When it comes a franchise with as much marketing and brand power as this, you just know it's only a matter of time until another big release comes our way. That's right, it's Angry Birds time again. Oh.. no, wait. I mean it's Star Wars time again. Hang on. It's BOTH?
Love and hate are complicated emotions, each in many ways a reflection of one another. Understanding them both and learning to master their role in your life can be a neverending journey. Luckily, love and hate are also adorable amorphous blobs from a new iOS puzzler; they're considerably easier to master…and a whole lot more fun.
Pid is an interesting collection of opposites. Its vision is equally futuristic and nostalgic. Its music is electronic yet organic. And its gameplay hook is brilliant but woefully bungled.
What is the best reason to play a puzzle game? To sharpen your mind? To whittle away twenty minutes or so while waiting for the next rebuttal on a Facebook fight you ignited? Or to save animals? If it's not obvious, the third answer is the correct one. After all, if you don't save the wee turtles, who will?
Sudoku need not exclusively be the domain of tired-eyed, funny-smelling old men whiling away their bus commute with a newspaper and a pen. Sudoku can be exciting. It can even be cut-throat. Battle Sudoku Against Friends Free demonstrates that there can be bad blood (and land mines) between the lines of the classic Sudoku grid.
I witnessed a talk at the Game Developers Conference in Europe this summer, in which the developer behind Eufloria discussed the many advantages of basing your game around randomly generated worlds and levels. After playing Cargo Commander, I can see exactly what he means.
Puzzle & Dragons is big in Japan, as they say, and soon North American gamers will have a chance to see what all the fuss is about. The game appears to have two distinct parts: monster collecting and dungeon exploration. Your battles against dungeon-bound opponents are carried out by sliding orbs around the game board, and putting them together in groups of three or more to launch your attacks. The more orbs you match, the more devastating the attack!
Do you like sushi? Because your monster sure does. That's right, you have a monster, and as a good monster owner it's your job to keep it fed and happy. But all it wants to eat is sushi - and it's hungry!