Category: iPod / iPhone Apps

Posted on: June 7, 2010 Posted by: Jesse_Hayges Comments: 0

Thumbplay Review (iPhone App)

ThumbPlay music is a streaming app for the iPhone, one of the first to be available in the US. This app is free to download and can be tethered to your ThumbPlay account online. This will provide you with unlimited streaming for $9.99 a month. A fair price I’m sure, but seeing as how Pandora is free, or $36 dollars a year, I’m not sure it’s a bargain. It does…

Posted on: June 6, 2010 Posted by: Jesse_Hayges Comments: 0

Chaos Rings (iPhone Game)

Square Enix has a reputation for excelence in the RPG genre of gaming, and in one of their more recent efforts, Chaos Rings for the iPhone platform, they hit that mark yet again. With quite a long history of making some of the best RPG’s out there, on just about every system, it’s no surprise that their latest iPhone endeavor would capture a die-hard RPG fan’s attention. With superior graphics,…

Posted on: May 31, 2010 Posted by: Jesse_Hayges Comments: 0

Pocket Creatures (iPhone)

Once upon a time, in a land only fourty-five miles away from here, there once lived a young boy. He watched digi-mon, and saw other children of the same age playing with tamagotchi’s. Jealousy grew within the boy, then during that summer he grew up and was no longer interested in having his own little “pocket monster”. Fast forward to today – that boy is now a young man and…

Posted on: May 26, 2010 Posted by: Jesse_Hayges Comments: 0

Checker Kingdoms: A Review (iPhone Game)

In the new game ‘Checker Kingdoms’, by developer Centurion Games, one will find a multitude of reasons for which the stock value for your favorite headache remedy of choice is about to sky rocket. Whether it’s Tylenol, Advil, or bourbon, if this game hits the mainstream for any reason – stock owners of said companies will rejoice. Having been adorned with a $0.99 price tag here in the US, at…

Posted on: May 16, 2010 Posted by: Jesse_Hayges Comments: 1

The Game Trail: A Review (iPhone Application)

In the new effort from Fabrication Games comes an App that’s not a game at all, but instead a rather useful tool for gamers to find, discover, and be informed about the games available in the AppStore. The App, ‘The Game Trail’, is a straight forward concept; use any one of the five options to discover new games, or using the search and genre functions – find exactly the game…

Posted on: May 5, 2010 Posted by: Jesse_Hayges Comments: 0

Hollywood Undead App Review: A Practice In Moderation (iPhone Application)

***First a note: I would like to make it perfectly clear that I am not critiquing the band Hollywood Undead in this review. I would also like to further state that I have NEVER heard their music. So, therefore, I am judging this App strictly on it’s own merits. That being said, I would like to explain that the sub-title is there as a note to myself – “everything in…

Posted on: April 28, 2010 Posted by: Jesse_Hayges Comments: 2

FlickTweets Review (iPhone)

“I figure the odds be fifty-fifty” – Frank Zappa (From the song “Fifty-fifty”) While the song is by far much cooler and also far more ‘indie’ than this app, the quote seems to sum up my thoughts on this release from FlickTweets. The app is simple in its execution, and it does what it promises, but I do have my doubts about it. I also have some grievances as well.…