Justin Kahn

Ever since the OP-1 portable synthesizer hit the scene way back in 2010, Teenage Engineering has made a name for itself in the music production world as a development team to watch out for. The company’s quirky design philosophies and stringent focus on forcing musicians to be creative in new ways has made its way into all of TE’s unique products from OP-1 to the Pocket Operators, and now the upcoming OP-Z.

The miniature portable instrument is much more than your average battery-powered synthesizer. With a vast selection of synth engines, an extremely powerful 16-step sequencer, remote display iOS functionality and, what sounds like, incredibly compelling video/image/lightning integration, this is an entirely new beast all together.
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Mammoth Mini Golf AR, Sentinels of the Multiverse, Color Accent and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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We see loads of interesting hacks, home brews and custom-made gaming hardware around here. The Arduino platform, along with a host of emulators specific to classic gaming, means there really is no shortage of options out there. While many of the most iconic publishers, including Square Enix and Capcom (to a much lesser degree), have brought some of their more notable titles to iOS and Android, there are still thousands of titles you’ll only find via emulation.

We recently spotted an interesting little device to help you out with that described as the “world’s smallest playable emulation device.” PocketSprite can play just about all of your favorites and is small enough to hang from your keychain.
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Heroes of Loot, How to Cook Everything Veg, Civilization Revolution 2 and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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Alto’s Adventure is among some of the best and most interesting games on mobile. While it might employ the somewhat tired endless runner format, its incredible art-style and addictive gameplay take the experience to new heights. It follows Alto and his friends as they discover gorgeous alpine hills, villages, ancient forests and mysterious ruins. Around this time last year, the folks at Snowman studios released the first teasers for the sequel to Alto’s Adventure and today we have a brand new trailer with an official release date…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Waterlogue, Don’t Starve titles, Samorost 3 and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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In today’s best console game deals,  Best Buy is offering Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle on Nintendo Switch for $39.99 shipped. Meaning GCU members can grab it for just $31.99. That’s well under the best prices on Amazon and the best we can find.

More game/console deals:

• L.A. Noire Switch $40 or $32 w/ GCU (Reg. $50) | Best Buy
  • Or from $24 on Xbox One/PS4
• Super Mario Odyssey Switch $49 (Reg. $60) | Amazon
• PDP Afterglow Wired Controller for Xbox One $30 (Reg. $40+) | Amazon
• LEGO City Undercover Switch $20 or $14 w/ GCU (REg. $30) | Best Buy
• LEGO Ninjago Movie Game $30 or $24 w/ GCU (Reg. $40+) | Best Buy
• Hey! Pikmin 3DS $30 or $24 w/ GCU (Reg. $40) | Amazon/Best Buy
• Super Smash Bros. 3DS $30 or $24 w/ GCU (Reg. $40) | Best Buy
• Rayman Legends DE Switch $25 (Reg. $30+) | Target
• Yakuza Kiwami SteelBook $15 or $12 w/ GCU (Reg. $20) | Best Buy
• Rocket League Collector’s Edition Switch $30 (Reg. $40) | Amazon
• Rocket League Collector’s Edition Xbox/PS4 $20 or $16 w GCU (Reg. $30) | Best Buy
• Fire Emblem Warriors SE Switch $46 (Orig. $80) | Amazon

ICYMI: Here is the Best Console Game Releases for February and Action-adventure game Monster Boy Cursed Kingdom gets physical release on Switch/PS4.

Down below you’ll find more console game deals and new products. Your daily iOS/Mac app sales are on the way!
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While Nintendo has thus far done a great job supporting Switch with excellent first party titles, we are always on the hunt for new and interesting experiences to fill out our libraries. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey have propelled the latest hybrid Nintendo console to new heights. However, it’s the smaller, sometimes indie titles that keep us occupied in between releases of Nintendo’s juggernaut franchises. So we were certainly excited when new details on the upcoming new Monster Boy game hit Twitter this morning.
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Eve of Impact, To the Moon, Home Behind and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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Much like the folks at WaterField and Pad & Quill, DODOcase creates some fantastic Apple device accessories. With a series of premium materials like full-grain leather and canvas, the company’s handcrafted cases and covers are among the best in the price range. After launching a new lineup of cases for Apple’s latest handsets late last year, DODOcase is now introducing the limited run Executive Leather iPad case.
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Dr. Panda games, OK Golf, Street Fighter IV, R-TYPE II and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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The folks at NeatherRealm Studios really know how to make fighting games. The most recent entry in the Mortal Kombat series received solid review scores back in 2015, much the way Injustice 2 did in May of last year when it hit store shelves. And NeatherRealm is continuing to support the sequel to its expanded DC Universe fighter. While we may have caught a very quick glimpse of Leo, Mikey, Raph and Donatello in the previous teaser trailer, today we are getting our first look at the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the 2017 Fighting Game of the Year…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Hitman GO, Lara Croft GO, Deus Ex GO, Arkanoid vs Space Invaders and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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Last month we saw the much-anticipated Monster Hunter: World release alongside the Arcade version of Street Fighter V. This month’s releases are headlined by the amazing visuals found in the new HDR-friendly Shadow of the Colossus remake, Owlboy comes to console and Secret of Mana makes a glorious return to modern hardware…
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No matter how convenient it might be to use an iPhone case that can carry your bank cards and the like, I personally still prefer to carry a super slim case and a separate wallet. The folks at WaterField have been creating wonderful hand-made accessories for Apple gear for years now, but today it is unveiling the new VIA Leather Billfold Wallet.
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Mystery of Fortune 2, Tempest: Pirate Action RPG, Scan QR/Barcode Reader and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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(Update 3/6 8:35am): You can now grab the new Gold headset for $15 off today at Rakuten using code SAVE15.

