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Protect and Defend Humanity in Zombie Gunship Survival

May 26, 2017 by RSS Feed

Zombie Gunship Survival (Free) by flaregames and Limbic is an aerial shooter game where you take to the skies to rain destruction upon an endless horde of zombies. If you enjoyed the original Zombie Gunship from a few years back, or just love to shoot zombies with a grand arsenal of weapons, then Zombie Gunship Survival is a game you should check out.

It seems that zombies are never a dying trend, and they only got a rise in popularity a few years ago when “The Walking Dead” came to television. While I’ve enjoyed a lot of zombie-themed games and shows, personally, I’ve gotten a little tired of the same thing over and over again. If you’re going to use zombies, at least make it something that is unique and different, right? Fortunately, that’s what Zombie Gunship Survival is to me, because it’s not your typical zombie shoot-em-up in a first person perspective. I also got a chance to try the game out earlier this year at GDC, and I was thoroughly impressed with what the game offered. Now that it’s finally available, I had to get my hands on it, of course.

Visually, Zombie Gunship Survival is rather impressive with the high definition, realistic graphics. The game is rendered in 3-D with top notch visuals that are fairly detailed and textured, and the lighting is done well for a gloomy post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombie hordes. The plane itself looks just like the real thing, and all of the weapons that you can find and equip are true-to-life as well. The real kicker with this game are the visuals during combat, because you’re taking control of an AC–130 Gunship and see the world through the plane’s gun scopes. This means that you’ll see everything in black-and-white, inverted, and it’s all kind of fuzzy because the missions are during night. Think of night-vision goggles — that’s what Zombie Gunship Survival will look like most of the time. The different types of zombies you’ll encounter have their own unique appearances and behaviors, and the character portraits of various characters and troops you deploy are lifelike. Animations in the game are smooth and fluid, so there was no issue with lag or choppiness on my iPhone 7 (though personally I think an iPad is best suited for this game). There’s a haunting and somewhat eerie soundtrack in the background that fits the mood perfectly, and the sound effects of your weapons are faithful representations of what you’d expect in reality. Overall, the developers did a great job with the visual and audio design quality of Zombie Gunship Survival, and even if you didn’t play the first one, you can still appreciate the authenticity of this sequel.

Zombie Gunship Survival is level-based and the missions just get harder in difficulty as you make progress. There’s also no way to skip ahead if you don’t like a stage, so everything is fairly linear. The game starts off slow enough, as you discover that you’re one of the few survivors of a devastating zombie apocalypse, and the only way to stay alive in this wasteland is to jump into an AC–130 Gunship and help other survivors raid bases and other areas for resources to survive. In the game, you’re expected to go on these quests with different objectives (keeps things interesting) and complete them to earn resources to expand your headquarters, as well as get valuable weapons and other upgrades for your gunship. Since each mission may be different (and some are harder than others), you’ll be briefed on the goal beforehand. There’s a tutorial in the beginning, so you will learn the basics as you go. Like most games, you can earn up to three medals on each stage as well, depending on your performance, so try not to screw up too bad when you’re in zombie-infested ruins. However, you can always go back and replay specific missions you’ve cleared if you want to do a bit of grinding for resources.

The controls in Zombie Gunship Survival are simple and straightforward. Before you officially start a mission, you have to deploy your troops somewhere on the map. Just tap on the spot you want them to deploy at, but be wary of sentry towers and other hazards that are not safe for your troops. Once the ground units are deployed, the mission starts. Your job is to basically follow them and provide air support when needed. If you notice zombies heading toward your units, aim and shoot. You can pan the camera around with your finger, and use a pinching gesture to zoom in or out. Make sure your target is in the crosshair, and then tap-and-hold on the weapon button (to the left) to fire. When you have multiple guns equipped, just tap on the one you want to use right now. But be warned — the weapons can overheat if you fire for too long, and some may have a limited amount of ammo, so you have to wait for it to cool down if need be. This means that you should time your attacks at the right time so you aren’t overwhelmed. Eventually, you’ll also be able to command the ground troops, telling them when to stop and go, and bring in more air support.

When you complete missions, you will get resources that are needed to upgrade the buildings in your headquarters. There are also defense missions that you can do, where you must protect the headquarters from incoming zombies for a certain amount of time. Doing this will get you more rewards, so you will want to do it as often as you can if possible. You can also get crates that are full of loot, though there are timers on these when you open it, so you have to wait before you can collect the prizes (though you can spend gold bar premium currency to speed things up). And if you want more crates of loot, you can spend gold bars to get them, or drop some cash through in-app purchases to have enough funds.

