Viz Manga app Updated, Now Available for iPhone and iPod Touch

Viz Media's excellent iPad app has received an update, and is also now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. And yes, one of the new features is seamless syncing across all iOS devices. It's a huge leap forward for what was already one of the best proprietary comics apps (and THE best manga-only app) available.

Welcome to the VIZ Manga app! You now have the greatest manga from Japan at your fingertips, at long last in a convenient, downloadable format for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch! Your manga purchases will be accessible from all iOS devices and shared bookmarks provide an even more seamless reading experience.

With Naruto, Bleach, Death Note, Vampire Knight, One Piece, Dragon Ball, Bakuman & hundreds more titles across a wide range of genres, we’ve got something for everyone, whether you’re an action addict or a romantic at heart, a fantasy fanatic or a sci-fi aficionado, a comics geek or an art lover.

New to manga? Can't decide what to get? Every month we provide a number of free previews for you to download and explore. Take a look, figure out what you like: you're only a screen-tap away from fantastic adventures!

Warner Bros. Releases DVD-Style Movie Apps, Beginning With Inception And The Dark Knight

via App AdviceWarner Bros. has decided to take an interesting and thoughtful approach in movie offerings with their new “App Edition” movie apps for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. These new apps provide a much more DVD-style experience for iDevice users over the traditional iTunes Store purchases.

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'Inception' App Gives You a Free Soundtrack for Your Life

via CinematicalChristopher Nolan's 'Inception' may have sparked more debate than any other film this year. If we weren't arguing about the relative merits of the film itself, we were discussing dream theories and disagreeing about the ending. The arrival of 'Inception' on DVD and Blu-ray earlier this week brought the arguments home, and now a super cool-sounding new app allows the movie's dream philosophy to invade your real life.

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Digital Comic App: Panelfly

via Big Shiny Robot!One of the best full page comic book viewers for the iPad, Panelfly, has added a slew of new publishers to their free app. Joining Darkhorse, Boom! And Marvel, are many independent and creator owned books making Panelfly one of the most diverse outlets for digital comics. I didn’t see this much verity at my local comic book shop today and am very excited to try so many new series that would have been unknown to me otherwise. Download the app and see new books available from Black Line Comics , Heavy Metal and several more. Check Panelfly.com for a full list of books or download the app and browse around.

Read comics on the iPhone? There's an app update for that.

If you read digital comics on the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad - whether your tastes run towards Western comics or manga, you might want to pop your head into the app store and see if your reader of choice received an update late yesterday.

Two of the bigs in their respective fields- Madcap Studios' universal app Digital Comics, and the iPhone Manga reader Manga Rock, were updated on Tuesday evening (September 7), both primarily to correct bugs that were causing some errors on devices still running iOS 3.  

Digital Comics now iPad-Native!

Press Release

San Diego, California, 08/26/10 - 

Madcap Studios, creators of Digital Comics for the iOS, made a series of announcements today:


First, their automated iPhone comic book app "Digital Comics" received a major update featuring a stunning new iPad-native user interface, as well as general user interface improvements, and bug fixes. For a full list of changes visit:
http://www.digitalcomicsapp.com/#!getit


Second, all iPhone 4s and iPads now feature higher resolution comics at a higher color depth, resulting in a much improved experience on devices that are able to take advantage of it.


Finally, Madcap Studios announced that Aspen Comics are on board and will be working to bring their comics, including titles such as Fathom, Soulfire, and Shrugged, to Digital Comics shortly.


App Reviews


"With Digital Comics, Madcap Studios has developed a fantastic comic book reading experience for the iPad and iPhone." - AppShopper.com


"Madcap Studios' Digital Comics app enriches your comic-reading experience with features like automated panel-by-panel reading and action animations." - Macworld.com


5/5 - "Digital Comics is a great app that does exactly what it says it does!" - Appboy.com


5/5 - "One of the coolest apps I've ever used!" - Random App Store Review


About Madcap and Digital Comics


Madcap Studios, creator of Digital Comics for the iOS, is a small software company specializing in Mobile Development, Web Applications, and cutting-edge User Interface Experiences.


Digital Comics is a free app offering users an improved viewing experience over similar apps with features such as automated panel-by-panel viewing, and a highly refined user interface. It features an in-app book store with books priced competitively at $0.99, as well as several free titles.


For more on Digital Comics of Madcap Studios:


Web: www.DigitalComicsApp.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/madcapstudios
Facebook: www.facebook.com/MadcapStudios

Choose Your Own Adventure Books Get An App

The classic Choose Your Own Adventure novel series, that lets readers decide the fate of their story, is coming back digitally in the form of an iPhone and iPad app. Uventures, a start-up in Sweden, is working on the app.

NPR reports: "Edward Packard, one of the authors of the interactive Choose Your Own Adventure series, has helped create U-Ventures, an application for the iPhone and iPad. It incorporates sounds, lights and special effects into the traditional Choose Your Own Adventure format. The first U-Venture is a sort of a sequel to a classic title, The Cave of Time. In 'Return to the Cave of Time,' the U-Venture, 'you go back in the cave - you don't have a choice on that,' Packard tells NPR's Neal Conan. But from that point on, the reader chooses her own course."

This iPhone app is not the only way that readers can choose their own adventures digitally. We recently reported on a website called Unknown Tales in which readers and writers interact to help create the genre and story line.

via mediabistro.com

Turn left at the dragon's cave? Yup - there's an app for that.