Apple has been showcasing fantastic apps every week with the Editor’s Choice Award. Last week, we spent hours burning things to ashes with Little Inferno. This week, Apple picked Mod Cloth, which had only been in the App Store for less than 24 hours, and Cordy 2, the third in the Cordy series of games.
Table Top Racing is, by a wide measure, the cutest racing game that I’ve had the pleasure of playing. The game, which features miniature race cars on literal table top tracks, reminds me a lot of the small world perspective in one of my favorite games, Katamari.
This slick little racing game comes from Playrise Digital, the co-creators of Sony PlayStation’s popular racing series “WipEout.” Table Top Racing is a combat racing game, which means you can race all kinds of crazy cars and compete against other racers at the same time.
Pixel People is a freemium game that is reminiscent of NimbleBit games like Tiny Tower and Pocket Planes because of its distinctive pixellated graphics. Make no mistake, though – this is not a NimbleBit title, which will become apparent shortly into the game.
Instead, Pixel People is brought to you by Chillingo. Pixel People is meant to take place in an apocalyptic future, where the majority of human life has been wiped out. Mankind is on the verge of extinction and it is your job to rebuild society.
I was probably already too old to be playing virtual trading card games (TCG) like Pokemon by the time the Game Boy title came out. (I was already out of high school if that puts it into perspective for you.) I may have stopped playing the “Catch ‘em All” game a few years ago, but my love for collecting and battling unusual creatures is still burning strong in my heart. Zuko quells that fire by letting players battle creatures, collect new monsters, and explore the lands, in search of opponents to beat and pets to find.
Players begin the game by helping out a Zuko battler who is fighting against a wicked opponent. You step in to help win the battle and your new friend gives you some credits and your first pet. He asks for your help tracking down the dastardly Deckard. You take your pet and your credits and head out on an adventure like no other.
While Kylie Kwong’s relaxed, modern approach to Chinese cuisine may be new to American readers, Kwong is already a familiar face in her home country of Australia and in the UK, where she appears on BBC TV. Thanks to Kwong’s recent universal iOS app, Best of Kylie Kwong, home cooks around the world now have easy access to her recipes.
The app’s 50 recipes won’t scare off beginners — in the first recipe she actually makes salt and pepper. More advanced cooks will find a collection of recipes, such as the Stir-Fried Pumpkin with Black Beans and Ginger that use familiar ingredients in new ways.
Welcome back to Flashback Friday. At the end of every week, we like to take a moment and go back in time for those fans out there who love classic arcade games. Last week, we told you about Mutant Mudds. It may not have been a “vintage” game, but the Nintendo 3DS title was about as flashback as you could get.
This week, we are spotlighting Gridlee. Not only is this classic game from 1982, putting it right in the Flashback Friday category, but it offers a little secret that might make you want to download it right now, before Apple decides it is breaking the rules.
I don’t even know where to begin with this app. It is like Asteroids and a graphic designer got together and had a Tenori-on baby. Dodge enemies, collect goodies, save your friends, and do it all to the beat of a song that you’ve created while dodging, collecting and saving.
Players control a triangular-shaped flying object. To move, touch the right side of the screen. The longer you keep your finger on the screen, the higher the squid-looking triangle will go. Let go of the screen and he will drop to the ground. You must keep the balance and collect blue and orange sound coins as you float along.
I’ve been seeing Candy Crush Saga on Facebook for weeks now, and I’m sure many of you have as well. Despite the fact that this game has been literally everywhere, I hadn’t given it a try until today.
Let me tell you about Candy Crush Saga. It’s a fairly run of the mill match three game, but as you may know, match three has always been a popular genre, ever since PopCap introduced Bejeweled. People seem to love the genre because it’s easy to learn, simple to play, and rather addictive, which is an accurate description for Candy Crush Saga.
If you are a fan of word games like Letterpress and Letris 2, and you love matching games like Bejeweled, then you’re in for a treat. WordBox combines both types of games for a fantastic word adventure.
Players find words on a grid that is filled with letter tiles. It looks a lot like a word search game. However, the letters aren’t stationary and they are not necessarily laid out in a particular order. Just because there is a “C,” “R,” and “Y” next to each other, doesn’t mean they were put there intentionally. It is just the way the chips fall, or tiles in this instance.
Search engines like Google and Bing have features in place to track your search habits and generate lists of websites based on what it believes you are looking for. While this is a benefit to some, it is an invasion to others. If you want to be in control of what you search for on the Internet and you want to keep your browsing habits to yourself, you may just want to check out InstaDuck.
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