December 8, 2008
A twist on the Puzzle Bobble genre of games, the rather 50’s B-Movie-titled Alien Blobs pits you against an invasion of alien blobs gated into our world by a science experiment gone wrong, and you have to stop them with special ordnance to blast them out of existence.
You play the role of Alice, daughter of the scientist partly responsible for creating the mess by creating the portal to another dimension in the first place. As if your father didn’t feel guilty enough for creating a war with an extra-dimensional species bent on taking over the world, now you are sent to the wormhole to fight the globular beings on…
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December 4, 2008
I wasn’t really sure how to classify this one, but being what it is I guess it most closely fits into the “puzzle” category.
Based on National Geographic’s television special, this game puts you in the ostensible role of an archaeologist traveling to various dig sites to search for relics and clues to the location of Herod’s fabled lost tomb.
Each level essentially consists of a rather nicely rendered archaeological dig site around which are scattered all sorts relics and things. The challenge lies in the fact that many of them blend into the scenery, so you’ll have to hunt around the scene carefully to locate…
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October 13, 2008
App Name: Numba Lite
Developer: I-play
Category: Games: Logic & Puzzle
At first glance this game doesn’t really look like much — in fact, it looks like some kind of Sudoku variant. I hate Sudoku. Fortunately I don’t have to hate Numba, because it’s nothing to do with Sudoku. It’s a puzzle style game that has just a hint of Bookworm or Boggle, but manages to be quite a different game altogether.
The object is simple: Use your finger to connect adjacent numbers to form strings of 3 or more numbers within a specific rule set to eliminate them from the board. The rules for matching are fairly broad: You can match strings of like numbers (all 3s, for example), straight runs (1-2-3, 4-3-2, etc.), odd or…
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