App Roundup: games, games and more games

There are more than 10,000 games on the App Store, according to Apptism. That’s 20% of all apps released on the store: how the hell do you decide which one to buy? We can’t help you there, but we can keep serving you up reviews of recently released games so you can decide for yourself. We spent the week fumbling around with 5 of them: Tradewinds 2, Castle Of Magic, Archon, Jungle Bloxx, and Pocket Gold. Read on for our impressions

App #1: One of the safest things to do for game developers is port an existing PC hit onto the iPhone. That’s what Handmark, Inc.

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  Pocket projectors — if they aren’t quite ‘all the rage’ — crop up all over the place these days. Beambox has teamed up with MiLi (makers of some fine iPhone chargers) on this newest one…
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  You know what’d sell like a cold glass of water in hell? A $199.99 BlackBerry Tour on Verizon, that’s what — and it looks like that might be what the carrier’s planning to unleash…
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  While a nice, toasted brown color signalizes a perfectly done marshmallow to yours truly, it’s a bit alarming when it’s streaked across the back of an iPhone 3GS. Now…
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  iPhone 3.0 apps are still dropping fast and furious, left and right, cats and dogs, etc, but there’s some reprieve for non-3.0 stragglers this week, too. Morning music? Personal broadcasting? Smug food habits? It’s all here.
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  There’s some buzz right now about the iPhone 3G S and other phones being capable of 720p recording, or perhaps even 1080p if they use the newest sensors. Wow! The future…

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