So I’m kind of a whore for tower defense games. From cartoony games like Plants Vs Zombies, to hardcore scifi throw downs like Sentinel 3, I can’t get enough.
So when I found out that one of my favorite app developers made a tower defense set in the world of one of my favorite Android shooters it was peanut butter jelly time!
Let’s take a look at Radiant Defense. +Continue Reading
I suck at RC.
I had a little race car when I was a kid. Just trying to get it to run around an oval track was a frustrating experience–especially when friends of mine were going to track events on a regular basis.
Lately I’ve been getting my hands on some incredible RC flying toys. From $20-ish mall kiosk jobs, to the Force RC fighting copters, to the gorgeous AR Drone.
Swann dropped the iFly Micro Lighting in my hands, and after some of these premier devices I was a touch skeptical. Thankfully, the iFML has a few tricks up its rotors… +Continue Reading
AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!
I’m stupid stoked for the movie, and realized that I’ve been ravenously consuming all things Marvel over the last couple of weeks. Iron Man has always been my favorite Avenger, so this app was right up my alley.
It’s really just a short interactive comic, but is a fun way to recap the two Iron Man Films, with a short bonus story, before heading into the Joss Whedon spectacular.
Yeah, it’s for kids, but it has a few fun tricks up its sleeve. Interactive controls with tap and tilt reactions, plus you can read the comic while listening to music cues from the scores of the Iron Man films. For younger kids there’s also a read along mode which highlights the words in each panel.
It’s silly. I know. But it’s fun.
Make Mine MARVEL!
It takes a lot to get me engrossed in a tablet game.
Sure, I’ll burn a lot of time on puzzle games; but there’s a big difference between a good time waster and an immersive experience.
There haven’t been a lot of games which I feel have done first person gaming justice. We have some REALLY solid third person shooters, but no games where you got to see out of your character’s eyes.
That is, until now… +Continue Reading
I love it when a great little web service gets its own standalone app. Nothing wrong with going to a browser, but on our mobile devices, an app is usually faster.
The app also helpfully links you to other information like IMDB, and if you sign up for an account, you can save your searches for notification once movies become available to stream. Can I Stream It? is a great little web service which we use a lot while producing Movies You May Have Missed.
It’s a movie searching service which will quickly show you if you can stream or digitally rent/buy a film, and keeps track of services like Youtube, Amazon, and Netflix.
If you’re really into film like we are, this is a great service which helps feed our instant gratification, movie watching needs.
Can I Stream It? on Google Play
This app has been around for a little while, but recent refreshes and support for new services prompted me to give it a second look.
I’ve been using Flixster since it first started on Facebook as a way to rate movies you liked. As a social plugin to a social network, I didn’t think it was particularly useful. At its core, one might say that the exact same functionality could be found in services like Netflix or Amazon, and without the benefit of actually being able to rent or buy films.
So why revisit it now? +Continue Reading
Normally you’d learn my feelings about a particular game by reading through my review (or for the attention-challenged, by jumping to my conclusions at the end); but today, I need to get something out of the way right from the start: Ninja Gaiden 3 is without question the worst game I have so far played this year. There, I said it. I have virtually nothing to recommend about it. In fact, in places it outright offends me as a gamer. And, for context, the Ninja Gaiden series used to be one of my favorite series of all time. Now, however…well, hit the jump and I’ll give you a brief run-through of why you should avoid this game–especially if you’re a Ninja Gaiden fan. +Continue Reading
I like puzzle games.
I like crazy twists on puzzle games.
I like games that look like they’re for kids, but have a morbid edge to them.
Feed me, Seymour!
It’s an official app!
I’ll be hammering my data plan and killing my battery. I’m something of a TED junky, and now we’ve got a direct portal to all kinds of TED goodness while we’re on the go!
The app has over 1200 talks cataloged, so if you’re not familiar with the conference, you’ll have a LOT of watching to do to catch up.
The app is laid out in a simple, almost YouTube style. Firing it up for the first time took a little while, and the app isn’t very responsive when it comes to switching from portrait to landscape, but who cares. It’s TED. Go get it . Now!
Final parts of trilogies are tricky things – the expectation of payoff, both in terms of plot and emotion, and the hope that the quality won’t drop just as we reach the final hurdle. There’s the chance that while we hope for a The Return of the King, more often than not that third act can be a massive disappointment (see Spider-Man 3, X-Men: The Last Stand, Matrix Revolutions). So it was with a mixture of excitement and trepidation that I unboxed Mass Effect 3 last week. The final act of Bioware’s sci-fi odyssey (as opposed to their OTHER sci-fi odyssey) has been my most anticipated game since… well since about 30 seconds after the end of Mass Effect 2. But can it end the saga on a high note…or does the world end with a whimper?
Game time!
Had fun discovering this app last week.
Have you ever thought to yourself “Self, I think all these fancy three dee games are trying WAY to hard to look photo-realistic”?
I think I might have just the app for you… +Continue Reading
Well readers, this is officially a first for me. Having recently celebrated a belated Valentine’s evening with my girlfriend, she surprised me by passing me a small, silver bag from my local games shop. Said bag contained one copy of The Darkness 2, which initially struck me as being quite a strange Valentine’s–present but offered me the potential once in a lifetime chance to write about a present my girlfriend bought me on YTR. Fun times! I had never played the original and all I really knew about this one was that Mike Patton from brilliant 90s rock band Faith No More does the voice for the titular evil possessive creature and that it’s really, really, really violent. He does, and it is. But perhaps even more remarkable is that underneath the blood and viscera lurked probably the best narrative-led game I’ve played since Portal 2. Really! Hit the jump and I’ll explain.
App of the Week: Radiant Defense
Review: The HTC One X on AT&T
Review: Swann’s iFly Micro Lightning RC Helicopter
