Capcom has expanded its App Store catalog with a pair of sequels in its Ghosts ‘n Goblins and Cash Cab franchises.
Ghosts ‘n Goblins: Gold Knights 2 ($4.99) introduces a new playable character, Perceval, who boasts an arsenal of three weapons that can be charged for more powerful attacks. Gold Knights 2 also features an overhauled game engine, along with a tweaked control scheme offering customizable button placement.
Cash Cab: Las Vegas ($2.99) features 550 all-new trivia questions, many of which focus on Las Vegas culture. The game otherwise includes all of the features found in the original Cash Cab title, though downloadable question packs promise to keep the experience fresh. An enhanced iPad version is also available.
Tags: Action, capcom, cash cab, ghosts 'n goblins: gold knights, trivia
It’s a question that plagues us all, and has robbed us of countless hours of sleep: Who is smarter — Ultima creator and part-time astronaut Richard Garriott, or former Monkees member Michael Nesmith?
Ricochet Labs’ free trivia application QRANK has finally given us a definitive answer. Following a grueling trivia battle among a handful of celebrity competitors, Nesmith ranked in at second place, narrowly beating Austin, Texas mayor Lee Leffingwell. The top prize went to Deus Ex designer Harvey Smith, who has proven himself smarter than any living human.
Garriott, meanwhile, languished at seventh place. Tsk.
QRANK was released in the App Store today, and is now available as a free download for non-celebrity non-astronauts. The game allows players to compete with friends in brief, daily trivia challenges based largely on current events. You might enjoy it, even if you’ve never been a member of The Monkees.
Tags: Free Games, qrank, ricochet labs, trivia
Every Thursday, FingerGaming rounds up the most popular free iPhone and iPod Touch applications, as current that day on the iTunes App Store. This week’s top titles are:
- Knife Dancing
- Cool Curlings Lite
- Sex Positions Game
- Kingdoms Live
- Adult Sex Trick
- Glow Jump
- Air Assault
- Dots Online
- VH1′s I Love the ’80s Trivia
- Sunday Lawn
Apple’s decision to remove all sexually suggestive material from the App Store has resulted in a sudden rise in popularity for the iPhone’s few remaining sex-themed games.
Customer response, however, indicates that neither game featured in today’s top ten contains adult content. Both games will likely be removed in the coming days, pending Apple’s rumored introduction of an explicit apps category.
Knife Dancing leads as today’s top free download, as Cool Curlings enjoys a surge in popularity coinciding with the ongoing Winter Olympic Games. A points promotion for Kingdoms Live also earns a spot in today’s top ten, as last week’s chart leader Sunday Lawn drops to tenth place.
Tags: butts, charts, cool curlings, knife dancing, sunday lawn, top free apps
Following up on this week’s surprise smash hit Where’s Waldo?, publisher Ludia has released an iPhone adaptation of the popular TV game show Family Feud ($1.99).
Family Feud is a quiz show in which contestants must guess the most popular answers to a series of questions, based on random surveys of 100 people. The show itself is weirdly compelling in the corny sort of way pioneered by The Price is Right, and it’s infamous for some awe-inspiringly dumb answers on the part of its contestants. YouTube will back me up here.
Ludia’s iPhone version of Family Feud includes single-player and multiplayer gameplay modes, avatar customization, and a predictive text feature and automatic spell checker to keep gameplay moving at a quick pace. Just remember: “alligator” is not a three-letter word.
Tags: family feud, game show, ludia, trivia
The popular movie trivia franchise Scene It? made a somewhat questionable debut in the App Store last month.
I can understand why the decision was made — you need to go where the money is, after all — but I can also picture hardcore Scene It? fans being delighted to hear that their favorite series was coming to Apple’s handheld, only to be horrified seconds later after reading the words “Scene It? Twilight.”
For anyone who does not care to participate in a Twilightning Round, Screenlife has released its own iPhone adaptation of the franchise. Scene It? Movies ($0.99) includes significantly fewer Twilight questions, and instead focuses on films that don’t involve vampires playing baseball in the rain.
Scene It? Movies contains a large number of trivia questions relating to hit Hollywood films released over the last three decades, and includes a single-device multiplayer mode. Screenlife promises hours of “movie clips, images and custom puzzles designed to take full advantage of the latest iPhone features.”
