Author: Mikhail Madnani

Before I get into this feature about Doppler, I have something to say and you can watch it here. I’ve never shied away from talking about how much I despise what Apple has done to the offline music experience on iOS once Apple Music became a thing. I own and buy a lot of music on iTunes and have a ton of stuff accumulated that I’ve bought from sites like Bandcamp, and Apple Music has effectively made listening to offline music painful. They basically ruined the default Music app for me and I had more or less switched to Ecoute.…

It has been a while since Pocket Casts for iOS was featured here. Pocket Casts 5.0 made its way to the App Store back in November 2014 and it has been nearly two years since it was last updated, with v5.0.1. Over the last several months, the team at Shifty Jelly has been hard at work on the next major version and today marks the release of Pocket Casts 6 on the App Store. This is a new and shiny release for my favourite podcast app. Pocket Casts 6.0 builds upon the solid foundation laid down by version 5.0 with…

After the fantastic entry we had for The Dialogue in December with Matias Duarte, we are back with 2016’s first entry: Greg Kasavin of Supergiant Games. For the uninitiated, Supergiant is behind some of our favorite games, including Transistor. We got to talk to Greg about his thoughts on design, the games industry, and Supergiant’s upcoming project PYRE. Thank you so much for joining us for The Dialogue. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Hey, thank you in turn! I do writing and design work on our games over at Supergiant. We’re a small team based in San Francisco,…

It has been more than 2 years since Textastic 5 released on iPad. It was a free update to an app that had been receiving great updates since 2010. Just a few days ago, Alexander Blach released Textastic 6, a major update that replaces both Textastic for iPhone and iPad in a new Universal avatar. I’ve been using it over the last few days and it really is a great update as well as a step in the right direction. Textastic was already a fully featured IDE for iOS, with support for syntax of more than 80 languages and this…

I’ve discovered some really amazing games that aren’t mentioned enough thanks to smaller game focussed websites. N++ is one of them. N++ by Metanet Software is an elegant platformer with more levels than this post has words. I’d never played N and N+ but I’m really glad I bought N++ a few weeks ago and have consistently enjoyed blasting through sets of levels everyday. N++ has you playing as a ninja through levels avoiding enemies and obstacles to get to your goal. Gameplay is smooth and physics based while the visuals are minimalist and pleasing. I love the various colour…

2015 has been an amazing year for games with quality releases across all the platforms. There were games that impressed me not just visually, but also from a design perspective. This year has seen the release of the Apple TV as an apps and games platform, along with the PS4 and Xbox One breaking sales records. 2015 is also the year in which I got my Xbox One and got to experience my favourite racing game of all time, Forza Horizon 2 and another game that is one of the highlights of the year. For games to get featured here,…