Published: March 7, 2010
Necromancer Rising is a real gem that needs quite a bit more polish.
Published: February 15, 2010
Does PvZ on the go live up to its big brother on the PC?
Published: January 30, 2010
Arroic is a game that depends far too highly on a gamer’s need to do everything in a game and far too little on a gamer’s desire for compelling mechanics.
Published: January 11, 2010
Does this pig rush straight to your heart, or the recycle bin?
Published: January 9, 2010
Like a store-bought apple pie, Cocoto Kart imitates one of life’s great pleasures from a technical perspective but lacks the soul of the real thing. In this case, Mario Kart is to Cocoto Kart as your grandmother’s apple pie is to that of Albertson’s.
Cocoto Kart Online doesn’t do much wrong, and in fact it is [...]
Published: December 22, 2009
All of the quirk of Japan in one strange little game. If Moskila is to believed, the life of a mosquito is a tortured, frantic existence filled with malevolent desktop fans and death in the form of fly swatters, bug spray and dragon flies.
As a mosquito, your one goal is to ingest as much human [...]
Published: November 14, 2009
At the launch of the App Store, what immediately sprang to mind for many was just how well suited the platform would be for classic point and click adventure games. The Secret of Monkey Island, which launched previously this year, was met with much critical acclaim and was a personal favorite of mine. As the [...]
Published: November 1, 2009
This game makes me sick. Not in an indignant, “I can’t believe the developer is selling this” kind of way, but the literal kind of sickness that causes me to be nauseous every time I pick it up. Deep is a game in which the player guides a falling man down tunnels filled with laser [...]
Published: October 23, 2009
Many iPhone games on the market shoot for simplicity; World Wars went a little too far in that direction. Riffing on the classic board game Risk, World Wars is a strategy sim on a much smaller scale.
After getting a look at the in game advertisements, players start up a game while fighting off the sudden [...]
Published: October 6, 2009
A Tribe War mixes cartoon like graphics and voluminous amounts of violence with mixed results.
The standing objective in Tribe Wars is to kill all incoming enemy tribesman in order to preserve the lives of your own three valiant defenders. Enemies will run directly towards your tree which is apparently home to your keebler-esque tribe. As [...]
Published: September 16, 2009
Does geoDefense Swarm reach the high bar set by its predecessor?
Published: September 14, 2009
Do you find yourself having unbridled amounts of fun whilst parking your vehicle? Do you wish that once you have stepped out of your car that the joy of parking could be with you all day? Are you not old enough to legally drive and park a car and therefore are dying to try? If [...]
Published: September 10, 2009
Blades of Fury seeks to fill the fighting void on the iPhone. Is it a success or simply a Soul Calibur clone?
Published: September 9, 2009
Curse my opaque digits!
Published: September 3, 2009
Stepping out onto that sidewalk every day, each one of them knew it could well be their last. Morning after morning, it was always the same. A casual walker makes his way to the grocery store and the silence is broken by a distinct cry of, “Hey, Taxi!” At this moment, the walker takes pause. [...]
Published: August 29, 2009
Dammit Jim, I’m a Star Trek clone not a bricklayer!
Published: August 26, 2009
Do you like multitasking? Then you’ll love Aqua Globs.
Published: August 2, 2009
More of a Cataicastrophe than my puns.
Published: August 1, 2009
You are the last of the survivors and have found yourself alone in a cannon. The last cannon to be specific. From within said cannon you must blast countless enemies out of the sky. Last Cannon is yet another “shoot falling enemies” game on the iPhone but manages to stand out thanks to its odd [...]
Published: July 31, 2009
Billiards meets Missile Command and Electroplankton in this heart-wrenchingly addictive arcade title.