Daily App Digest – 03/05/10

California based PhatWare Corporation today releases WritePad 3.1 for iPhone and iPod touch. WritePad is a text editor that incorporates advanced handwriting recognition software for text entry. It allows users to enter text for cursive, print, or mixed handwriting styles. Version 3.1 includes a new option to hide toolbar in landscape screen orientation, display scroll buttons in handwriting mode, improved recognition of some special characters, as well as a new spell checker options and more.

5 top new features in WritePad 3.1
* New option to hide toolbar in landscape screen orientation
* New option to display scroll buttons in handwriting mode, which can be used instead of scroll gestures
* Improved recognition of some special characters in international mode
* New spell checker options: ignore words containing numbers and ignore words in uppercase.
* New application icon

WritePad is a text editor that incorporates advanced handwriting recognition software for text entry. WritePad recognizes cursive, print, and mixed handwriting styles. To enter the text you can simply write with your finger on the iPhone screen in either landscape or portrait mode employing your own handwriting style. The built-in HTTP server allows users to exchange WritePad text documents between two or more iPhone devices and to download files onto the desktop PC using the Internet browser. Interface to the Bing Translator, lets users translate WritePad documents to 13 supported languages.

Language Support:
* US English, French, German, and Spanish

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* 1.6 MB

Pricing and Availability:
WritePad 3.1 is $1.99 (USD) and available exclusively through the App Store in the Productivity category. For more information about WritePad, please visit the PhatWare web site.

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Chicago based Davka Corporation today announces iBless Torah 1.0, a tutorial program for the iPhone and iPod touch that teaches the Torah and Haftarah blessings recited in the synagogue. iBless Torah displays the text in the original Hebrew and English transliteration on screen, and chants the text, highlighting each word as it is pronounced. Users can pause after each section, tap and listen again, or go forward to the next section.

iBless Torah displays the text of the blessings in the original Hebrew and English transliteration on screen, and chants the text, highlighting each word as it is pronounced. Users can pause after each section, tap and listen again, or go forward to the next section. iBless Torah includes the text and audio of the short blessings recited before and after the reading of the Torah, as well as the text and audio of the longer blessings recited before and after the Haftarah, the prophetic reading recited after the Torah portion. The program also includes information about the history and importance of the Torah reading in the synagogue.

iBless Torah is ideal for Bar/Bat Mitzvah students, or for anyone who wants to learn the Torah and Haftarah blessings. The reading of the Torah is an integral part of the synagogue services, and Bar and Bat Mitzvah celebrants mark their ascension to Jewish adulthood by being called to the Torah to recite these blessings.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* 4.0 MB

Pricing and Availability:
iBless Torah 1.0 is only $1.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Education category.

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Michigan based Humble Daisy today announces the latest release of it’s popular mobile recording tool, SonicPics 1.2 and its free counterpart SonicPics Lite 1.2. SonicPics is a tool for creating and narrating custom photo slide shows on the iPhone or iPod touch. It makes it easy to use images from the iPhone’s photo library or built in camera. The update includes a new image picker that makes it even easier to add images from the iPhone’s photo library.

SonicPics makes it easy to use images from the iPhone’s photo library or built in camera to make custom slide shows and then record a voiceover narrating the images as you swipe through them. Once you are finished, you can create an enhanced m4v video with your images synchronized to your narration, complete with chapter markers. You can share your recording with your family and friends, or even the world.

“Actually, we had included this image picker in version 1.0, but Apple rejected it. It turns out it stretched the bounds of what they [Apple] had considered for image selection.” explained David Chmura, Humble Daisy’s CEO. “We worked with Apple to get them to explore allowing our image picker interface to be allowed. We are thrilled that Apple has accommodated our request!”

The new image picker allows users to add multiple images to a project by single tapping on them from a library. Previously users could only select one image at a time, which lead to having to repeat steps unnecessarily.

