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Month: September 2010

  • ElementZ HD iPad game

    Elementz is a fun iPad match the objects game. I got it for free, but I don’t know if it is still free. As with all of these games, match 3 objects in a row and they disappear. When these balls disappear, they make a particularly satisfying crashing noise and have a nice falling away…

  • Halo Reach Turning Ugly

    Things are getting pretty ugly in Halo Reach, and I don’t mean the graphics, which are pretty good. ***Spoiler Alert*** Do not read if you don’t want spoilers One of the unique features of Halo Reach (at least compared to the other Halo games I’ve played) is the presence of your Noble Team comrades. They…

  • Pocket Frogs on iPhone

    I took a look at Pocket Frogs on the iPhone, just to see if it is as nice looking on iPhone as on the iPad. It sure is. You can see from these images that it looks very much the same as on the iPad. I will likely not play any more on the iPhone,…

  • Final Fantasy I & II for iPhone on Sale

    I notice that Final Fantasy I and II for iPhone are on sale in the App Store for $4 each. I enjoyed Final Fantasy XIII on the PS3 and Crisis Core on the PSP, but these games look too retro even for me. I am sure they provide many hours of gameplay, but I tend…

  • Power Outage => Pocket Frogs

    We had a long and annoying power outage last night, apparently due to the high temperatures in Los Angeles. Since the only piece of electronic equipment that was still charged after the workday was my iPad, I sat in the dark on my patio and played Pocket Frogs. As you can see, I now have quite a…

  • Video Game Voters Network

    If you want to stand up for games and our right to play them, check out the Video Game Voters Network at http://videogamevoters.org/ Of course, it’s sponsored to some extent by the Entertainment Software Association, whose members stand to lose a lot of money if video games become strongly regulated, but this is a case of lobbying…

  • Star Trek Online Captain’s Status Update

    I finished the last of the Breen/Deferi/Preserver weekly episodes. It was pretty good and had not the worst plot of the game. I think if Cryptic can keep these up, it’ll be a great addition to the game. I also really made Vice Admiral. Before, when I maxed out the skill points, I wasn’t a…

  • Pocket Frogs iPad/iPhone game surprisingly addictive

    The free Pocket Frogs game for iPad and iPhone doesn’t have much “game,” but it is strangely compelling and surprisingly addictive. This is one of those “freemium” games that are free to play, but to speed things up, the company will happily sell you (for real money, of course) coins or potions or mana that…

  • Halo Reach Space Fighting is Fun!

    The space fighting part of Halo Reach is the most fun, so far, but it was quite short, and since my Sabre was destroyed with the Covenant super-carrier, not likely to be repeated soon. The first video here shows part of the first space battle. It gets busier in the attack wave after the video,…

  • Halo Reach Turret Shooting

    Because Halo Reach put me more than an hour back in my game, I had a chance to relive some of my favorite moments so far. The first is as I’m being airlifted to a spire I need to shut down. I got to shoot from the turret and took out a lot of Covenant…