If you love Tapulous' Tap Tap Revenge on the iPhone then it's newer, bigger brother for the iPad, Tap Tap Radiation is something you're going to want to check out. The core idea is the same -- you listen to your favourite tunes, Tap Tap Radiation visualizes them as shiny colored circles racing towards you, and then it is up to your fingers to tap along with the beat.

Tap Tap Radiation gives you 30 free tracks to choose from. Some of the free tracks you are by Serge Devant, Richard VIsson, Mos Def and premium tracks (paid) include songs by Lady Gaga and Pink. The themes, graphics and effects do a good job showing off the iPad's larger screen and graphics power.

Tap Tap Radiation is the app to get for anyone who owns a iPad and enjoys playing games and listening to music. It's easy to pick up, relaxing and fun to play, and has three difficulty levels to help keep it challenging.

Tap Tap Radiation Free [iTunes Link].

Pros

• Lots of fun
• Easy to play
• Free

Cons

• Backgrounds could be more dynamic

Tapulous and their Tap Tap Revenge franchise for iPhone and iPod touch need no introduction... so allow us to introduce their new big brother, Tap Tap Radiation for iPad! [Free - iTunes link]

Screen shots and video after the break!

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Riddim Ribbon, featuring the Black Eyed Peas [$2.99 - iTunes link] has just boom, boom, pow'ed its way onto the iTunes App Store.

Created by Tapulous, the developers behind Tap Tap Revenge, it brings the type of high octane, musical, iPhone and iPod touch-optimized gameplay they're famous for but takes it in a whole new direction -- first person front facing racetrack forward!

Bundled tracks:

• Boom Boom Pow
• I Gotta Feeling
• Meet Me Halfway
• 8 remixes

Downloadable levels ($0.99):

• Tiësto: Louder Than Boom
• Tiësto: Escape Me
• Benny Benassi: Satisfaction

Also noteworthy:

• "For a limited time only: purchase the game and get a FREE MP3 download of a Meet Me Halfway remix, downloaded straight to your iTunes!"

Video after the break, and if you try Riddim Ribbon out, let us know what you think!

[via 9to5mac]

Making our collective jaws drop today is Tapulous, who are claiming sales approaching $1,000,000 (that's on million) dollars a month, and news that even those inside and around Apple had no conception of just how successful the iPhone app ecosystem would be.

First, Reuters reports that Tap Tap Revenge maker Tapulous, a 20-person iPhone development team, has seen 20 million installs and 600 millions games played, adding up to sales approaching $1 million a month.

Tapulous' chief executive said he expects it to ride a wave of exponential growth in mobile app commerce in the next two years, similar to that seen recently by social gaming companies like Zynga, Playfish and Playdom. Playfish was recently acquired by Electronic Arts for $275 million in cash.

Second, the Financial Times reports that even insiders weren't expecting this level of success. Says Kleiner Perkins partner Matt Murphy, manager of the then $100m iFund announced alongside the original iPhone SDK:

"We had no idea there would be 2bn downloads by October. Most people within Apple, if you had told them it would be a fifth of that by now, they would have been pretty happy."

Part of this is attributed to Steve Jobs, of course:

Even more important was Mr Jobs’ willingness to demand that AT&T and other network carriers give up control over what sorts of programmes could operate over their airwaves. He argued that the iPhone was a computer, not a phone, and that consumers expected to be able to do many things with computers. History had shown that this kind of freedom was what drove the more profitable “ecosystems” of computers – where sales of hardware were dependent on a wide variety of useable software.

So, remove the carriers, treat smartphones like real, mobile computing platforms, and everyone (mostly) benefits? Who could have imagined that?

Tap Tap Revenge 3 [$0.99 - iTunes link] is scorching up the charts, and so to thank their fans the fine folks at Tapulous are tripling up on the give-aways.

First, if you've already got the app, they want to give you the TTR3 version of #1 hit on iTunes, “Fireflies” by Owl City for FREE for the next 7 days! That's right, just fire the game up and download away!

