Calling all ace pilots, there's another 3D shooter in the Ovi Store. 3D Sky Fighter 2 is a forward scrolling accelerometer-controlled shoot 'em up. This is a bare bones game, with no instructions and minimal controls. That means the game will fly or crash and burn on its gameplay alone. Read on to find out whether it's a soaring success or a descending disaster!
Twitter is a must-have on any mobile phone these days. Fortunately, there are no shortage of applications out there to fill that need. TwimGo is a relatively new Twitter application, written by Tommi Laukkanen. It's available for both Maemo and Symbian, and is available for free in the Ovi Store. If you've outgrown Nokia Social, but still want a free Twitter client, is this the one for you? Read on to find out.
The clue is in the name of the game. Retro. Because RetroCosmos is harking back to the old days, the days even before Galaga and Defender ruled the arcade halls around the world. If there was a big timeline of arcade games where we would place Fabien Chereau's title, it would be sandwiched between the original Space Invaders and the more colourful Galaxians.
This looks promising - seven spinning dials with various coloured marbles that need to be lined up so they can disappear, to be replaced by more random coloured marbles. This sounds like an arcade/puzzle game that I could get used to. Unfortunately, it's missing some mojo to lift it out of the sea of nice ideas in order to make it to gaming nirvana.
It's not one hundred percent clear if this game is officially derived from a "Bomber Man" licence or if it's just very clever use of language in the Ovi Store description ("Brave Pipyakas, the offsprings of Bombermen, settled down in cozy world of watermelon trees"), but I'm not that bothered, because what's on offer here is a wonderful mix of exploration, adventure and arcade action.
Here's something unusual - an application from Offscreen Technologies which, depending on the version you grab, isn't necessarily free! Video Poker Touch is one of their titles which is sold as a commercial app - which makes a review even more appropriate, as you need to know whether it's worth buying. In summary - possibly! - it depends on how hooked you are on the concept of video poker and how concerned you are about the relative 'flatness' of the game. As hinted at above, there is a free version, but only for Qt-compatible handsets and with in-game ads.
Every young child learns very quickly how to cut a cake so that everyone gets the same share (or, more likely, to make sure that their sister doesn't get more cake than they do). It's a skill that never really leaves you, which is a good thing if you've downloaded Slice It, the latest puzzle game from Com2us.
If you've ever fantasised about blasting off into space and saving the the world, then Celestial Navigator might be the game for you. Be warned though, there's a rather twisted plot quirk. You play the game as a number of pilots from a world of Teddy Bears! Even more twisted is that you have to embark on a series of ill-fated missions where each Teddy inevitably dies. If you have the right stuff to avoid astronomical obstacles, and the grit see countless Teddies perish, then you might be who we're looking for...
You know what you need for a long flight to America? A puzzle game that's relatively simple to understand, has some hidden depth, and one you can continue to play with no penalty even if you fall asleep in the middle of the level thanks to jet-lag. In other words, Sheep Mania: Puzzle Islands.
There's not a huge amount of choice for fans of real-time strategy games, but thankfully Net Lizard, with their release of Moon Colonization, have provided genre afficianados with a compelling game that manages to balance all the required elements, albeit saddling the title with a slightly ropey fictional framing device.
