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On this week's episode of The TouchArcade Show, we push through discussions about feral dogs, the Mindfreak, and accents in order to bring you the latest, hottest, and best-est in iOS game news and chit-chat. At the top, we dig into unreleased titles like Adventure Bar Story before we dive into more known quantities, like say, Triple Town. Post-break, we weigh in on heavy stuff like the Zynga vs. NimbleBit, uh, issue, and of course, get to a few of your listener questions.

Oh! We also had a special guest this week: Joseph Leray. If you'd like to give us a listen, go ahead and do so via the links below. Additionally, you could subscribe to our feeds at iTunes and Zune. All the cool kids do the latter.

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Here are your show notes:

GAMES

• Adventure Bar Story
• End Night
• Ash II: Shadows [$2.99 Silver Edition / $4.99 Gold Edition]
• Triple Town [Free]

FRONT PAGE

• Zynga Rips Off 'Tiny Tower'
• Unofficial 'Dominion' App Hits The Store
• Tweet-Land Has A Release Date

written by Brad Nicholson \\ tags: Podcast

Autodesk was at Macworld showing off a new product for the Mac called Autodesk Inventor Fusion. Autodesk Inventor Fusion is an existing 3D mechanical design software on Windows, but will soon become available for the Mac for the first time.

Autodesk made headlines back in 2010 when they returned to the Mac platform after a two decade hiatus. Due to the success they've seen with their existing Mac products, the company will be bringing Inventor Fusion to the Mac.

In the next few weeks, Autodesk will be releasing a free Technology Preview for the program which will allow Mac users to download an early version and provide feedback. The final release will come at some point later. Inventor Fusion is meant to be an easier to use tool focused on mechanical design which incorporates physical properties of objects.

Autodesk® Inventor® Fusion is 3D modeling software that showcases intuitive direct manipulation capabilities for unrivaled ease of use. By uniting direct modeling and parametric workflows, Inventor Fusion offers the best of both worlds. Designers can freely explore complex shapes and forms while maintaining the underlying parametric history. Inventor Fusion makes it easy to open and edit 3D models from almost any source and incorporate them into your design, enabling rapid design changes without limitations.

The software will include seamless cloud access for storage, collaboration and web viewing. Autodesk has a Facebook page set up for Inventor Fusion and will be announcing the Mac download in the near future.


Recent Mac and iOS Blog Stories
• T-Mobile to Offer Additional Support for iPhone Users on Its Network
• Apple Offers Statement on Warranty Disclosures to Italian Customers
• Valve Releases Steam Companion App for iPhone
• When iPhone Apps Are Reduced In Price, Sales Go Up 22%
• Google Signs Off on Motorola Lawsuit Seeking Injunction Against iPhone 4S and iCloud

written by Arnold Kim \\ tags: Front Page

Let's wind the clocks back to Tuesday when news hit that Zynga was relentlessly ripping off NimbleBit's Tiny Tower [Free] with their Canadian pre-release "beta" of Dream Heights [Free]. Dream Heights is basically identical to Tiny Tower in every way, except for the lack of the Bitbook and a different art style. News of this spread like wildfire, and it wasn't long before even the mainstream media was reporting on it. (These are crazy times we live in, I tell you.) Well, Zynga has been silent on the matter as far as we can tell, which you'd think would result in a dead story.

Not so fast though, as Glu also seem to be anxious to hop on the relentlessly ripping off Tiny Tower bandwagon with a similar Canadian release of Small Street [Free]. Small Street is arguably an even bigger knockoff than Dream Heights with the only changes being the tower laid vertically into a street and the elevator car replaced with a taxi.

Fans of Tiny Tower will find these screenshots curiously similar:

I guess when it rains it pours in regards to cloning NimbleBit games. The only question left, is which company is going to release their own Tiny Tower knockoff next?

written by Eli Hodapp

A U.S. District Judge has ruled that an anti-trust case filed against a number of tech companies can continue, saying "they still have an antitrust claim" according to Bloomberg.

[Judge] Koh didn’t take issue with the allegations about the agreements between individual companies, Joseph Saveri, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said in an interview after the hearing. Instead, Koh has questions about “how it ties together,” or claims of an over-arching conspiracy between all the companies, he said.

The case goes back more than 5 years, according to the lawsuit, which alleges that "no solicitation" agreements appeared in 2005 between Apple, Adobe, Google, Intel, Intuit, Lucasfilm, and Pixar. The agreements prevented companies from contacting employees at other companies who were party to the agreement, though employees were free to apply for jobs at other institutions.

The agreements were investigated in 2010 by the Justice Department. The claims were eventually settled, with the companies agreeing not to form no-solicitation agreements for five years.

The current lawsuit is a class-action civil suit brought by employees who said they were harmed by the anti-competitive actions of the defendant companies.


Recent Mac and iOS Blog Stories
• Apple Offers Statement on Warranty Disclosures to Italian Customers
• Valve Releases Steam Companion App for iPhone
• When iPhone Apps Are Reduced In Price, Sales Go Up 22%
• Google Signs Off on Motorola Lawsuit Seeking Injunction Against iPhone 4S and iCloud
• Stephen Fry Narrates The World of Dinosaurs

written by Jordan Golson \\ tags: Front Page

A U.S. District Judge has ruled that an anti-trust case filed against a number of tech companies can continue, saying "they still have an antitrust claim" according to Bloomberg.

