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Burn the Rope on Vita
If you're stressed out, harried, feeling as if you're burning the candle at both ends – stop it. Burn the Rope on Vita instead.Burn the Rope, the mobile and WiiWare game, is now on Vita, complete with touchscreen and gyroscopic controls. Burn the Rope previously had a Vita launch window of November in North America. It was an unseasonably warm fall, though, so waiting for the chill of winter is probably a good call for a game involving fire.
Burn the Rope for Vita hits Europe next week, November for US
Burn the Rope is coming to PlayStation Vita in North America next month, Ringzero Game Studio tells us. Via the PlayStation Blog, Ringzero announced an October 10 release date for Europe and Australia, along with a €3.99/£3.19 price tag. While Ringzero didn't provide an exact date, the studio porting Big Blue Bubble's iOS hit assures us it's arriving on the North American PS Store in November.The mobile puzzle game, which came to WiiWare last year, is all about burning as much rope as possible. Once the flame is lit, players can control its direction by rotating the Vita, or by using the touchscreen or backtouch controls. The game includes 172 levels in total, friends' and global leaderboards, and safety seminars about using matches in the home.%Gallery-167389%
Microsoft discounts Xbox Live for Windows Phone games for Easter, offers iOS / Android prices
If your smartphone Sunday lacks the holiday flair you were hoping for, Microsoft is serving up a basket full of economically priced Easter eggs. Seven Xbox Live Windows Phone games have shed their premium pricing for the weekend, letting patient gamers pick up titles like Angry Birds and Max and the Magic Marker for the standard 99 cents. Other titles in the hitherto unannounced sale include Burn the Rope, Doodle God, Toy Soldiers: Boot Camp, IonBallEX and De Blob. Just in time for folks who need more than bunny-shaped GPS routes to celebrate Easter.
NintendoWare Weekly: Let's Golf 3D, Burn the Rope
OK, you can't get those free 3DS Virtual Console games yet, but there is new stuff on 3DS if you want to pay for it. Let's Golf 3D is only the fourth original 3DS game to be released on the eShop in North America -- and that's counting two 3D Classics remakes. On WiiWare, the Virtual Console game Brawl Brothers is joined by a console release of the mobile puzzle game Burn the Rope. Not Cut the Rope, or You Have to Burn the Rope, just Burn the Rope.
iOS app updates for June 22
The following iOS apps received updates in the App Store: Infinity Blade Version 1.3.1 was released with the following changes: A new content pack, Infinity Blade: Arena. Added a Simplified Chinese translation to the game Updated translations for French, Italian, German and Spanish Angry Birds Seasons Version 1.5 was released with the following changes: 30 new levels Summer theme Summer greeting cards that can be emailed to friends iGrill Version 2.0 was released with the following changes: App redesign Smoker option with upper and lower alarms Graphing screen which allows the viewing of the app's history Yahoo! Messenger Version 2.1.1 was released with a number of bug fixes and performance improvements. It also rolls in the changes from those who did not upgrade to 2.1. The 2.1 changes include: iPad-optimized layout Voice and video calling for the iPad 2 Improved spam management Motion X GPS Drive Version 10.2 was released with the following changes: Facebook integration Custom voices The latest NAVTEQ maps with free traffic and improved intelligent routing TuneIn Radio Pro Version 1.9 was released with the following changes: Songs can now be saved to presets by tapping a heart button in the Now Playing view Search feature returns immediate results while typing Adds recommended stations based on music library Adds the ability to shake for a related station The in-app browser on the iPhone and iPod touch is now disabled by default. This can be toggled through the app's settings. Burn the Rope Version 1.3.1 was released with the following changes: Everlasting flame for assistance through tricky levels Easy mode Terminology Version 2.0 was released with the following changes: Rewritten user interface The ability to customize fonts and font sizes The ability to customize links to other apps and web resources Automatic clipboard searching Integration with term.ly
Burn the Rope HD starting fires on iPad today
Not to be confused with You Have to Burn the Rope and Cut the Rope, Big Blue Bubble's Burn the Rope is available on iPad today in a spiffy new HD version. It'll set wannabe fire-starters back $4.99 and will sport 116 missions, full Game Center support, new Bug-Blasting bonus rounds and an additional Lights Out! mode. %Gallery-119314%
TUAW's Daily App: Burn the Rope
This isn't an iOS port of the great Flash game You Have To Burn the Rope, though an upgraded version of that would be nice to have. Instead, this one is a pretty inventive puzzle title by a company called Big Blue Bubble. The idea is that you touch anywhere along a rope to start up a flame, and then you have to keep that flame burning by tilting your iPhone so that the fire always burns up. It works really well as a physics puzzle game, and each level has certain percentage goals of the rope to burn (and later there are enemies to burn through as well), and whenever your flame splits off at different intersections, you need to watch each side of the flame and make sure it has vertical room to grow. Getting through the levels is not that hard, but burning everything on the screen is both challenging and fun (when you can actually do it). It's a really inventive game. Something only possible on the iPhone, it takes a nice different angle and just iterates on it, similar to popular games like Angry Birds and Cut the Rope. That iteration lasts over 80 levels, and the developers promise even more to come. There's no Game Center integration, unfortunately, but there is a silly theme song, and all of those levels make for quite a bit of game. As of this writing, the game is on sale for a buck, but I think it's worth it even for a few bucks. It's too bad there's no lite version to try out, because the concept really is original. But if you like puzzlers like Cut the Rope and Zen Bound, this one will probably scratch that same itch.
