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  • SketchNation: DIY iPad gaming plus a giveaway

    SketchNation: DIY iPad gaming plus a giveaway

    If you've dreamt all your life of blowing up your third-grade teacher with spitball guns, your prayers have been answered. SketchNation is a surprisingly odd game that allows you to select all of the sprites in gameplay. You can set your own character sprite (a spitball gun, for example), the sprites for the bullets or spitballs, and even set up a boss image (your third-grade teacher). You then fly through a hail of bullets until you beat the game. Apparently you can also blow up Walt Mossberg and David Pogue, for whatever reason. Those men are saints. Anyway, if you'd like to try it out, comment below. I'll send codes to five lucky, random readers. Viel Glück!

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  • The Sing-A-Ma-Jigs from Fisher-Price: Hold your ears

    The Sing-A-Ma-Jigs from Fisher-Price: Hold your ears

    When I went into the Fisher Price area of Mattel’s large booth at the Toy Fair, I was sure I was in the wrong. Some insane screeching pierced my eardrums there, a howling so unearthly that I needed to go, to run as fast and as far as I could. I steeled myself and soldiered [...]

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  • In-App Purchase In Free Apps: A Shot Across The Bow of iPhone Piracy?

    In-App Purchase In Free Apps: A Shot Across The Bow of iPhone Piracy?

    Just hours ago, Apple made an announcement that has developers everywhere dancing down their collective, metaphorical street: In-App Purchase is now good to go in free applications. This, of course, comes just months after Apple essentially told a room full of journalists that such ideas were nonsense – that free apps should always remain absolutely [...]

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