Games for iPhone and iPad

Bella Boo won’t be winning any beauty contests. But she will keep you entertained with a pretty fun and addicting game. As Bella Boo the zombie fairy, you must battle a series of floating creatures, demons, and other evil forces who have invaded your cozy homeland of Dark Wood. You do this by encircling them [...]

Pounce takes the solitary out of Solitaire, according to its developer, Double Apps. It’s a multiplayer card game that goes by many different names including Nertz, Canfield, Blitz, Grouch, Peanuts  and Nerf. The idea is to unload your cards in sequential order into a center field faster than your opponents. In this version, Pounce on [...]

If you missed last year’s Halloween special when Transylvania Adventure was offered for free, fear not – the game is still available for a mere $0.99, which in the App Store is the next best thing. For those who remember Transylvania from years gone by, Transylvania Adventure is the iPhone adaptation made possible by RetroVenture in [...]

Boardz is an iPhone app that contains four classic two-player strategic board games – Chess, Go, Shogi, and XiangQi. It is designed to work over a network connection and seeks out other players as opponents. If you’ve tried Chess With Friends, you’ll have a pretty good idea of how Boardz plays out. Being a game that [...]

iPhone and iPod Touch users already familiar with OstinGames’ Zepi will appreciate Zepi:Dark, which is one of two new Zepi themes just released. Granted, those with a strong aversion to the macabre or a preference for flowery things will probably prefer Zepi:Spring over Zepi:Dark, but both versions give the game a whole new look and feel. [...]

For fans of casual shooter games and displaced carnies who enjoy clowning around, Knife Toss by Crawlspace Games and Elevate Entertainment could hit the mark as the next game in your iPhone or iPod touch arsenal to combat boredom. Knife Toss is a target shooting game that features a clown strapped to a spinning wheel and [...]

Sharks are seriously misunderstood creatures in nature, but when it comes to iShark for iPhone, there isn’t much to understand except that this shark has a seriously destructive side. Now its second version, iShark is a 2D platform where players control a cartoon shark with the objective of eating everything in sight – swimmers, boaters, birds, helicopters [...]

Demolition Master — Big crowds always turn out to see a building implode, caused by the handiwork of highly skilled demolition experts. There’s hardly a more satisfying and captivating sight than to see a huge building collapse on itself. That must explain why building demolition or implosion games have become so popular in the App [...]

You want a game with simple rules and one that doesn’trequire any commitment on your part. Play it, put it down, pick up from where you left off. It’s that simple. Blyx, from Pearl Fisher Games, falls into that category.

Developer Obo Games says its app Woffo has “more smarts than Crosswords, harder strategy than Scrabble and more twists than Boggle.” Trust me, it’s true. Woffo is easily one of the more challenging word puzzlers that I’ve come across. Lately, I’ve been playing Scramble2 quite a bit, but Woffo has just displaced it. Thankfully, unlike Scramble2, [...]