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Monkey Boots. Because F*** Monkeys. [Review]

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Monkey Boots

Monkeys are cute.

Monkey Boots by Cocky Culture
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone, iPad
Price: Free

They’re fuzzy, they make little noises, and they act like tiny people if you train them well enough. And they’re mostly cool to hang out with once you factor out bad seeds like that one in Raiders of the Lost Ark that was a Nazi. And the ones who attack humans. And those other ones who attack other monkeys and steal their food for no reason.

Actually, you know what? Monkeys are awful. Here’s Monkey Boots, a fun game about getting one killed repeatedly.

Mad Skills Motocross 2 Revels In Your Hilarious Failure [Review]

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Mad Skills Motocross 2

I think Mad Skills Motocross 2 saved my life.

Mad Skills Motocross 2 by Turborilla
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone, iPad
Price: Free

It’s not because it taught me a valuable lesson about not mixing chemicals or that someone shot me, and I had Mad Skills Motocross 2 in my pocket, and it stopped the bullet. And it didn’t swim out and rescue me when I went beyond my depth in the grown-up pool.

No, Mad Skills Motocross 2 saved my life by teaching me that I should never, ever, attempt to ride a motocross bike. Because I will die.

I’m not very good at this game, is what I’m saying. But it’s still pretty good.

The Rainbowers: A Fun Puzzle Time, But Boy Are They Ugly [Review]

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The Rainbowers

I’m all about helping cute animals get home or get candy or whatever. Believe me, I am. But I’m also kind of a hypocrite because the most important word in that first sentence is “cute.” Give me a yeti or a little alien or whatever the hell Om Nom is in Cut the Rope, and I’ll give them whatever they want.

Rainbowers by Ezeme
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone, iPad
Price: Free

Show me something like the title characters in The Rainbowers, however … I mean, I’ll still do it. But I’ll look around first to see if any fuzzy bunnies need help gathering carrots or something.

But the game is fun, despite my terrible, terrible prejudice.

Fright Fight Will Pummel You With In-App Purchases [Review]

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Fright Fight

What do monsters, Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. series of chaotic fighting games, and steampunk have in common?

Fright Fight by zGames
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone, iPad
Price: Free

Nothing, you guys. Absolutely nothing.

But those are all elements in Fright Fight, a new free-to-play, online-multiplayer brawler that has players controlling a variety of spooky monsters in fights to the death atop floating platforms. It’s chaotic, insane, and mostly fun.

It’s a Frankenstein’s Creature of disparate parts cobbled together, and the arcane force that brings it to lurching life is in-app purchases.

Dungeon Highway: Retro Graphics, Cheap-A** Retro Difficulty [Review]

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Dungeon Highway

Heroes went and got themselves in a big damn hurry.

Dungeon Highway by Substantial
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone, iPad
Price: Free

It’s not enough anymore that they just get through the dungeon and fight the terrifying monster at the end. These days, they feel some strange need to do it all without stopping. It’s escalation, I guess; the new guys want to show off, so they run. Endlessly.

Dungeon Highway is the story of one such valiant champion who runs and shoots and dies a lot. And then you start over, and he runs and shoots and dies some more.

Spell Quest: Grimm’s Journey Gives New Meaning To ‘Spellcasting’ [Review]

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Spell Quest

I’m a big fan of words. The idea that you can arrange letters and spaces in such a way as to change minds, inspire emotion, and create art is powerful and almost magical.

Spell Quest: Grimm’s Journey by Bacon Bandit Games
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone, iPad
Price: Free

And the idea that you can do the same thing to ruin someone’s day or knock them down a peg is a different kind of magic, but just as eagerly sought. Spell Quest: Grimm’s Journey falls into the latter, “words can hurt” camp.

But they’re hurting monsters, so it’s probably alright.

The Great Martian War Has A Thousand Ways To Kill You [Review]

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The Great Martian War

The History Channel has gotten a little weird over the past few years.

The Great Martian War by Secret Location
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch
Price: Free

It used to be all about World War II and the Industrial Revolution, but ever since around 2008 or so, something has been creeping in. Something decidedly un-historic. Now, we flip over to History to learn about UFOs, prophecies, and pseudoscience. So it makes sense that the channel would release a fake documentary about a War of the Worlds-style conflict that took place instead of World War I.