Last week, Sony debuted its brand new DualShock 4 controller designs. Along with the previously released retro-style translucent variants, the new Midnight Blue and Black Steel options are already among some of my personal favorites in the collection. But Sony is continuing the new hardware announcements this week with a brand new Gold Wireless Headset for PlayStation 4 and PSVR…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Oflow, Monogram Wallpapers, Brainbean, Meteor Multitrack Recorder and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild released in March of 2017 as a launch game for Nintendo Switch. It quickly became one of the highest rated games of all time and is widely considered to be one the best games Nintendo (or anyone for that matter) has ever made.

Players are still searching every corner of the map to find new secrets, max-out their character builds and more. While it can be hard to say goodbye to these experiences once we have completely exhausted the content within, one Zelda player has thought of a very interesting way to immortalize their time in Hyrule…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Dungeon Survivor, 7 minute workouts, SharpScan Pro and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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Nintendo has clearly had a strong foothold on the gaming market over the last year or so. Switch has now crushed Wii U sales as the fastest selling gaming console in U.S history over its first 10 months on store shelves. So it’s clearly going to take some serious heavyweights to sway the balance of power at this point, and if anyone is going to do it, it’s going to be Rockstar.

The Grand Theft Auto developer’s releases are just about always the biggest of the year and Rockstar has had its sights set on 2018 for a while now. We all know the company will be taking us back to the wild west in its next installment of the Red Dead series and Rockstar (might) have just given us an actual official release date along with some brand new screen shots of RDR2…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Flick Kick Field Goal, KORG Module, Doom and Destiny and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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After debuting new retro-style translucent DualShock 4 controllers ahead of the Black Friday season last year, Sony is now ready to out its latest designs. We got a look at the amazing new controller for the New Monster Hunter World PS4 Pro bundle earlier this month, and now it’s time to look at the new Midnight Blue and Black Steel options.
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While it has been somewhat slow for iOS and Mac app deals this month, it looks like we are heading in to February with a good batch of discounts. This time around we are seeing around 15 very notable Mac App Store deals on everything from LEGO games to Batman, Deus Ex and XCOM. Each of the apps listed below is at the lowest prices we can find.
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Stickman Tennis, Catan Classic, LEGO Star Wars III, Deus Ex, Braid and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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Fireproof Games has made a name for itself among gamers with The Room series over last few years. The game is highly touted as one of the best of its kind on mobile, and it just kept getting better every time another sequel dropped. The original game in the franchise launched way back in 2012 followed by a pair of sequels in 2013 and 2015. Fireproof has kept us waiting for a while on the next entry in the critically acclaimed series, but wait no longer.
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Well we don’t see very many Nintendo Switch console deals, and we aren’t expecting to start any time soon. However, we do have a rare bundle discount today courtesy of trusted game dealer AntOnline via eBay Daily Deals. You can grab the Nintendo Switch with Super Mario Odyssey and a Switch Pro Controller for $399.99 shipped.
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Office Story, Crowntakers, Power Hover, Custom Notch and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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Square Enix released the latest main installment of its flagship RPG franchise in late 2016 to solid reviews. While Final Fantasy XV may not be a perfect experience, long time fans of the series were certainly appeased and steady DLC add-ons have helped the game’s post-release life span. More recently, Square introduced the Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition with the full season’s pass worth of DLC content, a brand new dungeon/environment, first-person mode, new gear and additional boss battles. Needless to say it is most definitely the version of the game to get if you haven’t invested in the standard version and its DLC just yet.

