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5 Aug 2011 alle 10:45 Angry Bots Gratis Giochi I motori grafici attraverso i quali vengono sviluppati giochi per pc, consoles e dispositivi mobili, si sa, sono in perenne evoluzione. Unity Technologies ha da poco rilasciato la versione 3.4 del suo engine, apportando diverse migliorie, che potrete ammirare scaricando gratuitamente dall’App Store Angry Bots. Vediamo meglio di cosa si tratta. Nel caso non lo sappiate, questo motore è proprio quello su cui si basano centinaia e centinaia di games presenti sul negozio virtuale di applicazioni Apple. Le novità introdotte con la nuova release sono talmente tante che è impossibile elencarle tutte, ma tra le mie preferite vi sono i cambiamenti relativi alla qualità dell’immagine e agli effetti acquatici, che migliorano l’impatto grafico del gioco e contemporaneamente promettono una migliore resa dal punto di vista delle performance. Appare ovvio, però, che scorrere l‘elenco delle features recentemente introdotte - soprattutto se chi legge non è un developer – può essere alquanto tedioso. Proprio per questo motivo è stato sviluppato Angry Bots, ovvero una demo giocabile volta a far comprendere anche a chi non è del settore quali sono le nuove frontiere dello sviluppo mobile. A differenza di Epic Citadel, esperimento simile a questo ma con lo scopo di mostrare i cambiamenti dell’Unreal Engine, Angry Bots è strutturato in maniera tale da poter essere giocato tramite due tasti: uno ha la funzione di spostare il personaggio e l’altro serve per sparare. Per quanto breve, stupisce, soprattutto considerando il fatto che è solamente un’anteprima di ciò che potrebbe essere realizzato con il nuovo Unity Engine 3.4. Angry Bots è compatibile con  iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch (terza generazione), iPod touch (quarta generazione) ed iPad. Richiede iOS 3.1.3 o successivo per funzionare ed è localizzato in Inglese. Read More

Infinity Blade is possibly the most-hyped iOS game release to date. The title, developed by Epic Games’ ChAIR Entertainment studio, got a lot of attention thanks to an early demo of its graphics engine in the app Epic Citadel. Now that it’s actually arrived as a game you can play, how does it stack up? Be warned, there be spoilers below, but also know that story is not what Infinity Blade is about. Let me make something abundantly clear: This is a gorgeous game. It’s the best-looking game I’ve seen on my iPhone 4′s Retina Display, and the best on the iPad, too. I haven’t had the chance to see how it works on an iPhone 3GS or iPod touch, but it runs very smoothly on Apple’s latest phone and tablet hardware. You can see many pretty pictures of just how nice Infinity Blade looks in the gallery at the end of this post. Gameplay initially held some disappointment for me. Unlike in Epic Citadel, you aren’t free to move about the game world in Infinity Blade. It’s an on-rails experience, with pulsing circles directing your attention to places you can travel to. Generally speaking, you have one choice. Sometimes, you have two. Along the way, you can tap gold, potions or chests to get items, and you can change the camera angle, but there is no exploration or open world environment. When you start the game, you’re presented with an opponent barring your way. Tapping on that enemy puts you into combat, or you can tap a circular blue “i” icon to get more information about him. You can block, dodge or parry attacks in order to get opponents to drop their guard, and then attack with your weapon. If you attack without first breaking an enemy’s defence, you’ll only do minor damage. You can also use a special power attack when fully charged, which automatically breaks an enemy’s guard. Finally, you can also use magic to cast spells with gestures you draw on the screen, which can be either offensive or defensive. Fighting opponents earns you (surprise!) experience, and money, which you can spend on equipment. You “master” equipment by using it in battle, which grants you skill point upgrades. Levelling up also nabs you new skill points which you can assign to your attributes as you like. You’ll probably be amazed at how fast you burn through the Read More

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Dec 9, 2010 | Just get a new iPad and curious which are the best, most must-have apps and games you need to install first? Want to really show off that 9.7-inch screen or take advantage of multitasking? Well read on for TiPb’s top 10 most recommended, most must-have iPad apps to get your started. Flipboard takes all the stuff you care about — articles and pictures shared by your Facebook and Twitter friends along with the latest relevant headlines and presents them, with content and social comments, in a gorgeous, tactile iPad interface. You can customize it to your hearts content and share your own comments back. It’s the closest we’ve come yet to a communal magazine. [Free - iTunes link] Also check out: Angry Birds HD takes the undisputed king of casual gaming, the breakthrough addictive puzzler in the best tradition of the genre, and paints it across the bigger screen. The premise is the same, evil green pigs have stolen your eggs and your birds aim to get them back — with slingshots, explosives, boomerangs, and other manner of weaponized avian fury. Kill all the pigs to clear a level, do it with style and earn the elusive 3-stars. It starts off easy but ramps up quickly as the minutes turn to hours, especially on the less confined iPad screen. [$4.99 - iTunes link] Also check out: The bigger iPad screen makes for much easier document editing on the go, be it for business or school work. Documents to Go Premium lets you create, read, and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files with fairly good styling and functionality, and will even open Mail attachments and sync files via iTunes or with Google Docs, Dropbox, Box.net, iDisk & SugarSync for the ultimate in mobile accomplishment. Universal app – buy once, use on iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. [$16.99 - iTunes link] Sure, the ultimate goal of building the best village is just the same as other games, but Smurfs’ Village also has a story line. After each level increase, there’s dialogue and a quest, and also mini games you can play to earn more experience. The graphics are great and the gameplay is smooth. Smurfs’ Village is free but some items require smurfberries which are available as an in-app purchase. Smurfberries can also be used to speed up the growth of plants and construction of Read More

