Technology/Gaming: You are now among the initiated.

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery is on iPad right the heck now. iPhone & iPod Touch available in April 2011. 

S&S EP is a 21st century interpretation of the archetypical old school videogame adventure, designed exclusively for Apple’s touchtronic machinery.

It’s a mix of laid-back exploration, careful investigation & mysterious musical problem-solving occasionally punctuated by hard-hitting combat encounters. S:S&S EP is an unusual genre-bending effort with an emphasis on sound, music & audiovisual style that has been positioned as ‘a brave experiment in Input Output Cinema’.

S&S EP has been recently described as ”… an unlikely mix of Zelda and art house cinema. The game is equal parts Robert E. Howard, Shigeru Miyamoto, Tim Schaefer, with some David Lynch thrown in for good measure — but there is more to S&S than these inspirations.” (link)

/via www.swordandsworcery.com

Related articles

• Hauntingly beautiful fun: the story of iPad’s Sword & Sworcery (arstechnica.com)

• TUAW’s Daily App: Superbrothers’ Sword and Sworcery EP (tuaw.com)

Mobile: EpicWin app turns real-life to-do lists into a game

How awesome is this! New iPhone game lets you role-play your way through your to-do list. Makes me want to dust off my 20 sided dice and do my laundry.

To-do lists. We all have them, but that doesn’t mean we have to like them. Getting through a pile of boring chores isn’t all that fun, but an upcoming iPhone app is looking to change that. Dubbed EpicWin, the app aims to merge your to-do list with an RPG, letting you gain experience points and find rare loot as you do the laundry and catch up on e-mail.

/via arstechnica.com

Related articles 

• Epic Win App Turns Your Chores Into a Role Playing Game [Apps] (gizmodo.com)

• Turning a To-Do List Into a Game (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)