Archive : Software Reviews

  When you get to my age, you remember the days when new episodes of Doctor Who were a exciting day of the week.  I used to watch every episode and as a child, had great nightmares about the Daleks.  The new series is just as slap stick as the original, sometimes to much, but still enjoyable.     For...

It’s time to whip out your sword and walk endlessly to the right with Gamevil’s Colosseum There’s a few too many Android games out there that feel like a flash port hastily put together in a week. While this isn’t the type of quality gaming we should expect on our Android devices,...

Strap on a shiny shield and prepare for some non stop running, platfroming, more running and fighting with Captain America’s first Android game. There’s a handful of different takes on platforming game controls for mobiles devices but a totally gesture based system is a new one for me. The...

Dōmo arigatō! Roboto hoverboards onto Android. There really aren’t enough platform games on Android that aren’t just one-button sidescrolling platformers. It’s a genre that’s sadly a casualty of the poor precision you get with the lack of physical buttons, but some games bravely...

Another dual thumb stick shooter? No, Spirit is more of a non thumb stick not shooter. Appearances can be deceiving and looking at any screenshot of Spirit and you’d mistakenly peg it as a Geometry Wars clone, but while the whole art style of Spirit owes Geometry Wars just about everything,...

Why not take a trip to Zombieville USA? But don’t bother unpacking, you won’t be staying around too long. Our fourth game featuring zombies in little over a month? Perhaps Android developers have been overrun by Zombies themselves, or a lack of original ideas. Okay, perhaps that’s...

Backstab is a game with some very lofty goals It’s rare that I review a game without completing the main story, in actual fact I can’t recall more than one other occasion in the past four years when it’s happened but Backstab is a special case, not because the game is fantastically...

Truly, this is the Age of Zombies. Age of Zombies’ life on Android as an exclusive download for the Sony Xperia Play, which is rather appropriate as it originally started as a Sony PSP downloadable game early last year. Now Age of Zombies has been modified to work without the physical controls...

After years of persistent fan demands Android has finally caught the extreme Peggle fever. There are few games out there that present beauty through simplicity quite like Peggle, where almost anyone can jump in and have as good of a time regardless of skill level.  Since the core idea of Peggle...

Kairosoft ongoing story of fabulous simulation games races on. You’ve no doubt heard of Kairsoft’s other games in which you attempt to raise an empire with the help of a series of menus and expressive pixel art. It doesn’t sound like much, but it’s unhealthily addictive and to...

After nearly two decades since X-Men arrived in the arcade, is this classic beat ‘em up better left as a memory? Re-releases of classic games are an odd group as your enjoyment of the product is generally more reliant on your nostalgia than it’s actual quality. The very notion of being able...

Plants vs Zombies rises from the graves of all those piles of similar tower defense games that fell before it. To call Plants vs Zombies a tower defense game feels a little misleading but it does have a lot in common with the genre. Throughout the game you’ll be defending your house from approaching Zombies...

There aren’t a great deal of graphically fantastic games out there to show off your Tegra device, sure there’s games like Samurai II and Backbreaker which are both fine games but now there’s Riptide GP, which isn’t just a go-to game for showing off your shiny new device, but...

It might look like a cute brawler, but Battleheart is one hard core real time strategy game which demands both your full attention and your time. If ever you needed a mobile game to test your multitasking abilities then Battleheart is more than up to the challenge, what might look like a simple beat...

In the world of Grow, even the seafood loves seafood. In Grow your task is simple, consume everything that’s smaller than you are. The core idea isn’t far different from something like Katamari Damacy but in reality the game plays quite differently. Using a virtual joystick in the corner...