Infinity Blade erreicht den App Store. Soweit die gute Nachricht am heutigen Morgen. Viele betrübende Anmerkungen folgen. Als ‘Epic Citadel’ (kostenlos; App Store-Link) kündigte Epic Games auf Apples September Event ein iOS-Spiel an, das auf die Unreal Engine 3 zurückgreift. Ohne Frage: Grandios! Die frei begehbare Grafik-Demo, kompakt verpackt als 82-Megabyte-Download, ließ die Münder sabbern. Die jetzige ‘Vollversion’, die als ‘Infinity Blade’ den App Store stürmt, zählt 318 Megabyte und vermisst genau diese frei zu beschreitende Level-Komponente. Während man sich in Epic Citadel daran ergötzte, mit welchem Detailgrad die Lichteffekte auf die modrigen Felsen der Gemäuer fallen, rückt der exklusive iOS-Titel den puren Schwerkampf in seinen Mittelpunkt. Über eine zählbare Anzahl von Fingergesten malträtiert ihr generische Ungetüme in Ritter-Rüstungen. Zugutehalten muss man dem ansonsten einfallslosen Gameplay seine Präzision. Schwert-Paraden, Abwehrhaltung und Ausfallschritt sind auf das i-Tüpfelchen abgestimmt. Selbst zum Angriff schreiten könnt ihr nicht. Die wahre Ritter-Kraft scheint verborgen im reagieren statt agieren. Euer aufrüstbares Arsenal an überdimensionalen Säbeln und Schutzschilden blockiert feindliche Schwertschwünge. Wer einmal unterliegt, beginnt von vorne: die komplette Burg mit den gleichen Monstern. Boss-Kampf reiht sich an Boss-Kampf. Einzige Abwechslung: Zwischen den ‘epischen’ Schlachten lassen sich Goldbeutel und Zauberpulver einsammeln. Nur so sind Waffen-Upgrade zu erlangen, die auch größere Fratzen-Panzer umhaut. That said, after playing through the same environment with the same enemies five times before I was strong enough to put the God King in his place, Infinity Blade was starting to wear a little thin. Die Story ist nicht beleidigend schlecht, unterbietet jedoch das literarische Talent gewöhnlicher Michael-Bay-Filmstreifen. Die Spielergemeinde erwartete “To infinity, and beyond!”-Momente. Vielleicht zu unrecht? Was bleibt ist ein durchaus kreativer Ansatz, der das Kampfgeschehen mit seiner Fingersteuerung soweit in den Mittelpunkt rückt, wie dies kein (oder nur ausgesprochen wenige) Konsolen-Spiele bislang taten. Dem zolle ich Respekt. Trotzdem sind wir keine Spur schlauer, was das iOS-Potenzial anbelangt. Mit ‘Rage‘ hatten wir einen Rail-Shooter, hier ist es ein ‘Rail-Schwertkampf’. Ein eigenmächtig zu beschreitender Trampelpfad hätte eine eindeutigere Aussage hinterlassen, als diese vorberechnete Mittelalter-Kulisse. Unter dem Strich bleibt eine schwer abzulehnende ‘Universal’-Anwendung, die graphische Höchstleistungen vollbringt, mit ihrem Gameplay jedoch in den Kinderschuhen feststeckt. Read More

By Chris Oldroyd, Tuesday, Nov 30, 2010 | Epic Games has announced that the long awaited iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad game, Infinity Blade, will be in the App Store on December 9. The game will be available for the iPad, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, as well as third- and fourth-generation iPod touch devices at a cost of $5.99. Infinity Blade will be the first full game to utilize Epic’s Unreal Engine 3. Epic Citadel, already available in the App Store, is a short demonstration level showing  the power of the Unreal Engine on iOS devices. If you haven’t seen it, it is free and definitely worth a look. [Free - iTunes Link] Infinity Blade is an RPG (Role Playing Game). You are a Knight in a giant 3D Castle environment, in search of a God-King, battling various enemies to gain new weapons and powers in your quest. So mark your calendar, this is one great looking game, my iPad is twitching with anticipation, who’s getting this one when it hits? Read More

