Author: Andrew Hayward

Angry Birds Friends brought the fowl-flinging sensation to Facebook, and unsurprisingly, it proved hugely popular in that format. Now the socially connected spin on the franchise makes the return trip to iPhone and iPad while maintaining the distinct, …

Twitter has long been a way for musicians to connect with their fans, but the standalone Twitter #Music app is something different: It’s an opportunity for the social networking company to leverage its ubiquitous service to turn users onto new artists….

We’re only a few days into the 2013 Major League Baseball season, and already we’ve some great (or almost great) moments – like the double home run performance from Nationals phenom Bryce Harper on opening day, and Yu Darvish’s near-perfect game for …

Keeping up with comic books has been utterly transformed by apps like Comics by Comixology, as you no longer have to hit the comic shop weekly to snap up new issues, wait for graphic novel compilations, or read on your computer screen. Nearly every new…

It’s amazing what a simple change in perspective can do. Dropping the third dimension of typical sims in favor of a side-scrolling approach made the original Super Stickman Golf a revelatory mobile experience, both with its puzzle-platform single-playe…

You awake surrounded by water, with only a faint glimmer of land on the horizon. Slowly wading in that direction, you then find yourself on an island inhabited by vibrant trees and small animals, all of which look like they were spawned by some mythica…

When Temple Run hit the App Store in summer 2011, it didn’t look like much — no thanks to its pixelated, original PlayStation-level graphics and unremarkable visual design. But the old adage about not judging a book by its cover holds true with free i…

It’s difficult being a delivery truck driver, particularly when the directions to your destination require a path that’s not on any map, and the people you encounter along the way only seem interested in twisting you up in their own winding affairs. Th…

For sports aficionados on the go, ESPN’s long-available ScoreCenter app is a handy resource for up-to-the-minute scores, game breakdowns, news updates, and video highlights. Essentially, it’s the ESPN web package wrapped up in a solid mobile app. So ho…

Developing a spiritual successor to one of the most reviled licensed games in history might not be the best way to generate positive results, if ShaqDown is any indication. Like the laughable Shaq Fu before it, which transformed eccentric NBA star Shaq…

It’s easy to lose perspective on a game like Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour, particularly for those of us who enjoy lavish first-person shooters on consoles or computers. Gameloft’s military shooter series seems content to mimic the immensely popular Call …

Amidst the constant crush of new releases, it can be difficult to locate more than a handful of truly brilliant and totally essential games on the App Store at any given moment. But that’s why we’re here. We’ve been following iPhone gaming since the la…

Despite transitioning from the PC to PlayStation 3 and now finally the App Store over the past few years, Magic Orbz really does feel at home as a bite-sized brick-breaker priced at a couple bucks. Unlike the classics it pulls inspiration from (like Br…

It’s almost certainly not pulling in as many users as Words With Friends, but the App Store’s buzziest word game right now is Letterpress, an elegantly designed asynchronous experience that even loops in territorial control elements. And it’s a slick f…

Rockmelt began life as a Mac browser a few years back, but newly released on the iPad, it aims to deliver an all-in-one web browsing, news reading, and social discovery service for well-connected tablet users. Embarking on a jack-of-all-trades approach…

It’s a clever idea, using physical figures or toys to interact with the iPad’s touchscreen, but much of the time it simply proves a novelty: a short-lived diversion that deflates once you realize you’d rather be playing a great, standalone tablet game …