Here’s my Metro News reviews for the week of Nov. 17th.
Kitten Clone
By Douglas Coupland
Kindle/iBooks/Kobo
Three Stars
Inspired by the way internet searches can unfold like stories, Coupland uses an anecdote about kittens to delve into the internet’s origins through a mysterious, hidden company that is the keystone of our connected world. He plays with font sizes, uses html codes, and even holds conversations with ghosts past and future for this strangely engrossing, but enlightening tech tale.
Runtastic Sleep Better
iPhone/Android
Free
By using your phone’s sensors to track your sleeping patterns and compare them to your daytime activities, this information rich app can suggest beneficial changes to improve your night’s rest.
Illustrated Step By Step Baking Cakes
iPhone/iPad/Mac/PC
$4.99
From party cakes to wheat-free cakes, this slideshow-driven, comprehensive cookbook by Dorling Kindersley includes 360 recipes supported by how-to videos for techniques and ingredient lists that sync across different devices.
Living Earth
iPhone/iPad
$1.99
A beautiful weather app built around a live, 3D simulation of the Earth that displays weather forecasts and storm warnings along with cloud patterns taken from satellites every three hours.
Assassin’s Creed: Unity
Xbox One/PS4/PC
Rated: Mature 17+
3 Stars
Having reached the French Revolution, Assassin’s Creed has grown into an ungainly catalog of add-ons, online modes, alternate tasks and frivolous customizations, all competing for your attention through annoying notifications and a map ridiculously overloaded by symbols. It’s hard to solve a murder mystery when there’s an online player soliciting you from within the crime scene. If you can filter through the noise, you’ll find an engaging co-op romance between factions, sly adventures in the Parisian sewers, and some very charismatic fun with instigator and mischief-maker, the Marquis de Sade.