I can’t write too much about this trailer because I’m still using one hand to hold my jaw up (after it dropped, y’know), but do take a look at what the folks who made Epic Citadel plan to release on the iOS platform. The video above is so pretty, it’s stupid. Sorry to the folks on iOS devices, though — this vid is Flash. Read More

We've been kind of going crazy with Infinity Blade news lately, but it's hard to not get excited for the first real game to come to the iOS platform that utilizes Unreal Engine 3 technology. Sure, Epic Citadel [Free] is an excellent display of the power of the platform, but it's little more than a tech demo. MTV Multiplayer also had some time with Chair creative director Donald Mustard and they were able to get even more details regarding just what we can expect of the game. Mustard confirms that the castle in is in fact different from the one found in , and went on to discuss the sword fighting nature of the game: He then goes on to describe Infinity Blade as "a blend between 'Karateka,' 'Dragon's Lair,' 'Punch-Out,' with a whole bunch of other 'Chair-ness' thrown into it." We'll be able to explore the castle for loot in between battles, and while we knew there was going to be free post-launch updates, I don't think anyone expected the amount that they're planning which Donald Mustard is describing as "like a constant stream of free content," citing games like Pocket God and Doodle Jump as examples of how well updating works. If you're as excited as we are about Infinity Blade, be sure to read the full interview and if you haven't already, take a look at the trailer we posted earlier today.   #3   Yesterday, 01:47 PM Senior Member iPad 2, OS 4.x Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Denmark Posts: 413 So good looking (apart from a bit of framerate drop when turning). But it is really beauiful and soothing. Nice stress reliever. I cant help but wish this was expanded to some kind of relaxing RPG with a goal. Anyways nice job. Love the nature. Quote: Originally Posted by Perhaps a shill post? Thanks for your comments and sharing your experience of using iPad. My daughters (5 and 9) also like very much playing with iPad and the only problem I see is keeping them from "bad" app which may harm instead of being bad - addictive games with no educational aspect. We are trying to make our apps useful for kids and teach them taking into account our own experience (almost all in our team have kids). I welcome you to LIKE us in FACEBOOK (http://www.facebook.com/MobileIgromatic?ref=tn_tnmn) to get to know about us, get promo codes Read More

Aunque ha quedado sobradamente demostrado que no hacen falta buenos gráficos para disfrutar de un juego en el iPhone, los creadores de Project Sword consiguieron dejarnos boquiabiertos con su proyecto en la Keynote de Apple. Demostraron de lo que son capaces este equipo de desarrolladores con el unreal engine 3 para iPhone. Ahora podemos leer en Touch Arcade, que el juego se llamará Infinity Blade y que estará disponible estas Navidades. Aún no se conocen más detalles, ni si quiera el precio al que nos lo encontraremos en la App Store. De lo que si estamos seguros es que será éxito de ventas y que conseguirá sorprender por sus gráficos a más de uno. No dudeis en descargaros la demo, Epic Citadel, si aún no lo habeis hecho para que os hagais una idea de lo que estamos hablando. Read More

Yes, it’s time for a new Apple iPad TV ad and as we said in the title, this time the iPad is electric!  The format remains the same though, as we’re treated to a variety of apps being used, some fingers being pointed, some typing and a sly aside concerning their competitors smaller tablets! The 30-second commercial features an array of apps, which we’ve gathered for you below, complete with a link to the iTunes store so you don’t have to go hunting. Some stock iPad applications are featured too, in the shape of Mail, iTunes University and Iron Man 2 playing as a video.  It’s also interesting to note that during the Epic Citadel spot we see two knights about to fight, something that happened during Epic’s demo, but not in the character-less version available at the moment. Enjoy the ad itself below: Read More

During last September's press event, representatives from Epic Games demonstrated "Project Sword," an impresive title running the Unreal Engine inside iOS. Today, that game has been re-named Infinity Blade and new screenshots have been released. Slide to Play notes that Infinity Blade will be the first iOS game to use the Unreal Engine 3. They expect it to hit both the iPad and iPhone "this holiday season." As for gameplay, expect the typical fantasy/medieval RPG stuff, like raging monsters, experience points, items galore and so on. In the new screenshots we see our hero battling a ridiculously oversized baddie. Let's hope that's a boss. Right now there's no word on pricing or a solid release date. If you just can't wait, check out the demo called Epic Citadel (free). It doesn't do much other than let you explore the town from a first-person perspective, but boy is it gorgeous, especially on a retina display. We'll let you know when Infinity Blade finally comes out. Read More