Gameloft knows how to take popular gaming genres, polish them to multitouch perfection, and release them faster than ought be possible, and the iPad release is no exception with N.O.V.A. Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance; Modern Combat: Sandstorm; Dungeon Hunter; Asphalt 5; UNO; NFL 2010; Let's Golf!; and, Real Football 2010.

Check ‘em out after the break!

Here’s what Gameloft has to say about developing for the iPad:

The large, stunning screen brings a higher level of graphic detail to the games in addition to the optimization of textures and models. The screen size and depth perception ratio allows the player to feel completely immersed in the experience. For example, Real Football 2010 was re-mastered to include HD resolution grass surfaces, textures, characters and animations.

More direct and enriched controls allow for more intuitive thought and action response, as well as fully customizable buttons and mappings that fit the player's preference. For instance, the N.O.V.A. Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance App for iPad includes more contextual controls in the environment: open an airlock door by rotating three fingers, slide the button upwards to make an elevator move upstairs, etc.

The larger screen means there will be more ambitious gameplay sequences such as increased field of depth, complex map layouts and more intense action sequences. In N.O.V.A. Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance, the player can enable MTA – Multi Target Acquisition which is a new feature for iPad gaming. The player can trigger a new functionality from the regular rocket launcher, then directly draw a grid on the battlefield to kill all selected enemies on screen in one shot. In Real Football 2010, the larger surface allows for a more strategic overview of the playing field and gave the designers more space to create comfortable control schemes.

Multiplayer challenges will also be increased on iPad and cooperative gameplay will be easier and more attractive on the larger screen. Whether a spectator or participant, online challenges will become more fun and engaging. With UNO, the world famous card game, users can gather four friends and play on a single iPad using the new "One Device Multiplayer" mode. They can also connect with friends on iPad or iPhone devices for local and online Wi-Fi multiplayer gameplay.

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Ngmoco has redefined the relationship between iPhone/iPod touch developer and customer with their “freemium” model where the apps are free but you can pay in-app to get more, faster, and now they’re bringing that same model to the iPad. Check out GodFinger, We Rule, Charadium, Flick Fishing, NBA Hotshots, Warpgate, and CastleCraft after the break!

GodFinger puts the power of a god in players' hands. Commanding the fate of a planet and its inhabitants, players must create "followers," whose worship will help fledgling gods earn gold, grow stronger and learn new abilities. Gods can demonstrate their powers by moving mountains, flooding the land, and striking down the planet's denizens to be as benevolent or as malevolent as they wish. The larger screen size brings more of the planet to life and multiplies interaction with followers and the environment.

We Rule lets players command whimsical kingdoms full of castles, farms and loyal citizens. Rulers must oversee crop harvests, collect taxes and trade with neighboring realms via the social connectivity of the Plus+ Network. Wise kings will also act as city planners and landscapers, and build, grow and craft their own social microcosms. We Rule for iPad expands the kingdom view and puts more power at the fingertips of the player with picture in picture functions for drag and drop functionality.

Charadium is a fast and furious multiplayer game that invites family, friends and players from all over the world to match wits in the ultimate draw-and-guess showdown. In Charadium, players are tasked with bringing words to life through drawings. One player draws a charade with their fingers, while the others must guess the word before the timer runs out. With language support for English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Russian speakers, Charadium can test gamers around the world.

The highly anticipated space exploration game Warpgate offers a vast universe of over 35 star-systems to explore in 172 different starships with over 100 main quests. Groundbreaking graphics, fluid controls and endless non-quest missions mean there is no limit to the adventure. Perfect for the Apple iPad’s large, detailed screen and intuitive touch controls, Warpgate promises to be an amazingly immersive experience.

CastleCraft, Freeverse’s first massively multiplayer online game, is a city building strategy title in which players wage war against hundreds of others for realm domination. Players will follow three different quest lines, form alliances and train up to 16 different types of military, resource and technology units. With the ability to battle against friends and other players worldwide, chat in realtime and watch their gorgeous city expand under intricate day-night cycles with dynamic particle effects, CastleCraft is an unrivaled, must-have title.

