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March 29th, 2009
Just testing WordPress for iPhone hope this gets posted.
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iPhone 3.0 Beta Announcement
March 18th, 2009
Yesterday, March 17th Apple announced the new iPhone 3.0 software update. According to Apple this new update will have more than 1000 new APIs and more than 100 new end user features. New APIs include Core Data, iPod library access, shake, push notifications and more. Features added like landscape email and text, copy and paste, tethering and other stuff like YouTube login. The beta SDK and OS are available now from http://developer.apple.com for members of the paid iPhone developer program (€79 a year). You can watch a video stream of the keynote at http://apple.com or go to http://live.gizmodo.com for text coverage.
Tap Tap Revenge 2 Review
March 3rd, 2009
Name: Tap Tap Revenge 2
Developer: Tapulous
Price: FREE
Screenshots below.
Today saw the release of the new tap rhythm game from Tapulous: Tap Tap Revenge 2. The game is the fifth game developed by Tapulous to use the Tap Tap engine(the backbone of the game). The game features many new features as well as welcome improvements to the engine.
First Impressions:
The app weighs in at 9.3MB download. The icon this time has seen a few changes. In my opinion the icon doesn’t look as nice as the one from Dance but is an improvement on Revenge 1. When you start up the game you’re prompted to import your Tapulous profile if you have one of their other apps or create one if you don’t. The UI looks very snazzy and polished.
Song choice:
TTR2 comes loaded with 3 songs but from day one there were over 150 songs to choose from and download. The extendability of Tap Tap is one of the reasons it is a great game with new songs every “Tap Tap Thursday”. The choice is great with a mixture of pop, rock, alternative, dance and other genres. You may have to spend some time downloading the songs but they aren’t the highest quality available for storage reasons but still sound decent enough.
New features:
Tap Tap Revenge 2 now includes achievements like on Xbox360 and PS3 to show off your skill at the game. Example achievements include playing 1000 online matches or playing 25 songs with shakes on among others. Also new is the ranking system online which will update according to your skill and progress. Also new is the ability to email highscores to friends. They open up the email, tap a link and the game opens with your score at the top of a progress bar. This is fun for challenging friends easily to beat your highscore.
Gameplay:
Tap Tap Revenge 2 uses the Tap Tap engine that was used in Dance. This means visual effects long hold notes and multitaps. Gameplay is fun and you’ll always be striving to achieve revenge and keep it. The achievements are definitely good to keep you playing more and playing everyday while online matches are good for competitive play.
Performance:
The game performs decently on my iPhone 3G although you can expect a faster experience on an iPod Touch 2G at the expense of loss of quality through the speakers. After downloading songs and trying to play one you’ll probably encounter a crash. Crashes are also experienced randomly after gameplay and starting a new song.
Improvements:
The best improvement that I’ve noticed so far is the tap recognition which was a huge problem for me which required me to reboot my iPhone which sometimes didn’t even fix this issue. The tap recognition I can tell you on TTR2 has definitely improved.
Overall I’d say that TTR2 is definitely worth a look at and is a great game to play by yourself, with friends, or online.
Score: 4.5/5
