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Whoah looks nice!
Have you got yours yet?
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L-O-V-E it!
Very Addicting!
On5 Entertainment’s first game Charadium is a highly polished pictionary with online play (recently acquired by ngmoco). With their second game Quizarium (FREE), are the results it just as good?
Are you too brainy to keep it to yourself? Then try the new Quizarium app to pit your wits against other smarties like yourself. Select a category, answer fast, and participate in numerous tournaments.
We’ve seen many block breaking puzzle games in the AppStore’s short time and sometimes, the simplest ones are the best.
Tiki Totems (FREE, Free App A Day)
Appease the Tiki Gods by carefully removing the unnecesarry blocks that dim the might and glory of their beautifull totems. BUT BE CAREFUL!! don’t drop the totem on the ground cause that makes them angry, and when they get angry you know what happens. Villages and villagers burn.
Well after months and months of waiting and a couple of delays, PopCap Games’ hotly anticipated “line defense” game finally arrives for the iPhone. For the price they promised Plants Vs Zombies can be downloaded for $2.99!
“Stem a zombie attack on your iPhone! Get ready to soil your plants in this brand-new version of the hit PopCap game! A mob of fun-loving zombies is about to invade your home, and your only defense is an arsenal of 49 zombie-zapping plants.”
**The game is FREE today for Free App A Day!**
For some of you, you might remember Frank Condello/Chaotic Box’s early fan favorite game Pinch N Pop! Now the team is back with a new fun game.
Pollywog (FREE Today, Reg. $1.99)
Sometimes, the better quality games come in simple packages. Chaotic Box has a delivered a simple tilt based game in Pollywog that looks and plays fantastic.
We’ve seen that 14 in 1 game but that holds no candle to this game. Why? Because this game has 87 more games than that one (check my math!).
Free games and one game with two or more modes isn’t enough for Nordcurrent. They’ve devised a pretty cool plan of combining 101 mini games into one epic game. While not all games are I’d say “very good”, I think it’s safe to say that the game is fun and has lots of playing time!
Those who are playing the C64 emulator, one of the few approved by Apple are in for a treat. The developers have been updating the app for quite a while now and it’s time we take a second look! While I don’t expect the masses to notice, us retro gamers are happy to see the added games and features. So let’s kick it off with the freebies!
Sexy Eh?
Attack of the Mutant Camels: Side-scroller equivalent to Atari 2600’s Empire Strike’s Back. Those who know that game will see a close match. Playing the game, those camels shoot a smart missile that curve towards you until it’s in close range. On the emulator, it’s a tough challenge to avoid, but it’s fun.
Laser Squad: Strategy-based, it’s obviously not an arcade title. To me it’s a customizable Stratego-like game, that includes number of men, rank, strength, weapons and the playfield. This game is built for hot seat action with 1-4 players. I did try to play it, but my patience was not in check at that moment. It’s one a true fan will have to show me how to play the darn game. But it is cool seeing the custom game play.
**It’s my BIRTHDAY! Win a copy of Compression AND/OR Fishtropolis for FREE!**
It’s been around a year now since we first featured Tanzen from Little White Bear Studios, and Scoops from NimbleBit (then simply Ian Marsh). Today we’re with the nearing of our site anniversary, we go full circle by featuring their new games coincidentally released close to each other yet again.
Compression ($0.99; FREE) | Little White Bear Studios
This game stays true to the studios’ puzzle gaming roots by providing a cool Dr Mario like atmosphere but with far more pressure. The goal in Compression is to clear hollow centered squares to proceed to the next level. You tap the objects to rotate them, create at least a three square match and clear the blocks.
If that sounds too easy, wait ’til you see the walls move closer and closer to “compress” your gameplay board. Compression has that survival mode format in which as you long as you stay alive, new levels will be presented one after another. With OpenFeint leaderboards, this one’s loads of fun!
Fishtropolis ($1.99) | NimbleBit
We reviewed Fishtropolis not-so long lost cousin Textropolis and found it to be loads of fun. That game remains to be one of the better themed games and one of the most polished ones at that. Now the team is back with not just a reskinning of this iPhone classic word game, but new features as well.
First new feature: shake to scramble the title of letters, especially great for whenever you get stuck. Now let’s not stop anymore: four stars, progress bar, new hint system and percent completion tags. Oh! Did I forget the cool new fishes that swim around as you play? It’s like the word fish tank!
Cobra Mobile has just unleashed iBomber, a top down bomber shooter if there’s such a thing and boy it is amazing! iBomber is an amazing, arcade styled bombing game based in the Pacific Ocean in 1943.
You play a young bomber pilot protecting your fleet whilst searching out key enemy targets on land and sea to destroy! iBomber will immediately transport you into the thick of the action with multiple missions offering a great variety of gameplay, excitement and entertainment.
**The game’s FREE! Please download it, so I have people to play with!**
Since I shamefully forgot to tell you about the Plus+ enabled Charadium that went free the other day, I’m super elated to find a similarly awesome pictionary-like game for the iPhone. Here’s Makeshift Games’ Depict which they’re offering free limited time!
The game is also a 8bit graphics charmer on top of it being the ultimate fully ONLINE multiplayer pictionary game. There are two game “modes”: identify pre-drawn drawings OR draw something and let your opponents guess it.
We’ll discuss the game some more as well as draw some comparison with Charadium.
Leonardo DaVinci is one solid man. When I said solid, I meant this duude has accomplished, theorized and invented some of the greatest pieces of information from science to math and many more.
DaVinci’s Secret Machines by Above Ground Systems makes use of DaVinci’s diagrams and drawings to create a challenging (and historically correct?) puzzle game.
Many of his drawings of machines and contraptions contained missing elements, as if he had not fully developed the drawings and schematics. It is said he purposely left certain items out, or put in parts that would not work, in order to prevent it from being used in harmful ways.
Hmmm… would YOU be able to put the missing pieces in to complete the levels?
