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[{"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305273254.557384, "message": "Also, it has to be said that the game is not so much free as freemium.  You collect stars which you use to unlock add-ons and new levels, but if you don't feel like going to the trouble you can just *buy* them.  (And the number of stars you need to unlock even the 3rd world would require a fair bit of play, which \"strongly encourages\" you to fork over the dough.)", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1037902}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305273165.5527289, "message": "I've been spending a lot of my 5-minutes-waiting-for-someone gaming sessions playing Frisbee\u00ae Forever, which Jevous originally mentioned on the forum.\n\nLook, fine, the gameplay does get old fairly quickly, but I am kind of in love with the candy-coloured, blue-skies 3D engine.  I *really* want to play a platform game there!", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1037894}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305273288.7646241, "message": "Oh, and I *do* apologise for the serial comma in the title.  It just seemed to read better that way.  I'll unsplit fifty infinitives tonight as penance.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1037904}, {"user_id": 31753, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305273870.0675509, "message": "I've been playing this myself quite a bit this last week. I'm now trying to get Gold on all the levels on the first world, and with all the retries I've been collecting a lot of stars, so that will help with the unlocking of the later worlds, although I'll most likely get bored with it before it really gets to that point.\n\nAnd agreed, the engine suits this game very well!", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1038002}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305274074.5631559, "message": "\u201cApple needs to press play on Game Center\u201d\n\nhttp://www.macworld.com/article/159833/2011/05/game_center_flaws.html\n\nA nice article about what Apple is doing right \u2014 and, more often, wrong \u2014 in the gaming space.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1038033}, {"user_id": 31753, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305274617.6227579, "message": "I'm curious to see what's going to happen with Apple TV. With the right focus, they could pretty much have a come console right there. Use your iDevice as a controller, and you're set.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1038159}, {"user_id": 31753, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305278156.71064, "message": "On the subject of that article and saving games in the cloud, I see that Aralon has been updated with cloud saving. \n\nhttp://toucharcade.com/2011/05/13/aralon-sword-and-shadow-hd-updated/", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1038873}, {"user_id": 31753, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305283855.8164971, "message": "Yeah, it's the one feature I really hope gets integrated on the OS level. \n\nAlso, I didn't know it was possible to extract save data from the backup, I'm going to look into this, thanks!", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1039503}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305283565.6623459, "message": "Everyone knows that Apple has been gearing up for a huge cloud push, and that it's all coming to a head this year\u2026\n\nSo I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict that cloud-based storage will be a standard API feature available to iOS 5 apps.  If I'm right, it'll fill a huge gap.  Currently if I temporarily delete (say) a game off my iPhone, I lose all my save data.  Unless I go and fish it out of the iPhone's backup with one of the 3rd party tools available for that purpose.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1039474}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305285699.8025789, "message": "OK, this makes me VERY happy:  Battle Squadron \u2014 one of the very best shmups on the Amiga (a system famed for good Euro-shmups) is coming to iOS:\n\nhttp://toucharcade.com/2011/03/20/exclusive-hands-on-with-battle-squadron-one/\n\nBTW, the game's soundtrack is still a huge favourite on the chiptune scene.  (It's certainly one of the few Amiga game soundtracks I've bothered to convert to MP3 myself \u2014 a laborious process \u2014 and put in my iTunes.)  I've just found out that the composer, Ron Klaren, recently (2007) remixed the soundtrack himself.  Oh, nostalgia overload!\n\nhttp://www.ronklaren.nl/index.php/personal/battle-squadron-soundtrack-remix/", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1039675}, {"user_id": 31866, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305297660.015563, "message": "@Mr_V Well, there really aren't as many \"free\" games on the app store as you might think. This is about as good as it gets. I've unlocked about 3 areas and haven't played much since then. But I totally agree, love that engine! It truly reminds me of a few games from the Dreamcast era.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1042203}, {"user_id": 31866, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305297676.523165, "message": "Wait, imagine Klonoa...!", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1042213}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305543770.2472501, "message": "Yep, quite!  (Now you've made me want to replay the Wii remake!)", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1069538}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305543829.795228, "message": "OK, I know roll-the-marble games are about a dime a dozen on iOS, but \u201cGears\u201d does look cute and is getting a fair bit of attention:\n\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/gears/id399409305?mt=8\n\nIt's a universal app, and is on sale at the usual price point \"for a limited time\".", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1069546}, {"user_id": 31753, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305544794.1586239, "message": "I downloaded this last week and gave it a quick spin. It's definitely a fun little game, and you can't go wrong at that price!", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1069610}, {"user_id": 31866, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305545987.6396129, "message": "Gun Bros is a very cool twin stick shooter, free on the app store. As far as I can tell, it works similar to the frisbee game where you earn in game currency to unlock stuff, but you can buy in-game currency within the game. Very polished for a free title, worth a look.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1069698}, {"user_id": 31753, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305547678.7723269, "message": "Recently they brought out Men vs Machines, which is Gun Bros with a steampunk flavour.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1069882}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305700100.7181671, "message": "I think we ought to play a game of \"spot the original\" whenever Gameloft releases a new title.  So, which game do you think this one rips off:\n\nhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/starfront-collision-hd/id424915605?mt=8&ls=1", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1093521}, {"user_id": 31753, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305717448.1792631, "message": "I have the iPod/iPhone version, and it's pretty decent, if a total Star Craft ripoff.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1096076}, {"user_id": 33318, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305828983.3246751, "message": "Mr_V, I don't think I like you anymore... It's all your fault that I downloaded Jet Car Stunts lite, now I have to buy it. You suck.