School 26: Summer of Secrets

Silicon Sisters is a female development studio from Canada. Not too long ago we interviewed them for Women in Games. Coming soon they will be celebrating the season with a brand new School 26 game. They are calling it tantalizingly subtitled. Summer of Secrets is coming to the App Store in July. Like the first School 26 installment, School 26: Summer of Secrets is a school themed game aimed for girls. It has unique psychological gameplay revolving around social skills. The School 26 games are said to have been developed with the help of academic research and had extensive focus testing among teens. School 26: Summer of Secrets includes music from up-and-coming Vancouver band Hey Ocean! The first School 26 game is currently on sale $0.99 for iPhone / iPod Touch or $1.99 for iPad.

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Review: Order & Chaos Online (iOS)

Rating: 9+ Frequent/Intense cartoon or fantasy violence Platform: iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad Publisher: Gameloft Genre: MMORPG Release Date: April 29. 2011 BUY Game Loft has produced and successfully released it’s first MMO. Order and Chaos has been called a World of Warcraft knock-off. But in playing Order and Chaos, I feel like I have been playing Guild Wars pre-Searing. When I think of elves that have the long floppy ears, and characters with tree trunk shaped feet then I think of WoW. The human character designs only slightly resemble those good old shoeless, ugly, WoW avatars that you had come to love. Right now for $6.99 at the Apple App store, you can play Order and Chaos on any iOS device for three months. It is the usual fare character choices: human, elf, ogre, and undead. There are professions to choose from such as warrior, mage, monk (cleric) and

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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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Dreams HD Free on Daily App Dream

Dreams HD is a new game from developers Difference Games & Greyhound Games. Right now Dreams (HD) on the Apple iPad is available for FREE effective June 24th, in a limited time promotion on popular games- and app-portal, Daily App Dream (www.dailyappdream.com). In this artistic game, you step into the mind of artist Stephanie Herrera as you play through sixteen high-resolution levels of spot the difference in two pictures as gameplay. Each level displays two images which have subtle differences. You look for things that do not match between the two. Once you spot something wrong you just tap it. The faster you discover them, the more points you will get. Every mistake deducts from your points. You have a hint button at your disposal to get a nudge in the right direction. Since the original PC version was released as a free web game 3 years ago, it has

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Victorian Mysteries: The Moonstone for iOS

This week Square Enix announced the launch of Victorian Mysteries: The Moonstone for iOS, including iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. This is another hidden object puzzler in the Victorian Mysteries series. Developer Freeze Tag has adapted The Moonstone game from Wilkie Collins’s 19th century novel. The book was widely considered as the first detective novel written in the English language. You would play as Detective Cuff who is drawn into a world of suspense, suspicion and deception. Tasked with solving the mystery of the missing Moonstone, the investigation will be focused on the disappearance of a large Indian diamond. The stone, previously given to a young Englishwoman for her eighteenth birthday disappeared. When the gem goes missing, suspicion falls on all parties involved. The Victorian Mysteries series of games has been a smash hit with PC and Mac gamers, said Freeze Tag CEO Craig Holland, we’re excited to be working

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Interview: Kirsten Forbes, COO Silicon Sisters

School 26 is a recently released game from the female development team Silicon Sisters. The game is currently available on iOS. We speak to their COO Kristen Forbes. Geek Woman: This is your first game can you tell our readers a little about your team? Are you all from Canada? Kristen Forbes: I’ve been working with creative teams for my entire career, and doing that in game development for something like 13 years, yet only twice have I been fortunate enough to be on a team with as good a dynamic as this one. Believe me when I say it’s not an easy thing to achieve – to gather a group of disparate individuals and have them function as a unified team in short order. It worked this time, in my opinion, because we had great diversity of talents, personalities and cultures – for every senior developer we also had

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Order and Chaos MMO for iOS

As promised Game Loft has produced it’s first MMO clone. Order and Chaos is a World of Warcraft knock off. With elves that have long ears, and characters with tree trunk shaped feet. The character designs strongly resemble those good old shoeless, ugly, WoW avatars that you have come to love. Right now for $6.99 at the Apple App store you can play in any iOS device for three months. It is the usual fair of choosing from four races, human, elf, ogre, and undead. There are professions to choose from such as warrior, mage, cleric and rouge. Since it is new you can expect glitches. I was able to see other characters walking around up in the air as the surfaces they were traveling on disappeared. And my character was also able to see through walls and stick her feet through them. They probably should have done an open

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‘Alice: Madness Returns’ iOS app leads to a $10 discount

If you’re looking to get a little more of Alice before Madness’ actual Return date of June 14 and you have an iPhone, you’re in luck. EA recently released a storybook app for the game that will serve as a nice preface to the game’s story. Not only that, but it’s full of some pretty nice art, as well. It’s worth money to you if you finish reading, by the way — doing that nets you $10 at the EA Store to put toward an AMR pre-order. (Or you could get the game for the same price at Amazon if you’re without the requisite Apple device. It’s okay, we won’t tell.)

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Heartwild Solitaire

Heartwild Solitaire is a new game that just came out in Friday the thirteenth in the Apple App Store. The iOS game features pretty graphics. With backgrounds which have a mystical theme, as well as many more high quality beautiful art. In addition the game uses some traditional Tarot art work and meanings mixed in with the story line that unfolds with successive chapters in the game. The 120 gorgeous levels have layouts with breathtaking color schemes. Some are dark purple and silver backgrounds that are highlighted with orchids. Or other have a deep turquoise theme. The designs are so beautiful it can become an addictive pleasure to play. Simple game play is matching of cards for points. There are power up cards that get you more chances to solve the variety of solitaire layouts. It is anything but traditional solitaire, though you get more points for removing cards from

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Army of Darkness Defense

Remember those great old Army of Darkness games? Well now you can play new versions of the franchise. A different studio has picked up Ash. Backflip Studios, along with MGM Studios has put the new game out over at the Apple App Store. Army of Darkness: Defense has been re-imagined as a mobile castle defense game based on the 1992 Sam Raimi’s classic “Army of Darkness”. Available for the iPhone/iPod Touch for $0.99 and for the iPad for $2.99, Army of Darkness: Defense takes place during the pivotal castle scene within the movie where Ash and his allies defend the powerful Necronomicon within Lord Arthur’s fortress from the onslaught of the zombified Deadites. Voice acting features include over 150 direct lines of dialogue from Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams. The Army of Darkness: Defense is lead by Ash who has the ability to call upon a wide variety of allies

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