Up On Apps Internship

January 15th, 2012

The app review team at Up On Apps is opening a great internship for people interested in Apple game apps. If you have every wanted to get into game ups this position is probably for you. The video has the details:

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Top 10 Best Free iTouch Apps and Games

November 29th, 2011

It has been known that it is difficult to download a good free iTouch app, especially the best free games and other types of applications. Even if you try to search the Internet for free iTouch apps, you may not get the result that you are looking for.

To ensure that you are copying the rightful applications, it is best to download free iTouch apps from the iTunes apps store of Apple. (The lawyer’s statement) OK. Here is our most recent list of Top 10 free iTouch apps and game.

  1. Cross Fingers – Exercise your brain on your itouch and imagination by playing this unique puzzle game and challenge yourself in combining solid pieces within the gigantic tangram puzzle. Use your finger flexibility and reflexes and complete all the 390 levels.
  2. My Sketch – Turn your photographs into beautiful realistic sketches. Cool eh? You can use your photos direct from your camera or photo album to create unlimited sketches.
  3. Rubber Knife Throw – Find out who among your friends, who has the stronger force using those safe rubber knives. Challenge each other’s accuracy, mental power, observation, and analytical thinking. The game offers unlimited rounds so there is always the possibility to get the top score and catch up.
  4. Card Ace: Casino – An attractive collection of casino and poker-style card games like Texas Hold ‘Em Poker or Blackjack that allows social gamers to have fun alone or together with hundreds of other players all over the globe. (A itouch personal favorite.)
  5. Jet Ball – Jet Ball reinvented the brick breaker genre and established a new standard in brick-breaking. Packed with stunning visuals, Jet Ball offers loads of energetic levels and tons of fresh ideas.
  6. 777 Poker – Meet the best poker players at the elite poker room. 777 Poker is considered as one of the best poker applications for iOS itouch system. Choose between 5- and 9-places tables and play with your friends and other players all over the world.
  7. iLlumination US – iLumination is a universal flashlight application for your itouch that will solve all your lighting needs. So, why purchase an expensive flashlight if your iDevice can assist you see in the dark by simply using a simple and inexpensive application.
  8. Mouse Maze Free Game – Help the mouse munch all the cheese before the cat catches him. Gulp the magic potion to bash the cats and earn stars to reveal new worlds. Warning: Mouse Maze is highly addictive.
  9. Super Scratchers – Super Scratchers is a lottery-style game with a twist. Every time you play Super Scratchers, you improve your chances of winning.
  10. High Caliber Hunting – High Caliber Hunting allows players to capture the magnificent feeling of hunting the big buck in this most realistic hunting simulation game. Whether you are a devoted and loyal participant or recreational sportsman or the biggest redneck at deer camp, you can use different brand-name firearms and precision gear on this free itouch game.

Note that some free iTouch apps are available for a limited time only. What are you waiting for? Get to it and visit the iTunes Apps store now and create your iTunes account so that you can start downloading thousands of free iTouch apps. Choose from over half a million free iTouch apps and games available from the store.

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Free Itouch App called Drake’s Tower

November 21st, 2011

Drake’s Tower is a one of the free I-touch apps about an eccentric genius named Drake that has trapped himself in a tower on an island.  The tower serves as Drake’s laboratory where he has created some of the world’s greatest inventions.  The greatest of these inventions has attracted the likes of Bizzaro who is Drake’s evil nemesis.

Bizzaro has attacked Drake’s Golden island to invade the tower and steal all of his inventions.  Your mission in this game is to defend the tower at whatever cost from Bizzaro and his zombies.

Ok so you have to give the developer several starts for originality and a great storyline behind the game.  Most free I-touch apps don’t have this original of a story line.

My opinion is that any free app that is half way good you should try.  Maybe you should try this free i-touch app just to tell me what I am missing.  Because at the time I reviewed it is was loaded with lots of stars and positive reviews.

I would only tend to give it 3.5 stars because I found it to be very two dimensional in graphics.  So it came across as very flat to me.