SonicPics Feature Highlights include:
* Intuitive UI
* Share recordings via email
* Syncs images to audio
* Creates .m4v movies
* Records up to 60 minutes per session
* Audio quality options
* Easy image selection and editing
* Title images
* Image titles become chapter markers in exported recordings
* Pause during recording* Recordings processed right on your phone, no 3rd party service required
* Transfer movies WiFi web sharing
* Upload movies to YouTube* Chose to make YouTube movies private
* Share movie’s YouTube link via email

New Features in SonicPics 1.2
* Added new image picker to allow users to add multiple images from the library quickly and easily

SonicPics Lite is a free version of SonicPics. With SonicPics Lite your custom slide shows can contain up to 3 images and you can record up to 10 minutes. SonicPics Lite also ads a “Made with SonicPics” slide to the end of each recording.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch (2nd generation)
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* 0.8 MB

Pricing and Availability:
SonicPics Lite is Free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Social Networking category. SonicPics 1.2 is only $2.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Social Networking category.

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Louisville based Pure Concepts, LLC today announces PocketBracket 2.0 iPhone, iPod touch, and Android powered devices. PocketBracket allows you to create unlimited brackets, organize pools, and follow the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. In addition, compete among thousands of users on the PocketBracket Network as well as your friends and coworkers. It is the only mobile application to offer all of these features in one. Game On.

PocketBracket is currently the only application of its kind in the mobile marketpace. With an initial release to the iPhone App Store last year, PocketBracket quickly became the best and most popular NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament app. On Selection Sunday, PocketBracket climbed to #1 in Sports and the Top 100 app categories. This year, PocketBracket 2.0 was released to the App Store with dozens of new features, including a new user interface. PocketBracket prides itself on including additional features in response to user feedback. After all, our users are what drives the app. PocketBracket will also release to the Android Market with a full-featured version. The app will be available for download in the Android Market on March 4th.

PocketBracket comes preloaded with 2009 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament data so you can test-drive the application before the 2010 tournament. You can create sample brackets and begin organizing your pools. Once 2010 data is available on Selection Sunday, PocketBracket will automatically update and remove your sample brackets and your pools will be ready for the 2010 tournament.

PocketBracket evolves the way we complete our NCAA Tournament brackets. First, there’s no more paper. PocketBracket sarcastically boasts that “2.5 million trees will survive” by using the application. Second, it automatically scores and ranks your brackets. No more adding up points yourself. Finally, PocketBracket has a “SmartPick” feature that will advance a team to later rounds of the tournament. No more repeatedly filling in a team to the final rounds. The bottom line, you will totally score with PocketBracket – Game On!

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1.2 or later
* 0.4 MB

Pricing and Availability:
PocketBracket 2.0 is $1.99 (USD) and available exclusively through the App Store in the Sports category.

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Independent iPhone developer Brice Caris has released a DVDLister 1.2 for iPhone and iPod touch. DVDLister is a movie database perfect for iPhone and Touch devices. Sort by alphanumeric, date, and studios. Search for Movie or Actor names to save time from browsing thousands of movies and actors. There is no need to be at your PC or Mac. Get your info anywhere anytime you have a Edge,3G or WiFi signal. The database is backed up when you sync with Itunes and is preserved when you update your app.

* Avoid Duplicate Purchases.
* Manage Your List On The Go
* Delete Movies With The Swipe Of A Finger
* Have DVD Details In The Palm Of Your Hand
* Show Your Collection To Your Friends
* Keep Your Database Safe With Backup & Restore
* Email Your List To Friends & Family
* Find Movies You May Never Have Known To Exist

Sort by
* Alphanumeric
* Actor
* Date
* Genres
* Studios
* More…
* Search for Movie or Actor names

System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch 3.0 or later
* WiFi connection required for initial database download
* Edge, 3G or WiFi connection required for downloading covers

Pricing and Availability:
DVDLister 1.2 is only $4.99 (USD) and available exclusively through the App Store in the Entertainment category. Buy DVDLister Today And Stop Buying Duplicate Movies, What Are You Waiting For! See Website For More Screenshots And Information.

