What's new on the app stores on Thursday 1 September 2011
A burst of 11 apps for your consideration
Crimson: Steam Pirates
Crimson: Steam Pirates is a clever-looking turn-based iPad game filled with ships, pirates and steampunk visuals. It's notable, too, for being the first iOS release from Bungie Aerospace, the new digital offshoot from the developer that brought us the Halo console games.
iPad
Toyota Entune
Toyota USA has released an Android app that aggregates other apps for in-car use. They include Bing, iHeartRadio, MovieTickets.com, OpenTable and Pandora. The idea being that users control all these apps from the Toyota Entune app on their handset.
Android
SocialSpeaker
"How would you like to hear your Twitter home timeline whilst driving to work, sitting at work, listening to your iPod or whilst in the kitchen cooking your meal?" asks the App Store description for SocialSpeaker. Yes, it's a text-to-speech app that reads out your Twitter timeline.
iPhone
DrawRace 2
Developer RedLynx's original DrawRace game adapted Flight Control-esque line-drawing controls for a top-down racing game, and racked up two million downloads. Now it's back with a sequel and a new publisher – Chillingo – with much beefier graphics and new modes.
iPhone / iPad
LazyTown Jukebox
Parents whose kids are fans of the LazyTown TV show may cheer or weep at the news that a new iOS Jukebox app offers on-the-go access to songs from the series. Complete with a karaoke-style bouncing ball and lyrics.
iPhone / iPad
Sudoku by Nikoli Hard 02
Japanese company Nikoli played a major role in popularising Sudoku puzzles worldwide. Now it makes Android apps based on the phenomenon too. This latest edition has 16 hard puzzles to solve.
Android
Stories Unbound
Stories Unbound is the work of agency J. Walter Thompson in Australia, on behalf of the Melbourne Writers Festival. It claims to be "the world's first social-media platform for writing and reading stories", with users able to scribble their stories and geotag them for others to read.
iPhone
Pocket RPG iPhone Edition
Popular iPad RPG game gets downsized for the smaller iOS screen. Pocket RPG is a dual-stick action title that sees you hacking, slashing and wizarding your way through dungeons, levelling up as you go.
iPhone
Beershooter
German publisher Handygames is celebrating the upcoming Oktoberfest in Munich with free Android game Beershooter – an update on a game originally released for Java phones. Pump beer into the mouths of willing punters. And, er, into the wings of passing birds too.
Android
StyleShare
StyleShare is the latest social fashion app for iPhone: it aims to get people taking photos of themselves, friends and strangers to spotlight interesting fashion looks.
iPhone
Frogger Decades
Frogger is back to celebrate its 30th anniversary, boasting of "high definition textures and graphics" as well as new characters and connected features. Oh Frogger, you've changed...
iPhone / iPad
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