IUGO Mobile Entertainment recently announced a great puzzle game called ESCAPE: Norm’s World, and we have screenshots and video!

Here is the description:

Zone out on limitless Zen puzzles with ESCAPE. Jump the little guy from stone to stone to eliminate all and solve the puzzle. Escape features:

- Endless levels and gameplay
- 2 additional unlockable difficulty modes introduced through DLC (iPhone only)
- Simple controls for all ages
- Minimalist graphics for maximum appeal
- Unique cerebral game play complimented by relaxing audio and visual effects
- Surprisingly addictive!

Here is a gameplay video:

And here are screenshots:

Looks great! It will be released for both the iPhone and Blackberry devices, stay tuned for more information.

Just received word that IUGO Mobile Entertainment’s Implode! has had its update pushed out to the app store. Here’s the release:

IUGO’s hit demolition puzzler has gotten its 4th update approved on the App Store. The latest update includes:

✓ New requested bomb type: Delay Bombs
✓ 20 new buildings! 130 levels in total. WOW!
✓ Building height now shown with line and numerical height in feet

This brings Implode’s level count to 130 unique and varied levels with 3 difficulty levels and a grading system to add robust replayability. IUGO intends to bring users more updates in the future adding more content and level challenges.

And some screenshots:

Star Hogs is a great space-themed, turn-based strategy warfare game from IUGO Mobile Entertainment, based out of Vancouver, British Columbia.

The Game

Star Hogs is a great turn-based strategy game, you control a fleet of ships who must face off with other ships who are of different colour. That’s right, I just pulled out the colour card. Anyhow, you purchase ships to add to your armada, and there are three different types according to how you wish to use the ships. There are Combat, Engineering, and Intelligence ships, all of which have different statistics. For example, Combat ships have the best thrust, Engineering ships can carry the most and have the best armour, and Intelligence ships have the highest amount of shields. In addition, the set up of the ships will be different, specifically the number of Arms, Hull, and Tech slots each ship has.

Star Hogs has several options of play: Campaign, Free Play, and Online. Campaign is a great way to learn game mechanics, see the different types of environments available and how gravity affects them all (“Holy crap it’s going AROUND the planet!”) and unlocking different types of weapons for outfitting on your ships. Free Play is great practice on up to three other AI-controlled teams with anywhere from 1-4 ships. Online should be the bread and butter of Star Hogs, because you can square off with players around the world and show them who has bigger missiles. I said “should” be the bread and butter because online has its problems: connectivity issues when trying to log in and the lack of actual players playing the game. It really needs more people online, so get this game!

A lot of people will be comparing Star Hogs to the Worms franchise, and that is a fair comparison. They are both turn-based strategy warfare games, they have many weapons in their arsenal, your team has limited health, weapons are affected by gravity, and you’re fighting on a flat environment that is destructible. Those are the handful of similarities that you will find between Worms and Star Hogs, but it begins to deviate from there. Star Hogs sometimes feels like a simpler version of Worms, but it is really a different experience altogether.

Graphics

Star Hogs has fantastic graphics, using 3D models set on a flat landscape that gives the game a really great sense of depth. The planets are beautifully rendered, and overall, the graphics in Star Hogs are some of the best 3D modeling I have seen for iPhone games. Unfortunately, it just isn’t as nice looking as it could be as a 3D model, but it still does a bang up job.

Sound

Star Hogs has a pretty rock-centric soundtrack, which fits in perfectly with each round starting off with “Rock and Load!” There really isn’t much to say about the sound of Star Hogs, it is decent and it gets the job done, and you always have the option of playing your iPod instead of the in-game sound.

Additional Comments

I really wish more people played online, because then it would be a better experience. For now, a good number of people play at any given time, but either they suck real bad or they outright destroy you, some people in the mid-range would be nice!

Conclusion

Star Hogs is a quality game made for the iPhone by a fantastic independent developer based in Vancouver. (Gotta support fellow Canadians!) You will enjoy blasting the crap out of computers and other players alike, definitely a must have game for the iPhone!

Score

MustTap Score: Silver Tap

Looks great and gives out some quality stuff!

Bottom Line
Star Hogs is a wonderful turn-based strategy warfare game, outfit your ships with the best weapons and square off with players around the world. Definitely a must have game for the iPhone.

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