Publisher: ClickGamer
Developer: Rovio Mobile
Genre: Puzzle
Release date: Available now

Sometimes the simplest of games can cause hours upon hours of what would be useful time to vanish. Simple concepts such as manipulating blocks falling from the sky or realigning jewels can eat up time like Pac Man, and now, using birds as catapult ammo joins the ranks.

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Publisher: Namco Games
Developer: Namco Games
Genre: Puzzle
Release date: Available now

With smart phones taking the world by storm, it makes sense that more and more developers are looking to cash in on the potential gaming market now available to them. But it’s a very tricky venture to make a game you can sell cheaply that doesn’t feel like a cheap game. Isaac Newton’s Gravity is an excellent example of this, a simple concept that is fun but not repetitive or boring.

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Publisher: Perpetual FX Creative
Developer: Perpetual FX Creative
Genre: Arcade
Release date: Available now

The appeal of Mortal Kombat came not from a solid concept and well thought out plot, but instead from cutting edge graphics and envelope-pushing violence. I am baffled as to why any gaming company would try to rely on the Mortal Kombat formula without the benefit of cutting edge graphics and violence. Nevertheless, this is exactly what Perpetual FX Creative does with Galactic Bowling.

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Publisher: Chillingo
Developer: Tetraedge
Genre: Adventure
Release date: Available now

I hadn’t played a real adventure game in something like 15 years. Perhaps with the coming of the information age, the temptation to look up a walkthrough was just too much, and I thought the genre would lose its magic. But it hasn’t, and Jules Verne’s Secrets of the Mysterious Island proves it. Secrets offers a great adventure experience on a platform perfectly suited to it.

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Publisher: Digital Prunes
Developer: Digital Prunes
Genre: Action
Release date: Available now

The iPhone may well be the greatest thing I’ve ever purchased. I’ve virtually no sense of time or space, and the phone does both of those things for me. So long as I keep my iPhone charged, I will probably never be bored again. That is, of course, unless I use it to play Slingshot Cowboy.

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Publisher: ndWare Pty Ltd.
Developer: Firemint
Genre: Flight Simulation
Release date: Available now
Review by: Chris Micieli

As more and more games are released for the iPod and iPhone, one thing becomes clear: games for the device can either be very detailed, take up much of your time and energy; or they can be very simple. Most would think that the simple games would be on the mundane side, but if you can find the right one, you’ll find yourself selecting it over and over again. Developer FireMint’s Flight Control fits perfectly into this category.

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