Smule’s New iPhone App – I am T-Pain Auto-Tunes Your Voice

Smule has developed some of the coolest iPhone apps like Ocarina for the iPhone. They have teamed up with hip hop artist T-Pain and developers of Auto-Tune software, Antares to bring another cool iPhone app called I am T-Pain. The iPhone app auto-tunes your voice to give it a T-Pain...

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Loopt Brings First Always-On Location Service to the iPhone

Loopt, a location-based social networking service has announced on their blog that they will be the first to offer always-on location service on the iPhone. Loopt has struck a deal with AT&T that will allow them to monitor a user’s location in the background and don’t need their iPhone app...

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PAX ’09: Com2Us ‘Sniper Vs Sniper’ Hands-On and Video

This evening at PAX I met with Don Lim, general manager at Com2Us America. First off, if you were wondering why Baseball Slugger is now known as Homerun Battle 3D [App Store], Lim cited issues trademarking the original name because of how broad the title was, and explained that a few people felt they were being mislead due to the game's name and thinking they were getting a full baseball game instead of a home run derby. If you aren't familiar with the game, it's has easily become one of our favorites.

Another interesting thing is the success that

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PAX ’09: Early Preview of InstantAction’s ‘Flipt’

Across from Subatomic Studios I ran in to Sam from InstantAction. He showed me an early development version of a game his company is working on called Flipt. The game plays a lot like Shift, a platform puzzle game where you can shift the game world back and forth from black and white to change the platforms you're running along.

Where Shift had a button to invoke this change, everything in Flipt is controlled via the accelerometer. Both Shift and Flipt are hard games to describe, so check out this video I took of the game on the PAX floor. Thanks to the terrible lighting and being bumped

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