I usually start my reviews with the game itself and then move on to the soundtracks and graphics. For Ultimate Arm Wrestling, I think the best part of the game is the choice in music. The soundtrack is aggressive and in perfect tone with the type of the game. (Hint: try to tap the button according to the beat. If you manage to do it, you can’t lose).

When it comes to graphics, there’s not much to it. The game pitches a red bald guy versus a blue bald guy. It’s obvious both have been to the gym. Other than that, the graphics tend to stay out of your way, presumably to make room for the game and the gameplay itself.

There’s actually not much to it in Ultimate Arm Wrestling. If you read the developer’s description on the AppStore, you’ll see that this is more than just a monkey pushing a button. Well, actually, it’s not [...]

Shoot the Apple, very simple to understand – move the iPad in the direction you wish for the target cross-hairs to move and then tap the screen to shoot

If traditional puzzles bore you, perhaps you should give VideoPuzzle a try. VideoPuzzle from Ideateca is, at its heart, a tile-based puzzle game, with the added possibility to use your own videos as game tiles.

The game play is simple. Once you’ve launched a new game, the tiles are randomly arranged on the screen and you have to put them back together by dragging tiles or double-tapping them. Dragging one tile over another make the two switch positions, while double-tapping any one tile will flip that tile up-side down.

Nothing new under the sun so far. The real innovation behind VideoPuzzle is that instead of still pictures, the game features videos as game levels. You can choose between Arcade mode, Camera Mode, Photo Album and Video Album.

The most interesting to me seemed the Camera Mode, where you can open up your iPhone camera and solve [...]

It might seem confusing reading that headline up there. Let me make it simpler. Starfaces is the iPhone app that lets you create and share a connect-three type of game where you can completely customize the game tiles by using photos of you, your friends, or your family. In Starfaces, your face is the star!

First up, I need to point out the rather confusing navigation of the app. When you first launch it, it might appear as if you’ve just launched the App Store app. The bottom bar gives you the most popular games, a featured category, the store option, share and profile. From these, you wouldn’t really guess that “Share” is where the action is.

As soon as you get there, the app does a great job to walk you through the puzzle creation. You have to select 5 photos that you’d like to use in the game as tiles. You can either [...]

There’s no news in saying that the iPhone is like having your very own Toys ‘R Us in your pocket. It’s gaming delight at its best, where age limit doesn’t really play a role. Even your toddler could do it, and here’s one good example of just this.

Touch & Discover: Animals is the simplest iPhone app I’ve seen that tries to create a learning environment for your young ones. The app, that uses just simple touches, lets your toddler recognize animals and learn how the unique sounds they make.

I didn’t. What about the praying mantis? I didn’t even know they made sounds. That’s the whole point of Touch & Discover: Animals. The app uses the simplest of game mechanics and teaches your toddlers about the wonderful world of animals. How a tiger looks like? What sounds does it make? It features a grand total of 57 different animals, along with high quality [...]

It’s been a while since I haven’t played a game as complete as Enigmo. A game that has it all, is not afraid to combine bells and whistles with simple game play, and succeeds at it. Such a game is Don’t Drop 2 – a simple game with stunning graphics and great background music.

The objective of the game is to gather all the water droplets into the bottom bucket by shifting the tiles of the wall either left or right so that the seepage in the wall guides the droplets into your bucket. It’s worth mentioning that the bucket is slowly moving from left to right and back. While the various water droplets are in free fall, once you direct the wall seepage so that they fall within, they stop until the canal is continued downwards.

If your bucket gets filled, the game will offer a new bucket to you. If too many droplets drop outside the bucket, the water [...]

With American Ball, you can create your own playground lobby for this classic ball rolling game. Topped with impressive 3D artwork, a wide variety of decorations and a simple gameplay system, American Ball may very well reside on your iPhone for good.

For those of you who don’t know the game, the mechanics and object are simple. You have to throw balls down a lane and place them in the differently numbered holes at the end of the lane. Each hole gives you a certain number of points, with the holes that are farthest away, and almost as small as the ball itself – making it harder to get in, having a higher score.

In American Ball, you have 9 turns and you have to make the best of it. At the end of your turn, depending on the score you got, you’re awarded a certain number of tickets. And this is where the game pushes a reward system. [...]