App Store Update: November 7

Every day hundreds of new apps make their debut on the App Store, and hundreds more are updated or reduced in price. We have sifted through the noise and highlighted those select few that might be worth your attention.

Game Debuts

Curiosity – (Free)

Originally expected to debut tomorrow, Peter Molyneux's highly anticipated game design experiment Curiosity actually went live two days ahead of schedule – so players around the world are already hard at work chipping away at its titanic, mystery-enshrouding cube. Justin's put together an explanation piece detailing just what Curiosity is all about, so read that, then download the game for free, then get to work working toward unearthing that final cubelet.

Logic Puzzles by Puzzle Baron – ($1.99)

iPad-owning brainteaser fans can invest in an all-new set of grid-based logic puzzles today, then tax their minds to properly fill out each square in every array.

Mensa Academy – ($4.99)

Square Enix is also hoping to challenge your mental processing power with Mensa Academy, a new brain-training game endorsed by the upper echelon of IQs that comprise Mensa International.

Price Drops

Pocket Climber – (Free)

Become your own version of Spider-Man as you race up the sides of skyscrapers in Pocket Climber, now available to download for free.

Granny Smith – (Free)

Also free today is Granny Smith, the most intense action game ever made about a hungry grandmother chasing down an apple thief:

Cover Orange – (Free)

And lastly, take Cover Orange for free as well. This game earned a lofty 8.5 out of 10 in our review last year, and it’s still one of the most fun times to be had in the App Store.

That's all for today! If you haven't already, consider subscribing to the App Store Update via email. It's extra convenient!

Lucas M. Thomas is IGN Nintendo's longtime champion of downloadable titles across the Wii, DSi and 3DS. He's happy to now be helping Justin round up the best options for App Store shoppers. You can follow him on Twitter, @lucasmthomas.

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Modern Warfare 4 Rumor Debunked by Voice Actor

The voice actor who plays Captain Price has debunked rumors of a new Modern Warfare sequel. After reports last week that he claimed to be working on Modern Warfare 4, actor Bill Murray (no, not the Ghostbusters/Caddyshack Bill Murray) now says on Twitter that the report is “not accurate,” adding that he “told the guy I was doing a special new Modern Warfare for China, not MW4.”

Last week’s report suggested that Murray said “Yeah, on Monday I am off to meet Infinity Ward about the next game, Modern Warfare 4, I’m doing work on the sequel to Modern Warfare 3, it carries straight on and I only ever appear in the Modern Warfare games.” At the time, Infinity Ward simply commented “Interesting news today, but it’s not true. We’ve not talked with any voice actors, so all news is speculation.”

Murray is likely referring to Activision's partnership with Chinese publisher Tencent, which led to Call of Duty Online in Japan. Other previous Modern Warfare 4 rumors, including alleged information about new game modes and levels, remain unconfirmed.

Andrew Goldfarb is IGN’s associate news editor. Keep up with pictures of the latest food he’s been eating by following @garfep on Twitter or garfep on IGN.

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App Store Update: October 19

Every day hundreds of new apps make their debut on the App Store, and hundreds more are updated or reduced in price. We have sifted through the noise and highlighted those select few that might be worth your attention.

Game Debuts

Jumping Finn Turbo – ($1.99)

It's Adventure Time! Take control of Jake's mighty feet and boot Finn up into the stratosphere in this new game based on the popular Cartoon Network show.

Pocket Clothier – ($3.99)

Kairosoft returns with another virtualization of a workplace, this time adapting into game form the trials and tribulations of running a fashionable clothing boutique.

Square Planet – (Free)

You're a spherical hero in a square-ular world, rolling and bouncing your ball-shaped self on a quest to rescue your circular buddies from the evil, angular blocks.

Price Drops

Oh Hi! Octopi! – (Free)

A cross between a platformer and a color-matching puzzler, Oh Hi! Octopi! stars the App Store's cutest hammer-wielding cephalopod. This game was the lead-off new release in one of our updates just a month and a half ago, and now already you can grab it for free.

Orc: Vengeance – ($0.99)

Orc: Vengeance is knocked down to the 99-cent level right now – it's a Diablo-like dungeon crawler that turns the tables on the genre's traditional hero casting and lets you play instead as a rampaging Orc. We've also got a review for this one as well, so give it a read to help you in your decision-making.

Saving Private Sheep 2 – (Free)

Take command of a squad of woolly soldiers and protect the flock with the power of heavy weapons.

