The 1.2 update for Firemint's brilliant pick up and play classic, Flight Control [App Store] just landed at its destination. If for some strange reason you don't have Flight Control yet, it's a devilishly simple game where you have a single task: successfully land as many aircraft as possible. Different planes and helicopters fly in from the side of the screen, you tap them then draw a path to lead them to their runway or landing pad without colliding with anything else.

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A few weeks ago I reviewed Xpressed's UniWar [App Store] and while it exceeded all of my expectations for a good turn based strategy game on the iPhone, it wasn't without its flaws. Last night UniWar 1.0.1 hit the App Store–The first of a set of two updates aimed at squashing bugs, adding functionality, and a ... Read more »

The last we saw of Ngmoco's upcoming tower defense title Star Defense was at the studio's San Francisco offices during GDC 2009. At that time, the game engine looked remarkable and they were still tweaking the gameplay before the final release.

Ngmoco released new screenshots and a video today in the lead up to the May release of the title.

In Star Defense, players take control of the captain's chair and travel to a series of planets invaded by alien S’rath forces. Twisting and spinning complete 3-D ... Read more »

Last night Polarbit released Iron Sight [App Store] a turn-based trajectory battle game akin to Worms or iShoot [App Store] but in three dime ... Read more »

Javaground's turn-based stategy game UniWar has been released to the app store at an introductory price of $0.99 [App Store]. We exclusively previewed this game at GDC 2009.

The game is a turn-based strategy game which offers what appears to be remarkably deep level of gamep ... Read more »

Last week Glu released Build-a-Lot [App Store], a port of a PC casual strategy game that takes place in the high stakes world of real estate development. The iPhone version comes packed with improved graphics and animations, as well as an interface optimized for touch input.  The game features 35 challenges in Career Mode and 8 different neighborhoods to build up in Casual Mode, which should keep most people busy f ... Read more »

When the iPhone was first unveiled by Steve Jobs during the Macworld 2007 keynote, most of the people in attendance stared in slackjawed amazement.  During those two hours we were exposed to perhaps the most innovative mobile device ever created.  So much cutting edge technology all wrapped up in a multitouch / accelerometer-based package.  And when, a year later, Apple announced the freely available iPhone SDK, it was immediately clear that what we'd seen from the iPhone so far was just the tip of the iceberg.  And my first thoughts?  Gaming–and no surprise.

We knew then that amazing things were to come… And they have.  There are currently over 20,000 applications in the iTunes App Store–a large number of them games.  And while, true, many (most?) aren't particularly noteworthy, there are some true gems out there. ... Read more »