Fling Theory, from Coding Jar Studios, hands you a number of puzzle based levels, and asks you to throw a single atom around the level, collecting coins and clearing the way so you can get the atom to the exit. Is that enough for a hit game?
Belgian company SNCB are behind 'Train Tickets', an international application that lets you buy train tickets across Europe for international travel. Unlike other applications (such as Scotrail's Windows Phone app), Train Tickets is geared towards the long distance traveller on services between European countries. Think Eurostar and Fyra rather than the 1810 to Basingstoke, and you'll be in the right area.
Zeptolab's return to the world of Cut the Rope this month has been an interesting one to watch. Cut The Rope can rightly be considered a marquee game for a mobile platform, with its recognisable central character (Om Nom), well known gameplay, and attractive graphics. So Cut The Rope: Experiments is a welcome addition to Windows Phone, but it's not without some controversy.
Ask anyone the biggest name in consumer computer chess and the answer will come back 'ChessGenius'. It's available for every single platform, old and new (this is its debut on Windows Phone), it's been around for well over a decade, the chess engine it's based on has won ten (computer) world championships and it'll thrash you unless you happen to be a grandmaster. And even then you might struggle. Happily, there are options here to make it less forgiving of us lesser mortals...
What do you get if you distil the essence of Windows Phone 8 and the Nokia Lumia design/concept right down to the bone? If you drive it as far as possible towards the budget end of the market yet without compromising core functionality? You get this, the Nokia Lumia 520, now available at a bargain price somewhere near you (£99 on pay-as-you-go in the UK). There do have to be, naturally, quite a few compromises away from the core - and that's where this review should get most interesting... Is there a single show stopper? Or do the niggles add up to one? And will the target market even care?
Let's be honest here, if you were to look at UK Trains purely on the functions offered when installed on the handset, you wouldn't be that impressed. There's no live tile support for individual stations, you can't do a manual search, and platform information is truncated. But I still like it.
I really wanted to like Storm in a Teacup. I like quirky off the wall games, I like platform games with a bit of exploration. I also like my games to be responsive, look nice, and feel right. Unfortunately Storm in a Teacup was more of the latter than the former.
Working in the same realm as the Xbox Live title Doodle God, but naturally in opposition, is Doodle Devil. Starting with a few building blocks, can you create every evil thing in the world and balance out all the good things created in Doodle God?
A new game on Xbox Live? A new game in a franchise and we get it first? And it's a follow up to Gravity Guy? Sounds wonderful! Is it a fast paced sideways scrolling arcade game? Yes it is. Is it infuriatingly unforgiving? Definitely. Is it about to be reviewed? Could be!
Between listening to music tracks you have copied onto your smartphone, or listening to a radio station, there is a delightfully fertile ground of streaming apps to help you discover new artists, albums, and music. Mixtapes brings a huge collection of curated playlists to your finger tips.