Second, for those who haven't yet upgraded from Tap Tap Revenge 2, buy the game in the next 2 days (through midnight Friday, PST), gets a FREE credit for a premium two-pack bundle (by top artists like Foo Fighters, Fall Out Boy, Blink 182, Smashing Pumpkins, and more being added every day). To get your free tracks,just email your iTunes receipt or screenshot to freemusic[at]tapulous[dot]com with your Tap Tap Revenge 3 username (and nothing else) in the subject line. Clear?

Third, they're giving away a chance to win the entire premium catalog of Tap Tap Revenge 3 for FREE (over 100+ sensational songs). Want that chance? Drop a comment below (through midnight Sunday, PST), telling us who you'd most like to challenge on TTR3. Anyone in history, any where, any when. Who do you most want to play off the TTR3 stage and leave begging for music mercy? (Me, I'm claiming Shatner! He tasks me and I will have at him!)

Note: You'll need a copy of your TTR3 iTunes receipt to claim your winnings, so keep it handy. Also, be sure to leave a valid email address so we can contact you. Now get going!

Updated: It's here! TapTap Revenge 3 [$0.99 - iTunes link]

One of the most popular games in iPhone (and iPod touch) history is about to raise the bar again as Tapulous has just announced Tap Tap Revenge 3. What's new the third time around?

First, they'll have 40 song bundles from major artists available to purchase in-app at launch, along with custom themes for each. Next, they'll have an online mode with bombs, weapons, chat, PMs, and more. Customizable avatars are on tap, with achievements and levels, as well as an overall look refresh and performance enhancements.

There will be over 100 free tracks for download as well, along with new free and paid tracks released weekly.

Pricing is $0.99 for the app (Apple doesn't allow in-app purchase for free apps), with $2.99 6-track bundle and $0.99 2-track bundle options. Availability, of course, depends on when exactly Apple sees fit to release it into the App Store.

We're hoping for soon.

More screen shots and complete artist list after the break!

6-track bundles

• BLINK 182 - "Adam's Song" / "All the Small Things" / "Dammit" / "First Date" / "The Rock Show" / "What's My Age Again"
• FALL OUT BOY - "Thanks for the Memories" / "Sugar, We're Goin Down" / "Dance, Dance" / "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" / "I Don't Care" / "American Suitehearts"
• FOO FIGHTERS - "The Pretender" / "Wheel" / "My Hero" / "Best of You" / "Monkey Wrench" / "All My Life"
• THE KILLERS - "Mr. Brightside" / "Sweet Talk" / "Human" / "When We Were Young" / "All These Things That I've Done" / "Read My Mind"
• NO DOUBT - "Ex-Girlfriend" / "Don't Speak" / "Hella Good" / "Just A Girl" / "Spiderwebs" / "Hey Baby"
• SMASHING PUMPKINS - "Tonight" / "Cherub Rock" / "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" / "Today" / "Tarantulla" / "1979"
• TIËSTO - "Fresh Fruit" / "Ten Seconds to Sunrise" / "Driving To Heaven" / "Knock You Out"(feat. Emily Haines) / "Lethal Industry" / "Carpe Noctum"

2-track Bundles:

