It seems like it's been a while since we had a big holiday weekend full of app sales, but the wait is over: Memorial Day is coming up in just a few days, and app developers are bringing down prices all over the store to celebrate! Man oh man that's a lot of great, really cheap games. Especially that Because We May sale -- seriously, go look at it, both for iOS and Steam. Read More

Posted by Jacob Penderworth on Friday, April 20, 2012 at 2:11 pm.   We’re back with another weekly installment of iFans Weekly Deals, which highlights the best app, product and accessory deals that you can get your hands on for a limited time only! As always, we’ll update this post throughout the weekend if there are any new additions, so check back frequently. In this week’s apps, we have Flight Control HD, Call of Duty: Zombies, Zenonia and its sequel, Living Earth HD, and more. In other deals, we have a refurbished MacBook Air, a used original iPad 64 GB and more. Check after the break for it all! Read More

The App Store is a labyrinthine place, and it's easy to get lost in it. Many gamers just stick to the top 10 or 25 apps and base their purchases on those, ignoring everything else. To help you out, we've made it our mission to search out the best games available, regardless of whether they're the best selling or not. Here's our list of the top 20 iOS games that launched in the first quarter of 2012. 20. Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy There's a reason Apple invited Namco onstage at this year's iPad event to show off Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy-- it looks great, especially if you play it on the new iPad. But whatever device you play it on, you'll be soaring across the skies and gunning down bogies. The controls are tight as a drum and the missions come in an impressive number of varieties. There's not much here Read More

Posted 02/22/2012 at 5:32am | by Nathan Meunier Who doesn’t want their brain punched in the face? Puzzlejuice makes the bizarre prospect a lot more fun than it sounds by combining aspects of Tetris and Boggle into one real pressure-cooker of a puzzler. Matching colored blocks and chaining letters to quickly clear the screen as red, turquoise, and yellow hell rains down from above adds a dizzying twist to a familiar formula -- one that’s bound to titillate puzzle addicts and word nerds alike. As each multi-colored puzzle piece slowly descends, you rotate, drag, and jockey it into position to match up larger groups of the same color blocks. Meanwhile, tapping these formations transforms them into letters, and the only way to clear the debris away is by creating words to destroy adjacent blocks. Completing special objectives earns you unlockable power-ups – like bombs, drills, and the oh-so-cool “letter nuke” – Read More

...most talked about #iPhone app in the last 24hrs was: Puzzlejuice http://t.co/QFaEXd9H... Read More

Puzzlejuice is an inventive new game from the creators of Solipskier. Mike and Greg have created a hardcore puzzle game that spans the genre and lets you sort it all out. The basic mechanic of Puzzlejuice is more or less that of Tetris. Blocks fall from the top of the screen which you must arrange into complete lines. Once you do, however, they don't disappear. Instead, the blocks become a row of letters, which you must arrange to complete words (similar to the great Spelltower) for points. Tapping on colored blocks in matched rows of three or more turns them into letters too, and depending on which mode you're in, matched words will also explode other blocks, and powerups may even drop in the blocks you're matching. Acheivements like spelling a word of a certain length also keep you on your toes, as does powerup management. If that sounds confusing, you're Read More

Scrabble trifft Tetris trifft Astroslugs und zeugt aus dessen zentralen Spielelementen einen englischsprachigen Wort-Puzzle-Mix. Sein Entwickler trug mir zu, dass eine Lokalisierung für diese Genre-Mischung nicht in näherer Aussicht steht. Wer sich von der Sprachhürde nicht abschrecken lässt, bekommt einen exquisit gestalteten Hirnparasit, der nicht lange braucht, um zwischen euren grauen Zellen Pingpong zu spielen. Puzzlejuice (0.79 Cent; universal; App Store-Link) serviert seine farbige Buchstabensuppe als vereinte iOS-Version für iPhone und iPad. Auf dem kleineren Bildschirm zeigt sich die ‘Bild-in-Bild’-Option, die die Vorschläge eures Sprachzentrums durch eine Lupe unter den Fingern vergrößert, hilfreich. Das iPad bietet ohnehin ausreichend Platz, sinnvolle Reihenfolgen für die aufgebotenen Schriftzeichen zu finden. Asher Vollmer, Greg Wohlwend und Jimmy Hinson, die Entwickler, verprellten mit einer frühen Preissenkung von 2.39 € auf 0.79 Cent nach gerade einmal 24 Stunden einige Erstkäufer. Die Qualität des Titels reduziert dies jedoch nicht. Update: Twitter nachlesen lohnt: Die Kollegen von Superlevel hatten Read More

Puzzlejuice is an amazing new game from Asher Vollmer for the iPhone and iPad that combines elements of word puzzle games with Tetris and new school touchscreen gameplay. You will not only be playing a block dropping game but also have to focus on your multitasking skills and challenge your vocabulary. Every once in a while an iOS game breaks new ground and delivers something ingenious, and Puzzlejuice is definitely going to leave a lasting impression. This game is on sale right now for 99c so be sure to grab it, especially if you love brain tease style puzzlers. The concept in the Puzzlejuice game is pretty simple. You slam blocks of colored boxes down as they drop to form a solid line. That’s where the Tetris similarities end because a filled line doesn’t automatically get removed from the board. Here’s where the word puzzler part of Puzzlejuice kicks in. As Read More

If you enjoy Tetris, match-3 games and Boggle, then Puzzlejuice [99¢] from Colaboratory might be right up your alley. That's because this falling-block, color-matching, word-finding mash-up combines these things into a nice-looking bundle of pleasure. Puzzlejuice starts with falling puzzle-blocks, just like Tetris. You can rotate each falling block by tapping the screen or drag it left or right. A ghost image of the block shows where it will end up at the bottom. When you're happy with the position of the block, you can swipe it downwards to speed up its descent. And the idea is to form a solid row. That should all sound fairly familiar for anyone who knows Tetris, but that's just the start of this game. When you form a solid row of blocks across the playing area, instead of disappearing, the blocks turn into letters. And to make the letters disappear, you must draw a Read More

Looking for a new app this weekend?  Here are ten great new apps for the iPhone and iPad that you may want to check out! The latest educational play app from Lego, this time aimed at kids between 4 and 7.  The concept is simple, build a truck, carry some cargo and earn more bricks.  Free. An app designed to customize the image used on the new Facebook Timeline feature.  Pictures can be imported from your phone, Facebook, Instagram and other sources. The app is free, but has an in-app charge to unlock the Pro version.  Free. An iOS conversion of the classic console beat-em-up, complete with 19 characters and every fighting move intact.  It’s universal for the iPhone and iPad, has several game modes including an arcade and time attack, plus Game Center support.  $11.99/£7.99 Another classic Llamasoft game for iOS.  Caverns is a 8-bit arcade game and contains 21 Read More