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Best of FingerGaming: From Peggle to Resident Evil: Degeneration
by Danny Cowan [Mobile Phone]
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May 18, 2009
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[Every week, Gamasutra sums up sister iPhone site FingerGaming's top news and reviews for Apple's nascent -- and increasingly exciting -- portable games platform, as written by editor in chief Danny Cowan and reviewers Tim Lockridge and Louise Yang.]
This week, FingerGaming highlights notable releases like Resident Evil: Degeneration, Peggle, and the Crystal Defenders sequel Vanguard Storm. Featured reviews for this week cover Shadowland: Shades of Black, Perfect Balance: Harmony, and 2XL Supercross.
- Free App Roundup, May 9th - 15th Edition
"This week's free releases include demo editions of Pinball Dreaming and Leaf Trombone, along with free full versions of Denny's Dance Allnighter and Expedition Africa: The Game."
- Review: Shadowland: Shades of Black
"A fair deal of Shadowland's screen space is devoted to a trigger, and the controls center heavily on that trigger-driven interface. This is probably Shadowland's greatest asset: Using the trigger is much more immersive and natural than tapping the screen or pressing a button."
- Top Free Game App Downloads for the Week
"Uwe Meier's puzzler BrainTeaser has attracted a lot of attention in its first week of release, and finishes as today's most-downloaded game in the iTunes App Store."
- Review: Perfect Balance: Harmony
"Perfect Balance: Harmony is genius in its simplicity. The almost non-existent learning curve makes it a game that almost anyone — as long as they know about a little thing called gravity — can play."
- Square Enix Releases Crystal Defenders Sequel Vanguard Storm
"This follow-up is no mere expansion pack, as Vanguard Storm features greatly overhauled gameplay that is much better suited to the iPhone and iPod Touch hardware."
- Review: 2XL Supercross
"2XL Supercross is simply a beautifully rendered game, sporting slick and fluid graphics that are well beyond my expectations for the iPhone. The game's ten tracks are wonderfully designed, especially in terms of ground contours and terrain shading."
- Resident Evil: Degeneration Premieres in App Store
"Capcom’s flagship survival horror franchise arrives for the iPhone with the release of Resident Evil: Degeneration, a 3D action title based upon the recently released CG-animated movie of the same name."
- Top-Selling Paid Game Apps for the Week
"Digital Goldfish's recently updated puzzler Bloons joins the App Store charts for the first time this week, finishing just behind last week's top seller Stick Wars."
- PopCap Releases iPhone Port of Peggle
"Peggle for the iPhone features 55 levels of peg-clearing action and 10 different Peggle Masters, each of which introduces new power-ups and gameplay mechanics as the game progresses."
- Review: Chippy
"In this iPhone rendition of Pang, you play a chipmunk who also happens to be an archer. In each stage, Chippy has to shoot large bouncing balls, which split into smaller bouncing balls until they disappear."
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