But please download this Free I-touch App and comment in the comment section if I am missing something.  I kind of feel like I must be missing something.  If so please set me straight.  I would say if they ever charge for it that I don’t feel like it is worth .99 cents.

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Fun apps wanted for your iphone?

November 17th, 2011

If you want one of the Fun Apps, then look no further than to the good app Spray Can to download for free on to your iphone.  Finally, you can be a tagger in the hood staking out territory for your gang.

In this game you will have a blast and the app will have you painting the town red.  Literally.

To begin in this fun iphone app, you hold your finger on the spray can and paint whatever you want on a brick wall.  What makes this game fun is that you can save the pictures to email to your friends, upload to your facebook account, or upload to the media server.

I give this game 4 stars because it is so much fun.  It would have gotten 5 stars, but the upload feature was fairly buggy at the time of review.  (If you have been reading my blog you know how much I love bugs.)  So I had to knock it down a star.

But don’t let that stop you from downloading this game because it is truly worth it and one of the free fun apps for your iphone, ipod, or itouch.

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Ipod Game Apps-Zombie Highway

November 14th, 2011

If your looking for a good Ipod Game App may we suggest Zombie Highway.

Zombie highway is not the flashiest 3D game.  Honestly, it is fairly plain in places, but it is loads of fun driving down the highway in your car killing Zombies.

Zombie highway makes a good app for your ipod because it is so simple.  A lot of times on the Ipod, the screen is just so small a lot of detail in the game just seems to confuse the eyes.

The purpose of this ipod game app is to drive your car down the road as zombies try to jump on the car and eat your brains out.  You have two ways to get the zombies off the car A) you can drive the car closely by things and knock them off or B) (everybody’s favorite) shoot them in the face with different guns until they fall off the car.

As you progress in the game you get bigger and better guns as one would expect and the gun graphics are fairly good.  However, there are not a lot of cars to choose from and the levels seem really long in places.

This game get’s 4 stars because the graphics could be better.  Although you really can’t be that picky on graphics because if you wanted super detail we would be playing an X-Box and not an Ipod Game App right?

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Best Iphone 4 Apps – Flashlight

October 11th, 2011

For the category of best iphone 4 apps, we chose Flashlight to be one of the apps in this category. We did this because the Flashlight app is not only one of the Best I-Phone 4 Apps, it simply will not work on the iphone 3 or 3gs.  (So where else could we put it?)

On a serious note, this is a quality app.  Let’s review.

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The iphone 4 has a flash located on the back of the phone.  This was due to the fact that many people complained that the I-phone 3 and 3-GS had poor picture producing quality in low light.  So when the iphone 4 was released Apple placed a Flash on the newer model phone.

The Flashlight App takes this built in technology on the iphone 4 and uses it to produce a flashlight.  The app does this by having the flash bulb remain lit on a constant basis rather than just a single flash.  The app allows you to control the flash and have it stay turned on or turn it off.

This allows the user to find their keys at night, look under their car for something they dropped, or whatever else you need to locate in the dark.  Because of this, we feel this app is a best iphone 4 App because great applications often use simple solutions to greatly enhance our lives.

For this app and other best iphone 4 apps and their categories click here:    Please tell us other apps you would like to see us review.

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Additional Resources – More Information About Other Games

October 7th, 2011

Occasionally, we will write about gaming websites where we have found good content about game apps that we have enjoyed reading. We do this because we want to keep you the reader informed.

You should always be concerned about sites that are always trying to sell you something, and don’t tell you about other websites.

We are not like that at Game Apps and have always appreciated it when other sites are very open handed with their content and let us know about new free games.  So we try to emulate that quality and are happy to provide you with this list.

Keep in mind that not all of these sites are the best graphic sites.  (Actually some are down right ugly and look like the dog’s breakfast, but they did all have some good content.  If you find them that appallingly web 1.0, then you can always stay with us because we are glad you are here.  Remember to look at our newer posts and sign up for our game newsletter for free game updates and releases.

