TouchSort [rating: 3/5] Simple and Fun looking game! TouchSort is a hectic, arcade-style action game in which you toss colored balls from the center of the screen to their matching side goal. It’s never that simple, though. To tense things up, there is a timer! You only get 3 seconds to make a shot, with more points being awarded if … Read More
flipside: Challenging Game For Puzzle Lovers
flipside [rating: 4.5/5] You’ll flip head over heels for this mind twisting game! Flipping my iPhone into landscape today is flipside, a very well designed and challenging tile matching game. Unlike many flash based matching games found on the internet this game adds some good gameplay twists, different game modes and good use of multi touch. What makes flipside unique … Read More
Bailout Wars For iPhone: Finger Flicking Fun
Bailout Wars [rating: 3.5/5] Gameloft has been publishing some fabulous games for the iPhone and iPod touch and as they continue to launch new games almost every week, it clearly signifies that they consider iPhone as a very promising portable gaming device. Castle defense (or Tower defense) games have been one of my all time favorite genre and am always … Read More
Mystery Mania For iPhone: Fun, Original Puzzle Game
Mystery Mania [rating: 4/5] Halloween may be over but if you want to extend your Halloween fun to a few more days then Mystery Mania may be just for you as this interactive puzzler will push your brain cells to the limit. The spooky cartoon style graphics setup an appropriately ominous atmosphere and the game starts with a short introduction … Read More
Roswell Fighter: Annihilate Aliens In This Impressive Shoot’Em Up For iPhone
Roswell Fighter [rating: 4/5] Shoot’Em ups have been a mainstay of gamers ever since computer games became popular. From the original Space Invaders to my old school favorite T-Type and beyond shooting wave after wave of ensuing enemies has proven to be a favorite pass-time of old and new gamers alike across all major platforms too. The iPhone/iPod touch is … Read More
Amuse and Entertain Yourself With Captain Galactic For iPhone
Captain Galactic [rating: 3.5/5] Who hasn’t dreamed of being a spaceman or super hero before? Well now you have the opportunity to combine both those dreams into one as you take on the role of Captain Galactic in his quest to save the Universe. Captain Galactic is a space based platformer where instead of running, jumping, collecting and defeating enemies … Read More
Bomb Factory: Powered By Unity 3D Engine
Bomb Factory [rating: 2.5/5] Simple and fun bomb flicking game! In this factory bombs do not sort themselves, it’s up to you to do so. Stupidly enough someone already lit the bombs! To defuse the bombs sort them by color, using the drag and drop control. Keep an eye out for the white bombs: Let them explode for a bonus … Read More
Rock Climer: Stimulating Accelerometer – Controlled Game
Rock Climer [rating: 3.5/5] I admit I was not very excited at first to review this new game. After falling flat on my back approximately 10 times I finally got the hang of it! Rock Climber is a newly released game for those who want to enjoy the vertical world of accelerometer-controlled rock climbing. The objective is to climb the … Read More
WordFlip: You Can’t Afford To Miss This Game
WordFlip [rating: 4.5/5] When I was young my puzzle of choice were Logic Problems, my Dad’s were Crosswords while for my sister they were Word Search and we buy magazines full of our puzzle of choice to complete whenever the mood caught us. Now of course with computers and esp. iPhone/iPod touch we can carry our puzzles around with us … Read More
PUFF: Beautiful, Simple and Slow Paced Puzzle Game
PUFF [rating: 3.5/5] Some people are scared of spiders, some of birds, water or heights and then there are those that have globophobia, the fear of balloons! Don’t laugh, it’s a real fear, just Google it, if you don’t believe me and so if there are any globophobics reading this you may want to stop now as this game is … Read More
Pogg: Wonderful Addition To The Currently Available Educational Games
Pogg [rating: 4/5] As a teacher I am always looking for the latest technology to integrate into my classroom. I took a risk this year and decided to fill an iPhone/iPod touch with educational games for the students to use independently while practicing important skills and strategies. Thus far it has been a complete success. So successful that I plan … Read More
Railroad Rush For iPhone Doesn’t Go Off The Rails
Railroad Rush [rating: 4/5] In the interests of full disclosure I’ll say this up front; I’m not usually one for the scheduling / collision avoidance genre of games. I’ve played a rather famous one that involves airplanes (FlightControl) for almost six months and I can’t crack the 20 plane mark. It’s almost enough to make a person feel inadequate. Although … Read More
Sea Spooney for iPhone: Rescue, Run, Slap and Smile
Sea Spooney [rating: 2.5/5] Most games play to an underlying need to succeed at something. For example, while playing Madden NFL 10 you’ll be dreaming of winning the Superbowl while playing Pocket God will play to some deep feeling of wanting to be in control of something. So if you have an urge be a pirate who rescues a mermaid … Read More
MADDEN NFL 10 for iPhone: Killer Game With Glitz, Glamor and Substance
Madden NFL 10 [rating: 5/5] On a day when the new range of iPods were launched, iTunes 9 was released, TweetDeck was updated to 0.30 and Google launched Monopoly City Streets I found it pretty amazing that it was something else that got me more excited than all of those items added together, that being this game, Madden 10. Madden … Read More
iSpacePort Will Stay Out of My Orbit
iSpacePort [rating: 2.5/5] If you love Flight Control then LuckyBastards, the developers of this app, would hope that you will love this take on the genre too. However, even at 99c I would advise against it as this pales into insignificance compared to the sublime joy of playing Flight Control. Setting a game out of space should make designing the … Read More