Controversial freemium game Real Racing 3 was released in the U.S. App Store tonight, after being tested in several international App Stores. Real Racing 3 is the highly anticipated followup to Real Racing 2, with real cars, photorealistic tracks, and online time shifted multiplayer gameplay. Unlike earlier games in the series, Real Racing 3 is free to play, with time-based freemium...
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Haze, a new weather app from Robocat, offers up a clean, colorful design and animated backgrounds that accompany weather forecasts. It is similar in appearance to weather app Solar, but Haze incorporates touch gestures allowing users to navigate through information like temperature, sunrise and sunset times, rain predictions, and wind factor. Despite its surprisingly minimal appearance,...
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Last week, Apple pulled the 500px photo sharing app from the App Store over concerns about “artistic” nude photographs on the service. Today, according to reports from both TechCrunch and 500px’s Twitter feed, the app has returned to the store. The app returns with an age-gate warning, advising that the content in the app is for 17+ audiences, and also adds a new “Report...
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Twitter’s six-second video sharing app Vine made headlines early this morning after The Verge discovered that an ‘Editor’s Pick’ clip within the app linked to pornographic content. Vine’s Editor’s Picks are curated content and are therefore displayed at the top of the app, which means a large portion of Vine’s users saw the feed containing the inappropriate...
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TouchArcade notes the appearance of an arcade game called Gridlee in the App Store. Gridlee is a 1983 arcade game that was never officially released, but the code was later released for free for non-commercial usage in 2001. The App Store app uses MAME 0.139u1 (MAME4iOS) to provide the emulation engine for the game. MAME is a popular arcade machine emulator that will run thousands of arcade...
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