot in any direction simply by touching the screen

Steamroller Studios and Chillingo have joined forces to deliver Shock Super Bowl to the iPhone and iPod Touch!

Now there is a football game which everyone can play. The game features game play simple enough for the casual gamer yet deep enough to satisfy the hardcore football nut.

The gamer will experience full 3D game-play with dazzling graphics and a fun, vintage art style that will keep your eyes entertained for hours on end!

The game features Real vibrating football action (like the original, though this feature can be turned off to save iPhone battery, 3 difficulty settings, over 20 different preset plays ready to go in your playbook.

You can tilt, rotate and turn the iPhone to get your ideal viewpoint. Watch the action from behind your team, in front of them, from the sidelines, or from the air. When you rotate your iPhone, you can see the characters in the game like Lego characters waiting to grab the football.

Play the game from the vantage point that works best for you or mix it up and use them all. Experience the thrill of unlocking achievements and bragging about your stats in the online leader boards. And for intense two player split-screen merriment, challenge a friend to a game on the field.

I will certainly think this is an epic game from Steamroller Studios which is worth waiting for. Chillingo is the official game publisher for this game.

Let’s look forward to this game in iTunes soon.

Safagon Full Screen Web Browser (version 1.1) sells for $0.99 on iTunes.

Safagon is not only a true Full Screen Web Browser but it also includes many advanced features. For those people who like a change from the conventional Safari Web Browser on iPhone or iPod Touch, you can try this full screen web browser as it has many features which you cannot find in the Safari Web browser on your iPhone.

Main Key Features:

– Horizontal and Landscape support.

– Multi-Tab browing support.

– User can create, delete tabs, open a link in a new tab

– User can use “Save Session” to reload the last URLs on the next use.

– Smart-loading when opening link in new tab (the browser will load content of new tab as separated thread while you still can surf the current tab, save your time when switch to new tab)

– Smart navigation between pages and tabs.

– Support special type of navigation: “Touch-side” which is very easy to use.

– History: “Auto clear history” option.

– Loading modes – Safagon supports two modes: Full load and Not Load images mode for loading only text of web pages.

– Send a link to someone by email or to Safari (open the link with Safari)

– Multiple Search engines included. Safagon searches web with many search engines as Google, Yahoo etc.

– Cookies. User can choose to delete cookies or keep cookies.

– iPhone 3.0 compatible.

New in this version:

– Allows access link at the edge

– Add option to always show status bar in full screen mode.

– Show bookmark button when edit address box.

– Support custom url, you can add the bookmarklet – “javascript:location.href=’safagon://’+location.href” – to Safari to open current page of Safari on Safagon.

– Add 30+ Bookmarklets in 5 Categories.

– Fix Japanese problem for build-in search

– Performance and stability improvements

Check out Safagon Full Screen Web Browser on iTunes for $0.99!

Master Kick – Table Soccer on your iPhone or iPod Touch!

Master Kick arises in glory of the best arcade version of table soccer seen until now! It’s not just a game with stunning graphics of various playfields and players, weather visual effects or live cheering. Master Kick gives you the full atmosphere of soccer match combined with foosball skill.

New in this version:

– 25% higher frame rate during the match (fixed 25 frames per second).

– Better, smoother and more direct accelerometer control.

– Faster, more fluid and more dynamical game play.

Main Game Features:

– Full soccer match atmosphere

– Addictive game play.

– Amazing visual effects.

– Full screen action.

– Six diverse playfields.

– Six international teams.

– Vivid sound effects and music.

– Action replays and instant goals replays.

– Automatic game state saving and resuming at any time.

– Quick match mode.

– League game mode.

– Localized in English and other 13 languages.

Check out Master Kick – Table Soccer on iTunes for $1.99.

Night Sky 2 – a $0.99 night star gazing application for iPhone and iPod Touch

A hand held observatory including music player to help with those long nights star gazing. NightSky 2 is a comprehensive simulation of the celestial sphere uniquely providing 5 views both in landscape and portrait screen modes.

The following screen modes are provided in the application:

Equatorial – View the whole sky in one go.
Polar view of Northern hemisphere stars.
Polar view of Southern hemisphere stars.
Sky – the visible sky directly above day or night.
Horizon – uniqure view of the sky you would see by directly looking at the horizon.

Other features include:

– Navigate the NightSky using your finger, GPS or built-in Compass
– Constellation selection screens.
– Named Objects database
– Zodiac symbol display.
– Moon phrase calendar.
– Real-time display of Sun, Moon and the Major planets
including distance and astronomical position.
– Acquire position and time from the iPhone’s built in GPS.
– Select your position using Google Maps.
– Track what you see in the sky by slaving Horizon view
to your GPS or compass heading.
– Scale lines for Horizon, Ecliptic and Galactic Equator.
– Real-time data calculation – no need for remote data access.
– Setup and control iPod playlist from the main screens
– Observation emailer.

Check out NightSky II on iTunes now for $0.99.