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The V Phone, a mobile VoIP and SMS app for the iPhone now supports VoIP over 3G and on WiFi using the G729 codec. The V Phone is a mobile sip client or softphone for the iPhone for making internet calls over wifi or 3G. The mobile VoIP app also enables users to send text messages or SMS’s not through your wireless carriers but through the internet. What this means for users is simple dirt cheap calls and SMS’s.

The V Phone uses the Internet connectivity to route your calls and SMS’s to the receiving party. This basically means that users who can access the Internet on their iPhone are able to make mobile voip calls through their voip providers free of charge or at a fraction of the cost compared to traditional PSTN calls.

The V Phone mobile VoIP app is available at the Apple App Store and comes in 2 versions; standard and premium. The Premium version includes the G729 codec which is ideal for making calls over 3G as it uses less bandwidth and has better sound quality. The Standard version does not include the G729 codec, all other features and functions are the same.

Features:
* Voice over IP – WIFI & 3G
* SMS over IP – WIFI & 3G
* Contacts integration
* History of calls made and SMS
* Dial from History
* Add to Contacts from History
* Call Hold
* Multiple VoIP accounts capable
* Multiple SMS accounts capable
* Codec selection includes G729, G711, GSM, G722 & Speex
* DNS, NAT & STUN configuration
* Supports Inbound calls either SIP to SIP or via a Direct in Dial number (DID)
* DTMF support
* Dial plan or prefix configuration
* In-app visual help
* In-app Voice help
* Dynamic data updates from a list of VoIP providers
* Dynamic data updates from a list of SMS Providers

The differential advantage of the V Phone over other Mobile VoIP apps is that it is not locked to a specific provider and users have the flexibility to add multiple VoIP Providers for VoIP calls and SMS’s.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* 4.2 MB

Pricing and Availability:
V Phone 1.0 is $11.99 (USD) and available exclusively through the App Store in the Utilities category.

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Virginia based Niles Technology Group, developer of Achievers Writing Center apps, today announces the launch of its mobile app affiliate program. One of the first of its kind, non-profit organizations can now fundraise by having a series of mobile apps branded with their name and receive 10% of the revenue. Fundraise world-wide for your cause by teaming up with the #1 essay writing mobile app company and present your organization to 50 million potential donors.

“Non-profits such as high schools, colleges, universities, and civic organizations have long since sold tee-shirts, chocolate, and pendants to fundraise,” says Michael Niles, president of Niles Technology Group. “However, those sales have local limitations and limited market size, and I wanted to find a way to leverage the global market of mobile apps to deliver a 21st Century fundraising product.” Niles Technology Group’s affiliate program gives non-profits instant global reach, the mobile technology to attract donors on the go, and the credibility of an established student-oriented product.

Achievers Writing Center, for the iPhone and iPod touch, is a full-service writing center in an app. The apps provide a top-of-the-line mobile essay writing platform; complete with live writing assistants and professional editing services. Launched last June, the apps have grown more and more popular each month with both students and schools praising the content, features, and the convenience of working anywhere, anytime. With this program, non-profit organizations can provide students the same innovative product, while fundraising at the same time.

The affiliate program is simple. A set of Achievers Writing Center apps is created with the organization’s name. When someone buys an app, the organization receives a share of the revenue. The apps are currently sold world-wide. Organization members and supporters spread the word to friends, family members, and associates how purchasing the apps helps with the sometimes difficult task of essay writing, plus it also supports the non-profit with a donation. Helping students and a worthy cause, with one purchase, could not be any easier.

This is a 100% turnkey fundraising solution. Niles Technology Group handles everything. It develops the apps at no cost to the organization; delivers the exact same technology and software support given the standard apps; manages the apps in the iTunes App Store; and, each month, prepares a detailed accounting statement along with the donation. For more information about this new, unique fundraising program contact Michael Niles at the Niles Technology Group.

