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Dwarfs vs Orcs HD Review

Dwarfs vs Orcs HD Review

iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad
A tower defense/RTS hybrid that's high on style and low on fun.

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A wise man once said that “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”  If that is the case, then developer Jinqi Pang might as well be writing Popcap a love note in the most gushing prose imaginable.  Just a look at their game Castle Attack – Ultimate HD+ and you will see why.

In case it wasn’t apparent, this new puzzler set during the Han Dynasty, seems just a tad like the Popcap powerhouse, Plants vs Zombies.

Instead of gathering sun beams, Castle Attack has players gathering food that is produced on a regular basis by cook units.  These can then be expended to purchase other units used to protect the castle.  Though unit names may be different, the core conceit of the game remains the same.

Lets just hope that the production values live up to the Popcap standard as well, because this game will set you back a hefty $9.99.  If you have the chance to check it out, let us know what you think of it in the comments below.

$9.99
+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Released: 2011-09-13 :: Category: Games

Age Of Defenders Review

Age Of Defenders Review

iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad
Age of Defenders is a multiplayer focused tower defense game that offers a lot of potential.

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Tiny Defense Review

Tiny Defense Review

iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Tiny Defense takes the tried and tested tower defense genre and puts it onto a 2D playing field. It works a treat and comes out as one of the very best in its class.

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The Portable Podcast, Episode 94

All we want to do is acquire your brains! It’s not unreasonable, I mean no one’s gonna merge with your eyes.

On This Episode:

  • Carter Dotson and guest co-host Blake Grundman discuss the EA acquisition of PopCap, along with new releases King of Fighters, Deathsmiles, and 9mm.
  • Who We Are:

  • Host: Carter Dotson
  • Guest: Blake Grundman, 148Apps
  • Contact The Show: Email | Twitter

    Music:

  • “Beatnes7 (Theme to The Portable Podcast)” by The Eternal – Download on iTunes here:
  • “Nanocarp” by The Eternal
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  • Apps Mentioned in this Episode:

    $2.99
    iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
    Our Rating: ★★★★☆ :: Grows on you
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    Released: 2010-02-15 :: Category: Games

    $6.99
    + Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
    Our Rating: ★★★★☆ :: A GREAT BRAWL
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    Released: 2011-07-07 :: Category: Games

    $11.99
    iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
    Our Rating: ★★★★½ :: POSITIVELY RADIANT
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    Released: 2011-07-07 :: Category: Games

    $6.99
    + Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
    Our Rating: ★★★☆☆ :: TRAGIC MISFIRE
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    Released: 2011-07-14 :: Category: Games

    Bunny The Zombie Slayer Review

    Bunny The Zombie Slayer Review

    + Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
    Fend off hordes of rabid zombies using the most logical weapon at your disposal: Easter Eggs?

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    As the year winds down and we look ahead to the next decade it’s time for all those wonderful end-of-year lists we all get so excited about. Today we have some exciting news, as Apple has detailed all the top paid and free apps for the iPhone and iPad, as well as the top grossing apps on each platform. Here’s the full rundown, for your edification.

    Top 10 Paid iPhone Apps

    1. Angry Birds
    2. Doodle Jump
    3. Skee-Ball
    4. Bejeweled 2 + Blitz
    5. Fruit Ninja
    6. Cut the Rope
    7. ALL-IN-1 GAMEBOX
    8. The Moron Test
    9. Plants vs. Zombies
    10. Pocket God

    Top 10 Free iPhone Apps

    1. Facebook
    2. Angry Birds Lite
    3. Words With Friends Free
    4. Skype
    5. Tap Tap Revenge 3
    6. The Weather Channel®
    7. Paper Toss
    8. Bing
    9. ROCK BAND FREE
    10. Talking Tom Cat

    Top 10 Grossing iPhone Apps

    1. MLB.com At Bat 2010
    2. Angry Birds
    3. Call of Duty: Zombies
    4. Bejeweled 2 + Blitz
    5. FriendCaller 3 Pro
    6. Zombie Farm
    7. TomTom U.S.A.
    8. TETRIS®
    9. Plants vs. Zombies
    10. Doodle Jump