The Great Martian War is an endless runner that shares its name with that program, and it places you in the middle of the conflict as a scout trying to deliver intel to Paris on foot. You’ll run, jump, and slide to avoid obstacles and massive alien walkers.

And you’ll die. You’ll die a lot.

Pyro Jump Will Make You Want To Slap Its Adorable Face [Review]

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Pyro Jump

Love is difficult sometimes.

Pyro Jump by Pinpin Team
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch
Price: Free

You’ve seen it: the unrequited, the ill-matched, the people who just never should have met in the first place. People who are so much opposite that you wonder why they don’t just murder each other. Alright, that last one is a bit extreme. Actually, it isn’t. I know some people.

Anyway, Pyro Jump is about a flame who is in love with a paper doll, and he will overcome any obstacle, jump any gap, and avoid any spike that stands between him and his cherished one.

She’s not too into it for obvious reasons, but the game’s fun. When I don’t hate it.

Moby’s Revenge: We Are All Made Of Starfish [Review]

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Moby's Revenge

I love developer Halfbrick’s endless runner Jetpack Joyride as much as anyone, but it always felt like it was missing something. And I never realized what it was until very recently. And then it hit me: baleen.

Baleen didn’t actually hit me; that would be gross. It’s all stringy.

Moby’s Revenge by Patrick Ferling
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone, iPad
Price: Free

Moby’s Revenge is a new endless title about a cute whale who escapes from an aquarium and has to avoid harpoons, mines, nets, and boats on his frantic and infinite swim toward freedom and wholesale slaughter of evil, Seaworld-running humans.

It sounds dark, but it isn’t.

Zez Provides Short Bouts Of Match-Three Ultraviolence [Review]

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Zez

Recently, I was playing my favorite match-three game, and a thought occurred to me.

Zez by Artbit Studios
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone, iPad
Price: Free

“This is all well and good,” I said to myself. “But it could really use a lot more punching.”

And then, because I am apparently some kind of wizard, I found Zez, an oddly-named puzzle title that has you clearing groups of three (or four) robots in order to propel a cat with a boxing glove farther into the sky so that he can inflict the maximum amount of damage to his opponent in the ring below when he comes crashing back down to Earth.

I had a fever dream once with a similar premise, but it wasn’t nearly as much fun.

Atomic Fusion: Particle Collider Is An Entertaining Combination Of Several Elements [Review]

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Atomic Fusion

Science is cool, and Atomic Fusion: Particle Collider wants you to know that.

Atomic Fusion: Particle Collider by ByteSized Studios
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone, iPad
Price: $1.99 (free through Level 10)

It’s a tough game to describe. It’s kind of like a shooter, but you don’t shoot anything. It reminds me a bit of Tilt to Live except that nothing is really trying to kill you. You’re basically just flying around collecting stuff. So maybe it’s also a little like Katamari Damacy but not nearly so goofy.

Whatever it is, though, it’s fun.

Tap & Blast: Do A Barrel Ro–Oh Man, I Just Can’t [Review]

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Tap and Blast

Barrels have been a staple of video games at least since Donkey Kong used them in his vain attempts to ward off a small, mustachioed man with a penchant for jumping.

Tap & Blast by Raptus Games
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone, iPad
Price: Free

What’s the deal with barrels? Is it that they’re easy to draw? Or fun to destroy? Or is it that their size and purpose provide a wealth of possibilities, their wooden or metal frames metaphors for the endless potential that lies within all of us, just waiting for someone to pry off the lid and share our special gifts with the world? Or something else less ridiculous?

Whatever the reason, barrels are awesome, and Tap & Blast, a fun aerial platformer of sorts out now for iOS devices, flipping loves them.

Fightback Successfully Captures Two Kinds Of Nostalgia [Review]

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Fightback

One of the first video games I ever finished was 1985’s Kung Fu, a port of a Japanese arcade game (Kung Fu Master)for the original Nintendo system. It was a side-scrolling beat ’em up about a guy fighting through five floors of a goon-filled building to rescue his girlfriend, and even though it’s probably not nearly as good as I remember, it’ll always have a special place in my nostalgia bank because I was so good at it back then.