I’ve only started Zombie Gunship Survival, but so far it’s an enjoyable way to pass the time. I love how realistic the graphics are because it is truly immersive and unique, unlike some other zombie shooter games that I’ve seen. The controls are easy enough to understand, and you can easily change the y-axis and x-axis to have inverted movement. I’m usually not a fan of freemium base building games, but the distinctive combat system of Zombie Gunship Survival is interesting enough to keep me coming back for more. I don’t like the timers for opening crates though, but I suppose I can live with it.

I recommend giving Zombie Gunship Survival a try if you are looking for a great zombie shooter that is unlike the norm. You can find Zombie Gunship Survival on the App Store as a universal download for your iPhone and iPad for free. There are in-app purchases.

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You can now order photo books and archive images on Google Photos

May 26, 2017 by RSS Feed

At its annual developers conference earlier in the month, Google announced three new features for its Photos app: automatically curated albums, photo books and sharing suggestions.

Today, the company pushed an update to its Photos app for iOS, Android and the web, bringing support for ordering printed photo books comprised of your best photographs. You can make a photo book in minutes with automatic photo curation and easy customization.

Photo books

To order a printed photo book, select the images you'd like to fill your album with. Google's machine learning picks the best shots for your, removing duplicates and poor quality images.

In fact, the app will even offer personalized suggestions for photo books, like your trip to the Grand Canyon, time with family during the holidays, your puppy and so forth.

You can order a seven-inch square softcover book for $10 a piece or its nine-inch hardcover version for twice as much. Each has twenty pages though you can buy additional pages if you’d like:

• Softcover—$0.35 per additional page
• Hardcover—$0.65 per additional page

Photo books are currently available to users in the US only.

However, the search company has made promises to bring them to more countries soon.

Google photo books key highlights:

• Quickly find your best shots— Start from an album or search for a person, place or thing. Then, Google Photos can automatically pick out your best photos—helping you save time.
• Perfect your book in minutes—Easily move around your photos, add a book title and tweak your cover design.
• Beautifully crafted for you—Just choose a size and get started on your phone or computer. Photo books are made in the USA from premium, responsibly sourced materials.

Apple’s Photos app supports photo books, too.

In fact, ordering photo books has been part of the now phased-out iPhoto app for almost a decade.

Archive photos

Aside from photo books, today’s update includes the Archive feature.

Chances are your photo library includes not only your selfies, food shots and cherished memories, but the more mundane pictures as well, like recipes, receipts, scanned documents and so forth. You can now move any images you like to the app’s new Archive section, which will help tidy up your photo grid

To get started, simply select a few photos you’d like to archive, tap the Menu icon and choose Archive from the popup menu. This simply moves the selected photos to your archive rather than delete them. Any archives images and videos remain visible in search and albums.

Aside from the photo archival feature and photo books, this edition of Google Photos includes performance improvements and reduces the amount of on-device storage space used by the app

Source link: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2017/05/26/google-photos-gains-books-archives/

Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 05/26/2017

May 26, 2017 by RSS Feed

Magic Window - Living Pictures , 3D Pool Game HD , Backgammon Premium - Multiplayer Online Board Game and more

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Magic Window - Living Pictures ( $2.99 → Free ) Jetson Creative LLC Magic Window is perfect for your desk, night stand, or Apple TV. It provides unparalleled views from the world around you. Magic Window consists of 22 time-lapse scenes mixed with high quality ambient soundtracks. You’re able to choose scenes or have them randomly displayed. Time and weather data can be placed over the top of scenes. Magic Window includes an alarm clock and sleep timer as well.

3D Pool Game HD ( $1.99 → Free ) Subhendu Behera You’ll find numerous ways to play in 3D Pool. It includes six game types: 8-Ball, 9-Ball, UK 8-Ball, Time Trial, Matrix Mode, and Practice. You’re able to compete locally against an AI opponent or via pass and play. Everyone from novices to seasoned professionals will be able to enjoy the gameplay thanks to three difficulty settings. The accurate physics ensure fair competition.

