Baseball sim ‘MLB Perfect Inning’ now available in the App Store

Baseball fans looking for a good sim on iOS will be happy to hear that one just landed in the App Store. It's called 'MLB Perfect Inning,' by Gamevil, and it's a console-quality simulator that's been fully-licensed by Major League Baseball.

The game is about as full-featured as sports titles can get. You can draft, train and trade your favorite players to build the ultimate roster, and then take your team from batting practice to the post season. Keep reading for a full overview...

Talisman review: an old-school board game comes to life on the iPad

Talisman is a fantasy board game that first came out in 1983. Fans of role-playing titles were keen on this adventure because it mixes traditional adventuring with a bit of character stats building. The game has been revised three times and has about a half dozen expansions under its name.

Talisman: Digital Edition is the only official licensed version of the decades old game and uses the revised fourth-edition rulebook. Now you can role the dice to see where you will journey while playing alone, or against up to three additional players on Game Center. Check out our Talisman review after the break...

Mavericks 10.9.3 release imminent

After seeding eight major builds of the upcoming third Mavericks software update to its developers, Apple appears to be on the verge of releasing the software for public consumption. According to web reports, the iPhone maker has now distributed a new OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 build 13D62 to AppleCare employees, a tell-tale sign of an imminent arrival as Apple's support army familiarize themselves with the new software...

Shadow Fight 2 is like Street Fighter in the dark

Shadow Fight is a popular hand-to-hand combat game on Facebook. Players fight against opponents using combo moves and special attacks. When they are not fighting, players increase their reputation by visiting friends’ dojos.

The sequel, Shadow Fight 2 recently launched in the App Store and features plenty of weapons, opponents, and bosses. Work your way to the top of the list to become the best Martial Arts fighter around…

Apple’s PR chief Katie Cotton retiring

Apple’s longtime PR boss, Katie Cotton, is set to retire after spending eighteen years with the company. As Apple's Vice President of Worldwide Corporate Communications, Cotton managed Apple's media relations and handled all public relations matters under both Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and current CEO Tim Cook.

Her retirement was first reported by Re/code. An Apple spokesman said Cotton was leaving because she had wanted to spend more time with her family "for some time now"...

Apple discontinues iPhone 4 in India, all over again

According to a new report, Apple has discontinued its four-year-old iPhone 4 smartphone model in India. Although the Cupertino firm had re-launched the handset in the 1.24 billion people market back in January, it's now been removed after mere 4 months.

This is an unusual move on Apple's part: the iPhone 4 was re-introduced as Apple's most affordable phone in India in order to help regain some of the share Apple rapidly lost amid the onslaught of cheap Android handsets.

During the January-March quarter, Apple's unit share in India was a CyberMedia estimated 2.4 percent versus the #1 Samsung which took 38.9 percent of handset sales...

TSMC reportedly ships first batch of Touch ID sensors for upcoming iPhones and iPads

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's top semiconductor foundry, has reportedly shipped the first batch of the second-generation Touch ID sensors to Apple for use in the upcoming second-generation iPad Air, third-generation iPad mini and of course iPhone 6.

As iDownloadBlog exclusively reported earlier this month, code fragments in iOS 7.1 indicate that Touch ID is coming to iPads, possibly this year and to other iOS devices as well, a discovery further corroborated by previous supply chain reports...

Ubisoft bringing popular ‘Anno’ game series to iPad

Good news for all of you late-90's/early-2000 gamers out there. Ubisoft announced yesterday that it is working on bringing Anno, the popular PC building series, to iOS. The game is called 'Anno: Build an Empire,' and is being built exclusively for the iPad.

For those unfamiliar with Anno, it's similar to Sim City and other real time strategy/resource management games. But it stood out amongst the other titles thanks to its detailed and lively graphics, straight-forward gameplay and addictive free-to-play mode...

Pegatron receives orders for 4.7-inch iPhone 6 ahead of fall launch

According to a new report, Pegatron has received orders from the Cupertino company to start production on the iPhone 6. Taiwan's Industrial and Commercial Times says that the supplier has been tasked with producing around 15% of all units of the upcoming 4.7-inch handset.

The news matches up with previous chatter, which claimed that Apple would be splitting up iPhone 6 orders between Foxconn and Pegatron. It was initially believed, however, that the split would be somewhere around 50-50, so it's unclear what—if anything—has changed...

The state of the iOS 7.1 jailbreak

If you are a frequent reader of iDB, or simply an avid jailbreaker, you probably already know that there is not currently a public jailbreak for iOS 7.1. But since we still get dozens of questions on this per day, we figured it was time to do a post on the topic to help clear the air.

For a little background, the evad3rs released evasi0n7 late last year to jailbreak devices running iOS 7. It had a pretty good run, lasting through 6 updates, but it was finally patched by Apple in March with iOS 7.1. So those who have updated to 7.1 have begun asking: now what?