I know I say this every time, but this week's contest really is something special! One lucky winner will score themselves a free $10 iTunes Gift Card plus a code for Bobtan Studio's cute and quirky arcade shooter, Q Pang, while four runners-up each get a copy of this great game, all thanks to our friends at Apps Asia and Bobtan...
Deathsmiles will wow and exhilarate you, then challenge and baffle you before understanding finally washes over you and sends you to a peaceful place full of gothic monsters, neon projectiles, and insane score multipliers. This, my friends, is bullet hell Zen.
Don't you just love discovering a surprisingly great game in the App Store that released to little fanfare but really, really deserves any and all recognition it can get? I sure do, and Rolling Ranch, a cute and quirky physics-based action puzzler, absolutely bowled me over with its delightfully moreish gameplay, cartoony visuals and offbeat concept.
You’d think that iOS gaming would be the perfect medium for digital pinball. Who wouldn’t love to steal a few moments waiting for a bus or during study hall playing their favorite table? And while there have been about a dozen decent attempts at developing or porting pinball to our favorite platform, (as well as innumerable poor attempts), the genre feels like it has yet to hit stride. Pinball Dreams HD is definitely a step in the right direction.
For better or for worse, PageNet's latest game feels familiar right off the bat (no pun intended). Yet another cutesy, side-scrolling highscore-a-thon, The Night Flier challenges you to defy death for as long as possible as you swoop through a series of dusky cityscapes dodging all manner of wacky obstacles and enemies.
The App Store truly is a bargain hunter's nirvana! If game devs aren't slashing the price-tags on their apps in celebration of Mother's Day, Father's day, If Pets Had Thumbs Day or whatever, then they're releasing dirt-cheap compilation packs like Blue Shadow Games' latest, which collects three great titles...
Archery sims are few and far between. And it's not hard to see why; the mechanics of the sport aren't exactly the easiest to emulate within a virtual environment. So will MKO Games' SplitApple put a smile on the faces of archery buffs or make us quiver?
Breakout App Store hit Tiny Wings has opened the floodgates wide for cute and quirky side-scrollers, the latest of which is Launching Pad Games' Mighty Fin. Does this underwater adventure offer a fresh take on a formula that's already starting to feel a bit old-hat?