Reviews & Articles

You should play Twin Blades: The Reaping Vanguard because sometimes there is nothing else to do except mindlessly slash through zombies.

The team at Suponix (developers of iRoach) also sent me a copy of Budget Care. This app for the iPhone and iPod Touch is to help you budget your hard-earned ducats. It is simple to use and quite helpful for tracking your daily expenditures. I have found it extremely helpful in tracking how much money I spend on those superfluous impulse buys.

About two weeks ago, I woke up with an idea for a fun iPhone application that would pit you against one of the world’s most disgusting and highly adaptable creatures, the cockroach. I thought it would be a great idea to have bugs running across the screen so you could simply smoosh them with your fingers! So I checked out the App Store to see if there was anything out there like it. Lo and behold, I came across iRoach.

iFish Adventure is one of those great spare-time, standing-in-line-waiting-to-be-next, time-wasting games. You begin play as a small guppy-sized fish and must eat other fish on the game board without being eaten yourself. The game board is filled with different types and sizes of fish. You control the movement of your fish by using the tilt function on your iPhone/iPod Touch. The greater the angle of tilt, the faster your fish will swim. However, the boards are small, and the other fish can swim from off-screen, so be careful.

I’m an “old salt” of gaming. I’m known to endlessly ramble over legacy consoles and classic games. I don’t necessarily think they were superior to modern games. However, I do feel that there was something in the simplicity of those games that made them endlessly playable. When I play today, I often feel something is missing. I guess I’ve been secretly searching for a return to that classic style of gaming. When I downloaded Minigore for my long train rides after a friend suggested it, I realized my search was over.

Speed Forge Extreme is a snappy little racing game for the iPhone or iPod Touch. I love this game — I just wish I were better at it.

There’s a surprising amount of content in Speed Forge Extreme for such a tiny package. You start with one vehicle and can unlock five more as you progress through the game. Each vehicle has its own stats for mass, speed, agility, engine and ammunition. Since my personal car skills rank with knowing where to put gas, oil and wiper fluid, these stats weren’t that important to me, but they are provided. To me, the cool thing about the vehicles is that they’re all low-flying futuristic aircraft. There are no cars here. You’re literally flying in this one.

Mobile gaming for the iPod, Droid and upcoming Google phones is hot right now, and developers are all jumping on creating apps for the iPod Touch and iPhone. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, EA Mobile was showing a slew of cool games for mobile devices, including Rock Band, Dragon’s Lair, The Simpsons Arcade, Need for Speed: Shift, Spore Creatures, The Sims 3: World Adventures, Madden 10 and Command and Conquer: Red Alert. I got to play the first three and expect GamersInfo.net will be bringing you reviews on the others in the near future.

Slingshot Cowboy Plus is a quirky little app for the iPod Touch (and iPhone). The premise is that the cows have gone mad and you need to round them up. Hit them three times with a missile from your magic slingshot, and they go right on their backs — hooves in the air.

I'm a lover of minigames, but if they're spatial, I'm awwwwful at them. I don't know why this is as I did really well in design in school ... but that's another conversation. The Plateau is minigame, spatial and freakin' awesome. And I'm not terrible at it. I just have no idea if I can describe it.

On a single plane are a series of points, no fewer than five in any single puzzle. Each point has at least two vertices so that the entire series of points is wholly connected through the lines. When first presented, the lines and points are a mish-mash so that the lines cross each other, often multiple times. The goal is to move the lines and points as to position them so that none of the lines cross.

As a compulsive writer and self-described word nerd, my love of math games often results in crossed eyes and exclamations of, "But you wubs the wurds?!" Yes, that is exactly what they say … it's not as if I haven't written about this before. Rock Ridge Games has fed my distraction that much more with Solution Zero for iPhone and iPod Touch by making it portable. Enough fun like this, and I may never write again.