Thursday, July 15, 2010

The Oregon Trail - Gameloft

The Oregon Trail artwork The Oregon Trail
Gameloft

Genre: Games
Price: $2.99
Release Date: March 26, 2009

Embark on Gameloft's refreshing revisit of the classic game you used to play on Apple II now.
The press already love it. You’ll love it too.

**IGN: 8,5/10 + Editors's Choice Award: “A smart remake of the acclaimed classic, complete with fantastic new visuals. You'll jam on it for weeks."
**Pocket Gamer: 9/10 + Gold Award - "An example of how classic games can be remade for modern play without losing nostalgic lustre or alienating with outdated design"
**Touch Arcade: “The Oregon Trail for iPhone really does seem to make dysentary fun again!”
**TapCritic: 5/5
**148Apps: 4,5/5

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Westward, Ho! Your favorite pioneering adventure game is back and takes you to an exciting, historical side-scrolling adventure entirely rethought to fit the Touch experience of your iPhone / iPod touch.

REMEMBER AMERICA’S CULTURAL ICONIC GAME
- All of the decision-making and problem-solving fun of the original game.
- Prepare for your departure: Select the members of your party, choose your departure date and purchase supplies.
- Fun and educational! Historical references through real locations and famous characters from the past, plus historic facts perfectly explain the perilous journey of pioneers.

A WILDER EXPERIENCE THAN YOU'VE EVER PLAYED BEFORE
- 8 skill-based mini-games, including 2 accelerometer-based challenges: hunting, fishing, river crossing, rafting, wagon repairing, telegraph, berry picking, and gold panning.
- Random events (disease, bandits, hitchhikers, etc.) faced by real pioneers increases the challenge.
- Side-missions add more excitement to your journey, affecting your westward trek.
- Refreshed with modern, colored graphics in a cartoonish style.

UPDATED WITH FACEBOOK CONNECT
- Post your achievements on your Wall.
- Challenge your friends by inviting them to play The Oregon Trail with the Tell A Friend feature.

JOIN THE FAN COMMUNITY
- On Facebook at www.facebook.com/TheOregonTrail.
- On Twitter at twitter.com/TheOregonTrail.

Highly recommended for fans of retro gaming, edutainment, educational games, and strategy.
© © 2008 Gameloft. All Rights Reserved. Gameloft and the Gameloft logo are trademarks of Gameloft in the US and/or other countries. © 2008 HMH Consumer Company Limited, and its affiliates and licensors. All rights reserved. The Learning Company and The Oregon Trail are registered trademarks and Adventures Along the Oregon Trail is a trademark of HMH Consumer Company Limited. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All companies, names, and data used in sample screens, and output are fictitious and any resemblance to any person, trademark, company name, or landmark of any kind is purely coincidental.

Source: "iTunes Top Grossing Apps" via Glen in Google Reader

Plants vs. Zombies - PopCap Games, Inc.

Plants vs. Zombies artwork Plants vs. Zombies
PopCap Games, Inc.

Genre: Games
Price: $2.99
Release Date: February 15, 2010

Winner of more than 20 Game of the Year awards!*

A mob of fun-loving zombies is about to invade your home. Use your arsenal of 49 zombie-zapping plants — peashooters, wall-nuts, cherry bombs and more — to mulchify 26 types of zombies before they break down your door.

Get ready to soil your plants!

Game Features

50 FUN-DEAD LEVELS
Conquer all 50 levels of Adventure mode — through day, night, fog, in a swimming pool, on the rooftop and more! Replay levels in the all-new Quick Play arena.

NOT YOUR GARDEN-VARIETY GHOULS
Battle zombie pole-vaulters, snorkelers, bucket-heads and more. Each has its own special skills, so you'll need to think fast and plant faster to combat them all.

SMARTER THAN YOUR AVERAGE ZOMBIE
Be careful how you use your limited supply of greens and seeds. Zombies love brains so much they'll jump, run, dance, swim and even eat plants to get into your house.

FIGHT LONGER, GET STRONGER
Earn 49 powerful perennials and collect coins to buy a pet snail, power-ups and more.

