Normally $5.99, Rocking Pocket Games top-down helicopter shooter, Blue Skies Air Force Academy ($0.99 - Free Demo) has dropped to 99 cents. Blue Skies features 30 levels, powerups to aid your fight against blimps, helicopters, jets, and tanks, 10 different weapons, and a story.
In our review of Blue Skies, we gave the game 4 out of 5 stars, finding it a fun shooter that looks great and controls great using the accelerometer.
A gameplay video of Blue Skies can be watched below:
Namco has dropped the prices of all of their App Store games for a limited time only.
Another day, more games dropped in price to check out:
A number of games of interest have dropped in price:
TAG Games has made their spinning dizzy action puzzle game, Rock’n'Roll, available for free for today only (ends at Thursday, midnight PST.) Originally the game sells for 99 cents. The developer claims that due to a delay in the free Lite version of the game, they’re offering it for free so people can try the game out.
Set out on an epic quest to save your kidnapped best friend and have fun along the way in this AWARD WINNING arcade puzzle game!
Rock’n’Roll is an arcade game of rapidly spinning mazes and manic action everyone will enjoy! Just rotate the maze using motion or touch control to ROCK and ROLL!
If you liked Super Monkey Ball, Jewel Quest or Labyrinth you’ll love this!
GAME FEATURES
- Get physical with motion and touch
- 30 HUGE mazes to explore
- 3 stunning locations
- Two game modes - Quest and Clock
A number of games have seen some price drops this morning, here’s a bunch you’ll likely be interested in:
Originally being sold for $9.99, Spore: Origins ($7.99) from EA Mobile joins many other big-name games in dropping their price to $7.99. Although many are now finding $5.99 to be the new sweet spot. With gamers now setting the market prices based on demand (or lack thereof), we’re now seeing things start to balance themselves out in the App Store.
In Spore: Origins, you play as a single-celled organism, out to eat tiny DNA while avoiding predators that will eat you. As you grow and progress in levels, you can outfit your creature with new offensive, defensive, mobility, and eyesight parts to better protect yourself and defeat the predators. You can find our review of Spore: Origins here, where we gave it a 4 out of 5 stars.
You can watch a gameplay video of Spore: Origins in action below:
Manta Research has made their latest action/strategy game free, Virus (Free), likely for a limited time. Originally the game sold for 99 cents. You’ll find the gameplay similar to Expando on the iPhone/iPod Touch, or Filler on the internet, where you touch the screen to expand a circle (in this case, a white blood cell) while avoiding bouncing objects on the screen (viruses). Once a certain ratio of the screen is filled up, you complete the level and move on to the next, where more viruses appear and bounce around faster, increasing the challenge.
We found Virus to be a fun game with great visuals, sound effects, and features. It’s more polished than Expando, while providing real information about viruses that attack our bodies. IGN Wireless recently reviewed Virus and gave it a 7.5 out of 10.
The Tetris Company weren’t done when they went after and subsequently had Tris removed, as they went after Shaker (Free). Shaker was originally being sold in the App Store for $9.99 but is now free for the next 4 to 5 hours as it’ll be removed from the App Store soon, according to The iPhone Blog.
Many game developers that had legal threats sent to them usually had something in their name that caused the harassment to occur, but Shaker has nothing in its name to draw attention. Clearly The Tetris Company is trying to protect an idea for a game, rather than just the name.
Before the game starts choose how you want to control the game: Classic - by tapping buttons that appear on the screen below the play field, Stirred - by using simple finger gestures, and Shaken - by shaking your iPhone. As blocks fall down the playing field you can manipulate them, by moving sideways and/or rotating, with the goal of completing a row of objects without gaps. When such row is completed, it disappears, and any objects above the deleted row will fall. As the game progresses, the blocks fall faster, and the game ends when the stack reaches the top of the playing field, so no new blocks are able to enter. At the end of the game, if your score reaches the top-10 list one of 101 martini recipes stored in the program is randomly unlocked.
Rocking Pocket Games has reduced the price of their 2D top-down helicopter shooter, Blue Skies Air Force Academy ($2.99 - Free Demo) from $5.99 to $2.99. Last month, Blue Skies saw an update that gave the game a graphical overhaul and many other additions and fixes that made the game even better than it already was. You can see our review of Blue Skies Air Force Academy here.
A gameplay video of the game can be seen below:
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