Games for iPhone and iPad

iTabo is a great idea, well executed. The app markets itself as a word game, but it can more accurately be called a “party game,” one of those quasi-board games you’re meant to play with a group, with or without a few alcoholic beverages to help the hilarity along.

Tagged: 3D games, word game

Logophiles, Scrabble fans, and anyone who enjoys a good word game should definitely check out Coresoft’s Abble Dabble.

Tagged: push notifications, spell check, word game

Say the right things or get dumped in My Virtual Girlfriend My Virtual Girlfriend, though it calls itself a “dating simulation” game, bears less of a resemblance to real dating than an iPhone flight simulator bears to controlling aircraft.

Tagged: flight simulators

Don’t Drink and Drive! is a new educational game for the iPhone, intended to discourage drinking and driving. Straightforward and well-intentioned as this sounds, it is not what you’re expecting. Made in collaboration with the Romanian police, Don’t Drink and Drive! is very strange indeed.

Tagged: educational game, teaching tool

Solve the puzzle to see Shanghai Party Girls in all their glory To the credit of Shanghai Party Girls, a new app for the iPhone, it’s not just a hastily-thrown-together collection of pictures that were obviously culled from a Google image search.

Super Friends! the app is not to be confused with the campy animated show from the 1970s. Instead, it’s an irreverent social media Q & A game, similar to countless to Facebook applications. The method of play will be familiar to many, and easy-to-understand for just about anyone.

Tagged: Facebook quiz, trivia game

Drop bombs and save the world in Boom Boat Boom Boat belongs to a game genre that seems to be in some sort of renaissance: the handheld physics-based cartoon puzzler.

Tagged: physics-based

DoodleBoy doesn't fear the reaper The name this game—DoodleBoy - The Violence Park—really tells you everything you need to know. This game is really, really violent. The name also tells you that this game belongs in the ever-growing list of doodle-themed games for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Tagged: casual game, clowns, theme park, zombie game

If you’re a fan of the Scene It? franchise of DVD board and mobile movie trivia games, then break out your knowledge of sappy, happily ever after romance movies.

Tagged: movie trivia

Land jumps and best your opponents in Mad Skills Motocross There are tons of motocross games on the iPhone, and they all have the same basic controls. Steering is ignored entirely. What the player controls is the tilt of the bike, the acceleration, and the brake.

Tagged: casual game

Mini Cannon has earned a fair amount of buzz for being the first game published under the GameSalad Accelerator program.

Tagged: casual game, physics-based

In Flying Hamster, bees, berries and beer become weapons Flying Hamster manages to have it both ways: it’s a handheld game that’s light and silly, but it’s also a fast-paced action game that’s challenging and tough to put down. Flying Hamster can be classified as a “horizontal shooter.

Tagged: arcade shooter, beer, World War II

NinJump Deluxe is in a class of games that owes its existence to the iPhone, games that can only be played with a screen held in portrait mode. We’ll call them “vertical platformers.” In this type of game, the player must move the character upward, not forward.

Tagged: casual game, monkeys

Infinity Blade is one of the most-hyped iPhone games ever. Early looks at screenshots, and the knowledge that it made use of the impressive Unreal Engine 3, had handheld game enthusiasts drooling.

Find Me If You Can! – Spot the Difference. It’s a mouthful of a title, but it speaks for itself. Find Me If You Can is a "spot the difference" game with a real difference.

Tagged: MS Excel, puzzle games