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The old X-Men arcade game just recently came out to play on the iPad. If you didn’t know that this was now happening, I wanted you to know that this was now happening. I wanted you to freak out with me. The graphics are still pretty cheap, the character voices are still super ridiculous, and it’s still badass.
Arcade gameplay, 1992 nostalgia, classic X-Men characters, and Game Center support.
Grab it in the App Store for $2.99.
For those who haven’t seen, Microsoft has released a new video detailing the thoughts and design behind Windows 8 — which, from the looks of it, promises to be a major milestone in the Windows line. By putting an emphasis on web applications, and integrating the beautifully minimal “Metro UI,” across their desktop and mobile products, it looks like Microsoft is really putting themselves back in the game.
I have to say, Microsoft… I’m sincerely intrigued.
Staying Loyal to the Tweetie Brand
Along the way of Twitter acquiring atebits and users abandoning all hope for an updated Tweetie for Mac client, people moved on. Countless Twitter desktop clients began surfacing around the web, folks found one they liked and never looked back.
Not me.
Although, I did try a few: Bluebird, Hibari, Weet… Something still wasn’t clicking.
When I find a brand that generates quality products and services, I raise an eyebrow and step in line.
Tweetie is one of those brands I couldn’t stray from. Even when Tweetie 2 for iOS debuted with an updated price tag, it was still the best Twitter app I’ve ever used. Even without native retweets and filtering and whatever else people said they needed in the Tweetie desktop client, I stayed with it.
I won’t deny that I felt left in the dark as one of atebits’ paying customers. I felt that my needs, though few, were not only being ignored, but going completely unheard. Still, every other Twitter desktop client I tested, I compared to Tweetie, and it never measured up. So I stayed with it. I stayed loyal.
After seeing Twitter for Mac on Apple’s new Mac App Store, gleaming there in the “What’s Hot” category in all of its monochrome glory, I felt relieved that Tweetie wasn’t dead. Sure, it was different, branded not under the identity I’ve come to trust, but under another brand I’ve also come to love.
So, here’s to Loren for a job well done. His impeccable eye for design has brought him amazing things.
Cheers to loyalty and light in the future.
Tweetie 2Twitter for Mac, is now available on the new Mac App store. Congrats to Loren and all the fine folks at Twitter for making this happen. It has a good number of improvements over the previous Tweetie for Mac, including:
- Native retweets
- Real-time tweets (using the streaming API)
- Lots of useful shortcuts
It looks like Big Bucket Software’s The Incident is coming to the Mac App Store January 6th. The game, made popular through iOS, is a fast-paced, retro-style action platformer created by Matt Comi and Neven Mrgan.
