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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Interview: Jessica Pempek, Animator and Illustrator at Toy Studio

This week the Women in Games Interview is the lovely and talented Jessica Pempek, from Toy Studio. I am happy to just let the ebullient Jess introduce herself! Well hello there! I’m Jess! I work as an animator and illustrator from the great city of Chicago. Don’t get me wrong… there are many drawbacks to Chicago; the weather, taxes and lack of parking to name a few. Thankfully I’m able to say I do what I love for a living and I’m always striving to get better at it. A few of my passions are: cartoons, drawing, animating silly things, pretending to be a photographer, shoes, Snoopy and, of course, my husband! I also like to change song lyrics, which tends to irritate most people, because they find themselves singing about badgers sitting in soup bowls after listening to one of my solos. I’m currently working for a company that

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Opinion: Can Video Games Make A Positive Change?

We are living in the age of technology with 3D Televisions, the internet and, smart phones.  Gizmos, gadgets, electronics and social media are around every corner.  It’s kind of funny to imagine life without these things years ago.  One person can survive in the comfort of their home, never having to go out.  I’m not one to encourage hermitage, however I myself use almost all of these on a daily basis.  I’m still inclined to shop in a store versus shopping online, but that’s just me.  I have seen firsthand how gaming can bring positive changes in one’s life despite the years of negativity towards games. Through twitter, I have found GamingAngels.  The staff has embraced me as one of their own and in the months I have been working with them, have found a nice little family.  Although we are spread out across the nation, gaming, social media & the

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Interview: Quinn Dunki of One Girl One Laptop

Quinn Dunki, code writer, game developer, mobile enthusiast, and not just mobile gaming gives us this interview today. She has worked on Trucks and Skulls for iOS with Appy Entertainment lately. Quinn is the founder of her own company, One Girl One Laptop. Geek Woman: I was told that you are a code Goddess. What is code and what do you do with it? (yes this question might sound stupid, but there are people who don’t know ) Quinn Dunki: Well, “writing code” is shorthand for computer programming. It’s basically just text in an editor with a bunch of syntax rules that allow the computer to convert (“compile”) it into a binary format that it can execute. That’s the really short explanation. The long explanation… well…  there’s a reason people go to university for four years to learn this stuff.  Seriously though, there’s no magic to it. The great thing

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