Reviews & Articles

ReviewTwin Blades: The Reaping Vanguard

February 26, 2010
Because sometimes there is nothing else to play
by: CentCMD available on: Xbox Live Arcade, iPod and iPhone
You should play Twin Blades: The Reaping Vanguard because sometimes there is nothing else to do except mindlessly slash through zombies.

ReviewBudget Care

February 25, 2010
Keep track of your impulse buys and more
by: Rinjo available on: iPod and iPhone
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.

ReviewiRoach

February 24, 2010
Squish to your heart's content
by: Rinjo available on: iPod and iPhone
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.

ReviewiFish Adventure

February 23, 2010
Just keep swimming ... and eating
by: Rinjo available on: iPod and iPhone
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.

ReviewMinigore

February 19, 2010
My search for a new classic is over
by: CentCMD available on: iPod and iPhone
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.

ReviewSpeed Forge Extreme

February 8, 2010
I feel the need ... the need for speed.
by: Alladania available on: iPod and iPhone

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.

ReviewEA Mobile CES round-up

January 13, 2010
Rock Band, Dragon's Lair and The Simpsons Arcade
by: monolysis available on: iPod and iPhone
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.

ReviewSlingshot Cowboy Plus

November 26, 2009
Them are some angry bovine ...
by: Alladania available on: iPod and iPhone
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.

ReviewThe Plateau

November 9, 2009
Plane graphs for the iPhone
by: Ophelea available on: iPod and iPhone

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.

ReviewSolution Zero

November 8, 2009
Apple-flavored math skills
by: Ophelea available on: iPod and iPhone
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.