Word Spin Review - iPhone / iPod Touch

Originality is overrated. When you've got something great, don't toss the idea aside and start anew; milk that novelty for all it's worth! Geospace decided to go the extra mile with the success of their popular word game Word Spin, team up with RogueSheep and create an application. Yes, the original handheld game was designed with portability in mind, but nothing is as portable as when it can be carried on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

The game comes with three playing options: practice, solitaire and challenge. Practice gives you the chance to hone your skills before playing solo in solitaire mode or against a particular opponent in the challenge realm. The application works just like the handheld game; you shuffle your wheels, lock the formation and proceed to identify the words. There's six rounds the first of which utilizes three wheels. Each subsequent round adds one wheel. You get the opportunity to re-shuffle the wheels in between each round.

Groovin' Blocks Review - iPhone / iPod Touch

There's a very good reason Tetris hybrids flood the iPhone app market; they're addicting. But, still, even the dependable can grow tiresome. If you're going to utilize an old concept at least spice it up a bit. Groovin' Blocks takes a classic game and puts a unique spin on it using a videogame element that is largely overlooked; the background music.

Groovin' Blocks offers three levels of difficulty, each adding more complicated puzzle pieces. Similar to Tetris, but more like Columns, in order to get points you've got to align three or more blocks of the same color in a row. When that happens, not only do those three blocks disappear but the adjacent blocks of matching color do as well. Now that you've got the basics, in comes the twist. To exponentially increase the point value, send the blocks down to the beat of the background music. The more beats you hit, the higher the "multiplier" grows and the higher the point value becomes. This formerly Wii-only title has now come to the iPhone and iTouch, via the iTunes App Marketplace to infect a whole new audience.