Don’t forget the NOW!

While we go on break this weekend, don’t forget that every day we should still be posting via Appcast NOW! Price drops, new releases, and the usual sort of apps you’d normally hear on the show are being posted there for the next two weeks (and onwards of course).

And I want it NOW!

Astute and frequent viewers of this site (hey there have to be a few besides Kevin and I…) will have noticed a few changes over the last day or so. That’s right, today we set up the Appcast NOW! page and its accompanying RSS & Twitter feeds. ”So, what is Appcast NOW! anyway?” Well, I’m glad you asked. 

The purpose of Appcast NOW! is to provide a place for us to post quick comments and thoughts on apps between the actual shows without completely spamming the ‘higher level’ Aftercast posts or the main page and to get you information (and the occasional entertainment) about apps much more quickly so if- as was the case with Space-X recently- there’s a really cool app released at a discounted price, you’ll know about it in time to take advantage of the price instead of potentially missing it due to our waiting to talk about it on the show (potentially a week after an app is released). Some fair warning though, some of the apps we post about there will likely also be in the podcast.

So, if you’re interested in more quick app reviews and thoughts, head on over to the Appcast NOW! link at the top of the page or go to now.the-appcast.com, and subscribe to the Appcast NOW! RSS Feed, and follow AppcastNOW on Twitter.

I Love Katamari Lite

I Love Katamari Lite (Free):  I’d heard rather bad things about lag in this game when it first came out, so despite loving the series I never picked it up (that I own both PS2 games didn’t help matters…), so I was curious to get the chance to try it out with the lite version. Honestly, I was rather impressed and didn’t notice the much real lag except for the ’scale change’ parts which have lagged somewhat even on the console systems. It was surprisingly fun on the iPhone, but also kind of hard to go from playing it on a fairly good-sized HD set to playing it on the small iPhone screen. Definitely check it out if you’ve been on the fence about buying I Love Katamari and want to see if it might be worth the $8.

Tower Defense on the Cheap: 7 Cities TD Price Drop

For Valentine’s Weekend, 7 Cities TD has gone on sale for $1.99. 7 Cities was one of our favorites of the Tower Defense genre, and probably the most polished and impressive of the fixed-path games- so if you have been holding off because it was just too expensive, now would be the time to jump at it!