Remedy’s Death Rally is celebrating Easter with a semi-appropriate update, along with other features. To celebrate the holiday, Easter eggs providing battle modifiers are now spread throughout the game’s various multiplayer tracks. As well, daily play rewards have been added to this version 2.3 update, granting more free battle modifiers for the more consecutive days that a player plays.

That’s not all! Did you buy the new iPad? Are you sick of seeing the game scaled from original iPad resolution? Be sick no more, as the game now is optimized for the iPad 3rd generation. A new Dukematch mode has been added to the multiplayer mode, adding a destruction derby arena where everyone has weapons, and all must try to take down the venerable Duke Nukem himself.

As a bonus for these new features, Remedy has seen fit to drop the price of in-app purchases on weapons and cars for the multiplayer mode in celebration of Easter, because that’s what the holiday is really all about, right? Buying big guns to take out everyone else on the road?

Note that this update appears to either wipe out players’ progress, according to several angry comments on Facebook and App Store reviews, and in my tests, content that was previously unlocked was not, due to an apparent issue with IAP not being properly unlocked on the update, so updater beware.

$0.99

Death Rally

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Released: 2011-03-31 :: Category: Games

Hail to the King baby, Duke Nukem 3D is now available for free on all iOS devices. The game which many have called the best Duke Nukem outing on mobile devices is now available for the irresistible price of zero, so if you’ve somehow managed to avoid the game until now you’ve run out of excuses. Go download the title, before Duke comes to your house and puts his cigar out in your eye.

The game has been handcrafted for iOS, ditching traditional shooter controls and instead creating whole new movement and navigation mechanics from scratch. The slider-based controls, coupled with the unique TapShoot combat mechanics make the game easy to play, while still retaining a fair amount of challenge. And yes, if you’re a traditionalist you can turn on a classic thumbstick onscreen controller so no griping allowed about how you don’t like these newfangled controls.

The new control scheme, coupled with the franchise’s trademark humor, create a game which is considered by many to be an iOS classic, and rightly so. Whether you’ve never played the game before and just want to check it out or maybe you have the standard version of the game and want to pick up the HD edition on iPad now’s the time, as you can’t beat a game this good being available for literally nothing.

We’re currently unsure how long the game will be available for gratis, as we believe this to be a temporary price cut rather than a permanent price reduction. In that case, it would be best not to hem and haw around, and instead go ahead and grab as many copies of the game as you want right now before the price goes back up. Don’t wait around and miss out; after all, those aliens aren’t going to shoot themselves in the face.

$0.99

Duke Nukem 3D

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2009-08-10 :: Category: Games

[via The Appera]