Short App Reviews And News

There are lots of weekend sales in honor of Memorial Day. Keep your eyes on the app store and this site for some good deals.

Slay is currently free. And so is Twin Blades. That’s $8 saved right there.

This is an impressive looking game that usually sells for $4.99.  It’s free today.  Check it out.

2360: Battle for Cydonia: [ App Store ] Free Today

Here’s some gameplay video:

If you missed this game that is similar to Angry Birds last time it was free, you’re in luck. It’s free again.

You’ll want to download this game as soon as possible, before the price goes back up. It’s worth at least $1.99, but why pay when you can get it for free.

Here’s what I posted last time it was free:

Crush the Castle is a great game. It doesn’t have the cuteness or charm of Angry Birds, but it is very addictive. Instead of using birds and a slingshot, you use a trebuchet and boulders. Fling the boulders to take down the castles, or more importantly, the king, queen and knights.

I recommend getting this game.

Crush the Castle: Free today only

Read this review for a promo code offer.

I’m really liking freaking Inkies from Hungry Game Productions. This tilt-based shooter is an original game. And that is a very difficult thing for any app to accomplish with the 200,000 apps that currently reside in the app store. It’s not only unique in it’s concept, but it’s artwork sound design and also the way you play the game is incredibly unique.

The artwork is completely original. I love each individual character that you’re trying to shoot in the game. And the book backgrounds that you’re protecting work great.

The music and sound effects fit perfectly and are not annoying like other games with “cutesy” sound effects. Lastly, the gameplay is so original it’s almost hard to explain. You have six color buttons, three on each side. They are primary colors so you have red, blue, & yellow. To fire you must touch two of the buttons, one on each side, at the same time.

You have to shoot the Inkies off the page with a color that matches what they are. Red for the red Inky, Blue for a blue inky, Etc…

Eventually the Inkies come in other colors such as green and orange or carry different colored shields and you must use a combination of the buttons on the side to shoot take them out.

This is a fun shooter that incorporates the accelerometer. The controls are spot for tilting and it is quite fun as you try to hunt down the little characters and blast them off the page

The only negative to the game is that occasionally I wanted to leave one finger down and rapidly fire with the other hand. There was a short lag here and there while playing like this, but not enough to cause me to be upset and/or to put the game down. I just learned to play around it by just tapping both buttons at the same time. I’m assuming this is the original way the game was intended to be played.

All in all because of the originality, cute gameplay and fun addicting nature. I highly recommend picking up Freaking Inkies.

Freaking Inkies: $.99

Freaking Inkies Lite: Try this free version before you buy it, to make sure you’ll like it.

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The already amazing fruit slicing game, Fruit Ninja, just got updated. And it’s better than ever.

Not only did the developers add two new fruits (Limes and Red Apples), they added a whole new game mode.

The new game mode is called Zen mode and I really enjoy it. There are no bombs and no lives, just a 90 second timer. The goal is to get as many points as possible. And to help, there are now Combo Attacks.

If you slash three or more fruit in one swipe you get a bonus equivilent to the number of fruit you swipe. These Combo Attacks are now in both modes, Zen and Classic

If you don’t already have this, now is the time to get it. Just click on the iTunes button below.

Fruit Ninja: Only $.99