Tap Tap Revenge has earned itself a strong following as a portable, iOS alternative to console based rhythm/music games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero. Tapulous, Inc. has followed a clever marketing structure, offering its Tap Tap Revenge titles free, while charging premium prices for special editions of the game, like Green Day Revenge.
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Following the Angry Birds revolution, Hungry Penguins is the latest addition to physics-based gameplay. The aim is to help three penguins, Blue, Pinky, and G, navigate harsh environments as their food supply dwindles. In order to beat a level, you must bounce all the penguins to safety while avoiding challenging obstacles and gathering all the fish. Of course, the game adheres to realistic, rule-abiding physics and requires you to think ahead with the introduction of features like safety nets, which can be used to the penguins’ advantage, but can also be a cause of their demise. Like Angry Birds, you can only unlock new levels one at a time, after conquering the previous level and earning your penguin partners a nice helping of fish, and also like Angry Birds, Hungry Penguins offers up a nice helping of addicting challenges. Aside from the precious storyline, the retina display compatibility and impeccable graphics ensure that Hungry Penguins is bound to be the next big thing in the help-the-cute-animal-physics-game saga. With Hungry Penguins, you’re not only helping feed your newest, cutest virtual friends, but you’re also guaranteed to feed your appetite for a great new game.

In a world where virtual and physical worlds are becoming indistinguishable, proximity is the name of the game. And it is also the focus of Rococo, an up-and-coming software developer. While they themselves do not have smartphone applications, you can expect to see their services everywhere in the near future, from games to social networking apps to location-based marketing tools. Using bluetooth, Rococo enables links phones to identities. For apps, this means that simply the presence of a person’s phone will signal his or her presence without any added steps or check-ins. Their primary platform, LocalSocial, will be of particular interest as it will not only facilitate the capabilities of a range of social media and LBS apps, but it will also present infinitely more proximity-based social opportunities for a wide variety of other apps and scenarios as well. For instance, checking-in at places or for events will become instantaneous, business owners will be able to better target potential and loyal customers, social networking agents will be enhanced, and gaming platforms will benefit from knowing more about who and where their players are. Read the rest of this entry »