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How does a person decide a profession in beekeeping is the life for them? Is it an obsession with the stripy insect from an early age, or perhaps they just really like honey a bit too much?
Also, do bees know that they’ll pop their clogs if they sting someone? Is there a passionate rivalry between bees and wasps?
Absolutely none of these questions are answered by Honey Pot, but what this buzzy game lacks in bee-related trivia knowledge, it makes up with its unique approach to the Tetris genre of block-dropping puzzlers. Unfortunately, poor controls and a lack of options bring the experience down somewhat.
Whether you choose to be the queen bee, a worker bee or the soldier bee, the goal is always the same — complete horizontal lines on the grid to clear honeycomb pieces and fill the honey pot. Pieces of varying shape fall from the top, and need rotating and slotting into the stack below. Once the honey pot has been filled, you’ll gain a level and the action gets faster.
On the surface it’s simply Tetris with a hexagonal grid, but there’s a little more to it than that. There are just over a dozen different types of honeycomb, and if 12 honeycombs of the same type touch, they’ll be removed. Certain special pieces also affect play, like ‘sticky honey’ which melts away the blocks below, and the non-removable ‘killer wasp’ piece.
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Tags: honey pot, Puzzle, reviews, tetris, wombat
In this weekly feature, FingerGaming rounds up the top-grossing iPhone and iPod Touch applications, as current that day on the iTunes App Store. This week’s top titles are:
- Call of Duty: World at War Zombies ($9.99)
- Tetris ($2.99)
- The Sims 3 ($6.99)
- N.O.V.A. – Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance ($6.99)
- Bejeweled 2 ($2.99)
- Need for Speed: Shift ($6.99)
- The Simpsons Arcade ($4.99)
- Scrabble ($2.99)
- Skee-Ball ($0.99)
- Rock Band ($6.99)
Activision’s Call of Duty: World at War Zombies remains the App Store’s highest-grossing game after retaking the top chart spot last week. EA’s Tetris rises up from fifth place to finish second in today’s results, while The Sims 3 beats out Gameloft’s FPS N.O.V.A. for third place.
PopCap’s Bejeweled 2 moves up to fifth following a seventh-place finish last week. EA’s The Simpsons Arcade makes its chart debut at seventh place, meanwhile, landing between the publisher’s other popular titles Scrabble and Need for Speed: Shift.
EA’s Rock Band falls to tenth place this week, shortly after returning to its original price of $6.99. Freeverse’s Skee-Ball moves up a spot to take ninth, and finishes as this week’s top App Store seller by volume.
Tags: call of duty, charts, tetris, the sims 3, top grossing apps
Every Monday, FingerGaming rounds up the most popular paid iPhone and iPod Touch applications, as current that day on the iTunes App Store. This week’s top titles are:
- Skee-Ball ($0.99)
- Doodle Jump ($0.99)
- Tetris ($2.99)
- Bejeweled 2 ($2.99)
- Scrabble ($2.99)
- Cartoon Wars: Gunner ($0.99)
- Flick Fishing ($0.99)
- Where’s Waldo? ($2.99)
- The Game of Life ($2.99)
- JellyCar 2 ($0.99)
Doodle Jump climbs up to second place in today’s charts after finishing third last week, while Freeverse’s Skee-Ball takes the top spot for the second week running. Tetris, Bejeweled 2, and Scrabble also see renewed popularity this week, pushing last week’s second-place title Cartoon Wars: Gunner to sixth place.
Freeverse’s popular fishing sim Flick Fishing returns to the charts after a long absence, edging out Where’s Waldo? to finish at seventh place. EA’s iPhone adaptation of The Game of Life ranks in at ninth place, while JellyCar 2 closes out the chart at tenth.
Tags: charts, doodle jump, skee-ball, tetris, top paid apps
In this weekly feature, FingerGaming rounds up the top-grossing iPhone and iPod Touch applications, as current that day on the iTunes App Store. This week’s top titles are:
- Call of Duty: World at War Zombies ($9.99)
- Monopoly ($4.99)
- Tetris ($4.99)
- Bejeweled 2 ($2.99)
- Scrabble ($4.99)
- The Sims 3 ($6.99)
- Implode! ($1.99)
- Madden NFL 10 ($6.99)
- Need for Speed Undercover ($4.99)
- Rock Band ($6.99)
Boosted by Black Friday discounts, EA’s Monopoly and Tetris move up past Bejeweled 2 to take second and third place in today’s top-grossing app charts. Call of Duty: World at War Zombies finishes at first place for the second week in a row, and is likely to remain a chart favorite for weeks to come.
Scrabble moves up from seventh place to finish fifth this week. The Sims 3 sees a slight drop in popularity, meanwhile, as IUGO’s physics puzzler Implode! makes its chart debut at seventh place.
EA closes out this week’s chart results with a trio of offerings. Madden NFL 10 and Need for Speed Undercover see increased sales in the wake of Black Friday, while Rock Band hangs on at tenth place.
Tags: call of duty: world at war zombies, charts, monopoly, tetris, top grossing apps
Every Monday, FingerGaming rounds up the most popular paid iPhone and iPod Touch applications, as current that day on the iTunes App Store. This week’s top titles are:
- Monopoly ($2.99)
- Tetris ($2.99)
- Brothers in Arms: Hour of Heroes ($4.99)
- Shrek Kart ($4.99)
- Bejeweled 2 ($2.99)
- Scrabble ($2.99)
- All-in-1 Gamebox ($0.99)
- Call of Duty: World at War Zombies ($9.99)
- Implode! ($1.99)
- JellyCar 2 ($0.99)
Last week’s top title JellyCar 2 drops to tenth place in today’s rankings, as Black Friday sales boost a number of other titles up the chart. EA’s classic version of Monopoly takes first place this week, with Tetris trailing close behind.
