Based on the acclaimed kids’ book by Herve Tullet, Press Here: The App from Chronicle Books is available for iPad ($2) and iPhone ($1) — the latter as a “small version.” The app features 15 simple games and activities, focused on the three colored dots featured in the considerably more expensive books. Though the app version appears to be simplistic in design, Press Here uses its basic dots to spark imagination and problem solving, testing memory, artistic abilities, and much more.
Procreate ($5), an iPad app from Savage Interactive that lets users illustrate and create, has updated to version 1.8. So many new things have been added — a freehand selection tool, a new copy-and-pastesystem, painting and brush improvements, transform improvements, and a new interface for creating a canvas, amongst other tweaks.
A number of other experiences have been improved, including interface animations and redesigned menus. The app also now supports Adonit’s Jot Touch 4.
Now that the popular Google Reader has gone away, other RSS readers are hoping to fill the void. Silvio Rizzi’s Reeder is changing in response — now free for iPhone, Reeder version 3.2 supports Feedbin, Feedly, Feed Wrangler and Fever as alternatives to Google Reader. The app also can store RSS feeds locally for the time being.
For now, the iPad version of Reeder has been removed from the App Store — both the iPhone and iPad apps will receive a “major update” in the future, adding local RSS storage and other feeds for a post-Google Reader world.
SNK Playmore has brought the classic one-on-one fighting game Samurai Shodown II ($9) to iOS. Originally released for Neo Geo in 1994, the game features 15 selectable fighters, including the original characters from the first Samurai Shodown, and four additions: Genjuro Kibagami, Cham Cham, Neinhalt Sieger, and the wonderfully-named Nicotine Caffeine. Those familiar with other SNK fighters such as Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting will have some idea of what to expect—walk, jump, run, duck, attacks, and special moves—though Samurai Shodown II features a weapon-based style of combat.
