Infinity Blade, powered by Epic’s Unreal 3 engine, has started hitting the iTunes App Store… in New Zealand. Hey, they said December 9 and that’s where the sun starts coming up (and where Lord of the Rings lives, who can blame them?). As the day continues to break around the world, Infinity Blade should hit your local App Store as well.

Let us know when you see it go live, and when you grab it and get your game on, let us know how you like it!

Official App Store description and screen shots after the break!

[$5.99 - iTunes link, Thanks Tom!]

From Epic Games' award-winning studio, ChAIR Entertainment, comes Infinity Blade, a new title developed exclusively for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.

Universal App – Play Infinity Blade on iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad, iPod Touch 3, or iPod Touch 4 for a single low price.

Optimized for iPhone 4 – Includes high-resolution graphics that fully utilize the Retina display on the iPhone 4.

For untold ages, the God King has ruled with an iron fist – his power is incalculable; his followers, legion. Now you must journey to the Dark Citadel to battle his Titans, one by one, until you face the tyrant himself. As it has been for all in your bloodline, this is your birthright – to free your people from an endless legacy of darkness. The immortal can be vanquished – but only if heart, mind, and steel are one.

The first mobile game powered by Epic's cutting-edge Unreal Engine 3 technology, Infinity Blade takes handheld gaming to new heights with gorgeous visuals, adrenaline-fueled battles and advanced character progression in a fully 3D castle realm.

DYNAMIC SINGLE-PLAYER CAMPAIGN

Spectacular 3D characters and environments powered by the award-winning Unreal Engine 3 bring to life the story of a lone knight's pursuit to save civilization.

RESPONSIVE AND INTUITIVE TOUCH CONTROLS

Attack, dodge, block, and cast devastating spells – all with the simple swipe of a finger.

SIMPLE NAVIGATION

Easy to use, tap-to-move controls enable players to effortlessly navigate and explore the castle realm while searching for collectable items such as treasure, swords, shields, armor and other magical objects.

DEEP CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION

Dozens of Swords, Shields, Helmets, Armor, and Magic Rings to acquire and master – leveling up your character and increasing Attack, Health, Shield and Magic skills.

GAME CENTER

Achievements and Leaderboards

COMING SOON!

New Areas to conquer! Multiplayer! New Swords, Shields, Helmets, Magic Rings, and Enemies!

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Are you ready for another edition of iPhone Live? You better be because we’re coming your way at 6pm PT, 9pm ET, 2am GMT.

http://live.tipb.com/live/

We’ve got Leanna and her newly white iPhone4, and we’ve got Craig Johnston and his always booming baritone.

If you have any questions for the show tweet them to @TiPb, email them to podcast@tipb.com, or leave them in the comments below!

Bring it!

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Ever wonder how to mark an email message as unread on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad? Maybe you don’t have time to respond right away and want to make sure you check the message again later, or maybe you just want plausible deniability (hey, I never read your message, I swear, look!). Either way, we’ll show you how after the break!

Marking an email as unread is actually rather simple, yet just as simple to miss, especially if you’ve hidden the header information details in the Mail app.

• Tap on the email you want to mark as unread.
• Look at the far right of the Subject line for small text that reads “Mark as Unread” and tap on it.
• If you don’t see “Mark as Unread”, go up to the From line and look for small text that reads “Details”. Tap on it.
• Now go back to the Subject field and tap “Mark as Unread”
• That’s it!

Bonus tip: If you hide details you get to see your contact’s picture in the subject line. If you show details, you lose the contact picture but get the “Mark as Unread” and CC lines.

Hope the little tip helped you out. If so, let us know in the comments below!

Tips of the day will range from beginner-level 101 to advanced-level ninjary. If you already know this tip, keep the link handy as a quick way to help a friend. If you have a tip of your own you’d like to suggest, add them to the comments or send them in to dailytips@tipb.com. (If it’s especially awesome and previously unknown to us, we’ll even give ya a reward…)

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Angry Birds. Greedy Pigs. Can’t they all just get along?

Yeah, we meant to post this last week but it got lost in the shuffle. Luckily nobody’s forgotten about Angry Birds yet… Video after the break.

[Eretz Nehederet via YouTube, thanks Benny]

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iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users outside the US rejoice, for Apple has raised its countenance and finally blessed us with Promo Codes that work in international App Stores. UK? Yup. Canada? You betcha. Corto Maltese? Uh… we’ll get back to you.

Good news for developers who’d like to encourage international reviews and give-aways, and good news for international users tired of “Promo Codes only work in the US App Store, Apple’s rule, not ours!” at the end of every post.

Bad news? Developers still only get 50 codes per release, so while there’s now a bigger audience, there’s no bigger supply to match. Little help there Apple?

[Makinado via 9to5Mac]

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The TiPb forums are naturally a great place to talk, commiserate, celebrate, get help, and offer advice to your fellow iPhone users. In order to create a new thread of your own or reply to any of the existing threads, you must be a registered member. Becoming a member is easy and free so if you haven't already, head on over and register now!

• If you had to choose between one device for the streaming of content which would you choose? An Xbox 360 or Apple TV?

• Google and Samsung unveiled the successor to the Nexus One, the Nexus S. What are you thoughts about this device?

