If it’s a challenge you wanted, then it’s challenge you’ll get. How about taking on a physics-based game where you have to guess the shape of a hidden object by the way other objects interact with it? Sound interesting enough? Well, Phantom Probes is just what you want!

Once you start the game, you will have to select one of three available probes from the top of the screen. Once you’ve done so, the probe will approach your hidden object, so far represented by a circle. Once it hits the object, you can rotate the circle in order to better understand what shape you’re dealing with.

New probes will continue to hit your object, but you can also change the probe itself by making your selection from the top of the screen.

Once you’re sure you’ve guessed the shape of the hidden object, just select it from the three possible answers at the [...]

The graphics and idea recommend it as a children’s game. The puzzle component makes it suitable for adults. The truth is Crazy Bunny has a little something for everybody and I wholeheartedly recommend it to you.

To put it simply, in Crazy Bunny you have to feed the rabbit carrots. You see, it needs to be 5150ed (that is, committed to a mental facility) because of its vitamin c craze. So how do you feed it carrots? Things are not as easy as they seem.

Crazy Bunny is a physics game. At the start of each level, your bunny is up on a pile of bricks, while the carrot is trapped in block of ice underneath the bricks. Some of the bricks can be destroyed, some cannot. The trick is to destroy all the bricks, while making sure that the rabbit will fall onto the ice carrot, thus eating it, but not land on bare ground.

Tapping once on any brown [...]

Should I wear blue or green? Should I buy a hamburger or a steak? What dog should I adopt? It seems like everyday we’re bombarded with these mundane decisions. And most often than not the decision takes longer than deciding what country to attack next. The more mundane the situation, the longer we need to make a decision. That’s wasted time right there! Thankfully, there’s an app for that as well. It’s called Help Me Decide and guess what, it helps you decide.

Before getting into the juicy details, I should say that Help Me Decide is an entertainment app. You shouldn’t take it seriously or rely on it as some kind of all-knowing, omnipotent oracle.

What Help Me Decide does is randomly pick one of the options that you feed to it. The first step to getting the app to do its job is to enter the options you’re faced with in your current situation. A good example [...]

Ah, I remember the cool and addictive flash game where you had to control a helicopter and fly it around the screen and avoiding obstacles. You had to continually click your mouse to make it fly. The reason it was so addictive was because I couldn’t really control it for more than 20 or so seconds, so it was a race against myself to beat a record.

While I’ve seen this type of game in the App Store before (I’ve even reviewed one here), I must say that DoodlePlane has a few more tricks up its sleeve.

Apart from being able to choose between a bunch of different planes you can fly, you also have 10 worlds to fly it through. Once you start the game, hitting play will get you to the first world: New York City.

So you have your plane. And you have your world. Now what? There are basically just two controls for you to master. With one button you control the plane’s [...]

Remember what I’ve been telling you about innovating age-old concepts? Well, I’m going to say it again. There’s no value in a game that doesn’t innovate, that doesn’t, in a way, create emotion. I don’t know about you, but for me emotion stems from innovation. I always like to see and play a game on my iPhone that brings something new to the table. The bigger the table, the higher the motivation for developers to innovate and stand out. And guess what, the App Store table is pretty darn big. Few developers seem to make it, but the ones that do are truly noteworthy.

Today I’m going to honor such a developer with a truly creative game. So without further a due, please take a bow to The Blackhole – a connect-three type of game that changed my perspective on connect-three games.

Yes, at its core, The Blackhole is just a connect-three type [...]

You’ve probably seen this type of game before. And even played it. Yes, you may be addicted to it. Whatever it’s called, your addiction needs a new name. And that name is AstroJam – a cute iPhone game featuring cute graphics and cute sounds. Did I just say cute thrice?

The idea of the game is simple. You control a flying saucer with your typical green alien in it. You fly around the galaxy minding your own business, but you’re not alone. There are asteroids everywhere and it’s up to you to keep your green buddy safe.

They way you do this is by moving the flying saucer around the screen, avoiding the asteroids. You basically use your finger to drag and slide the ship around the iPhone’s screen.

The longer you survive, the faster the asteroids move. Don’t worry though, there are power-ups to help you along the way. Collect the shield to keep you safe [...]

Wow! Just wow! It’s been a while since a played game that made me say this. The App Store is surely filled with a bunch of poor apps and games, but once in a while, there’s that once concept that I tend to over-appreciate, but for good reason. Pengi is that one concept that made me stare at my iPhone wherever and whenever I had the chance and the time.

What’s so neat about it then? Well, the puzzles are short and to the point. You can play it for hours on end, you can play a quick game when you’re waiting in line at the supermarket, or you can solve a puzzle while commuting. The game is slick and it moves fast. There are no hiccups (that I’ve uncovered yet) and it has a slow learning curve.

It’s still a puzzle game, so it will take the best out of you to complete, but it certainly won’t leave you pulling [...]