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App Inspire, LLC has released PawTrotter 1.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch users who love animals. This brand new, easy to use app is a directory of over 130,000 businesses catering to all aspects of pets and their care, as well as a source of user ratings and reviews. As animal lovers themselves, the developers are donating 5% of all profits to the American Humane Association. It’s the perfect tool for pet parents, whether at home or traveling with their best friend on four legs.

The new PawTrotter app is the perfect tool for pet parents, whether at home or traveling with their best friend on four legs. The program has listings for every type of product or service that might be needed or wanted. The reason it’s so helpful and complete is because App Inspire’s developers are passionate about animals themselves. They understand what pet ownership entails.

PawTrotter is fast and convenient. It has a cool, easy-to-use ‘wheel’ interface that adds an element of fun for users while they are taking advantage of what the app has to offer, which is considerable. Aside from locating business information and getting feedback from others, users can submit their own favorite pet spot listing, complete with photos, as well as their personal review and rating. In this way, PawTrotter becomes an enormous community of sharing pet parents.

Feature Highlights:
* Unique, interactive “wheel” interface makes finding pet-related businesses and destinations fun!
* Find over 130,000 Pet-friendly places in the following categories: Dog Parks & Beaches, Pet-Friendly Hotels, Pet Grooming & Washing, Veterinarians & Pet Hospitals, Pet Boarding & Sitting, and Pet Stores
* Browse ratings & reviews, and pick a great spot to bring your pet
* Narrow searches by category, distance, price, and rating
* Add photos, rate, and write reviews for favorite spots
* Look up addresses and phone numbers for pet-related destinations or businesses, then call or map them from the iPhone
* Additional info screen for details on required pet deposit amounts for Hotels, hours of dog parks, beaches and more
* Save favorite spots to quickly and easily return to them at a moment’s notice
* A percentage of profits are donated to the American Humane Association

The way this app was developed means that it can as easily be used to check out towns and cities that a user plans to visit with their pet, as it is to locate a business in their local area. That was intentional. Cramer’s experience helped to shape the rich features, including the ability to locate businesses on a map and find out how much deposit they might require. Truly, this app is unique and totally comprehensive.

About PawTrotter:
App Inspire, LLC was created for bringing fun, user-friendly mobile and web applications to the public at an affordable price. The PawTrotter app is a special work borne of a passion for animals.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iPhone OS 3.1.2 or later
* 1.9 MB

Pricing and Availability:
PawTrotter 1.0 is $2.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Travel category.

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Utah based FogTechnologies today released Snap + Map 1.0 for iPhone devices. Snap + Map is the first iPhone app to convert paper maps into GPS enabled maps. Users simply take a picture of a paper map using their iPhone, set two snap points and Snap + Map displays their current location on the map. Walk into a zoo, grab the park map take a picture and see where you are on the map for the day.

The ability to display your current location on a park map is one of the features that sets Snap + Map apart. For example users visiting the zoo or a theme park take a picture of the map handed to them at the entrance, set two location points and Snap + Map displays their position on the park map. Users can easily see their location using the park map allowing for quick navigation throughout their visit.

Features at a glance:
* Convert park maps into gps enabled maps
* Take a picture of a map or download a picture from the Internet
* Create custom maps of your favorite trail, resort, park, etc.

Device Requirements:
* Compatible with iPhone
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* 0.4 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Snap + Map 1.0 is $1.99 (USD) and available exclusively through the App Store in the Navigation category.

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Eurocenter today announced Cocoto Magic Circus 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. With an already successful launch on market leading game console, Cocoto and his friends are ready to wreck mayhem and havoc on the Apple iPhone and Apple iPod touch. The games predecessor, Cocoto Kart Online, has already achieved the impressive milestone of having reached more than 1 million players.

