Sonic Racing – Apple Arcade Review.. What happened To Sonic?
If you thought Mario Kart racing for iOS was dull, it’s a vast improvement over Sonic Racing on the Apple Arcade platform.
Creaks Apple Arcade – First 10 Minutes and First Impressions
The newest addition to Apple Arcade “Creaks” gets the 10 to impress treatment. In case you aren’t familiar the idea is that I give games 10 minutes to hook me in, aka impress. The ones that do will get a long play and the ones that don’t go onto the wall of shame.
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Rayman mini – Apple Arcade – 10 Minutes to Impress
In a new series I’m calling “10 to impress”, I’m going to play through the library of Apple Arcade games starting with Rayman Mini. Rayman Mini is one of those runner games from the people at UBIsoft and thank lord it’s not been monetised.
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Little Orpheus – 10 to Impress – Apple Arcade Review
Whilst on the surface the is little more than a platformer it stands out from the crowd with gorgeous backgrounds and a sound track that should be nominated for awards. If you were on the shelf wondering if £4.99 is worth it for Apple Arcade this is as close to a flagship game for the platform as there has ever been so far.
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Essential Apple Podcast 150: Eyes and ears and hands and folding things
Aaaand… we made it to 150! Alas it’s also the 8th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ passing… Uncle Tim was travelling Europe drinking beer and talking about things Apple believe in. Simon was mistaken about the Loop but still wouldn’t buy one. Microsoft announced a slew of new stuff including some expensive Surface earbuds (and Will.i.am is upset about it). Nick @spligosh Riley joins Simon and they talk about all this, Apple Arcade, and more…
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