Like the rest of us, you've more than likely already mapped out how it's going to go down after you've unpacked and charged up your iPad this Saturday. Will it be a bee-line for Safari? Or maybe you'll sync a few movies and watch them laying down in bed, just because you can. No matter where you start off, we all know where you'll end up: the App Store. After all, man was never meant to live by out-of-the-box applications alone.
Understanding this universal truth, application developers FingerArts and Innovative Micro Solutions (who promise to have a website up and running soon,) have unveiled a pair of games to keep those digits of yours happily tapping and swiping away well after the infatuation with your iPad's new Mail and Calendar apps has worn off.
Hangman RSS HD
FingerArts's Hangman RSS is an iPhone App Store favourite with over 500,000 copies downloaded worldwide. For those not familiar with Hangman RSS HD's older iPhone sibling, the game is as the name implies: Hangman, with a smattering of RSS. It looks like the Hangman we all grew up with, and plays like it too--guess too many wrong letters in a given word, and your stick-figure avatar dies by the noose. It might sound like old hat, but the RSS element of the application keeps it fresh. By ripping the latest headlines from popular RSS news feeds to use as the words you need to sort out in the game, FingerArts has managed to produce an application with almost infinite replayability. Add a number of difficulty levels into the mix and you've got yourself a winner, ready for download on the same day you bring home your iPad.
Kodix HD
Based on the legendary board game Mastermind, Kodix is a codebreaking mystery of an application wrapped inside of a riddle. By using your powers of observation, deduction, and a bit of blind luck, Kodix HD calls upon you to unlock logic puzzles within a given amount of turns. Given the longevity and popularity of the Mastermind board game, there's no doubt that iPad owners who love the reward that comes from making short work of a difficult puzzle will take hours of enjoyment from this one.