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    Continue reading Apple Lists 2010 Top Apps »

    Favorite Four – Tower Defense Games

    Hello there! It’s time once again for our Favorite Four, handpicked from the iTunes App Store just for you. This week, we’re looking at Tower Defense games. The genre is well worn across all gaming consoles, but perhaps no where as much as on the iOS itself (two full icon pages of iPhone game apps alone – try a search on ‘tower defense’). The concept is simple, yet addictive: place towers across a fixed or grid-defined path to keep bad guys, or creeps, from getting to your base or tower. The upside of so many these kinds of games is that you can find the ones that most appeal to YOU. Here are four of the ones that work for me.

    Zombie Attack
    This is one of the original iPhone Tower Defense games, having been released way back in July of last year, from IUGO. I still think it’s one of the first TD games on the iPhone to innovate with a non-fixed path, and a thematic consistency that lends to a survival horror-type feel while playing. If you want to play the innovator, go here.

    $1.99
    iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
    Released: 2008-11-08 :: Category: Games

    Sentinel 2: Earth Defense
    I truly think this iteration of Sentinel is one of the best tower defense games out there on a thematic level, as well as from a graphic and gameplay standpoint. Its pretty, has a variety of great maps to play through, and keeps the challenge at a high yet accessible level. Give this one a shot if you love science fiction as well as gaming.

    $0.99
    iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
    Our Rating: ★★★★½ :: INCREDIBLE
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    Released: 2009-06-26 :: Category: Games

    Fieldrunners
    If you don’t already have this game, either on your iPhone or PSP, go out right now and get it. The folks over at Subatomic Studios hit the sweet spot in terms of balance and gameplay with this title. It continues to be my go to game of choice when I’m sitting in a waiting room or jury box, needing something that launches quickly, keeps me engaged, and doesn’t require twitch reflexes to keep going. Grab it, and grab it now.

    $2.99
    iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
    Our Rating: ★★★★★ :: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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    Released: 2008-10-05 :: Category: Games

    Plants Vs. Zombies
    While this one sits on the expensive side of the price fence, it’s definitely worth it. PopCap, makers of addictive gaming crack like Bejeweled and Peggle, bring what could be the most fun mutli-platform tower defense game to your iPad. The “towers” here are plants and flowers, keeping the hordes of creep zombies at bay with a variety of attributes and powers. This is a game that feels fully polished, fully professional, and competes with any desktop game of the type, let alone an iOS game. If you can handle the price tag, get it now.

    $6.99
    iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad
    Released: 2010-04-01 :: Category: Games

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    We all love PopCap Games and their latest critically claimed tower defense game Plants vs. Zombies. You may remember that we reviewed the game recently, and we knew it was going to be popular. Exactly how popular in as far as sales though remained a mystery … until today. The company has announced that within the first 9 days of the game being available on the App Store, Plants vs. Zombies saw a staggering 300,000 downloads, placing the title right up there with Bejeweled® 2, another of PopCap’s well-loved smash hit iPhone games.

    What’s even more staggering though, is the amount the company have managed to gross from the iPhone flavor of the game. In an official press release issued today, the company announced Plants vs Zombies for iPhone (and iPod touch) had already grossed above 1 Million US dollars. Alongside this announcement, PopCap was also quick to reveal that its flagship product Bejeweled® 2, adored by Facebook users and iPhone lovers across the world, is officially now the first ever paid application to have reached 3 Million unit downloads on the App Store.

    It also notes that despite huge success of its other App Store titles, this hasn’t affected sales of its other apps, stating Bookworm™ and Chuzzle™ two other PopCap branded titles, consistently remaining in the top 100 paid applications on the store.

    Time to open that champers PopCap, eh?

