Cool guitar solos and hot platforming gameplay at your fingertips

Run and Rock-it Kristie is a colorful auto-running platformer with a couple of original ideas and design choices. The premise is simple: Kristie is late to the show and needs your help on her breakneck run to reach the stage to give a spectacular guitar performance for her fans.

The game starts as a classic platformer, teaching new players the basics, but gradually increases difficulty by introducing new gameplay elements like air-vent bumpers, springy balloons, hazardous spikes and enemies as well as new mechanics like wall-sprinting, rope-sliding and attacking.

Controls are single-touch in the first tour and two-touch for the rest of the game – one for jumping and one for attacking. Mastering the controls is essential and here is why. The game comes with 30 bite-sized levels. Those who are simply looking to fly through all levels will be able to do it in a couple hours. But if you’re looking to perfect each one, you definitely won’t do it in one sitting.

Each stage has collectibles in the form of musical notes and golden stars which when collected together add up to a hundred points. Finish with all collectibles and you’ll be rewarded with a unique guitar solo performed by Kristie. The collectibles are placed all over the stage and is takes a bit of exploration to find all of them.

What it means is you’ll need to dash through each stage several times before finding out the route to pull off the perfect run which might sound tedious but comes with a definite feeling of satisfaction once you manage to successfully do it.

The game looks very good, features a variety of time of year, weather and time of day setups and has an original up-beat soundtrack.

While unlocking guitar solos is cool, sometimes it’s not enough to make you genuinely want to beat each stage perfectly. The developer is planning to add different character outfits to the game as a sort of a more “visual” reward for players. That’s actually a good idea, since it’ll create an additional incentive to beat stages perfectly for those who are more interested in looks, rather than audio goodness.

The verdict

Run and Rock-it Kristie has very easy controls, but can be challenging if you’re really willing to put your skills to the test. The game rewards skillful players with original guitar solos and lets you get access to all features and future updates with just a single in-app purchase. Try it; it’s a free download after all.

App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/app/id1021084072

Improve How You Manage Business with the Wrike iOS Project Management App

Move over Blackberry: the iPhone has truly become the de facto business phone for on-the-go professionals. We’re a bit biased, but it’s been our experience that the majority of iOS apps just work without a lot of hassle or headaches. Now if you’re looking for a great productivity app to download, we’re dying to introduce you to Wrike.

This isn’t a company that just barely sticks their toes in the waters of time management and project management. They are fully committed to continually improving their product to help entrepreneurs, teams, and businesses reclaim their time and manage projects from anywhere in the world. The Wrike iOS app is a newer offering, currently at version 2.1.4., and they’re continually working on bringing more and more of the desktop features to the app. But overall, this is a company that has really tried to go above and beyond in providing project management empowerment, education, and real-world advice.

Here’s what you can do in the Wrike iOS app:

* Get instant access to all your projects and tasks.

* Enjoy seamless integration between the web-based online project management software and your iOS version.

* Easily process a lot of tasks by just swiping left or right. This is one of our favorite features, because it makes it easy to manage a huge work list. If you need to schedule a task, swipe left. If you need to modify it in any other way, swipe right.

* We think the flexible tagging and categorization is one of the best project management tools offered by Wrike. Color coding on tags is something that we were happy to see, as it’s an easy way to quickly track down your priorities. You could have one color for your most urgent projects, another color for “maybe some day” tasks, and so forth. 52 colors (plus a “no color” option) means the sky is the limit.

Overall, we really liked the feel of the Wrike iPhone app. Of course, we’re not the only group out there talking about Wrike. Even entrepreneur Redfoo (from the popular music duo LMFAO) uses Wrike to manage his creative business, and went on video to talk about how he uses the software.

If you’re trying to make better use of your time and manage your projects more efficiently, Wrike is definitely a tool that can help you achieve that. However, we will say that as with any productivity app, it takes the right mindset to improve how you manage your time and work. Consistent action and determination will lead you to success with any app, but we feel that Wrike stands out at the top of the pack.

