I’m always on the lookout or fun educational apps for my 2-year-old son. So I was excited when I saw Trucks HD in this weeks featured section of the App Store. My son loves dump trucks and diggers, so I thought this would be right up his ally.

Plus, the developers – Duck Duck Moose – have a god reputation for educational apps for kids. But I have to … Read More

The iPad is a great tool for helping your kids learn. There are a lot of fun educational apps to help with reading, writing, math and just about anything they’ll be learning in school.

iWriteWords is fun way for your toddler, or preschooler to learn to write letters, numbers and spell easy words.

Your kid traces the uppercase, lowercase letters or the numbers using their fingers. To guide them along … Read More

EA is out with an update to the popular Tetris for iPad game. It now has beautiful HD graphics perfect for your retina display new iPad, and it now offers some new gameplay options.

Before I get into those, let me point out this update has some people upset. EA has pulled the previous Tetris for iPad game from the app store. That means to upgrade to this version … Read More

If you have the new iPad or have seen one in person, you know how beautiful the Retina Display is – especially when it comes to text.

If you put the new iPad and iPad 2 next to each other, the difference in clarity of text is unmistakable. But how does this clarity and retina display stack up when it comes to gaming?

That’s a tough question to answer right now. Games … Read More

When it comes to children and iOS devices, parents have a lot of choices of apps and products to choose from for their little one. It can be quite intimidating to weed through the good, the bad and even the ugly.

To help parents, soon to be parents or anyone with children, iPadinCanada and iPhoneinCanada is launching a series we’re calling Child’s Play.

We’ll test out apps and products to help you … Read More

Remember the last time you heard of a modern world accessory from Atari? No? I don’t either! But today, the pioneer of arcade games and home gaming consoles has announced a pretty interesting iPad accessory called Arcade-Duo Powered Joystick. Many believe that Atari is somewhat dead now but to me, the company seems to be pretty much active. For instance, if you want to re-live some of those Atari classic … Read More

One of the best selling games of iPhone and possibly the only true competitor to Angry Birds in terms of App Store sales and addictive gameplay, Doodle Jump has just made it to the bigger screen of iPad for an even better jumping experience. The gameplay is similar to the iPhone version with support for iPad’s accelerometer / gyroscopic controls allowing you to simply move the iPad in order to … Read More

iSwifter, the Flash-for-iPad service that streams social games, has announced that iSwifter 4.1 will offer support for Google+ Games, on top of their existing Facebook Games support.

This is fantastic news for gamers that want to play Flash-based games on their iPad, but were unable to officially get around the iOS restrictions.

With the iSwifter update, this gives gamers access to a large library of Flash-based social games from Google+, such … Read More

As promised, today Bungie Aerospace, a publishing division of Bungie games, released Crimson: Steam Pirates for the iPad.

Crimson: Steam Pirates, developed by Harebrained Schemes, is a turn-based strategy game set in a steampunk universe.

The game includes eight campaign “voyages” set in a swashbuckling Steampunk universe hatched from the mind of Jordan Weisman, founder of Harebrained Schemes and creator of the Battletech, MechWarrior, Crimson Skies, and Shadowrun universes.

The game is available … Read More

After a period of hush-hush, Bungie has now released details for their iPad game called Crimson: Steam Pirates. Crimson: Steam Pirates is Bungie’s first original game for the iPad and, according to the details page, will be available on September 1 2011 for free!

The game allows you to command a steampunk crew across a turn-based battlefield, combining elements of strategy and action on the Caribbean seas!

Command your fleet and your Steampunk … Read More