Finland-based Housemarque has a history of some pretty solid games, including recent DLC hits like Dead Nation and Outland. However, the developer is about to boldly venture where it's never gone before: iOS devices. The company's new game, Furmins, looks like it's going to be a genuinely challenging physics-based puzzle platformer that also looks to be a ton of fun.
There's a certain wisdom in music that, if you're going to cover a song, you really add to do something new. You need to make it your own. Otherwise, why would someone listen to your song instead of the original? The same goes for games. Unfortunately for Yeti Town, the only substantial difference between it and Facebook's Triple Town is the platform it's on. Otherwise it's the exact same game, only this time with snow.
Admit it - you've always wanted to be The Doctor. Or at the very least, his companion. Well great news, Whovians! Three Rings, developers of the popular Yohoho! Pirates and Spiral Knights, have teamed up with the BBC to produce a game that lets you be The Doctor's right hand man (or woman); Doctor Who: Worlds in Time.
I've got a confession: Tintin helped teach me to read. My parents, desperate to get me to away from the television, realized that I was a sucker for comic books. Unfortunately, comics in the 1980s and 90s weren't exactly quality literature; when my folks realized that the Adventures of Tintin books were better reading material than the latest issues of Bloodshot and Youngblood, they bought out the local bookstore. By the time I was ten, I'd read the entire series.
Amidst the glut of Angry Birds wannabes, Monkey Quest: Thunderbow has hit the App Store backed by the power of Nickelodeon. Based on the publisher's free online adventure, Monkey Quest: Thunderbow sprinkles in a few new ingredients to a now exhausted physics formula.
Social gaming has now grown to encompass just about every genre imaginable, but there's still nothing that works quite as well as a good gem-matching puzzle game when it comes to satisfying the need for a quick fix. Pangalore's new Pop the Candy app has just about every flavor you could desire, but its presentation leaves a slightly bitter aftertaste.
Big Fish Games have made a big splash on the App Store in recent months, porting a huge number of their popular hidden object games to the iPad (and sometimes the iPhone, too). Despite this, though, they haven't really broken too much new ground when it comes to original, iOS-specific releases. And while Tiny Places is a very iOS-specific release, it doesn't really manage to buck this trend.
There's really no way of getting around the fact that Jewel Story is Puzzle Quest on Facebook. Which means that it's a fairly generic fantasy role playing game where the combat has been replaced with a turn-based version of Bejeweled. It may not do anything particularly new with the formula but, aside from a few niggling little issues, it's a solid and enjoyable way to get your match-3 RPG fix.