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Did you know that if you're patient and pay attention to our GameFinder app, you can find all kinds of great iOS games marked down to free? Here are some of today's best temporarily deals-- download them for free while you can! Shift 2 Unleashed EA's been pushing a Daily Deals promotion for December that led to The Sims Medieval being a free download yesterday. Today, it's Shift 2's turn. This white-knuckle, high-speed racer has incredible graphics and well-balanced vehicles, and if you're persistent, you won't have to pay any real-world money to upgrade your abilities. Our Score: 3 out of 4 Our Bottom Line: Need for Speed Shift 2 is a sequel that improves on the original, but not enough to make it a must buy. Zentomino Zentomino is a combination of tangram (assembly puzzles), pentominos (five-squared Tetris-like pieces), and good old Zen. To solve this relaxing but challenging game, you have to rotate and place Tetris-like pieces to fit a particular shape. There are hundreds of puzzles to solve in this collection, so be sure to download it for free if you have the mental skills. Our Score: 4 out of 4 Our Bottom Line: Zentomino is an extremely fun, laid-back puzzle game with enough content to keep you playing for a long time to come. Arcade Jumper Arcade Jumper is a simple game with a retro kick. You play as a kid with a blaster that looks like an NES Zapper, running, jumping, and shooting through retro-inspired backgrounds. When you reach the end of each stage, you can pick up an arcade token and try to make it back the way you came. We featured Arcade Jumper in a recent Under The Radar column, and now you can get it for free. Sad Princess When your boyfriend gets kidnapped, Princess, don't get sad-- get even. In this side-scrolling beat 'em up, you play as a small girl who can kick a lot of tail. Wolves, boars, and other beasts don't stand a chance against your giant club and special attacks, plus you can even tend for a companion pet who will help you out. Our Score: 2 out of 4 Our Bottom Line: You won't be happy if you download Sad Princess based solely on its looks. Line Birds Line Birds is a high-score, endless flying game where you can tap on the screen to make your bird Read More

A la App Store ha llegado otro adictivo juego con pájaros como protagonistas. Se trata de Line Birds y lo mejor es que podemos disfrutar de él de manera gratuita. En él se mezcla la buena jugabilidad, una física muy conseguida y gráficos a la altura de juegos de pago. La mecánica es muy sencilla: tenemos que presionar la pantalla del teléfono para hacer volar a nuestro protagonista. Si dejamos de tocar la pantalla, el ave comienza un vuelo en picado hacia el suelo. Tendremos que ir sorteando los obstáculos y recolectando galletas que nos darán habilidades especiales. Cuantos más metros volemos sin chocarlos, más puntos conseguiremos. El juego es compatible con Game Center y nos hará pasar ratos muy entretenidos porque es de los que realmente enganchan. Precio: Gratis Read More

Posted 06/16/2011 at 11:40am | by Nic Vargus Some apps are just too easy. With only a screen to tap, they simplify their button layouts to mind-melting simplicity or just dumb any instance of genuine difficulty down to make it more casual. Not Line Runner. Line runner is the hardest game I've ever played on iOS. It seems content to present itself as a game that's cute and accessible, only to break your soul mere moments after starting. The background of Line Runner is the now familiar graph paper (made popular by games like Doodle Jump) and the clunky graphics imply the game is unchallenging.  Even Line Runner's gameplay sounds easy -  an invisible button on the left makes you roll, an invisible button on the right makes you jump. Small squares come flying toward you and you either have to jump over them or roll under them. So why's it so hard? Probably because the game moves at a million miles an hour. If you want to rack up a respectable score, you'll have to blur your vision so you can see the entire screen. The app developer calls this feature "Increasing difficulty from easy to bone breaking." We call shenanigans. This game is bone breaking from the start. Our high score was 618. If you beat that, upload a screenshot to the GameTime Flickr here. Pick up the game here for only $.99! Tags: Read More

