Gamertell Review: The iPod Touch as a game system
System: iPod Touch
Price: $229 (8GB), $299 (16GB) and $399 (32GB)
Release Date: September 2008 (2nd generation)
Publisher (Developer): Apple
Pros: Incredible audio support and very accurate touchscreen and accelerometer (motion) controls. Lots of games to choose from including standard casual, card and puzzle games, as well as several system-only and online games. External speakers.
Cons: No manual game buttons and a naked iPod is a bit slippery to hold. Home button slip exits the game without pause. No external media slot.
Overall Score: One thumb up, one thumb sideways; 88; B+; * * * 1/2 out of five.
Apple has been promoting the crud out of the iPod Touch as being “the funnest iPod ever” with commercials that show a bunch of motion-controlled games.
While certainly not a Nintendo DS killer, the iPod Touch does offer some rather decent motion and touchscreen controls as well as all the iPhone’s main features sans the phone and microphone. There are a few small concerns for touch-only games but, otherwise, it performs well above most phones as a gaming device…
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Apple App Store gaming update for the week of November 24-30, 2008
It’s our second edition of the App Store gaming update! This week wasn’t as bad to put together as last week’s, though the insane amounts of turkey didn’t help things.
In this edition of the update we added two new sections entitled: “What’s Free” and “Games you might like”. I won’t bother explaining to you the complex definitions of these sections, as I’m sure you folks can figure them out. Since we are still in beta, we can tinker around with the list week to week to find just the right format for you guys. As always, feedback is appreciated so feel free to let us know how much you love the list or heaven forbid, hate it!
We also hope to provide reviews for these games at some point so look out for those as well! Now, on to the list…
Seaman-related game coming to iPhone, iPod Touch
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Apple App Store gaming update for the week of November 17-23, 2008
Welcome to the beta version of Gamertell’s weekly Apple App Store gaming update. Each week we will provide you the readers with a list of the newest games on the Apple service.
After spending a large part of my Sunday coordinating Thanksgiving plans and creating this list, I can safely tell you that if Apple wants to make any footprints in the gaming spectrum, they need to clean the App Store up. The recent update to the iPhone improved the App Store into the right direction but there is still more to do on it. I’ll save my complaints for another time so, for now, click through and scroll down the list and check out the newest games in each of their respective categories…
Aurora Feint II: The Arena now in the App Store
iPhone and iPod Touch gamers got quite the surprise when Aurora Feint: The Beginning was actually good. Even better, the Puzzle Quest-like game was available to all iPhone owners free of charge, quite pleasing compared to the $14.99 price tag for some games.
Yesterday, the sequel to Aurora Feint, Aurora Feint: The Arena hit the App Store but unlike, it’s predecessor, it packs a price tag of $9.99. Fortunately, it’s on sale through Christmas for $7.99. It’s not quite the free price tag a lot of us were hoping but still…
Cube for iPhone debuts on the App Store
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Note to non-gaming journalists: The iPhone will not kill the DS or PSP
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