The first game involving the Wikileaks site has hit the App Store. Super Boise, the creators of “Crisis in the Gulf,” a game about the gulf oil spill, have announced the release of their latest social commentary game…Wikileak Defender.
The premise of the game is that the government has failed to stop Wikileaks from releasing hundreds of thousands of classified documents. As a measure of last resort, the government has called in the most thorough defenders our country has to offer… the TSA! Now, right there our suspension of disbelief has been totaled, but there’s more. You play as the TSA agent whose job it is to prevent the leaked diplomatic cables from getting onto the internet, where they will cause unforeseeable damage to America’s reputation. You do this by swiping away the leaks. And here we thought all TSA agents had to do was feel you up!
The game includes four different play modes, universal support for iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad, lederboard and achievement support through Game Center, and daily polls on various Wikileaks topics. The polls are also use to ask about what features you would like to see in future updates.
Wikileak Defender is $0.99, and there is a Wikileak Defender Lite for those who want to try it out.
via Appmodo
What’s inside this episode:
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Omaha reviews Drawn: The Painted Tower by Big Fish Games. A beautiful hidden object game that integrates puzzle with storyline, graphics with sound. If only she could have done something at the end! But, don’t worry, there’s that cave…
Show Notes:
- Omaha Sternberg and Peter Cohen of The Loop talk about Blizzard’s decision to require their RealID to use their official forums. And one Blizzard employee finds out the hard way that, yes, you CAN find out a hell of a lot of info from just one’s first and last name…
- The App Store and a number of iTunes accounts were hacked last week to increase the ranking’s of a bookseller online. But is this an isolated incident?
- Apple gave many indications that iAds would be kind of the hill come launch time. Yet there are still apps getting approved using AdMob and other competitor’s adware. What’s the deal? And what impact could this have on gamers?
- Peter and Omaha start talking about 3Dchat and eventually get around to erotic hamburger (in 3D!). Bet you want to listen to the show NOW!
Music Notes:
- Digital Droo produced our theme music here at iGame Radio.
- Michael Hu-wong for featuring music from Fizzball.
- Steven Johnson for featuring music from Escort Wing.
If you are looking for some Centipede action, you’re no longer going to find it on your iPhone. So says Gamezebo, which noted in an article today that several iPhone games by Atari have mysteriously disappeared from the App Store.
Games such as Missile Command, Super Breakout and Centipede were originally brought to the App Store in 2008 in what many thought would be the first of many re-imagined and re-built classics of arcade tradition from Atari. But since then, no new titles were added, despite Atari leveling legal threats against other App developers for bringing Breakout knockoffs to the Store. Interestingly enough, one does find Missile Command knockoffs, such as Warheads, in the store, but so far they have not been removed.
Gamezebo mentions the possibility of an Atari 2600 emulator that is currently in the works as being a potential reason for the disappearances. Manomino, the developer behind the popular Commodore 64 emulator, said back in April that they were “in the early stages of negotiation with Infogrames/Atari, but have a good dialogue going with the right people.” The fact that both an emulator and a remastered version of these games could exist at the same time on the App Store makes that doubtful.
No word has been heard from Atari at this time for why these titles have disappeared. So the gaming world must wait and hope that something more interesting is in the works.
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