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Manic Monkey Mayhem for the iPhone and iPod touch is available on the App Store for £2.99 and offers a solid game concept, good presentation and lots of games but disappointing controls and game play, giving it big potential from a future update.

A port over from the WiiWare game of the same name it has retained the humour, presentation and concept as the original and brings with it plenty of content and games, which goes some way to justifying the £2.99 price point, consisting of a 3 part campaign (plus tutorial) and 3 additional game modes: Greatest Ape in which you must outlast the other opponents to be crowned Greatest Ape, Minute Monkey in which you compete for the highest score in a minute, and Ape Team which pits you in teams against an opposing team.  Assuming you enjoy the mechanics and concept of the game there is plenty of content to Manic Monkey Mayhem, certainly enough to give you a long-time app on your device that you'll come back to again and again.  Similarly, if you really enjoyed playing this on another platform you will most likely enjoy playing this on the iPhone/iPod touch as well. Read More  »

Retro style games have been a bit of a dying breed at late. With the innovation of the iPhone sparking that 'quick fix' feeling in your everyday gamer, there isn't much room for games that take time, effort and skill. Marble Worlds 2, created by Limelight Studios, is one such game. Read More  »

Ravensword: The Fallen King is available on the App store now for £3.99.  It's an RPG action adventure in handy pocket sized form: it has a pocket sized story line, pocket sized characters, pocket sized RPG experience and levelling progression.  It's all there and makes for an excellent adventure and there are few, if any, better games for your pocket.

The story begins with a young man (you) found in the forest, knowing nothing about your past.  Taken to the town of Aven to recover you'll complete a number of quests around the town as favors for the locals to build up your gold and start to level up your character.  These serve as the learning curve for the game and consists of basic tasks like killing rats, herding sheep, destroying bee hives.  From there you'll take on progressively harder quests that require you to venture further out of the town.

Each quest leads fairly smoothly onto the next and if ever you find yourself without anything to do, talking to the locals of Aven will point you in the right direction.  Failing that wandering around areas you haven't investigated much will also lead you to the quest or quests available there.  One of the great things about Ravensword is that when you re-enter the game you will start exactly where you exited last time.  This means you can pick up on quests from where you left off, making it easy to play the game in sessions of varying lengths without having to repeat yourself, without which the game would be severely hindered. Read More  »

Ihooy is available on the App Store now to download for £0.59p and offers a game of Zombie smashing fun from an independent studio, delivering a gutsy, unique game of challenging timing and coordination based levels.

The concept of the game is very simple, wrapped up inside a bizarre explosive-zombie storyline.  There are 4 channels/corridors, the outer 2 harbour zombies that explode (bombiez) and the inner 2 carry uninfected civilians you need to let into the base.  Playing through each of the levels you will need to crush the zombies in the outer 2 corridors by hitting the red button below and slide open the entrance to the base in the inner 2.  This leads to a bizarre game play combination that fuses the coordination, timing and concentration of games like Guitar Hero with the zombie, bloody mayhem of Dead Rising.  Each of the 4 channels start sending Bombiez and civilians at you, and I'm sure you quickly get the idea of how it works. Failing to crush a zombie means it will explode against the wall defending your camp.  Let too many Bombiez through and your wall will be destroyed and it's game over.  Similarly, if you fail to open the entrance to the camp for the civilian to enter, they'll kill themselves on spikes placed just behind it. Read More  »