Flick Fishing HD, from studio Strange Flavour, is the wildly popular fishing game with real flick-motion casting. The iPad version boasts an all-new iPad-specific casting method, more than nine beautiful locations and tons of varying fish to reel in. Freeverse’s Flick Fishing HD ships with all In App Purchases unlocked, including the new Fishing Pro pack and MegaGuide to reveal all hidden quests and tricks for landing the biggest fish!

NBA Hotshot HD, the officially licensed arcade-style hoop-sinking game, will be available for players to rack up points and earn awards in two modes of play: time-racing and high score earning. The iPad version includes more basketballs to unlock, a WNBA themed machine and a more engrossing, higher definition 3D environment.

When you get your iPad and your big screen game on, let us know what you think!

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There’s a ton of iPad news being announced at the moment, and some iPhone 4.0 and iPhone G4 (not iPhone 4G!) rumors aside, it’s swamping TiPb right now. (Believe me, I have the lack of sleep to prove it!)

We’re figuring that every spring will be all about the iPad, summer will be iPhone-centric, and fall will bring iPod touch mania. That’s Apple’s cycle and that means it will be ours. We’ll do our best to keep improving the site so you can more easily get what you want, but the most important thing to remember is that Apple is killer at leveraging technology from one product into the others. A lot of what we see from the iPad now we’ll likely see in the iPhone this June/July, and updated again with the iPod touch in September.

Apple calls the platform iPhone OS for a reason, after all.

So, if you’re sick of the iPad we apologize and ask that you bear with us. We’ll have more than enough for everyone of everything as the year marches on. And in the meantime, hold faith. It may look like a lot of iPad news but again, this stuff is important for iPhone and iPod touch users as well. You’ll see that come summer!

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Unlike the iPhone 3GS, the iPad doesn’t have built-in stocks, weather, voice memo, clock, calculator, or compass apps. It does, however, have the brand new iPad App Store, and yeah… there are apps for all that!

Check out our picks after the break!

Bloomberg for iPad [Free - iTunes link] offers not just stocks but news, company info, price charts, trends, analysis and… you get the idea. It could just be information overload on a 9.7″ screen, but that’s likely just what you stockies want!

Weather Channel Max [Free - iTunes link] costs nothing (thanks to Toyota) but packs in the weathery-goodness. Full screen, customizable maps, in-motion radar, local, regional, and national video, and more make it not so much of a replacement as a escalation.

Voice memos for iPad [Free - iTunes link] is the “I can’t believe it’s not butter” of replacement apps. It looks similar to Apple’s iPhone Voice Memo app, but it’s scaled up to iPad size. Unlimited recording, tagging, pause, levels, timer, and email options make it a great fill in option.

Clock… We haven’t found a good replacement for Clock yet. If you know of one that matches the functionality and the grace of the iPhone Clock app, let us know in the comments. And developers — make a good one, with a great icon. Seriously.

PCalc Lite [Free - iTunes] or PCalc [$9.99 - iTunes link] make the iPhone calculator look anemic by comparison. It includes an optional RPN mode, multiple undo and redo, unit conversions and constants, a couple of themes, and much more in the paid version.

Compass HD + Vector Magnetometer / Gravitometer [Free for now - iTunes link] is an app that, frankly, we may not be smart enough to properly describe. It has absolute mode, north mode, declination mode, and relative modes, and a bunch of different display modes for acceleration visualization. Get it while it’s free!

So there you have it, App Store to the rescue! Did we miss any (other than clocks!)? Are there alternatives your like better? Let us know in the comments!

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Don’t let the plethora of iPad games fool you, productivity apps aren’t sitting this launch out, with everyone from Bento, to GoodReader, to Readledocs getting in on the action.