GROW WITH YOUR GAME
Earn 13 iPhone-exclusive achievements and show off your zombie-zapping prowess.

MORE COOL FEATURES
-Compatible with iOS 4 multi-tasking.
-Loads of performance enhancements and bug fixes.


*Original Mac/PC downloadable game.


More Apps from PopCap:
BEJEWELED® 2 – Match sparkling gems in the world’s #1 puzzle game.
PEGGLE™ – Clear the orange pegs in this epic blend of luck and skill.
BOOKWORM™ – Feed your appetite for fun in THE brain-tickling word puzzle game.
CHUZZLE™ – Slide and match cute, cuddly — and surprisingly explosive — furballs.


POPCAP MAKES LIFE FUN
Visit us at PopCap.com
Follow us on twitter.com/PopCap_Games
Find us on facebook.com/PopCapGames


© 2009 PopCap Games, Inc.

Source: "iTunes Top Grossing Apps" via Glen in Google Reader

NAVIGON MobileNavigator North America - NAVIGON AG

NAVIGON MobileNavigator North America artwork NAVIGON MobileNavigator North America
NAVIGON AG

Genre: Navigation
Price: $49.99
Release Date: July 22, 2009

☞ Celebrate the new features of version 1.6 with us. Get the App for limited time at a special price now!


With the NAVIGON MobileNavigator you can transform your iPhone into a fully functional mobile navigation system that is every bit as good as the multi-award-winning personal navigation devices from NAVIGON in terms of its user-friendliness and features.
Thanks to a faithful adaptation of the menu functions, the NAVIGON MobileNavigator fits in seamlessly with the operating concept of the iPhone. The application includes map material from the market leader NAVTEQ.


"I thought Navigon had the cleanest interface and the best 3D map view” - Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal

"Right now Navigon MobileNavigator is the best choice available" - Macworld

"Navigon is still the best bet" - Gizmodo

"Personally, I prefer Navigon because it works with the phone's address book." - CNET

"Navigon is worth the investment ... The future of GPS is here." - MobileCrunch


Features and range of functions:
- Simple, intuitive user interface
- Can be used in portrait and landscape format
- Precise voice announcements
- Intelligent address entry
- Reality View Pro (realistic display of motorway interchanges and exits)
- Lane Assistant Pro
- Real signpost display
- Speed Assistant with adjustable audio-visual warning
- Day and night mode for map display
- Direct access and navigation to contacts saved in the iPhone’s address book
- The latest NAVTEQ map material
- Navigation is automatically resumed after an incoming phone call
- 2D and 3D map displays (bird’s-eye view)
- Quick access to user-defined POIs in the area and along the route
- Take Me Home function with a single click
- Automatic language selection to match the iPhone’s user language
- Route Planning
- Text-to-Speech voice guidance
- Automatic Day/Night adjustment
- Integrated iPod control
- Location sharing via Email
- Enhanced Pedestrian Navigation
- Google Local Search
- Coordinate Input
- SOS/DirectHelp
- Turn-by-Turn RouteList
- NAVIGON Traffic Live in US, CAN (In App Purchase)
- Panorama View 3D (In App Purchase)
- NAVIGON MyRoutes
- Connection to Facebook and Twitter

Included maps:
USA (incl. Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands), Canada


>>> IMPORTANT NOTE:
Unfortunately the automatic restoring of In App Purchases doesn't work properly when you delete the app prior to updating it. Therefore just click on the item and pretend to buy it. As long as you purchased it already with the same iTunes account you'll get a notification afterwards confirming your earlier purchase and you can activate it for free again.


IF YOU ENCOUNTER DIFFICULTIES REGARDING THE GPS RECEPTION OF YOUR IPHONE PLEASE CHECK THE FAQ SECTION AT OUR WEB SITE www.navigon.com/iPhone.

Whether in the car, by bike or on foot, NAVIGON hopes you have fun navigating.

www.navigon.com/facebook
www.navigon.com/twitter_us
© 2009 NAVIGON AG

Source: "iTunes Top Grossing Apps" via Glen in Google Reader