After Rolando’s success, ngmoco has come up with version 2 and its called “Rolando 2 Quest for the Golden Orchid” [$9.99 - App Store]. New gameplay includes a 3D stylized world, driving, swimming, and flying, and — now the Rolandos can fight back too. Awesome. I was bowled over by Rolando and I am going to wait for Rolando 2 to go down on the price. I seriously think $9.99 is too much for this game. But thats just my opinion. I know quite a few who believe Rolando is definitely worth $10+.
Over to the official video from ngmoco. In this video, Simon introduces push challenges in the upcoming Rolando 2. Also, a sneak peek at the last area in Rolando 2: Stormtop Mountain!
This cool fitness app called Fitnio is somewhat similar to RunKeeper app, helps you track your workout progress both in the gym and outdoors. But it comes with one cool feature allowing you to browse your iPod playlists and queue one for the next time you start jogging. TechCrunch covered this app and had this to say:
Until the release of the iPhone 3.0 software update, developers were unable to access the phone’s music library. In order to play music as you ran, you’d have to first open up the phone’s iPod application, pick a playlist, then switch over to the excercise app. Once there, you could use your headphone’s multifunction button to execute some basic commands (next song, pause, and previous song), but if you wanted to switch playlists you were out of luck.
Fitnio displays the same data as a treadmill or stationary bike … outside the gym! Now you can run, walk, jog or cycle anywhere! Fitnio integrates with the iPhone’s GPS technology to give you real-time, accurate fitness feedback. Fitnio automatically calculates and displays your distance, speed, pace and calories burned. Start and stop immediately with Fitnio’s quick start and cool down options. Program an emergency contact so you’re never far from help.
Toki Tori is a puzzle platformer iPhone game where you control the actions of a chick across 80 engrossing levels. The goal of each level is for Toki Tori to free Toki Tori’s siblings who have been mysteriously kidnapped. Interesting storyline. And the best about this game is that the developers behind this game are offering 80% discount for limited period.
Toki Toki is originally priced at $4.99 [App Store] and is now available for $0.99. There is a free, lite version of the game [App Store] also exists.
Toucharcade had reviewed Toki Tori sometime back and found it to be a wonderfully challenging puzzle game and had highly recommended it. Check this video:
Facebook announced a host of new features and updates for their iPhone client app. Here is the official press release from Facebook - I can’t predict an exact date when I will submit to Apple, but I can say that I am about 98% done.
New Features:
1. The “new” News Feed
2. Like
3. Events (including the ability to RSVP)
4. Notes
5. Pages
6. Create new photo albums
7. Upload photos to any album
8. Zoom into photos
9. Easier photo tagging
10. Profile Pictures albums
11. A new home screen for easy access to all your stuff, search, and notifications
12. Add your favorite profiles and pages to the home screen
13. Better Notifications (they link to the comments so you can reply)
14. Quickly call or text people right from the Friends page
15. Messages you are typing will be restored if you quit or are interrupted by a phone call
But you wont see Push Notifications as yet -The one feature everyone is asking for, Push Notifications, is in development but it won’t make it into 3.0. You can expect it in a 3.1 update later this summer.
Skype [Free, App Store] for iPhone has been updated to V1.1 and now has brings Skype voicemail and SMS text messaging feature. You need to subscribe to Skype for the voicemail feature.
Version 1.1 Features:
- Support for the following languages:
English, German, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Spanish, Norwegian, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Italian, French, Polish and Japanese.
- Send text (SMS) messages using Skype credit.
- Voicemail support.
- Improved dialing help when calling phones.
Developed by MoreGames Entertainment and published by Chillingo, this game brings StickWars and Pocket God in one game. Been very popular amongst iPhone gamers of late. Kittu from our forum has shared his experience playing this interesting game. Check it out:
Knights Onrush - Review Reviewed by Kittu Dhanoa
Price: $4.99 - Was on Salet: $0.99. Its still available for $2.99
Genre: Tower Castle Defence , Action
Hi Guys. Bought this game yesterday, after checking out the lite version first, and liked what I saw err played. Game’s on sale right now and so I just couldn’t resist the temptation.
My first impression of the Game: Its the ‘Pocket God’ upgraded - Seems as if the pocket gods have finally got a purpose to torture somebody besides the harmless & peaceful pygmies. However, my friend & fellow forum member ‘Vikas’ seems to think its the ‘Stick Wars’ Upgraded - with cute animation & graphics.
Whatever may be the case, its certainly a fresh take on tower/castle defence genre games. Personally, I dont like any of the tower defense games including the hugely popular ‘Field Runners’ - I just never did not see any point in deploying all those guns etc etc and then wait a watch the field runner army walk in and …. wait and see.
