Words can hurt. Words can kill. Okay, so words can't actively slit someone's throat, but a well-placed move in Letter by Letter for iOS proves words are capable of giving your rivals a bad day. Let's just settle by pointing out that words can sting like a paper-cut between your fingers. In fact, with Letter by Letter, your words may actually come back and haunt you.
Few things are more exciting to us gamers than finding gameplay we've never seen before. The problem is, shortly after a new idea hits the scene, hundreds of copycat developers inevitably run it into the ground. That's definitely been the case with the bubble popper concept—that is, until now. In Alder Games' Atlantis: Pearls of the Deep, the miraculous has happened: someone's actually found a new way to play the shopworn bubble popper.
If you think about it, Tetris blocks (also known as Tetrominos) have always been kind of a nuisance. Why else would we be trying to destroy them every chance we get? With that in mind, I'm having a little trouble adjusting to how MouseCraft is played. There are Tetrominos everywhere, and you aren't trying to get rid of them as quickly as possible! In fact, you use them to solve a bunch of puzzles. What's this world coming to?
It's been a long while since we've heard from ZeptoLab, the creators of Cut the Rope. You might think they've been lounging around on their solid gold rocket chairs, counting stacks of money à la Scrooge McDuck - but not so! Instead they've been making pudding. Monstrous pudding. And you'll get to taste it soon in their upcoming game, Pudding Monsters.
Playing Shaking Vegas, the new-to-mobile match-three game from Vostu and GREE, makes me very aware of one cruel fact: I'll never see Las Vegas the way gamblers of old saw it. The legendary casinos born from windswept dunes have been dulled by the shifting sands of time. The crooners of yesteryear aren't with us anymore. They've been replaced again and again - an homage here, a tribute there. The newcomers sing the same standards of course, and there is some comfort to be found in that. But even though they hit all the notes, they don't set fire to the ears like they once did.
Allods Online is a Russian-developed MMORPG that enjoys worldwide popularity. In turn, the Rage of Mages strategy/RPG series is the basis for Allods Online. And why stop there when we can complicate things further? Allods Adventure HD captures the magic of the Allods world and re-packages it as a puzzle game for iOS.
It would seem that whatever deity or force of nature is in charge of evolution has it out for humans. We're condemned to eke out a crummy existence on the baking/frozen surface of the planet, while water-bound mammals get to party in the ocean currents. That said, at least we humans can appreciate the beauty and scarcity of a pearl. Underwater creatures, on the other hand, see pearls so often that they treat them like cheap dollar store marbles. Even Atlantis: Pearls of the Deep makes pearls vanish into thin air with its physics-based Match-3 action.
Scribblenauts is one of those intriguing franchises that started off with a great concept coupled with poor execution - yet has honed the original idea, and eventually gotten to a point where it's hugely entertaining and exactly what we were hoping for in the first place.