Besides, you’re on an iPhone! Put that gorgeous retina display to good use with a great app, and take care of your projects with finesse. Go on and check it out today; you might be amazed by how it helps improve the way you work.

Pool Empire – Don’t Miss This Game with over 8,000,000 Fans Recommendation!

Introduction

With people from around the world to play with, the ability to challenge your friends, high quality graphics and beautiful cues and tables, Pool Empire represents a lifelike pool stage for you and fills your pool need right from your mobile phone. You can experience fun, joy and challenge whenever you are online or offline.

Graphics

The graphics and special effects make the game feel so realistic. It looks elegant and the aestetics of the lighting in the game gives it a feeling of depth.

The balls in the game deserve a mention as they look like real spheres and not like a low poly count model. They do capture the sense of what a real sphere do in the real world, they are not just icons on the screen.

Gameplay

Pool Empire, based on American 8 ball rules, is a pool game with multiple gameplays, such as 1 vs.1, 8-player Competition, Bluetooth Battle, AI Battle, 14-1 Mode and so on.

You can play online in a one-on-one competition against another player in the world, or you can simply challenge your own friend. Also, you can just play offline if you don’t have an Internet connection or you just want to practice before playing with others.

According to Pool Empire’s Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/poolempire), a new version is coming. There will be some innovative gameplays, such as Puzzle Mode and Time-limited Mode and so on. Let’s wait and see.

Special Game Features

There are some extra special features worth noting. The mini games in the app provide you opportunities to win rewards. Meanwhile, you can record a video while playing and upload to community to share your winning. Continue reading →

Ready for a Feast of Dazzling Puzzles? Black Island Delivers In Spades

Let a gamer chill with you for a few hours, and eventually you’ll get to a topic that’s near and dear to every gamer’s heart: retro games. Specifically, adventure games. Who hasn’t grown up hacking and slashing their way across a world map? But today’s adventure games have gotten a big boost thanks to the iOS platform. Hey, we have no problem with Android phones around here, but it’s all about the iPhone and iPad as far as we’re concerned.

Let’s give you a new adventure game to sink your teeth into. This one is designed for the iOS platform, although there are alternate versions for the other systems. The game featured today is Black Island. We know: mild name, nothing really to see here…until you sit down and play.

Here’s the basics: it’s all about the point and tap, with heavy coats of storytelling. You get to look around for specific items and solve creative puzzles within the game. Don’t fail your quest, or you’ll never move forward in the game!

What’s really intriguing about Black Island is that there are short little video clips that extend the story beyond just the words, something that we thought was very clever. If you’ve played something like Skyrim, then you understand the importance of mini-movies within a game. It can bring an otherwise flat game to life in a matter of seconds. For well-crafted games like Black Island, it’s really just a buildup of interesting flavors that lead to something even more intriguing than before.

Black Island isn’t just for the Indiana Jones types in the audience; if you love to solve mysteries and always seem to know who the masked villain is before the big reveal, you’ll enjoy the challenge of this game just fine.

What we found most interesting is how the old and new were respected as the story unfolds. You have some strong elements of retro gaming, but not so much so that you can’t feel the modern overtones as well. This isn’t just for people wanting to relive the golden era of gaming; it’s for teens that need to have something interesting to play while they’re waiting on their parents. OK, the rest of us can play too, but if you have young gamers in the house you might have to wrestle your iPhone away…

This game is currently free until October 15th, giving you time to check out the game without having to remember a promo code.

The game is divided into three chapters. The first chapter starts out with a mysterious beginning: a lonely watchtower that shows the island perfectly, but you still can’t just climb it. How do you get up there without a ladder? You’ll just have to play and find out!

Download the game on the App Store

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Experience the world of Throne of Spirits!

Do you like RPGs but are tired of the endless grinding? Do you wish having an engaging game on your mobile device? Don’t worry, there is a solution for this.

