Best iPhone Apps
Toy Story: Smash It! Review: Playful, Lighthearted Block Breaker
“To infinity, and beyond!” If you’re a fan of the Toy Story movies, and if you’d like a fun, well-made game featuring your favorite characters in that franchise, then look no further than Toy Story: Smash It!, the new physics puzzler from Disney. It’s fun, good-looking, and easy to pick up. I’m a sucker for [...]
Haze Review: Beautiful Weather App Places Form Over Function
| App Name: | Haze |
| Platforms: | iPhone |
| Genre(s): | Weather |
| Price: | $0.99 (introductory) |
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Last week, it seemed like all the tech website “in the know” were raving about Haze, the new minimalist iPhone app that beautifully displays current and trending weather conditions. So, of course, I had to check it out for myself. What I found was, indeed, a beautiful app, albeit one that prefers to emphasize form even at [...]
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for iOS Review: Solid Port Of A Classic Console Title
| App Name: | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | Action/adventure |
| Price: | $4.99 |
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Any console gamer worth their salt is at least familiar with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, one of the top entries in the popular franchise. When it came out a decade ago it was lauded for its deep story, great gameplay, and retro 80s flavor. The good news is, none of these elements has been [...]
Momonga Pinball Adventures Review: Classic Pinball Gameplay Infused with Cute Characters and Real Story
| App Name: | Momonga Pinball Adventures |
| Platforms: | iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch |
| Genre(s): | pinball |
| Price: | $1.99 |
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As each genre of gaming makes it’s way into the App Store, it tends to take on a new personality thanks to touch controls and limited screen space. In the case of some genres, developers are still looking to find ideal solutions for the platform (ahem, first-persons shooters). And then there’s pinball. Not really it’s [...]
Time Surfer Review: Turns Tiny Wings Into A Chaotic Race Against Time
| App Name: | Time Surfer |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | Endless glider |
| Price: | $0.99 |
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Bright, fast, chaotic; these are the three words that spring to mind every time I play Time Surfer, the endless gliding game from Kumobius. In it, you play the titular Time Surfer, trying to outrun the end of time. It’s a fun, frantic little game that never gets boring, though it can sometimes get confusing. [...]
Joe Danger Review: This Stuntman Was Meant for iOS
| App Name: | Joe Danger |
| Platforms: | Universal, Optimized for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch |
| Genre(s): | action |
| Price: | $2.99 |
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If you’ve been around iOS gaming for any length of time, you know developers of console games often put in varying degrees of effort when porting their titles over to Apple’s mobile platform. We’ll never turn down a pocket version of a game like GTA: Vice City, but we also wouldn’t call something like that [...]
Hundreds Review: A Satisfying Challenge for Mind and Fingers
Look, it’s still January, so to those who have been so quick to throw the label “Game of 2013” at Semi Secret Software’s Hundreds, I say let’s calm down just a bit… After playing through the 100 puzzles packaged in Hundreds and experiencing plenty of roadblocks and triumphs along the way, I feel like what [...]
Anomaly Korea Review: Nobody Does “Tower Offense” Like Chillingo!
| App Name: | Anomaly Korea |
| Platforms: | Universal, Optimized for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch |
| Genre(s): | strategy |
| Price: | $2.99 |
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These days, developers of tower defense games are probably finding it pretty hard to impress iOS gamers. It seems every possible twist has been taken on the genre, and even so, we’ll probably continue to see more of the same old tower defense games popping up in the App Store in the near future… But [...]
Pudding Monsters Review: Delightfully Animated, Simple Sliding Fun
| App Name: | Pudding Monsters |
| Platforms: | iOS iPhone |
| Genre(s): | Puzzle |
Like Rovio with Angry Birds, developer Zeptolabs hit it out of the park with their first iOS game, Cut the Rope. Like Rovio with Angry Birds, Zeptolabs has ridden their hit to success with updates, sequels, and merchandising. And like Rovio with Angry Birds, the day was going to come when Zeptolabs had to release [...]
Waking Mars Review: Nearly One Year Later, Apple’s Runner-Up Game of 2012 is Still Top-Notch
We’re the first to admit, this one was easy to overlook—which explains why we’re getting around to reviewing it some eight months after release. On the face of it, Waking Mars from Tiger Style is a weird space exploration game with near-cheesy visuals… But count it a shame if you passed this one over based [...]
