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Nintendo’s first mobile app to be for ‘Mario Kart TV’ web service

Cody Lee ∙ May 9, 2014

Nintendo continues to stand against the idea of porting its popular games to iOS or Android, but it's not writing off mobile completely. Earlier this year, the company confirmed it was working on 'service apps,' which would serve as a bridge to bring more customers over to its console platform.

And this week, we get a good idea of what at least one of those apps could look like. During its financial results briefing yesterday, Nintendo announced that it's planning to release an app for Mario Kart TV—a web service that allows players to access and share videos captured from Mario Kart 8...

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Gameloft talks Modern Combat 5: Blackout classes and unified progression system

Christian Zibreg ∙ May 8, 2014

As my colleague Cody informed you, French games maker Gameloft recently shed more light on its highly anticipated Modern Combat sequel, titled Modern Combat 5: Blackout.

Coming to mobile later this year, Modern Combat 5: Blackout takes place in such locations as Venice, Italy and Tokyo and involves the main character Phoenix securing a transport of weapons of mass destruction from a particularly well-armed terrorist group.

This is a nice excuse for action-packed combat sequences and a bunch of nicely rendered orange explosions. Before you jump straight for comments, there's much more to this game than meets the eye. A new Gameloft blog post published Thursday offers new details on the game's unified progression system and its four soldier classes...

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Stampede Run is Apple’s new Free App of the Week

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 27, 2018

Like any given Thursday, another iOS app has gone free today as part of Apple's ongoing App Store promotion that's been running under the 'Free App of the Week' tagline for months now.

Awarded the App Store Best of 2013 for Great Multiplayer and named Apple Editor's Choice, Zynga's Stampede Run is now available free of charge.

In case you haven't heard about Stampede Run, it's a hilarious game where you run away from mad bulls in the streets of Spain. So, what are you waiting for? Pick Stampede Run for the iPhone and iPad in the App Store, free of charge through next Thursday. Go, go, go!

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Instapaper introduces Highlights, revamps web UI

Christian Zibreg ∙ May 8, 2014

The popular read-later iOS app Instapaper (I prefer the free Pocket app, formerly Read It Later) has received an interesting update this morning bringing out a new Highlights feature which lets you create and save passages of text from any article, useful to keep those quotes and important notes handy. The biggest threat to Instapaper's further adoption is its pricing structure: unlike the free Pocket, Instapaper is a $3.99 value...

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Warhammer 40,000: Carnage brutalizes the App Store

Lory Gil ∙ Updated January 27, 2019

In the mid 1980s, a science fiction-fantasy tabletop miniature game won the hearts of role-play game fans that were tired of the same old stuff. The Warhammer world was born. To this day, you can walk into practically any board game store and a group of gamers will be sitting at a table with their boxes of tanks and armies of tiny fighters.

Warhammer 40,000: Carnage is a side-scrolling run-and-gun arcade style game set in the Warhammer 40K universe. Pick your side and hit the ground running because the enemy is waiting for you…

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Hipstamatic takes aim at Instagram and Vine with new Cinamatic video app

Christian Zibreg ∙ May 8, 2014

Our youngest audience may be totally oblivious to this, but back when hipsters were not cool yet and way before Facebook-owned Instagram and Twitter-owned Vine made mobile photo and video sharing popular, there was Hipstamatic.

And just when you thought that Hipstamatic has given up on mobile photography, the photo editing pioneer is back with a new video sharing app called Cinamatic.

It's available now for $1.99 in the App Store, here's what it brings to the table...

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GoodReader adds new PDF editing features in paid update

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 27, 2018

Good.iWare's popular document and file management iOS app, GoodReader, is one of the best applications to help solve the lack of a dedicated file management system on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices.

GoodReader can synchronize your documents and files with a number of sources, be it your computer, another iOS device or a host of frequently used cloud-storage solutions.

It has a robust PDF management and editing capabilities that have been vastly enhanced in the latest version 4.0 update. Having decided to release GoodReader 4 as a brand new paid app, Good.iWare is now offering a time-limited 60 percent discount with an introductory price of $2.99...

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Vhoto review: get the best photos out of your videos

Lory Gil ∙ Updated January 27, 2018

I may have mentioned before that I like to take pictures of bands. I’m always trying to get great pictures of a guitarist doing a mid-solo jump, or a singer climbing around on PA speakers. It’s a lot harder than you’d think, especially using the iPhone camera since the shutter triggers just a bit slower than I’d like.

Vhoto takes all of the guesswork out of knowing the right time take a picture by turning your video clips into photos. You don’t have to scroll through frame after frame either. Check out our Vhoto review to learn more…

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App Recap: 9 apps for iOS gamers and more

Joe Rossignol ∙ Updated October 13, 2018

While the App Store is refreshed with featured apps each Thursday by Apple, many of the new games and apps begin showing up today around 11:00 PM Eastern. So we've gone ahead and included many of these early releases in today's edition of App Recap, a daily column that promotes new, updated and discounted apps for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. App Recap supplements the more in-depth app coverage that Lory, Christian, Cody and our other writers provide during the daytime. Take a look at the roundup ahead… 

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United Airlines app updated with new in-flight streaming video service

Cody Lee ∙ Updated April 17, 2018

Back in March, we told you that United Airlines was on the verge of launching a new in-flight movie service for iOS users. The service would allow iPhone and iPad owners to watch over 150 movies and 200 TV shows on their devices for free.

The program launched last month on select aircraft, and today the official United Airlines app was updated to support it. With the app installed, users on compatible planes will be able to access free media while connected to Wi-Fi in-flight...

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

Cody Lee ∙ Updated January 27, 2018

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...

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