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Helsing’s Fire is a Captivating Puzzle Adventurer
Puzzle-Adventure isn’t a massive gaming genre, but this is about as good an example as you’re likely to see on the iPhone. Developed by Clickgamer, Helsing’s Fire is a dark and foreboding puzzle game set in gothic Victorian times. Professor Helsing has teamed up with his assistant Raffton and you’ll need to use all your [...]
Continue reading...Find the Word with Word Absurd
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Price: $.99 Score: 10/10 By M. Schusterman Are you a word search puzzle fanatic? For a buck, Word Absurd provides you with hours of entertainment and 100 puzzles with fun, crazy themes. Designed by Trephination Proved Worthless LLC, Word Absurd has five categories of word search puzzles – culture, entertainment, leisure, science and sports – [...]
Continue reading...Sigma Converts Classic Concept into Modern Match-3
Monday, June 14, 2010
Price: $.99* Score: 9/10 By Anna Papachristos When developers decide to take a classic game concept and usher it into the 21st century, the final product can only be considered one of two things – an improvement or murder. And, though the killing of classic concepts is the most common result, once in a while, [...]
Continue reading...Blocktagon Boasts Originality, Neglects Need for Patience
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Price: $2.99 Score: 7/10 By Anna Papachristos When perusing the App Store, one might find it difficult to find games that do not greatly resemble each other, whether they be of the puzzle variety or not. The world of gaming in all mediums has become a world of clones, where the game’s basic requirements and [...]
Continue reading...Ant Blox Gives New Meaning to Frustration
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Price: $1.99 Score: 4/10 By Steve Beaudry I really wanted to like Ant Blox. It’s a great concept for a puzzle game: stack some blocks so that an ant can easily walk to the other side of the level to reach an apple. Unfortunately, Aleph Games doesn’t seem to understand smooth game mechanics. The first [...]
Continue reading...Namco Due to Launch Two New Puzzle Titles Soon
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
The Apple Games group at Namco Networks have just tipped us off that they’re launching a pair of puzzle matching titles set to hit the App Store in the coming weeks: Tinseltown Dreams: The 50′s is a Match 3 movie-making game where you can create your very own box-office hit. Accrue money by swapping tiles; [...]
Continue reading...Sinterra: Partly Cloudy With a Chance of Fun!
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Price: $0.99 Score: 7/10 By Sarah Parker Stuck inside all day and need to see some blue sky? Play Sinterra, an easy game with brightly colored balloons and a pleasant theme with gently floating clouds. Created by Snow Storm Software, Sinterra is an image matching game that is easy to play, but can become challenging [...]
Continue reading...Find Your Way Through the Labyrinth with LabyMania
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Price: $1.99 Score: 9/10 By Nancy Jones LabyMania, developed by Amygdala Studios, is a new labyrinth-styled puzzle game that challenges both your logical and creative side and – is also a whole lot of fun. As with most puzzlers of this type, you maneuver your way through the mazes to earn treasures. What’s work without [...]
Continue reading...Pin Up Puzzle is a Steamy Mental Workout
Monday, November 23, 2009
Price: $0.99 Score: 6/10 By Shaun Campbell With the “mature” iPhone puzzle-gamer in mind, developer Madtown Software has come up with a new game that combines touch-and-slide jigsaw mechanics with a “pin up” girls theme. Pin Up Puzzle only really features one game type, but there are 3 different categories of puzzle images (I’ll let [...]
Continue reading...Spin Crazy Puts a New Spin on the Puzzle Shooter Genre
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Price: $0.99 Score: 9/10 By Daniel Bischoff Spin Crazy is a new puzzle shooter from Squiddle Games, but it also brings a new element to the genre. Many will remember Bubble Bobble, a game featuring cute little dinosaurs that help the player shoot colored orbs at the top of the screen. When three orbs [...]
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Saturday, July 17, 2010
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