PixelWorld #1

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PixelWorld #1 (free) by Appnormals (indie development)

Available on iPhone & iPod Touch

Dear comic book nerds: if you pride yourselves on knowing everything about every superhero and comic book character known to man, get this app and put your money where your mouth is! Ok, there’s no money involved because the app is free, but this is a really tough comic quiz. It tests your knowledge of characters from comic book lore with big, blocky pixelated renderings and you have to fill in the blanks.


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The Terminator: Death Valley

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I just got done writing about an app called Ballerina, so now I need to overcompensate with something far more manly: Dark Horse Comics’ Terminator comic book!

The Terminator: Death Valley was just released in the App Store yesterday and if waiting for Terminator: Salvation to hit movie theaters is killing you, this is your chance to get a little robot fix to tide you over for the next couple of weeks. As an iPhone app it does just about everything right… you can jump to any of the 87 pages in this first installment, you can change the page transitions as you swipe from screen to screen, and you can auto-play the story if you’re not in the mood to swipe. The one thing you can’t do is zoom in on the artwork… not a big deal for me, but I was kind of thinking that would be built in. Hmm.

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