Mobile Game Sudoku By Astraware For BlackBerry Smartphones

Sudoku is one of the most played game both offline and online. Offline, people enjoy to kill their time playing this 9X9 grid puzzle game in newspapers and magazines and online, more often than not, they play it on mobile phones. Now, Astraware has come up with mobile game Sudoku for BlackBerry phones.

There are lots and lots of new features to keep you busy. For one, the company has Puzzle of the Day which can be downloaded from the web server at sudokuoftheday.com. Players can compare their solving time with anyone around the globe.

There is a puzzle generator that never feel shy of creating ever complex grid. There are many features aimed at assisting in solving a puzzle like smart hints system, pencilmarks and hold-and- highlight to help beginners.

If you really want to buy this game you better hurry as from now until midnight on 31st March 2009 Astraware Sudoku is available for the very special price of just $4.95. That's a saving of $5 off the new regular price of $9.95. www.astraware.com

Bookworm Mobile Game From PopCap Comes To iPhone

PopCap Games, the Seattle-based game developer, has launched its popular and highly addictive mobile game Bookworm for the Apple iPhone. This is a word forming game that can kill your many hours. The company says that the game contains nearly every word appearing in the Oxford English Dictionary plus some exclusive features for the iPhone version.

In the Bookworm game, players form words to earn points. More complicated words give you more points. The game can be played for short bursts of time as well as for long hours. The game exploits several hardware features of iPhone that makes playing experience very intuitive and fast like shaking the iPhone re-scrambles the letters, tracking progress by just tilting the iPhone sideways for a quick view of bonus bookshelf status and word history.

The game can be played in 2 modes Classic and Action. In the turn based Classic game you take your own time to form words while the Action mode game runs in real-time that adds a new red tile every few seconds. In the Action mode, the primary goal is to remove the red tiles before they reach the bottom of the grid and end the game.

The Bookworm game includes vocabulary of over 170,000 words from the Oxford English Dictionary as well as unlimited levels. The mobile game is available at the App Store for $4.99.