Tentacle Wars HD [ Tentacle Wars HD [ $2.99 (HD)], the new title from FDG Entertainment, is a port of the online Flash game of the same name by Lumarama. It’s a fast-paced iPad strategy game that reminds me a lot of Galcon [$1.99 / Free ], another iOS strategy game from 2008. In fact, [...]
Most of us have played the game “Snake” which came pre-loaded on Nokia phones back in the day. You know the one: Eat pellets to make your snake longer, but avoid your own growing tail. There’s various snake incarnations on the App-Store, such as Hard Lines [99¢] which we reviewed favorably back in June. But [...]
Lyst Ignition [99¢] from Steel Games is a fascinating – and sometimes frantic – color-matching game which involves tapping little orbs as they descend down the screen. By learning and tapping different combinations of orbs, you can create explosions and other effects. There’s a few rules to learn initially, but the main objective is to [...]
Diggin’ Dogs [99¢] from Soap Creative and Chillingo is already being compared to Disney’s popular release Where’s My Water- [99¢], since both games use the same “swipe-to-dig” mechanism. But the inspiration for Diggin’ Dogs actually came from Soap Creative’s online Flash game Truffle Hunter, which you can try on your computer. Personally, I didn’t think [...]
Fly With Me [99¢] from Electronic Arts may resemble a cute kids game about a flying bird, but it’s not actually as simplistic as it seems. You tap the screen to make the little bird fly and try to collect three stars and reach the birdhouse at the end of the level. This may sound [...]
I avoided the movie Snakes on a Plane because the premise of reptiles causing an aerial ruckus seemed a little lame. So my expectations were equally low for Gorilla Gondola [0:600.99], a game about a silverback gorilla who’s riding on the roof of a moving gondola. But fortunately it turns out this debut iOS release [...]
Back in October 2011, we saw a preview of the arcade-puzzler Hank Hazard [99¢] from Red Rocket Games and Chillingo. Well, a few months have passed, but it’s finally out. And after punching, dropping, rolling and blowing up Hank the bucktooth hamster for a couple of hours, I realized I was enjoying myself. Hank is a [...]
Star Warfare: Alien Invasion [99¢] is a first-person arena-shooter from Freyr Games, which features wave after wave of relentless attacking alien creatures. The aliens emerge from holes in the wall and from underground, or come flying, bounding or waddling straight towards you from all sides. And once you’ve shot them, the next wave arrives immediately. [...]
Smash Cops [ Smash Cops [$2.99] from Hutch reminds me of Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, as the main objective is to take bad guys off the road by catching up with them and then ramming their vehicles until they catch fire and roll in slow-motion. Sounds good, right- In Smash Cops the police pursuit [...]
If you enjoy Tetris, match-3 games and Boggle, then Puzzlejuice [99¢] from Colaboratory might be right up your alley. That’s because this falling-block, color-matching, word-finding mash-up combines these things into a nice-looking bundle of pleasure. Puzzlejuice starts with falling puzzle-blocks, just like Tetris. You can rotate each falling block by tapping the screen or drag [...]
Numberlys [.99] is an interactive story from Moonbot Studios, which is promoted as a story, mystery and game. It started out as a short film, but when the iPad was announced they changed direction and eventually created this lovely visual experience for us to enjoy. We don’t usually review interactive stories or children’s games, but [...]
Woody Woodpecker has his own star on the Hollywood walk of fame, his own famous theme song and a distinctive laugh (ha-ha-HA-ha! Ha-ha-HA-ha!), but old Woody hasn’t had much press coverage in recent years. So he’s trying to make a comeback, with his new iOS game published by Chillingo. Woody Woodpecker [99¢] is basically Tiny [...]
The first batch of new game releases in 2012 last week was relatively quiet, but Lunar Racer [99¢] from NoodleCake Studios (the makers of Super Stickman Golf [99¢/HD] ) have got things off to a positive start by releasing a new lo-gravity racing game with plenty of jumps, heaps of flips and a couple of [...]
Bryan Mitchell is the the developer of the popular Geared [ Bryan Mitchell is the the developer of the popular Geared [$2.99 / HD] and Geared 2 [$2.99] games, which have reportedly been played by over 12 million people. He’s partnered-up with an old school buddy Joshua Greenspan, who released Puzzling Penguins [Free] in 2009. [...]
