Tag Attack was brought to our attention by RIM, who are currently promoting Tag Attack as a game built using Adobe AIR 2.7.  As a result, Tag Attack is a great game for the BlackBerry PlayBook and highly addictive.  It’s a space shooter game where you fly around space in your ship and destroy enemy ships as they approach you.  The controls are easy – just drag your finger around to your targets and you’ll shoot by tapping the screen.  There are power ups to pick up including bombs, shield repairs, and temporary better aim accuracy power ups.

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UbiNav for BlackBerry is another GPS application to hop on to offering pretty much what the others do (generally).  Turn by turn GPS navigation as well as local searches to find out what’s around you and to navigate there as well.  UbiNav just got a nice update support Verizon customers at last, as they were blocked off before.  There’s a bunch of other new features added.  Here’s the full change log:

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While browsing on BlackBerry.com/PlayBook, I noticed the how to demos section where there’s a bunch of how to’s and tutorials for the PlayBook for those who don’t believe in trial and error.  I know the PlayBook has been out for quite a bit now, and some of you know the tablet inside out, but it’s still launching to other markets in the world.  Even if you don’t own the PlayBook yet, you should check it out.

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For those who don’t know, 7Digital Music Store is the native music store application on the BlackBerry PlayBook and is offered on BlackBerry smartphones as a Super App.  Here’s a quick list of reasons I put together as to why you should use 7Digital Music Store.  If you’re stuck on torrents and don’t believe in purchasing music at all, then you may not be enlightened by any of this.

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It was awkward having no icon for application in the Categories section for BlackBerry App World on the PlayBook.  Before the categories were all spread out, and now it’s been narrowed down to Apps and Games as two categories, then sub-categories within each.  Not breaking news here, but it’s nice to see that RIM finally put an icon for Apps, as there was none at all before while Games had one.

Thanks for the tip James!

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WordRival for BlackBerry has updated to version 1.5 late last night.  In this update we see a few new features included.  According to the developer’s message, there’s improved graphics, avatar upload feature, and a lot of bug fixes.  I haven’t picked up the new update yet, but you can right from My Account in the PocketBerry Store or click the link below to purchase yourself a copy.

WordRival for BlackBerry >>

Glare for BlackBerry is another one of those themes that change your home screen up giving you a whole different user interface.  MMMOOO, the developers of the theme put together a “roadmap” to how the home screen works:

• 5 sliding categorized folder icons, each folder contain related icons
• 2 colors to define bar color style: Color Bar or Grey Bar: slide to the last icon of the 5 sliding categorized folder icons, click it and you can choose one of the style.
• Weather Slot in the left with fixed position there
• Calendar and Messages ON/OFF switcher: slide to the white calendar icon in the left down corner. click it, there is +/- mean ON/OFF, and color bar or grey as popup text background.
• Wallpaper Friendly
• Numeric battery and signal indicator
• In the Lock Screen you can even see the Weather Slot there!
• 7 Stars quality and designing by MMMOOO Themes, and it’s FREE in a limited time!

Glare is only free for a limited time so grab it while it’s available today at the PocketBerry Store.

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Digital compass is a nice feature built into the next generation BlackBerry devices sporting BlackBerry 7 OS.  So far we’ve seen it in leaked screenshots, but haven’t had a good look at it in video.  Here’s a nice clip from MacBerry, who’s been doing a fair amount of leaks lately with the BlackBerry Torch 9860 showing off the digital compass.

In the middle of the night we let you know as soon as BlackBerry PlayBook OS 1.0.7.2650 started rolling out.  That kept users up longer than they should have, as it finally hit everywhere this morning.  RIM has officially announced the OS launch as well, along with a change log for it.  This update includes additional language support, improved BlackBerry Bridge support, and addition multimedia features.  Continue reading to check out all the general specifics.

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The BlackBerry Torch family also gets the same OS leak fix as the Bold 9900/9930.  This one goes out to the BlackBerry Torch 9850 and 9860, leaving the 9810 behind.  It’s also Os 7.0.0.261 and we assume there will also be some apps to pull out of this one too for current Torch users.

Download for Torch 9850 >>

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