So, why did I pick up this game? I got taken in by the cute graphic screen shots. And when I tried out the lite version , I got hooked. Knights Onrush is a fantastic game & ‘chillingo’ has certainly proved just how nicely ‘castle defense’ genre can be done.
DOOM Resurrection was launched yesterday and looks like the whole iPhone world is going GAGA over this game. Developed by id Software, this game is the iPhone version of the original Doom game. Coming to this review, usually Kittu Dhanoa from our forum does a detailed review of interesting games that get launched on App Store. Hey, I would like to thank Kittu for these awesome reviews. Kittu will be reviewing this game very soon. In the meanwhile, Vikas, another dedicated member of our forum has just written an awesome and casual review about DOOM Resurrection. Thanks buddy :). Check it out:
In one simple word the game is Fan-DOOM-Tastic. Ok that wasnt one word. But pretty much sums up the marvelous game. Id has done 100% justice to the series. There couldnt be anything more I could ask from an iPhone port of doom(ok maybe multiplayer and those half clad girls in the original game ). I was skeptical about the game as I hadnt read anything about the control scheme. In fact I had assumed it`ll be using an onscreen D-Pad/joystics like the rest of FPS games on iPhone. I hate these d-pads on any iPhone game but still play them as there is no option other than not getting the game in the first place(which is is not really an option either as so many great games are coming out for iPhone. Cant resist at all).
id Software has finally released the original Doom on iPhone. Its called Doom Resurrection [$9.99, App Store]. This looks just like Doom 3 game and offers a first person shooting experience. TouchArcade had reviewed this app sometime back:
The best compliment I can offer to Doom Resurrection is that despite some controversial changes, it “feels” like Doom and is a lot of fun. And as a reviewer, there are games I have to play to the end and games I want to play to the end, and Doom Resurrection easily fell in the latter category. The game makes good use of the Doom 3 graphics and audio to provide an immersive game that sucks you in for the duration.
Features
• An all-new chapter of the DOOM saga designed exclusively for the iPhone and iPod Touch
• Advanced graphics engine designed from the ground up to take full advantage of the power found in Apple’s mobile devices
• Wield an arsenal of heavy-hitting weapons to defeat a variety of hideous monsters and bosses
• Innovative controls for fast-paced and accessible first-person action
• Intense story that new players and long-time DOOM fans can enjoy
The newly launched Twitter client for iPhone Birdfeed [$4.99, App Store] seems to be a perfect mix of speed and simplicity. Developed by System of Touch, Birdfeed might be a bit expensive, but Techcrunch has something interesting to say:
Birdfeed has only been available for one day, so it’s too early to declare it the new de-facto iPhone Twitter client. But I will say that it’s closer than any other app has ever been to dethroning Tweetie, in my mind. It’s so good that I’ve already moved it onto my first page of apps on the iPhone, just to make sure it gets a fair shake against Tweetie. We’ll see what I’m still using in a week, but I suspect is may just be Birdfeed.
FEATURES
- Clean, Simple Design
- Local Caching
- SMS-Style Direct Messages
- Notifications That Make Sense
- Refresh Timestamps
OTHER FEATURES
- Post to Twitter.
- View your timeline, favorites, mentions, and direct messages.
- Quickly navigate to individual user profiles.
- Follow and unfollow users.
- Manage multiple accounts.
- Post images from your choice of service (yfrog or TwitPic).
- Search Twitter (including support for saved searches, trends, and hashtag lookup, and nearby search).
- Post shortened URLs using tr.im integration.
- Save posted links for later reading using InstaPaper integration.
- Re-post tweets using your choice of “retweet” style (quote or RT).
- Load older tweets using infinite scrolling.
- Navigate reply chains.
- Find out more about other users using integration with third-party Twitter services such as Favrd and FollowCost.
- Log in using a secure connection.
Hi, I have been using this awesome invention called the Apple iPhone from November 2007 and have gone nutzzz over it. Nuts to an extent that I started this blog which talks just about iPhone and nothing else.
This blog of mine has been getting tremendous response and is being followed by all kinds of mobile phone users from all over the globe. Most of the traffic comes from the US and Europe. Thank you all for making this blog a success :)
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). I was skeptical about the game as I hadnt read anything about the control scheme. In fact I had assumed it`ll be using an onscreen D-Pad/joystics like the rest of FPS games on iPhone. I hate these d-pads on any iPhone game but still play them as there is no option other than not getting the game in the first place(which is is not really an option either as so many great games are coming out for iPhone. Cant resist at all).
The newly launched Twitter client for iPhone Birdfeed [$4.99, 
