Sporcle: US-centric trivia app. Nice & forgiving UI for answers & plenty of quizzes, but rather dull. 2/5 $1.99
Fragger: Physics-based artillery game. A fiddly Angry Birds with terrorists & without the humour or polish. 2/5 $0.99
Alone: Isometric retro-style puzzle/platform game. Nice graphics, but poor controls drag everything down. 2/5 $0.99
GeoTron: Lo-fi Geometry Wars clone. Looks & sounds great & has several modes but it’s ruined by dire controls. 1/5 Free
Halogen (iPad): Chaotic and lively neon mash-up of Breakout, air hockey and Galaxian. 3/5 $4.99
NinJump: Fairly good vertical Canabalt-style game with wall-jumping ninja. 3/5 Free
Magic Piano: Overhyped music toy. Welds a mediocre piano to a dull rhythm action ‘game’. 2/5 $0.99
Doodle Soccer Free: Surprisingly successful & fun mix of Flight Control & side-on footie. 4/5 Free http://thurly.net/vl0
NYT Editor’s Choice (iPad): Good news content, but newspaper-style layout makes reading experience sub-optimal 2/5 Free
Earth Defender: Slick but short modern take on Space Invaders/Missile Command. Sadly lacks any real challenge 2/5 $0.99