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The AR.Drone Hardware Parrot’s box contains the preassembled AR.Drone unit, including an “indoor” removable hull with apertures, a replacement “outdoor” red and blue hull, one Lithium-Polymer battery pack, a battery charger, AC adapter, colored stickers, a cardboard tag for gaming, and two instructional guides. Users are warned conspicuously that the packaging and the stickers are used for games, and cautioned not to…

Backstory Last year’s release of Madden NFL 10 took place a month after Gameloft debuted NFL 2010, its effort to stake an early claim to iPhone and iPod touch football fans. Following Gameloft’s now standard playbook, NFL 2010 arrived at an $8 price tag and drew everything from its audiovisual presentation to its gameplay from recent handheld games on competing devices, getting enough right in the process to merit a flat B rating. As soon…

Backstory Last year’s release of Madden NFL 10 took place a month after Gameloft debuted NFL 2010, its effort to stake an early claim to iPhone and iPod touch football fans. Following Gameloft’s now standard playbook, NFL 2010 arrived at an $8 price tag and drew everything from its audiovisual presentation to its gameplay from recent handheld games on competing devices, getting enough right in the process to merit a flat B rating. As soon…

Blitz originally appeared in half-complete form via a prior update to Bejeweled 2, adding what might initially have seemed like a minor new mode to the well-established game. In every mode, Bejeweled 2 presents you with an 8 by 8 grid of gemstones that need to be matched in lines of three, four, or five, the latter either straight across or in an L shape, with any four-match creating an explosive Power Gem that is detonated with a subsequent match,…

Any review of a jetski game needs to at least briefly explain the debt of gratitude the genre owes to Wave Race 64: by combining believable water and vehicle physics with upbeat racing and a trick system, Nintendo’s 1996 release effectively defined expectations for every water sports game that was to follow. The ideal balance it established was a game where the thrust of the action was an intense multi-vehicle race, barely interrupted by the…

Rather than just offering a piece of software, New Potato is selling an experience that combines a simple physical accessory, a free downloadable app, and the promise of potential prize money for continued play. The company has coined the term “[app]cessory” to describe the app-assisted accessory hardware, the first time we’ve heard this intuitive phrase used to describe an app-assisted accessory. To that end, people are supposed…