LostWinds [.99] from Frontier was originally released for the Wii in 2008 and we’ve been waiting for the iOS port since it was reported in July. It’s a beautiful adventure platforming game with puzzle elements, which rates highly in almost every way. The story opens with little Toku asleep on the grass, but once you [...]
Back in November, we took an early look at SummitX Snowboarding [99¢] from Com2uS and Free Range Games. Since then, the game’s been released, so now the rest of us can hit the virtual slopes for ¢. After investing some time into the final release of the game I’ve reached the same conclusion as our [...]
Containment: The Zombie Puzzler [.99] from Bootsnake Games is definitely not your typical match-3 game. In fact, you don’t even need to match three of anything. Instead, the goal is to surround zombies with cops, soldiers, scientists or punks. This is far more interesting than matching colorful gems, tiles or bubbles, and once you’ve contained [...]
Stretched [99¢] is a new physics-based slingshot-platformer from Chillingo, which has been receiving praise in our discussion thread. The objective is to fling a ball between various slingshots, collecting as many bubbles from each level as possible, before reaching the exit portal. There’s no time limit or restriction on the number of turns, so there’s [...]
Zen Studios has previously released Zen Pinball, Marvel Pinball and Pinball FX2 for the consoles. But their latest release, Zen Pinball [Free] brings some of these popular pinball tables to the App Store. You can either play a single player game, or compete with up to four friends on the same device in “local hot-seat” [...]
In BigBot Smash [99¢], the universal game from Ayopa, you get to totally smash up a city using a giant metallic robot. You can demolish entire city blocks building-by-building by walking into, jumping at or shooting the 3D structures. Concurrently, you blast police cars from your antenna, stomp on the puny humans below, escape from [...]
Paul & Percy [ Paul & Percy [$2.99] is a great little platform-based puzzle game for the iPad, released by Danish developers Kipper Digital. When they discover someone has stolen their butter biscuits (or “cookies”, if you’re American), Paul and Percy set-off on a mission to recover their delicious snacks. The two main characters look identical, [...]
Saving Yello [99¢] from Tactile Entertainment and published by Dreamfab is a new physics-based puzzler about a pet goldfish named ‘Yello’. Poor Yello has been plucked from his bowl and dumped on the floor by his young 7-year old owner who doesn’t appreciate that fish are actually water-based creatures. Yello needs your help to return [...]
Recently, we mentioned that Space Tripper [.99] – the iOS version of Astro Tripper – has finally been released by True Axis the makers of the popular game: Jet Car Stunts [0:600.99 / Free]. After being released on various other platforms over the past decade, it’s finally our turn for an iOS port of this [...]
Raccoon Rising [99¢] from Romper Games is a delightful game about a sleepy raccoon trying to survive when his forest is invaded by an army of robots and their deforestation machinery. After watching the trailer (below), you might expect an endless-vertical jumping game, as it resembles NinJump [Free/HD]. But, it’s actually more like a vertical [...]
Back in 2004, CAVE released the manic shooter Mushihimesama (Bug Princess translated) into arcades to a warm reception from shmup fans, and two years later released a sequel called Mushihimesama Futari, which was also ported to Xbox 360 in 2009. Then, as most of you probably know, an iOS spinoff based on the Mushihimesama series [...]
Whizzers [99¢] by Demonual Studios is an endless-running game, whereas Whizzer (without an “S”) is an old restroom-locating application from 2009. This review is for the game, not the toilet finder. Although if you’re busting and need some entertainment, you may decide to get both. The goal of Whizzers is to reach the end of [...]
The goal of Rocket Riot [99¢] from Chillingo and CodeGlue is to fly around an arena on a jetpack destroying enemies with your bazooka. And you can also destroy …well, pretty much everything. You see, the entire level is destructible, so even the walls can be blown apart. Everything can be shot to pieces. But [...]
OrangePixel have a few iOS platform games under their belt. Back in June, we reviewed Meganoid [0:600.99] calling it a quality retro platformer with responsive controls. In September, our review of Stardash [0:600.99] highlighted the challenging difficulty levels and Game Boy style presentation. Plus they’ve released Super Drill Panic [0:600.99] and Time Chaos [99¢]. Now, OrangePixel [...]