  • Shooting game online for kids,free one,two player action games to … – Free shooting game online for kids (girls & boys) to play on the internet.
  • Bubble Trouble Game,Buble Shooting Games for Family,Computer … – This is a fun bubble shooting game for kids.  You have to pop all the bubbles to advance to the next level.
  • Devil’s Tuning Fork 1 of 10 IGF Student Showcase Winners! – This is a school that trains game developers.  So if you always wanted to learn more about that then click above.  This video is about the game app Devil’s Tuning Fork.
  • Top 50 Paid Game Apps | iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch App Store … – Below is the top 50 paid applications in the Game category(data is pulled from iTunes). We also have a list for the best free iPhone games.
  • iPad Apps and Games Archive » 148Apps » iPhone and iPod Touch … – Below you will find the latest reviews by our world class writers. You can change the sort order with the right hand selection box to choose sorting by rating, date, or name. Want and RSS feed of just our reviews? Here you go.
  • Game Over for Incentivized App Downloads | TechCrunch – Editor’s note: Guest author Gurbaksh Chahal has founded three startups and is currently CEO and founder of RadiumOne, an online ad network that aims to combine social and intent data to serve ads. The business model of …
  • Mobile Games Dominate Smartphone App Usage [STATS] – yeah mobile games are pretty much the future. very good time pass mobile games visit on http://www. Apart from mobile games dominating it’s interesting to see that Weather is right up there ahead of Social Networking.
  • FrEEday Vol 61 » 148Apps » iPhone and iPod Touch Application … – My Country: Build Your Dream City: Players that grow bored with old-school city building games that lack any sort of real action may finally have something worth playing. While building a marvelous city, players face the …
  • Crazy Cat Ladies Rejoice as Halfbrick Reveals ‘Fruit Ninja: Puss in … – Crazy Cat Ladies Rejoice as Halfbrick Reveals ‘Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots’:I know what you’ve been thinking all this time, “Fruit Ninja [99¢] sure is awesome, but it’d be so much better with some kind of movie tie-in and/or cats.
  • iPhone App/Game Reviews, iPad App/Game Reviews, Apple, Mac … – There is an app for just about everything, except a good basketball sim game. Today’s iPhone, iPad, and iTouch apps for free daily include a photo infographic creator, path drawing Jaws escape, path drawing pig defense, and a text editor. Everyday, numerous apps drop from paid to free, and now it’s time to find out what free goodies you can download today.
  • Getting Started with Three.js – Intermediate, Tutorials – Canvas Demos – Canvas Demos looks at Getting Started with Three.js Intermediate, Tutorials. Want to get started with Mr. doob’s 3D library Three.js? Paul Lewis.
  • Five Quietly-Good Apps from the Mac App Store | Mac.AppStorm – With thousands of apps on the Mac App Store, there’s bound to be some hidden treasures. Unfortunately, there are also plenty of apps that are just containers.
  • Best iPhone Apps – We round up the best iPhone apps available today, from time-saving productivity tools to games you won’t be able to put down.
  • The 35 Best iPhone Apps Of The Year (So Far) | TechCrunch – We are just past of a year since the App Store launched and there are more than 60,000 applications released for the iPhone and iPod Touch. When we wrote our 2008 year-end app wrap-up, we had just surpassed the 10,000 app milestone. In early June 2009, the store reached 50,000 apps.
  • Curvebot Evolved Review » 148Apps » iPhone and iPod Touch … – I think I lost a fair amount of childhood to Qix on the BBC Micro. In Qix I controlled a little diamond which I could navigate in straight lines across a rectangle. When I completed a closed shape by moving from side of the …
  • Call of Duty: World At War: Zombies app for iPhone Review – The incredibly populare game, call of duty, is now available for the iphone! Thats right, Call of duty: world at war: zombies is the newest addition to the.
  • CNET’s Top 100 Android Apps « CBS Chicago – We all know there’s an app for just about everything. But how do you know which apps are the best? CNET’s Kara Tsuboi reported this morning on the Top 100 apps for Android phones as selected by editors at CNET.com. …
  • Top 100 Mac Apps ~ Chris Pirillo – Tweet. I’ve compiled a list of my top 100 Mac apps for your perusal, since so many people have been asking for it. Thanks to Taylor Olson and Jason for helping me put all the icons and links in place! These apps are certainly Tiger compatible, …