Gameloft’s Brothers in Arms and Shrek Kart also move up this week, thanks to weekend-long discounts in price. Triniti’s All-in-1 Gamebox continues to see strong sales, finishing at seventh this week, while Bejeweled 2 and Scrabble rise up to take fifth and sixth place.
Tags: brothers in arms, charts, monopoly, tetris, top paid apps
In this weekly feature, FingerGaming rounds up the top-grossing iPhone and iPod Touch applications, as current that day on the iTunes App Store. This week’s top titles are:
- Rock Band ($9.99)
- Bejeweled 2 ($2.99)
- Tetris ($4.99)
- Tap Tap Revenge 3 ($0.99)
- Madden NFL 10 ($9.99)
- Need for Speed Undercover ($4.99)
- Skee-Ball ($0.99)
- NBA Live ($9.99)
- The Sims 3 ($6.99)
- Scrabble ($4.99)
Rock Band leads the top-grossing app charts for the second week in a row, outselling all competing titles in every category. Bejeweled 2 again finishes at second place, while Tetris climbs up from seventh place to take third in today’s rankings.
Tap Tap Revenge 3 overtakes Madden NFL 10 in this week’s chart, as Need for Speed Undercover follows at sixth place. EA’s NBA Live lands eighth place in its first week of release, while Freeverse’s Skee-Ball finally appears in the top-grossing chart after remaining a top seller by volume over the past month.
Tags: bejeweled 2, charts, rock band, tetris, top grossing apps
This week has been a momentous one for the iPhone, what with the release of the feature-rich iPhone OS 3.0 and the debut of the iPhone 3G S hardware.
Perhaps hoping that Apple would be too busy with managing this week’s events to notice, some clever scoundrels have attempted to slip a handful of shameless game clones into the App Store’s library.
No one was fooled.
First up is Blocks Drop, the product of a genius scientist from the year 2011 who invented a time machine and traveled to the distant past. The plan: 1) invent the falling block puzzler, 2) earn billions of dollars, 3) get a girlfriend. He only missed the mark by a couple of decades or so.
Developer Steven Mitchev finally figured out the key element lacking in tacky games like Arkanoid: class. Classy Bricks ditches the profanity and “your mom” jokes that laced Taito’s brick-breaking classic and adds tasteful Photoshop backgrounds, for a more refined experience.
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Tags: arkanoid, clone, joust, tetris
As part of its Countdown to 1 Billion App Downloads contest (currently at 958,315,789, for those keeping track), Apple has revealed the iTunes App Store’s 20 overall best-selling paid applications, as observed throughout the marketplace’s nine-month history. The results include several popular game applications, along with some surprising findings.
Topping the chart is Vivendi’s Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D, an early App Store release that won a sizable share of the iPhone’s audience with simple gameplay, impressive graphics, and effective use of the device’s accelerometer functions. Fellow early debuts Tetris and Super Monkey Ball also appear on the list alongside more recent hits like Fieldrunners and iShoot.
The full chart, with App Store links, follows at the link below.
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Tags: Apple, charts, crash bandicoot nitro kart 3d, fieldrunners, iPhone, ishoot, sales, super monkey ball, tetris, top paid apps
Every Monday (except when I forget, which happened yesterday, oops!), FingerGaming rounds up the most popular paid iPhone and iPod Touch applications, as current that day on the iTunes App Store. This week’s top titles are:
- Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D ($5.99)
- Tetris ($4.99)
- Chopper ($0.99)
- iHunt ($0.99)
- Touchgrind ($4.99)
- Bejeweled 2 ($2.99)
- Enigmo ($1.99)
- SimCity ($9.99)
- Moto Chaser ($0.99)
- The Price is Right ($2.99)
Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D takes the top spot in this week’s rankings, while last week’s chart champion SimCity drops to eighth place. Tetris moves up a few spots, as newcomer hunting sim iHunt joins the charts at fourth place.
The charts also see the return of Moto Chaser this week, which finishes at ninth place following a drop in price to 99 cents. The Price is Right drops to tenth, meanwhile, as demand for Touchgrind and Bejeweled 2 is on the rise.
Tags: charts, chopper, crash bandicoot nitro kart 3d, tetris, top paid apps
The Tetris Company weren’t done when they went after and subsequently had Tris removed, as they went after Shaker (Free). Shaker was originally being sold in the App Store for $9.99 but is now free for the next 4 to 5 hours as it’ll be removed from the App Store soon, according to The iPhone Blog.
Many game developers that had legal threats sent to them usually had something in their name that caused the harassment to occur, but Shaker has nothing in its name to draw attention. Clearly The Tetris Company is trying to protect an idea for a game, rather than just the name.
Before the game starts choose how you want to control the game: Classic – by tapping buttons that appear on the screen below the play field, Stirred – by using simple finger gestures, and Shaken – by shaking your iPhone. As blocks fall down the playing field you can manipulate them, by moving sideways and/or rotating, with the goal of completing a row of objects without gaps. When such row is completed, it disappears, and any objects above the deleted row will fall. As the game progresses, the blocks fall faster, and the game ends when the stack reaches the top of the playing field, so no new blocks are able to enter. At the end of the game, if your score reaches the top-10 list one of 101 martini recipes stored in the program is randomly unlocked.
Tags: free, Price Change, Removed Game, shaker, tetris
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