Flick Home Run [99¢] from Infinity Pocket has been camped out as the #2 paid application on the American App Store for a few days and hit #1 for top grossing iPhone apps, yet it’s barely been mentioned in our forums, which is rather unusual for a top-ranking game. We decided to investigate why this [...]
It’s probably fair to say most episodic series experience big-time drop-offs in sales after each new release. It’s just what happens, regardless of quality. But on the App Store, one big studio, Telltale Games, is actually seeing sales spikes after each release of Hector and “substantially less” drop-off with other series in general. File that [...]
Highline Games have released W.E.L.D.E.R. [0:600.99] which stands for ‘Word Examination Laboratory for Dynamic Extraction and Reassessment”, The amusing game trailer (below) suggests that words are at risk of becoming extinct, but that’s not really part of the gameplay. It’s just more interesting than saying: “Move letters around to form words”, which might sound dull [...]
I’ve been searching for a new asynchronous multi-player game for a while, so when I saw Poker Pals [99c / Free / HD] released by Chillingo: a poker-based game with asynchronous multiplayer mode, my eyes went wide. What I didn’t anticipate was that within a few hours I would be snatching up my iPod every [...]
SpinTrip [99¢] from ClickGamer (Chillingo) is a 2D platform game about a rolling wheel with magical abilities. Your task is to hop inside the wheel, then roll, jump, fly or float it to the end of the level. There’s things to collect and enemies to avoid or kill, but it’s the wheel and various magical [...]
Blosics [99¢ / HD] is a casual object-flinging game like Angry Birds, but this is no clone, as it feels fresh and unique with plenty of different features to unlock. FDG Entertainment, the makers of Cover Orange [99¢ / HD], advise that the online version of Blosics has been experienced by over 40 million players, [...]
When Top Spin was released for the original Xbox, I became an instant fan of tennis games. I would crank up the difficulty to max and give myself bad stats and play the top players, just to make it more challenging. But until recently my iOS device had no tennis games installed, even though there’s [...]
First there was Modern Combat: Sandstorm [.99 / HD] which we described as one of the most impressive gaming experiences on the App Store at that time. Next came MC2: Black Pegasus [.99 / HD / Free], which we called ” A new standard in online multiplayer”. Now, Gameloft has released their much anticipated third [...]
Penny Parlor [0:600.99] wraps four antique coin-operated sports games into one release. But we’re not talking about classic arcade games …no, Australian-based GamesLab Apps are taking us further back in time, like pre-1950′s, to the era of mechanical arcade machines which used to cost one penny to play. The game displays a room (parlor) with [...]
In 3D Pixel Racing [0:600.99] the car graphics look extremely blocky theres simply no anti-aliasing (or smoothing of the edges) …but thats not a bad thing, because its completely intentional! This car racing game uses 8-bit pixelated graphics to depict the 3D cars, tracks and menus, so they look like theyre constructed from tiny blocks [...]
Putter King Adventure Golf [99¢] is released by Putter King, a company with real indoor miniature golf franchises, so these guys should know how to design a fun and challenging mini-putt experience. We were keen to see how their real-world ideas would translate onto our iOS devices. The good news is: Theyve done a pretty [...]
Back in March, we published a quick preview of the rope-based puzzle game, "Rope Racket" after seeing it demonstrated at GDC and we promised to keep to you posted. Well, its a few months later than expected, but its finally been released under the new name: Rope Rescue [99¢/HD] , developed by Untame and published [...]
Adult Swim has been on a roll lately publishing flat-out incredible games, and if you thought Monsters Ate My Condo [99¢] great, the publisher has somehow managed to ever-so-slightly one up themselves with Bring Me Sandwiches!! [99¢]. The premise is simple, and delightfully ridiculous You play as Jimmy Nugget, a hapless employee of Stuffys, a [...]
Late in 2010, Semi Secret released SteamBirds [0:600.99 / HD], a turn-based aerial dog-fighting game based on the Flash game of the same name, which we thought was "tons of fun". Apparently other people liked it too, as its reportedly been played by 12 million people worldwide (including the online Flash version). Well, the original [...]
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