[UPDATE: Since publication, this story has been updated a number of times with new sales.]
And so begins another epic iOS sale. Black Friday may still be four days away, but Com2uS is getting into the spirit early with a plethora of price-cuts across its iOS catalogue.
For a limited time only, you can pick up Tower Defense: Lost Earth, baseball-bashing Homerun Battle 3D, and the porcine-puzzler Piggy Adventure in the App Store for the reduced price of 69p/99c.
Gameloft is feeling generous, too, offering 20 of its iOS games for 69p/99c.
Chair is currently offering its Pocket Gamer Gold Award-winning slasher Infinity Blade for a wallet-friendly £1.99/$2.99, and you can grab Konami’s snot-centric Gesundheit!for 69p/99c.
If all that wasn’t enough, you can now get your hands on SmashMouth Games's rhythmic Russian Dancing Men for free.
For all these bargains and more, check the list below. We'll keep it updated as more publishers join the sales frenzy.
HD on mobile is simple an marketing phrase thats it. There is an huge difference on what you tell here might be HD in the TV or common sense and on mobile.
A PC screen 10 years ago with an standard resolution of 1280x1024 was already more detailed as a normal TV screen. If you were looking DVDs on those resolutions it was always better and seemed to have higher quality as on the first LCD/Plasma or old fashioned TV screens. But have you ever seen a PC game being sold with naming HD when it was not supporting 1920x1080? Nope...
HD is high denisty and is a secured naming for exactly what it is 1920x1080 or 1080p thats HD, and this goes for displaying systems which are able to show content nativly on this size.
Everything else is just confusing customers and nothing less then make money out of people who believe this easy statements.
Please do not understand this as rant on the big companies who use this, but its and a non discussiable fact. Who ever started with this was smart, but actually I don't like this trend as many others from industry.
I wonder what will happen if a device will enter the market which is really able to support these resolution...the games will be named HDHD??? Or True HD?
Yay...sake to the marketing guys who have no idea about the technology used in their business.
Have a nice weekend :)
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GypsyDave |14:50 - 24 November 2011
Some more sales running until November 28th too:
Origin8
Sentinel 1 & 2: FREE
Sentinel 3: $0.99 was $2.99 (PocketGamer GOLD award winner)
Space Station: Frontier: FREE
Space Station: Frontier HD: $0.99 was $2.99
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link6616 |20:46 - 22 November 2011
The ipad very much has a HD screen... It's just not a TV...
The standards for TVs and monitors is that now, as is the 16:9 format. But I think anything over 800*600 is technically HD (which still also makes the retina screens HD...). And we have more vertical lines on an iPad than 720p anyway so it seems odd we can have a HD resolution be partially smaller.
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PG James Gilmour |18:12 - 21 November 2011
The 'HD' tag is simply used to separate the iPad build of a game or app from the iPhone build.
A lot of games written for the iPhone can also be run on iPad, but rely on the iPad to upscale the iPhone-native resolution. The 'HD' versions of those games are made specifically for the iPad's 1024x768 display.
Although the iPad doesn't have an 'HD' screen in the current sense of the term (1280x720 or 1920x1080), that's the tag that gets used in the App Store. I can see why it might cause some confusion, though.
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klouud |17:24 - 21 November 2011
Now... when a game says "HD" does that mean iPad or retina devices? Or both? Very confusing... iPad isn't even HD... and technically the retina devices aren't either... something about the resolution not being large enough.
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