It’s always good to see quality titles when a gaming platform first launches. When the Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360 took off, Geometry Wars led the charge, and the similarly addictive Radius looks to be using its fast paced action-puzzle originality to do the same for Apple’s iPhone. Radius makes use [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Electronic Arts has announced a new puzzle/adventure game that is being developed for the DS, slated for release early in 2009. Titled Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure, it looks to bring some unique aspects as it combines platforming adventure elements along with puzzle solving. Both screens of the DS will be utilized: one for [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 11, 2008
It’s hard to imagine that a connect-three puzzle could possibly be the stepping stone for an iPhone-only MMO, but that’s exactly what Aurora Feint is. Akin to Panel de Pon or Planet Puzzle League, the primary goal of Feint is to connect three or more blocks together and chain combos to rack up points. In [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 11, 2008
The tilt invasion has begun! A new flood of intriguing puzzlers has started to appear on the iTunes App Store all which use the apple portable’s tilt functions in interesting ways. Hands down the most charming of these puzzlers is Dizzy Bee by Igloo Games. As Dizzy the bee, you have use the tilt functionality of [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 9, 2008
By turning the camera to connect the two edges… Echochrome is a deceptively simple concept. The visual style and complete lack of gameplay give viewers the impression that the game is more straightforward than it is. But once the controller is in your hands, you will soon realize that the game, while not particularly [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 18, 2007
Lumines is one of, if not the best puzzle games out there. Rotating dual-colored-quadrant based squares proved to be the PSP’s killer app but the translation to Xbox Live was too much damn money: 1200 points, equaling out to around 15 bucks cash is about the same price as the portable puzzler. While cruising my [...]
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
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