Mobile phone and tablet games are fast becoming the repository for all things retro, and there’s no better indication of that than tomorrow’s release of Grand Theft Auto 3: Ten Year Anniversary Edition. Available from the App Store and the Android Marketplace on December 15 for $4.99, it’s the exact same PS2 game I remember …

Forgive my excitement, but Sonic CD just hit the iPhone–and it’s only $1.99. Sonic CD: a rare game emerges again. screenshot by Scott Stein Sega has done some questionable things–to say the least–with the Sonic franchise, but Sonic CD isn’t one of them. Sonic CD, despite the misleading title, isn’t a soundtrack or a music game. It’s one of the …

Does adding a “2” to one of the most popular titles in the App Store make it better? Much like the iPad 2 itself, Infinity Blade II is a refinement and an improvement on its predecessor. As a result, it’s better. Does that make Infinity Blade II a must-have game? Most definitely, especially for its $6.99 price. Is it revolutionary? …

Nook Tablet or Kindle Fire? That’s the question that’s already bedeviling consumers and gadget aficionados alike. In a matter of weeks, it seems, the tablet market has been compressed to just a handful of choices. The iPad 2 still rules the high end ($500 and above), but the “e-reader as tablet” option now looms large in the sub-$250 range, with …

Having just come from the unveiling of the latest Nook e-readers, I’m feeling more than ever that the future of reading will come in tablet form. I’m already “that guy”: I read all my latest books on my iPad via iBooks or the Kindle app. And yet, there’s something big–something obvious–that e-readers are missing. It’s something that magazines, newspapers, DVDs, …

The iPhone 4S is a bit of a tough sell for phone showoffs: there are literally no external distinctions to set it apart from an iPhone 4, not even a “4S” logo. Therefore, if you really want to demonstrate what your iPhone 4S can do, you’re best off either taking a picture, demoing Siri, or playing a game. The iPhone …

Siri has been the subject of Apple’s ad campaigns for the iPhone 4S. It’s been discussed in terms of its one-liners and its Easter eggs, its cloud-based accomplishments and its similarity to services Android already offers. That’s all fine, but it’s ignoring the obvious question: what are you really, truly going to use Siri for? My iPhone 4S arrived on …

I’ve been reading magazines on my iPad for months. I didn’t need iOS 5 to do it. I keep these apps–The New Yorker, Wired–in a separate folder on my iPad, called Reading. With iOS 5, that’s no longer the case. A new baked-in app (or, rather, a type of smart folder) called Newsstand has now absorbed these apps into an …

At 7 a.m., I woke up and preordered an iPhone 4S. I got the 32GB version, but I’ll admit I was tempted to get the 64GB one. Apple has introduced a new price to the iPhone that hasn’t been around for a long while: $399. In fact, there hasn’t been an iPhone that expensive since the original 8GB iPhone after …

With any new Apple iPhone or iPad, a logistical question emerges that bears considering: how do you buy it without enduring a line or a long wait time? The iPhone 4S goes on sale next week on October 14, and it’s crossed my mind that my travails with both the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 weren’t pretty. Resellers have recently …