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  • Apple announces the winners and finalists of its 2025 Apple Design Awards

    Apple announces the winners and finalists of its 2025 Apple Design Awards

    Apple has revealed the winners of its 2025 Apple Design Awards, honoring the best (and most entirely awesome) apps in the App Store. Having honed all the entries down to 36 finalists and 12 winners across six categories that carried over from the 2024 awards, the company announced the final categories and winners as follows:

    Delight and Fun (“Delight and Fun” covers apps with “memorable, engaging, and satisfying experiences enhanced by Apple technologies”):

    • Best App: CapWords (HappyPlan Tech)
    • Best Game: Balatro (LocalThunk)
    • Lumy (Raja V)
    • Denim (Feel Good Tech)
    • Thank Goodness You’re Here! (Panic)
    • Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown (Ubisoft Montpellier)

    Innovation (“Innovation” awards go to apps that “provide a state-of-the-art experience through novel use of Apple technologies that set them apart in their genre”):

    • Best App: Play (Rabbit 3 Times)
    • Best Game: PBJ – The Musical (Philipp Stollenmayer)
    • Moises (Music.AI)
    • Capybara (Digital Workroom)
    • Pawz (Bootloader Studio Holdings)
    • Gears & Goo (Resolution Games)

    Interaction (The “Interation” category deals with apps that provide “intuitive interfaces and effortless controls that are perfectly tailored to their platform”):

    • Best App: Taobao (Zhejiang Taobao Network)
    • Best Game: Dredge (Black Salt Games)
    • iA Writer (Information Architects)
    • Mela – Recipe Manager (Silvio Rizzi)
    • Gears & Goo (Resolution Games)
    • Skate City: New York (Snowman)

    Inclusivity (“Apps in the ‘Inclusivity’ category provide a great experience for all users “by reflecting a variety of backgrounds, abilities, and languages”):

    • Best App: Speechify (Speechify)
    • Best Game: Art of Fauna (Klemens Strasser)
    • Evolve (GTA Solutions)
    • Train Fitness (Train Fitness)
    • puffies (Lykke Studios)
    • Land of Livia (Split Atom Labs)

    Social Impact (The “Social Impact” category deals with apps that “improve lives in a meaningful way and shine a light on crucial issues”):

    • Best App: Watch Duty (Sherwood Forestry Service)
    • Best Game: Neva (Developer Digital)
    • Ground News (Snapwise)
    • Opal (Opal OS)
    • Ahoy! (Picardy by Daniel Jones)
    • Art of Fauna (Klemens Strasser)

    Visuals and Graphics(The “Visuals and Graphics” list of nominees and winners consist of apps that have “stunning imagery, skillfully drawn interfaces, and high-quality animations with a distinctive and cohesive theme”):

    • Best App: Feather: Draw in 3D (Sketchsoft)
    • Best Game: Infinity Nikki (Infold Games)
    • Vocabulary (Monkey Taps)
    • CellWalk (Timothy Davison)
    • Control: Ultimate Edition (Remedy Entertainment)
    • Neva (Developer Digital)

    Check these apps out on the App Store if you get a chance and please let us know what you make of them in the comments.

    Via AppleInsider

  • E3 2010: Gameloft demos assorted iPhone/iPad titles en route to market

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    Over at E3, mobile publisher Gameloft introduced a slew of iPhone and iPad titles over the course of the week.

    Per Macworld, Gameloft will release the following titles to the iPhone and iPad:

    Hero of Sparta 2:
    In the coming months, Gameloft will release Hero of Sparta 2, the sequel to the adventure title in which the player must follow avenge his homeland after finding everything he knows has been destroyed. Although no firm release date has been set, the title has been confirmed for both the iPhone and iPad.

    Splinter Cell: Conviction for iPad:
    The first Splinter Cell game for the iPad, Splinter Cell: Conviction places you in the middle of a plot where stealth means everything. A final release date has yet to be confirmed, though the game seems to be a better fit on the larger iPad than the iPhone.

    Ultimate Spiderman: Total Mayhem:
    Set in the comic book style of the hero’s roots, Ultimate Spiderman: Total Mayhem has you control Spiderman as he battles criminals and super villains while web swinging throughout the world of New York.

    Expect to see this title within the App Store before too long and this proved promising.

    Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
    In addition to providing applications in the stealth and brawler genres, Gameloft is producing some new titles in the platformer genre as well. Prince of Persia: Warrior Within was originally released on consoles in 2004 but is getting its own iPad version in July of this year.

    Like the console version, expect to wall jump, backflip, dispose of several demonic guards, and then maybe slide down a banner for good measure. The current build looks on par with the 2004 release, which was still impressive and the title itself played pretty smoothly.

    Let’s Golf 2:
    Let’s Golf 2 will hit the iPhone this July and features eight characters with their own powers as well as over 108 holes of golf. Users will be able to travel to six exotic locations including Aztec ruins, African jungles, and Greenland.

    Other new features Gameloft will add to Let’s Golf 2 include new leaderboards and ways to challenge your friends, a new career mode, and new achievements to unlock.