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Magic Ball 2

Boasting 100 levels in full 3D graphics, Alawar Entertainment’s Magic Ball 2 caught my eye for another reason.  During the mad rush to celebrate birthdays last month, there was always a need to entertain kids.  Whether it was my own child or someone else’s, something was always needed to quell the source of the loud ringing in my ears perpetrated by a pair of strong lungs and a pig-headed [...]

iCombat

A couple of months ago, I was looking for a tank game along the lines of the old Atari vector tank game, Battlezone, but instead, I ran into a slew of games, which were closer in nature to EA’s Desert Strike and Nintendo’s Battalion Wars.  Through it all, I eventually did find a comparable tank game to an Atari classic, but [...]

Powerboat Challenge 3D

A few years back, I saw a game called Galaxy on Fire 3D on a cellphone and I was speechless.  Up to that point, I believed that the cutting edge of mobile games could only reach the height of retread arcade classics, slices to chunks of 16-bit turn-based games, and passable web games.  Another homerun derby [...]

Tilt-a-Ball

It’s always an honor when Game Industry vets like Rich Adam and Ed Rotberg from Mine Shaft Entertainment contact you for any reason.  These guys worked at Atari when it was on top of the video game arcade world in the late 70’s and early 80’s.  They have the original Missle Command and BattleZone listed to their credits.  Later, Rich [...]