Kevin’s “Utility of the Week” – Week 4

For week four of my Utility of the Week picks I decided to pick an app that’s already been out for a while but happened to go on a huge sale this week – Air Mouse Pro.

Air Mouse Pro is an accelerometer-controller (or touchpad-like) mouse for your computer. After downloading the app and the computer software that goes along with it, Air Mouse Pro can become your mouse, your keyboard, or even an app similar to Remote (to control your media).

Air Mouse Pro is on sale for $1.99. It went on sale on June 12th and I’ve heard that it will only be on sale for a week, so get it by June 19th!

If you’d like to suggest a utility for my “utility of the week”, visit my thread on our forum, here. And below is a list of previous Utility of the Week picks:
Week 1 – Groups
Week 2 – Put Things Off
Week 3 – Stick It

Air Mouse Pro (Remote / Trackpad)

Our Rating: :: Recommended

Category: Utilities
Released: 2008-09-15
Price: $2.99 ON SALE: $1.99

Handmark / Astraware Tries the Sale Angle

Handmark / Astraware have put a few of their applications on sale for a limited time. They are the latest in a long line of developers trying to use limited time price drops to increase sales. It’s an interesting promotion. But one that some developers have strong argument against it working.

No matter the impact, it’s the easiest way for developers to get a little promotion for their apps. They appear all over the internet on the price drops pages, like our price drops list.

Highlights from the Handmark / Astraware sale include the recently release Westward, a real time strategy game, Astraware Sudoku, and also the recently released helicopter shooter, Hellfire.

Hellfire - Exciting Helicopter Combat

Category: Games / Simulation
Released: 2009-01-22
Price: $4.99

Westward® - wild west frontier simulation

Our Rating: :: RECOMMENDED

Category: Games / Strategy
Released: 2009-02-03
Price: $4.99

Astraware Board Games

Category: Games / Family
Released: 2008-12-09
Price: $2.99

Indie App Developers Try Yet Another Marketing Method — Team Up And Discount Their Apps

A group of independent iPhone app developers have gotten together to try another method for increasing their app sales. They are, as a group, putting their apps on sale and promoting them together. It’s the latest in a series of inventive ways that small application developers have tried in the increasingly packed iTunes App Store to get some attention for their apps.

Starting 12/31, some apps and games from some great indie developers will all go on sale for 48 hours. The promotion, titled New Year’s App Blowout will see apps discounted from 50% – 80%.

Some of the apps that will be on sale include:
* Pinch n’ Pop ($0.99 price drop from $3.99 – iTunes Link)
* BurnBall ($0.99 price drop from $1.99 – iTunes Link)
* ScribBall ($0.99 price drop from $3.99 – iTunes Link)
* Mouse House ($0.99 price drop from $4.99 – iTunes Link)
* DuckDuckDuck (FREE price drop from $0.99 – iTunes Link)
* Blackbeard’s Assault ($0.99 price drop from $1.99 – iTunes Link)

Currently there are 16 apps listed on the page, but more are expected to be added before the new year. I suggest you bookmark the site and return on 12/31 to see the updated list.

It’s great to see independent developers teaming up to try to solve one of the greatest downsides to the app store — getting some attention in a sea of 13,000 apps.

[Source: New Year's App Blowout]

ngmoco Announces Rolando Release Date – Celebrates With Massive Game Sale

ngmoco has confirmed that Rolando will be released this Thursday of this week, on December 18th. To celebrate the week of the release of Rolando they have put all of their previously released games on sale. They have reduced the prices by $1 across the board.

Hit the jump for details and links.

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Black Friday Comes Early to the App Store

It looks like app developers have decided to participate in Black Friday sales and have started early. There are a bunch of really great games and apps on sale in the iTunes App Store right now with more being added every time we check out our price drops page. We’ll keep the list of the top tier apps here and send out a message on our Twitter stream when we update this page.

[Last Updated: 11/28 2:00pm Pacific]

Read on for the list.

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Looking For Something New to Play This Weekend?

The weekend is almost here. Just a few more hours. Looking for a new game to play this weekend? Bored with what you have? Xbox-360 red ring of death (like me)? Well we’ve gone through and picked out a few really good games. Many you may never have heard of and most we haven’t had time to publish reviews of yet. But we think you’ll be happy with all of them.

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Pangea Apps on Sale in the App Store

Some great Pangea games are on sale in the App Store:

Enigmo (we rated it 4.5 stars) is down to $4.99 ($1 off) [ App Store ]
Billy Frontier (we rated it 3.5 stars) is down to $3.99 ($2 off) [ App Store ]
Cro Mag Rally is down to $1.99 ($4 off) [ App Store ]

Grab the ones you want now, soon they will go back up.

Sale items seem to be happening more and more. We’re going to start sending out sale items only in our Twitter stream — follow us now to get the deals.