This week on The TouchArcade Show, we power through topics like Jack LaLanne's juicer to bring you the latest, hottest, and radicalest in iOS gaming. At the top, we discuss the upcoming iTunes Connect freeze. Later, we dig into new games such as Sin or Win, Sonic CD, and Kinectimals, and much later, we give a few lucky fan e-mailers their moment in the spotlight. Overall, this was a wicked show to do, so we hope you love it. If you'd like to give us a listen, do so via the handy-dandy links below. If you like what you heard, consider subscribing to us -- The TouchArcade Show is on iTunes and the Zune Marketplace for your convenience. Want our shows the second they hit the net? This is how to go about that, folks. Here's your show notes: GAMES JARED'S KITTY KORNER FRONT PAGE Christmas ain't going to stop this train, Read More

Looking for a new app this weekend?  Here are ten great new apps for the iPhone and iPad that you may want to check out! Available as a free version, or as a full version through an in-app purchase, this Microsoft product allows users to take extensive notes, edit them and sync them with SkyDrive.  The free version has a 500 note limit.  Free. The mobile version of the Xbox virtual pet game.  By playing on your iPhone, there’s the chance to unlock five additional pets on the console version.  It’s also universal for the iPhone and iPad.  $2.99/£1.99. Sega’s classic Sonic game has had a loving conversion over to iOS, complete with both US and Japanese soundtracks and the chance to unlock Tails as a playable character.  It’s also universal for the iPhone and iPad.  $1.99/£1.49. Create amazing stop motion films using your iPad, plus the free iStopMotion Remote Camera Read More

If you think this little guy looks cute here, you should see him frolic around your screen. "Game" might not be the right word. Kinectimals simulates adopting and playing with a tiger cub (your choice of five breeds at the beginning, with five more you can unlock). Target audience: 3-year-olds. OK, slightly older kids might enjoy this as well, but Kinectimals is so simplistic that I think anyone over the age of 7 is likely to lose interest pretty quickly. That's not to say this Tamogotchi-style experience is bad, because it's not. Rather, it's cute as the dickens, with frisky tiger cubs who jump and coo and catch (or at least paw at) tennis balls. Soothing new-agey music plays in the background. For the first few minutes, it's not immediately obvious what you're supposed to do with your cub. If you tap him, the camera zooms in and lets you "pet" Read More

...most talked about #iPhone app in the last 24hrs was: Kinectimals http://t.co/tPqDBEz5... Read More

Biggs is the editor of TechCrunch Gadgets. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at john@techcrunch.com. → Learn More Microsoft has ported Kinectimals, the Xbox 360 game that involves the care and feeding of dangerous animals in the wild, to the iPhone, suggesting that (at least in the short term) even Microsoft sees the value of releasing on iOS first. The $2.99 game recreates the Xbox version fairly faithfully but without the Kinect motion controls. Interestingly, the app also allows you to “unlock” new cubs on the Xbox, proving that paid DLC can hide in multiple guises. The game supports the iPad and iPhone and follows the Read More

Biggs is the editor of TechCrunch Gadgets. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at john@techcrunch.com. → Learn More Microsoft has ported Kinectimals, the Xbox 360 game that involves the care and feeding of dangerous animals in the wild, to the iPhone, suggesting that (at least in the short term) even Microsoft sees the value of releasing on iOS first. The $2.99 game recreates the Xbox version fairly faithfully but without the Kinect motion controls. Interestingly, the app also allows you to “unlock” new cubs on the Xbox, proving that paid DLC can hide in multiple guises. The game supports the iPad and iPhone and follows the Read More

Last week, to everyone’s surprise, Microsoft released an iOS version of My Xbox Live which was one of the first steps to finally supporting the iOS platform instead of keeping their apps exclusive to the not as popular Windows Phone 7. It looks like the iOS love is continuing as the company is making its family-friendly Kinect title, Kinectimals, available on iOS today. Kinectimals for iOS brings the Xbox 360 experience of visiting the island of Lemuria to our iOS device as you can raise your own virtual cubs. If you’ve played the Xbox 360 version of Kinectimals, the iOS version will seem very familiar to you as you’ll choose your cub, name him, and then take care of him by participating in a number of mini-games and interact with your pet by touching the screen. Kinectimals for iOS also allows for the ability to unlock five new cubs for your console Read More

Microsoft is turning out to be quite the iOS developer. Earlier this month, the company released an Xbox Live app for the iPhone. On Monday, the company announced OneNote for the iPad and Lync for the iPhone. Today, Redmond announced iPhone versions of both Kinectimals and its SkyDrive online storage service. That’s on top of an existing stable of apps that includes Bing, Photosynth and Windows Live Messenger. While most of Microsoft’s iOS apps are free connections to existing services, the company is charging $2.99 for Kinectimals. As I noted earlier this week, Microsoft has long faced the challenge of wanting to support its own mobile operating system, while also acknowledging that it is not the epicenter of the phone universe. The company still reserves some of its most extensive work for Windows Phone, which offers mobile versions of the full Office suite as well as a deeper Xbox Live connection Read More

Microsoft, via Xbox Live evangelist Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb, has just announced the immediate release of another surprising App Store app -- though this one, Kinectimals [$2.99], is a game and not a companion piece, as was the case with My Xbox Live. This version of Kinectimals seems like it's pretty close to the Kinect experience that it's based on, though we've also heard that it's strikingly similar to the Windows 7 mobile version of the game, too. In a nutshell, it's just a collection of mini-games starring several super cute cats that you can train to do tricks or participate in a wide range of not-necessarily-stimulating-for-adults activities. Of note, this version, developed by Frontier Developments as well, incorporates "brand new ways to play with your cub" and offers an unlock for five additional cats on the Xbox 360. We'll be playing with this throughout the day, and will bring you Read More

Si sois jugadores de consola, concretamente de Xbox 360, es posible que conozcáis el juego para Kinect: Kinectimals. Un juego de Microsoft Studios, en el que podremos interactuar y jugar con una mascota a través de la cámara de Kinect. Pues bien, por sorpresa, ha salido una versión del juego para dispositivos iOS. Y no, no es un minijuego complementario al juego de consola, sino que es un juego completo en si, con gráfico (tal como dicen) de la misma calidad del original. Imaginamos que para la ocasión, han adaptado los controles que se usan con la cámara de Kinect a la pantalla táctil del dispositivo, así que tendremos que usar nuestros dedos para interactuar con las mascotas. Además, el juego nos permitirá desbloquear 5 cachorros nuevos en Xbox, así que si lo tenéis, es un aliciente más para haceros con él. La verdad es que nos parece genial que otras Read More