RunStickRun! by Robert Szeleney is a running game for the iPhone that features a stick man performing incredible jumps and leaps while trying to stay on top of various floating platforms as he runs headlong through nine different tracks. A very simple game to play, RunStickRun! is by turns addicting and frustrating as you guide the little stick man towards victory. You may choose between nine different tracks to run on or Random to mix things up a bit. Tap on the screen to get started. In order to make your jumps, drag your finger in the direction of where you want the stick man to jump: short swipes for little jumps and longer swipes for higher jumps. The objective is to stay on the platforms for the duration of the run and avoid crashing to the ground. Slipping off the platform means instant death for the careless runner. But there is a way to save yourself if you do fall off: below the platform is a car following you on your run. If you’re quick enough, land on the car and it will carry you safely below the platforms. Don’t stay on the car for too long, though. The car will start to break down as you continue your ride until it eventually blows up–you’ll die anyway. If the platforms are going too fast for you to keep up with and you need a break, hop up onto the prop plane flying above you to safely soar over them. But like the car below you, eventually the plane will break down and you will find yourself crashing, so don’t stay on it too long. The graphics are relatively simple–a stick figure man, a plane, and a car with many, many platforms set against a graph paper background, making it easy on the eyes. Unfortunately, with such basic art, it was sometimes too easy to miss the next platform, leading to a needless death. The music is a screaming trance song that can be appealing to some and annoying to others. If it becomes too much for you, you can turn it off under Options. The game is easy to play while being pretty challenging at the same time. I died many times before I finally started correctly anticipating when I should jump and when I should simply hop. It’s pretty addictive as you leap from platform to platform, but with Read More

iPhone App FREE! Our Review By Phillip Levin on April 6th, 2011 Rating: :: SURPRISINGLY ENTERTAINING Are you ready to become a traffic master? Developer: Price: $0.99 Version Reviewed: 1.1 Device Reviewed On: iPhone Graphics / Sound Rating: Game Controls Rating: Gameplay Rating: Replay Value Rating: Overall Rating: A game in which you control traffic may not sound particularly entertaining, but you’d be surprised. Indeed, Traffic Master is a surprisingly fun little iOS title. The game takes place from a top-down perspective, looking at a highway intersection. Your task is to control the pace of traffic moving through the intersection and prevent any car accidents. Your only two control options are to tap a vehicle to stop it or swipe a vehicle to speed it up. Your goal, really, is to make sure all vehicles make it through the intersection without colliding with one another. This can be accomplished by stopping a car that may hit another or speeding up one that would otherwise collide with a crossing vehicle. The game features three different levels, each having its own difficulty level. The first level, Springfield, consists of an eight-lane intersection, and is labeled as “easy.” Meanwhile, Miami, which is considered “medium” difficulty and New York, which is “hard,” feature a sixteen-lane intersection with increasingly heavier traffic. If you fail to stop a collision, it’s game over. You can no longer interact with the traffic, and you’ll witness a pile-up of vehicles colliding with one another until the entire screen is filled with crashed cars, busses and motorcycles. The crash physics are a bit simplistic – smoke will rise out of crashed cars, but that’s about it, so don’t expect Burnout-esque crash physics here. The nice thing about Traffic Master is that it’s an easy game to pick up and play, even if you can only play for a couple of minutes. If you’re somewhere waiting for something to happen and want to kill a few minutes, then Traffic Master is a great option. What’s more, its simplistic concept makes it an easy game for anyone to grasp and enjoy. This is definitely casual gamer friendly. Traffic Master takes what might sound like a somewhat mundane task – controlling traffic – and turns it into a surprisingly fun and challenging game. This one’s worth checking out, and it’s only a dollar. Review disclosure: note that the product reviewed on this page may Read More

1 set Posted 01/09/2010 by Fabiano Confuorto in Senza categoria. Dark Nebula: Episode Two è un gioco che ormai conosciamo tutti nel quale dobbiamo utilizzare l’accelerometro per muovere una pallina. Questo secondo episodio è molto curato graficamente e comprende 19 livelli ambientati in 6 diversi scenari più uno finale nel quale guideremo un aereo. Sono presenti anche nuovi nemici ed ostacoli che rendono più difficile il superamento dei livelli. Non manca una colonna sonora di qualità cinematografica che ci accompagnerà per tutto il gioco. . Stick Stunt Biker è un semplice gioco di moto nel quale dobbiamo controllare un personaggio in 10 livelli attraverso il touch screen e l’accelerometro. La grafica è molto semplice e caratterizza tutti i giochi dello stesso sviluppatore. Nel gioco abbiamo anche la possibilità di condividere i risultati e vedere le classifiche mondiali attraverso OpenFeint. Sono disponibili diversi obiettivi che rendono questo gioco avvincente e longevo. . The Incident è un nuovissimo gioco che ha riscontrato un grandissimo consenso nell’App Store statunitense. Il gioco è molto semplice: controlliamo un omino tramie l’accelerometro ed il touchscreen (per saltare) e dovremo schivare i vari oggetti che cadranno dal cielo arrivando fino ad una certa quota, che varia da livello a livello. La grafica, a 8-bit e fatta interamente dal designer della Panic Software Neven Mrgan, che rende il titolo molto piacevole. Qui di seguito invece, una recensione del nostro AppleiPodTouchFan di tutti e tre i giochi. Read More

