Gameloft has released the first in-game trailer of Hero of Sparta for iPhone and iPod Touch. The game was announced along with Brothers in Arms: Hour of Heroes about two weeks ago. This new trailer shows us that the 3D graphics look great in-game as well. Hero of Sparta takes you back to Ancient Greece in this colossal action game.
Thanks to coink for sending us this tip!
Ngmoco‘s latest iPhone and iPod Touch game called Dr. Awesome is now available in the App Store for $1.99. You need to perform microsurgery to isolate and eradicate the mutagens that have infected your friends personalized from your iPhone or iPod Touch contact list. Cut and trap the offending viruses by guiding the micro scalpel on your screen with the accelerometer. Here’s a list of features in the game:
Tag Games has announced that they are working on a new title called Car Jack Streets, a sandbox-game that looks just as cool like the retro Grand Theft Auto games. The developers over at Tag Games know that many iPhone- and iPod Touch-users are big GTA-fans, so that’s why they’ve created this top-down view action game. The player starts with gambling bets of over $1 million, so your task is to pay the mob back by doing dirty jobs. Steal cars, run shipments, deliver pizza or take out gang bangers just to pay those bastards back. Here’s a list of more game features:
Car Jack Streets is due to come out January/February 2009.
MacRumors is reporting that Apple is giving the opportunity to developers to give out up to 50 promotional compies of their iPhone and iPod Touch apps. With these codes, recipients can download a full copy of the application for free. This feature is currently only available for the US iTunes Store. This will allow developers to distribute review copies of their new games to sites like iPwnGames more efficiently.
Tap Defense, the first definitive answer to the other paid TD apps, has recently hit the top 3 free apps. Tap Defense pits you against the beings of the underworld with only your trusty towers to defend the gates of heaven. In addition to money, which when unspent accrues interest at the end of every round, you also gain Halos at the end of specific rounds. They can be used to upgrade your interest rate on money or to buy new types of towers. It also offers 3 different maps to try, ranging from easy to hard.
If you’re looking for a full TD game without having to reach into your wallet make sure to give Tap Defense a try.
Update 12/11/08
Tap Defense was recently updated to ver. 1.1. This update fixed the bug used to get unlimited money (so stop e-mailing me about it. . . please) along with a couple of other balances. The only one I’ve noticed is that ice and water towers slow enemies down less than they used to (maxed ice towers now only slow by 70% opposed to 90%). If anyone else has any more info feel free to post it in your comment or e-mail me for it to be included here.
I’ve noticed the broken quake towers as well and have informed TapJoy of this problem on their Facebook page for Tap Defense. Hopefully an update will fix this soon.
Update 12/12/08
The quake tower has already been fixed in the 1.1.1 update.
Just a couple of weeks ago there was a rumor that Gameloft was working on Brothers in Arms: Hour of Heroes for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and soon after that we had the first details and footage of this stunning World War II title. The game contains 14 missions in 3 compaigns, namely Normandy, Ardennes and Tunisia. The game has great 3D graphics recreating the atmosphere of a real Hollywood WWII blockbuster. Players can drive 4×4 vehicule or a Sherman tank and use weapons like a sniper rifle, machine guns, a bazooka and many others. The accelerometer is being used to launch grenades, aiming at enemies needs to be done with via the touch-screen. Brothers in Arms: Hour of Heroes is now available in the App Store for $9.99.
Pangea Software, a very succesful iPhone gamedeveloper known from titles such as Engimo, has released Antimatter for $0.99 in the App Store. The game is only $0.99 until tomorrow, because then Pangea Software’s one-week promotion ends. Antimatter is the first game by Pangea Software that isn’t a port of a Mac-game. The studio calls the game hard to describe because of the unique concept of the title. Antimatter allows palyers to control a stream of antimatter particles in outter space via the touchscreen. Your goal is to use the particles to change the colors of the cosmic strings in the game.
Ngmoco is currently working hard on a few promising iPhone and iPod Touch projects such as Rolando, Dr. Awesome and Dropship. Today Neil Young from Ngmoco gave a small hint about the releasedate via Twitter:
Dr.Awesome will be out in the next week, Dropship soon after that and Rolando just after that
Shortly after the above Twitter message, Ngmoco announced that Dr. Awesome will come out December 4th.
