Bonus: Pro/Con Addendum for Dungeon HunterAdditional, major Pro: you can play your iPod music while playing the game, and not only does the game not complain, but it even shows a miniplayer with the song title and artist that pops up whenever the song changes. Massively neat ( Read more... )

Dungeon HunterMix three parts Dungeon Siege with two parts Diablo. Make a dark pact to somehow bring it onto the iPhone with intuitive controls. Charge whatever the hell you want for it since it's a unique smartphone experience ( Read more... )

Monster KillSimple, addictive, semi-cartoonish tower defense with a Halloween flair. And one of the better names of any game, ever ( Read more... )

A lot has happened lately ( Read more... )

About every five months, Dr. Dre's "Let Me Ride" comes up in the iTunes randomizer rotation, and for the following four days at least, that becomes my brain's background music. Not good when the lyrics insinuate themselves into stream-of-consciousness typing.

KIL.A.TONHigh Concept: Scorched Earth. A more forgiving learning curve. Innovative play controls. No Funky Bombs ( Read more... )

Wolfenstein RPGRender the orthogonal mazes and evil soldier-killing action of Wolfenstein in a 3D game world with high-defnition overlaid sprites. Imbue with RPG elements, primarily by making it a turn-based shooter rather than the FPS that inspired it. Sprinkle liberally with humor and improve graphics, sound, level design, and overall polish by ( Read more... )

Gave blood today. Today's pint is dedicated to dennis_obell on account of his having needed some a while ago ( Read more... )

TyrianHigh Concept: A top-down shoot-em-up (shmup) in the style of the old-school 8-bit era brought to the iPhone with solid controls, high framerate, and reasonably good graphics ( Read more... )

How the hell is the N-Gage listed as a "gaming platform" on Metacritic, but the iPhone is not?

Same question for many other gaming sites out there, most notably Gamespy, which has declined horribly in readability, utility, and general interesting-ness in the past six months. WTF?