GDC starts… Tomorrow! Most of the TouchArcade crew is already causing trouble in San Francisco, while a few of us (myself included) are still airborne and working via the wonders of in-flight WiFi. Anyway, just as a heads-up this week should be pretty crazy with a constant stream of posts as we meet with the 80 different game developers we have scheduled meetings with.
If you have a meeting with us, please be sure to bring assets for your game with you. WiFi and cellular service in San Francisco seem to be equally unreliable, so we’re asking everyone to load some screenshots and any video you can come up with on some sort of USB storage device. USB flash drive, portable hard drive, whatever! As long as we can pull data off of it, we’re good to go.
If you don’t have a meeting with us, unfortunately our schedule is totally slammed and I can’t squeeze anyone else in regardless of how many times (and how creatively) you try to contact me about it! Please be sure to come to our party though. It’s at the same place we hold it every year, but a day earlier.
Here are the details:
WHEN: Tuesday March 6th, 7:00 PM until they kick us out.
WHY: Because there’s way more cool people we want to meet than we have meeting time slots for!
Bring your industry-relevant business card and/or a GDC pass to flash and we’ll trade you for a fancy tyvek bracelet to turn on the free beer. I’m thinking our party is going to be crazier than usual this year judging by how quickly our meeting schedule got booked up, so, don’t miss it.
Power to shake the earth without disturbing the sleeping gods would be a perfect mythological description of the Pro from Monster Cables Beats by Dr Dre brand. Lavish, oversized with blatant focus on the brand b these really have something to live up to. And by the thunders they do. That is if power and [...]
Beats by Dr Dre Pro High Performance headphones review is a post from: TouchGen
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Hunger Games: Girl on Fire sounds about as good as it looks. This afternoon, we nabbed a few in-game images of the runner-meets-shooter for our audience’s viewing pleasure. Girl on Fire, is of course, the “teaser” tie-in to the upcoming Hunger Games flick, which is based on the first book in a massively popular book trilogy. We’ve been advised that the events in this game will actually take place “towards the beginning” of the series.
Right, the images. Below, we’ve got an actual in-game look of lead protagonist Katniss Everdeen, as well as a shot of a level. Adam Saltsman, a member of the indie dream team heading up the title, describes Girl on Fire as a runner-y, shooter-y kind of thing. Like us, we think you’ll understand the categorization immediately after peering at the level specifically.
Katniss in 16-bit. Gotta love how Lionsgate decided to go indie.
We had a Pitfall flashback when we first looked at this.
The Mobile Jamz is the solution for the Android looking for the Monster Cable sound, while being able to use the microphone with their phone. This is basically the Jamz in a box crammed full with cords, and a 2GB media drive. As an avid iPhone user this is about $ 50 extra to pay for [...]
Monster Cable Mobile Jamz review is a post from: TouchGen
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This week’s episode of the TouchArcade Show is way more … irreverent than usual. It was a “slow” week overall, as studios are zipping their lips, so they can blow off our socks at Game Developers Conference 2012. The top of the podcast is a mash of talk that covers an insane range of stuff — from Android to muscles, it’s there. Towards the middle segment we do dip into games, and at the end we talk a little bit about iPad 3.
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This is a giveaway for 600 spice, and complete removal of ads in Spice Bandits. This IAP is worth $ 4.99/£2.99. Published by Chillingo this is a great tower-defense game set in space/spice. I have a total of 19 codes to give away. The codes will be sent out in batches starting with four at the [...]
Spice Bandits Twitter giveaway! is a post from: TouchGen
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Prepare for a new, much more modern version of Myst [$ 4.99 / Lite] to hit this spring. Earlier this morning, we caught an awesome video from Cyan Worlds demonstrating the first footage of its next release, “RealMyst.” In brief, it’s a fully 3D, real-time version of the title being made exclusively for iPad 2. The version of Myst currently on the App Store is a straight-up port of the original title, which only sports static images and some pretty limited navigation. Back when Myst first hit, it’d take a supercomputer to render to do what this newer version is doing, and it’s coming to a device that fits in our laps.
In the below, you’ll notice some improvements. The lighting model seems better, as well as the texture filtering and all of that kind of jazz. We’re stoked, though also a bit frightened by the prospect of getting stuck in Myst all over again. What was the formula for the circuit breaker puzzle again?
Hands-on preview of BulkyPix and AppXplore’s new iOS game ‘Lightopus’ hitting sometime in March… According to the developers, you are the last of your kind. Devastated by the evil monsters from the abyss they rounded up the remaining young. It’s your job to free them and bring the light back to the underwater world! The [...]
Lightopus hands-on (with video) is a post from: TouchGen
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GDC starts… Tomorrow! Most of the TouchArcade crew is already causing trouble in San Francisco, while a few of us (myself included) are still airborne and working via the wonders of in-flight WiFi. Anyway, just as a heads-up this week should be pretty crazy with a constant stream of posts as we meet with the 80 different game developers we have scheduled meetings with.
This week’s episode of the TouchArcade Show is way more … irreverent than usual. It was a “slow” week overall, as studios are zipping their lips, so they can blow off our socks at Game Developers Conference 2012. The top of the podcast is a mash of talk that covers an insane range of stuff — from Android to muscles, it’s there. Towards the middle segment we do dip into games, and at the end we talk a little bit about iPad 3.
Prepare for a new, much more modern version of Myst [$ 
