We love ice cream. We’ve dreamt of a game where you can scoop and scoop and scoop ice cream, with a whole rainbow of flavors and toppings to choose from. And at first we were disappointed with Anna’s Ice Cream, when all you could do at the start was serve one flavor (vanilla) and one [...]

Do we really need another Match-3? Pakoombo attempts to set itself apart from the rest by adding in a bit of everything. 10 boss battles! 18 power-ups! Quests and subquests! Three playable characters! So how do all of these measure up? Read on to find out.

At the hands of a pro, an Etch-a-Sketch toy can make the most amazing black-and-white works of art. But if you don’t know how to control it, you’ll probably end up frustrated. The same can be said for Etch-a-Sketch: Knobby’s Quest.

You know, every time I talk to developers and reviewers about video games, I hear the same old story: “Innovation is dead in games.” These people haven’t been looking at the top indie casual games lately. Little gems like Fizzball, Wik, and Eets come out with shocking regularity. They get a lot of hype on [...]

Remember alphabet soup? If you do, then you probably also remember happily spelling out words with your letters until your mom told you to stop playing with your food and eat. Well, you better call her and scold her. Those skills you carefully honed are going to pay off big time.

I remember when glorified math calculation games passed for edutainment, and you were lucky if there was any game at all in your “educational games.” Well, educational entertainment has come a long way since those days, and if your regular favorite games are too complex for your children or you don’t want them spending lots [...]

Abra Academy is set in a school of witchcraft and wizardry, very much like the famous British one that houses a certain wizard boy and his friends. In this game unfortunately, you’re not a wizard prodigy but merely an assistant to Wanda, who is trying to graduate from the academy of Abra.