Bowling, baseball and an crowd-sourced traffic jam navigation app headline this week’s roundup of mobile device goodies.
Flick Home Run reminded me of a fruitless journey into mystery with my homecoming date in high school. Gutterball Golden Bowling Pin HD brought a grinding mechanic to a casual bowling game. Kinectimals demonstrated Xbox Live and Windows Phone synergy, and Hardest Game Ever did its damndest to live up to the claim.
If you have a suggestion for an app for the iPhone, iPad, Android or Windows Phone 7 that you’d like to see highlighted, let us know.
Unable to Get Past First Base with Flick Home Run
https://kotaku.com/unable-to-get-past-first-base-with-flick-home-run-5858588
Forgive my nostalgic ramblings, but the home run is, like high school sex was, undiscovered country to me, marked by crotch-aching near misses and hat-throwing technical disqualifications. And that’s how I feel at the end of this tease of an experience called Flick Home Run, available now on iOS devices. More »
Avoid Speed Traps, Downed Trees, Traffic Jams And Level Up While You’re Doing It
https://kotaku.com/avoid-speed-traps-downed-trees-traffic-jams-and-level-5858251
Waze isn’t a game, not really, but I can’t help using it like one. My wife gets viciously car sick when I drive, maybe because of how I drive. So she does a lot of the driving in our family, which leaves me with a lot of time to help her navigate and play games on my iPhone. Waze lets me do both. More »
“This Is Bowling. There Are Rules.” Gutterball Golden Pin Bowling HD Blows Those Rules Up
https://kotaku.com/this-is-bowling-there-are-rules-gutterball-golden-p-5857842
Skunk Studios’ Gutterball Golden Pin Bowling HD runs away screaming from the simulator goals of other bowling games. I really wanted to hate it at first, with its goofy voices and games-for-your-mom approach. However, it looks better than it has a right to, and traps you inside an insidious grind loop that still manages to be fun. More »
The Windows Phone / Xbox 360 Cross-Compatibility You Crave in a Little Furry Package
https://kotaku.com/the-windows-phone-xbox-360-cross-compatibility-you-cr-5857364
If you eagerly snatched up a Windows Phone 7 when they launched last year, dreaming of a mobile applications that allowed you to extend your Xbox 360 games beyond the television set, then this is the app for you, only it’s Kinectimals. More »
Hardest Game Ever Has a Lofty Title. It Features Short Games
https://kotaku.com/hardest-game-ever-has-a-lofty-title-it-features-short-5857001
Hardest Game Ever – 0.2s is a collection of, wait for it, mini-games. In the last few years, mini-games became synonymous with casual gaming, and Hardest Game Ever – 0.2s definitely has one foot planted firmly in Casual-Land. That’s not a bad thing. More »
