5 Awesome iPhone App Deals This Weekend

December 26, 2014 12:03 PM EST

Looking to download a few great iPhone apps while saving some money this weekend? Check out these five, all on sale or free right now.

Rayman Fiesta Run

For those who reminisce about old, original PlayStation games, Rayman Fiesta Run is a perfect arcade time machine. From the character’s floating head and limbs, to the endless running and stunts, Rayman is a throwback now, but back then, it felt far ahead of its time. In this app, the game is brilliantly rendered on the iPhone’s smaller screen and fits in perfectly with so many of today’s iOS games.

Rayman Fiesta Run is on sale for $0.99 in the App Store.

Calendars 5

Calendars is one of the few truly universal apps. Which is to say, it’s just as useful for productivity maniacs and workaholics as it is for haphazard people who need help managing their lives. It comes with task lists to track obligations and chores, it logs regular or repeating events into your calendar, and even gives you the option to view your schedule as a color-coded timeline that can help streamline even the most flustered and panicked schedules. It can even sync with your Google calendar or iCal apps.

Calendars 5 is on sale for $2.99 in the App Store.

Day One

It’s a rare kind of person who still keeps a regular journal with pen and paper. Even still, it’s easy to fall behind and lose track of it all. But Day One uses all of your phone’s technology to help you keep memories as effortlessly and precisely as possible. It can pin your location, attach photographs, track events, and allows you to write an entry as easily as you might compose an email on your phone.

Day One is on sale for $0.99 in the App Store.

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**Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare**. Activision's futuristic first-person shooter in which players take on a rogue private military company uses a brand new engine built specifically for PCs and new-gen consoles to handle its cutting-edge lighting, animation and physics. Sledgehammer Games/Activision

**Far Cry 4**. This pulled back shot of fictional Himalayan region Kyrat is in-game, believe it or not, rendered with an overhauled version of the engine Ubisoft used to design *Far Cry 3*. Ubisoft

The Last of Us Remastered — **The Last of Us: Remastered**. Naughty Dog's meditation on the worst (and best) of humanity is built on technology that reaches back through the studio's pulp-adventure *Uncharted* series. The graphics are so impressive, TIME recently assigned a conflict photographer to photograph inside the game.Ashley Gilbertson for TIME

**Alien: Isolation** Built from scratch, the *Alien: Isolation* engine's outstanding deep space visuals all but replicate the set design of *Alien* film concept artists H.R. Giger and Ron Cobb's work. The Creative Assembly

**Assassin's Creed Unity**. Ubisoft says it "basically remade the whole rendering engine" in its AnvilNext design tool to handle the studio's meticulous recreation of Paris during the French Revolution. Ubisoft

**Child of Light** Inspired by filmmakers like Hayao Miyazaki and artist Yoshitaka Amano, *Child of Light*'s hand-drawn artwork puts the lie to presumptions that graphical richness depends on shader support or polygon counts. Ubisoft

**Destiny** Built from scratch by ex-Halo studio Bungie, *Destiny*'s game engine was designed to scale across the next decade, says the studio. Bungie

**Mario Kart 8** Nintendo's kart-racer for Wii U reminds us that raw horsepower is just a facet of crafting a beautiful game world. Nintendo

**Infamous Second Son** Sucker Punch's freeform Seattle-based superhero adventure models all sorts of minutia, from the intricate wrinkling of an aged character's face to the way eyelids stick, slightly, before separating when characters blink. Sucker Punch Productions

**Monument Valley** Escher-like at first glance, Ustwo's mind-bending puzzler was also inspired by posters, bonsai plants, arabic calligraphy and filmmaker Tarsem Singh's *The Fall*. Ustwo

**Grand Theft Auto V** Rockstar's remastered crime spree opus was crafted from an in-house engine first employed in a game that simulated table tennis. Rockstar

**Forza Horizon 2** Turn 10's Euro-racer actually models light refracted through drops of moisture, the render tech plausibly simulating something as intangible but essential as the earth’s atmosphere. Microsoft Studios/Turn 10 Studios

**80 Days** Inkle's anti-colonialist vamp on Jules Verne's famous novel uses crisp art deco imagery inspired by travel posters to unfurl *80 Days*' tale of intrepid globetrotters Monsieur Fogg and his valet Passepartout. Inkle

Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition — **Tomb Raider** Crystal Dynamics' radical reboot of its popular series about an athletic archaeologist uses a modified version of the engine that powered *Tomb Raider: Legend* in 2006. Square Enix

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars HD

For those who don’t own a video game console or simply cannot get enough GTA at home, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is one of the better console-to-mobile adaptations out there. Although gameplay is nowhere near as extensive on iOS as in the original versions, you can still move around in third person, steal vehicles, and go on car chases through the city. This version is a lot closer in appearance and gameplay to GTA III or Vice City than it is to the immersive world of the latest in the series, GTA V.

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars HD is on sale for $2.99 in the App Store.

Scribe

Scribe is one of those apps that, once you download it, it’s hard to imagine never having used it to begin with. Scribe allows users to copy and paste items from their Mac desktop to a mobile device without using Wi-Fi.

Simply press three keys, and images or pieces of text will be transferred to your phone, which means no more emailing yourself screenshots of your Maps app in order keep track of directions or mistyping phone numbers into your Notes app. It’s a middleman app that eliminates the middleman. One of the most simple but most useful apps around.

Scribe is temporarily free in the App Store.

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