Taito impressed the hell out of us with its iPhone revamp of the original shmup in Space Invaders Infinity Gene, which also just made it onto our top ten list of 2009’s iPhone games. To celebrate the New Year, Taito has just dropped us a line to announce that a major 2.0 update has gone […]
I-play has officially announced that its popular (5 million players and counting) PC casual puzzler Paradise Quest is on its way to iPhone. As you might expect given the title and publisher, Paradise Quest plays a lot like Jewel Quest, with some familiar gentle match-three gameplay mixed into a loose adventure story. However, there are […]
Racing: whether it’s the comical tractor lawnmower variety, Earth-churning horsepower of a rally car, or neck-breaking pace of an F1 championship, a spectacle is almost certainly guaranteed. Man has seen fit to race in just about everything for the challenge, the thrill, and for competition. Sadly, most of us don’t have the backing of Honda’s […]
In these tumultuous times full of war and politics, war profiteering would probably not be an outlandish concept. That’s what 5 Minute Games’ iPhone app, Balance of Power, is all about. You’re an arms dealer distributing weapons to both sides of a war, so you’re benefiting as long as the war is going; the longer […]
To make guacamole for a hungry Rodriguez, you need Pedro Avacado, Garlic Garcia, and Sour Creme…that is, according to Bambalam’s Guacamole iPhone app. A modified version of Whack-A-Mole, those three items need to be hit whenever they pop up on the screen; just tap and watch the squishy fun. All the ingredients you whack will […]
Everybody wants to be a superhero, but let’s face it, most of us don’t look the part. But that’s okay, 10tons Ltd. has totally factored that into their iPhone app, Rope Raiders, in which you’re an overweight guy in a horribly orange outfit, swinging through the city with a grappling hook. There are three different […]
If you remember playing any of the various snowboarding games on the original Playstation, MyTP Snowboarding just might take you for a stroll down memory lane. This v.1.0.0 release by randerline starts off with a neat introductory montage of actual snowboarding footage. There are two modes available to play, World Tour and QuickPlay. The 3D […]
One glance at Little Metal Ball (by Debacle Software) will immediately elicit comparisons to to the ever-popular Labyrinth, but LMB sets itself apart from other games on the app store by applying its ball-rolling gameplay in a fun adventure/platformer setting. With 40 levels, controls that are tuned to perfection, and gameplay that encourages limitless high-score […]
While Hironobu Sakaguchi may not be a name you recognize, the titles of many of the games he played a vital role in have become classics along with forever influencing the landscape of roleplaying games. Since creating Final Fantasy in the late 80’s, Sakaguchi has directed, produced, supervised or was behind the original concept of […]
The App Store’s low-grav racing space certainly is starting to get crowded, which is just fine by me. And it looks like the latest release to join the ranks, Speed Forge Extreme [App Store] from Rat Square / Chillingo, may just be the best of the lot. It’s 2142, and the colonization of Mars is underway. […]
Happy New Year We hope you all had a fun and safe time celebrating the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010 last night, but let’s get down to business. While you were watching the ball drop, a few great games were going on sale. Here are a few of the more noteworthy games […]
Among iPhone gamer pinball fans, it seems like debate of which of the pinball series is the best on the platform is as hotly contested as Star Wars nerds arguing over which is the best movie in the original trilogy. I’m partial to Gameprom’s pinball games, as they all load very quickly, seem to have […]
FREE GAME! A few months ago we reviewed the highly addictive match 3 game ‘Piyo Blocks’ by Big Pixel Studios. Since the review the game has undergone some great improvements and as a Christmas Treat they have now released the game FREE over the Christmas period. (possibly UK only)
Last week we posted a preview of Adult Swim’s My Lil’ Bastard [App Store] and mentioned a release date of the 23rd. Sure enough, it’s the 23rd, and My Lil’ Bastard is ready to be abused on your iPhone. My Lil’ Bastard is a virtual pet game with an Adult Swim spin on it. This […]
If you’re a fan of racing games, and were holding back on picking up EA’s recently released Need For Speed: Shift [App Store] for some kind of sale, now is your chance. The price was dropped from .99 to .99 yesterday, and since then Shift has been rocketing up the iTunes charts. If this is […]
In the hills of western Wales there lives a man known to some as YAK. This man surrounds himself with sheep, goats, llamas, and the like. By his own description he is, like his four-legged friends, a bit of a “scruffy hairy beast,” himself. He is incapable of turning down a quality curry, and, likewise, […]
EA’s Spore Creatures is the sequel to Spore Origins [99¢ ], one of the very early big-name games to be released on the App Store. While Origins hasn’t exactly aged well, Spore Creatures takes a similar tilt to move and eat stuff mechanic and adds a considerable layer of depth to nearly all aspects of […]
Before you get too excited from the title, no, this is not The Simpsons Arcade you’re probably thinking of. Instead, it’s a upgraded port of a J2ME game which still manages to be quite a bit of fun, especially for fans of the show. The premise of the game involves some secret plans stored on […]
Few games have generated the amount of hype that Gameloft’s N.O.V.A. – Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance [App Store] has, and even fewer have managed to live up to that same hype. NOVA is one of those rare instances where a upcoming game is everything we wanted and more. It’s not perfect, but there aren’t many […]
The Metal Slug franchise made a surprise appearance in the App Store this evening. SNK Playmore has brought a version of the classic game to the iPhone: “METAL SLUG”, the 2D action shooter which has fascinated game fans from all over the world with its beautiful dot pixel art and gaudy action, has arrived on […]