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In place of the roller ball, you have the capacitive touchscreen, of course, and this has both an advantage and a disadvantage. On the plus side, you can aim incredibly quickly, just in front of incoming missile tracks and spacecraft, whereas the old roller ball was large and had momentum – it took a lot of practice to use it to aim quickly and precisely, and it took time to move your aim from one point to another.

On the downside, there’s no way to control which of your three missile silos are used to fire missiles – the game’s logic simply chooses the closest. Although this might seem sensible, this system does away with one of the key expert strategies used in the original game – that of using a side silo to lay down a blanket of explosions while you used the centre silo to pick off ’smart’ bombs and anything else that got through. With the current game logic, the centre silo usually gets exhausted first and you’re then into fighting a rearguard action trying to pick off smart bombs low in the sky with just the left and rightmost silos. Read the rest of this entry »

Dub Siren is one of the most innovative music apps I’ve seen to make it into the App Store in a long time. And that’s coming from someone who isn’t even capable of using the app to its fullest!

With some 55,750 apps in stock, sifting through the inventory to find the gems is getting harder all the time. Then, along comes Dub Siren, which streams music from some of the top Reggae, Dub and DubStep Internet radio stations and allows you to interactively mix music with a wide variety of Reggae effects like horns, beeps, boops and many other sound samples. Read the rest of this entry »