Bento [$4.99 - iTunes link], from Apple-owned Filemaker, brings the same incredible ease of use and powerful template system that distinguishes both Mac and iPhone/iPod touch versions to the iPad. Touch to edit choice, date, ratings, and checkboxes. Tap to watch videos, photos, or send emails, and browse web sites without leaving the app. New themes like notebook, clipboard, and glass can be applied to any library, and the 25 custom (and customizable!) templates range from event planning, time billing, recipes, classes, dieting and more. 15 field types are supported including text, numbers, choice, checkbox, media, time, date, durations, currency, rating, address, phone number, email, URL and IM Account

GoodReader Tablet Edition [$0.99 - iTunes link] brings its elegant handling of monstrous PDF and TXT to the iPad with big screen versions of what made the iPhone app’s feature set so powerful. Besides its speedy text search capability, GoodReader’s includes active hyperlinks, and auto-scroll feature, and “PDF Reflow” that extracts text from a PDF file and displays it as simple TXT. GoodReader provides access to MobileMe iDisk, box.net, MyDisk.se, etc. and “server style” support for DropBox and Google Docs.

ReadleDocs [$4.99 - iTunes link] also brings iPhone and iPod touch power to the iPad with document viewing, file managing, and attachment saving. Pull documents from your Windows or Mac, Email, or cloud storage solution of choice (iDisk, Box.net, DropBox, etc.) and save them locally so you can always have them with you. You can transfer files over Wi-Fi or 3G, and read all iPhone OS supported document formats, including PDF and password-protected PDF with full search, reflow, and extraction.

Screenshots after the break!

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Google continues to lead the pack when it comes to web apps, so we’re not surprised to see them announce an experimental Gmail site up and optimized in time for the iPad release.

We're releasing an experimental user interface for the iPad built on the Gmail for mobile HTML5 web app that we launched last year for the iPhone and Android devices. Those devices have large screens compared to other phones, and tablets like the iPad give us even more room to innovate. To take advantage of the iPad's large display, we've created a two-pane view with your list of conversations on the left and messages to the right.

Some other Google web apps will present iPad-optimized versions, while a few will retain their desktop look. Google fired up their iPhone 3.2 SDK for iPad simulator, checked things out, and decided what worked best.

When you get your iPad give it a shot and let us know how they did!

[Google via MacRumors]

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Tapulous and their Tap Tap Revenge franchise for iPhone and iPod touch need no introduction… so allow us to introduce their new big brother, Tap Tap Radiation for iPad! [Free - iTunes link]

Screen shots and video after the break!

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Here are the first (to our knowledge) class of apps to get removed from the brand new iPad App Store: Dashboards.

Desktop, for example, no longer shows up via its iTunes link.

These apps leveraged the large iPad display to offer multiple windows and mini-apps/widgets to get around some of iPhone 3.2’s 3rd party multitasking constraints.

We’re waiting to hear a reason for the removal. Even if it duplicates the rumored functionality of the upcoming iPhone 4.0 software, that’ll be little comfort to the developers who invested time and resources into these apps.

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Apple’s latest iPhone commercial, “Commute”, emphasizes everyday use with the iPhone. Three applications are highlighted

• MassTransit [iTunes Link - $3.99] for when the man misses his train,
• Here, File File! [iTunes Link $9.99] when he receives a call from the office when they can’t find his sales report, and
• The Wall Street Journal [iTunes Link - Free] to enjoy a news video clip on the train.

Video after the break!

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Spring is the time for sales and just like EA Mobile, Namco is holding a sale on select titles through April 5th. You can take advantage of picking up the following 20 games with a discount of up to 40%!

• ACE COMBAT Xi – $2.99
• Alpine Racer – $.99
• Brain Exercise – $2.99
• BurgerTime Deluxe – $.99
• Dig Dug REMIX – $.99
• Galaga REMIX – $.99
• Garters & Ghouls – 2.99
• i Love Katamari – $2.99
• Inspector Gadget – $2.99
• Isaac Newton’s Gravity – $1.99
• Mr. DRILLER – $.99
• Ms. PAC-MAN – $2.99
• PAC-MAN – $2.99
• PAC-MAN CE – $.99
• PAC-MAN REMIX – $.99
• Pole Position Remix – $.99
• Ridge Racer Accelerated – $.99
• Star Trigon – $.99
• Tamagotchi ‘Round the World – $2.99
• Time Crisis Strike – $.99

Again, keep in mind these sale prices are only valid until April 5th so act fast!

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