Life is Crime, Little Empire, Frintr and Urban Crime
Location-based games, better than augmented reality?
Fri, 20/01/2012 - 15:32 by Peter MeehanA new year, a new chance for some amazing apps and games right? Um, yeah-ish. We've got a collection of the latest things that you can find on your phones and tablets to waste even more of your life. The Scramble With Friends, which is the new Words With Friends, Frinti which makes picture mosaics from your friend's profile pics and the classic beat 'em up, Soul Calibur.
Wikipedia - Android
Overshadowed by Wikipedia's little 'stunt' this week was the release of its Android app. Allowing you to share articles and save articles for reading offline, you'll never have to worry about not having access to factually-questionable articles again.
Frintr - iPhone/iPad
Y'know that thing where a picture is made using a mosaic of loads of little photos? Well Frintr makes a picture of your choosing using the profile pictures of your Facebook friends, which may lose you a lot of creeped-out Facebook friends.
Cupidtino - iPhone
Are you a lonely Apple fanboy/girl? Do you want to share your love of Apple with like-minded people of the opposite sex with the possibility of having sex while thinking about the shiny MacBook Air? Well, your dream is set to come true with Cupidtino, the most depressing of dating apps out there.
And the best games this week:
Soul Calibur - iPhone/iPad
The famous beat 'em up from Namco lands on iOS. "Relive the eternal tale of swords and souls transcending time and space" with 19 characters and moves all kept faithful to the original.
Little Empire - Android
Declaring itself the "world's first LBS (Location Based Services) mobile MMO game in 3D" which means that it uses GPS to work the player's location into the game (like we've seen before). It's pretty much a tower defence game that may, or may not successfully use your surroundings to make the game better/more interesting/have a playing life longer than 15 minutes.
Urban Crime - iPhone/iPad
If you don't want to pay a fiver, or just really hate Grand Theft Auto III but want to play something similar for free, then here is Urban Crime; A sandbox, gang warfare, crime game based in Miami that's like GTA, but not.
Life Is Crime - iPhone
Another location-based crime caper. This time it revolves around the mafia. Using real world locations as criminal turf, you must build your mob empire with the possibilities of your friends joining you as allies.
Scramble With Friends - iPhone
After Zynga's hugely successful scrabble-based Words with Friends comes Scramble With Friends, which is based on the game of Boggle, in which you must find words in a jumbled gird of letters. If you are feeling especially lazy, or just love cheating, the helper app lets you take a screenshot of your grid and then provides you with all of the highest value words.
Zombie Dash - Android
It would be an app roundup without a zombie game, so keeping up with tradition, we bring you Zombie Dash. A fun, arcade-style game which involves you running across a landscape where you must make your character jump over unnecessarily dug trenches, and mow down innocent zombies.
Oy! Follow us on twitter
24,795 already do
Have a look at our different twitter feeds
Article Timeline
-
Keira Knightley gets sick of own last name, agrees to marry Klaxons'...
25/05/2012 - 16:41
-
Bill Murray's in Hyde Park on Hudson, but what are his five worst...
25/05/2012 - 15:18
-
Alex Reid issues semi-literate statement to press, attempts sarcasm, fails...
25/05/2012 - 12:42
-
Nicole Kidman urinates on Zac Efron. We have pictures…
25/05/2012 - 12:07
-
Huge amfAR gallery: Jessie J, Alec Baldwin, Kylie, Paris Hilton and more...
25/05/2012 - 11:37
-
X Factor USA auditions start, Britney's laughing face ruins the day...
25/05/2012 - 11:16
-
Britney's X Factor rider not as insane as you'd think, not a...
25/05/2012 - 11:07
-
Watch Kylie's new video for Timebomb and try to work out what'...
25/05/2012 - 10:37
-
London Last Night pics: The Saturdays get drunk, Carol Vorderman gets...
25/05/2012 - 10:36
-
First pictures from inside the new Big Brother House
25/05/2012 - 00:22
- More Articles
- <span class="pager-text">next</span>
Comments