I remember the good old days of University when JamieO and I would try and bend the programming of a Steep Slope Sliders demo on the Sega Saturn as way to create our own skateboarding game. This was before one of my all time hero’s Tony Hawk released his ‘proper’ skateboarding game on the Play Station. Many devs have released skateboarding games over the years and the Hawk franchise has slowly...

Doodle jump comes with a warning and rightly so! It is wonderfully addictive but never before has a game lead me so close to the complete obliteration my shiny new 3rd gen iPod touch! Be warned! Doodle Jump is a super simplistic, endurance/survival game where it is your job to navigate your character onwards and upwards to a worthy high score.

Physics games are nothing new on the iPhone platform, we have Topple, Physics... actually there are tons of physics games I could mention! But, none of them have that authentic cutesy cutesy Japanese feel that you may find on the DS platform. This is where Tumbledrop comes in. Created by Starfruit games, Tumbledrop is a vibrant,...

The Simpsons is still an amazing show even after all these years, but if there is one thing that the show is guilty of, it’s allowing it’s brand identity as a supposed catalyst for making video games. Apart from maybe the Konami release in the early 90’s I have tended to avoid Simpsons games! I love the show but the games are often very shallow and provide little interest to me.