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After a silly accident, you're trying to reach scraps and pieces of a shredded map which will lead you and your piggy king to those precious eggs. This game is all about building vehicles, kind of like an even more casual version of Banjo & Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts. In each level, you place a s ... Full Article »
The familiar story that we all know and love is here, only with more slingshots and shedding. All the old birds get dressed up as Luke, Obi-Wan, Han, Chewie, and Leia, and those nasty pigs now comprise the evil Empire. Each bird gets new powers, some more similar to their non-Star Wars counterparts ... Full Article »
Rovio Mobile is all about physics. The creator of Angry Birds has popularized “physics-based” mobile gaming, helping to push titles that are mostly about applying force to objects to destroy them. At this point, Rovio is pretty good at making games like that. But when it strays away from the An ... Full Article »
Rovio Mobile has enjoyed a very comfortable existence making Angry Birds – and only Angry Birds – since the game became a huge sensation back in 2009. It’s hard to blame the Finland-based company for not doing much more given how popular the series has been. In fact, Angry Birds is so popular ... Full Article »
Rather than some kind of action game with never before seen graphical fidelity for the platform, we’ve got a cartoony physics based puzzle version of mini-golf involving a tiny alien and his alien friends as they move through the rooms of a house. This isn’t to say the game is bad by any means. ... Full Article »
Wow, I am dazzled. That’s unusual even with amazing new games, much less sequels of sequels. I have never been a big physics gamer and had grown a bit weary writing so often about the original Angry Birds, Seasons, Rio and what seem like infinite variations on the theme. I was curious about Angry ... Full Article »
Realistically, Angry Birds has probably needed a good refresh for some time now. The incredibly popular game has been downloaded about 700 million times across multiple platforms, but the truth is, it has barely changed since it was released in late 2009. With Angry Birds Space for iPhone, Angry B ... Full Article »
Gravity Lab! by Mobile Snap is another game in which you fling something across the screen in order to knock something else over. But there's a twist, of course, and a delightful one at that, making the game worthwhile. As you might expect from the title, the twist has something to with gravity. An ... Full Article »
Some of you might know and love the classic board game Mouse Trap, or even the popular 1990s-era PC game The Incredible Machine. Those of you not familiar with these titles will find an excellent app exploring the world of Rube Goldberg devices in Casey's Contraptions for $2.99 on the iPad. For tho ... Full Article »
Fragger Lost City is more or less your typical physics-based bomb-throwing game where the player has to find the correct angles to throw grenades from in order to eliminate enemy targets. Where Fragger Lost City errs is in a control system that attempts to add depth, but instead feels overly complic ... Full Article »
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