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Hot iPhone Game List

There’s always a wide variety of entertainment and gaming options on your iPhone and iPod touch, thanks to the ever-expanding selection of titles on the App Store. Here’s a roundup of some recent releases.

Time Crisis Strike

Time Crisis Strike is an on-rails 'duck and shoot' arcade-style game for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Namco Networks has released the $5.99 Time Crisis Strike, an iPhone and iPod touch game based on the popular “duck and shoot” arcade game. You shoot at terrorists and bad guys by pointing at them on the screen, and you reload and dodge their bullets by tilting the device either away or towards you. Arcade mode, “Crisis Missions” and other features round out this game.

Days of Thunder

Available for 99 cents for only a few days, then it goes up to $4.99—Freeverse Software’s Days of Thunder, licensed from the Paramount movie. It’s a stock car racing game in which you have to knock your opponents out by “rubbing” them and hitting them to get them off the road. “Rubbin’ is racin’!”

Photo Spot

In Photo Spot, your goal is to spot the differences in the two photos before time runs out. The 99-cent game features more than 100 sets of images, the ability to save game progress and support for your own soundtrack.

Treasure

Treasure makes you a pirate who’s out to capture all the treasure he can. It’s a brick bashing game similar to Breakout, but there is no paddle—you control the ball. You have to clear each board of differently colored bricks to change the color of the ball. There are powerup bricks and poison bricks. It costs 99 cents.

Circuit Defenders

Sector3 has released Circuit Defenders, a $2.99 tower defense-style game where you must defend your computer’s circuits from being attacked by virus armies. The game features 10 levels, a variety of tower types with upgrade attributes, automatic save and online high scores.

SlotZ Racer updated

Freeverse has released an update to SlotZ Racer, its slot car racing game for the iPhone and iPod touch. The 1.1 release adds a new Track Manager page, lets you spruce up your track designs with scenery, adds five new camera modes, a Shake feature, four new cards, four bridge heights and more. The update is free for users, and the game costs $2.99.

SpongeBob Tickler

Nickelodeon is bring games and entertainment products to the iPhone and iPod touch starting with SpongeBob Tickler. For $1.99, you can shake, poke and stretch SpongeBob SquarePants, make him dance, blow bubbles and more. Just the thing if you have a young SpongeBob fan who you want to entertain with your iPhone.

TapStar

In TapStar, you have to test your reflexes to perform various commands at a faster and faster pace. The game features five increasingly different puzzle levels and a party mode. It costs $1.99.

Golf Smak

Golf Smak, for 99 cents, isn’t a game as much as a way to smack talk and have a good time the next time you’re golfing. The game features more than 50 sound bites to liven up your next round on the links.

LuckyDice (Valentine’s Fun)

Viximo’s 99 cent LuckyDice (Valentine’s Fun) is a romantic dice game that tells you what to do next, each time you give the dice a roll (which you do by shaking your device).

LovePotion

From the same company that makes LuckyDice comes LovePotion, a 99 cent app for Valentine’s Day that lets you brew “a potent passion cocktail” that you can pass along to that special someone.

Casino Slots doubles traffic thanks to iPhone

It's not just mobile games firms getting hot under the collar about smartphones nowadays. Mobile gambling companies are equally keen on taking their products to new mobile handsets.

"Since Spin3 launched its casino games for the iPhone last year, we have doubled the expected amount of players visiting our mobile casino," says David Brickman, VP of player affairs at All Slots Casino, one of the companies using Spin3's GameWire platform.

It's interesting that Spin3's titles are web apps for iPhone and Android, showing that it's still unclear whether play-for-cash mobile gambling will take off as downloadable applications on either platform.

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YouTube Full Of Creepy, Soundless Music Videos

YouTube has been testing a new way of combating copyright violations on the site - removing the audio, leaving the video. The result is a wasteland of music videos that are creepily silent.

But now YouTube seems to be just stripping out the audio. Examples: here, here, here. This user-created one is just sad now.

Update: YouTube's blog post on the subject.

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Coldplay sued by Joe Satriani for plagiarizing ‘Viva La Vida’

Rock guitarist Joe Satriani has sued British band Coldplay, accusing the Grammy-nominated stars of plagiarizing one of his songs. Satriani’s copyright infringement suit, filed yesterday (Dec. 4) in Los Angeles federal court, claims the Coldplay song “Viva La Vida” incorporates “substantial original portions” of his 2004 instrumental “If I Could Fly.”

This argument comes down to is who you are a fan of - of course Coldplay fans arent going to accept that the songs are similar. And Satriani fans are going to be annoyed. Don’t have a go at me if this video upsets you. (Coldplay fans) Im not claiming Coldplay copied anyone, just putting the thought out there for people to talk about. YOU BE THE JUDGE - checks out the viddy.

Coldplay have recently been accused of copying ‘Songs I Didnt write’ by Creaky Boards on their new single Viva La Vida. The song is also similar, if not more so to Joe Satriani’s song ‘If I Could Fly’.

Full Remix of the two songs is at:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=w3kytzHrKpo

Wal-Mart iPhone Sales: Where's the Discount?

Wal-Mart is rolling out sales of the iPhone 3G this weekend -- but don't expect to see a lot of savings. As was speculated back in November, the discount retailer will begin carrying the iPhone on its shelves Sunday. Missing from the equation, though, is the discount.

It's no surprise, then, that the rush of reports claiming Wal-Mart would sell the iPhone for $99

created a bit of a stir and didn't seem entirely unbelievable. Turns out, of course, that instinct was wrong.

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So what happened? It may just be that Apple doesn't believe its iPhone needs that strong of a push. The iPhone already commands almost a third of the U.S. smartphone market and is steadily growing, while Nokia -- the only company ahead of Apple in sales -- has been consistently losing share over the past months. In fact, analysts say Apple is "the only reason" the smartphone market stayed strong throughout the year's economic downfall.

A $99 iPhone would have boosted sales, no doubt, maybe even expanding the phone's demographical reach. But a $197 iPhone placed in front of millions of new faces will probably do the job decently, too. And, given the iPhone's ongoing success and ever-increasing appeal among young users, I suspect Apple isn't too worried about the outcome.

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