The game, the team, the battle

Throne of Spirits offers a unique experience which draws influence from games such as Final Fantasy and Fire Emblem. Yes, you heard correctly. The game offers a turn-based strategy-RPG experience with appealing battle system and large pool of obtainable characters. Moreover, the graphics are colorful and offer delightful, yet dynamic, details such as moving wings in the character portraits. As for the team, you have a possibility to use up to five characters. As the player levels up, slots for three supporting spirits will become available in order to utilize spirits’ powerful combo skills. In addition,the player is allowed to use one friend as a helper. For new players: don’t worry, there is no need to have a full friend list as you can use strangers to help you out! The battle system offers strategic stimulus as team members are turned into chess-like pieces which are moved around the battlefield and have different roles. However, contrary to chess, these roles don’t affect spirit’s movement, but its attack range and possible skills. As a team leader, the players is able to cast various spells in order to help the team to win fights. Overall, Throne of Spirits values player’s tactical skills over the endless grinding.

Various modes open for further discovery

Throne of Spirits offers a few basic modes, namely Normal and Elite dungeon, which are accessible from the beginning. As the player levels up, more modes will be playable such as Special dungeon in the storyline. Moreover, modes such as Bounty, Treasure Cave, Mage Tower and Mythic Forest enable access to multiple resources. For competitive souls, Mine and Colosseum offer possibility to battle against other fellow players and test the strength of their teams. As this wasn’t enough, the guild provides possibility to play together, with friends or strangers, in order to complete guild specific dungeons.

Collect barbarians, goblins and Gods

As mentioned above, the character pool for Throne of Spirits is massive as it contains over 300 spirits. There are, for example, humans, barbarians, goblins and robots. Furthermore, these spirits are classified into different classes such as warriors, assassins, lancers, archers, healers and even pets to lighten the day. These spirits are assigned into various rarity levels from normal to super rare. If the player is lucky, a God might appear and further strengthen the team. The obtained spirits can be equipped and evolved, enabling boost to their statistics.

Why you should download?

The battle system, the characters and free-to-play – these are only a few reasons. Moreover, as explained above, Throne of Spirits has a diverse playing environment that keeps on expanding as players progress, to keep the user experience ever-changing and rewarding. There aren’t too many similar free-to-play RPGs with real-time PVP and therefore, Throne of Spirit is worth trying. The game can be found in App Store by following this link.

Best mobile apps and gadgets to manage your money on the move

Keeping an eye on your spending habits can be one of the safest ways to stay out of debt, and we all know that prevention is better than cure. If you are suffering from debt, keeping a track of your budget – and sticking to it – is essential in order to avoid the spiral of debt that could end up costing you a lot more than you originally intended.

Are there any apps and gadgets that can help you manage your finances?

Many of us will keep some sort of budgeting system, whether it’s a traditional pen and paper job or something more technological – even using a custom spreadsheet on your home computer can be one of the simplest and most successful ways to keep track of your household budget. But when are we most likely to spend money? When we’re out and about, of course! Having a spreadsheet or accounts book at home is all well and good but having access to your personal budget while you’re on the move is even better.

Aside from signing up to the relevant mobile banking services from your personal bank, you should also investigate the range of mobile apps on the market for keeping track of your personal budget. If you’re one of those keen Apple fans who recently managed to get their hands on a brand new iPhone 6, you’ll be pleased to know that there are a host of useful home budget applications available to download for the iPhone.

Best budget management apps

1) If you’re a student, opt for the My Student Budget Planner, a simple and easy-to-use little app that keeps track of the most essential components of any student’s finance: loans, grants, wages, savings and outgoings.

While not the most complex application, it allows you to organise yourself with a weekly budget (great if you work part-time or are paid weekly) and rapidly update your budget with outgoings. You can also see your expenditure and budget for a total yearly period – again, great for students who work on a slightly different timetable to regular workers.