TomeRaider Launched on iPhone and iPod touch to cater for Book Lovers

eBooks become iBooks with long-awaited TomeRaider launch for iPhone and iPod touch.

Will iPhone becomes a reading device like the Amazon’s Kindle welcomed by many people with TomeRaider?

TomeRaider allows you to download and keep an increasing range of ebooks, specializing in education and reference works such as Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Guidebooks and Classic texts.

It’s three great strengths are that it’s fast, useful and attractive. Further features are that is has a fast subject search, an ergonomic Interface, many more TomeRaider files are being prepared and TomeRaider also provides a Tab view.

United Kingdom – August 29, 2009 – iPhone Publisher Clickgamer.com (http://www.clickgamer.com) has today announced the launch of TomeRaider – developed by mobile technology company Yadabyte Ltd (http://www.yadabyte.com) which brings eBooks to the iPhone and iPod touch, commonly termed iBooks.

Yadabyte’s catalogue of over 4,000 eBooks is being made available to iPhone users through the development of its TomeRaider eBook reader. The application is a cross platform viewer that delivers large works of text such as the Bible, the entire IMDB and Wikipedia collection and literary classics such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer to Apple devices.
Yadabyte is an experienced player in the emerging market of eBooks, testament by the success they saw with the TomeRaider Pocket PC and Palm applications. The iPhone community is hungry for content, and offering Yadabyte’s extensive eBook catalogue literally opens up new worlds on our customer’s iPhone.

Although there are traditional books available for TomeRaider there are almost an aside. What TomeRaider is about is large reference works like Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Guidebooks. Here the speed and simplicity of browsing even immense works is where TomeRaider excels.

TomeRaider is all about fresh open reference, multiple language content being available wherever the consumer is, and is positioned to become the primary source of reference data for casual and education users.
“On almost any phone now you can use the internet to retrieve reference information, but all to often, for various reasons, it takes too long. The effort isn’t worth knowing the information, especially when you are mid movie or chat with your friends. TomeRaider has always been about getting people to the information in fastest simplest way. It brings all of the freely available reference works into one place, on your iPhone, on-line or off,” says Mat Ripley, Director at Yadabyte.

The newly released TomeRaider renders said works to Apple’s iPhone at a cost of USD $0.99 intro price, which enables customers to download as many of the available iBooks as they wish. There are thousands of TomeRaider files and Yadabyte, the makers of TomeRaider, are starting the process of upgrading them for the iPhone.

Jennifer Willis, spokesperson at Clickgamer.com says,

“Yadabyte is an experienced player in the emerging market of eBooks, testament by the success they saw with the TomeRaider Pocket PC and Palm applications. The iPhone community is hungry for content, and offering Yadabyte’s extensive eBook catalogue literally opens up new worlds on our customer’s iPhone.”

Mat Ripley, Director at Yadabyte comments,

“As people continue to use their mobile for more than just calls, text and internet, eBooks is a key area of growth. This has been evident to the Yadabyte team for over ten years, when we first pioneered delivering eBooks to mobile devices to our savvy customers. Unlike other mobile eBook readers, TomeRaider iBook features super fast searching, indexing and text compression, delivering a much more enjoyable experience to the end user. Additionally, many books are not available in any other electronic format.”

Check out TomeRaider 4 on iTunes for $0.99 for limited time only!

About Clickgamer.com

Clickgamer is a division of Chillingo Ltd and is a rapidly growing mobile games portal. Clickgamer caters for a variety of hand held devices including Windows Mobile, Symbian Smartphone, PALM, J2ME, RIM Blackberry, iPhone, iPod, Android and PSP. They deliver games and applications directly to the customer’s mobile phone and/or PC and MAC.

About Yadabyte

Yadabyte is a technology company with offices and Cornwall, United Kingdom and Sri Lanka. Yadabyte has been making groundbreaking and award winning software since 1998 and high quality web solutions since 2004. The company’s popular TomeRaider eBook reader application was a finalist at Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine’s Best Software Awards in 2008 and also won the Handango Champion Award for Best Education Solution. Yadabyte’s other mobile products include news aggregator application NewsRaider and multi-player party gamer MonoPondo.

Buggle is on sale for $0.99!

Buggle is a unique and charming match three game from the designer of “The Incredible Machine”.

Very simple and intuitive game play — just swipe your finger to slide and rotate the bugs. Match three bugs and they’ll be free and fly away.
Lots of fun for all ages!

Main Game Features

* Five different super powers.
* Earn award badges from the bugs.
* The bugs talk to you!
* Top ten list.
* Optimized for the iPhone.
* Easy, fun, and addictive.

*** UPDATE APPROVED! ***

1. Added save/restore game to let you restart from where you left off if you quit the game!
2. Added a Top Scores screen.
3. Added Tutorial/Instruction screens.
4. Added indicators of how many of each Super Power you have.
5. Found and fixed the crash bug on certain iPod Touch devices that hadn’t yet upgraded to 3.0.
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Check out Buggle on iTunes for $0.99!