Gameloft has seen huge success with its arcade style racing game, the Asphalt series. This game has always been popularly known for its nitro infused fast game play and crazy stunts. Asphalt 7: Heat offered great improvement in the widely popular series and now we have Asphalt 8: Airborne. Asphalt 8: Airborne takes the popular arcade style racing and adds … Read More
VS. Racing 2 Review – Two Steps Forward and One Back for this Top-Down Arcade Racing Game
Earlier this year we reviewed .vs Racing and thoroughly enjoyed it, the only flaw being the lack of online multiplayer and Game Center integration. Now though VS. Racing 2 has been released promising to address some of those issues and a lot more. VS. Racing 2 is a top down arcade racer where you race your tiny car around 36 different tracks. … Read More
VS. Racing Review – A Miniature Marvel of Top Down Racing
VS. Racing for iPhone is the first game from Maciek Drejak Labs and is a top down racer which reminds me of the old school classic Super Sprint. The game gives you a top down view of the racing track with you and your opponents taking up just a handful of pixels as you race around a variety of tracks … Read More
Captain Antarctica HD Review – An underwater adventure that requires just one more try
At first glance it appears that despite his name Captain Antarctica is not your usual game hero. However, it’s soon apparent that with a plethora of upgrades and gadgets Captain Antarctica is no ordinary penguin and is ready to take on the task of rescuing his family and friends. You responsibility in this task is to steer Captain Antarctica though … Read More
Asphalt 7: Heat Is to Arcade Racing what Real Racing is to Sim Racing
On rare occasions I will tell you to go and grab a game immediately and then come back and read this review…….this is one of those occasions and to be honest what do you have to lose when all you’ll be spending is 99 cents on a universal app that will work on both your iPhone and iPad should you … Read More
iPad 3 Launch Event Rumors: Senseg’s Haptic Feedback Coming to iPad
With just less than two hours left for Apple’s iPad 3 media event to go live we are hearing about new features that could be included in the third-gen tablet. The latest rumor which has hit the web suggests that iPad 3 will feature Senseg’s technology to deliver ‘tactile sensations’ when the screen is touched. When Pocket-Lint contacted Senseg … Read More
Fancy Pants Review – Fun Platformer That Will Keep You Coming Back For More
Fancy Pants Review Growing up I would frequently send and receive greeting cards that used the poems and character of Purple Ronnie, a stick figure, funny guy who always brought a smile to my face, and in Fancy Pants for iPhone and iPad I was taken back to that time as the lead character in this game reminded me of … Read More
iHop – Getaway Chicken HD Review
Rating: iHop – Getaway Chicken HD Review: Using Your iPad to Bounce to Freedom A fun iPad app that will have you bouncing through the countryside as you attempt to make your escape from the farmer’s festive but fiendish plans. In iHop – Getaway Chicken HD ($1.99) your job is to fly the chicken coop before becoming someone’s idea of … Read More
‘EDGE Extended’ Review: Rocking and Rolling in a Cubist Future
Rating: EDGE Extended Review: A super-minimalist, futuristic looking, simple in concept, difficult in execution game of accelerometer skill. EDGE Extended {$.99} doesn’t fit into any category that I know of; I’ve not seen the likes of it before. I suppose it’s a bit like Monkey Ball in a cube format. Though the instructions say to use your finger to move … Read More
Aerox for iPhone: Float, Roll, Turn Your Ball Through a Stunning Environment
Rating: Aerox Review: Aerox is a gravity-defying, accelerometer taxing, mind-calming test of your control of a rolling ball on a platform trail. The graphics of a watery/airy environment for Aerox are stunning. Clean, cool, peaceful, unearthly. The techno music lends to the heavenly atmosphere too. The app could easily be billed as a relaxation tool to take your mind off … Read More
Supercow: funny farm arcade platformer Review: Fun and Games Down on the Farm
Rating: Supercow Review: A humorous arcade-style game that keeps the focus on fun. Life on the farm was smooth and simple until Professor Duriarti escaped prison and took over. He’s captured the animals and is going to experiment on them. Who else but Supercow could hope to stop him? Supercow ($.99) plays like a Mario-style game where you collect coins and jump … Read More
Magnetic Baby Review A Fun Platformer with Depth Beyond Its Cutesy Graphics
Rating: Magnetic Baby Review: It seems that the 3 star rating system for completing levels in games is the way to go and I guess as the saying goes if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. The latest to use that method in its game is Magnetic Baby. The baby in this game is a small spherical character whose task it … Read More
‘reflow’ Review: Difficult to Describe, Easy to Grasp, Challenging to Play
Rating: reflow uses your iPhone/iPod touch/iPad’s camera to turn the world around you into a game. It displays objects as an abstract black and white image. On top of that there are waterfalls of color that flow in a path determined by the accelerometer, unless they bump into an obstacle such as the edge between black and white. Your job … Read More
Ducati Challenge Review Motorbike Racing Game Especially for the Ducati Enthusiast
Rating: As the title suggest Ducati Challenge for iPhone is a motobike racing game especially for the Ducati enthusiast. Having said that however the game will also appeal to all motorbike racers as knowledge or love of the Ducati range of bikes is not required. Review The game is part sim part arcade style with the looks of a sim … Read More
Cyber Dodge An Easy to Pick Up and Play Game for iPhone
Cyber Dodge Rating: Cyber Dodge for iPhone is a very simple arcade style game that got me addicted from the jump. It is very easy to pick up and play and the tied in social networking features that OpenFeint brings to the table make it easy to compete with friends. You control a cyber avatar with the task of capturing targets while avoiding … Read More