The app stores are teeming with new releases, but who has time to go through them all? We do. Bringing you a selection of the most interesting, creative, and innovative apps each week. Submit your suggestions for next week in the comments below.Gravilux [Android]Up until now iOS has been hogging all of interactive artist Scott Snibbe’s art apps, but no more. Now Android users can enjoy the digital fruits of the Scott Snibbe Studio with this app, which lets you draw with nothing less than stars. Touch the screen and like a Greek god you command galaxies of luminous virtual plasma at your fingertips. You can change the gravity settings, color the stars and enable anti-gravity too.Make Pixel Art [iPad]
Awhile back we mentioned the Make Pixel Art beta site, which lets you, you guessed it, make pixel art. The full version will be coming soon and will allow you to work offline and store drawings locally but while you wait for that, you can get the full version as an app. Now you can create pixel art on the move with a full inventory system and a shop to let you mix and match artwork from other users.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies [iPhone, iPod touch and iPad]
If in doubt, add zombies. Or even if you’re not in doubt, add zombies. This is the iOS version of the console game and gives you the option of slaughtering the undead on your own or team up with up to three other players and hurl abuse at them using Voice Chat. It has 50 levels of "Dead-Ops Arcade" for you to mindlessly war your way through as you sit on the train to work or wait for an appointment.X is for X-Ray [iPad]
Ever wanted to know what the inside of an alarm clock looks like? Get some Superman vision with this interactive book of X-ray images of 26 everyday objects, including lamps and a drum kit, based on the photography of Hugh Turvey, the Artist in Residence at the British Institute of Radiology. You can zoom in and swipe to rotate as you peer through the veil of maya and into the inner workings of reality like some kind of shaman.War on Terror [iPhone, iPod touch and iPad]
If you like your games to come with plenty of satire, then you’ll lap this up. Like all good satire it’s set in a fictional world where morals are not something that people and governments worry about. Control oil, fight and fund terrorism and do whatever it takes to save your own skin. It’s based on the board game of the same name, which was once classified “dangerous” by the police, which is as great a selling point as any.
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Awhile back we mentioned the Make Pixel Art beta site, which lets you, you guessed it, make pixel art. The full version will be coming soon and will allow you to work offline and store drawings locally but while you wait for that, you can get the full version as an app. Now you can create pixel art on the move with a full inventory system and a shop to let you mix and match artwork from other users.
If in doubt, add zombies. Or even if you’re not in doubt, add zombies. This is the iOS version of the console game and gives you the option of slaughtering the undead on your own or team up with up to three other players and hurl abuse at them using Voice Chat. It has 50 levels of "Dead-Ops Arcade" for you to mindlessly war your way through as you sit on the train to work or wait for an appointment.X is for X-Ray [iPad]
Ever wanted to know what the inside of an alarm clock looks like? Get some Superman vision with this interactive book of X-ray images of 26 everyday objects, including lamps and a drum kit, based on the photography of Hugh Turvey, the Artist in Residence at the British Institute of Radiology. You can zoom in and swipe to rotate as you peer through the veil of maya and into the inner workings of reality like some kind of shaman.War on Terror [iPhone, iPod touch and iPad]
If you like your games to come with plenty of satire, then you’ll lap this up. Like all good satire it’s set in a fictional world where morals are not something that people and governments worry about. Control oil, fight and fund terrorism and do whatever it takes to save your own skin. It’s based on the board game of the same name, which was once classified “dangerous” by the police, which is as great a selling point as any.