  • Top 148 Lists » 148Apps » iPhone and iPod Touch Application … – We’re keeping track of various top lists in the iTunes App Store. Most lists are also available as an RSS feed. Would you like your application reviewed on 148Apps? See the About page for information.
  • Stanford app “Kiss Me” breaks into top 100 on Facebook The … – Our Stanford course on Facebook apps reached a milestone today: the KissMe app, created by students Chris Mocko, Eduardo Abeliuk, and Joel Darnauer, broke into Facebook’s top 100 apps, ranked 95th by Appsaholic. The team launched KissMe about two weeks ago. As of today, Appsaholic ranks the student trio as the 8th best Facebook developer for growth.
  • Top 100 Apps | The Apps Magazine Website – Check out our breakdown of the top 5 iPhone and iPad apps in every App Store category. Imagine Shop Copyright © 2011 Imagine Publishing Ltd.
  • The Top 40 iPhone Apps of 2010 | TechCrunch – Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Alex Ahlund, the former CEO and founder of AppVee and AndroidApps, which were acquired by mobile application directory Appolicious. You can read his previous iPhone app picks …
  • Wake N Shake | iTouch Apps – Wake N Shake. Being a heavy sleeper, I have had more than enough instances over recent years where I have slept through morning alarm calls. Most occasions I find myself hitting the snooze button a dozen or so times. Wake N Shake …
  • Build iPhone Apps, iPad Apps & iPod Touch/iTouch Apps – iPhone … – Create apps quickly and extend with your custom features. 360iDev was what we would call an amazing staycation. We were so happy to see so many familiar faces at this year’s conference and to connect with our fellow code lovers.
  • AppSafari – iPhone Apps, iPad apps & iPod touch App Reviews – Zoom Read App Review & Comments App review by Alex Seiver
  • LeafSea – All Gadgets Stuff » Most Useful Apps – However, we will check out only a few of the best ipod itouch apps within the following list. Fring Fring, just about the most useful apps for iPod touch has won many awards. You can use this apps to make free one way video …
  • SAMHSA Blog » Blog Archive » To Challenge or Not to Challenge – SAMHSA is the national expert on behavioral health not the national expert in developing iPhone and Andriod Apps, but as mobile technology continues to grow, SAMHSA recognizes the importance of reaching people …
  • Texas University Launches iPhone and Android Apps – By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology. UTPA mobile provides access to campus maps, faculty directories, and course catalogs and will, in the future, let users monitor campus shuttle locations. The University of Texas-Pan American in …
  • The Top 30 Free Google Android Apps 2010 – The Top 100 Free … – Google’s open-source phone platform has plenty of quality free apps for your phone. Google’s Android OS is now a major player in the smartphone world. The Motorola Droid was the hot phone when we first released our”Top 100 Free Apps For Your Phone” list in 2009.
  • Adobe announces Photoshop Touch, plus five other tablet apps … – Adobe has just announced Photoshop Touch, a new touchscreen app developed for tablets that works more like the real thing, allowing you to combine photos into layered images and use finger gestures to control familiar Photoshop tools and effects.
  • Keep Tabs on Hurricane Irene with These Tracking Maps and … – Here on the East Coast, we’re bracing for the unwelcome arrival of Hurricane Irene, withstates of emergency declared in many statesalready. Here’s how to keep track of Irene’s movements, and resources for securing your home. Online, The Weather Channel’s Hurricane Tracker maps out and predicts the hurricane’s path, as well as wind speed.
  • Forget Clues, You Can Find The Google Games Logo (And More) In … – Shortly after Google+ was unveiled, Engadget got a tip from someone who dug deep into its source code and found verbal references to something called Google Games. A tipster of ours has now dug a little deeper and …
  • google games | TechCrunch – Shortly after Google+ was unveiled, Engadget got a tip from someone who dug deep into its source code and found verbal references to something called Google Games. A tipster of ours has now dug a little deeper and managed to find more of them. In the Google+ source code, Yvo Schaap who also found the embeddable +1 button before it was released actually discovered a link to the Google Games logo.
  • Google Fight vs. Google Battle | Google Games – Google Fight GoogleFight.com is a site that turns guessing which keyword has more search results into a game. The objective is simply to choose two keywords (presumably one from each of two different people who are … EUXY8345M2BH

