Category: Reviews

Are you familiar with the works of a man named Saul Bass? During the ’70s and ’80s, he was one of the most iconic graphic designers/artists the nation had ever seen. His surreal and spacey style graced movie posters, corporate logos, and even movies themselves which included the title sequence for Hitchcock’s Psycho. He has…

Ladies and gentlemen, a new high-quality physics puzzle game has arrived on the App Store. With the same amount of polish and approachability as Angry Birds and Cut the Rope, Where’s My Water delivers a series of physics puzzles that are easy to start playing, but hard to stop. Nearly everything about this game makes…

At first, glance, Get Outta My Galaxy looks like little more than an iOS clone of Super Mario Galaxy. Both games take place in a gorgeous space-themed universe filled with small, spherical stages. But that’s about all they have in common. GOMG isn’t a platformer game at all; in fact, you can’t even jump. It’s…

Chances are, you’ve poured many hours into your character in Infinity Blade. You’ve fought through the castle a handful of times, leveled up your character, honed your sword-fighting ability, taken down hundreds of beasts, and finally, in a pulse-pounding confrontation, you conquered the God King. So what’s next? In Infinity Blade 2, you start over.…

Inside each of us is a struggle between good and evil that cannot be resolved. Jool, an endless runner/platforming hybrid for iOS, attempts to turn humankind’s moral conflict into a game, and the final result is baffling, to say the least. But then, our internal battles are kind of weird and disturbing, so Jool’s car…

The Big Indie Pitch allowed two dozen indie iOS developers to show off their new and upcoming games to the press, five minutes at a time. The event was set up like speed dating– developers rotated around to different tables on cue, to see if any special connections could be found. Here are what we…

Do you like a challenge? VVVVVV (that’s six Vs for those counting at home) is a super-tough, super fun platformer that’s been out for several years on other platforms, but has just made its way to iOS. And the App Store is all the better for it. In this game, you play as a pixelated…

There comes a time in many successful iOS games’ lives when movie studios come calling. Angry Birds answered that call, and the result was Angry Birds, Rio. Fruit Ninja did likewise and came out with Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots. Even Doodle Jump signed on with the film Hop. Now Hollywood has come a-knocking on…

Mass Effect can’t catch a break on iOS. EA’s first attempt to bring the massive space RPG to handhelds, Mass Effect Galaxy, was such a disaster that the publisher actually pulled it from the App Store. But as the saying goes, first is the worst, and second is the best. With IronMonkey Studios (the developers…

The Modern Combat series is modeled after the behemoth that is the Call of Duty franchise, so it’s fitting that these titles typically display Gameloft at the top of their form. In this latest installment, the United States has been crippled in a surprise war initiated by Korea, Pakistan, and Russia. Obviously, the U.S. is…

Creatorverse On PC, Second Life gave players a chance to build their own avatars and create virtual homes, but now it’s mostly remembered as a freakish red-light district. Developer Linden Labs is now turning its attention to iOS with Creatorverse, a sandbox-style set of tools that lets you build simple physics toys. You can then…

Final Fantasy VI is a classic for a reason. It has everything: lovable characters, a twisting story, tons of gameplay variety, and loads of player customization. It helped create and popularize many game mechanics that you still find in games today. The iOS port doesn’t make any drastic changes to the gameplay or story, but…