    $2.99
    iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
    Our Rating: ★★★★☆ :: Grows on you
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    Released: 2010-02-15 :: Category: Games

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    Popcap Games is known all over the world for a wide array of flash-based games. From the incredibly successful colorful match-em’ Bejeweled, to the marble-smashing Zuma, Rocket Mania and Bookworm. Their portfolio of games is, all in all, quite impressive. Today though, Popcap Games announced via their Twitter stream that their well-loved plant-munching, zombie-infested tower defense title Plants Vs Zombies, which is available for both PC and Mac, is coming to iPhone February 15th.

    The game involves using a variety of plants including potato mines, peashooters, cattails and hypno-shrooms (to name just a few), to repel an army of zombies led by “Doctor Zomboss”, a giant machine with zombie commanding it. The homeowner, along with a neighbor (called Crazy Dave), must defend the homeowner’s house during day or night, in the front yard, the backyard, and even on the roof!

    “Several plants are nocturnal, like mushrooms, having a lower sunlight cost and are ideal for nighttime levels, but will remain asleep during daytime levels unless startled by a coffee bean. In the “back yard” levels that includes a swimming pool, seeds must be planted atop lily pads on water spaces, while on the roof levels, all seeds must be planted in clay pots. The various plant abilities range from firing projectiles at zombies, turning zombies against each other, quickly exploding and wiping out an area of zombies, and slowing down zombies through a high defensive value. Certain plants are highly effective against specific types of zombies, such as a magnet-shroom that can remove a bucket or another obstacle being used for defense from a zombie’s head.”


    Continue reading PopCap Games Announces Plants Vs Zombies for iPhone. Hits February 15th. »

    The Portable Podcast, Episode 66

    You’re the best around, nothing’s gonna ever keep you down!

    On This Episode:

  • Carter and guest hosts Blake Grundman and Brett Nolan discuss the year 2010 for iOS gaming, and talk about some of their favorite games from the past 12 months.
  • Who We Are:

  • Host: Carter Dotson
  • Co-Host: Blake Grundman, 148Apps and The EvilCast Recap
  • Co-Host: Brett Nolan, AppAddict.net
  • Music:

  • “Beatnes7 (Theme to The Portable Podcast)” by The Eternal – Download on iTunes here:
  • “Nanocarp” by The Eternal
  • How to Listen:

  • Click Here to Subscribe in iTunes:
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  • Listen on WRGT Radio every Friday at 4pm Central
  • Listen Here:
  • Apps Mentioned on This Episode:

    $0.99
    iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
    Released: 2010-04-20 :: Category: Games

    $1.99
    + Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
    Our Rating: ★★★★½ :: JUMPIN' GOOD TIME
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    Released: 2010-08-10 :: Category: Games

    $2.99
    iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
    Our Rating: ★★★★½ :: IMMENSELY ADDICTIVE
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    Released: 2010-02-24 :: Category: Games

    $0.99
    iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
    Released: 2010-10-21 :: Category: Games

    $3.99
    iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
    Our Rating: ★★★★½ :: SOUL SUCKING
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    Released: 2010-10-09 :: Category: Games

    $2.99
    iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
    Our Rating: ★★★★★ :: IT'LL HOOK YOU
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    Released: 2010-06-17 :: Category: Games

    $0.99
    iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
    Our Rating: ★★★★½ :: WORLDLY DELIGHTS
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    Released: 2010-12-16 :: Category: Games

    $2.99
    iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
    Our Rating: ★★★★☆ :: Grows on you
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    Released: 2010-02-15 :: Category: Games

    $0.99
    iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
    Released: 2010-10-04 :: Category: Games

    $1.99
    + Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
    Our Rating: ★★★★½ :: NOT FEELING BLUE
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    Released: 2010-09-30 :: Category: Games

    $4.99
    iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
    Our Rating: ★★★★½ :: YOU WIN
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    Released: 2010-03-09 :: Category: Games

    $2.99
    $4.99
    iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
    Our Rating: ★★★★½ :: FANTASTIC
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    Released: 2010-12-16 :: Category: Games

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