Chances are, you know what TD is all about. You build towers that have different types of attack powers to any enemies that may walk past you, and the more enemy kills you have the more towers you can build and upgrade to higher powers. Slug Wars, in contrast, is a side-scrolling game in which your “towers” are actually slugs.

There’s three lanes that your slugs can enter on. Your slugs come in from the right, your opponent comes in from the left. The goal is to get three of your slugs all the way over to the far left side before your opponent can get three of theirs to your side of the screen. Each type of slug has different attack powers, so there is definitely some strategy involved in exactly how you can overwhelm your opponent and push them back far enough to get your slugs through the left side.

I found Slug Wars to be an enjoyable game, and I was entertained throughout the whole experience. I was, however, concerned that since it involves slugs, the gameplay itself turned out to be rather slow. I kept hoping the slugs would start crawling faster, attacking faster, etc. It also lacks multiplayer over WiFi or 3G, which I’m hoping will be resolved in a future update.

Overall, I found the $1.99 price tag to be fair given the level of gameplay, entertainment value and challenge. It’s certainly worth a look, so go grab it at the App Store or click on the button below.

I have a confession to make: I’ve never played Broken Sword. I hear it’s a very popular point and click game that I probably should know all about and have beaten the game 5 times already.

Perhaps I don’t have that experience to live with, but I can certainly have something close to it with the upcoming iPhone version of the same game. This time it’s titled “Broken Sword: Director’s Cut” and will have around 20% longer gameplay time. It will also add in touchscreen controls, new graphics, and brand new puzzles and dialogue.

The game will be expected by the end of the month sometime, so keep a close eye on it.

Did you play Broken Sword? Am I a moron for not having played it before?

via TechDigest

I was a huge fan of the original Zenonia on the iPhone. It was one of the first true RPGs you could find for the platform, and it was done rather well. While not completely smooth all the time, it was still enjoyable for being a pioneer of the iPhone RPG market.

Naturally, then, I was pretty excited to hear that a sequel is on its way. Most iPhone sequels I’ve experienced have been much better than the originals, which is saying a lot considering sequels only come out if the original is successful enough to merit a second one.

In this sequel, titled “Zenonia: The Lost Memories”, you can choose between four different classes of characters (as opposed to three in the orig): paladin, shooter, magician, and warrior. More interestingly though is the introduction of new levels of difficulty. In Lost Memories we’ll get to choose between Normal, Hard, and Hell modes. The more difficult the game is, the more secrets, treasures and bosses you can face.

Another exciting addition to the game is online multiplayer. Gamevil tells us that players can download their characters and compete against friends (or foes, in this case). We don’t know if this is just for a local network or if you can match up with someone from anywhere.

Release time will likely be March.

Look, there’s really nothing original about this concept. It’s a zombie shooter game for the iPhone and iPod Touch that looks from the top down. Like THAT hasn’t been done before. But what is worth mentioning on this site is the fact that it’s Dawn of the Dead, based on George Romero’s highly successful motion picture of the same name, as well as its remake from 2004.

I guess I should reserve judgment for until the game comes out, and then we’ll see. Developed by Byte Mark, it has already been submitted to the App Store. This means we’ll likely be seeing it within a few days, if not even sooner.

So here’s how gameplay is set up. As mentioned previously, it is a game played looking down from above. The game is set in Crossroads Mall, and you can play the nurse, the salesman, or the cop (I hope we get to ride around on a Segway! Now THAT would make the game cool). At your disposal you can defend yourself from the zombies using bats, axes, golf clubs, and a whole bunch of guns. The campaign involves taking you through all five levels of the mall; you can also choose to play up to 12 different challenges.

You know you’re into Dawn of the Dead movies, zombie attacks, and anything else dealing with the undead. You fantasize about zombies really existing and taking over the earth. Thus, I know you’re going to get this game with intense eagerness. Fortunately, you don’t have to wait long!

This new version of The Sims 3 will feature your characters in three new locations around the world: “Al Simhara” in Egypt, “Champs Les Sims” in France, and “Shang SimLa” in China. There will be 52 new goals and four minigames available.

Really, the best news I can see for players who developed their characters on The Sims 3 already is that all characters and in-app purchases will be transferable. That will make the process as painless and wallet-friendly as possible.

Sound off, everyone; who’s interested? Anyone play The Sims 3 and want to play this one?

via Appadvice

Check out the teaser site here, but all that’s there is a large graphic and this preview video, as seen below:

As usual, no real word on release timeframe or price, if any.

Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of Final Fantasy, is working on an iPhone game (most likely a RPG) with his Mistwalker studio.

All we know is that it will be available sometime soon, and it’s been confirmed on the developer’s website. While nobody knows what exactly the game will be, it’s speculated that this could be a version of his Blue Dragon RPG. We’ll keep you posted on any new updates.

A new app called iHologram has just been submitted to Apple. The app itself was inspired by a concept thought up in 2008 which theorized that it should be possible to turn the iPhone into a type of hologram. No, Trekkies, I’m not talking about stuff you can do on the Holodeck of the Enterprise; I’m talking about being able to see images in 3D, so it looks like the image is popping out of the 2D screen.

Here’s the rundown of the concept:

The application works by assuming a constant viewing angle (35-45 degrees), typical for when the device is placed on a tabletop. The 3d scene’s perspective is warped using anamorphosis, the same technique used in Hans Holbein’s painting The Ambassadors. This application does the exact same but updates dynamically.

Now here’s a video of the actual iHologram that a dev by the name of Jormy created. Then let me know if he nailed it well enough.

The bottom line to me is that it’s a great concept, and it’s cool that a dev actually implemented it in real life, but how practical is it? The app shown in the video is quite basic and isn’t anything I feel could be applied to a legit app. Perhaps it can be applied to a new game style, and then it’d be worth it. But until then, color me impressed by the tech involved but I won’t actually be buying the app myself.

BTW – it will only be available to the iPhone 3GS.

I have a hard time finding good quality games for my daughter to play on my iPhone. She keeps grabbing for it but I don’t like to let her play on it if it’s not an app or game that helps her learn. So Star Match, a new game from Digidood, will be quite handy for me to have just in case my daughter wants to mess around with my phone.

Star Match is a simple matching game. Not much to it, but it’s simple enough for most kids to figure out. It asks you match up stars that have the same letters or numbers on it, in order to help kids learn the alphabet and their numbers better.

Submitted to the app store, keep an eye out for it in the next couple weeks. Cool thing is, however, you can actually play the game through a simulator right now at digidood’s site.

Quite frankly, I’m actually quite surprised I haven’t seen any app like this one out on the App Store yet.

Have you ever been tempted to just take your iPhone and chuck it? Maybe even into a lake? Now there’s an app for that!

It’s called Skipping Stones. Not the most original name on the planet, but it gets the point across effectively; this app is all about letting you throw stones out into a lake and see how many times that stone will skip.

The game features 3 possible landscapes, 3 play modes (various difficulties?) and the ability to compete online via OpenFeint. Just submitted to Apple yesterday, it should be available soon for $.99.

Check out the trailer on this Facebook page.

And also enjoy some screenshots.

via iPhonegames.asia