The story goes: A mysterious and evil clown has kidnapped Pixie, the pretty fairy. It is your mission to aid Cocoto and his friends in a pursuit to save Pixie, but the rescue team has found itself trapped inside an evil circus! Shock and horror! To be successful in your quest you will have to overcome many obstacles and prove yourself to be a true sharp shooter. Using your trusty dart gun you must take on the role of Cototo, Shiny, Neuro or Baggy, travelling across 5 hilarious and challenging theme rides including Abyss, Volcano, Atlantis, Jungle and Heaven.

To progress in Cocoto Magic Circus you must use your finger as a gun and shoot the moving enemies, explode the green balloons which offer bonuses like additional time, explosions and slow-motion, but also take precautions and avoid the red balloons which shake the screen or accelerate the clock. The game offers the same visually stunning 3D environments, including the familiar animated characters, bosses and backgrounds as introduced in the console version.

Unlike other similar games of this genre, Cocoto Magic Circus offers real-time online multiplayer matches where players from the entire world can participate and compete against each other, trying to gain the highest score and shooting the enemies before your opponent.

About Neko Entertainment:
Neko Entertainment is a French game development studio and publisher, founded in 1999, and is focused on developing games for a wide range of game consoles, mobile platforms and PC. Neko Entertainment recently launched Faceez on the Nintendo DS(TM).

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* 98.2 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Cocoto Magic Circus 1.0 is only $0.99 (USD) and available exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

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Small Wonders, the company behind Battle of Puppets, announced today that all their proceeds from BOP, their succesfull Iphone Game, during next Friday 5th 2010 would be sent to Red Cross and Red Crescent International for helping Chile’s injured after earthquake. For helping Chile, iPhone and iPod touch users just need to purchase Battle of Puppets on iTunes Store this Friday, the revenue will go to Red Cross International.

Last month two natural disasters have devastated Haiti first and Chile a few days ago. Chile earthquake occurred off the coast of the Maule Region of Chile on February 27, 2010 rating a magnitude of 8.8 and number of injured are growing day after day.

Juan Diego Gallego, CEO of Small Wonders, says, “our team hope that the community help us because in these moments Chile needs every little help we can send”. For helping Chile, iPhone and iPod touch users just need to purchase Battle of Puppets on iTunes Store this Friday, the revenue will go to Red Cross International. “We want everyone to become a puppeteer and use their puppets to help Chile in these terrible moments” says Juan Diego who encourage other developers to follow this kind of initiatives.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* 49.0 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Battle of Puppets 1.2.1 is only $1.99 (USD) and available exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

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Independent developer Esa Helttula has released Lattice Multiplication 1.0, a new educational math app for iPhone and iPod touch. Lattice Multiplication 1.0 allows the user to study and practice the ancient and very efficient lattice algorithm for multiplying large numbers. The app has an intuitive interface with customizable colors and other settings.multiplications. Long Multiplication features an intuitive interface with customizable colors and other settings.

The Ancient Lattice Multiplication Method:
Lattice multiplication is algorithmically equivalent to long multiplication. A lattice (a grid) guides the calculation. All the multiplications are done first and then the additions.

Leonardo of Pisa, who is better known as Fibonacci, introduced the method to Europe in 1202. In his groundbreaking book “Liber Abaci” Fibonacci presented many algorithms for working with Arabic numerals. He presented both the current standard long multiplication method and also an Indian method that he called lattice multiplication, which is faster and more compact for working with large numbers.

The lattice multiplication is one of the multiplication methods used in the Everyday Math curriculum, which is a new mathematics curriculum developed by the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project. In the United States over 3 million students in 185,000 classrooms are currently following this new curriculum.

The Lattice Multiplication App:
The Lattice Multiplication app allows the user to solve a lattice multiplication problem step by step and animates all the steps. In the steps the user will multiply or add, and the correct answer will fly to the right place in the lattice. If the user presses the wrong button the answer will appear above the keyboard but it will not move.