Fightback by Ninja Theory
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone, iPad
Price: Free

Fightback is a new free-to-play fighter from developer Ninja Theory (makers of super-shiny console games like the PlayStation 3’s Heavenly Sword and the recent reboot of Devil May Cry), and it’s basically an updated version of Kung Fu. It even has the same 2D gameplay and girlfriend-rescuing premise and graphics and music that call back ridiculous action films from the ’80s.

So needless to say, I like this game a lot.

Feel The Need For Speed With Jet Car Stunts 2 [Review]

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The original Jet Car Stunts rocked the App Store back in 2009 — blowing away our memories of fiddly pre-iPhone racers with a colorful speedster of a game that took full advantage of the device’s touch interface and accelerometer to create something truly addictive.

Jet Car Stunts 2 by True Axis
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch
Price: Free w/ in-app purchases

Four years later the game has received a sequel-sized overhaul and we’re back for another dose of fast-paced, rocket-powered action. The original’s innovations may no longer be new, but our love of a good high-octane racing game hasn’t gone anywhere in the intervening years.

So have developers True Axis delivered?

You Are The Underdogbot In Endless Boss Fight [Review]

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Endless Boss Fight

Old people probably remember Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!, a game for the original Nintendo Entertainment System about Little Mac, a tiny boxer rising through the ranks by defeating opponents so much larger that they look like they could swallow Mac whole with very little difficulty.

Endless Boss Fight by White Milk Games
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone, iPad
Price: Free

It’s an underdog story that owed a lot to films like Rocky and The Karate Kid — movies that helped to create that most honored of sports-story traditions: the training montage.

Endless Boss Fight, a new free-to-play game from developer White Milk Studios, is basically a perpetual game version of those montages.

Triple-A Console Game Developer Crytek Goes Mobile With The Collectables

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Pretty violence, right?

Developer Crytek, known for top-shelf console and PC games like Far Cry and Crysis, is coming to the mobile space with its first free-to-play game for Android and iOS, The Collectables. The game is published by mobile powerhouse DeNA, using its Mobage mobile games platform which allows the game to release on multiple mobile devices and systems.

The game is coming soon for free on Google Play and the iTunes App Store, and it’s based on Crytek’s proprietary CryEngine graphics technology, bringing a new level of visual performance to the mobile gaming space. The Collectables has both tactical and action-based mechanics, letting you lead a squad of unlikely heroes on missions around the globe.

Match Three And Dress Up A Bird-Thing In Kiwi & Me [Review]

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Kiwi & Me

Kiwi & Me is for girls.

Kiwi & Me by Beeline Interactive
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone, iPad
Price: Free

The new free-to-play, match-three game from developer Beeline Interactive (the mobile arm of Capcom) has all the “swapping two things to form lines of other things” that you’ve seen in every other match-three title, but it’s all centered around an adorable little bird-thing named Kiwi who is looking for her lost mother.

Kiwi watches you solve the game’s puzzles, and every once in a while, you unlock a new accessory for her and dress her up. If you couldn’t tell, Capcom and Beeline are specifically targeting female casuals with this one, but that’s not to say that non-girl types can’t also appreciate it.

It’s cool. Nobody will judge you.

Tic Tactics Heard You Like Tic Tac Toe, So It Put Some Tic Tac Toe In Your Tic Tac Toe [Review]

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Tic Tactics

I grew up in the 80s, so I know how close we came to total nuclear annihilation when the WOPR computer became self-aware, as we saw in the 1983 documentary WarGames. The only thing that saved us back then was Tic Tac Toe, a game that became the savior of all humanity just by being stupid and largely unwinnable.

Tic Tactics by Hidden Variable Studios
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone, iPad
Price: Free

Tic Tactics aims to solve its predecessor’s “what the hell, we’re bored” factor by adding eight more boards and some much-needed lateral thinking.

And it succeeds admirably.

