Browsing August, 2010 archives.

Space Inversion

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Finally! Space Inversion is a good Space Invaders game for the iPad, semi-retro graphics, good sounds, and nice improvements like optional turbo play mode letting you fire more than one shot at a time! Good value too – get it!

Stone’s Adventure

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Not a great game, but perhaps you’ll think it’s worth the $0.99 it costs … Stone’s Adventure did not start well; after the loading screen above, I selected “Play” and the display went blank – and stayed blank for the minute or more that I waited. I thought I’d been sold something useless, but discovered [...]

iPad on the road

Friday, August 20th, 2010

For much of this month, my wife and I have been driving across USA; we started in Los Angeles and are currently in Texas having travelled via Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Denver … I was hoping to make good use of my iPad during the trip, and it’s been (negatively) interesting to see how [...]

ABC News

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

News on the iPad continues to be re-invented; one of the latest attempts is from ABC News, offering an unusual world/globe interface: Current stories are wrapped around the globe which you can spin in any direction to view different stories, and tap to call up any story; unfortunately while the globe interface is cool, it’s [...]

Giana Sisters

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

Unlike disappointing Dreamscape, the Giana Sisters HD game is fabulous and totally deserving a “Best” rating! The game has multiple levels to challenge you, laid out on a map which requires progress level-by-level, but happily once you’ve completed a level even if you lose your lives, you can start with more lives and full access [...]

Dreamscape

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

I like platform games (I grew up on them on my ZX Spectrum in the 1980s!), and so I purchased Dreamscape HD recently as it looked like a great “old school” platform game: Well, I don’t like it at all! The game attempts to be good, offering three different ways to control – traditional “touch [...]