When a spaceship lands in the 1800s in the wild west, you know it means trouble. You also know it might make for a silly plot in a movie. Well, the movie was made – Cowboys & Aliens – directed by Jon Favreau, one of my favorite actors, whom you might remember from Iron Man, G-Force or Daredevil. It wasn’t log before the iOS game surfaced as well, and I’m glad to say it’s not a feeble attempt to cash in on the movie. And why do I say this? Because I haven’t seen the movie, so I’m taking the iPad game Cowboys & Aliens as the first experience with the “franchise.”

In Cowboys & Aliens the iOS game, you play Zeke, the gunslinger of the west, as you defend Silver City against the attacking alien horde. The game puts you in charge of the city’s defenses and his hero for 15 gun-fighting intensive missions.

In order to play Cowboys & Aliens, you only need opposable thumbs [...]

Bouncing Bubbles lets you combine gravity, speed, accuracy and power to carefully aim and shoot bubbles in a match-three type of game built around a graphics engine that really impresses with its animations and its awesome graphics.

Bouncing Bubbles is the very definition of a game with the slowest learning curve you’ll ever see. There’s no need to even read the help section. Just start the game, select your gameplay mode (more on this in a second), and start shooting bubbles.

The way you shoot is by holding down the top bubble and aiming. Dragging the bubble will show an arrow with the direction the bubble will take. The farther you drag the arrow, the longer it’ll get and the more powerful your shot will be.

So why is power an important element in Bouncing Bubbles? It would be if Bouncing Bubbles followed the regular match-three shooter, where you shoot an [...]

You think you know geography? Or, quite the contrary, every time you visit a foreign country you have to do a lot of research because you can’t even position it on the map? Geogame puts your geographical knowledge to the test and fills in the blanks.

With Geogame, you can choose to learn or test your knowledge concerning a certain continent or the world. The app is free to download, but it will only allow you to explore South America, while the other continents are available as in-app purchases ($0.99 each or $2.99 to buy all of them).

Before diving into the actual game it’s noteworthy to mention that a lot of the game mechanics are available in the Settings menu (button in lower-left corner). You can choose between gaming and learning, what type of challenge to complete and various other less important things like setting the question timer [...]

How long has it been since you last played with a yo-yo? I know what you’re thinking. “Yo-yos are for children.” Well, Trighede is the game that might just make you change your mind.

Trighede is as simple as it gets. A simple tap on the play button gets you right in the middle of the action. Your goal is to line up at least four yo-yos of the same color by dragging each one of them with your finger to the correct destination. You can line them up diagonally or horizontally and once you have a line, they disappear from the screen.

New yo-yos are added to the board every time you make a move or every nine seconds (at the easy level) if you make no move. So you better move fast. The time component is a worthy adversary in Trighede.

With Trighede, the catch is that you don’t move yo-yos wherever you want. The board is filled with pins and yo-yos [...]

Secret Lab is a “game” based on a set of U.S. military ESP experiments from the 1960s. Testing subject to find out if they could predict the future. Do you have what it takes ?

You don’t have to be a secret agent to play this code-breaking game. I have personally played its easier, older counterpart, the classic Mastermind game, where you need to guess the combination of differently-colored pebbles in a certain number of tries. Double Mind is a more advanced way to play this. It is based on the Mastermind concept, but adds a second dimension and two more interactive ways to play it.

There are three game modes in Double Mind, but they all follow basically the same concept. Your task is to guess a secret color code, formed out of 9 pebbles, neatly arranged on a 3×3 grid. You start out with the empty grid and you can fill it with pebbles of your choice. Fill the entire board and guess the solution.

The game will let you know of how well you guessed by showing you how many colors are in the right position and how many [...]

It’s Friday, there are just 2 hours until you finish your work day and you realize that you want to do something special today. You try to find out what’s happening tonight in the city and how much it would cost you to attend, but after half an hour of browsing through a ton of sites, you give up. It’s clear, you’re staying home tonight. But what if there was an application that would help you find the best events in your city and giving you the possibility of buying them at the cheapest price without accessing any other site? Well, there’s an app for that: Tickets on the Fly.

After you download the app, all there’s left for you to do is slide through the events shown on the screen and access the one that you are interested in. You can choose to see events that are happening this week, this month or this year. Or, better yet, you can find events by pressing [...]