2) For those wanting something fairly simple to keep track on their budget whilst out, rather than a fully comprehensive budget application, the Budget Me Free application is excellent. Presenting your information in a clear visual format, you set your monthly budgets for a variety of expenses (including groceries, eating out, and utilities) and input expenditure as you go along. Continue reading →

Fluttabyes

From the moment you launch Fluttabyes and the game’s logo starts dancing to the incredibly cheerful theme tune, it’s almost impossible not to start bobbing your head along with it!

Fluttabyes is a bright, family-friendly, “Connect 4” type game. You must match four or more butterflies of the same colour so that they can fly-away. You goal depends on which of the five game-modes you choose to play:

Survival

Matching butterflies earns you time as well as points and when the matched butterflies fly away, the grid is filled up again. Your time remaining is represented by the seeds on a dandelion; when all the seeds have blown away: it’s game over! If you match enough of a certain colour then you can earn a bonus Ladybird and if you match the maximum possible number of butterflies, you earn a Rainbow Butterfly.

Endless

This could also be called “Survival Practice” because it’s the same as Survival but without the time limit. This is a great place to learn how to earn the Ladybird and Rainbow Butterfly and then see what effect they have on the game grid.

Solitaire

In this mode, when you successfully make a match and the butterflies fly away, they are not replaced. Your goal is to clear the grid of all butterflies as quickly as possible.

Drop

Butterflies fall from the top of the grid at an ever increasing rate. It starts off slow but after approximately one minute it can get quite hectic! The aim is to last as long as you can.

Rush

In the final game mode, there is a fixed time limit of 60 seconds to obtain the highest score you can. To help you, the bonus Ladybirds and Rainbow Butterflies are easier to obtain.

All game-modes have an associated Game-Center Leader-Board so you can compete with your friends and all other players around the world.

If you want to try-before-you-buy there is a free version of the game called “Fluttabyes Free” which limits you to 60 seconds of Survival mode.

Both the full version and free version can be downloaded here:

https://itunes.apple.com/artist/red-chain-games-ltd/id848995108

Do Not Forget Your Pills takes over the apple watch!

Last month, in March, we wrote about the app “Do Not Forget Your Pills” an amazing application that helps you remember all the medication, pills and vitamins you have to take throughout the day. But “Do Not Forget Your Pills” does a lot more: unlike many other Pill Reminder Apps, this one let’s users create many different plans for medication for different members of their family.

Here is a quick reminder and overview of what “Do Not Forget Your Pills” can do:

Create schedules and notifications for all medications
Set well-structured plans: exact timing, intervals, dosage
Manage calendars for many users
Manage reminders in a flexible system

The Apple Watch

And now: what you have all been waiting for: Do Not Forget Your Pills is nowadays available for the Apple Watch, too! Apple Watch Users can now manage their incoming reminders directly on their wrists.

Via the Apple Watch one can snooze or postpone the incoming reminders, as well as mark them as done. Furthermore, you can see all the medication that needs to be taken within a certain time period.

How it works

As users are used to already, they will create their plans and those for others on their iPhone. They can input intervals, dosage and other details about the medication being taken. Furthermore, the app allows the option of customizing the ring tone for reminders, among other great features.

The Apple Watch App will then automatically synchronize the plans created on the iPhone to the Apple Watch of the user, where s/he will from now on see all the reminders for the medication.

Once a reminder appears on the Apple Watch Screen, the user can choose between three different options to manage the reminder:

Done
Cancel
Later

Like this, the reminders will always reach the Apple Watch user in time, making it impossible to miss your next intake of medication!

Like this, you are free to enjoy your day without having constantly to worry about when to take your next medication: Do Not Forget Your Pills will take care of timing and reminders for you. You can just sit back relax and enjoy your brand-new Apple Watch!

Have fun!

This is the link to the app. Get it today!

Clean Up Your Music Library Easily With Skiplayer

With great power comes responsibility, as the old comic book legend goes. You might not be a hidden superhero trying to fight crime and still maintain a sense of normalcy, but now you can clean up your music library on the go without missing out on the songs that you actually want to hear.

