Launched on the App Store just last month, Fieldsystem Inc.'s newtonica has already gotten its first update. Besides adding a worldwide ranking solution, so players can keep track of how well they played compared to others, the new release also straps a “helmet” onto Astro Baby Bird's head. Bug fixes have also been included.

This "original" game for the iPhone and iPod touch is a minimal-defense shooter in which players must be flicking their devices to rotate the Star Panel Sphere so that the falling meteors hit the cores with the matching colors. The game has been developed especially for the iPhone and iPod touch by a team of two successful game creators.

From the iTunes App Store,

Open the Starpanel. Click and rotate the sphere to catch the falling meteor on the same color core as the meteor. The more you catch the meteor, the great your life-gauge gets. If you keep on failing to catch the meteor, the game is over. Newtonica is the defensive shooting game with the minimal action. The innovative game producers got together to develope [sic] this original game rightly tuned to the intuitive interface of iPhone and iPod touch. Get it downloaded and play. Get high with playing newtonica!

It takes advantage of the touch-panel operations of both the iPhone and iPod touch, using simple, but clean and pleasant visuals. By using the iPhone's accelerometer, newtonica has players flicking the device in all directions to move the objects on-screen. The game is immediately available for download on the iTunes App Store for US$4.99.

A free application called “newtonica player” is also available from Fieldsystem Inc. It is designed to play the minimal techno tracks composed for “newtonica” by Kenji Eno. Visit the App Store here for both the newtonica update, and the featured music player.