SongPop – (Free)

Developer FreshPlanet's "name that tune" social networking challenge lets you quiz your friends on their musical knowledge. It's free to download, but for today only.

Updates

Ticket to Ride – ($6.99)

The free Halloween-themed content updates just keep on rolling out, and today's is for Ticket to Ride. Fire up this virtual board game for another round and discover the new Halloween Freighter train that's waiting for you within.

That's all for this week! If you haven't already, consider subscribing to the App Store Update via email. It's extra convenient!

Lucas M. Thomas is IGN Nintendo's longtime champion of downloadable titles across the Wii, DSi and 3DS. He's happy to now be helping Justin round up the best options for App Store shoppers. You can follow him on Twitter, @lucasmthomas.

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Acer Iconia Tab A110 - One More Small Budget Android Tablet

The first thing for you to know about Acer's 7-inch Iconia Tab A110 is that it costs $230. That's $30 more than the base price of sold-at-cost Android mainstays like the 7" Kindle Fire HD and Nexus 7.

And with its Tegra 3 processor clocked at 1.2GHz, just 8GB of internal storage, and a 1024 x 600 display (i.e. less than 720p), it's not the most competitive piece of hardware.

Will it run the top Android tablet games? Sure, at least for now. But they won't look as good on its display, and Acer's tablet will show its age before the Nexus 7 or Fire HD.

Except here's why you still might want it: Unlike the Nexus 7, the A110 has a microHDMI-out port. Unlike the Fire HD, it runs a non-forked version of the latest Android OS, without any of that "special offers" nonsense. And unlike both competing tablets, the A110 has a microSD slot for expanded storage capacity. (Although that'll cost extra, of course.)

Is expandable storage enough to make you consider a (nominally) more expensive tablet than Google's or Amazon's, when it has a weaker display? Let us know in the comments.

Jon Fox is a Seattle hipster who loves polar bears and climbing trees. You can follow him on Twitter and IGN.

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App Store Update: October 15

Every day hundreds of new apps make their debut on the App Store, and hundreds more are updated or reduced in price. We have sifted through the noise and highlighted those select few that might be worth your attention.

Game Debuts

Skyriders – ($1.99)

Kicking off our newest week of App Store Updates is Skyriders, a hybrid design that's part racing game and part platformer. You'll rush forward on a track suspended in space, jumping and double-jumping to clear gaps in the surface. The music's also pretty fantastic, so give the trailer both a look and a listen:

Price Drops

World of Goo HD – ($1.99)

A winner of several Game of the Year awards when it debuted a few years ago, along with the recipient of a lofty 9.5/10 rating and an Editor's Choice Award when we reviewed it, World of Goo is a brilliant puzzler that's an absolute steal at just two bucks. If you never have, definitely pick it up for your iPad . . .

World of Goo – ($1.99)

. . . or your iPhone/iPod Touch. Both versions of the game are on sale right now for the same low price.

Pac-Man – ($2.99)

Namco's conversion of the most famous dot-eating game ever made is on sale for a few bucks off, so go gobble up some ghosts.

Qvoid – (Free)

A block-tumbling, color-matching puzzler that will bend your brain into a square before you're through, Qvoid is free to own right now in the Store.

Igloo Games Arcade – (Free)

For another free game, why not take five free games? Igloo Games Arcade bundles five designs together within the same download, all of them available at no cost right now.

The Bard's Tale – ($1.99)

The brilliantly funny – actually, genuinely laugh-inducing – epic RPG from inXile is on sale for its cheapest price ever. Take a look:

Real Racing 2 – ($0.99)

Like clockwork, Firemint's Real Racing 2 goes on sale just about once every month or so. And so it has again, once more making itself available for only 99 cents.

Updates

Tongue Tied! – ($0.99)

The approach of Halloween continues to inspire several of the App Store's most popular games to present new, free, spooky-themed content, and Tongue Tied! is the latest to join the group. Check out Mick and Ralph – two dogs whose tongues have been tied together – for ghostly, ghoulish fun in Version 4.0's Bloodhound update.

That's all for today! If you haven't already, consider subscribing to the App Store Update via email. It's extra convenient!

Lucas M. Thomas is IGN Nintendo's longtime champion of downloadable titles across the Wii, DSi and 3DS. He's happy to now be helping Justin round up the best options for App Store shoppers. You can follow him on Twitter, @lucasmthomas.

