Frisky Mongoose

There’s a common theme running through Bloom Box, the upcoming iOS puzzler from TriplePoint client Nexx Studio, but I just can’t seem to put my green thumb on it. Bloom Box tasks players with placing the titular bloom boxes into a field of flowers in such a way that, when triggered, they will fire projectiles (made of [...]

Diner Dash is a game all about starting out small and manageable, and then growing and growing until your restaurant empire is unstoppable. It seems like the publisher, TriplePoint client PlayFirst, subscribes to the ‘write what you know’ school of design, because the same thing has happened to Diner Dash itself, which started out as a [...]

Temple Run 2, much like its predecessor, is a game nobody can ever win. You run and you run, and perhaps you cover a long distance and feel pretty good about it, but ultimately you fling yourself off a cliff or into the murderous arms of a hell-monkey. It’s a game about losing. As such, [...]

Much like the other days of the week build towards Wednesday in anticipation of the Google Play store update, so too does today’s featured Play Pick slowly swell in momentum and anxiousness towards a flashy pay-off in classic build-em-up style. Monsterama Planet, a free-to-play space colony builder by developer/publisher/fruit/bird Kiwi, takes the standard model of the [...]

Some people celebrate milestones with a splashy announcement or a party, but not TriplePoint client Appxplore. No, they’ve decided that the proper way to mark two million downloads for puzzle-app Sporos is to unleash a torrent of spores and aliens upon us all — presumably because now that they’ve achieved their success, there’s nothing more this [...]

Okay. Being able to solve simple problems by assembling needlessly complicated Rube Goldberg devices? That’s fairly crazy. Being able to share those devices with like-minded inventors across multiple platforms? That’s very crazy. Getting access to Crazy Machines Golden Gears via the Windows Store and being able to download the game on Windows 8 PCs digitally for just [...]