Booyah (http://www.booyah.com) — a Silicon Valley start-up founded
by former games industry veterans Keith Lee, Brian Morrisroe and Sam
Christiansen — has launched its first product Booyah Society, the
first social game based on real-life achievements for the iPhone and
iPod touch. It’s available for free at the Apple App Store.
Booyah Society is the kernel product for Booyah’s long-term vision,
says Booyah CEO Keith Lee.
Rock Ridge Games has released Solution Zero for
the iPhone and iPod touch.It’s available at teh
Apple App Store
(http://itunes.com/apps/solutionzero) for US$1.99.
Here’s how the game is described: “Counteract
mushy-mind syndrome and stay sharp this summer
with a heaping helping of Solution Zero’s
brain-building challenges. The object of the game
is simple: complete on-screen equations by
dragging operators (+, -, x, ÷) between a set of
six numbers until the solution equals zero.
Tycoon Games has released Bionic Heart, an US$19.99 science-fiction
visual novel/game for Mac, PC and Linux systems. It’s available for
download here: http://www.tycoongames.eu
The game is set in the not too far future of London 2099, where
climatic catastrophes have changed the Earth’s climate permanently.
In this interactive novel, bionic beings and complex technologies,
clash with complicated relationships and even more complicated
romance.
iZotope (http://www.izotope.com/) has released iZotope Radius for
Logic and Apple Soundtrack Pro, a new version of the time stretching
and pitch shifting algorithm previously built for Apple’s Logic Pro.
This new version has been updated with support for Logic 9 as well as
Soundtrack Pro 3.
iZotope Radius allows for independent control over timing and pitch
of any audio material while preserving the character and acoustic
space of the original recording.
Realmac Software (http://www.realmacsoftware.com) has released
LittleSnapper 1.5, an update of the tool for designers and developers
to take and catalogue screen–shots and “webshots” — full–size
screen–shots of web pages. It now supports more types of media than
ever before — and you can browse each type using the sidebar’s new
Types section.
LittleSnapper 1.5 sports a new screencapture engine that provides the
user with improved full-screen, area and window snapping.