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Gravity Hook HD

An arcade-style game that is more challenging than it may first appear. If there were such a genre for side-scrolling puzzle games, this game would define it, except for one minor detail: it’s vertical. Read more »

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Star Command

Striking a balance between the three different strategies is essential as this game progresses. With no in-app purchases to bankroll a fully manned ship, you must earn a series of tokens as you travel through the galaxy by completing a series of missions. Read more »

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Repulze

In what plays out as a roller derby style of fighting, you can either race ahead and avoid the fight entirely, or lag behind and take your opponents out one at a time. Read more »

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Vector

Vector is a side-scrolling runner that mimics the street gymnastics of parkour. The opening cut scene looks like it’s take right out of Apple’s famous 1984 commercial. Read more »

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Flick Champions

Flick Champions brings eight different sports games in one app, and each has its own style of game play. Play football, soccer, hockey, tennis, golf, basketball, archery or bowling alone or with friends. Read more »

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Karateka 1

A remake of the classic side-scrolling fighting game Apple II arcade title, Karateka uses a combination of visual and musical cues for a unique take on an iOS touch-based fighting game. Read more »

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Cubemen

Cubemen, a combination real-time shooter and tower defense game, is one of the few games available in Apple’s App Store that has managed to implement multiplayer gaming across different platforms, iOS, Mac and Steam. Read more »

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Bastion

Bastion is an adventure-based role-playing game in which the main character, known as The Kid, unravels what has happened to his world following the Calamity. In this world you travel from place to place collecting artifacts in an effort to rebuild the Bastion. Read more »

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Ski Safari

Anything you can do in this continuous side-scrolling game to stay on your skis and well ahead of the avalanche is a good thing. Because as soon as the avalanche catches up with you, the game is over. Read more »

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Bike Baron

If you find that the supplied courses of this game are too easy, or too hard, you can always design your own course. The best user-created courses are selected and made part of the “official” game in upcoming releases. Read more »

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Punch Quest

The graphics of the game are stunning. It is amazing how much action is happening on one screen all at the same time. It’s a great game to get you adrenaline pumping and your fingers punching this weekend. Read more »

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Galaxy on Fire 2

Galaxy on Fire 2 is a third-person, flight-based shooter that works well on all Apple platforms. You can save your game’s progress to iCloud so you can continue playing out the adventure from wherever you choose. Read more »

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Deer Hunter Reloaded

Deer Hunter Reloaded is a first-person, sharp shooting game that places you on the hunt for big game. The iOS and OSX game’s 3D graphics and realistic sound effects make this an authentic hunting-simulation game. Read more »

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Pocket Planes

Pocket Planes is a simulation game where you decide how passengers and cargo are moved from airport to airport. Starting out small and efficient, you quickly learn how fast things can get out of control as you strive control the world, one airport at a time. Read more »

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Bridge Constructor

The physics in the game seem to be very real and is consistently applied throughout the game. Take some time this weekend and teach yourself through trial and error the basics of bridge building with Bridge Constructor. Read more »

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Kumo Lumo

The cut-out graphics are bright and cheerful, as are the sound effects and music score. The controls are responsive and easy to learn. Kumo Lumo is fun little game that is sure to lure you in for an hour or two the first time you play. Read more »

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AirAttack

AirAttack for Mac, iPhone and iPad brings old-school arcade-style gaming into the modern handheld age with a top-down air combat shooter you can touch. What really sets this game apart from others in this genre is it stunning 2D-graphics and assortment of responsive gameplay controls. Read more »

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Horn

It is the weaving in and out of each different mode of the game that keeps you engaged and the gameplay fresh in Horn. The story unfolds at a welcome pace and there are plenty of hidden elements in the village to award the curious adventurer. Read more »

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Guild Wars 2

While OS X satisfies almost all my computing needs, when it comes to gaming I’m forced to use Boot Camp more often than not. So, when I find out a recently released Windows game has an OS X client available already, you had me at hello. Read more »

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Lux Delux

This Risk-like strategy game has been available on Mac OS X but is now on iOS. If you are not at first impressed by the custom game maps, you will be by the level of control you have over the in-game artificial intelligence. Read more »

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Pocket Rockets

Pocket Trucks is a side-scrolling physics-based racing game that looks as if it is taking place somewhere in Toy Story. Your vehicle looks like something you’d find in the toy aisle, while the course is more of a puzzle than a traditional race track. Read more »

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Osmos

Osmos is an iPhone, iPad and Mac physics-based puzzle game that obeys Isaac Newton’s laws of motion as well as Henri Dutrochet’s osmosis. If the exacting adherence to physics doesn’t impress you, the stunning graphics and subdued original soundtrack will in this long weekend’s top pick. Read more »

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SpellTower

Games for the Weekend is a weekly feature aimed at helping you avoid doing something constructive with your downtime. Each Friday we’ll be recommending a game for Mac, iPhone or iPad that we think is awesome. Here is one cool enough to keep you busy until […] Read more »

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Call of Mini Zombies

Despite its playful appearance, this game is true to the shooter genre and will certainly have you on edge from the first moment you pull the trigger. And once you have mastered the art of killing zombies, you can try your hand at going head to head with other online players. Read more »

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