As any new or vet iPhone owner will know, trying to wade through the App Store’s overwhelming selection of games and apps is a daunting process, so we’ve whipped together this guide to the first 15 games you should seek out, with another 30 to consider (from a wider variety of genres [shooting, word games]) thrown in for good measure, which should hopefully better ease you into what the device has to offer.
Elsewhere we looked at more iPhone games about to make their way to the store — Hand Circus’s trip into the savage/Indy Jones-ish wild in their Rolando sequel, and a revival of EA’s classic board/strategy game Archon (which is indeed now live).
We also saw Rockstar’s formerly DS-exclusive Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars making the leap to the new PSP Go, new stickers from Offworld-favorite illustrator Jon Burgerman coming to LittleBigPlanet, hand-crafted drink coasters to commemorate the worst day of your gaming life, and beautiful new King of Games T-shirts celebrating Q-games’ PS3 PixelJunk franchise.
Finally, we listened to the chiptune remixes coming to the PS3 revival of Katamari Damacy, and our ‘one shot’s for the day: Fez, paused, and accidentally gorgeous long-exposure phone-cam photos of Galaga.