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Lost And Found: Friendly Devs Fix IAP Update Errors

BY Andy Faust III on Wed July 18th, 2012

If a recent update wiped out your IAPs, here's how to get them back.
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Upcoming iOS Title Takes In-App Purchases To The Extreme Level

BY Brent Dirks on Tue July 10th, 2012

An upcoming game from Peter Molyneux, Curiosity, will be offering a $50,000 in-app purchase.
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Scramble With Friends Has A Strange Flaw

BY Karen Freeman on Sat January 07th, 2012

Zynga chose a very strange way of doing things with this game.
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Apple Accidentally Launches Curious "GameStore" iPhone Application In The App Store

BY Joe White on Mon January 02nd, 2012

Apple has recently launched a new application in the App Store called "GameStore." However, the application appears to have been used in the past for internal testing, and has simply been accidentally launched in the App Store by mistake: the app itself serves no real purpose, only allowing customers to make numerous in-app purchase for content that doesn't exist.
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Palm Heroes 2 For iPad Updated

BY Mike Lata on Wed April 20th, 2011

Want to play Heroes of Might and Magic on your iPad? Check out Palm Heroes 2. The game recently saw a pretty big update to version 2.1.
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Amazon Announces Kindle Library Lending: Supports Kindle For iOS

BY Joe White on Wed April 20th, 2011

Amazon has just announced Kindle Library Lending - a new feature that allows Kindle users to borrow e-books from over 11,000 libraries in the U.S.
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Rhapsody Could End Up Suing Apple Over In-App Purchase Policies

BY Joe White on Wed February 16th, 2011

Rhapsody, the online music subscription service, could end up suing Apple over the company’s recently enforced in-app purchase policies. The policies effectively force developers to hand over 30 percent of in-app purchases over to Apple, and have angered a lot of companies - including Rhapsody.
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Bejeweled 2 Updated: Adds In-App Coin Purchasing

BY Joe White on Fri December 10th, 2010

The popular iOS game, Bejeweled 2, has recently received an update. Now, gamers can purchase coins within the application, via the in-app purchasing method. Read on to find out more ...
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Angry Birds - New Mighty Eagle Will Clear Your Level, For A Price

BY Joe White on Fri September 17th, 2010

Angry Birds is set to receive a new addition to the team. "Mighty Eagle" is a new bird which will soon be able to help gamers clear a tough level (for a price). We're not sure how much this in-app purchase will be, or when it'll be available. But it's coming. Read on to find out more...
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Pocket God Ep. 32: Crack is Wack is out!

BY Michael Jeans on Wed May 26th, 2010

Bolt Creative's Pocket God Episode 32: Crack is Wack has just been approved...grab your free update now! Plus - new skins for the Ice Monster in the In App store.
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David H. Lawrence Wants To Tell You About Rehearsal, A New App To Help Actors Learn Lines

BY Tyler Tschida on Fri February 26th, 2010

Rehearsal is a new app for the iPhone and iPod touch that's intended to help all of you aspiring, and even established, actors and actresses learn your lines. To help recreate the best parts of
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Byte² Releases Freemium Office² Plus

BY Tyler Tschida on Mon February 22nd, 2010

Byte² realizes how difficult it can be to take a risk on a $5.99 Office-based productivity app for your iPhone or iPod touch, which is why they have released a freemium version of Office² titled
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Another Classic Tower Defense Game Gets In-App Purchase Content

BY Tyler Tschida on Wed January 13th, 2010

In a move that seems to be the norm these days, Super Squawk Software has updated their classic and quirky tower defense game, The Creeps!, with in-app purchase contest instead of providing it free of
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Gravity Sling Goes Deluxe, Ditches In-App Purchase Content

BY Tyler Tschida on Fri December 11th, 2009

Riptide's Gravity Sling was one of the first free iPhone games to include in-app purchase content, which has allowed them to gauge the many pros and cons that come with the new system well before
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Riptide Reveals Early In-App Purchase Results For Their Free Game Gravity Sling

BY Tyler Tschida on Tue November 24th, 2009

Apple's decision on October 15th to allow free apps to include in-app purchases certainly generated a lot of buzz among developers, and now, thanks to iPhone game developer Riptide, we finally have some results that
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iOki's Lady Gaga-Branded iPhone Karaoke App Now Available

BY Tyler Tschida on Mon November 23rd, 2009

Lady Gaga's new iPhone karaoke app, which we discussed only a couple of weeks ago, is now available in the App Store. Now you can finally sing along with Lady Gaga whenever and wherever you
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Ngmoco Takes The Leash Off Of Touch Pets Dogs

BY Tyler Tschida on Tue November 10th, 2009

Touch Pets Dogs, like ngmoco's Eliminate, spent a considerable amount of time in Canadian and Australian gamer's hands before being unleashed worldwide to basically serve as a large beta test group. The time has finally
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MobileNavigator Updated With Live Traffic Data As An In-App Purchase

BY Tyler Tschida on Mon November 09th, 2009

In mid-September Navigon announced that they would be bringing live traffic data to their killer turn-by-turn iPhone navigation app, MobileNavigator, sometime during the month of October. Well, October has obviously passed, so technically they missed
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Sling Astronauts Through Space In Gravity Sling - Available For Free With In-App Purchase

BY Tyler Tschida on Fri November 06th, 2009

Gravity Sling is a product of the 360iDev conference's iPhone Game Jam, which was an all-night coding event that had developers trying to create games in under 12 hours. Multiple Denver-based iPhone developers actually collaborated
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Eliminate Breaks Into The Top 100 Grossing Apps List

BY Tyler Tschida on Wed November 04th, 2009

Not too long ago, Freeverse decided to take a look at how in-app purchases affect the App Store's Top Grossing Apps list. After comparing the income and units sold of two of their top 100
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