App Reviews

There are a number of “endless runner” games in the App Store. So many in fact, that one could almost say they themselves are endless, pun intended. Today, we’re reviewing one such runner game to see if it stacks up with the others, and whether or not we can give our recommendation of it for you.

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“Don’t mess with success.” It’s an old adage, but one Gameloft takes to heart with the release of NOVA 3 , the latest sequel in their most successful franchise. NOVA 3 is a louder, better-looking NOVA 2, and that’s all it needs to be to stand out as one of the best FPS experiences on

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Anyone picking up a 3rd-person shooter for iPad or iPhone—especially a port—should know what to expect by now: Developers have proved incredibly adept at bringing great visuals and storylines to these touch-controlled renderings of console masterpieces, but there remains something missing in the department of controls… That said, Max Payne Mobile stands

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When I started playing Spellsword , the new fast-paced hack-n-slash puzzler from FireFruitForge and Everplay Interactive, my first impression was “Hey, it’s a mash-up of Swordigo and Leage of Evil.” And over the course of writing this review, I haven’t been able to shake that impression. Not that calling a game “A mash-up of Swordigo

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Creavures is a recently released game for the iPhone and iPad by the folks at Chillingo, and while it boasts an amazingly impressive visual experience, it left me underwhelmed for a few reasons.

But first…

The setting places you in a dark forest world that is in need of sunlight. Five creatures—or CreaVures—are tasked

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It’s hard to review Marvel vs. Capcom 2 , the classic Capcom 2D fighter that first released a dozen years ago, in the same way it’s hard to review any of these big ports of classic games. Capcom has a lot of good titles, and Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 was one of the best. I remember

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Smartphones are supposed to make your life easier, and I’m quite thankful for the fact that we live in a day and age where I can simply find a destination by searching for it on my phone. We’re talking about what would be considered some real space age technology 20 years ago here.

One such

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Buying games from the App Store allows us to pretend to be lots of things,  such as a jet pilot or a sword-wielding soldier. Chances are, if you’ve dreamed it, you can be it by spending a few bucks to get a game on your iPhone or iPad.  But the minds at Sunside Games have

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Dark Legends, the new vampire-themed massively multiplayer game from Spacetime Studios, recently released as a two-week exclusive to Google’s Play and Chrome app markets. While it will make its way to iOS eventually, I was eager to try it; so I loaded it up in Chrome to take a look.

I was not impressed.

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As I live in a home with a Wii and a seven-year old, I am quite familiar with Skylanders, the novelty videogame franchise that was one of last Christmas’s hottest titles. I’ve played a fair bit of the console game, and while the new iOS game Skylanders Cloud Patrol is not a true pocket edition

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