Winding up the birds

After finally warming up to Whale Trail last week, Jake spent this week having a fiddle with Tiny Invaders. Exploring the depths of blatant IP theft, Matt has been dabbling with Cut the Birds, whilst Adam has been poking around with wind-up toys and helicopters. Wind-up Knight It looks a bit like Clockwork Knight on …

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A bit of tapping and playing

Welcome to the first in a hopefully regular series covering the latest noteworthy mobile phone games. We’ve dabbled with the idea of mobile and download game round ups in the past, though now we’re going to attempt to do it semi-properly. A couple of months ago the Pickford Brothers referred to us as “yet another …

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Game Dev Story

I just lost a couple of days to an iPhone game. A very meta one at that. A game in which I made games. Ninja action games, pirate RPGs, and Japanese cosplay date rape simulators, among other things. A game about making games? A gamer’s wet dream, surely? Game Dev Story is an unassuming little …

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iPed? Somebody call the Fed

Tech savvy Englishmen (and women) were able to get their mitt on the iPad yesterday. Over it China, however, it was the launch of the iPed that was making the news. A totally unofficial replica of the iPad, it even houses an Intel processor and run on Google’s open source operating system Android. Even more …

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Elasticated pockets on the rise

Everything is bigger in the US, so it’s only fair that the super sized iPad was released there first. Sales figures are now in – 300,000 units were sold during its weekend launch, which is way short of the 700,000 predicted by analysts, but still an impressive amount. Apple has revealed that on launch day …

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