video games

I approach iOS-ified versions of classic arcade and console games with a healthy mixture of anticipation and trepidation. On the one hand, it's nice to see all those games I wasted all those hours playing in my misspent youth making an appearance in my slightly less misspent adulthood. On the other hand, the graphics and gameplay of two or three decades ago doesn't always translate well to Apple's state-of-the-art handhelds.

I only recently reviewed Capcom's iOS port of Dead Rising, and here I am with yet another game starring the undead, albeit a very different one. In a game market that has been bombarded with all kinds of zombie-themed action, Stupid Zombies by GameResort is a straightforward, clean, and--dare I say it--adorable puzzle game for the iOS.

Blockbuster has finally rolled out its games-by-mail program. So does GameFly have anything to worry about? There's only one way to find out. Once more into the breach!

One word for SoupToys Toybox is "amusing." Another way to describe it is "something that'll eat up a lot of time if you're not careful, and that's a good thing." SoupToys Toybox (free) places a box full of basketballs, tennis balls, tiny rubber balls, a roller skate, a basketball hoop, and other objects, on your desktop. It gives these objects cartoony physics and lets you go nuts with them. It even keeps score when something manages to clear the basket. The roller skate, especially, is amusing because of how it gets knocked over when a basketball is tossed at it.

April Fools Date hi-jinxs forced me to swear off the web for a day, so it seemed like a good time to put that Netflix Wii disk to use. Here're some thoughts on streaming Netflix to the Wii as well as a brief comparison with other platforms.