Featured Facebook Game of the Week – Words With Friends

Zynga has finally brought the crazy popular Scrabble-esque app, Words With Friends, to Facebook! I have been playing this since I got my iPod touch and am completely obsessed by it. It”s incredibly easy to get started, just go to the app, find some friends who play, and start a game. The thing I like best about this adaptation is that you CAN take it with you. Start playing a game on Facebook, and that same game carries over to your iPhone or Droid. It’s free (with ads) and truly social, with a chat built in. Enjoy!

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Eternity Warriors for iOS and Android

Eternity Warriors is a fourth offering from Glu games. They have released a few other skinned over games based on a similar engine and have had success. They could be some competition for Gameloft on iOS. Their games are free to play, and extra items and currencies are able to be purchased in game through the App Store. It is a fun ‘Freemium’ game. It’s a Diablo-esque hack-and-slash fantasy game. Eternity Warriors control set up has a stick and an attack button. An AI controlled companion follows your character around and gets in the way. The two burly icons bumble into each other like a pair of magnetized dwarves. Enemies come in waves monsters with swords and axes come at you on all sides. The character is difficult to move and the control stick does not work as fluidly as I am used to from other games with virtual joystick.

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Interview: Tanya Otero, USA Sales Director for Aerial 7

Tanya Otero, USA Sales Director for Aerial 7 has been in the business of selling fun for a couple of decades. She started competing in snowboard contests which led to working in a snowboard retail environment, followed by being an independent sales rep, then a regional sales manager, then National sales manager, a brand manager and now Sales Director at Aerial 7 USA headquarters. Tanya, a self proclaimed snowboarder believes that snowboarding without music is like having a computer without email access, therefore happy to have access to a quiver of listening devices at Aerial 7. As a resident of Encinitas CA Tanya is able to focus on career and quality lifestyle simultaneously. Tanya believes that if you work from a place of passion your work can enhance your lifestyle and lead to long term success. Geek Woman: I was told that you are a snowboarder, do you still enjoy

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Review: Grow for Android OS

Rating: E (Everyone) Genre: Arcade & Action Publisher: Epic Pixel Developer: Epic Pixel Release Date: May 23, 2011 BUY   I had the opportunity, this past week, to review a mobile game for the Android OS.  With such a simple title, I figured Grow to be well…simple.  I was wrong.  Not only is this game challenging, it’s addicting.  The graphics are cartoony and the objective is obvious, eat anything smaller than you, but the game is fun.  Using a virtual joystick in the corner of the screen you take control of a small fish.  At first, I was having a hard time keeping my thumb in the right place and trying to keep myself from moving all over the screen so it really takes some getting used to.  I don’t know if you’ve used a virtual joystick but it’s different.  I also found myself moving my tablet around in the air,

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Burn The City Free For Android

Canadian developer JoshOClock promises that Burn the City is an action-packed shooter. In it you will play as the role of an adorable creature born to an empty nest. Your family has been kidnapped by humans. You are going to have to do something to avenge them. Your mission is to seek revenge for your kidnapped siblings. You’ll be armed with destructive smoking-hot fireballs, for some mayhem and slaughter. Burn The City features 45 levels, intuitive controls, touch, drag and release. Similar in style to Angry Birds™ and Worms™, this game will keep you addicted for hours, and includes explosive physics and Game Center support for the competitive players. At your aid to destroy all mankind you have your fireball attack, and by eating different colored YUMs that are gathered by destroying crates throughout the levels, you obtain 3 special attacks: the first is TNT, which turns the standard fireball

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PopCap Gets Droidified

PopCap Games has announced a partnership with Amazon which will (finally) bring some of its beloved games to the Amazon Appstore for Android. The fun begins this week (through May 30th) with Chuzzle, the slidey smooth match 3 game filled with furry little round guysthat need to be freed and sent home. The Droid version of Chuzzle features four modes of play including Classic, Zen, Mind Bender, and Speed for hours and hours of Chuzzle action, as well as a trophy room to keep track of achievements, a scrambler to shake things up, and a generator that makes absolutely certain that all levels are unique for eternity. “PopCap is a brand synonymous with great mobile games, and we’re thrilled to offer our customers Chuzzle and Plants vs. Zombies for Android exclusively through the Amazon Appstore,” stated Aaron Rubenson, category leader at Amazon. . What’s that you say? Plants vs Zombies?

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Namco Bandai Games Expands to Mobile

Last week we found out that Barnes & Noble just announced a huge expansion to their NOOK Color. They have managed to connect with Namco Bandai Games. Even though their brick and mortar stores are going away in an economy that has effected the publishing industry they will continue with The Nook. The device features a 7-inch color touchscreen and updated Android operating system. In anticipation of better success with digital infotainment they have announced four launch titles for Nook Color including Flight Control, Crush the Castle, More Brain Exercise and Learn to Fly. In fact Namco Bandai has also been preparing mobile games for Nintendo 3DS, iPad 2 and some Android Smartphones like the Kyocera Echo. The company which was best known in the past for hardcore console games has had an iOS hit with Bird Zapper.

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Apple Sues Amazon

I happened to be shopping for pet accessories on the amazon.com website and couldn’t help but see the great big banner at the top of the page. It clearly says “AppStore”. It was easy to see why Apple would sue them. It could be confusing to consumers who are used to The App Store meaning the official Apple App Store. The Amazon Appstore, will have it’s hands full starting with a lawsuit from Apple. Their plan to sell Androids’ mobile apps, could be perceived to encroach on Google by going around them. Leaving Google out of the equation will be certain to test Google’s resolve to be open source. Although, open source usually excludes taking the software and using it to make a profit. Amazon could find themselves in a pain sandwich between the two giants. A trademark infringement suit began on Friday from Apple, which claims ownership of the

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Behold the power of the squishy Elder God!

When you first think about the almighty Cthulu, cute and squishy is not the first thing to come to mind. Granted Cartman from South Park may have been on to something from this episode, but the reality came about thanks to the great people over at Squishable. What is a squishable? Well to quote what is probably the best tag ever found on a stuffed animal: “they’re giant fuzzy animals. hug them.” And that’s exactly how this started at NY Toy Fair when I was walking down an aisle and a guy with a huge panda in his arms asked me if I wanted to hug a panda today. How could I refuse? It was only after hugging the panda and talking with Aaron from Squishable that I came to know of some of their geekier offerings. To start with, Squishable has many animals you can pick from like the

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Mobile gamers more likely to be young and female, audience beats television ratings

iPhones and Android devices are making gaming more of a female-dominated activity, according to findings published by mobile analytics firm Flurry. These studies showed that mobile gamers are more likely to be younger, female and more affluent and educated than the average American. The average age of mobile gamers is 28, compared to console gamers’ 34 years, and 53 percent of mobile gamers just happen to be women. (For the consoles, women still come in at 40 percent.) The Flurry study also stated that “[t]here is also greater density in the 18-49 bracket, which indicates that [Apple] iOS and Android devices are attracting users during their earning years versus, in particular, their teenage years, where they likely cannot afford more expensive mobile devices.” Females who play mobile games overall skewed older, with more women in the 26-65 age bracket compared to the men. North America played the most mobile social

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