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1114457}, {"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305870830.701277, "message": "Monster Hunter incoming for iOS. http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/18/capcom-unleashing-monster-hunter-dynamic-hunting-on-ios-devices/", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1121082}, {"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305870849.4138539, "message": "Also, the latest Infinity Blade update adds multiplayer.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1121085}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1305880447.231497, "message": "@dawid22 I so happy.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1122734}, {"user_id": 31866, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1306310751.091897, "message": "@ZAnimus Meh, saw some gameplay for it, not interested. :P", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1175650}, {"user_id": 31866, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1306310806.7334399, "message": "@Broken I got Men vs Machines (it was free on the US store) and it's exactly like Gun Bros as you've said, but I like it slightly more. Thanks for the heads-up!", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1175660}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1306771626.9435539, "message": "Eurogamer gives Frisbee\u00ae Forever a\u2026\u00a09(!)\n\nhttp://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-05-30-mobile-games-roundup-review?page=2", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1228665}, {"user_id": 33318, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1306777442.8618219, "message": "Yup, downloaded that about 2 weeks ago. Loads of fun", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1229390}, {"user_id": 33318, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1306794649.890697, "message": "*In fact...", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1232354}, {"user_id": 33318, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1306794625.513664, "message": "On fact ZAnimus and I had some good fun with the frisbee golf game in Sports Champions when it launched last year. Looks like a frisbee is a good fit for this industry", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1232350}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1306824209.978524, "message": "Gee, thanks Steve Jobs and your indie game revolution\u2026  We'd *just* managed to get over the point where a great-looking game has voiceover work that sounds like it was recorded by the programmer's ex-girlfriend in the basement.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1235166}, {"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1306824401.2572441, "message": "Haha, too true.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1235176}, {"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1306824040.067625, "message": "dream:scape, an Unreal Engine 3 powered adventure game, is hitting iDevices next week. Looks potentially interesting.\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu4TMoRS45g", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1235150}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1307522482.7098711, "message": "OnLive heading to iPad and Android! Things just got *very* interesting: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-06-08-onlive-heads-to-ipad-android-tablets", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1334975}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1307595445.37327, "message": "Hrm: http://i.imgur.com/BEh3r.jpg", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1346406}, {"user_id": 31866, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1307595785.8557661, "message": "I'm still not convinced that OnLive will ever work in SA unless they get big ass servers in every province. I tried to sign up for a trail but it wouldn't even launch, saying my (10MB/2MB) connection is too slow. :P", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1346425}, {"user_id": 31753, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1307596274.4647391, "message": "Yeah, couldn't get OnLive working here at all. I would love to see how it works in person, but that won't be happening in SA anytime soon.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1346464}, {"user_id": 31866, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1309080727.6941929, "message": "Death Rally (the remake of the old PC car combat game) is now free on the App Store!!! Just downloaded it and trying it out. So far I'm totally loving it!", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1487988}, {"user_id": 35612, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1309091198.6646709, "message": "I meant Zookeeper on PS2 of course.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1488619}, {"user_id": 35612, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1309091176.9737971, "message": "Zookeeper, the old DS, PS3 match 3 game is also now out for iOS. Great game.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1488618}, {"user_id": 31753, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1309107761.637692, "message": "I would say this is the best way to play it. I loved it on the DS, pretty glad it make it to the iOS.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1489599}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1309162886.3942709, "message": "You can maintain apps from multiple accounts on the device simultaneously.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1493573}, {"user_id": 32057, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1309162734.278271, "message": "Question on iTunes.\nIf I have 2 accounts US and SA, am I able to load apps from both accounts onto a device at once?\nOr should I just use a US account and forget about SA...Again.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1493571}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1309165950.4781959, "message": "There's really no need to have a SA account if you have a US/UK one though. :\\", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1493847}, {"user_id": 32057, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1309172126.050334, "message": "Coolio, Will just change over to the US one then...", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1494434}, {"user_id": 35612, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1309177076.3669429, "message": "I see Eurogamer has given Zookeeper for iPhone/iPad a 10/10 score.\n\nhttp://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-06-27-mobile-games-roundup-review", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1494797}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1312392310.8228891, "message": "The *best* iOS game gets a sequel tomorrow - Cut The Rope: Experiments\n\nhttp://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-08-03-cut-the-rope-experiments-announced", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1785740}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1312926070.697283, "message": "Theme Park coming to iOS! \n\nhttp://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/09/ea-bringing-theme-park-battlefield-3-to-ios/", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1834876}, {"user_id": 31866, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1312975929.2859869, "message": "@Neilan New Cut The Rope! Yeay! *nomnomnomnomnom*...", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1838912}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35092, "date_created": 1312996290.7573521, "message": "I already finished it. :(", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1841031}]