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Michael Jeans
About

Michael Jeans

Michael has been an Apple user since system 6 and an Internet aficionado back when it was just email, Usenet and gopher. He and his son play tons of board, card and dice games as well as casual games on the Xbox 360 and iPhone. He is marchpumpkin nearly everywhere except XBL where he is marchpumpkins because MS sucks and won't let him have back his old gamertag.
Latest from Michael
Review: Gelex

Review: Gelex

Bounce and match bricks together in this cute,Tetris-style game. Gelex is not just a fun game, but an interesting one - since it was coded by 78 year-old GrannyCoder, Marie Bila.

Michael Jeans
Review: Picture Safe

Review: Picture Safe

Picture Safe has been the #1 privacy app in the Utility category for over a year now. For good reason, too, Picture Safe has tons of features for keeping your...err...secret photos, secret. It does have some flaws, though.

Michael Jeans
Review: Dr. Seuess's ABC

Review: Dr. Seuess's ABC

The great master of kid's storybook rhymes has TWO books in the App Store's Top 25 list, The Cat in the Hat and Dr. Seuss's ABC. Do the iPhone versions live up to the original books, or perhaps even make them better?

Michael Jeans
Review: Battle of Puppets

Review: Battle of Puppets

Pull strings on your puppets, sing opera, defend your castle and reign on Broadway! Battle of Puppets is a quirky Castle Defense style game with gorgeous graphics, and a premise that feels much more satisfying than, "Go forth and destroy thine enemy."

Michael Jeans
Review: TCGBuddy with Promo Code Giveaway

Review: TCGBuddy with Promo Code Giveaway

There's no version of Magic: the Gathering for the iPhone...yet...but there are lots of apps to help you play the game. Some keep track of life, some track your decks, and some track prices of individual cards. TCGBuddy fulfills some of these and a whole lot more.

Michael Jeans
Review: Pile Up!

Review: Pile Up!

The App Store is full of traffic control games. Pile Up! added itself to the mix late last year having you direct traffic through one of three intersections. Does it add anything new and exciting to the genre? Or is it merely more of the same?

Michael Jeans
Review: Garters & Ghouls

Review: Garters & Ghouls

Is Garters & Ghouls and its sexy heroine, Marie DuPois, good enough to bump Minigore, Alive 4 Ever, and iDracula out of their slots as the App Store's best twin stick shooters? Read on to find out.

Michael Jeans
Review: Zombie Attack! Second Wave

Review: Zombie Attack! Second Wave

More Towers! More Zombies! More Carnage! Zombie Attack! Second Wave adds lots of extras into the popular mix of the original Zombie Attack, but is it worth $4 or should you stick with the first one?

Michael Jeans
Review: Fling!

Review: Fling!

Fling! offers what a lot of puzzle games cannot: casual and arcade modes. This adds re-playability value to a game that is already challenging and gripping.

Michael Jeans
Review: Fare City: First Shift

Review: Fare City: First Shift

Line drawing games are a growing genre on the iPhone and Fare City: First Shift is a great new addition. Though it has a few flaws, its unique play style makes it worth getting now before the developers improve the game and up to the price.

Michael Jeans
Review: Doodle Jump

Review: Doodle Jump

Doodle Jump is a must have game for anyone who enjoys casual games on their iPhone. Cute graphics, accurate controls, and straight-forward pick-up and play concept makes it endlessly re-playable.

Michael Jeans
Review: Cash Cow

Review: Cash Cow

Another Match-3 game for your iPhone? Nope. Cash Cow offers a few new twists on the genre with a coin collecting motif and a couple of mini-games to play.

Michael Jeans
Review: Zing! - Promo Code Giveaway!

Review: Zing! - Promo Code Giveaway!

Need to liven up board meetings? Put down annoying commentators? Want to humiliate your friends and enemies? You need the rimshots, pr0n noises, gunshots, crickets and evil clowns that Zing! gives you.

Michael Jeans