Tags: board game, movies, scene it? movies, screenlife, trivia
The weekend beckons.
App Store prices are dropping
Like leaves in autumn.
Like it? Yeah, me neither. This weekend brings price drops for Dexter, QuizQuizQuiz and Mr. Driller, along with free Plus+ versions of Dr. Awesome and Topple 2.
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Tags: Free Games, Price Change, price drop, sale, weekend app sales
Trivia apps are usually the bane of my existence. Few are worthwhile. They litter the daily app release lists and are a waste of the time it takes to scroll past them. And I have a special loathing in my heart for that one guy who made literally hundreds of applications for individual trivia categories and thought it was a good idea to release them all on the same day.
QuizQuizQuiz ($1.99), on the other hand, is a breath of fresh air in the trivia genre. The game includes over 4,000 questions aimed at North American audiences, and an additional 24,000 for users in the UK, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. It also includes a smart feature that tracks which questions have already been asked, meaning that you won’t find a single repeat until you run through each category’s entire lineup.
They’re fun categories, too. Some examples: “The Hoff,” “Well Known Bears,” and “Music for Losers.” Multiple gameplay modes are included — “Beat the Clock” is a quick quiz that the creators recommend for bus rides, while “Challenge” mode pits your trivia skills against a competing player using the same set of questions.
With any luck, QuizQuizQuiz will prove to be such a robust offering that nobody will feel the need to create another Twilight or Harry Potter-specific iPhone quiz game ever again. And the world will be a better place.
Tags: four door lemon, quizquizquiz, trivia
Hysteria Project and My Brute developer Bulkypix has released its latest iPhone title — the trivia game Daily Quizz ($1.99).
Unlike many trivia apps, you’re not likely to see a repeat question in Daily Quizz…or at least, not in your first 365 days of play. Daily Quizz tailors its trivia to the current date, and challenges players with questions about famous events that have occurred on that date throughout history.
Daily Quizz boasts more than 1,800 questions in all, and includes Facebook Connect functionality and a worldwide leaderboard for maximum bragging rights.
Tags: bulkypix, daily quizz, trivia
Every week, FingerGaming rounds up the most popular free iPhone and iPod Touch applications, as current that day on the iTunes App Store. This week’s top titles are:
- Rollercoaster Rush Free
- What Would You Choose? Party Game
- Toobz-Free
- Blowfish
- Unblock Me Free
- World War Free
- Shift Lite
- Amateur Surgeon Lite Edition
- Fishing Frenzy
- Wild West Free
Digital Chocolate tops this week’s charts with Rollercoaster Rush, a recently released action title adapted from a Facebook application. LOLriffic Stuff’s trivia party game What Would You Choose? follows at second place, as the Pipe Dream-like puzzler Toobz-Free comes in at third.
Trippert Labs’ Blowfish returns to the charts at fourth place this week, beating out last week’s chart champion Unblock Me Free. Shift Lite debuts at seventh in today’s rankings (resulting in a boost in popularity for the paid version), while Amateur Surgeon Lite and Fishing Frenzy drop to eighth and ninth place.
Tags: charts, Free Games, rollercoaster rush, toobz-free, top free apps, what would you choose?
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I can think of plenty of board games I’d like to see ported to the iPhone, but I’m not sure that Trivial Pursuit would be my first request. However, that same unassuming nature of Trivial Pursuit—you know, the age old board game where you wander around a circle, snagging pieces of pie and taunting your friends—ultimately makes it a fantastic iPhone port, featuring a wealth of modes, a serious challenge, and some fantastic visual flair.
Trivial Pursuit offers several modes: individual games against AI, a challenge mode where you have to work through changing maps within a fixed number of moves, wi-fi multiplayer, and a local “pass and play†mode.
These modes recreate the spirit of Trivial Pursuit quite well, winding players through the traditional board while offering some difficult (and impressively contemporary) questions.
While the multiplayer modes more or less speak for themselves, the single-player “Pursuit Mode†is worth mentioning. Here, the player has to move through increasingly difficult and more complex maps within a fixed number of moves. Correct and quick answers propel the player forward, while incorrect and slow answers only advance the player one square.
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Tags: board games, electronic arts, trivial pursuit
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