[Judge] Koh didn’t take issue with the allegations about the agreements between individual companies, Joseph Saveri, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said in an interview after the hearing. Instead, Koh has questions about “how it ties together,” or claims of an over-arching conspiracy between all the companies, he said.

The case goes back more than 5 years, according to the lawsuit, which alleges that "no solicitation" agreements appeared in 2005 between Apple, Adobe, Google, Intel, Intuit, Lucasfilm, and Pixar. The agreements prevented companies from contacting employees at other companies who were party to the agreement, though employees were free to apply for jobs at other institutions.

The agreements were investigated in 2010 by the Justice Department. The claims were eventually settled, with the companies agreeing not to form no-solicitation agreements for five years.

The current lawsuit is a class-action civil suit brought by employees who said they were harmed by the anti-competitive actions of the defendant companies.


Recent Mac and iOS Blog Stories
• Apple Offers Statement on Warranty Disclosures to Italian Customers
• Valve Releases Steam Companion App for iPhone
• When iPhone Apps Are Reduced In Price, Sales Go Up 22%
• Google Signs Off on Motorola Lawsuit Seeking Injunction Against iPhone 4S and iCloud
• Stephen Fry Narrates The World of Dinosaurs

written by Jordan Golson \\ tags: Front Page

What happens when three visionaries get together and tease an awesome game? You get The Other Brothers, which is certainly has the look and style of a next-level iOS joint. On the other hand, you also get almost nothing in the Fine Details Department, and that's a monumental bummer considering the promise on display. I mean, just look at that.

The first post on the game's new blog describes The Other Brothers as "a pixelated family fun adventure [game] of running, jumping, collecting, racing against the clock ..." with a suitably mysterious twist. A Kotaku post has some more concept-y type of art if you'd like to see a lot more than what's on display in this post. We're on a mission to get a lot more details, so definitely stay tuned.

[Via Kotaku]

written by Brad Nicholson \\ tags: Adventure, iPad Games, iPhone Games, iPod touch games, The Other Brothers, Upcoming Games

What happens when three visionaries get together and tease an awesome game? You get The Other Brothers, which is certainly has the look and style of a next-level iOS joint. On the other hand, you also get almost nothing in the Fine Details Department, and that's a monumental bummer considering the promise on display. I mean, just look at that.

The first post on the game's new blog describes The Other Brothers as "a pixelated family fun adventure [game] of running, jumping, collecting, racing against the clock ..." with a suitably mysterious twist. A Kotaku post has some more concept-y type of art if you'd like to see a lot more than what's on display in this post. We're on a mission to get a lot more details, so definitely stay tuned.

[Via Kotaku]

written by Brad Nicholson \\ tags: Adventure, iPad Games, iPhone Games, iPod touch games, The Other Brothers, Upcoming Games

Where's My Water [$.99 / Free] keeps getting bigger, better, and ... harder? Earlier yesterday, Disney polished off yet another update to the playful puzzle title, adding in some neat story elements and a total of five free puzzles and many others via IAP. The package itself has been dubbed "Cranky's Story." We'll let the boilerplate do the explaining:

Cranky is the toughest alligator around and he has worked up an appetite from sabotaging Swampy’s water supply. He eats anything, especially all the rotting and disgusting junk found in the dumps and sewers. Cranky will not eat vegetables however, and now his food is covered with vegetable-like algae. Use the dirty purple water to clean off Cranky’s plate so he can eat!

Disney says that upon IAP unlock, users will get "50 super-challenging puzzles... and enjoy a completely new way to play." Catch that? Looks like these guys are hoping to court you now. Oh! And apparently, the "Cranky's Challenge" part of this content pack is "a game within a game," so, uh, prepare for that.

written by Brad Nicholson \\ tags: iPad Games, iPhone Games, iPod touch games, Puzzle, Universal, Updates

Earlier this month I convened with the panel of judges in Marseille, France that made up the International Mobile Gaming Awards to go through the over 500 games submitted. After a day of some incredibly intense (and incredibly jet lagged) judging, we had our list of finalists which were just recently revealed. We've already reviewed almost all of these games, and if you're missing any of these games from your collection, they're all worth picking up:

Best Casual Game

• CreaVures [Coming Soon]
• Hector [$4.99 Episodes 1, 2, 3]
• Jetpack Joyride [Free]
• Sprinkle [$1.99
• The Blocks Cometh [99¢]

Best Mobile Social Game

• Charadium II [$1.99
• Funpark Friends [Free]
• Poker Pals [99¢]
• SpellCraft School of Magic [Free]
• The Pirate King [Free]

Best Real World Game

• CityRace.me [Coming Soon]
• Flatmates [Coming Soon]
• Meatspace Invasion [Free
• NBA: King of the Court [Free]
• Shadow Cities [Free]

Best Sports Game

• Bike Baron [99¢]
• Flick Tennis: College Wars [$1.99]
• Sports Car Challenge [Free]
• Touchgrind BMX [$4.99]
• Trial Xtreme 2 [$1.99]

Excellence in Gameplay

• Battleheart [$2.99]
• Contre Jour [$2.99]
• Death Rally [Free
• Draw Race 2 [$2.99]
• Infinity Blade II [$6.99]

Most Innovative Game

• Forever Drive [Free]
• Kodo [Coming Soon]
• KuraKuraMaze [Free
• Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP [$4.99]
• Wild Chords [Free]

The winners will be announced at Mobile World Congress at the International Mobile Gaming Awards summit on March 1st. Also, if you'd like to vote for which games you think should win, head on over to the IMGA site and start voting.

written by Eli Hodapp