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EA Mobile’s Travis Boatman had a chat with Mobile Entertainment recently, and he says that the iPad is going like gangbusters for the mobile games company. “We’re really pleased with the results so far,” he told ME. “It has a lot of the characteristics of the type of device that plays well with our gameplay.” Boatman said the digital distribution model available in the App Store has helped, but what’s really impressed EA about the iPad is how immersive it is compared to the iPhone.
As compared to the iPhone’s bite-sized experiences while out and about, this is a device where you can actually sit down and play for a while. “It’s more deliberate, and people expect more of a deliberate, immersive experience,” Boatman told the site.
I love to play chess and was looking for something that worked well on the iPad. The large screen and crisp graphics make board games on the iPad an attractive proposition.
Based on some reviews, I installed tChess Pro for US $7.99. I wasn’t disappointed. While you can use the app to let two people play, I was more interested in playing against the computer. tChess Pro is a very strong opponent, but you can modify the levels that the game plays. It was the first time in a computer based chess game that I felt like I was playing a human, although at most levels except the lowest, I was getting clobbered.
The app allows you to set up games, add time controls, and there is an opening library mode that helps you understand the finer points of the game. You can take back moves, get a running analysis of your game, and get hints for the next move if you want them.
Other impressive features include the ability to email a game to someone, and you can choose from multiple board and chess piece designs. I especially liked the feature that allows you to use two fingers to rotate the board to any angle.
The game also contains built-in chess instructions; they are well written and a great place to start for beginners. It was the kind of thoughtful touch that makes the app rather special.
Listen up, geography buffs! Voon has just introduced a new game for the iPad called Place Map HD. You will be given an overhead view of a famous landmark somewhere around the world and it is up to you to locate it on the map. Do you think you can?
Review Place Map HD is a unique geography game. It provides you with 100 places that you must find on a world map. First you will be given an overhead shot of a specified landmark and its surrounding areas. Then tap on the locate button and you will be provided a world map. From here, using the double tap or pinch/zoom gesture, zoom in to the exact location on the map where you believe that landmark is situated.
Scoring is determined by the speed, proximity of your answer and whether or not hints were used to solve it. If you don’t have any clue where that landmark is located, you can ask for hints; you have two of them. The first hint you will be provided with is the landmark’s country. If more hints are needed, the second hint provided will tell you what city it’s in.
I knew all along that the iPad would turn out to be an amazing device, but a blimp controller with integrated cockpit view? No, I didn’t think of that.
If you’ve just seen Iron Man 2 on the big screen, here’s your chance to get in on more action in Gameloft’s Iron Man 2 for iPad. Become Iron Man or War Machine and suit up to save innocent lives from dangerous drones and villains, including Whiplash from the movie. The time has come for you to answer the call.
Review Iron Man 2 for iPad comes complete with 9 levels of play, upgradeable suits with numerous enemies to fight. You will first assume the role of Tony Stark, Iron Man and have the option of playing as War Machine in later missions. The game begins with simple tutorials designed to help you learn the game’s controls such as weapon’s targeting to flying around the city. Your character will come outfitted with repulsor lasers and missiles. As you complete each mission’s objectives, you’ll gain experience points which you can use in between missions to upgrade your character’s attacks, shields and combinations.
You begin the fight in New York and move to different locations such as third world villages and even underwater. Mission objectives will basically call for you to defeat all enemies or to go to a waypoint and defuse bombs. Bomb defusal is a built-in mini-game which will require you to slide puzzle pieces around to match the image you are given.
The video you see here was in my inbox this morning and I really liked what what I saw. IUGO, a long time player in the mobile entertainment arena, is in the process of releasing four new games for the iPad platform.
What made these games stand out for me was how well they leveraged the iPad hardware realities for both cooperative and competitive game play. Several of these games highlight multi-handed multi-player interaction on the same device. That’s a feature that’s specific to the iPad. The iPhone’s size doesn’t allow that kind of two player interaction, except through online game play with virtual opponents. What IUGO’s games are doing is expanding play from an iPhone-style one user at a time paradigm into a two-users-at-once iPad experience.
Read on for an exclusive discussion with IUGO Mobile Entertainment.
Sarah Thomson, Director of Business at IUGO Mobile Entertainment explained, "We knew that the iPad was going to be a great opportunity. We took [some of our older titles] and added some cool user features — things you could not do on the iPhone. Along with updating the graphics for the iPad we were able to create these game playing modes that really lent itself to that device. The advantage here is that you can have two people playing on one device. It’s a great opportunity to exploit the iPad’s features."
EA Mobile’s Travis Boatman had a chat with Mobile Entertainment recently, and he says that the iPad is going like gangbusters for the mobile games company. “We’re really pleased with the results so far,” he told ME. “It has a lot of the characteristics of the type of device that plays well with our gameplay.” Boatman said the digital distribution model available in the App Store has helped, but what’s really impressed EA about the iPad is how immersive it is compared to the iPhone.
I love to play chess and was looking for something that worked well on the iPad. The large screen and crisp graphics make board games on the iPad an attractive proposition.
Listen up, geography buffs! Voon has just introduced a new game for the iPad called 
If you’ve just seen Iron Man 2 on the big screen, here’s your chance to get in on more action in Gameloft’s 
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