Do you remember the excellent home computer puzzle game Deflektor? It was a classic right from day one, back in… what? The 80s? Yeah, 1987, according to the ever-reliable Wikipedia. Anyway, it’s a game that inspired a generation, and that …
Yellow Monkey Studios (who you may remember from their 2012 release, Huebrix) are about to release their newest game, Socioball, for iOS devices. As an isometric puzzle game, Socioball has players guiding a ball to a goal with the use …
Gloating. Hubris. Pride. It goes by many names, but proves equally annoying in the wrong hands. And nothing spurs it on like proficiency at video games. The smug smiles watching others struggle. The "humble brags" casually mentioning achievements and records. Well if you happen to be a brain teaser fan that knows - or worse, is - a particularly prideful puzzle gamer, I'm happy to tell you that there's an app for that: its name is Huebrix.
Puzzle games are not usually my first choice when it comes time to unwind, but when I come across one that interests me I'm usually happy enough to play it through to the end. It has to be something interesting to keep my attention though, something different. Playing Bejeweled -- or worse yet, some Bejeweled clone -- for six hours is not my idea of fun.