I finally got around to playing Mass Effect Galaxy. Although it’s been out since June of last year, I never got around to it. But with the imminent release of Mass Effect 2 tomorrow on the PC and Xbox 360, I’ve been immersing myself in all things Mass Effect again, like reading the latest novel, Mass Effect: Ascension, and the new comic Mass Effect: Redemption. So I figured it was time to give Mass Effect Galaxy a shot.
Throughout the years, re-imaginings of Pac-Man have generally sucked. “New” Pac-Man games haven’t been good since Ms. Pac-Man. But when Pac-Man Championship Edition came on the scene in 2007, it created quite a stir. The swansong game of original Pac-Man creator Tōru Iwatani,Pac-Man Championship Edition was released on the Xbox Live Arcade in 2007. Does the iPhone / iPod Touch version of Pac-Man C.E. stand a ghost of a chance?
“Dragon’s Lair! The fantasy adventure where you become a valiant knight on a quest to rescue the fair princess from the clutches of an evil dragon!” I can remember well playing the Dragon’s Lair arcade machine. Specifically, I remember the Sears at Chesterfield Mall had one that beckoned to me with that looping intro every time I was in there with my parents. Space Ace has already been on the app store for awhile, so you had to figure that Dragon’s Lair was not far behind. Dirk Daring in the palm of your hand! Can it possibly live up to the nostalgia?
No APPraisal this week, as you may have noticed, but there are Thanksgiving sales galore, providing plenty of fodder for the future. EA started things of with a “Games Feast” sale that lasts through Sunday and includes the following:
Not to be outdone, Gameloft came next and announced a .99 cent Thanksgiving sale, which includes the following:
When thought the app sale goodness couldn’t get better, a few more gems have popped up:
When you are too stuffed from turkey to get up off the couch, just make sure to bring your iPhone / iPod Touch with you and enjoy some of these great apps.
Confession: I bought the iPod Touch for this app. Ok, not really, but I thought about it. Unfortunately, the C64 app got pulled from the iTunes store for violating Apple’s Terms of Service about a week before I got the iPod Touch. (Why that happened is a story unto itself.) Manomio revised the emulator and Apple finally approved the re-release last week.
I’m a bit of a newcomer to the whole app scene, and when I saw the app called Ambiance recently, I thought “what a good idea.” I’ve since learned that there seemed to be a bit of controversy surrounding the current version and the previous one, now called Ambiance Classic. But I was oblivious to all that when I downloaded Ambiance and formed my impressions.
Appy Rockin’ Monday! I’m a fan of Rock Band on the Xbox 360. I own Rock Band, Rock Band 2 and The Beatles: Rock Band on that platform. So an official Rock Band app for the iPhone / iPod Touch immediately peaked my curiosity.
For The Horde! I mean, Appy Monday! The MMO juggernaut World of Warcraft has spawned numerous addons and third-party applications, but Blizzard Entertainment as only released one official app for the iPhone/iPod Touch, the World of Warcraft Mobile Armory. Based on the official WoW online Armory, the mobile app attempts to present the website’s functionality in an iPhone/iPod Touch format.
‘Appy Monday Interaction Fiction fans! For those who don’t know, Interactive Fiction (IF) games, a.k.a. text adventures, were popular back in the 70′s and 80′s, when games weren’t defined by the quantity of their pixels. From Colossal Cave Adventure (which I played on the mainframe when my dad would take me to his work) through the Infocom era, text-based games used gamer’s imaginations to supplement detailed and often humorous plots. Back in the day, games like Zork were household names. Frotz taps into the power of the iPhone / iPod Touch to … well, to run these games in all their non-graphical splendor.
‘Appy Monday once again. Today I’m going to talk about the official Pizza Hut mobile ordering application for the iPhone/iPod Touch. The Pizza Hut folks call it “a revolution in mobile ordering” that’s “easy, fast and fun” and “a killer app for your appetite.” Is it all that and a box of breadsticks?
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