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Project "Thor" Review
Project Thor by Jury Shortki is a bit of an odd-ball when it comes to classification. Strictly speaking it's another castle-defense game, but replace castle with planet and defense with Arkanoid. If nothing else, Project Thor demands attention for being so genuinely unique. It's hard to describe the gameplay, but it goes a little something like this: While defending a new planet for humanity, you control a giant shield that reflects incoming attacks while building a large temporary "o…
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2DCaligo Chaser - A New RPG Now Out
Com2uS have just released their new slash and dash action RPG Caligo Chaser. Launch Price: $2.99 YouTube Preview: App Info: Caligo Chaser, a beat 'em up style slash and dash action RPG game at your finger tips. Each map is tailored to automatically scroll horizontally to break free from the restrictions of the limited screen size. Stunningly well-designed stages, characters, and monsters to keep you playing for hours. Save Emporion from the dark forces that haunt the city!! Features: UPGRADABLE SKILLS Up to 135 different skill upgrades combinations with 7 unique attack skills and 20 passive skills CUSTOMIZABLE CHARACTER Change the look of you char…
Game Preview: WordSearch Rush
Word search games aren't exactly the most popular games available on the App Store. They tend to be more for a niche crowd of puzzle lovers with super-human eyesight. I mean honestly... those grids can be HUGE. And on such a tiny screen? Not a great combo. YouTube Preview: WordSearch Rush by UK developers We Are Colin aims to not only make word search games playable, but genuinely fun. Their twist on the gameplay involves time-based combo bonuses for quickly finding words in a 7x7 (or occasionally 8x8) grid and extra points for selecting the words backwards. Unlike some word search games a list of words isn't provided for you, but instead each level gives a topic from which 7 wor…
Orba - Color Smasher Review
Before we get any further in to this review - yes, Orba by the Kieffer Brothers is little more than another three-match game for the App Store, but before you automatically switch off it's genuinely worth your time. With its polished design and more-ish gameplay, you'll find yourself gravitating back to Orba just because it fills those 30s gaps of free-time in your day perfectly. Gameplay is basic and requires you to tap groups of three or more orbs to clear them from the screen. The…
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Ice Bullet Review
If there's one thing certain about the Olympics (summer or winter), is that there will be many videogames made to capatilize on the events. Bobsleigh is one such event that seems like a good idea for a videogame and a great idea for an iphone game, especially using tilt controls. Ice Bullet sets out to deliver a Bobsleigh experience on the iphone, but does it replicate the speed and danger of its real life counterpart? Control is tilt based, with leaning forward used for braking aroun…
Chromixa Review
Chromixa began life as an art installation based on creator Simon Watson's fascination with light. A handful of development time later and we have a light based puzzle game for the iphone. The goal is to create shapes of a solid colour out of overlaying smaller pieces of different colours, much like a jigsaw. Control is all touch and drag. Upon touching a piece, it can be dragged anywhere on screen or the large wheel can be used to rotate it. If you ever get confused about which colou…
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Original Gangstaz Released and Free
Just days after launching on the AppStore, Original Gangstaz is available Free for today as a part of the Free App a Day promotion. YouTube Trailer: App Info: ORIGINAL GANGSTAZ THE ULTIMATE ONLINE GANG WAR! JOIN A GANG WITH YOUR FRIENDS! BLAST AWAY YOUR ENEMIES AND RULE THE STREETS! Features: - Massive Online multiplayer gang war - Fight enemy gangs ONLINE - Free updates forever! - Choose your side and fight in wars for cash and prizes - Earn free scratcher lottery tickets and play to win! - Build your criminal empire with guns cars and fancy properties - Diss your enemies with slaps in the face or embarrassing Yo Momma jokes! - Put your enemy in the Hospital and EXECUTE…
Zombie Recycling Inc. : Moldy Green Review
In a world gone mad; A land where Zombies roam the countryside; One company... one man has taken up the fight to ensure that Zombies don't go extinct. This is Tecmo's Zombie Recycling Incorporated. Moldy Green is the first of two games in the Zombie Recycling Inc. series and acts as an introduction to the game's mechanics without being too hard to complete. Your aim is to bounce your zombie's head throughout the level, avoiding dangerous traps on the way and landing it upright on to t…
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Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 on its way to iPhone
Skaters and fans of the franchise get ready, because the rumors are true and have been confirmed by the man himself. Yesterday, Tony Hawk announced (via twitter) the upcoming release of Pro Skater 2 on the iPhone. It will be a port of the popular playstation game At this point there aren't too many details concerning gameplay or controls, the screenshot that's been circulating gives some idea, but we will have to hold off until anything official is released. Stay tuned for more!…
Some Weekend Freebies!
A couple of great games are available for free in the AppStore this weekend as a part of the Free App a Day promotion. Check out Flaboo! and Earth Vs Moon, but be quick, they won't be free for too much longer! Flaboo! Was 0.99 Now Free! Probably the best thing since Doodle Jump, don't miss it! Every now and then a game comes along that just hits all of your buttons and sucks you right in. Flaboo! by Fluttermind is a new endless gameplay style game that is cute, addictive and most worryingly of all a danger to any amount of spare time you have. Read / Watch the Full Review! Earth Vs Moon Was 0.99 Now Free! Earth Vs Moon is a shooter game where players take control of Earth's m…
Firemint Honored with Four Pocket Gamer Awards
Australian Developers Firemint are celebrating further success after being honored with four awards from gaming web site Pocket Gamer during the Game Developers Conference which was held this week in San Francisco. Firemint received awards in four categories, including the coveted iPhone Game of the Year and Best iPhone Developer awards Best Causal / Puzzle iPhone Game: Flight Control Best Free iPhone Game: Real Racing GTI iPhone Game of the Year: Flight Control Best iPhone Developer: Firemint These awards top off months of success for the developers who have sold millions of copies of their games, and had unprecedented acclaim from within the games industry. Flight Control Review…
Mega Man® II Review
This is a difficult review to write. Mega Man II is this reviewer's favourite videogame of all time. This 1988 release on the NES has been ported to the iphone with a whole new streamlined experience. Dr. Wily is at again, and it's up to Megaman to stop his nefarious schemes. This iphone port comes with a few options that affect controls and gameplay. The game can be played in portrait or landscape view. Portrait makes the touch joystick and buttons harder to use while landscape featu…
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Guardian Knight Review
Guardian Knight describes itself as a tower defense game, but this doesn't really define the gameplay. Sure, there are monsters that spawn trying to attack the princess you have sworn to protect, and you gain exp to upgrade your abilities, but that's where the comparions end. It's more of an action RPG, with the princess spending each level travelling from point A to B, while you attack everything in your sight to keep her safe. Control is touch and drag based. Movement and attacking…
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De Blob Revolution Review
That colourful blob freeing his people from the mediocrity of grayscale is back on the iphone, but this time round, it's a puzzle game. There are buildings where the graydians are trapped by INKT agents, and Blob has to make his way to the exit on each level while rescuing as many of them as possible. You can either tap or drag to lay down Blob's path. The puzzle element enters in that Blob cannot cross his own painted path once it's been layed down, so you have to work out the optima…
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Funkyball Worlds Review
Sometimes it's frustrating to find that a new App that strives to be more than just a simple mechanic palmed off as the entire game itself. Funkyball Worlds by Handmark is a stand-out from the most other physics-based platformers thanks to its charming elegance that makes it easy to pick up and play, but hard to put down. The trick to Funkyball is all in the friction. Levels consist of a series of platforms that need to be navigated while avoiding traps as you charge your way to the g…
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I might pick this up, too. Seems casual and cutesy; a good game for short car rides.