With all the sweet sounds, environment and immersive game-play itself, this game glues you to the device. Zuma is no doubt an addictive and quite exciting game that makes you play it for a long time. The game-play is quite simple and easy, Player hits the balls of the same color and scores points and he must not let the balls reach to the center, or he’ll lose a life. The game features an addicting and engaging game-play, adventure and gauntlet gaming modes and a lot of colored balls to match. With amazing and quite catching sequels named Zuma’s Revenge, Zuma Blitz and Zuma Deluxe, Zuma sold millions of copies and received Game of the Year award back in 2004. This fast paced and super addictive game is available on multiple platforms such as Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, Windows Mobile, Android, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Palm OS. EA is looking to release three classic board games in time for the holiday season: Battleship, Connect 4, Monopoly Classic.ĮA will bring a few twists to the classic game of skillful coordinate guessing.Zuma, tile or balls matching Puzzle and Match-3 video game is developed by PopCap Games. You'll use touchscreen controls to battle your enemies in three different modes - classic, salvo, and super weapons. Not wanting to miss out on the social aspect of the game, EA has included local multiplayer (both bluetooth and Wifi). While EA couldn't quite recreate the joy of pulling the lever at the bottom of the board and watching all of the pieces crash to the ground, Connect 4 will nonetheless be a faithful recreation of the timeless game. Connect 4 will contain single player and multiplayer (local Wifi, bluetooth, and one device sharing). Single player includes classic, challenge, and advanced modes with Powerchips, Max Score, and PopOut. In addition, EA has included 25 unlockable achievements and some fancy visual effects. While EA has already released Monopoly: Here & Now onto the App Store, they will provide a more traditional experience with Monopoly Classic. Because the cutthroat intensity of property management doesn't quite transfer over to single player mode, you'll be able to play your friends on the go with local Wifi, bluetooth, and single device "pass and play" multiplayer. EA is also including some nice iPhone features such as progressive save, an accelerometer shake to role the dice, and the ability access your iPod library in-game. StoneLoops! of Jurassica is fantastic marble-shooter that Bonnie proclaimed "sets a new standard for Zuma-style match-3s" in her initial review. Have you rushing off to the App Store? Well, don't bother. Recently, StoneLoops was removed from the App Store by Apple and is no longer available for download. As it turns out, this act was perpetrated by MumboJumbo, the developers of the main genre competitor, Luxor.Īccording to the developer of StoneLoops, Code Minion (full blog post here), MumboJumbo's reason for doing this was StoneLoops's success. In fact, this assertion seems to be largely substantiated. When they both existed as PC games, Luxor far overshadowed the little-known StoneLoops. However, when it came to the iPhone, the tables turned. Code Minion beat MumboJumbo in the race to the App Store, and StoneLoops enjoyed a sustained high rank in the top paid apps list while Luxor languished. The full story goes like this: a few weeks ago, Apple relayed Code Minion a formal complaint and request to remove StoneLoops from the App Store, originally filed by MumboJumbo. Code Minion assumed Apple ruled in their favor when weeks passed without any reply, but discovered otherwise when they learned StoneLoops was no longer available in the App Store.Ĭode Minion replied to Apple, refuting the claims that they found erroneous and even offering to change a few things on StoneLoops's app description.Īccording to Code Minion, the complaint involved "infringing Luxor copyright, confusing customers, stealing Luxor’s look & feel and even stealing their source code!" Most of these claims are simply outrageous, and if you've ever played the two games, the differences are apparent. There are several reasons why MumboJumbo's actions are repulsive and hypocritical. First, of course, Luxor is not an original game. All marble shooters are derived from the 1998 Japanese game Puzz Loop, and most established iteration on the formula is Popcap's 2003 game Zuma.
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