• A PERFECT CIRCLE - "Judith" / "Weak and Powerless"
• AFI - "Miss Murder" / "Girls Not Grey”
• AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT - "Sometime Around Midnight" / "Wishing Well"
• THE ALL AMERICAN REJECTS - "Gives You Hell" / "Move Along"
• ANGELS AND AIRWAVES - "The Adventure" / "Everything's Magic"
• ASHER ROTH - "I Love College" / "Lark on My Go-Kart"
• BUSH - "Machinehead" / "Glycerine"
• COLDPLAY - "Lovers in Japan" / "Viva La Vida"
• THE CRYSTAL METHOD - "Busy Child" / "Keep Hope Alive"
• GODSMACK - "I Stand Alone" / "Whatever"
• GWEN STEFANI - "Hollaback Girl" / "Sweet Escape"
• BEN HARPER - "Steal My Kisses" / "Keep It Together (So I Can Fall Apart)"
• HINDER - "Better Than Me" / "Lips of an Angel"
• JANE'S ADDICTION - "Superhero" / "Just Because"
• JET - "She's a Genius" / "K.I.A."
• JET - "Blackhearts (On Fire)" / "Start the Show"
• KAISER CHIEFS - "Ruby" / "Never Miss A Beat"(remix)
• KORN - "Coming Undone" / "Twisted Transistor"
• LADY GAGA - "Love Game" / "Poker Face"
• LMFAO - "I'm in Miami Trick" / "Bounce"
• LYNYRD SKYNYRD - "Sweet Home Alabama" / "Freebird"
• MARILYN MANSON - "Beautiful People" / "The Dope Show"
• MAROON 5 - "This Love" / "Makes Me Wonder"
• MEGADEATH - "Peace Sells" / "Wake Up Dead"
• MICHAEL FRANTI / SPEARHEAD - "Say Hey I Love You" / "Bomb The World"
• MORGAN PAGE - "The Longest Road"(Deadmau5 Remix- Radio Edit) / "Fight for You"
• NINE INCH NAILS - "Closer" / "Hurt"
• NINE INCH NAILS - "The Hand That Feeds" / "Only"
• ONE REPUBLIC - "Apologize" / "Stop and Stare"
• PHOENIX - "1901" / "Lisztomania"
• QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - "No One Knows" / "Little Sister"
• RISE AGAINST - "Audience of One" / "Ready to Fall"
• SNOW PATROL - "Chasing Cars" / "Shut Your Eyes"
• SOCIAL DISTORTION - "Far Behind" / "Story of My Life"
• SUM 41 - "In Too Deep" / "Fat Lip"
• KEITH URBAN - "Kiss a Girl" / "Sweet Thing"
• WEEZER - "Hash Pipe" / "Beverly Hills"
• WEEZER - "Buddy Holly" / "Troublemaker"
• ROBBIE WILLIAMS - "Let Me Entertain You" / "Angels"

The self proclaimed World's Toughest Programmer, Mike Lee, who left Delicious Monster to work on iPhone apps for Tapulous has revealed on his blog that he and the Tap Tap Revenge and Twinkle maker have parted ways, and not on the best of terms:

So it came to pass that when my Engineering and Design team had irreconcilable differences with where the company seemed to be headed, I was asked to make good on those promises. Serving as the team’s reluctant spokesman was not in my best interests, but honor dictated my actions. I delivered the team’s message, and was invited to resign.

And what direction exactly was Tapulous headed? The always outspoken John Casasanta, MacHeist creator and iPhone developer, says:

...we’re about to experience in the iPhone world is going to be a bubble along the lines of the one in the late 90s / early 2000s. The vultures are out and and they taste blood. The iPhone’s one of the hottest things around right now and there’s little sign of its popularity letting up anytime soon. And the venture capitalists want in… badly. The fact that the iFund™ exists is overwhelming evidence of this.

Read on for more after the break...

The iFund, of course, is the $100,000,000 venture capital fund Steve Jobs announced only moments after he finished introducing the iPhone 2.0 and App Store. They provide funding for startups with the stated goal of "finding the next Google". But there's no such thing as a free ride, is there? As the VCs give, so do they take. Not all of them are really in it for the long haul -- to build a lasting, generational business. Some are in it for the short turn-around -- to pull as much profit as they can, be it by sales or by sale, longevity and viability be damned.

Mike Lee is now contemplating his own startup, United Lemur, and ironically may be looking for VC funding all his own.

Mac developer Buzz Andersen, by contrast, thinks there's another way:

We’re living in the “anyone can play guitar” era of software entrepreneurship. Because of the confluence of increasingly accessible developer tools and the Internet, it’s now reasonable to think that one or two talented people, with little to no investment, can make anything from a good living to a fortune by bringing their idea to life. What kills me about the outmoded Silicon Valley gold rush mentality that I feel has entered the Mac developer community for the first time because of the iPhone is how much it fundamentally ignores the significance of Apple’s App Store as a field leveler. In many ways I think it’s the most advanced expression of this new era of software entrepreneurship yet. Come on, people: let’s not sell ourselves short on this opportunity for a bit of Palo Alto office space.

(via Daring Fireball)