Nodes Of Yesod iOS

Anyone who grew up gaming with a ZX Spectrum is bound to remember Odin's excellent tour-de-force Nodes of Yesod. The game -a detailed and glorious looking arcade adventure- was both brilliant and a huge success; what's more it has aged gracefully too. Happily you can now play Nodes of Yesod on your iPhone (and apparently on the rest of them iDevices) in its completely revamped 25th Anniversary Edition which includes both the original and its shiny update. You can find it here and give its free Lite edition a go here. Oh, and should you care for playing this excellent remake for free on your browser, better try this link.

Ashens: the 3DS review

Still haven't decided -let alone grabbed- on the Nintendo 3DS. Truth be said though I'm far less negative towards it than a few weeks ago, what with the unveiling of more than a few interesting features beside the 3D effect of its screen and its lovely augmented reality tricks. On the other hand, the things price, battery life and incredibly expensive games (at least when compare to your average App Store offering) remain highly problematic.

Then again, why listen to me speculate, when the dear and funny Dr. Ashens came up with this most excellent 3DS rant/review thingy you can watch below? No reason really.

Sega Game Gear: a video review

Gobliins 2 iinvades iiPhones

Gobliins 2, the sequel to Gobliiins and prequel to Goblins 3, was originally released by Coktel Vision back in 1992. It was unsurprisingly brilliant, what with its unique mix of adventure and puzzle mechanics, its excellent graphics, its wacky humour, its demented plot and its two lovely controllable characters. Actually, better have a look at this Gobliins 2 review courtesy of Adventure Classic Gaming. Happily, you can now play Gobliins 2 on your trusty iPhone and/or iPod Touch thanks to the retro-loving people at DotEmu. Here's the Gobliins 2 link. Oh, and it's dirt cheap too!

Sword & Sorcery released

Now that the cunningly named iPad 2 has been released with a decent price-tag and beautiful, indie darling Sword & Sorcery has finally hit the App Store, it does actually seem that grabbing Apple's tablet might just make sense. Yes, even for dedicated gamers. Sword & Sorcery, you see, is an audio-visually brilliant fantasy offering, that has players swing stylized swords while solving musical puzzles and exploring a mythic realm. Here's the thing's official site. Oh, and what follows is the game's trailer:

Audience Calibration Procedure from Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery on Vimeo.

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iOS LANDLUBBERS

Discovered via the ever-excellent Retro Remakes, Landlubbers is a fun, retro-esque and incredibly cheap offering for your iPhone, iPod and iPad. Oh, and if you haven't noticed it yet, it does sport some pretty amazing, Game & Watch inspired visuals too. Have a go.

It's the Free-App Hero!

Apple's App Store is indeed thriving with tons of free, freeware. lite and freemium apps, that are there to rob you of your most sacred free time and in the later cases of your money. What's more, many new ones are released each and every day, whereas more than a few are, well, quite frankly shit. Enter Free-App Hero; the app that monitors, rates and selects the best free apps available. And, yes, you can actually trust the thing, for the man responsible for Free-App Hero is none other than legendary game journalist Rev. Stuart Campbell of Retro Gamer, Edge, Amiga Format, PC Gamer, PC Zone, Sega Power and Your Sinclair fame. You can find out more about this fantastic app here or even try it's pretty amazing and actually freeware Cheapskate Edition.

It's PongVaders Max!

The excellent and quite demented co-op game that calls itself PongVaders Max has gotten itself updated and now also supports iPads, while featuring some brand new bosses by the game's artists (that would be auntie pixelante). The game is available for free for both iPhone and iPad. Grab it. You'll thank me.

Pokémon Mini emulator

The Pokémon mini was the smallest and possibly quirkiest handheld console Nintendo ever released. Now, as the thing is a relatively expensive rarity, the best way to see what the fuss was all about would be grabbing the pretty excellent and suitably freeware pokemini emulator. It runs perfectly on the Wiz, but their are also ports for the PSP and Nintendo DS.