A few days ago, a Com2uS’ game called Slice It! was offered for free in the Amazon App Store. The gameplay itself didn’t earn much scrutiny, but the permissions required to install the game did. Slice It! currently needs access to potentially sensitive information stored on phones that a lot of users disapproved of. The most jaw-dropping permission has the game gathering “information about the currently or recently running tasks: a thumbnail representation of the tasks, what activities are running in it, etc.” A simple game shouldn’t need such detailed access to the programs that are running on someone’s phone, so we asked Com2uS for an explanation.

Amazon’s free app of the day promotion has been a hit since it debuted. Every day, Amazon offers a different Android app for free. Sometimes the app is a simple $0.99 game, and other times Amazon throws a $14.99 productivity app into the mix. Today’s free app is a game called Slice It! from Com2uS. The game is about slicing increasingly difficult shapes into equal pieces. It sounds like a decent time waster, but concerns have started to arise about this app. Installing and running Slice It! requires giving the game certain permissions some people won’t be comfortable agreeing to.

Title: Chronicles of Inotia: Legend of FeanorPrice: $7.99System(s): iPhone and iPod TouchRelease Date: December 12, 2008Publisher (Developer): Com2uS Corp.ESRB Rating: “9+” for frequent/intense cartoon or fantasy violencePros: Great visuals, simple controls, bite sized quests perfect for mobile use.Cons: Music looping has an awkward pause, cannot listen to own music, has a few bugs and glitches.Overall Score: One thumb up and one thumb down, 75/100, C, **1/2

Chronicles of Inotia: Legend of Feanor is one of those games that has the right idea but flawed execution. On the outside, the game looks gorgeous in terms of a mobile game and controls very simplistically but on the inside it harbors very deep problems with its framerate and substance…

If you enjoyed Cake Mania, Lemonade Tycoon and Cooking Mama, and you have a Verizon Wireless cell phone, you may want to check out Crazy Hotdogs: Tailgate Party. In Com2uS’ latest mobile title, you play as a man who is given $10,000 dollars and a hotdog recipe, and instructed to turn that $10,000 into $500,000. (The press release says $100,000, but the Com2uS site says a half million, so we’ll go with that.) So you have to make hotdogs to order, expand your business and complete set missions in each stage.

So far, Crazy Hotdogs: Tailgate Party is only available on Verizon Wireless phones, but Com2uS has confirmed that it will also be appearing as an iPhone and iPod game sometime this month…

mDisney, Disney’s mobile video game, graphics and ringtone division, has just announced that it is going to be publishing Com2uS developed, Disney-themed mobile games. The partnership was announced today (September 10, 2008), at the 2008 CTIA convention in San Francisco, California. So far only one game has been announced, Disney Puzzle Family, and it will be released before the end of September, 2008.

Disney Puzzle Family sounds like a standard puzzle game, but it also has some collection elements to it. It is actually a compilation of five different puzzles, each one representing a different member of the family mentioned in the title. By playing and excelling in the games, players can place on leaderboards, win against friends and customize their five family members with different Disney paraphernalia…