Archive for November, 2011
Fieldrunners HD
Tower defence is without a doubt some of the most addictive android games out there. Whilst this still needs to be proven via scientific experiment, it is still clear that android games such as Fieldrunners HD are the reason for this, and that you will want to play this android game for as long as [...]
Enchanted Forest Living: Gnome Town
Gnome Town is quite possibly the most adorable game in the history of Facebook games. You play a gnome, like the kind you see in a Travelocity ad or your grandma’s garden. You rescue cute little furry creatures from the Evil Gnome and attempt to restore the good king to power. As you rescue cute [...]
Search the World in the Quest for the Golden McRib
This makes me hungry If you enjoy encountering Viking accountants, searching for golden sandwiches or are a big fan of McDonald’s, you need to play the Quest for the Golden McRib game on Facebook. The company developed the Facebook game to promote their limited time release of the McRib sandwich, but even if you won’t [...]
Need for Speed Shift
It is commonly thought that in order to play an HD version of an android game you will need a screen that can handle it, and when thinking that most people go straight towards an Apple device. However android games like Need for Speed Shift clearly show what Android devices are capable of doing, entirely [...]
Sims Creator Begins Tampering with Real Life
Will Wright, creator of The Sims, is moving beyond mere pixels, and taking gamers with him. Instead of letting you play god and housing designer to a group of non-sentient AI, his newest game will actually play games with your life with a little help from GPS, cloud storage, and your friends. If it sees [...]
I Do: Wedding Street
I do….. like this game? Fair warning, this is the most girly Facebook game I have ever seen. Sponsored by uber-wedding website “The Knot,” it gives you an outlet for all your secret wedding desires. If you’re the kind of person who can’t wait to get engaged so you can plan your wedding, this is [...]
Big Bang
There are actually an interesting number of android games whereby you can learn things. Too much of the time gamers are criticised for apparently ‘wasting their time’ by playing videogames, but there are actually a huge number of android games which can be a beneficial way to pass the time, and Big Bang, an android [...]
Gardens of Time
Can you spot the gnome? Gardens of time is a gorgeous Facebook game, as the picture above shows. You have been recruited to join a society of time-travelers who attempt to keep the threads of history correct and continuous. Your job is to find and remove things that are not part of the historical record [...]
Put Your Best Outfit Forward With Coco Girls
Are you a Coco girl? MetroGames may be based in Argentina, but some of their Facebook game releases have been huge hits in the United States. Auto Hustle gave Grand Theft Auto fans a place to express their inner crime lord, while Fashion World and Mall Dreams appealed more to young girls who wanted to [...]
Get a (Virtual) Life: Sims Social
What? MORE housework for me to do? The Sims Social is a classic game, originally on PC and now available as a Facebook game. In The Sims Social, you create a virtual life for yourself and your character and you interact with your friends. I like the skill set options. You start with a computer, [...]
The Sims 3
The Sims 3 is obviously one of EA’s more popular android games, well known for being extremely successful on computer. Being able to control other people’s lives seems to be a great escape for even the most casual gamer, as it can often be far easier to sort out other, fiction, people’s problems than it [...]
Gaming in the Cloud
The Game Center has been dead almost since it was introduced in Sept. 2010, but some iOS 5 updates could breathe more life into the stale medium. The idea was supposed to be a cross between playing games on Facebook and the social capabilities of Xbox Live. The execution fell fairly flat, as friends had [...]
The Moron Test
More recently, there has been a huge craze going on for android games which claim to be impossible, but more specifically those that claim to be made for only smart people. It then seems that everyone wants to try and prove the game wrong, especially if it is a simple quiz where the answers are [...]