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Gun Bros- 2 Player Shooting Games

October 1st, 2011

 

The boys over at Glu Games did it again as they released this 2 player shooting game which is also a multiplayer shooting game named Gun Bros.

The characters are more brothers in arms as opposed to paternal brothers, but this game is your basic shoot em up/time to kick butt and chew some gun.  The problem is the gun bros are all out of gum. OH YEAH!  Go TIME!

It is a great freemium game that allows you to progress to different worlds and to get different guns.  (which is nice)  However, it is a little too detailed in places with the graphics. (but hey we can’t all be simple and clean like Angry Birds.  Right?)

All in all I give this 2 player shooting game around 4 stars.  I would have given it more, but the fact that you have to buy so much weaponry to get to the higher levels really seems to be a drag.  BUT the free areas are a lot of fun and you will really enjoy them. So this game is great for an airplane or taxi ride where you need to kill some time.

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Mobile Games Free Downloads-Should Never Jump the Shark.

September 29th, 2011

“Jump the Shark” is a phrase when something has iconic status and then becomes less popular because of a key misstep or poor decision that pushes it downward.  Mobile games free downloads are not immune to this.

The phrase “Jump the Shark” originates from the hit T.V. show “Happy Days” when the Fonz (played by Henry Winkler) jumps a shark tank.

The first thing you should know was for the day the Fonz was the coolest cat in town.  It would be like asking Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger to be trapeze artist for Barnum and Bailey Circus.  Sounds weird right?  Exactly!

So when the first Mobile Game which was a free download named “Office Jerk” came out we loved it.  I mean there was nothing better than picking up a stapler and throwing it at somebody in the game.  We could all identify because we all worked in cubicle land with some jerk that mad us mad or had gone to school with a bully we didn’t like.  (If neither of those applied and you were just bored out of your mind it was a fun game to pass the time.)

Now enters the shark jumper with the new version “Office Zombie.”  At first I was really excited about this game.  It is a free download, it has zombies in it, and it is released before Halloween.

I am thinking, “Hey, I am feeling pretty festive for Fall.  Let’s go whale on some zombies.”  Even the pictures and back ground in the game are hilarious as there is a memorial of the first “Office Jerk” in the background.  (Little picture of the guy with a nice gold plaque.  Be sure to look for it.)

So in premise the mobile game is awesome but I found the first version very buggy.  It locked up on me all the time.  So I am giving it 3 stars.  But hey….beggars can’t be choosers when mobile games are free downloads.  Because it was free.  But your not going to go away empty handed.  Because here is “The Fonz” jumping that shark.

Jumping the Shark

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Good Apps that are Running Games.

September 27th, 2011

Temple Run – One of the Good Apps

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In the famous movie scene of Indiana Jones (played by Harrison Ford), Jones goes to remove a golden idol from a temple then has to run for his life to escape certain death (not to mention all the natives chasing him).

This movie scene is the basic plot behind the game Temple Run.  Although, you don’t get to use a bullwhip and wear a cool hat like Jones, but you do get to run from hordes of creatures trying to tear you apart.  (which is enough to ruin your day)

Temple run is good app because it teaches you how to play the game in the beginning without having to read the instructions or going through some long boring tutorial (I am honestly still amazed developers still do the boring tutorial.)

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This is a good app because it has some 3D features and the slides are very smooth on the I-phone app.

Basically, you can slide, run, and jump through a maze on each level of play.  Which is why I give Temple Run 3.75 stars just because the design is good and the version I played was fairly bug free.  So in my mind that makes it one of the good apps.

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