Linked List: August 25, 2009

Tuesday, 25 August 2009

Ramp Champ 

New $2 game from The Iconfactory and DS Media Labs. Lovely, intricate design work, and fun to play. Also a nice instance of using in-app purchasing to obtain additional game levels.

Design Evolution of ‘Convert’ 

Iterate, iterate, iterate.

Sony Unveils Upcoming ‘Reader Daily Edition’ With 3G Networking 

Like the Kindle, it will have free always-on 3G. Considering how much I pay per month for 3G for my phone, I don’t get how the economics work out for these deals.

Update: Unlike the Kindle, there’s no web browser in the Sony Reader, so the 3G is effectively just for buying books. And several readers emailed to say that the Kindle browser is so bad that it doesn’t get used much, so Kindle owners don’t use much bandwidth either.