Mystery games usually require a lot of thinking. Both for the creators’ part and yours, as a player. There are all sorts of complicated puzzles involved, and the story line is so encrypted it just gets you hooked. So hooked that you no longer feel like you’re playing a game. You’re actually finding a way out of a mysterious castle, dungeon or whatever mystical setting, while discovering deep buried secrets. Playing a mystery game gives you a unique sensation. And that’s exactly how playing The Room feels like.

The Room is the classic mystery game. The story unravels as you play, and what seemed like total nonsense in the beginning becomes crystal clear as you solve the puzzles. Every object, word, letter, drawing, everything is more than meets the eye. And, of course, there’s a dark location involved, filled with unsolved mysteries [...]

After reviewing a truly terrific app that Apple, with good reasons, dubbed App of the Year on the iPhone, it’s time to take a look at Apple’s pick of Game of the Year 2012. This is Rayman Jungle Run and, although it’s not my pick for game of the year, fans of the legendary platforming hero will rejoice to see Rayman on their iOS device.

At its core, Rayman Jungle Run is a remake, for lack of a better word, of the console game Rayman Origins, available from Ubisoft. The iOS adventure spans across 40 levels and it’s continuous runnning, jumping, flying and puching experience. It’s fast paced and it’s beautifully designed for the retina displays in your pockets.

In the game, you play Rayman, a funny looking character that kinda looks like Woody the woodpecker, as he dashes into small bite-sized levels divided into four groups [...]

Bored out of your mind? I bet you are. The AppStore has already closed down for new app releases and iTunes Connect doesn’t allow any more app promotions. But there are still free apps out there that may have slipped under your radar. JigglePic is one of them. The app lets you distort faces in photos and make the entire thing move like jello with the shake of the iPhone.

There’s not much to using JigglePic and that’s one of the reasons why it’s so cool. Start the app and you can immediately test it out on a preloaded stock photo of a girl. Touch her face and drag away to distort it. Make her look like an elf with pointy ears, or fatten her up. When you’re done laughing, shake your device or pinch the photo to make it boune around like jello.

You can of course load your own photos. That’s what makes it funny! You can turn your friends into weirdos and then shake the [...]

Mind-blowing graphics. Amazing sound effects and medieval background music. Great game-play and fantastic mechanics. These are a few of the adjectives I’d use to describe Reign of Conquerors for the iPhone, a MMORPG that truly shines. It’s available for free right now in the AppStore and is compatible with both your iPhone and iPad. iPhone5 included.

Although the game has a moderately high level of complexity, its learning curve is suprisingly low. You can pick up the basics in just under 2 minutes of play by completing the first guided quests like building your first structure, training your first units and sending them to battle. After that, through the use of quests, you’re easily guided step by step with the rest of the game.

Follow along with the game’s quests, step by step and you will likely build a strong kingdom. There are 5 types of quests. The Recommended quests are the ones you should be paying close [...]

As you all probably know by now, the most popular SF series continues. And although not everybody is confident that Disney is the best choice for continuing the Star Wars series, I bet everybody is excited to see what awaits their favorite characters of all time. But, since we have a couple of years more to see this dream come true, what better way to fill the void than playing one of the most popular games ever created. Especially since the latest release is specially dedicated to Star Wars. Still don’t know what I’m talking about? Then just go to the AppStore to download Angry Birds Star Wars and find out for yourself.

As if that would need clarifying…Angry Birds Star Wars is exactly what you’d expect to get from the merger of two icons: a beautifully designed game, with the same addictive game play, all combined [...]

Checkers is one of the best known and most played board games ever invented. Your great grandparents played it, your grandparents, your mother and father, and probably even you played Checkers at least once in your life. But how about taking the old, classic game to a new level? What if, instead of the regular Checkers pieces, there were actual robots fighting each other? This is no SF scenario. It’s MECHers.

Simply put, MECHers is Checkers with robots. The rules are the same as with regular Checkers. The game keeps the same simple, and yet attractive game play. But, playing with robots brings another twist to the game that makes it more fun, more exciting, and definitely more action packed.

MECHers is basically still a board game with 24 pieces that can only be moved diagonally through the dark colored squares. But, MECHers can be comfortably [...]

With the end of the year slowly creeping in, Apple has picked its App and Game of the Year. In this two part article, I’ll be reviewing them, one at a time. First I have to say that while I agree with the app of the year, I would have gone another route with the game of the year. But that’s another story. So, without further adue, let’s jump right in to Action Movie FX, Apple’s App of the Year 2012.

With Action Movie FX, you can easily turn your home movies into Christopher Nolan-quality action scenes. Explosions, rockets, car mayhem and even robots and aliens, everything goes with Action Movie FX. Have a birthday and filming the birthday boy blowing out the candles? Why not add an RPG rocket blowing up that cake? Or perhaps you’re insanely upset with your friend for the standing you up last night? Go and film [...]