Now here's an interesting game that shows a lot of promise: Ultimate Finger [App Store].

At first glance, it seems like it may just be another whack-a-mole tapping game, which happens to come in a nice package. As it turns out, the developers have added a nu ... Read more »

   

With the App Store taking a holiday break, we've been finally able to go back and play some games that have been on our to-do lists for some time.

One title that had previously drawn our attention is Vivid Games' Samurai Puzzle Battle [App Store]. This title debu ... Read more »

Neptune Entertainment has released their version of a Tower Defense game called 7 Cities TD [App Store]. Now, before you lose interest, this one is worth a look. Features listed by the developer:

• 7 unique hand-drawn maps ranging in difficulty and desig ... Read more »

Kotaku got some hands-on time with the upcoming iPhone version of SimCity and shared their first impressions.

They found that the iPhone version, which is graphically similar to SimCity 3000 on the desktop, suffers somewhat from the iPhone's small display, given how much typically goes on in a SimCity game screen. EA has turned to multitouch controls to help make the most of the iPhone's screen real estate, but a few issues still remain.

The controls act the same way they do for Google maps. Sliding your fingers together, inward, zooms out, while sliding them apart zooms in. Touching and dragging moves y ... Read more »

Gameloft has released their Brothers In Arms: Hour of Heroes [App Store] game to the App Store tonight.

• The iPhone version of the world-famous Brothers In Arms franchise.
• 14 missions in 3 campaigns: Normandy, Ardennes & Tunisia.
• Unbelievable 3D graphics recreating the atmosphere of a real Hollywood WWII blockbuster.
• Drive a 4×4 vehicle or a Sherman tank and use a wide range of weapons (bazooka, sniper rifle, machine guns, etc.)
• Use the accelerometer function to launch grenades & the to ... Read more »

As we recently reported, EA's much anticipated Spore Origins [App Store] for the iPhone and iPod touch is now available in the iTunes App Store.

Spore Origins is an abbreviated, mobile adaptation of Will Wright's Spore, one of the most highly anticipated computer games ever released.  As Wikipedia describes Spore,

Spore is a multi-genre "massively single-player online game" developed by Maxis and designed by Will Wright. It allows a player to control the evolution of a species from its beginnings as a unicellular organism, through development as an intelligent and social creature, to interstellar exploration as a spacefaring culture. It has drawn wide attent ... Read more »

It doesn't surprise me that Stinkbot's Sumo [App Store] game has been seemingly ignored in the iTunes Store.

The title of the game likely attracts those looking for an action packed Sumo-wrestling game when in actuality Sumo is a card-based strategy game.

Unlike the numerous puzzle game clones out there, this one is an original game concept that was birthed as a Shockwave game in 1997. The Shockwave game reportedly gained a bit of a following and was later ported to the Palm. Fortunately for us, the developers have ported the game to the iPhone ... Read more »

I have never been a huge strategy game nut. Civilization, Starcraft, Populous–I just never had the patience. There have been a few strategy gems out there unique enough to catch my attention however, and they've given me hours of satisfying gameplay. Battlezone (1998) was one.  And I'm happy to report I've found another: Galcon [App Store] from Hassey Enterprises.

Galcon is a fast-paced arcade strategy game set in space.  The game begins with a galactic playfield filled with planets of va ... Read more »

The cheapest price an App can be without being free is $0.99.

But what's strange is that when you run across a $.99 app, you're never quite sure if you should be happy it's cheap or annoyed they bothered charging anything at all. App commenters in iTunes also reflect this internal struggle.

So we decided to take a look at 10 of the games in the App Store that fall into this $0.99 limbo to figure out which are worth $0.99 and which aren't.

As expected, we found some ... Read more »