Greater Good Games is a new developer that describes itself as a "charitable not-for-profit indie game development studio." The company has promised to donate part of the income from selling its games to its charitable partners, Doctors Without Borders, Children International, and Extreme Response International. Find out more about the studio's first title, Break Blocks, in our preview.
Vanessa Saint-Pierre Delacroix and her Nightmare. It's a heckuva mouthful for a name of a game to be sure. But it also carries a wacky kind of erudite nature to it, like The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom or A Serious of Unfortunate Events. Reading the name should put you in a curious and weird frame of mind, which will be perfect for wrapping your head around and enjoying this strange little puzzle game.
When Time Geeks: Find All! was released on the iPhone last September, the last thing we expected it to do was spawn a franchise - but that's exactly what seems to have happened. Cloneggs, the second game in the series, steps away from the hidden object hunt of Find All to offer up an experience that plays a little like a combination of Doodle Find and the classic children's game Memory.
While Bouncing Balls has plenty of balls to go around, it's hard to ignore the fact that almost none of them are bouncing. Instead, you'll find them clinging to the bottom of what appears to be a 1,000-ton metal cloche and looking all the world like fuzzy Skittles.They may pop as you fire at them with your trusty Skittle cannon and dozens of others may fall with the right combinations, but you'll only see them bounce on the rare occasions when you make a bank shot off of a wall. Thankfully, this minor oversight is one of the few downsides to this otherwise worthy clone of Snood.
Attention, Zoo patrons! The animals have escaped! But, whatever you do, DO NOT PANIC! Remain calm! Do not run! Do not feed the animals! And, do not take a video with your cell phone and post it on YouTube! We have a trained zoo keeper who is handling this temporary holding issue and will have the situation soon under control. However, if you don't like your kids all that much, it should be noted that he hasn't gotten things under control over at the Lion Sanctuary (seriously, we saw those brats throwing a temper tantrum because you wouldn't buy them any ice cream; nobody would blame you).
Telltale Games have become a big name in point and click adventures over the last few years, but in 2010 they decided to release something decidedly different from their mainstay formula. Puzzle Agent may have offered the great narrative and adventure framework that the company is known for, but the gameplay revolved not around collecting and using items, but solving logic puzzles. Now they've brought that formula back for a second go round with Puzzle Agent 2, a game that offers everything fans of the first could want in a sequel.
Anyone who's worked in Corporate America can tell you that there's nothing more hellish than working in a cubicle, crunching numbers and dealing with data packets. However, Async Corp., a new title for the iPhone, aims to take cubicle jobs and make them be actually enjoyable. Surprisingly, it does a pretty admirable job of pulling off this particular feat.
Apparatus is something of an Android reincarnation of legendary 90s computer game series The Incredible Machine. Much like its predecessor, Apparatus is about figuring out how to build a Rube Goldberg device that accomplishes a particular task, usually flipping a ball into a goal. To accomplish this, the game gives you planks, weights, levers, pulleys, cables, and even batteries. You use the touchscreen to drag building components around, sometimes combining them to create more complex parts.