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...more like Neverupdatesaurus, right? A buddy and I decided to take advantage of Jet Blue's All You Can Jet pass. It allows you to fly around as much as you want with Jet Blue for a month. During my trip I'll be hitting up Washington DC, Boston, New York, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Mexico. I've been preparing for it the past few days and will be taking off here in a few more days. Between this, having just moved and starting up school there hasn't been a whole lot of time for iPhone games! Upon my return (early October) my schedule will be a little different, but it'll be concrete and consistent with no major life changing events. I will have settled in to my new place by then and life will resume back to normal.

I can't imagine that thousands of games I'll miss during my month long trip but I'm looking forward to coming back and having a wealth of top notch titles waiting for me to download. You guys have a great month. As always you're welcome to email me but it might be quite sometime until I'm able to get back to ya. See you when I get back.
 

 

It's funny. Games that normally fly under my radar and are ultimately forgotten suddenly get a resurgence of life as soon as they go on an insane sale or are offered for free. Suddenly you start telling your friends to give it a shot, they start rising in the charts, the game gets more face time and fun is had by all. Welcome to another one of those occasions!

Asteroid BBQ, previously 99¢, most closely resembles top down shooters like Geometry Wars. You control a ship on a flat plane, shoot enemies, avoid taking damage and try to last as long as you can while racking up points. The formula is simple but it's fun. Now admittedly I haven't explored everything Asteroid BBQ has to offer, but I don't have to and neither do you. It's free, pick it up and play around until you feel like moving onto something else. That's the beauty of a free download! Have fun.

We have a lot to be grateful for. The App Store Gods have been good to us once again. They've bestowed upon us yet a couple of worthwhile price drops. The price drops come in the form of Gameloft's Castle of Magic and Rise of Lost Empires. As of today you can now pick up both titles for only a buck. The last few Gameloft price drops have been permanent, so I have reason to believe that these aren't likely to pop back to their former price of $2.99 anytime soon, if ever. 

Holy crap I've been busy the past couple of weeks! Family coming in from out of town, house hunting like a mad man and now actually moving! I've been fairly out of the loop with iPhone gaming over the past week or so since I've been so busy. The last thing I downloaded was Bubble Bobble and I've been loving it! Whenever I find myself waiting around or between breaks lugging boxes I've busted that out and can get a few quick rounds in. Aside from that there's SO many games that have come out over the past couple of weeks that I can't wait to try out. Things have calmed down a bit, I got my little office setup and JUST got the internet going maybe a half hour ago. Posts should be flowing a lot more regularly from here on out. Looking forward to getting back into things.

Retro Dreamer has a post outlining their concerns over pirated copies of their game Sneezies (99¢). While they were unable to find a true figure for how many copies of their game have been pirated they have a rough idea, about 5-10%. How did they find out? In Sneezies they have a news section with up to date info. They point pirate versions to a different update and acquired the stats by how many times the pirate update was accessed. The message?

That's the nicest, most non-threatening way of saying "buy our shit" ever. I think the personalized message for pirates was pretty clever and I hope it creates a few more sales for them. Any other game out there doing something similar?