Posts Tagged ‘$0.99’

How do you know you’re addicted to a game?  When you keep telling yourself, “I’ll stop after I play one more time.”
Lots of apps claim to be addictive. Lots of reviewers claim an app is addictive.  You and I know that’s not really the case.  Yes, an app might be a blast to play for a few minutes [...]

Edit: Angry Birds is on sale for $0.99, normally $1.99.
Private Snowball: Commander, these birds are angry.
Commander Napoleon: What? Why?
Private Snowball: It could possibly be because we stole their eggs to make Sunday Brunch.
Commander Napoleon: No, that can’t be it. We reimbursed them by giving them DDT-infused worms. What’s the worst these angry birds can [...]

A take on a ‘sliding’ puzzle game, SlidR takes a photo, divides into square segments, and forces it upon you, the mighty adventurer, to slide the photo to correctness before the evil dragon* destroys your village and the helpless peasants.
The app has a slick, clean interface and a variety of high quality pics to choose [...]

 
* “POV” (Point of View) is a new feature that we’re testing out *
Flysoft’s rating: 9.0
IAR’s rating: 7.0
Russian developer Flysoft arrives in the Nick of time (see what I did there?) with a nifty little holiday messaging app called SMS-BOX Christmas Time!  Does it send visions of sugar plums dancing through your head or give you a [...]

Learning self defense from an iPhone app is a bit like trying to learn to ride a bike by attending a spinning class. The reason I say this is certainly not to disparage the work done by Tollhouse Studio on it’s app, “Self Defense for All”, or to say that it won’t help you decrease [...]

Feeling the need for some mindless release?  Stress of the day getting you down?  Can’t promise iPsychedelic from Ubik will set you right but it’s such a passive experience you just might feel a boost in your personal chi afterward.  This is a purely visual app and stripped down to the absolute bare bones.  There are no [...]

 
* “POV” (Point of View) is a new feature that we’re testing out *
Zenux Lab’s rating: 9.0
IAR’s rating: 7.0
Mr. Dumb – Go Down from Zenux Lab is actually Epsiode 1 of an ongoing series of games featuring the same characters (currently Ep. 2 called ‘Mr. Dumb – Toilet’ is in development with a preview posted here).  The [...]

DISCLAIMER
(if I put it in caps, bold, and italics, it looks more legal-like)
I’ve said it in previous reviews, and I’ll say it again here as a caviat to this review, and by way of defending myself if you absolutely 100% disagree with my review of this application.  I am NOT a video game enthusiast.  [...]

I remember fondly my youth as I would pour over Nintendo Power magazines while drinking Jolt cola and watching Alf. Okay, looking back it doesn’t seem nearly as awesome. But in those days I often played computer and arcade games that featured simple vector graphics aping at 3D. Some of these games were supposedly 3D [...]

I’m deleting Scramble from my iPhone. I know, I know. Zynga makes great games. Scramble in particular is great. But you have to understand. I just downloaded Woxel from Half Fast Games. Woxel is a 2D game that is displayed in 3D with some shabby textures. It doesn’t look as clean as Scramble. It doesn’t [...]

Not many people know, but Mario was originally called Jumpman in Donkey Kong. Later he became the Italian plumber we all know and love. There was another classic game called Jumpman back in 1983. Well, Leaf Bound is here with a girl named Yuri who would like to inherent the Jumpman crown. All Yuri does [...]

I just got done spending time blowing up cop cars, and brooding with fellow undead, so the logical next move was to play with balloon animals. I’m glad you’re following me here. In all seriousness, I have a wonderful three-year old daughter. While I’m a little reticent about letting her play with the phone, I [...]