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View this blog post on Kyle Wilkinson Online for a better experience, Check it out here: https://www.kylewilkinsononline.com/post/mario-kart-tour-a-review You might say that I’m late to the party for writing a review on a game that was released over two weeks ago, but I wanted to wait deliberately so I could see how the game would come along and how did it do? The Gameplay -  Any one familiar with Mario kart will recognise the familiar characters and familiar boxes that give you items. You complete races, earning points as you complete the races and you get different points depending on tricks you do and which carts or person you pick.  The more points you get the more stars per race you get up to the maximum of 5 stars per race. Simple so far, per cup there is three races and one special event which is different time. You need stars to unlock the new cups and that’s where the challenge comes in.  You can get new karts and characters through the sto...

On September the 19 th   Apple Arcade officially launched for iOS devices and now one month later Apple Arcade is available across the entire Apple ecosystem. When Apple Arcade was first released to developers and beta testers on the Tuesday the 17 th   I wrote a blog post on my initial thoughts which you can read here [ https://www.kylewilkinsononline.com/post/apple-arcade-a-review-by-kyle ] I mentioned in my previous review an arcade game called “Mini Motorways” and one month on this is a game I still play on average of every other three days. I do enjoy it and they have been doing some bug updates every so often. However each level has a very small goal and that’s to achieve 250 points. Hopefully one day they will update this and make a bigger goal because I can see some people may start to find it boring. I do have faith they will.  Apple Arcade makes a great direction for tvOS and with PlayStation and XBOX controller compatibility games on the Apple TV no...

It’s the start of October, it’s the start of the last quarter of 2019 and it’s the start of the supposed last month of the UK being in the EU. But I’m not interested in talking about politics, I’m writing today all about some of the activity challenges that come with the Apple Watch. For those who don’t know Activity is the app that comes with the Apple Watch and is all about closing your rings. Closing your rings is meant to be the motivation you need to have a better wellbeing, feeling healthier and to smash your fitness goals.  The three rings You have three rings, the first one is your move ring. To close this, you need to burn a set amount of ACTIVE calories. The key thing there is the word active. You need to be actually doing things to burn the active calories as for example you are always burning calories. A good example taken from the Apple website [1] is Walking the dog or gardening.  The second ring is the green exercise goal. This is very simple al...