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Do I have to tell you how excited we are to finally see a release date for the sequel of the best game ever made?

StarCraft II is scheduled to be released in July.

Will you be able to beat the Dogtown clan?

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Because of the war between Adobe and Apple, many developers are currently sitting… waiting for a response on whether they can continue to use the tools they have been using to build apps and games since the birth of the AppStore.

We don’t know what the outcome will be yet, but we are surely not enjoying the not-knowing part of it. We are in the business to make games, and right now our production has slowed down due to the uncertainties we are facing.

We are hoping Apple will soon announce a resolution!

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Have you ever been surprised as to what crap shows up in the App Store Top-10 list, don’t worry, we’ve all been there.

If you’re thinking about how the !@#$ this is possible, don’t worry, we all have.

And have you ever wondered how these apps stay on the list, even with 100-1 1-Star ratings? Well, welcome to the club.

We have recently learned that there are actually companies out there who can buy you a top placement on the App Store. How? By maintaining a large team of people that they pay to have the team members to purchase and rate your app to get to the top lists.

It’s not a unique technique, but the fact that people make it into a business is again a sad story for the App Store, and just a very wrong way of doing advertising.

Bad for consumers who get tricked into buying crappy apps, and bad for developers who are actually producing great apps only to disappear in an ocean of crap.

The world is not a fair place, but fellow devs, please just say no to such lame techniques!

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Apple has just announced that you can now purchase apps and give them away as gifts.

From a dev perspective, this was only possible in the past by using the few promo codes you were allotted, or purchasing a $10 gift card and send it as a gift to someone, or literarily buy it on their account and pay them back.

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