zAPPed Makes Your iOS Gadgets Part of the Board Game - brooksanction

Hasbro plans to release new editions of three of its classic games this year. The spin? The zAPPed games will use iOS devices to help bring them to life story.

The Pun of Life zAPPed is available in stores now. Instead of being represented by midget, plain pinkish and disconsolate pegs, players tin can completely customize their essential pegs, adding hair, hats and other accessories. The iPad is also victimised to play a serial of mini-games that have been integrated into the intense game, as fit as serving as the spinner, complete with an reliable tick-tick-tick dependable. Hasbro to boot partnered with America's Funniest Videos to bring biography stage set aside videos to the game.

In Monopoly zAPPed, you fire use any iOS device as a digital coin bank. That's right; there's no paper money in this version of the game, which is good for those with pocket-size math skills only bad for those who liked to elude their bets by hiding a few hundreds under the plank. [Crap; at that place goes my integral strategy. –Ed.] Instead, for each one thespian gets a "debit card" that lives happening your iOS gadgetry–hardly dab it to finish a dealings. The Community Dresser and Chance card game have too gone digital, replaced by Sir Thomas More digital mini-games. You can play additional mini-games to get out of jail or avoid fines. [Man, think if that existed in real world… –Ed.]

With Battlewagon zAPPed, you commit the battleships onto the surface of an iPad. Special semiconducting paint on the battleships will allow the iPad to track their positions (Monopoly zAPPed uses a simiular technology to differentiate the debit cards).

Monopoly zAPPed should be out this June, with Battleship zAPPed following in September. The games should all personify priced around $25, but they of course do not include the iOS devices, which could be the large price hurdle for some. The accompanying iOS apps wish be available free of charge in the App Store.

[Hasbro (1, 2, 3) via DVICE]