Alpha Zen Lets You Play Around With Your Friends’ Facebook Statuses [Review]

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Alpha Zen

I only really have a Facebook account for work purposes, and I usually only go there when I want to feel bad about myself. So I typically have no idea what’s going on there.

Alpha Zen by Large Animal Games
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone, iPad
Price: Free

Apparently, Alpha Zen, a quotation-focused new game by developer Large Animal Games, wants me to know what’s going on with my friends, so it includes a mode that makes their statuses into game pieces.

It’s a little weird, but let me explain how the game works.

Flux Free: Painting The Line In Space [Review]

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Flux Free

The best puzzle games either have a single rule (Tetris: “Make lines.”) or a few basic rules based on things we know innately or intuitively (Where’s My Water?: “Dig holes, water goes down, steam goes up, poison is bad.”).

Flux Free by Zen Develop
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone, iPad
Price: Free

Flux Free is a new iOS title which falls into the latter category. It’s a shape-matching game built on a few basic concepts like color theory that keep it from becoming obtuse even when all of its mechanics are in play.

That’s not to say that it’s incredibly easy, but you’ll never spend any time trying to remember how anything works. And it’s smart and fun, so that’s good, too.

Name It! Relentlessly Tests Your Knowledge Of Things That Mean Stuff [Review]

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Name It!

If you fancy yourself an expert on abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols, you might want to have a go at Name It!, a new trivia game that focuses on those three things (known collectively — and somewhat awkwardly — as “AASs”). It’s a pretty niche subject, really, but the game covers a lot of ground, including such disparate topics as Presidential history (“POTUS”) and the term “YOLO,” which stands for “I have failed at life.”

Name It! by Brian Green
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone, iPad
Price: Free

Name It! throws a startling number of questions at you across four rounds. And it’s all great fun until you get tired of it.

The Hunting: Part 1 Throws ‘You’ Into A Tap-Crazy Zombie-pocalypse [Review]

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The Hunting Part 1

The Hunting is an interactive zombie film made for — and with — the iPhone. It presents a world in which the undead rise because of a spontaneous global failure of antibiotics. But that’s not really important; the main thing is that zombies are in the room.

The Hunting: Part 1 by Wotsamaflip Studios Ltd.
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone
Price: Free

The first part of the story runs about 12 minutes, and it sets the scene pretty well. Your character (you) wake up, put your pants on, and discover that a bunch of things are on fire in the distance, and some ugly sucker in your kitchen wants to kill you. You do a bit of swiping and tapping, make a couple choices, and then you’re done.

It’s very short, but what’s there is promising.

Here’s Our Exclusive Sneak Peek At Majesco’s Romans from Mars Trailer [Video]

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Majesco Entertainment contacted us Wednesday with its launch trailer for upcoming game, Romans from Mars, an endless-wave castle defense game that will be out on the App Store this Thursday.

The game places you behind an upgradable ballista, which is the only thing keeping the armies of Mars (the god of War, thank you very much) from conquering the Earth itself. Jupiter, who likes to get back at Mars, gives you a little extra power, as well, including the elemental powers of Fire, Ice, Earth, and Lightning. You know, just in case that crossbow isn’t quite upgraded enough.

Romans from Mars will be free to play, with in-app purchases to speed up your progress. It is available in the App Store (as well as Google Play) starting tomorrow. For now, enjoy the trailer above.

Mega Dead Pixel Has Retro Graphics, Music, And Difficulty [Review]

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Mega Dead Pixel

When I was younger, I had a crappy little electronic game in which I controlled a car driving down the highway. I had a little wheel that could turn the car left and right, kinda, and I was supposed to avoid hazards. It was apparently the world’s worst-maintained highway because every 10 feet, it was like, barrel, barrel, squirrel, bush ….

Mega Dead Pixel by About Fun Games
Category: iOS Games
Works With: iPhone, iPad
Price: Free

There were bushes growing on the highway.

Anyway, Mega Dead Pixel, a new free-to-play title from developer About Fun Games, reminds me a lot of that game, and not just because they have about the same complexity of graphics. It’s also equally moody and just as frustrating at times.