Stories By Heather Bradford

Today only, Battle Bears 1.5 is available for free from FreeAppADay.com. If you balked at buying it, here's a chance to enjoy the entire game for nothing. Beware the Huggables!

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Match-3 games are everywhere on the iPhone, letting you move around gems, runes, and now technicolor tribbles. Popcap Games, the company behind the insanely popular Match-3 title Bejeweled, has repeated their success by bringing a perfect port of their oddball PC and online title Chuzzle to the iPhone.

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It can be a lot of fun to set your enemies on fire in videogames. Zombies burn nicely, as do vampires and some aliens. In most of the games we’ve played, fire is a weapon, not an opponent.

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Every woman knows it’s not easy to bring home the bacon. But in the game Lion Pride, if you put your mind to it, you can catch that warthog. You are a lioness, an apex predator whose only job is to kill. All you have are your teeth, your claws, and above all, the element of surprise.

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How can you scream when you have no mouth? Where is that background voice coming from, if not him? And what’s with the techno? All excellent questions, for which there are no answers.

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If you lived in a world where colorful dragons flew through the sky, happy, harmless and beautiful, why would you want to wreck that? Sure, freedom sounds nice, but think about it. Wouldn’t you rather have them hanging around Earth? Or would you help them escape this existence and go somewhere else? Maybe somewhere a bit more dragony?

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There are many games on the market that can teach people about things like science, language and art, though few use burglary to do so. Art Thief is one of the few titles that encourages learning through the commission of felonies.

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Who can resist a game filled with disembodied cartoon heads? Certainly not us. This is part of the reason we like Snood, EA’s latest Match-3 title, so very much.

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When people talk about the end of the world, they focus on things like robots, aliens and global warfare. When it comes to Armageddon, sentient beings (usually mankind) are the prime suspects. 4 Elements - Puzzledom, a Match-3 puzzler from RealArcade and Playrix Entertainment, has a different idea.

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We don’t want to date ourselves, but here at Slide to Play many of us fondly remember playing computer games on our Commodore home computers. What began as text based adventures in our dads' studies turned into well designed, colorful computer games like Pinball Fantasies for the Commodore Amiga.

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So you want a game that lets you blow off some steam, maybe by giving you an interesting landscape and filling it with things to shoot. Would you rather be shooting fantastical beings from space in epic interstellar battles, mowing down members of rival gangs, or bombing dust bunnies with generic Pine Sol?

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Listen up, soldier: Giant mutant bugs are overrunning our cities and it is up to you to beat them back and protect your fellow man. You country needs you to lead Operation: Kill All Bugs! Are you up for the task?

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The demons are trying to take over. We can feel their wicked presence creeping in, curling like fingers of fog stealing across the landscape, ready to envelop anything in its path. Their latest tool is Diabolika, a fiendishly delightful puzzler from independent developers Derek Yu and Jon Perry.

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Oh my god, the stove is on fire! What do you do? What do you do!? Quickly, dig the doorknob out of the sandbox, take it to the shed, use it fix the door, open the door to the shed, find the fire extinguisher, take it to the kitchen and put the fire out. Whew! That was easy, wasn’t it?

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What do you do when your missing boyfriend may have become a god? Well, if you’re the comic book heroine of Mahjongg Artifacts: Chapter 2, you fight to save him from himself by playing mahjongg solitare.

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The word “Eden” conjures up images of beautiful, serene gardens; a divine paradise. That is not what you get in Edimon, a virtual pet game set in the Eden Universe. Wonky controls and glitchy minigames turn this paradise into a lost cause.

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When the cat woke me up at 5 a.m. for some unscheduled (and unwanted) playtime, I decided to show her Kitten Cannon. She was not amused.

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Making your way through the slums of British India, you encounter a beautiful veiled woman who, with a mysterious and provocative look, challenges you to a jewel-matching game. Later, you meet a distinguished British general who challenges you to another jewel-matching game. Same goes for a Bedouin chief, a cab driver, and a religious guru, all of whom have nothing better to do than challenge you to jewel-matching games.

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After building up a successful business, who wouldn’t want a little R&R? And if that R&R turns into a global business empire, all the better, right? That’s the premise of Sally’s Spa, Games Café’s follow-up to the popular time management game Sally’s Salon and currently ranked #1 on the App Store.

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