Electronics

Sherlock Holmes 1 – Murder at the Diogenes Club by newcomer developer AppEndix LLC entirely surprised the market by taking the Spanish iPad and iPhone charts in a storm, climbing to the No. 1 Game (all categories) and the No. 2 iPad App Overall (#6 iPhone) two days in a row! Numerous other Top 20 rankings in Europe (France, Germany, Switzerland) and an appearance in the Top 50 in the US complement the successful launch. Sherlock Holmes 1 is a book, and it’s a game, and a clue-hunting adventure.

Mac Game Store has announced it is having a Fall sale on select Electronic Arts games for the Macintosh. Visit Mac Game Store online now through Friday, October 26 to take advantage of instant deals on some of the hottest EA Mac games. Sale items include popular games such as The Sims 3, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, Dragon Age 2, and much more. Mac Game Store, is the most popular Mac gaming store on the Internet with over 2000 Mac games available for purchase.

Centuple Games today released their first iOS game Super Smart, a contemporary take on quiz games that introduces dynamics of modern gameplay to the traditional genre. With all the questions shorter than 40 characters, inclusion of modern gameplay elements like reward systems based on speed & accuracy and various power-ups to boost performance, Super Smart is the world’s first fast-paced, action-packed quiz game aimed at a younger generation.

With only two weeks until Halloween, parents are looking for fun activities for their children and Drawing Pad delivers. Available for a limited time via “in app purchase” is the professionally illustrated, 33 page, Halloween coloring book exclusive to the Drawing Pad app for iPad. Children are counting down the days until October 31st and during that time, they will enjoy using Drawing Pad app’s photo-realistic art supplies to color in Halloween themed artwork.

MonTowers has been aggressively climbing the charts since its entry into the App Store. MonTowers revolves around developing a stable of ferociously battle-hungry fantasy creatures, and then utilizing the talents of this monster force to take over the “MonTowers,” floor by floor. Having taken the number one spot in the Korean, Japanese and Chinese iTunes App Store, this addictive collect-and-conquer title is being offered as a free download.

Totmob, a division of Kinetics, has announced the release of the Plekos mobile game. The game, which is available for iOS and Android tablet devices and smart phones with larger screens, was launched on iTunes and Google Play earlier today. Plekos is a carefully crafted replica of a very traditional soccer game. In this mobile version the user can play against the machine, or against a friend on the same device. The game can also set up a championship for up to eight people on one device.

Faktron (Mobvil TM) announces the new release and availability of the new game, Magnetic Gems version 1.0 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The challenges of the game are to build the chains of gems and destroy the cloud of gems, to pass the stages while exploring a great diversity of levels. Players collect the chains of sparkling gems in the arcade mode, or practice skills in the endless mode, or participate in the championship.

The V&A will bring the glamour of the Hollywood Costume exhibition to app users this autumn with Hollywood Photobooth, a new camera overlay app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Hollywood Photobooth will allow anyone to instantly ‘wear’ the costumes as immortalised by some of the most iconic film characters from a century of Hollywood filmmaking. This light hearted and playful app features 16 specially-photographed costumes.

Fryza, LLC announces a Kickstarter campaign to help fund Kasimono for iOS And Mac OS X. After building apps and games for clients for a few years, Mark Price and Kevin Flint decided to go back to their gaming roots and build Kasimono. Not just another flick and smash, one-hit-wonder kind of game, Kasimono takes the best selling features of top games like Pokemon and mixes it with AAA, Unreal Engine, Infinity Blade, 3D quality.

Indie developer Dingo Games today releases their latest project Clumsy Cat 1.0.1. In this iOS game, players control a mischievous cat wreaking havoc in his owners’ house. Control the cat by flicking him to jump and tapping the screen to walk. It’s easy to leap up onto high shelves and push expensive objects to the floor. The cat’s owners will only be gone for a few minutes, so players will have to do as much damage as possible before they get back. How much destruction can one cat really do?