EA begins huge iOS sale, Microsoft tweaks Skype with new version
Massive game publisher Electronic Arts has put nearly its entire iOS library on sale -- including blockbuster titles like Mirror's Edge and Need for Speed?-- while Microsoft's Skype issued a maintenance update for its recently revamped VoIP app.
The full list of on-sale titles is below:
Skype recently redesigned their iOS app from the ground up to match its Windows Phone counterpart, and the company's most recent update adds some missing features and makes adjustments to the new user interface. Notably, message editing has made a return, with users able to press and hold on a message in chat view to edit it.
Users can also remove conversations from their recent list with a similar press-and-hold gesture, and favorites can be added directly from the favorites screen. The company also promises enhancements to accessibility using VoiceOver and "general improvements."
Skype version 5.1 is available now as a free, 44.9-megabyte download from the App Store.
EA Games
Gamers who were waiting for Electronic Arts's next blowout sale need wait no longer, as the publisher has dropped the prices of some of its most popular iPhone and iPad games to just $0.99, a savings of nearly $10 for some titles. There is no word on why EA chose to run the sale now or when the special pricing might end.The full list of on-sale titles is below:
- Battleship
- Bop It!
- Boggle
- Clue
- Command & Conquer Red Alert
- Dead Space
- Max and the Magic Marker
- Mirror's Edge
- Monopoly
- Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition
- Monopoly Millionaire
- NBA Jam
- Need for Speed Hot Pursuit
- Need for Speed Shift
- Need for Speed Most Wanted
- Reckless Racing
- Risk
- Shift 2 Unleashed
- SimCity Deluxe
- Skate It
- Tetris
- Spore Orgins
- The Game of Life 9
- The Sims Medieval
- The Sims World Adventure
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12
- Trivial Pursuit
- Trivial Pursuit Master Edition
- Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
- Yahtzee HD
Skype
Skype recently redesigned their iOS app from the ground up to match its Windows Phone counterpart, and the company's most recent update adds some missing features and makes adjustments to the new user interface. Notably, message editing has made a return, with users able to press and hold on a message in chat view to edit it.
Users can also remove conversations from their recent list with a similar press-and-hold gesture, and favorites can be added directly from the favorites screen. The company also promises enhancements to accessibility using VoiceOver and "general improvements."
Skype version 5.1 is available now as a free, 44.9-megabyte download from the App Store.
Comments
Screw EA.
Screw EA.
Amen.
Notably absent from the list is the ever-buggy, slothfully slow, SCRABBLE, which doesn't support Game Center, instead demanding you either use Facebook (ugh) or their own "Origin" (ugh).
I don't know why such a popular game has been abused and neglected in every electronic edition for 15 years, including the Mac System 8 version that did not even support internet play, despite claiming to on the box!
No, Words With Friends is not an adequate substitute--not even close.
Screw EA.
I agree, but Monopoly is actually pretty good on the iPad.
Skype recently redesigned their iOS app from the ground up to match its Windows Phone counterpart, and the company's most recent update adds some missing features and makes adjustments to the new user interface. Notably, message editing has made a return, with users able to press and hold on a message in chat view to edit it.
Users can also remove conversations from their recent list with a similar press-and-hold gesture, and favorites can be added directly from the favorites screen. The company also promises enhancements to accessibility using VoiceOver and "general improvements."
Skype version 5.1 is available now as a free, 44.9-megabyte download from the App Store.
Does Skype still route all calls through Microsoft's NSA-friendly servers?
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I work in a building with no mobile signal and relied on my SkypeMe number to receive calls.
Now I get an email telling me I have a Voicemail that I can't access through the Web Site or iOS device. Nice one MS.
I honestly though they were getting their groove back and were going to release some decent, open apps, but I guess not.
most of the games are having an updated date of like 2 years and older.. having a last hurrah on these games, EA??
And to hell with your annoying in game advertising. And all these join Origin popups. Piece of
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I've seen this post style many times (a normal word with a string of repeated consonants, indicating emphasis or a long, drawn out or exasperated tone). Here's the question: Why repeat the hard consonant instead of the vowels? A string of consonants is unpronounceable if read exactly as typed.
I would've typed that word as "grrreeeeeeat".
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"...greattttttt."
I've seen this post style many times (a normal word with a string of repeated consonants, indicating emphasis or a long, drawn out or exasperated tone). Here's the question: Why repeat the hard consonant instead of the vowels? A string of consonants is unpronounceable if read exactly as typed.
I would've typed that word as "grrreeeeeeat".
You're infringing on Tony the Tiger (keeper of Frosties). Please cease and desist.
…Tony the Tiger (keeper of Frosties).
To anyone across the Pond, that’s so weird.
…Tony the Tiger (keeper of Frosties).
To anyone across the Pond, that’s so weird.
Don't you have Frosties in the States?