It’s a problem that music buffs have complained about for a while: just how do you clean out songs that you don’t want to hear anymore, without it taking hours and hours away from the things you want to do? Listening to music is supposed to be pleasurable, but when you can’t hear your jams on party shuffle, things get frustrating fast.

Enter Skiplayer, the iPhone app that lets you skip over those pesky songs forever — without taking away from your music experience.

You can use this app in the car as well, and it’s far safer than trying to smash a bunch of tiny buttons. We’ve already dealt with that with the first generation of car audio systems, and it’s an era that just needs to go away already. The entire phone screen becomes a play button. If you want to skip a song, you just have to double press the FWD button in the car.

Tired of trying to make the perfect playlist? Skiplayer understands. Everything is just shuffled from the music library, and you can skip over the songs you don’t like. Swipe gestures make sifting through a big library a breeze, and it helps you get back to the music you really want to hear.

What we like about Skiplayer is that it’s an app that’s as pretty as it is functional. Careful planning has been taken to the app’s usability: you get a full screen’s worth of great looking artwork, along with cool blurred backgrounds. The music also keeps playing in the background as you flip through songs and otherwise navigate through the system. This feature makes it perfect for students trying to study. They can fill their headphones with the songs they want to hear, skip over the ones they don’t, and have time to focus a bit more on the actual study sesh.

You can always add songs to a favorite list, saving it from being skipped over forever. Of course, if you want to rescue a song from the forever alone bucket, you can do that too.

The app supports iPhone 5, 6, and 6+, as well as all iPods. The full-screen controls make this app a joy to use, and we highly recommend real music buffs to check it out from the iTunes store as soon as possible. You can also visit the info page here.

Will you master the Cannon?

Welcome to Cannon Ballistix, the next best physics based game to hit the App Store.

Whether you’re relaxing, waiting, bored OR just in need of something fun to pass the time, then this is definitely the game for you. It’s very easy to learn, challenging to master BUT even harder to put down.

The objective of the game is pretty straight forward, ‘fire the cannonball through the porthole’. THAT’S IT!!! … How hard could it be?! Adjust the cannon Angle, set the cannon Power and FIRE AWAY!!!

It sounds simple enough, but with obstacles like WIND, WALLS, REBOUND PADS and MOVING PORTHOLES, this game is definitely a lot more challenging than you may think.

-The WIND speed and angle will alter the flightpath of the cannonballs,
-The WALLS will deny you a direct shot to the porthole,
-The REBOUND PADS must be struck at the precise angle and with the perfect amount of power for the cannonballs to be able to bounce through the porthole, and
-A MOVING PORTHOLE means only one thing, timing of the shot is a must.

Cannon Ballistix begins with some pretty basic levels, here you will learn the ins and outs of the game, with a little added help from some tutorial popup notes along the way. These notes will explain everything from the Angle Button to the Score to Winning Bonus Balls.

As the game progresses the levels and episodes become more challenging, to the extent where you will need to fire a cannonball through a wall, onto a rebound pad and out through a moving porthole, all whilst having to allow for the wind direction and speed. So in other words be prepared for some brain strain.

With the variety of obstacles, a unique scoring system, bonus balls, loveable graphics, entertaining sound effects, catchy music and much more, you’ll understand exactly why Cannon Ballistix is a must have gaming app.

With over 100+ levels still to come and a Multiplayer option, you’d be crazy not to jump on board now and begin the path to becoming a Cannon Ballistix Master.

Cannon Ballistix is FREE and available NOW on the iTunes App Store, so get DOWNLOADING.

Here are the links:

iTunes store link : https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/cannon-ballistix/id988296829?mt=8

Official Website: http://cannonballistix.com
Facebook – Cannon Ballistix Page
Instagram – Cannon_Ballistix
Twitter – @CannonBallistix

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