It can be difficult approaching a review of a Jenga video game, simply because there’s so little to review that people aren’t familiar with already. Do you enjoy stacking rows of blocks atop each other until they topple, with the last player to stack a successful piece the winner? Great! You’ll enjoy Jenga® on Mac! There’s little more to say unless you’re interested in the nitty gritty, which I shall delve into should you care to continue reading.

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Do you like golf, but dislike having your balls mauled by Tigers? Do you like Worms, but dislike the brutality of the bloodshed that comes with worm-based warfare. Then friends, do I have a crazy game that just might be for you! No! Not Wii Golf! It’s Worms Crazy Golf. It’s Wormy! It’s Crazy! And it’s…er…Golfy!

But is it any good? Chip on to the back nine of the next page to find out…

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What kind of game sucks me in (perverts) without even trying? Tower defense. It’s ridiculous how much time and energy I’ll put into a game like that while the hours just tick by. While I’m technically new to the genre, having only been indoctrinated since PlayStation 3′s exclusive Pixeljunk Monsters, I’m still new to the club. Once I saw how fun tower defense games could be, however, I took up every opportunity to do more.

The one thing I noticed though about tower defense games that I couldn’t get behind: the panic attacks. Yeah, you know what I mean, right? The little mini-strokes you’d have while you watched your towers try to stay strong through endless waves of enemy hordes? That was killing me softly. So often did I have the desire to just swoop in there as something other than the hand of God and actually become the aggressor!

Dungeon Defenders gave me this opportunity! Read on to hear more about my insatiable desire for war-mongering!

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Today, I kissed goodbye to my social life. Hard Lines hit Android a couple of days ago, which means I no longer have to nab my brother’s iPod Touch whenever I fancy a game of the superbly styled line-killing glowy thing-munching arcadeathon.

Too many confusing buzzwords? Read on to discover why everyone should have a Hard Line in their pocket (or, at the very least, just be happy to see me).

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As many of you are probably aware, Steve Jobs, the founder and ex-CEO of Apple Inc., has passed away.  There’s already a number of articles on various websites and forums looking back on Steve’s life, but I’d feel remiss if I didn’t share my thoughts about a man who has been a driving force in the computing industry and helped revolutionise the way I use technology.

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I’d like to start off this preview by letting everyone know that I want an iPad and you should buy me one. The reason you should gift me this device is because I’m awesome, and that pretty much sums it up. Now that that’s out of the way: I got to play some Jetpack Joyride on the iPad at PAX and it was such a joy to ride… play. This review is already tainted.

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Hearing the words 'Need for Speed' always gives me a hankering for 80s rock. I blame Top Gun.

As many of you know, I love me a smidge of racing.  Also, I’m guilty as charged for being a tad of an Apple fanboy.  So, the great and good of Sarcastic Gamer saw fit to line me up for taking at look at Electronic Arts’ Need For Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed for the iPad.

I must admit that I wasn’t the biggest fan of the console iteration of this title – mainly because the steering was twitchier than an alcoholic with the DTs (mind you, they probably shouldn’t be driving anyway).  Dodgy control analogies aside, I was interested to see what could be mustered on the iPad.  Especially as I’m more than willing to make myself look like a plonker on the tube by virtue of pretending my iPad’s a steering wheel.

So how does Shift 2: Unleashed fare?  Find out after the jump!

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Having a quarrel and causing a kerfuffle is so much more classy than hurling 'your mum' insults and tea-bagging one another, IMHO.

Being the well-educated chap that I am, I frequently enjoy flexing my intellectual muscle in such gentlemanly pursuits as Scrabble.  Admittedly, this isn’t quite as high-octane as challenging foes to a spot of Call of Duty – and teabags are only involved in the context of furnishing oneself with a refreshing beverage.

Whilst a leisurely game of Scrabble is all well and good, it’s certainly a game that could do with being a tad more fast-paced and, double and triple word scores aside, chucking in some strategy wouldn’t go amiss.

Thankfully this is where Quarrel Deluxe comes in – from Scottish developers Denki Games.  It blends the best bits of Scrabble and Risk with a bit of quick-draw word-forming action.  Oh, and some robots, pirates and ninjas to boot.

So is it worth picking up?  Find out after the jump!

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The portable gaming landscape is having an earthquake moment. The tectonic plates of mobile phones and dedicated handheld devices are clashing and there’s casualties left, right and center. Sony’s Xperia Play Android phone has seen its price cut in half recently, prompting speculation that the system is underselling, and you don’t need us to tell you that the 3DS has suffered a similar fate too.

In the middle of all of this, French developer Gameloft is capitalistic on all available markets, releasing titles for essentially every platform you can think of. That said, mobile phones, the platform that the company specialized in at the very beginning, appear to be exactly what they’ve forgotten how to develop for.

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iPad users are a productive bunch. They game, they blog, they websurf and so much more. The Geeks among us that do own an iPad have so much to choose from to satiate their every desire. From games to movies to music, it’s an all in one box ‘o fun.

If we’re distilling it down to five “must have’s”, here’s my Geektastic Top Five.

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Half Brick are godless heathens that should spend more time at mass and less time developing games. Clearly their update to the already thinly veiled Anti-Christian title Fruit Ninja (violence against fruit is violence against God’s creation) is another cheap shot at people with a little more faith and any common decency.

As we all know, the Pomegranate is the most devil friendly fruit in the entirety of This World and The Next. Used to tempt Persephone into Hades (you can find that in your bibles) it should not be added to any game otherwise unsuspecting children will be exposed to the kind of paganism normally found in cinema films like The Xmen and An Inconvenient Truth.

It is a slippery slope before our kids are listening to Satanist music like The Kanye Wests.

It is not too late, though; Half Brick can still save their souls from eternal damnation if they include every single one of my suggestions.
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