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iPhone Engrish of the day: Reversi and Sexy Girl

If you flip through the screen shots, Reversi and Sexy Girl appears to basically be the game Othello, but you wouldn’t know it from this description in iTunes. In fact, you might think you are going to get laid if you win… Above: “Nomal”? Reversi and Sexy girl It sprouts and plays “Reversi” with a beautiful girl. （Is it a cow?） Three... Read More

Move over fart apps, here comes something grosser!

Looks like there’s a new gross-out app coming to town, although this one at least appears to have a bit of creativity behind it. Sporting one of the more interesting uses for the iPhone’s touch screen we’ve seen, Zit Picker by Candywriter puts you in charge of the lovely Veronica’s complexion. Keep her face looking pretty by “pinch-squeezing”... Read More

How to: Triple the length of your Fieldrunners Maze

As many of you know, we here at Macenstein are obsessed with the game Fieldrunners the tower defense game we named our iPhone Game of the Year. There are likely as many ways to build a Fieldrunners maze as their are Fieldrunners players, but odds are, no matter how awesome your maze is, SOMETHING got through – be it a tank, a motorcycle, or one of those big orange robots.... Read More

MetaSquares is free today

MetaSquares, one of our top 20 iPhone games of 2008 and of the more challenging puzzle games for the iPhone in my opinion, appears to be free today. So go get it. You can read our review of MetaSquares here, but just trust us, you want it.  Read More

Games you should be playing: The Creeps

Thank you we have our winners. This contest is over. Congrats to faithful Macenstein readers Brian and Dav! Man, we’re going contest crazy here these days! We’re launching a new feature here at Macenstein called “Games you should be playing”. It’s not quite a full review, just a heads up on games worth buying. We’re kicking the feature off with... Read More

C’mon Apple, Really?

OK, this content theft on the iTunes app store really has to stop. I realize it’s warm and sunny in California most of the time, but are you telling me that whoever approves iPhone apps has never heard of The Grinch?! Above: The all new, totally original iPhone game “Catch The Gift” I mean for crying out loud, they even call him the Grinch by name! Can you Catch... Read More

iPhone Engrish of the day: MewMew Tower

Description: The “MewMew Tower” is the game that is accumulating a lot of cats highly the sky in a line. You will stack a cat straightly so that balance may not worsen. If iPhone is leaned, a cat will collapse easily. Oppositely, let’s incline iPhone and balance when becoming ill-balanced. It is a fun game to be able to enjoy from a child to an adult. Thanks... Read More

So… what constitutes “Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence”?

As any regular reader of Macenstein knows, I’m about he furthest thing you’ll find from a prude, but I just came across this new iPhone game called “Animals of Mass Destruction” and was a little surprised to see it has only a 9+ rating, citing “Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence“. Take a quick look at these 5 shots from the game (below).... Read More

hmmmm….

Good thing no one at Apple works for Pixar, right? Above: The new iPhone game iBot.  Read More

David beats Goliath: “Pull My Finger” now on the iTunes store

Given the amount of crap (no pun intended) that has made its way to the iTunes app store, we always thought it was a crime that the iPhone farting app “Pull My Finger” had been banned by Apple, citing “Limitied Utility“. Well, just in time for the holidays, we’re happy to announce that thanks to the efforts of many a Mac blog, Apple has finally relented,... Read More