15 Mar 2010 alle 09:00 Produttore: Robert Szeleney | Download Via: AppStore | Prezzo: 0,79€ RunStickRun è un gioco molto semplice ma che crea sicuramente assuefazione. La grafica è formata da piccoli disegni senza troppi particolari e rispecchia a pieno la semplicità che ritroviamo anche nello scopo vero e proprio del gioco: correre il più lontano possibile saltando le varie piattaforme. Ci sono 9 livelli in totale che si differenziano per la posizione delle piattaforme e la particolarità di questi quadri è che sono tutti infiniti. Oltre ai 9, c’è un livello “casuale” che differisce ogni volta che viene avviato. Per far saltare l’omino tra le piattaforme basta toccare lo schermo. Più si tiene premuto lo schermo più in alto salterà l’omino. Nel gioco inoltre, possiamo trovare dei “bonus” che ci permetteranno di andare più lontano come l’aereo e la macchina. Dobbiamo stare attenti però a saltare via da questi prima che scoppino, per evitare di morire. Nella schermata finale, che vediamo soltanto dopo la morte, possiamo vedere il nostro punteggio assieme al record personale, iniziare nuovamente il livello oppure entrare nel profilo OpenFeint per visualizzare i risultati degli amici. Di seguito trovate la nostra videorecensione: Read More

January 18th, 2010 James Isabel We’ll slowly get back to your regular TheAPPera.com scheduling and we thought the best way to do that is through another free game. Remember FreeAppADay.com? Today’s first featured game to open the site is Rope’n'Fly! Use your ropes to swing from on skyscraper to the others. You have full control over your ropes, touch on a tower to throw your rope there, touch once again to release it and use your acceleration to fly through the sky. Touch again once you come too near to the ground before your break into smithereens. It’s a pretty cool casual game. The graphics obviously isn’t the best feature, but you should still download the game. Rope’n'Fly 2 is available if you want some more swinging action! You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Read More

18 Jan 2010 alle 17:29 Rope’n'Fly è un giochino molto carino presente nell’AppStore in cui noi dovremo attraversare la città appigliandoci ai grattacieli attraverso le corde che lanceremo su di essi in una classica visuale 2D, ma dovremo stare attenti a lanciare la corda al momento giusto poichè in base alla lunghezza di essa potremo cadere e frantumarci al suolo. Ecco le caratteristiche qui di seguito: Rope’n'Fly è compatibile con iPhone e iPodTouch, richiede il firmware 2.2.1 o successivi ed è localizzata in Inglese. Read More

Here are a few recent releases that may be of interest to some of our readers. Fore by Cobra Mobile A top-down iPhone golfing game that comes with 54 holes across 3 different courses. The game was designed for touch/swipe controls. Driving the ball simply requires you to slide back and flick forward in the direction of the shot. Putting is also very simple by tapping and sliding in the direction of the hole. A video of the game in action is shown above. Further impressions and reactions can be found in the discussion thread Rope Raider While Rope'n'Fly [99¢ / Free] and Rope'n'Fly 2 [99¢ / Free] were definitely around first, Rope Raider brings a substantial amount of style and atmosphere with a much more detailed cityscape, sound effects, as well as the plump and barefoot Rope Raider character himself. Three different game modes are included: A free play mode where you see how far you can get, as well as two timed modes where you aim for either coins collected or overall distance before the time runs out. Rope Raider feels like a substantial improvement over Rope'n'Fly and is recommended for fans of swinging games. Further impressions and reactions can be found in the discussion thread. Virtual Villagers 3 Last Day of Work has brought the 3rd installment of Virtual Villagers to the iPhone. The previous installments have been well received by fans of these sort of "sim" games. The game carries forward the basics of gameplay in which you can manipulate the villager's activities by moving them around with your finger to perform specific tasks and aid in their advancement. Villagers can be tasked to do a number of chores, including gathering food, building shelter, performing research and more. Further impressions and reactions can be found in the discussion thread Thanks for your feedback everyone! I'm one of the developers for Clink from Mojo Forest, and I would like share with you guys more info about the game... IAP: The game is balanced to a degree that anyone could level and collect enough cards to help with winning more coins without IAP. No matter what level you are, when your coins are below 100, it will always be recharged back to 100 (when you are offline), no one will be forced to buy anything because all cards and coins are attainable (no premium items). (try 'Triple' or 'Master' Read More