Backgammon Premium - Multiplayer Online Board Game ( $1.99 → Free ) Trivial Technology This is our favorite version of Backgammon in the App Store due to its massive online community. It’s always more fun to play with others, right? You’re able to play turn-based or live games of Backgammon via Game Center. You can choose to play with a friend or see how your skills match up against other players all over the world. The cool part is, you don’t have to sit around and wait to be matched up. You can actually hone your skills against intelligent AI opponents in single player games while you wait for a match to be found.

ReliCam ( $0.99 → Free ) Lee Searle ReliCam allows you to take the best possible photos. It provides you with manual control over focus, ISO, shutter speed, and zoom. Slide your finger left or right to adjust each parameter or use the fine tune controls. ReliCam also provides helpful grid lines when necessary. All captured photos and videos are directly saved to your library.

Multiponk ( $1.99 → Free ) Fingerlab The goal of the game is simple enough: Keep the ball from passing by your paddle. But what makes Multiponk awesome is the variety of single and multiplayer game modes. It includes a total of seven modes with 11 bonuses to utilize, creating one hectic space to bounce balls around in. It’s not all about luck either, as you can actually steer the ball by bouncing it off of difference sections of your paddle.

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Readdle Brings Drag-and-Drop Feature to its iPad Apps

May 25, 2017 by RSS Feed

Readdle is a popular development house, which has put together a number of well-received apps, including the email client Spark.

And that goodwill for the company will probably continue as it rolls out a brand new feature to its list of iPad apps: drag-and-drop. This will work exactly as the well-known, and oft-requested, feature sounds. Users will be able to drag some items from apps like Scanner Pro and drop them into another app, like Spark, without having to worry about Share sheets or copy-and-pasting.

To make it work, you’ll need to be running either one of Readdle’s apps that support the feature, and you’ll need to be running them in the iPad’s standard Split View. So if you have Scanner Pro open next to Spark, you can simply drag-and-drop a scan into an email to send off.

The new drag-and-drop feature is available in Scanner Pro, Spark, PDF Expert, and Readdle’s Documents app.

Here’s how it looks in action:

The new feature is available now in Readdle’s aforementioned apps, and you can find a link to download them below.

This is certainly an interesting new feature for the iPad, and one that has been requested by many. In fact, just recently we saw a concept video of iOS 11 put together that envisioned the same drag-and-drop feature built into the operating system, but not limited to just some apps. A system-wide drag-and-drop feature would certainly be worthwhile, and a welcomed addition to iOS.

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Skullgirls, the Fighting Game for Everyone, is Now on iOS

May 25, 2017 by RSS Feed

Skullgirls (Free) by LINE Corporation is a mobile port of the original Skullgirls fighting game that came out five years ago. If you enjoyed games like Injustice 2 but want something a bit more unique than just DC characters, then Skullgirls will be right up your alley.

When I’m under a bit of stress, I like to take out my frustrations in the form of video games, for the most part. It’s just easy to watch my troubles go away for a short while in the form of explosions and punches and other fun things that I can’t do in reality. And while I’m definitely not a pro at fighting games, I like to play them just because it’s fun to virtually beat up your foes in a flurry of attacks, and it seems fighters are getting quite popular lately from Injustice 2 and now Skullgirls. To be honest, while I’ve heard of Skullgirls before, I never actually looked into what it was until now. I saw that it was released on iOS last night, and I had to give it a shot because the gorgeous artwork just called out to me, plus hey, fighters are fun (even if you’re not great at them).

Visually, Skullgirls is stunningly beautiful. The entire game carries a hand-drawn anime-like art style that is incredibly detailed and amazing to look at, with everything rendered in 2-D against spectacular backdrops. In fact, the art style kind of reminds me of The World Ends With You, which is not a bad thing at all. Each character in the game (playable or not) has a unique and distinctive appearance that makes them truly stand out on their own, and they have smooth and fluid movement animations in battle, as well as bouncy and bubbly idle animations. The character portraits are drawn nicely, and the color palette in the game ranges from dark and gloomy tones to bold and vibrant hues, so the contrast is done well. The game runs smoothly on my iPhone 7 and I had no performance issues, although the game did crash once while I was still doing background game data downloading, but nothing after that was done. Skullgirls has a rather upbeat and jazzy soundtrack in the background that is delightful to listen to, and it adds another layer of depth to the somewhat steampunk theme. There are also fun sound effects as you engage in battle, and each character has voiced dialogue that you can hear in fights, which only adds to the fun. As someone who has not played Skullgirls before, I’m thoroughly impressed with the visual and audio design of this mobile version.

