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Frotz allows you to play text adventures on the iPod touch (or iPhone). It comes pre-loaded with several new and fun games written by fans of interactive fiction, and there are other games as well. Getting other games is relatively easy, since Frotz contains a gateway to the Interactive Fiction… Continue Reading »

Here are the show notes for episode 2 of the Appletellcast. This week we’ve got rumors, debate on iPod game pricing, an iTunes tip, and Twitter info! Check it out and be sure to subscribe to us in iTunes so you can have us automatically downloaded every week. Continue Reading »

One of the unfortunate side effects of the iTunes App Store is that it’s spoiling the chirrens. If a game costs anything more than…free…the product comments area will be full of people whining and sniveling about how the app is overpriced. It got so bad that Apple had to limit… Continue Reading »

Did you all know they’re still making games for the click wheel iPods. It’s true! Some new ones have even been released this year! It’s okay if you forgot about this darkened corner of the iTunes Store. Once we find someone to hold our hand, we’ll venture back there to… Continue Reading »

As the iPhone begins to shine as a portable gaming device, Apple plans to have a “premium games” area within the App Store for $19.99 titles. This move would separate the big titles from the silly $0.99 apps, but would only be open to the main publishers such as Electronic… Continue Reading »

I don’t pretend to know much about the inner workings of Freeverse, but I can say this; they like their labs puzzling, and their monkeys burning. Burning Monkey Puzzle Lab came out for the Macintosh back in 2000, and it was pretty good. Although it featured various single player games… Continue Reading »

Fact: In movies, whenever there’s a battle against the devil, the heroes will be Catholic, and a good portion of the confrontation will take place in a beautiful church or some sort of holy ground with all manner of decorative crosses and windows and a life-size corpus with bleeding eyes.… Continue Reading »

I recently wrote an article for Appletell in which I wondered if the App Store / iPhone combination would kill iPod gaming. In the article, I opined that it will, and probably should, but that it saddened me to say so. For one reason or another, developers just never figured… Continue Reading »

Line Rider is undoubtebly one of the most addictive flash games on the web. The popular game is set to come to the iPhone and iPod touch for the low price of $3—although some may argue that it should be free, seeing as it is free-to-play on the internet. The… Continue Reading »

Here, then, we have a game perfectly suited to the iPod. It’s suited to the controls, and it’s suited to the small screen. What it may not be suited to is your schedule. If you only break out an iPod game when you’re trying to kill time before an appointment… Continue Reading »