New PadRacers App Turns iPhones and iPad into a Racing Game

April 30, 2010 By Ryan Fleming

The new PadRacer app turns iPhones into controllers, and the iPad into a race track.

The idea behind PadRacers is simple: you use your iPhone to control your car around a track that is displayed on an iPad. Simple, and yet ridiculously addictive.

The top down racer turns the iPhone into a wireless controller that connects via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Users tilt the controller left or right to steer the cars through the course’s curves, which are displayed on the iPad. The game can be played solo, but it shines when you are competing with a friend.

One catch: You must have both an iPhone and an iPad to play, but we may soon see more games that combine the two devices. This isn’t the first app to use the two devices together, but it is the first to incorporate them into a fast-paced game.

The PadRacer app is currently available from Apple’s App Store for $4.99.

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Ryan Fleming at 2:05pm 30th April 2010 A lot of people on the iTunes site for the game purchased it multiple times- one for each device- but the company behind PadRacer confirms you just need to purchase it once. You then sync it with all your devices.
dang at 12:38pm 30th April 2010 That looks like fun. Question: do you have to spend $4.99 for the ipad app, and then $4.99 for each iphone? If so that gets to be a pretty expensive game.