Even if you played the original Skullgirls game, there’s plenty of reason to play this mobile version as well. At the moment, there are several game modes that are available to all players: Story, Prize Fights, Daily Events, and Training. The developers also note that there will be more game modes coming in the future, so keep your eyes peeled.

The Story Mode is the core of the game, and where you will probably spend most of your time on. This mode will teach you the basics of the game (great for newbies) and also reveal the plot, in which you must find the mysterious Skullgirl before she destroys New Meridian. For those who don’t know, Skullgirls revolves around the “Skull Heart,” which is a powerful artifact with the ability to grant wishes to women. But if the wisher has an impure soul, she is transformed into the “Skullgirl,” which is a monster bent on destruction. Throughout the Story Mode, players will encounter various NPCs as well as play specific fighters that are crucial to the storyline.

Prize Fights are where you can compete against other players to win prizes, which are more fighters for your roster. These battles will be 3v3, so you will want to compose your team to expose the enemy’s weaknesses. Daily Events feature one specific fighter each day, and have different challenges that await you with the opportunity to earn special moves and Blockbuster attacks for that specific character, so you will want to take advantage of them if there’s a main fighter you want to power up. There’s also a training mode if you want to practice with specific characters and hone your technique in real fights.

The controls in Skullgirls mobile are pretty straightforward and intuitive for what it’s worth. To do a basic attack, just tap on the screen. You can do a combo attack by tapping in quick succession. Swipe right to do a dash attack, and swipe left to evade. Swiping down lets you do a low attack, and an upwards swipe lets you get the foe in the air and then you can juggle them with combos. If you swipe up with two fingers, you’ll perform a grab. You can do a charge attack by doing a tap-and-hold on the screen, but be warned — these take a while to charge up and leave you vulnerable, so timing is critical. To block, just tap-and-hold with two fingers on the screen.

Additionally, you’ll have some buttons in the lower left corner of the screen — the button on the outer part lets you perform your Blockbuster move, but only if the gauge is charged (do attacks and blocks to fill it). The other button lets you do your character’s special move, which are stronger attacks that can also have abilities, such as inflicting bleed (damage over time) or break through the enemy’s armor. If you’re a newbie to fighting games in general, there is also a Fight Assist option, which changes the game into a more turn-based strategy fight.

Skullgirls is based on tag team fights for the most part, though some story missions involve only one-on-one battles. To change out the current fighter, just tap on the portrait of the one you want to bring in. When you win a battle, your fighters will gain experience points, even if they may have fallen during the fight. When they have enough experience points to level up, that means you can go into their character detail page and expand their capabilities through the skill tree, as long as you have enough skill points.

You can also get character skills as prizes, and these can be equipped on fighters to gain more options in battle. If you have the gold coin for it, everything can also be upgraded, and fighters can be powered-up by sacrificing unnecessary fighters if you don’t feel like leveling them up the traditional way. While the game’s meat and potatoes is the fighting aspect, there are a lot of RPG elements thrown into the mix, which just add another layer of depth and strategy to everything. Plus, each fighter has an element, and the elements are strong and weak against another, just like rock-paper-scissors. If you have played games like Fire Emblem, then you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about.

When you start out in Skullgirls, you’ll only have a limited selection of fighters to choose from. However, if you have enough Theonite (blue crystal premium currency), you can head to the shop and spend it for Relics, which let you obtain new fighters for your collection. These are completely random, so if you get a duplicate fighter, it’s good fodder for powering up another one.

Even though I was not too familiar with Skullgirls before this week, I think I’m now a fan. The artwork is downright amazing, and I love the voice acting for these lively characters. The music is also catchy and pleasant, and I’m not that big of a jazz fan to begin with. While I still prefer physical buttons for my fighting games, I think Skullgirls did well with the touch screen controls, because they’re not too bad and everything is responsive. The story is interesting and I like that there are multiple game modes so you can always find something entertaining if you need a break from a particular mode. While I don’t think I’ll be using the Fight Assist mode, it’s nice that the option is there for those who usually don’t play fighting games, which make this title truly a “fighting game for everyone.”

I recommend giving Skullgirls a download if you want an awesome mobile fighting game, or if you were already a fan of the Skullgirls. You can find Skullgirls on the App Store as a universal download for your iPhone and iPad for free. There are in-app purchases.

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