With the start of the US Open tennis tournament in New York today, the US Tennis Association has launched an updated version of the official free tournament app, which is now fully iOS 4 compatible. The app, which is available for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, is designed to service both fans who are physically attending the event over the next two weeks, and those who are following the championship from home. The app features, among other things, live scores and completed match results, latest news updates from on and off the court throughout the tournament, and the augmented reality ... Read More

Fortuna Mobile's SharkWatch! is a very handy social networking app dedicated to keeping track of shark sightings all over the world. Whether you're a surfer, diver, researcher, beachgoer, or just someone who's fascinated with sharks, SharkWatch! will help you keep track of your hobby. SharkWatch! users can share their shark encounters with other users of the app, as well as with Facebook and Twitter friends, browse through sightings posted by community members, learn about documented shark attacks dating back to the 1800s via the regularly updated database, and check out images of sharks ... Read More

Italian developer beCrush has released its bloodsucking new adventure game, Vampires Until Dawn, to the Apple iTunes App Store today for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The game is a survival shooter located in Mexico, in which the player must battle the hordes of darkness, armed with an arsenal of weapons that includes a gun with unlimited bullets, a stake-shooting crossbow, and a sawn-off shotgun. Special attacks can also be unlocked during the game to help you defeat the 10 different types of enemy, all of who have different attacks and moves at their disposal which change according to ... Read More

ApeZone has updated its iPhone/iPod touch/iPad card game SoliScare with OpenFeint compatibility so that you can now compete against your Facebook and Twitter friends. The new version adds 11 leaderboards and 18 achievements to the addictive little card game, which takes the player on a creepy journey through graveyards, haunted houses, and spooky castles, as they put the beat down on ghosts, zombies, and classic movie monsters across 100 levels of play. SoliScare is very simple to play: all you have to do is move monster cards to your hero pile by choosing cards that are one higher or ... Read More

CNET's Crave Gadget Blog reports today on the iControlPad,  which enables you to insert a jailbroken iPhone into a console-style gamepad add-on that is then connected via a sync cable. The iControlPad's designer, Craig Rothwell, told Crave that the device locks the iPhone securely in place with a spring-mechanism padlock. The device also has an integrated battery, which Rothwell says could greatly increase the iPhone's battery life. Although it looks like a pretty cool idea, the iControlPad is not officially supported by Apple, so therefore you can only run specially written games on it, ... Read More

'80s arcade classic side-scroller R-Type has hit the App Store for iPhone and iPod touch. Retro-gaming fans both old and new will finally get the chance to relive the seminal '80s video-arcade experience on their iPhone/iPod touch, with this latest version of the game staying true to its roots, re-capturing the look and feel of one of the biggest arcade smashes from back in the day. In the game, you get to pilot a futuristic fighter, the R-9a "Arrowhead", and attack endless waves of Bydo enemies, old-school, side-scrolling style. This new version includes all the features of the ... Read More

After the successful adaptation of "Dracula: The Path of the Dragon", Anuman Interactive adapts another game from the Microids catalog for iPhone/iPod touch, in this case the excellent Egypt: The Prophecy game. I've previously played Egypt on PC and really enjoyed it, so it's great to finally get the chance to play it on the iPhone/iPod touch. The game is being presented in three parts, having been adapted and reworked entirely for the iPhone and its features. It's a point-and-click game set in an exotic location, featuring mysteries, magical landscapes, riddles and much more. In ... Read More

Another great story on Pocket-lint today about a photographer on Flickr called Joey_Joey_Joey who felt like it might be a good idea to try to combine his twin passions of photography and the iPhone, and find some way of customising his iPhone 4 with a special skin to make it look like a Leica M9 Rangefinder camera. So how did he (or she!) manage to do it? Check out part of  JJJ's explanation on his Flickr page: "Originally, I thought all I would have to do was just simply scale the camera to the phone's dimensions but I soon found out that the phone was actually wider than the ... Read More