Apps & updates: Readdle 5th anniversary sale, Amazon Mobile, Dead Trigger, HopStop, more
Today’s list of apps and updates hitting the App Stores kicks off with a huge sale on Readdle apps to celebrate the publisher’s fifth anniversary. As always, we will update the list when more apps hit the store.
Readdle 5th anniversary sale: Readdle, a premier productivity application developer for iOS, has begun a major sale for its suite of popular productivity App Store software. The company is doing this sale in celebration of its fifth-year anniversary as a company. The sale begins today and will run for the next 48 hours. The folks at Readdle created a new web page that describes their work and success so far. It is an interesting read for both other app developers and app users. Here are the discounts:
Shakespeare Pro: $9.99 to $1.99
Amazon Mobile version 2.0.0: Amazon’s universal mobile app for shopping through Amazon.com received a notable update that includes the ability to utilize the “Subscribe & Save” option at checkout to get 5 percent to 15 percent off purchases. You can also now shop by department.
HopStop version 2.0: The popular iPhone app that provides subway and bus directions and transit maps for NYC, Boston, Chicago, San Fran (and elsewhere) was just updated with an all-new design that includes interactive route overview maps and built-in compass functionality, “station-to-station schedule search,” and much more.
Dead Trigger version 1.1.2: Madfinger’s latest title has been getting a ton of praise from game reviewers lately, and it received a huge update today that brings tons of new weapons, upgrades, gadgets, zombies, and environments. A full list of new features and fixes is below:
New weapons: Chain Saw, Lewis Machine Gun, Marine Engine with blades and American West Rifle
*New gadget: Head-Flator X100 to inflate the heads of zombies to XXXL size!
*New zombies: mutated mobsters or armoured SWAT members
*New environments: underground car park or secret research base
*Survival arena, that is tailor-made for massacre of hordes of zombies
*Daily rewards
*Casino: try your luck with a slot machine
*Save game data with cloud backup
☣ Bug Fixing
* Revive Kit (cooldown, number of usage during mission)
* Crash in Menu when too many missions were “available”
* Booster “Ammo Supply” did not working properly
⋆ Crash in GameCenter code
⋆ Various fixes in missions and graphics
☣ Tweaks
* Enemy AI
* Aiming on crawling enemies when enabled iron-sight
* New Hope accessible after first mission
* Shop ( items with zero owned pieces, etc. )
* Damages caused by mines, deactivated turret, cutters, exploding barrels that did not injure enemies on higher ranks
☣ Weapons, Gadgets, Upgrades
* Decrease price of various items
* Decrease required ranks
* Damage tweaks, etc