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We’ve recently gotten our hands on a developer build of an upcoming iOS game: Hard Lines, from Spilt Milk Studios. Andrew Smith — the person behind the game — has previously won a BAFTA for his work, and we are pleased to report that this shows in Hard Lines. In this title, players must guide their  character — Lionel — through an arena which is inspired from the classic Nokia game, Snake.

One of the six gameplay modes is called Gauntlet, whereby players must outsmart the AI to gain as many kills of luminous cretins as possible. With some great pop culture references — including one reference to none other than Chuck Norris — Lionel is no Snake character, even though Hard Lines offers such a mode for you retro players. Check out the trailer for Hard Lines after the jump.

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It’s that time of the week where we appeal to your kind-hearted side and ask you to follow us around the internet. We’re everywhere, and we’re looking to party with our fair readers. For those of you already following us, go ahead and ignore this.

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I live in the UK. This frequently means that I do not get access to cool stuff like the Google Music Beta or Amazon Cloud Player. But the music service we do get is arguably the best — Spotify. And it just keeps on getting better…

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In an article discounting rumors of a hardware  preview at WWDC, MG Siegler over at TechCrunch has dropped several pieces of information he’s been hearing about the next version of iOS 5. We also aren’t expecting a hardware refresh this summer, but rather a better look at Lion, Apple’s revamped cloud services and maybe a healthy side of iOS 5.

If Apple’s next mobile OS is on display, Siegler expects to see “completely revamped notifications and widgets.”

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One of the biggest jobs in the film industry is reading scripts. Every producer, studio executive, and assistant carries home stacks of scripts every night that must be read by the next morning.

Screenwriting guru John August came up with the idea for an iPad app that reads Final Draft’s proprietary XML-based screenplay format (.fdx). With Final Draft being the industry-leading format, most programs use it, or will at least export in this format (such as Movie Draft SE, reviewed here). But while Final Draft pushes back its release of its “coming soon!” iPad app, the industry is left needing something to get real work done in the meantime.

The fruition of August’s idea is a clean, iBooks-style reader that can import FDX files from iTunes, email, and Dropbox named FDX Reader. At just $7.99, there’s little reason not to pick it up.

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Powerhouse game developer EA has put many of their iOS apps on sale for the Memorial Day holiday here in the States.

The company often celebrates holidays this way, and if you’re looking for some great ways to pass the time on your day off Monday, check out some of the links past the jump.

Article Via TUAW

Impulse buys at the Apple Store can be pricey, but at least the boxes are nice.

Photo Credit: LifeBox-

Yesterday, in TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City, Keith Rabois, the COO of Square, and TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington had a lot to say about future payments using Square and the mobile credit card payment process as a whole, including comments about Google’s NFC and PayPal.

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