The Lattice Multiplication app has the following settings:
* The multiplicand can have up to 5 digits
* The multiplier can have up to 3 digits
* The current operation for each step can be hidden
* There are 3 different themes: black, gray and gold
* The speed of the animations can be set

The Lattice Multiplication is just a one app in a series of popular educational math apps for iPhone. Some of my other mathematics apps are Long Division, Column Addition and Column Subtraction. I have also several apps that use alternative algorithms for addition and subtraction.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* 0.5 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Lattice Multiplication 1.0 is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Education category.

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Nashville based Miller Studios has released Silly Story Maker 1.1 for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Silly Story Maker is a fun, educational sentence making game that allows you to create simple sentences by combining thirty basic words and phrases. Select a word or phrase from each category in the app and click play. Featuring beautiful graphics, multiple playback voices, and over 7,500 possible word and phrase combinations, Silly Story Maker promises fun for everyone.

Silly Story Maker can also be used as an interactive teaching tool for young children learning simple sentence structure! Select a word or phrase from each category in the app and click play. Silly Story Maker will read back the sentence made from your selections and highlight each selection as it is read. Silly Story Maker also features a randomize feature which will randomize your word selections for a completely random story.

Sample sentences:
* “The panda ate a giant meatball behind the tree!”
* “The duck kissed a silly squirrel in the clouds!”
* “My teacher danced with a talking camel on the roof!”

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* 1.6 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Silly Story Maker 1.1 is only $0.99 (USD) and available for immediate download exclusively through the App Store in the Education category.

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Collins Research Inc. has released Custom Hangman for iPhone and iPod touch. The Custom Hangman game is truly habit-forming that allows players to select a category of their interest from which the app will generate an animated hangman game with a fun pirate-themed background. Several word lists are already pre-loaded into the app so players can challenge themselves from subjects ranging from SAT vocabulary words to Twilight terms.

Several word lists are already pre-loaded into the app from the initial download so players can challenge themselves to solve a game of Hangman containing words from subjects ranging from SAT vocabulary words to Twilight terms. Additional word lists can also easily be downloaded, created or received from a friend, making this personalized iPhone and iPod Touch app version of hangman a game you’ll tap into frequently.

The Custom Hangman app is also a great learning tool for kids. Parents can input spelling words, vocabulary terms and more to help kids study for tests or just practice the alphabet and spelling.

Feature Highlights:
* Pre-loaded with over 20 word lists
* Add or edit word lists
* Share word lists with friends
* Create your own custom word list

Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* 1.8 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Anyone with an iPhone or iPod Touch can get hooked on Custom Hangman. It is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category. A great trailer can be found on YouTube.

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Leading iPhone game publisher, Chillingo, today announced the launch of Radio Flare REDUX for iPhone and iPod touch. Developed by Austria-based indie developer studio radiolaris, the game is a stylized side-scrolling shoot-’em-up featuring groundbreaking music and multi-touch gameplay.

Radio Flare REDUX combines shoot-‘em-up gameplay with a revolutionary soundtrack which affects the game itself. Enemies move in time to the music, while your ship’s attacking capability is also based on the rhythmic beat. The space ships in Radio Flare REDUX are easily controlled by either Drag or Joystick options, which lets players careen their way through space dodging bullets while taking out opponents.

Every aspect of Radio Flare REDUX is hardwired to the pulse pounding soundtrack of licensed techno, club and house music from an A-list roster of internationally renowned DJs and dance artists. The playlist including Kevin Gorman, Revolution Void, Motor, Binaerpilot and DJ Glow (from the original Radio Flare game), and techno labels International Deejay, Gigolo Records, Mikrowave.co.uk, Buddemusic, Underline and more.

“It was a great experience to collaborate with many different international musicians and DJs on the soundtrack for Radio Flare REDUX,” said Fares Kayali, producer at studio radiolaris. Martin Pichlmair, design overlord at studio radiolaris, continued, “We set out to make a music game that allows you to fly through music, to experience a song like you never did before.”

