4th of July App Store sales – EA, Gameloft, Namco, Glu

In celebration of the US 4th of July holiday, there are a bunch of sales going on in the iTunes Apps Store, including EA, Gameloft, Glu, Namco, and more.

Aside from games, if you have a few moments to spend browsing through Apple’s hundreds of thousands of apps, you might just find a quite a few others taking advantage of the holiday to drum up some sales.

Check out the links below for some great game lists. Any of your favorites super ..read more

Super Nintendo running on a jailbroken iPad via snes4iPhone!

snes4iPhone, the Super Nintendo emulator for Jailbreak, was captured running on an iPad — using a Wii remote to control your character.  Most people familiar to jailbreaking and running snes4iPhone already know how awesome it is to be able to carry your old favorites around on your iPhone.  Who doesn’t love Mario and old school Nintendo games? Better yet, who wouldn’t want it on their iPad?! Being able to do it on your iPad is even more awesome!  Of ..read more

iPhone users willing to buy more apps, BlackBerry users to pay more

Mplayit is digging through more of their usage data and interesting things are being turned up. Here’s the take away this time around:

On average, across all device platforms approximately 35 percent of users are interested in paid applications. More than half of the most popular apps on Mplayit’s iPhone (Arcade or platform) are paid, 57 percent, compared to 33 percent on BlackBerry and 16 percent on Android. BlackBerry users are willing to pay the biggest premium for apps, with a median price ..read more

TiPb Apps 4.3: Street Fighter IV for iPhone (GDC 2010)

Live from GDC 2010 Rene talks to Tezuka-san, Street Fighter IV [$9.99 - iTunes link] iPhone producer for Capcom (via translator) about making Street Fighter for the iPhone and iPod touch, getting the controls right, and whether or not we might see Street Fighter for the iPad.

Tezuka-san points out how Capcom decided to make the controls very customizable, allowing users to choose whether they want the button low down, in the middle, or high up, and set the level of ..read more

Zombie Castle Defender ‘ZombieSmash!’ Coming to iPhone and iPod touch

Whether you are a fan of the Castle Defender genre or Zombies, you are sure to love the soon to be released ZombieSmash! for iPhone and iPod touch.

In similar fashion to the very popular Plants vs Zombies, ZombieSmash! adds a few new tricks to Castle Defender games with the addition of some fancy ragdoll physics and excessive amounts of cartoon gore. Look for ZombieSmash! to drop in the App Store sometime this month for $1.99.

Check out the official trailer after ..read more

Apps for Less: Classics Free post-iPad, iBomber Free, Battle Bears is Free Today Only!

e-Book reader Classics [iTunes link, which like Delicious Library saw its UI copied by Apple's new iPad iBooks app, has decided to go free in celebratory protest. Gorgeous app, great public-domain content, so check it out.

iBomber [iTunes link] is also free, though we’re not sure for how long. Georgia recommends it though, so give it a try.

And to celebrate the 2,000,000 download mark one of the top games of 2009, Battle Bears, [iTunes Link] is now FREE for today only ..read more

Google’s Nexus One smartphone set for January launch

Google is most possibly set to launch its Nexus One smartphone, intended by HTC, during ‘Android press gathering’ at its nerve center in Mountain View, California on Jan. 5. Apparently, the news conference invitation does not remark Nexus One that is generating a buzz in the mobile arcade for fairly some time now, but it allusions (Read More)

NOVA First-Person Shooter for iPhone Gameplay Footage

I know many of you have been eager to see some footage of NOVA after our preview the other day. Touch Arcade got some hands-on playtime with NOVA and all I can say in a word is: AWESOME. The gameplay is described to be very similar to Modern Combat: Sandstorm (which was listed in TiPb’s Top 5 First-Person Shooters). Controls and even difficulty will be similar except this will be a much more run n’ gun style of game over ..read more

iPhone App Store Black Friday to Cyber Monday Sales

Apple’s iTunes App Store is featuring tons and tons of sales this weekend, some for Black Friday, some for Cyber Monday, some for the entire weekend. We know that no matter how cheap some apps start off, there’s always a commenter who says “meh, I’d buy it for half that” — so now we’re looking at you, sir! Put your money where your anonymous internet chatter is and go get some great, and greatly en-cheapened apps!

What exactly is on sale? ..read more