Nine Over Ten 9/10 favourite, Breakout: Boost (read the review here), has now a paid version of the game released today on the iTunes App Store, titled Breakout: Boost+. This new version of the game comes with 100 new levels and the same gameplay that I really liked from Breakout: Boost.

Honestly, if you love Breakout: Boost. you definitely should check out Breakout:Boost+. The game is available from the iTunes App Store (USD 0.99) for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, check it out over here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id494136657

If I’m on a tour of Dublin, one of the items on my itinerary would be a visit to the Guinness Storehouse. Having been a fan of Guinness Stout for years (even as a kid, yeah, I kinda started early), it would be pretty awesome to take a tour of that place. Having said that, air flight tickets to Dublin aren’t exactly cheap. Anyways, there’s a new official Guinness Storehouse app that serves as a virtual companion for visitors to that “hallowed” ground.

Once downloaded onto their phone, users can map their journey to the Storehouse using Google maps, purchase tickets online and check opening times. The Guinness Storehouse® App offers fully digitised multi-lingual tours of the seven storey building in English, German, Spanish, Italian and French.

These tours feature unique and interactive Hotspots, which upon selection, showcase specific points of interest on each floor through the use of photos, video and descriptions. These hotspots include the ingredients exhibition, Guinness® advertising and the popular Cooperage which showcases the ancient craft of barrel making.

Another unique function on the App is the photo gallery page which allows fans to upload images from their visit with ease and view a gallery of 25,000 visitor photos since 2008. Amateur photographers will be able to enter the monthly Guinness Storehouse® Photo Competition on Facebook or Twitter via the App, allowing interaction and engagement amongst fans and friends.

For foodies, Guinness Storehouse® App users will be able to watch the Storehouse head chef Justin O’Connor give video cooking demonstrations or try out some Guinness® recipes such as Guinness® Brown Bread and Guinness® and Beef Stew from FIVE, the newly launched Guinness® and Food Experience, which will be available for download.

The exciting mobile App was developed by Guinness Storehouse® in partnership with O2 and is available to download for all Smartphones. iPhone users need to simply search “Guinness Storehouse” on the iTunes App Store and Android users can search the same terms “Guinness Storehouse” in the Android Market.

Since it was the first day of Chinese New Year (yesterday), I was pretty much stuck in the kitchen, cooking up a storm. But this year, I decided to have some fun with the Nintendo 3DS’ camera. For those of you who are not in the know, it actually shoots 3D pictures in the form of MPO files. You can actually view these files using certain viewing software, or through a browser that supports this kind of files.

So if you are viewing this on a 3DS, try tapping on the image of the pork roast below (yup, I roasted that, and made the apple sauce as well), to view the 3D version of the image

The folks at Telltale Games have been very busy this New Year. First up, they are having their Epic iOS Sale from the 19th of January to the 29th of January. This ten-day sales sees a truly great selection of games going for just USD 0.99. This includes Sam & Max: The Penal Zone Episode 1, the Puzzle Agent Series and the Hector: Badge of Carnage games.

Also, Telltale Games is thrilled to announce that the fourth episode of Law & Order: Legacies, Nobody’s Child is now available on iOS.  Based on NBCUniversal’s Emmy-winning Law & Order TV series, Law & Order: Legacies allows players to work cases as both investigators and district attorneys alongside the full roster of fan-favorite characters from the Law & Order franchise.

iOS gamers can now access the next case of Law & Order: Legacies, ‘Nobody’s Child ‘ via in-app purchase, and available to those who have previously bought the series Multi-Pack for $12.99. The remaining 3 episodes in the season long saga will be released soon after and delivered right to your touch screen device. Check out the game over here.

Last but not least, the adventure continues in Episode 3 of Telltale’s cinematic journey, Jurassic Park: The Game – Episode 3, “The Depths”! Available for immediate download, check out the next chapter in the saga of Gerry Harding’s crew and their perilous adventures as they flee Isla Nublar.

Episode 3: “The Depths” – The group looks for escape through the dark maintenance tunnels that connect the park, while being hunted by relentless pursuers and carnivorous dinosaurs along the way. Uneasy partnerships teeter as the simmering tensions explode and the survivors begin to turn on each other. Check out the game right over here.

One of our favourite indie games on the iPhone, Spin Gem (screenshot below, read the review here), is now available for free on the iTunes App Store as developer Waggle is celebrating the upcoming release of a new freemium title in a high fantasy universe setting. Titled Loot Lust, the game is set in Vale, where Castle Galathorn was abandoned 600 years ago after bloody infighting between 5 potential heirs.

The five heirs struck an accord, which has been honoured over the centuries and became the status quo, until The Dark Council seized upon a rare planetary alignment to combine enormous tidal gravitational forces with their own fell magicks to break a demonic force to the surface of Vale.

