Author Archive for Marne Cales

Anicons Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

When a plain old email just won’t do, you can use Anicons to add a little sparkle to your message. And then you can add some animations and color and dancing cupcakes.

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Kaeru Jump Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

Kaeru Jump is a logic puzzle game for fans of frogs reminiscent of those golf tee/wood block jumping game. That’s right, all you frog lovers, a game was created just for you by Aotol developers!

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Vocab U Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

Vocab U is a challenging word puzzle game for all you wordsmiths out there. A clever combination of word scramble and vocabulary test, Vocab U is simple to play, but will give your brain quite a workout.

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Audio Footnote Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

Like most people that listen to such things, I enjoy having audio books and podcasts on my iphone for the long commute to and from work. If I hear something interesting that I’d like to go back to later, I’m at the mercy of my memory. That pesky driving keeps me from taking notes, and finding that one sound bite again is nearly impossible. Audio Footnote is an app I didn’t even realize I needed, but it’s just for situations like this.

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Cogs Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

Steampunk and high-tech collide when you play Cogs on your iPhone, a new puzzle game, developed by Lazy 8 Studios and published by Chillingo.

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SongSketch Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

I’m not much of a musician. I have a piano that’s dusted more often than it’s played, and a mandolin on which I can strum no more than three chords. Still, I love music and harbor fantasies of writing the next big single. SongSketch is just the app to help me with that lofty goal.

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Valet Hero Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

Dreaming of making a career move to valet driver? Really, who hasn’t wanted to park the cars of the wealthy at fine restaurants and five star hotels? With Valet Hero, you get to do exactly that, and use your just your finger to do it.

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Phantom Mansion Chapter 1, The Red Chamber Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

With a hero named Hector the Specter Detector, Phantom Mansion is a puzzle game that will test your skills of logic. Adapted by Gimme Five Games from the popular web game series, chapter one, The Red Chamber, promises to be the beginning of a multitude of color-based titles we may see in the future.

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Blocks with Letters On Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

Part word game, part logic game, Blocks with Letters On A is an oddly named puzzle game from Gimme 5, that will keep your brain busy for quite awhile.

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Speed Forge Extreme for iPhone and iPod Touch

I know I made fun of the whole “Spaceships racing around a track” thing in a recent review, but I think I’m going to have to take it all back now that I’ve played Speed Forge Extreme, the new space age racing game from Chillingo. In an attempt to give the game some context, there’s a story in the game description, about the colonization of Mars in 2142, and bored miners looking for entertainment, so I guess it makes a little sense.

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Chocotox 2 Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

If you’re a dog owner you probably keep your dog away from chocolate. Chocolate is bad news for a dog’s system, and can be toxic if too much is consumed. Chocotox 2 can help you determine if your dog is likely to need treatment if he gets into your chocolate stash.

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Kapowie Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

Kapowie is a shooting range game like the ones you play at the county fair, but better because you don’t have to worry about any toothless carnies. It’s a fun new arcade-style game from Bjango, great for the casual gamer to pick up and play any time you have just a few spare minutes.

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Finger Frenzy Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

Finger Frenzy is a popular online game with a very simple premise: type the alphabet as fast as you can. Gimme 5 Games have created an iphone version, so you can frantically type away wherever you are.

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Low Grav Racer 2 Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

Rocket ships on racetracks don’t really make sense to me. Wouldn’t they race in open space? Apparently not, according to Cobra Mobile, developers of the recently released Low Grav Racer 2. Instead they follow a decidedly terrestrial, fixed, roller coaster-like track.

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Seed 1: Rise of Darkness Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

Seed 1: Rise of Darkness is a traditional RPG, with a hero battling the powers of darkness in a land far, far away. Released by Chillingo, Seed is one of a handful of recent games that bring to mind one of my old favorites, The Legend of Zelda.

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Ravensword Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

Upon seeing scenes from the highly-anticipated RPG Ravensword for the first time my reaction was a very simple, “Wow!” A collaboration between developers Russ Menapace, of Human Powered Games and Josh Presseisen, of Crescent Moon Games, and released by Chillingo, Ravensword is beautiful and epic, although not without a few shortcomings.

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Snow Brawlin’ Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

If you fell for the underdog, Risoo (or should that be undersquirrel?), in Nut Chuckin’, you’ll be glad to hear that he’s back, but still battling those pesky grey squirrels. Of course it’s winter, so there are no acorns to be found. Instead you get to participate in a big snowball fight in Ghost Hand Games new release, Snow Brawlin’.

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Skater Nation Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

I have three brothers that were all skaters and surfers, and there were many, many attempts to teach me how to skateboard and surf, but somehow that gene skipped me, and only they possessed it. I cannot skate, and that has extended to my attempts at skateboard games. It’s so disappointing, because Skater Nation looks like a whole lot of kick-ass fun. So I’m going to do my best with this review, even though I just spent hours falling off my virtual skateboard. Review

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Rogue Planet Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

Part Advance Wars, part Mech Warrior, and a little Battlestar Galactice thrown in for good measure, Rogue Planet aims to satisfy the sci-fi loving, turn-based strategy gamer in you. Created by French developer, Agharta Studio, the game may be new, but feels comfortably familiar. Review

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Monumental Review for iPhone and iPod Touch

Prolific game creator Reiner Knizia is one busy guy. This German game designer has been creating board games since the 1980s, using his mathematics background to create all sorts of abstract, interesting games. His latest, Monumental is no exception. It’s a logic-driven puzzle game, developed by Conlan Rios, for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and it will get your brain working.

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