[Every week, Gamasutra sums up sister iPhone site FingerGaming's top news and reviews for Apple's nascent -- and increasingly exciting -- portable games platform, as written by editor in chief Danny Cowan and authors Tucker Dean, Jason Johnson, Ryan Hibbeler, and Mike Rose.]
This week, FingerGaming covers Gameloft's
Iron Man 2 and the return of App Store favorite
Edge.
Also within are the lists for top-grossing, most-downloaded free and paid Apps from Apple's store, as well as reviews for
Warpgate, Giant Moto, and
Mikado Defenders.
Here are the top stories from the last seven days:
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Iron Man 2 Now Available in App Store
"Gameloft's video game adaptation of the Marvel superhero film
Iron Man 2 launched today in the iTunes App Store, boasting two playable characters and a variety of skill upgrades."
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Top-Grossing Game Apps: Iron Man 2 Tops iPhone Sales on Launch Day
"Gameloft's
Iron Man 2 leads the iPhone sales charts in its first day of release, beating out Clickgamer's
Angry Birds and last week's chart leader
Chaos Rings."
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Review: Warpgate
"
Warpgate may not be a revival of the glory days of the PC space sim, but it's a great game in its own right, and once you pick it up you'll have trouble putting it down without finishing just
one more mission."
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Mobigame's Edge Returns to App Store, Now Available for $0.99
"Mobigame's wonderful but legally troubled isometric action-puzzler
Edge is back in the App Store, and for a limited time, it's available for only 99 cents."
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Review: Mikado Defenders
"There's enough different going on here to make
Mikado Defenders worth recommending to those who have grown bored of the tower defense genre and to other strategy-minded gamers who never got on board in the first place."
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Top iPad Game Apps: Iron Man 2 Takes on Flight Control HD
"Gameloft's
Iron Man 2 makes an impressive debut at sixth place, beating out Laminar's
X-Plane, Angry Birds HD, and CrowdCafe's recently released
Sudoku HD for iPad."
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Review: Giant Moto
"Rocket 5 gives the iPhone its first
Excitebike clone which tries to stay true to the Nintendo formula, while delivering updated graphics and touch-screen controls."
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Top iPhone Game Apps: Angry Birds, Chop Chop Runner Head Charts
"As
Angry Birds tops iPhone app sales for the second week running, Halfbrick Studios' fruit-slicing action title
Fruit Ninja takes third place in its debut week, leaving
Skee-Ball at fourth."
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Review: Alive-4-ever RETURNS
"Even if I were into slaughtering hordes of grotesque organisms that look like something my cat coughed up, I still couldn't recommend
Alive 4-Ever. There's just not much entertainment to be found underneath all the grungy assets."
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German Hip Hop Group Fanta 4 Gets iPhone Pinball Game
"German hip hop pioneer group Die Fantastischen Vier makes its App Store debut with
Fanta 4 Pinball, an Amiga-styled pinball sim from Bad Monkee, publishers of the well-received iPhone remake of
Giana Sisters."
