The artwork at Magmic has always impressed me and so I was not surprised to be pleasantly greeted by a stylized menu and a user interface that was easy on the eyes. This Sudoku game is fairly well done but it had a major flaw that totally turned me off the game.
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Our QuicklyBored guide to mobile chess games has a new entry today: Chessmaster. Chessmaster is a popular chess game and it is only right that we put it up against the powerful Deep Fritz.
This is a nice looking game. Something new here is the Quiz Mode. In Quiz Mode, you need to solve chess puzzles to gain points. The puzzles are actually really difficult so congratulations to anyone who solves them.
Although we mentioned this a long time ago, we are only now coming out with the first installment of our QuicklyBored Guide to Mobile Chess. When we started this guide, we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into.
Just to recap, the QB Guide to Mobile Chess involves playing the mobile chess engine in question against Fritz, a powerful pc chess engine, and getting the ELO rating from Fritz’s analysis (follow the link if you don’t know what an ELO rating is).
When we first posted about Paris Hilton’s Diamond Quest, it was from E3 where we were shocked to see her blatantly calling the game “Diamond Quest” when it was clearly called Jewel Jam. The signs behind her all said Paris Hilton�s Jewel Jam and all advertising leading up to the game�s launch said the same thing.
Well the joke is on us. Rather than insult the ultimate bimbo, they just renamed the game.
Texas Hold’Em Kings 2 (THK2)
Graphics/Sound: ***
Single Player Gameplay: ****
Multiplayer Gameplay: *****
Game Interface: ****
Betting Interface: *****
AI: ***
We finally review a non-Gameloft game
Here at QuicklyBored, we have a certain affinity for two types of games: A) anything with some decent T n� A and B) simplistic puzzle games autistic nomad orphans could master. The question here is whether we should credit games that are less original than Milly Vanilly.
Pong on crack
Any North American male born after 1980 can more or less safely say that they were raised by video games. Growing up alongside the video game industry, one can’t help but feel that what they ended up teaching us wasn’t that healthy: monkeys think they’re donkeys and will try to crush you with barrels; plumbers ride lizards that like to eat turtles; frogs have a suicidal urge to be slaughtered by speeding vehicles on freeways. It’s a wonder our society hasn’t produced more Jeffrey Dahmer/animal-hating psychopaths. But I digress.