One of the hardest genres to execute well is the top-down racer. The developer has to figure out a way to make the game work where the controls can be reversed. This provides an interesting challenge, and when it is done correctly, it makes for a fun racing game that breaks away from the standard genre conventions.
“Four months have passed since Kal ruined the Volterites’ plans by sabotaging their war factories, and stopping the extraction of the Judger Artifacts. However, following the assassination of President Folsom, the government surrendered the colonies to the Volterite Protectorate in order to prevent civil war between the increasingly pro-Volterite citizens.”
LEGO Harry Potter Years 5-7 has finally made its way to iOS for those who wish to complete the saga in the always enjoyable LEGO world. How does it compare to previous years 1-4? The answer may suprise you.
“Four months have passed since Kal ruined the Volterites’ plans by sabotaging their war factories, and stopping the extraction of the Judger Artifacts. However, following the assassination of President Folsom, the government surrendered the colonies to the Volterite Protectorate in order to prevent civil war between the increasingly pro-Volterite citizens.”
“Arguably, the best looking racing game for the iPhone and iPad. Remedy presents an Action packed COMBAT RACER for iOS with more than 10 HOURS of CARS, GUNS and EXPLOSIVE FUN. Hitting NUMBER ONE in 74 countries with more than 3 million gamers worldwide!”
May 16th, 2012 
Daniel Silva It’s no secret that iOS is thriving right now possibly more than both Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. Here’s another previous hit trying the waters with iPhone and iPad gamers.
Pandemic 2.5 (Universal: $0.99) 
“Be the villain! Eradicate mankind by designing and releasing your own disease on the world in this expanded and refined update to the popular game Pandemic 2.”
May 16th, 2012 Daniel Silva Whoa it looks like it’s not only iPhone 5 releasing later this year. iMore sheds some more light on the long rumored 7-inch iPad. According to their source, the device would be around 7 inches (no specific measurement given), being priced in the $200-$250 range.
The report claims it wille be identical to the current iPad (besides screen size, obviously), even including a retina display.
According to our sources, the reason for such aggressive pricing is to do to the tablet market what Apple did to the MP3 market in 2004 with the expansion of the iPod product line — leave absolutely no space for competitors.
May 16th, 2012 James Isabel Happy Hump Day everyone! I know most of you are almost done with school or are studying for finals, why not take a break either way and download some awesome FREE games!
MotoHeroz
“MotoHeroz takes the fun, fast gameplay of a Trials style game, adds it to a frantic rally race, and delivers a fresh new kind of side-scrolling, platform racing game. Players race, chase, and rally their way through a brightly colored world, competing against their friends for the fastest times, entering daily races, and hunting for secrets and coins.”
May 16th, 2012 James Isabel Halfbrick step onto the iOS scene with Fruit Ninja. Since then, they’ve released numerous games including for the iPad: Fruit Ninja HD and Fruit Ninja: Puss In Boots HD . Speaking of which, both games are on sale for $0.99 for the first time ever!
“Fruit Ninja is a juicy action game with squishy, splatty and satisfying fruit carnage! Become the ultimate bringer of sweet, tasty destruction with every slash. Swipe up to EIGHT fingers across the screen to deliciously slash fruit like a true ninja warrior, taking in all of the crisp detailed effects which have been radically improved from the iPhone version.”
May 15th, 2012 Philip Pederson One of the hardest genres to execute well is the top-down racer. The developer has to figure out a way to make the game work where the controls can be reversed. This provides an interesting challenge, and when it is done correctly, it makes for a fun racing game that breaks away from the standard genre conventions.
Mini Motor Racing ($1.99) is a top down racing game on the iPhone. So that begs the question: does it get the controls right, or is it a frustrating excursion into bad controls and extreme lack of fun?
May 15th, 2012 Miguel Pereyra Earlier this month iLounge reported several rumors regarding the iPhone 5, one of them being that the device will feature a smaller dock connector that is “closer to a pill shape”. iMore is now reporting a similar claim, a move towards a smaller dock connector.
iMore has a pretty good track record on predicting features of upcoming Apple products. The report does state however that Apple is currently in the still in the prototyping phase and the design is not set in stone.
May 15th, 2012 Tim Rattray It’s hard to have sympathy for Tyler, the “hero” of Clear Vision. He loses his job after slacking off, takes up a gig as a sniper-for-hire to pay his apartment rent and ends up living the good life. But the most jarring part of the experience is that his unwarranted rise to glory happens within the span of, at most, thirty minutes.
Clear Vision (17+) ($.99) iOS Universal
Clear Vision’s gameplay is extremely simple: you assassinate targets by lining up a headshot with your sniper’s scope, accounting for distance and wind speed in doing so, and then hitting the fire button to blow some unlucky sap’s brains out.
May 15th, 2012 James Isabel Happy Tuesday everyone! If you missed our Twitter announcement @TheAPPera because you aren’t following us, make sure to correct that. Besides our FREE games today, we will be giving out NOVA 3 soon as well!
Saving Yello
“Yello, a helpless goldfish at the mercy of his 7-year-old owner, Mathilda who loves playing with him outside his beloved bowl. You must fling Yello back to safety. Get even and destroy Mathilda’s toys along the way!”
Tower Defense: Lost Earth
“In search of resources that are no longer provided on Earth, you followed a probe released by humans years ago in hopes of discovering an alternative planet. Take command of towers with special weapons to hold your defense against endless waves of enemies on the hostile alien planet.”
May 14th, 2012 Daniel Silva When N.O.V.A. first came out, there was a strong resemblance to the Halo series. Back then the graphics took us all by surprise when we first saw the game demoed at an Apple event.
Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance 3 (Universal: $6.99)
“Four months have passed since Kal ruined the Volterites’ plans by sabotaging their war factories, and stopping the extraction of the Judger Artifacts. However, following the assassination of President Folsom, the government surrendered the colonies to the Volterite Protectorate in order to prevent civil war between the increasingly pro-Volterite citizens.”
May 14th, 2012 James Isabel Haptic technology is something that has been rumored to be a feature of every new iOS product that is about to come out since Macrumors uncovered an Apple patent back in 2009. Thanks to 9to5mac and PatentlyApple, rumors have returned for iPhone 5.
“…today’s surprise invention packs a punch with a wildly intelligent multi-tiered haptics system. The system will actually allow an iDevice display to deform so that it could provide the user with a button, an arrow or even a geological map to physically pop right out of the screen to give it 3D depth.”
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