While the Royal Edition is offering those jumping in on this long after release a great chance to catch up on the entire package, Square also has a mobile version of the game set for release on iOS and Android…
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One of our favorite Apple accessory makers, Pad & Quill, is now offering up to 15% off on all of its iPhone cases for Valentine’s Day. And it gets even better. Using code PQ5 on any of the discounted cases will drop it down an additional 5%. That’s 20% off all of Pad & Quill’s high-quality and rarely discounted iPhone X/8/7/Plus cases.
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Earth 3D – Amazing Atlas, Awesome Calendar, First Strike: Final Hour and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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NAMM 2018 is in full swing this week highlighting the best of what the audio/music production industry will have to offer over the coming year. All of the biggest music gadget companies flock to Anaheim, California to show off their newest products and this year is no exception. We have been bringing you some of the major announcements from the show over the past week (or more) and now it’s time to round-up the best of NAMM 2018…
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NAMM is fully underway now with loads of new products hitting the show floor from Korg’s new polyphonic synth Prologue to new Universal Audio interfaces and the latest Teenage Engineering’s Pocket Operators. After introducing the Digitakt 8-track Drum Machine/Sampler and easily making our list for Best of NAMM 2017, Elektron is back in 2018 with its latest musical gadget.

Known for its quirky and yet extremely powerful sequencer design along with a growing line-up of incredible hardware instruments, Elektron is now unveiling the new Digitone polyphonic digital synthesizer.
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Samson is one of those audio brands that might not standout in a lineup, but it has been offering high-quality products at affordable prices for over 2 decades. The company made its way to Anaheim, California for this year’s NAMM show with a number of new products including new cables, microphones and most interestingly, new powered monitors.
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on BeatMaker 3, Battleship Online, Minecraft: Story Mode and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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After the massive new Logic Pro X update hit today and with all of the new products coming out of NAMM 2018, it is certainly going to be a busy weekend for producers and musicians. And we have already seen new instruments from Arturia and Korg as well as Focusrite’s USB-C interfaces for Mac and the brand new metal-series Pocket Operators from Teenage Engineering.

It was only a matter of time before IK Multimedia started to unleash its 2018 lineup on us. On top of some exciting new software products/enhancements, it is now introducing the new iRig Stomp I/O…
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NAMM 2018 is now in full force down in Anaheim, California. The yearly trade show attracts the best and brightest in the world of music production from the major players like Moog, Korg and Roland, to smaller more boutique companies like Teenage Engineering. We have already seen some big time product announcements and now it’s time to look at TE’s brand new pocket operator synths…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on Brave Guardians TD, Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty, Baldur’s Gate II and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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Virtual assistants are quickly making their way into just about every product category with the word ‘smart’ attached to it at this point. CES 2018 was dominated by new Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant laden devices from smart home gear to helper robots, sound bars and much more. Clearly, virtual assistants aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, despite what Cortana has to say about it. And now it looks like Alexa and Siri might be getting a new friend courtesy of the folks at Ubisoft…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on The House of Da Vinci, LightEaters!,iBasket Pro, Pro Paint for Mac and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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One of the biggest release dates likely to be on any PS4 owners’ calendar has now been revealed. The long-awaited and much-anticipated God of War is finally getting an official launch date today alongside a brand new trailer, pre-order bonuses and the full reveal of the various collector’s editions…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on BADLAND 2, Healthy Vegetarian Recipes, Wuzzit Trouble and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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Apogee has been one of the top names in digital audio in the music production world for years. It successfully jumped into the mobile game with its iOS friendly interfaces among other things a few years back, and recently launched the second generation MiC+ USB/Lightning Microphone. Apogee rarely opts for affordability over quality, but we had to give it a run for its money anyway.

We have now had a chance to go hands-on with the company’s latest portable mic over the last little while. Apogee has certainly stepped its game up here, but is it still worth the world-class price tag? Head below for our full review…
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In today’s best iOS and Mac app/game deals, we have some solid price drops on The Quest, Nimian Legends,Warbands: Bushido, Remote Drive for Mac and more. You’ll find a complete list of today’s absolute best apps curated by hand down below:
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January is typically a slow month for game releases, and 2018 is no different, but it won’t be much longer before the highly anticipated Monster Hunter: World releases for consoles. We are also seeing what appears to be the version of Street Fighter V fans have been waiting for as well as some notable Nintendo Switch and 3DS releases.

Last month’s lineup was headlined by the launch of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 for Switch along with Okami HD and Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds. But for everything you should be keeping an eye on this month, head down below…
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