There are a choice of 48 unique player characters with unique skills.  There are 5 realms and 42 areas to explore and 5 dungeons brimming with great loot.  Team up and go raiding with a group?  Help the guild masters to complete quests?  Free roam adventure anywhere you’re strong enough to explore or even recruit others and form your own clan!  Loot  Lust is a brand new IP developed specially for iPhone and iPad.

Explore the 5 realms of Vale, make and break deals with the overlords.  Find artefacts, treasure, and weapons.  Survive battles with wolves and gangs of brigands in Hilmerton, to Sand Burrowers and Witchdoctors of Bleached Bone Beach.  Play from a varied set of character styles including Soul Gardener, Headhunter, Dreadcloak or Cutpurse.

Fulfil your path to power and your lust for loot… and bring your friends! In the mean time, download Spin Gem for free: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/spin-gem/id467428948?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

I downloaded the demo for Resident Evil: Revelations for the 3DS on a lark, knowing full well that me and horror (be it movies or games), don’t actually go well together…in fact, I can’t go through a horror movie without an extended amount of cringing. It turned out to be one of the best looking games I’ve ever seen on a Nintendo portable platform.

If you have not checked out the demo yet, head over to the eShop and start downloading now. I’ve still haven’t gotten used to the game yet, having made it only to the part where the character I was playing found the hidden object scanner. The enemy creatures look absolutely scary and you’ll need to be prepared to expend plenty of bullets to take each of them down.

There’s only one difficult mode for the demo and there’s no ability to save as well, but yes, the game seems to be a good sampler for the real thing that is scheduled to be released early next month. Will I be getting the game? Maybe not (the reason is in the first paragraph), but if you enjoy the series or the genre of games, feel free to check it out!

Been revisiting StarCraft II recently, not really for the campaign, but for the custom games in the multiplayer mode, and I think I’ve found the two mods that I really like. The first one is Left 2 Die, which is an official StarCraft II mod by Blizzard. It’s a cooperative version of the Outbreak mission in the single player campaign, and as such, the gameplay is divided between day and night phases.

During the day phase, players go about destroying infested structures, while at night, they’ll need to survive the onslaught of hundreds of infested units. It’s crazy fun for players who love to “turtle” and I’ve been playing this map 3 nights in a row. Hehe.

Next up is a favourite of mine since the days of WarCraft III, no, it’s not DOTA, rather it’s Element TD for StarCraft II. Yup, tower defense is a venerated genre over here at Nine Over Ten 9/10. So much so that after platformers, the most reviewed category of games over here, irrespective of platform, would be those belonging to this particular genre.

I managed to survive until wave 40 before succumbing to a superior wave, and like Left 2 Die, it was crazy fun. So what are your favourite mods on StarCraft II? Personally I can’t wait for Blizzard DOTA to arrive.

This is the only time of the year where I can crack out Master Chief’s orange suit (most of the time he’s in olive green), which coincidentally reminds me of a mandarin orange. Anyways, I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy Chinese New Year 2012! May the year of the dragon bring you prosperity, luck and happiness….and probably more Skyrim as well for you gamer types out there.

Two more days folks, to the highly anticipated release of Bulkypix’s latest game for iOS devices, JAZZ: Trump’s Journey. The game is a platformer, inspired by historical events in the jazz music genre. While you are checking out the amazing looking screenshots from JAZZ: Trump’s Journey, be sure to tune in to the main theme of the game, available at the bottom of this post:

Build once, deploy for many different devices, in other words, cross-platform development. That’s one thing that most developers would want to strive for especially when there are huge but disparate markets such as iOS and Android devices. Berlin-based Infernum is one of the latest game studios to jump onto the cross-platform bandwagon with its upcoming online-shooter, Brick Force.

Built using Unity 3D, this comic-style online game will be playble directly in the browser thanks to the Unity 3D engine and is a co-production from the Korean developer EXE Games and Infernum. The sandbox mode, in which players use simple building blocks to construct complex environments, can be played on social networks and mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets.

Today’s in-game trailer shows a range of various game modes. Features such as the classics “Capture the Flag“, “Deathmatch“ or the “Defusion“ mode in which bombs are planted, defused, and defended bring explosive entertainment into the user-generated maps.

“Brick-Force will provide gamers with a varied and comprehensive game experience across multiple platforms such as PCs, tablets and smart-phones,” says Andreas Weidenhaupt, CEO/Founder, Infernum. “We are building a strong community ahead of the closed beta launch – and we can´t wait for the beta to start and to see the first maps of the fans.”

Brick-Force goes live in Spring, but fans can register for closed beta access at the official website www.brick-force.com to build, share and play.