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Daily iPhone App: Brawl

by Mike Schramm (Dec 20th, 2011)

Ben Brode is a game designer at Blizzard Entertainment who has created an iOS card game called Brawl (we're still waiting for iOS games from Blizzard, by the way). Brawl is actually based on a real card game, and unlike most turn-based card games, this one's played in real time (similar to ...

Review: Mü app proves that deep, real card games can thrive on the iPhone

by Sebastian Blanco (Apr 2nd, 2010)

Fans of light, mindless card games should not download Mü [$2.99]. There are plenty of thought-like time-killers in the App Store. Go play one of those. Mu, on the other hand, is a complicated (in a good way) game with a medium-high learning curve that should manage to entertain gamers for ...

Review: Reiner Knizia's Topas

by Sebastian Blanco (Mar 26th, 2010)

We don't mind it when iPhone versions of board games differ from their realspace counterparts, but the Topas app ($2.99) takes the basic ideas behind Reiner Knizia's 2009 game Topas and twists them into a mash-up of Tetris, the standard line-up-three-of-a-kind video games, and dominoes. The dominoes ...

Review: Set card game on the iPhone is oh so close to the perfect puzzle app

by Sebastian Blanco (Mar 18th, 2010)

The idea behind Set, the now-classic card/puzzle game, can be mind-numbingly difficult to explain. Some people just can't wrap their heads around the "all the same or all different concept." Of course, some people get it right away. For both types, the new Set app [$2.99] for the iPhone and iPod ...

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