“Radio Flare REDUX is unmatched on the App Store,” explains Chillingo Head of Publishing, Johnny Coghlan. “It brings a unique, intense new style to music gaming and provides the complete entertainment experience with licensed songs, astonishing graphics, addictive gameplay and leading social networking with Crystal support.”

Radio Flare REDUX is available now for iPhone and iPod touch from the iTunes App Store, priced $2.99 USD. Game trailers and further information can be seen at radiolaris.com/redux. More information about the Crystal social gaming platform can be found at CrystalSDK.com.
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Tactile Entertainment, a leading iPhone game developer founded by a former lead member of Crytek, today unveiled their first title, an open-world pet sim called, Pocket Creatures. A Pocket Creature is an interactive creature that inhabits an exotic island in your iPhone or iPod Touch. On this island you’ll find a variety of plants and animals to interact with and explore. As you discover new things to do, you will notice how it affects your creature’s unique abilities and its relationship with its surroundings. Pocket Creatures is about experimentation, exploration and discovery.

“Our philosophy in founding Tactile Entertainment was to bring a new kind of game to the iPhone platform,” said Asbjoern Soendergaard, Founder and CEO of Tactile Entertainment. “With Pocket Creatures we feel that we will set a new benchmark for visual fidelity and deliver weeks of open ended gameplay that will change the way everyone thinks about gaming on the iPhone.”

Start your Pocket Creature adventure by choosing its color and hatching it from its egg. After that, it’s up to you to guide your Creature through its new island habitat. What it eats, when it eats, when it sleeps, what you teach it to love or hate; all can influence its behavior and appearance. Make friends with nearby animals and use them as fun tools to explore the surrounding environment. You can even plant a garden with mysterious seeds that produce magical fruit, providing your Creature with special abilities it can use to change its environment, and discover new objects and surprising abilities.

Pocket Creatures contains the following key features:
• Teach your Creature which objects are good or bad with positive/negative feedback
• Create your own magical garden where you and your creature can thrive
• Watch your Creature develop powerful moods and abilities that can be used to manipulate its surroundings
• Earn achievements and change the look of your creature; get horns, wings, flowers, ancient jewelry and many others

Unfasten your seatbelts and abandon everything you know about safe driving as Raging Thunder 2, sequel to the most popular mobile racing game of all time, arrives today on iPhone and Android. From Polarbit, a leading developer of high-end 3D games and middleware for mobile phones, comes the most intense, high-speed reckless driving experience ever.

Featuring online, cross-platform multiplayer, Raging Thunder 2 allows players to challenge strangers around the world to heart pumping racing action whether on an iPhone or Android phone. Get behind the wheel of a fleet of fully-upgradeable tuner cars and push them to the limit on ten different tracks, all featuring some of the best 3D graphics ever to appear on mobile phones. Compete to become the best and most reckless racer on the road through eight champion cups in Career mode. Raging Thunder 2 lets you put your opponents into the wall with devastating tackles. Defensive drivers need not apply.

Raging Thunder 2 features:
- Six single player game modes: Career, Arcade, Single Race, Time Attack, Survival, Instant Race
- Online or local, cross-platform multiplayer with pre and post-race chat
- Choose from a fleet of tuner cars with the ability to upgrade wheels, body, wings, and engine
- Multiple upgrade options for each area with visual enhancements
- Ten beautiful, varied and animated track environments with tons of hidden shortcuts
- Stunning, console quality 3D graphics using OpenGL 2.0

“After all the hard work we put into Raging Thunder 2, we’re proud to introduce the sequel to one of our best-selling games of all time,” said Mitri Bautista-Wiberg, Founder of Polarbit. “RT2 is the definitive mobile arcade racer and offers a fantastic cross-platform multiplayer experience to boot!”

Available now on the iTunes App Store for $4.99, you can download Raging Thunder 2 for iPhone and iPod Touch here: http://itunes.com/apps/ragingthunder2