Game Based on Showtime Series Dexter Now Available
The hit television series Dexter, now entering its fourth season on the Showtime cable channel, now has a game available for users of the iPhone. Dexter the Game is made by Mark Ecko Entertainment and will feature lead character Dexter Morgan (played by actor Michael C. Hall in the series), who works as a crime scene analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department on the show and has a side line habit as a serial killer himself. The series itself, a Showtime original, features Dexter investigating various violent crimes and analyzing evidence such as blood spatters and slides of biological evidence in order to help the homicide department track down the killers. The twist in the show is that Dexter leads a double life as a killer himself, stalking and executing the killers through his own methods as a way of serving justice. In the game, players will be using their own sleuthing skills to analyze evidence and decide if the criminals should be apprehended by the justice system or subject to what the show calls ‘the Dark Passenger’, meaning that Dexter murders those he finds guilty. With a 3D gaming environment and an action adventure theme, the game will be available for download in the Apple App Store at a price of $5.99.
Spotify Allows Users to Stream Music to iPhone
A new app from Swedish music streaming service, Spotify, allows users who purchase a £10 subscription to listen to unlimited songs from the reportedly vast library of music the company offers. The app not only enables users to search out new music, it also allows them to store playlists on their phone for times when there are no connections available to them such as when they are on a plane or underground.
The company has been seen as a rival to Apple’s iTunes because it offers an alternative model of music sales that many in the industry believe could be a viable and competitive way to sell songs online. The Spotify music library contains millions of tracks and the company has over two million subscribers in the UK alone, with over six million subscribers having been garnered across Europe since it began only a year ago.
The Spotify app is available for free via download for Spotify Premium subscribers at the Apple App store. The company has plans in place to expand into the US by the end of 2009. It is expected that the US market will be readily open to the idea of subscribing to a music service due to the popularity of the now outlawed file sharing networks that experienced such heavy traffic due to music trading.