App Review: Bubble Defence

Bubble defence is a tower defence game.  There are several of these available on the Market and this is one of the simplest looking, if no less addictive for it. The basic concept is to build up defence towers along a path to try to defeat wave after wave of increasingly armoured bubbles which follow [...]

App Review: Peggle

Busting some Peggle Moves

I heard about Peggle (buy Peggle on iTunes) several times before I actually tried it.  Being Scottish I can be a bit of a cheapskate when it comes to paying for apps.  There a re a good number of high quality apps available for free and the price (£2.99/$5) seemed [...]

Great Games: Day of the Tentacle

Hoagie meets the founding fathers

“Day of the Tentacle” is one of my favourite games of all time.  I played it through as a teenager and I loved the 3 streams of play.

The basic concept is that you play as 3 friends, all separated by 100 years (Laverne in 2176, BerNARD in 1976 [...]

App Review: Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile

I’m under no illusions that android is not (yet?) a gaming platform.  I’ve found precious few games which are worth keeping on  my phone.  However I do have some standards and Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile (Demo) fell far below those standards.

The game weighs in at around 7mb which, for a phone with [...]

App Review: Sentinel

Zapping the aliens on Mars

I’m a big fan of Tower Defence games.  I’ve played quite a few over the years and I have to confess that Sentinel is one of the best I’ve played (buy Sentinel on iTunes.)

In a tower defence game you face waves of enemies, slowly increasing in difficulty while [...]

Great Games: Invincible Island

One of my earliest gaming memories is in screaming in rage at this game.

It would say something like “you can see a bent fork.”  I would type “Pick up bent fork.” It would say something like “I don’t understand the word “bent.” I would scream.

The game was released in 1893 and I was [...]

Music for Geeks

JoCo in Concert by Mild Mannnered Photographer

I am probably the last person to blog about Jonathan Coulton. Not that there won’t be more to hear from him, just that I’m so late.

I’ve been a fan of Coulton’s ever since February ’06 when escapepod used one of his songs as an outro song. [...]

App Review: Eye Tricks

One of the illusions from Eyetricks

Eye tricks is one of those free apps which I downloaded ages ago and haven’t used much since.

There’s nothing wrong with it but it’s just not that exciting.

It consists of 30 different optical illusions, some animated, some not. The standard is pretty high’ and there are [...]

App Review: Flood It!

Me on an advanced level

One of the first really good free puzzle games I found for the iPod was flood-it (free iTunes download).  It’s a simple concept.  Your aim is to make all of the board one colour by changing the colour of one segment.  For example if the first square is green, [...]

Film Review: Terminator Salvation

Terminator Salvation Logo

I was fairly law abiding growing up so the first 15 rated film I saw in the cinema was Terminator 2. That was 18 years ago now and there have only been two terminator films since then. Terminator 3 didn’t really make the grade although it wasn’t awful.

I was much more [...]