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Xbox 360 Gets Holiday Price Cut

Microsoft has announced a $50 price cut for Xbox 360. Just in time for the holidays, Microsoft has revealed two new bundles priced at $250 aimed at hardcore gamers and at families.

The first bundle offers a 250GB Xbox 360 and includes a download voucher for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim along with a copy of Forza Motorsport 4, a headset and a controller. The second bundle, aimed at families, includes a 4GB Xbox 360, a Kinect sensor and copies of both Kinect Adventures and Kinect Disneyland Adventures. Both sets also include one month of Xbox Live, Hulu Plus and Epix Movies.

This is the second price drop we’ve seen today, following Nintendo’s Wii price cut announcement this morning. Nintendo is surely prepping for Wii U and Microsoft may be doing the same for its new system considering we last heard Microsoft is targeting the next Xbox for September 2013.

For more on the games in the bundle, read our Forza 4 review, our Skyrim review, our Kinect Adventures review and our Kinect Disneyland Adventures review.

Andrew Goldfarb is IGN’s associate news editor. Keep up with pictures of the latest food he’s been eating by following @garfep on Twitter or garfep on IGN.

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App Store Update: October 11

Every day hundreds of new apps make their debut on the App Store, and hundreds more are updated or reduced in price. We have sifted through the noise and highlighted those select few that might be worth your attention.

Game Debuts

Crazy Taxi – ($4.99)

It's time to make some craaaazy money! Sega's coin-op and Dreamcast classic about picking up travelers and recklessly driving to their destinations as fast as possible returns on iOS today. You can watch the world's shortest trailer below:

Girls Like Robots – ($0.99)

It's a game of seating arrangements! In this puzzler design from Adult Swim, you're tasked to create the proper balance in a diner that's serving up delicious pie. Girls like robots, so you can sit them next to each other – but girls don't like nerds, so don't put them together, and then girls also don't like . . . well, you get the idea. See if you can puzzle it all out:

Pocket Sweetie – (Free)

Speaking of girls, those of you with a young daughter or niece in your life might want to put Pocket Sweetie in their hands – it's kind of like a virtual pet game, except featuring a little girl who needs fun and fashion just as much as food.

Monopoly Millionaire for iPad – ($4.99)

First to a million wins! This new, more focused and faster version of the venerable board game has that defined goal in mind from the start, so you don't have to worry about the traditional slog through days and days of play to actually finish a round.

Kumo Lumo – (Free)

In "the world's first rain-'em-up," you take command of a sentient cloud named Kumo Lumo and roam the earth raining on things – like trees, to make them grow, and fires, to put them out.

Death Dome – (Freemium)

You're a post-apocalyptic survivor fighting back against a horde of murderous mutants in Death Dome, Griptonite's latest – try it out for free, but be aware that in-app purchases are peppered throughout the quest.

Topia World Builder – ($0.99)

Leisurely command the powers of a god to shape a planet's landscape in Topia World Builder.

Devil's Attorney – ($2.99)

Alright, this one's worth checking out for the trailer's theme song alone, a wonderful ballad pulled straight out of the '80s. The game itself may interest you too, as a turn-based strategy casting you as '80s era power attorney Max McMann.

Funky Smugglers – ($0.99)

Wield the power of an airport security guard and scan suspicious smugglers with your powerful X-ray machine in 11 bit studios' Funky Smugglers.

Pocket Climber – ($0.99)

Become a virtual urban Spider-Man with this climbing sim, swiping at the screen as you parkour your way up the sheer vertical face of a skyscraper.

Oh! Sheep – ($0.99)

Unleash your inner shepherd with this path-drawing, sheep-herding game that you can download and try for free before investing your 99 cents for a full unlock.

Polara – ($0.99)

And we'll end today's huge lineup of new releases with Polara, the App Store's latest auto-runner. Give it a look:

Updates

Pocket Planes – (Free)

Players of NimbleBit's casual airline sim were distraught when a recent update introduced a ton of bugs into the design, but the new latest update squashes them all. Download it and get those planes back in the air.

That's all for today! If you haven't already, consider subscribing to the App Store Update via email. It's extra convenient!

Lucas M. Thomas is IGN Nintendo's longtime champion of downloadable titles across the Wii, DSi and 3DS. He's happy to now be helping Justin round up the best options for App Store shoppers. You can follow him on Twitter, @lucasmthomas.

Source : ign[dot]com