Archive for the ‘Games’ Category

Cave Releases Dodonpachi Resurrection Lite

Cave has launched a free Lite demo version of its acclaimed bullet-hell shooter Dodonpachi Resurrection. If you haven’t yet purchased the full version, you need to play this, badly. Dodonpachi Resurrection Lite includes the first level of the game, playable in both Arcade and iPhone modes. The demo also offers a taste of the new [...]

New on iPad: Pac-Chain, Ninjatown, Build-A-Lot 2 HD

iPad owners now have optimized versions of Ninjatown: Trees of Doom! and Build-A-Lot 2 to call their own, along with a new and platform-exclusive Pac-Man puzzle game from Namco. Pac-Chain ($4.99) challenges players to touch and clear groups of like-colored ghosts before they rise up to the top of the screen. An on-screen Pac-Man can [...]

Mirror’s Edge Review

Mirror’s Edge for the iPhone and iPod touch may have been late, but it provides a great parkour-influenced platformer that even improves on what the console games did, but it does not last very long.

[ Mirror’s Edge Review is a post from 148Apps ]

‘Super QuickHook’ 1.3 Adds New Hats, Characters, and More

We were huge fans of Rocketcat Games' original title, Hook Champ [$2.99 / Free], and love Super QuickHook [$2.99] even more– Especially with the updates it has been getting. Super QuickHook came loaded with the fast paced endless Avalanche mode at launch, and the latest 1.3 update added Eruption mode. Eruption mode is even more [...]

Tablut Modernizes Popular Medieval Board Game

Price: $2.99     Score: 9/10     By A. Papachristos Though the Vikings may have found this game rather amusing way back during medieval times, that doesn’t mean it has lost its fun and appeal.  Based on the medieval board game, Hnefatafl, Tablut by Continental Laboratories presents users with a simple, entertaining pastime requiring [...]

Tablut Modernizes Popular Medieval Board Game

Price: $2.99     Score: 9/10     By A. Papachristos Though the Vikings may have found this game rather amusing way back during medieval times, that doesn’t mean it has lost its fun and appeal.  Based on the medieval board game, Hnefatafl, Tablut by Continental Laboratories presents users with a simple, entertaining pastime requiring [...]

Making Mills with Morris: The Revival of the Medieval Board Game

Price: $2.99     Score: 8/10     By A. Papachristos When you are on the go, you don’t necessarily have the time to dive into a complicated, in-depth game.  But, with Morris by Continental Laboratories, users will find a fun, quick strategy game that requires little time, making it a great mobile companion. Based [...]

‘Rimelands: Hammer of Thor’ Review – Roll the Dice in this Epic Turn-Based RPG

Rimelands: Hammer of Thor [$4.99] is a new tactical turn-based RPG from developers Dicework and Crescent Moon Games (of Ravensword [$3.99/Lite] fame). We previewed a hands-on video of the game about a month ago that explained how the turn-based combat worked as well as showcasing some of the games many items and weapons. [...]

Top-Grossing Game Apps: Sonic 2, Ultimate Spider-Man Enter Top Three

In this weekly feature, FingerGaming rounds up the top-grossing iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad applications, as current that day on the iTunes App Store. This week’s top iPhone titles are: Angry Birds ($0.99) Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ($5.99) Ultimate Spider-Man: Total Mayhem ($6.99) Madden NFL 11 ($7.99) Bejeweled 2 + Blitz ($2.99) Tetris ($2.99) The [...]

Mirror’s Edge Now Available for iPhone

Five months after launching Mirror’s Edge as an iPad exclusive, Electronic Arts has released a new version compatible with the iPhone and iPod Touch. Mirror’s Edge ($4.99), previously available on consoles as a first-person action title, arrives on iOS devices as an autoscrolling platformer in the vein of games like Canabalt and Robot Unicorn Attack. [...]