I played the first Samurai game the first few weeks after I got my iPad. Back then, I was already enthralled by the game’s solid gameplay and stunning graphics. Samurai II: Vengeance is now available, and this time around it’s a universal app. It’s an instant classic on all three iOS devices, playing beautifully on each. Get this game if you’re a hack-and-slash game fan.

If you’re a casual gamer, you can stop reading now. This is for those who worry about frame rates and polygons. It’s for people like me who enjoy hard core games, and who understand that our console systems can’t always provide us with the control we need. Wii Remote aside, you just still can’t beat WASD + mouse for first person shooters…especially if the WASD is being mapped to a G13.

Agents of Interpol (for iPhone and iPod touch) is a fun, beautifully illustrated game of finding hidden objects, which is marred by frequent crashes.

The laughably ridiculous premise of the game is that you have to help Interpol track down the international criminal known as Dr. Chaos. To do this you have to travel to exotic locales and search them for objects he’s left behind, which will help lead you to the next location. All of which would be fine, except that what you’re looking for isn’t say, a tattered note or a plane ticket, but rather a laundry list of things that would probably be in that location anyway. Find four French flags in the Eiffel tower? Of course! He’s gone to Moscow!

But never mind the backstory; it’s the execution that makes Agents of Interpol (AOI) really shine.

Aspyr Media keeps role-playing alive on the Mac by taking over the wildly popular Neverwinter Nights franchise. Neverwinter Nights 2 is bigger, shinier, and an engrossing RPG experience, but it’s not without its share of problems. The new graphics engine gets poorer performance without actually looking any better, the inventory management system bogs down the more »