We who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s like to get sloppily nostalgic over Apple II educational games like Oregon Trail and Number Munchers. They made learning fun by offering an intense challenge while teaching us to think on …
I missed out on the SpongeBob SquarePants craze back when it caught on in the late 90s. I was just a little too old for the show, nor could I tolerate listening to those characters speak for more than a …
Languinis is a spelling game draped over the architecture of a match-3 game. Themed after ancient Mayan mythology, Languinis strives to retain the player’s attention through bells and whistles, but it ultimately falls short, delivering a mixture of two experiences …
Food is a complicated topic. Seems whenever we talk about the things we stuff in our mouths, the atmosphere becomes heavy with controversy. The sins of the meat industry have been well-publicized, but going vegan isn’t without its troubling questions, …
As a kid, the only arcade experiences I had centered around the rinky-dink games at my local movie theater. It was the mid 90’s and people were still wrapping their heads around the fact that video games could have a …
The Smurfs are timeless in comics, literature, and animation, and in a strange way, they’re timeless on the App Store, too. Beeline Interactive’s town-building game, Smurfs’ Village, hit the App Store in 2010, and it still receives regular updates. It …
If my cooking skills in real life were on par with what they are in Cooking Mama Let’s Cook!, I should be running my own Michelin Star restaurant in rather than lazily laying on my couch playing a cooking game …
As I watched my soldiers beat down a wooden wall while the archers behind them shot at the enemy towers who were distractedly shooting at the fire elemental I had summoned that was blazing a path of destruction through the …