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• Quick Look: K-Rally from Infinite Dreams

  Available for the Symbian S60, K-Rally seems like the ulitmate “Spy Hunter” type revisited with updated graphics. Look like a real intense action packed game from this video. You have a choice of different cars and different racing tracks. The game is a top view type with a clear view of the action and looks [...]

• Quick Look: Tapper Pro

    Tapper Pro is a game for iOS. You bounce a variety of balls in an attempt to keep them aloft. It doesn’t do that very well. I could end my review here, but I’m going to elaborate as much as I possibly can. Gameplay Tapper Pro, created by developer Weeny Brain’s Game, is…well, I’ll [...]

• QUICK LOOK: Bose L1 Compact System for Musical Keyboards

  Buying electronic equipment has always been a challenge for those with a limited budget. Many of us tend to forget or do not take into consideration the added cost of accessories that are critical for the long term enjoyment of a given device. This holds true with musical keyboards. Higher end musical keyboards and keyboard synthesizers do [...]

• Quick Look: iPolygon for iPhone

  Looking for a new spin on the classic concept of breakout? iPolygon might just be the game for you. Imagine a playing field where the paddles and the bricks are the same thing! Read on to find out what iPolygon has to offer the “breakout” genre…

• Quick Look: Scoops for iPhone

  If you’ve ever wanted to make a cone that reached the stars, you have your chance with Scoops for the iPhone. For the kid in all of us, you can test your ice cream stacking skills with this simple yet entertaining game from NimbleBit. The real question is, does it “stack” up to the competition?

• Quick Look: Collision Effect for iPhone

  My first inclination was to say that Collision Effect is like the Seinfeld of gaming – a whole lot of something about nothing. Then it dawned on me that it’s more like an interactive fireworks display with points. Now I don’t know what it is – except for the fact that it’s a whole lot of fun. The game can get really frantic, and that’s when it is at its best. The game is part action, part puzzle, and completely addictive.

• Quick Look: Gas Tycoon for iPhone

  There have been a number of implementations of the “pipes” style of game on handhelds over the years, and they mostly tend to play the same as one another. Like a lot of these sub-genres, then, it really becomes a matter of which one you like best. For me, Gas Tycoon is one of the better implementations I’ve played in the past couple of years. It’s nothing fancy, but there are a lot of challenging levels, there’s no timer so you can think about what you’re doing, and you actually get rewarded for beating a level in the fewest number of moves possible.

• Quick Look: Guess The News for iPhone

  I’m not much for keeping up on the news, mainly because it tends to be a bit on the depressing side. However, a game based on current headlines can’t help but be dynamic and exciting, and that’s exactly what you get from Guess The News by FingerArts Games. As long as you can connect to the internet you can get fresh new puzzles every day. Who knew fill in the blank could be such fun?

• Quick Look: Virus Laboratory for iPhone

  Taplay is small potatoes in the iPhone community right now, as are most indie developers, but if Virus Laboratory and their more recent release, Monster Mayhem, are any indication, they’re here to stay and play. Virus Laboratory takes a game concept made famous by the smartphone game Jawbreaker and actually makes it interesting. The basic objective is to keep the screen clear of viruses by tapping on groups of three or more of the same color, but in Virus Laboratory you have to collect the viruses to make medicines which act as your power ups. There’s actually some strategy and planning involved, and it’s fun and fast paced to boot.

• Quick Look: Birdie In Trouble for iPhone

  Recently I reviewed Kilk Games’ first iPhone offering, Fastball, which was a fun but ultimately run of the mill ball rolling on a platform type game. Thankfully their second game has a little more oomph to it. Birdie In Trouble is a puzzle game where you have to help a bird that looks an awful lot like Tweetie get across a series of trees. The visuals are cute, the music is pretty rockin’, and the puzzles are challenging yet fair. In short, I say “sufferin’ succotash – go get this game”.