New iPhone game roundup: Guitar Rock Tour, iFun, more
Macworld —
by Peter Cohen , Macworld.com Games remain the biggest section of apps available for download from the App Store, and one of the most popular segments. Here are some of the ones that have come to our attention just in the past few days. Guitar Rock Tour is priced at $7.99, but it's as close as you can get to Guitar Hero or Rock Band for the iPhone right now. You get to play lead guitar or drums to 17 famous songs—everything from Scorpions' "Rock You Like a Hurricane" to "Message In the Bottle" by the Police (performed by sound-alike bands. SGN—maker of iGolf, iBowl and iBaseball—has released iFun , designed to work as a social networking ...
Article: Weird + Small Apps: Curling, Basketball, Gender Changer, Dictionary.com, TalkMail Pro
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
For a change, this week’s edition of Weird + Small Apps is decidedly more “small” than “weird,” as only one sketchy app—Gender Changer from the aptly-named Japanese company Spookies—arrived for testing. But there were a bunch of interesting mini-games and mini-apps this week, including two simple basketball titles, a curling simulator, a text-to-speech e-mail program, a dictionary, and more. Our top pick this week is the free dictionary and thesaurus application Dictionary.com. Read on for all the details. Whereas some companies are trying to develop full-fledged games for the iPhone and iPod touch, Skyworks ...

