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Slam Dunk Basketball
Listen up hoops fans, because there is a new basketball game in town. If you are looking for a free chance to take a shot on the hardwood, this is your opportunity. In the new game Slam Dunk Basketball you are competing against the clock and gamers all over the world for leaderboard supremacy. As you are more successful, additional courts and settings will be unlocked, further amplifying the action. Be sure not to lose sight of the sixty awesome achievements either, because they will raise the roof!
Slam Dunk Basketball
Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Buy Now: FREE
Released: 2011-07-04 :: Category: Games
Speedy Biker Xtreme
Motorheads better be ready, because this game is ready to race right by you. This awesome little gem is about maxing your crotch rocket out to the peak of its potential, while still keeping your eyes on the track. With several new bikes and tracks added to the mix, along with the ability to create tracks of your own, it is safe to say that this is the game that keeps on giving, even long after its initial release. Saddle up, because this could be a bumpy ride to say the very least!
Speedy Biker Xtreme
Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Buy Now: FREE
Released: 2011-06-30 :: Category: Games
Awakening – Moonfell Wood
For those of you that enjoyed the puzzle games of old, this is a title that might be right in your wheelhouse, as long as you have at least halfway decent vision. Awakening is a hidden object game that doubles as a puzzler, that is meant to turn you brain into putty. Simple minded folks need not apply, but if you are one for testing the limits of your mental capacity this may be worth taking out for a spin. Or should I say, a search?
Awakening - Moonfell Wood HD
iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad
Buy Now: FREE
Released: 2011-05-26 :: Category: Games
Torchwood: Web of Lies
Who doesn’t love a good mystery? Fans of the BBC series Torchwood are no newcomers to the concept, so why not enjoy the universe more in bite sized gaming fun? Set as a companion to the series, the game introduces the amazing Eliza Dushku as Holly, in this compelling hybrid of action gaming and motion comics. Call us crazy, but this might even appeal to those that are not just fans of the series, but comic buffs as well. At any point, this seems like an awesome free glimps into the world of Torchwood. It is well worth a glance.
Torchwood: Web of Lies
Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Buy Now: FREE
Released: 2011-07-07 :: Category: Games
Texas Hold’em Poker Pro
I don’t know about you, but for me there is no bigger thrill then going all in, hoping that your luck will change with one card flip on the river. Does that sound like french to you? If so, either you don’t watch enough ESPN late at night, or you have been living under a rock for the last decade. For the rest of us normal folk who enjoy a good card game from time to time, Poker Pro may be a solid title worth looking into. Just be sure to never go all in when bluffing. Those jerks on the internet can see through all of your shenanigans in a sonic second!
Texas Hold'em Poker
Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Buy Now: FREE
Released: 2011-04-08 :: Category: Games
Apps mentioned in this post: Awakening - Moonfell Wood HD, Slam Dunk Basketball, Speedy Biker Xtreme, Texas Hold'em Poker, Torchwood: Web of Lies
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A brilliant scientist named Cavor has invented a bizarre substance (dubbed “cavorite”) which, when sprayed on things, can break the laws of gravity and cause them to float. Naturally he uses this gooey stuff to craft a space ship and fly to the moon, promptly gets captured by moon men and has his ship stolen. Now he has to escape, collect enough components to repair the ship and get back to Earth. It’s pretty much H.G. Wells’ 
Then, of course, we come to the not so great stuff: Cavorite‘s overzealous coddling. Including an option for players to skip a level if they keep failing or restarting is fine, and the draw of collecting all the ship parts will certainly bring them back once they’ve gotten some more practice in on later stages, but having the skip screen pop up just as a level is restarting (often resulting in the controls sticking because I was attempting to move before the screen actually appeared) isn’t. I’m not suggesting its removal as it’s a nice feature to have, but having it come up before players are given control or including an option to turn off the reminder would be great solutions to the issue.
Rob Rich 
Of all the different control schemes found through the decades of gaming history, the classic twin-stick shooter control scheme is probably one of the easiest to translate to the iOS experience. The one-thumb-to-move-one-thumb-to-shoot school of thought removes the need for more than two buttons or joysticks and maps fairly well to a touch screen experience. This is probably one of the many reasons why one can find game after game with this simple setup in the iOS catalog. Call of Mini: Zombies is essentially a twin-stick shooter with one big difference.
The gameplay is what most players would expect from a twin-stick shooter turned third-person shooter. The game is broken up into days and during each day the player selects a section of the map to clear of zombies. There are a four distinct sections of the map to play in and players will bounce back and forth between them from day to day. Surviving each day consists of fighting off waves of zombies and the waves get longer and more difficult each day. Players will collect ammo, power-ups, and money as they are fighting off the zombie hordes. Money is also awarded at the end of each day and can be used to upgrade armor, buy and upgrade weapons, and purchase new characters with different abilities.
Jason Wadsworth 
Puzzle games and dinosaurs don’t usually go together, what with dinosaurs not typically being known for their huge brains, but they are finally together at last. The goal of Dino Catch is simple – there is a dinosaur in the center of the 11X11 hexagonal grid, with some of the hexagons already filled in. The goal is to try to not let the dinosaur reach the edge of the board, and to trap him so that he can’t reach the edge. The dino and the player take turns, with the player putting down a hexagon, and then the dino moving. The goal is to try to force the dino into already-established sections of the board, or trying to tunnel it so that it can be potentially blocked off. The game keeps track of the player’s win-loss record versus the dinosaur, and at first, the record will likely be tilted far in the favor of the dinosaur for a while. This game is based off a math problem called the “Angel Problem,”though this is far more fun than most math problems are. The game comes with Game Center support through OpenFeint, and is a free download. The game offers the ability to remove ads and unlock a 2-player mode by paying $0.99 through in-app purchase.
Carter Dotson 
Of course, just because people haven’t met up with Facebook friends in real life, that doesn’t mean they don’t know them well. But how to test that? Playing Trivia With Facebook Friends of course!
Jennifer Allen 
Welcome to Presidents vs. Aliens, a game that combines two of America’s greatest pastimes: politicians and kicking alien butt, a combination that led to Independence Day becoming a smash hit. The goal of the game is to launch a president’s head into the sky to hit the aliens on the playing field, trying to clear them all out. Now, the way to get presidents’ heads to launch at the aliens is by answering multiple-choice questions about presidential facts, like who was in office when certain events in American history occurred, what party they were in, or to identify the presidents by their portrait alone. Only then can the presidents be used to take out the aliens. Getting three questions in a row correct grants use of a powerup, such as Alien Infection, where aliens that are hit can be used to take out other aliens; Triple President, which launches three presidents at once; and Zero Gravity, which is exactly what it says on the tin.
Presidents vs. Aliens has pretty much no failure; granted, this is meant to be an edutainment game, and one that kids would play, but there’s just absolutely nothing pushing for efficient play. Perhaps a star system or limited number of tries per level would help this aspect of the game out. Again, this is a game that kids will play, and the goal is education as much as entertainment, so preventing frustration from failure is an important goal, but it just feels like with some kind of ability to fail, the game would be more interesting.
Carter Dotson