Issue 6 of Swipe Magazine is out this week in the iPad App Store. Actually, it came out at the tail end of last week but I’m a slacker on getting the news shared here.

This is another issue that’s packed full of great content – including tons of reviews of the hottest new iPad and iOS games and apps. Here’s the rundown of some of the top features in this new issue:

✔ Reviews of the recent must-check games, including Ridiculous Fishing, Real Racing 3, Year Walk, Toy Story: Smash It!, Super Stickman Golf 2, Danmaku Unlimited 2, Penumbear, 1001 Attempts, and many more
✔ In-depth interview with Simogo, creator of Year Walk, Sneak Beat Bandit, and Bumpy Road
✔ Jelly Jeopardy: the unstoppable – and totally superlicious – free game is back in ocean-themed fashion!
✔ The Top 5 Music-Making apps for iPad
✔ Divided iPinion – 1 provocative question, 10 answers by team members of the world’s leading iOS sites
✔ A complete Year Walk, er, walkthrough
✔ iPad Basics: because iPad ownership is only easy if you know how…
✔ Over 70 games and apps featured, including must-own recommendations
✔ Guaranteed HTML5-powered interactive fun, videos, and wise words!

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New York Magazine has relaunched / reinvented its iPad edition today. The App Store description for the new app is far from shy about singing its praises:

This is New York on the iPad—it’s not like anything else! Download our app for FREE and get the Best of New York feature—our obsessively vetted annual guide—for FREE!
The culture-affecting editorial that launches phenomena, defines decades, starts movements and endorses demographics is at your fingertips. This app features every page in the print edition enhanced with up-to-the-minute reporting from nymag.com. Simultaneously get the day’s big stories from Daily Intelligencer, Vulture, Grub Street, and the Cut, as well as the digital version of the magazine that’s been redesigned to take full advantage of the iPad.

The app now lets you switch between free ‘Today’s News’ content and full weekly issues of New York Magazine, which are just called ‘Magazine’ in the sort of split UI.

All the content is available to current print and digital subscribers once they login in the app. The Today’s News content is free to everyone. There’s also a free preview issue of the weekly magazine available to download. The preview issue is the 2013 edition of the annual Best of New York feature.

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College Life is a new iPad magazine aimed squarely at university students. It’s also touted as the ‘ultimate, uncensored monthly college publication for the iPad’. Here’s a little more of its App Store intro:

We cover real topics that affect campus communities worldwide. We offer academic and career advice, inspiring campus stories, answers to even your most intimate questions, sports coverage, hilarious content from all over the web, and much more!
We are committed to providing the best, most widely read digital publication for college kids everywhere. We listen closely to our subscribers’ needs and provide content that they want to read. Enjoy the FIRST magazine on the newsstand to specifically publish for the college demographic!

It’s been roughly a million years or so since I was college age, but its interesting to see an iPad title aimed at college students so I wanted to give this one a quick look after being approached by its developers.

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Issue 5 of swipe magazine has just hit the iPad App Store this week. It’s free and jam-packed with great iPad and iOS game reviews, accessory and app roundups, and more. Just in case you’re not familiar with swipe, here’s a bit of its App Store introduction:

This is the only dedicated magazine that focuses on the best App Store content, and which has been built from the ground up as a true interactive digital experience for iPad.
Every issue is packed with only the very best games, apps, and accessories as rated by the leading independent review sites of the iPhone Alliance – a genuine ‘who’s who’ of the iOS media so you know they are opinions you can trust.

I’m a regular contributor to swipe and very proud to be part of the team on this magazine – so you can choose to take my thoughts on it with some grains of salt if you feel the need. I can tell you that as a reader I very much look forward to seeing each new monthly issue.

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Rolling Stone Magazine now has an iPad edition. It’s the latest big-name title to come to Newsstand on the iPad – despite the fact that one of the magazine’s co-founders described other publishers as crazy for embracing the iPad less than two years ago.

The magazine is available in the iPad App Store now and offers up its mix of breaking music news, album and movie reviews, rock star profiles and coverage of national affairs.

There is currently just one issue available to buy, at $4.99 – and subscription options are as follows:

• Single Issue: $4.99
• 1 Month Subscription: $1.99 plus first month free
• 1 Year Subscription: $19.99 plus first month free

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