Had the recently released Blip Blup been launched last year, it probably would have been featured by Apple under the New Ways to Play category in its App Store Best of 2012 . You see, just like Finger Tied , which did get featured as such by Apple, Blip Blup offers puzzle gameplay that is, by all accounts, unique among iOS games. Blip Blup is beautifully crafted in a Letterpress -like style by ustwo, the same studio behind the psychedelic endless flyer Whale Trail .
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Whale Trail Developer Launches Unique Tile-Coloring Puzzle Game Blip Blup
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Reality Absorption Field: iPod’s trail of tears, part 1

The recent celebration of iTunes tenth anniversary provided an opportunity to remember that it debuted before the iPod and was initially positioned as a way to get Macs to play well with the CD burners that had come to the iMac as well as to early MP3 players from rivals. Before and (mostly) after the iPod, it’s surprising to see not only how many different companies sought success in the portable media player category, but the diversity and depth of their approaches. While some achieved a degree of success and implemented a few things that were ahead of Apple, none came close to matching Apple’s success.
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Reality Absorption Field: iPod’s trail of tears, part 1
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Today’s Best Apps: Wake Alarm, Stickman Tennis, Hyper Breaker Turbo And More

The App Store takes delivery of hundreds of new apps per day. The overwhelming scene makes it possible to easily overlook an exciting game, valuable productivity suite, etc. However, we have a solution.
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Halftone 2 Lets You Turn Your Photos Into Fantastic Comic Books

Juicy Bits has just released the follow-up to its popular comics-style photo-editing app Halftone . And just as the sequel to, say, “X-Men” and “Iron Man” are called “X-Men 2″ and “Iron Man 2,” the sequel to Halftone is simply called Halftone 2 . But Halftone 2 is a markedly different app from its predecessor, even as it also lets you edit your photos
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Today’s Best Apps: Supercal And Qwilt

The App Store takes delivery of hundreds of new apps per day. The overwhelming scene makes it possible to easily overlook an exciting game, valuable productivity suite, etc.
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Play The Puzzling First Chapter Of Unmechanical With Unmechanical Begins

Teotl Studios has just announced that its acclaimed puzzle adventure game, Unmechanical , has sold over 100,000 copies on PC and iOS . In celebration of this milestone, it has released a free version of the game on iOS, called Unmechanical Begins . Indeed, Unmechanical Begins is a good place to start playing Unmechanical if you happen to be reluctant about purchasing the game’s full version.
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Tempo Gets Smarter With Event Sharing, Gmail App Integration And More

A month after opening its virtual doors to everyone , Tempo has received another significant update.
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Dubai’s Burj Al Arab Hotel Now Offering 24-Carat Gold-Plated iPads For In-House Guests

Burj Al Arab, the world-famous sail-shaped luxury hotel in Dubai, has just begun offering 24-carat gold-plated iPads to its in-house guests. I repeat: 24-carat gold-plated iPads
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Weekend Poll: What apps did you discover via the 50 billionth download contest?

On Wednesday, Apple sold its 50 billionth iOS app . TUAW was there keeping track of the excitement and monitoring the iTunes store. Many of our colleagues and readers used this contest as an opportunity to stock up on numerous free apps, to test and explore.
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Weekend Poll: What apps did you discover via the 50 billionth download contest?
