The iPad App Store app has had a nice little tweak. Search for apps from your iPad now and you’ll be able to use five new filters (category, release date, rating, price and device). There’s also a button to clear all filters.
The change hasn’t appeared in the iPhone or iPod touch versions of the App Store app so it looks like the new filters are just for folk with the extra screen space provided by the iPad. Fire up the app now to check them out.
Out now | £free | Apple (via MacStories)
Google is suping up your shopping smarts on the iPhone. The Google Shopper app has hit the iTunes App Store following on from the Android version which hit the Android Market last year. Google Shopper can search for products based on text, voice or barcode recognition and will pull up price comparisons for that specific product and show you the nearest places to buy it. Google Shopper for iPhone is out now for free and will work on any iPhone packing iOS 4.0 or higher.
Out now | £free | Google
The iTunes App Store has arrived on…Twitter. Apple has had official iTunes Twitter accounts for a while but now the 10bn selling sergeant of Apple’s App army has signed on. It’s already racked up over 72,000 followers at time of writing…
Boom! Virtua Fighter 2 iPhone has kicked its way into the iTunes App Store. The game is a port of the old Mega Drive game so expect rough and ready 2D visuals rather than the 3D of the Sega Saturn-era. There’s eight playable characters in the game and single player tournament mode but the best feature is Bluetooth battle mode which means you can engage in vs. fights with iOS-device-packing friends. Virtua Fighter 2 iPhone is in the iTunes App Store now.
Out now | £1.19 | iTunes
We bring you the best iPhone apps every week but if you want to see the worst of the iTunes App Store “iTunes App Store reviews”), we’ve found the site for you – Perversion Tracker. The website trawls through the worst apps on the App Store giving the poor quality applications the brutal kicking they deserve even if they feature cute kittens. Click through to see Perversion Tracker reviewing the Cute Kittens Free…
We love iPhone apps but the iTunes App Store reviews? Not so much. So thank the Jobs for the new Tumblr site I Give You No Stars. The site reviews iTunes App Store reviews revealing their frequent dumb-headedness. Our favourite so far? The deconstruction of this Doodle Jump review: “Four stars – It’s a good game but I think they should add one of these: 1. Dinosaur Theme 2. Robot Theme 3. Pacasso [sic] Theme.”
Sometimes we find an iPhone game which deserves its own post outside of our best iPhone apps roundup. Monkey Labour is one of those. The lovingly create iPhone game recreates old school Donkey Kong retro Game And Watch style gameplay with an onscreen controller, an instructions screen that mimics an old paper manual and other game controls round the back of the virtual controller. The gameplay is simple but brilliant fun: the monkey throws barrels at the robot, the robot dodges them and attempts to burn the monkey’s arse. Monkey Labour may well be our favourite new iPhone game. Check it out now in the iTunes App Store.
Out now | £1.19 | iTunes
The Amazon Android app store is on the way imminently and more details have emerged thanks to a new developer hub and some big-mouthed insiders chatting to Techcrunch. Amazon is following Apple’s lead with the iTunes App Store and will approve Android apps before they make the virtual shelves of the Amazon Android app store. Unlike Apple though, Amazon won’t have a vast list of rules, it’ll just be binning porn apps or ones related to illegal activity as well as apps that are just janky…