• How many applications do you currently have on your iPhone or other iOS device?

• It’s pretty obvious that a new iPad is on the horizon, the big question to current iPad owners is, will you upgrade once the new one is released?

See you in the forums!

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According to Digitimes, Apple’s iPad will will be featuring an LCD display with BLUs (Back Light Units) from supplier Coretronic. That, of course, means once again no S/AMOLED displays for an Apple device.

We have talked about numerous iPad specs and features but we’ve all pretty much assumed Apple would stick with LED lit LCD with IPS panels, given the success they have had with current iPhone 4 and iPad displays. AMOLED can be beautiful and performance in daylight has improved but both technologies still have their own strengths and weaknesses.

Not addressed is whether or not this LCD panel has a Retina Display, but we’re still thinking the technology to pack 2048×1536 pixels into a 9.7-inch screen is a ways off.

Are you upset about the iPad 2 sticking with LCD? Were you hoping for S/AMOLED screen? Holding hope for a Retina Display? Tell us your take on this after the break!

[ Digitimes via 9To5 Mac ]

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With the powerful free Winterboard app on Cydia for Jailbroken iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches, you are able to easily and quickly change the entire aesthetic look of iOS. While this feature is nothing new, the Retina Display has allowed for a whole new level of artistry and themeing fun! Retina quality HD themes are popping up daily on the Cydia store and TiPb.com brings you our Top 5 best HD themes after the break!

EnVy HD by JunesiPhone

An HD remake of the popular EnVy theme, this gorgeous and full Retina quality theme was only released a week ago but is quickly becoming a favorite of the jailbreak community. The theme includes an animated lockscreen, 4 Icon sets, slideshow wallpaper, themed notes, weather, calculator, camera, phone, SMS interface, mail, safari, and much more to come including color mods, Animated Weather, and more animated lockscreens. EnVy HD is available on Cydia for $2.99.

Timeless HD by Bluemetal

Timeless HD is a truly elegant and streamlined theme for those who don’t care for extravagant colors and want a more professional look. Bluemetal has really taken his time to design a Full HD-UI, including iPod, Notes, Dialer, Lockscreen, Battery, LockInfo, SBSettings, Compass, Safari, Mail, Messages, Weather, Loading screens, and 3 fully featured springboard widgets. Timeless HD is available on Cydia for $2.49.

G.O.C. HD by ToyVan

Tired of all the square icon themes? G.O.C. HD is a full Retina quality theme with stunning rounded icons and layout. The entire theme has been designed for a very clean, simple, yet fully customizable look. With different color layouts to choose from and even a lockscreen desgined by K. Nitsua, this has become one of the most popular HD themes on Cydia. G.O.C HD is available on Cydia for $2.99.

Elite Pro HD by BarsOverBeats

As previously seen on TiPb.com, Elite Pro HD has become one of the most popular themes for the iPhone since winterboard was released. This full featured and customizable HD theme has included everything but the kitchen sink to bring you a completely new UI experience. With several lockscreens from K. Nitsua and widgets from Floppy Joe and others, Elite HD Pro will keep you customizing for hours on end. Elite Pro HD is available on Cydia for $2.99.

iNitsua Twilight Z HD by Zausser/K.Nitsua

Also previously seen on TiPb.com, iNitsua Twilight Z HD brings the talents of two of the best theme artists together in Zausser and K. Nitsua to give you one of the most fully featured and high quality Retina UI themes available. This gorgeously constructed theme comes with numerous weather widgets, animated lock screen themes, pin entry skins, plus endless user contributed mods and color options. iNitusa Z Twilight HD is available on Cydia for $2.99.

Your favorite theme?

As always, this is a list of our favorite themes here on TiPb. We know you guys have favorites too, so let us know what you think in the comments below or by posting in our Jailbreak Theme Forums!

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The 2010 TiPb Awards are underway and right now it’s time to vote on your favorite entertainment app of the year.

With Retina Display on our iPhones and now the iPad as well, Apple has given us plenty of great screens to watch our content on in 2010. And hey, hold them close enough and the relative size rivals an HD TV! Still there can only be one 2010 TiPb Award winner! Choose your favorite in the pole above and then let us know why you chose the favorite you did in comments below. (And if you don’t see your favorite here, add it as a write-in as well!)

• Air Video [iTunes link]
• Hulu Plus [iTunes link]
• Netflix [iTunes link]
• SlingPlayer (iPad) [iTunes link]
• ZumoCast [iTunes link]

Ready, set, vote!

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Facebook still hasn’t bothered to release a version of their app for iPad, so it’s good news that third-party app, Friendly for Facebook, has just gone free.

Friendly for Facebook is now ad supported, but users have the ability to dismiss ads that pop up at the bottom of the screen (and they’re few and far between to begin with). I’ve been using their paid version for a while now, and I really enjoy the features available in Friendly for Facebook that simply aren’t available on the Facebook website. Uploading photos, for example, is a feature I use quite a bit that wouldn’t be available without Friendly for Facebook.

You can also grab the $.99 version without ads if you’d like. If you’re using Friendly for Facebook, let us know what you think of it in the comments below!

[Free - iTunes]

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