Monthly Archives: October 2011

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies devour reader experience

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Phillip T Stephens

Spoiler alert! Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Interactive eBook is fun but pricey. If you’re a true fan you will want to rip into it, even though the asking price is hefty. Jane Austen purists beware. After I posted … Continue reading →

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Zombie Smash HD: I see finger cramps in your future.

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Phillip T Stephens

Spoiler alert! Zombie Smash allows you to smash, pummel, grind, dice, shoot, punt, drop kick and otherwise reduce zombies to little puddles of blood and gore. Or you die. To some this may sound disgusting, but I can’t imagine one … Continue reading →

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Zombie Flick: No intermission till you’re dead

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Phillip T Stephens

Spoiler alert! Beyond the obvious pun tying the game motif to the the old grind house zombie movies, Zombie Flick HD plays off a tried (or tired) and true formula. Kill zombies until they kill you. Some people never get … Continue reading →

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My Pet Zombie whiny and demanding

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Phillip T Stephens

Spoiler alert! To be fair, people posting reviews in the App Store love My Pet Zombie. My feeling is they may have posted too quickly or have nothing else to do, because my pet zombie was whiny and demanding and … Continue reading →

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Fishdom Spooky Splash more splashy than spooky

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Phillip T Stephens

Spoiler alert! Fishdom Spooky Splash promotes itself as a matching objects game for Halloween. You could call it that in the same way you could call Rudolph a Halloween reindeer if you stuck a pumpkin on his nose. If you … Continue reading →

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Powers of Minus Ten simulates electron microscope

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Phillip T Stephens

Spoiler alert! The headline is admittedly dull, but POMT really is nothing more than a guided tour of skin cells with a simulated electron microscope. That doesn’t mean the app itself is boring so much as it means that students … Continue reading →

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Storm in a Teacup pours buckets of fun

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Phillip T Stephens

Spoiler alert! Fans in the app store rave about Storm in a Teacup, and it’s easy to see why when you try it. Part Max and the Magic Marker and part Peter Max, it’s like storming through a candy kingdom … Continue reading →

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Aelios offers weather Google map

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Phillip T Stephens

Spoiler alert! Aelios is yet another weather app that claims to be the most popular weather app in the world. I can’t deny that it’s slick as hell and if I ever figure out how to use it, I may … Continue reading →

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Weather Doodle more pretty than helpful

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Phillip T Stephens

Spoiler alert! If you like pretty drawings of weather and don’t care about all those extra details on the TV forecast (like wind chill and storm direction or tornado watch) then it doesn’t get much prettier than Weather Doodle. If … Continue reading →

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