Missing that Rubic Cube of your childhood or whatever age you were in when you toyed with it? Now, thanks to Offscreen Technologies, one of the best known names in games and applications for the Symbian platform and now in the Maemo platform, for this amazing adaptation of the popular puzzle into the touch platform.

Rubic Cube as you may know is a 3D mechanical puzzle and is so popular that there are world championships held every year and world rankings are maintained by World Cube Association. There are all sorts of variations of Rubic cube with people playing blindfolded, feet etc and the cubes come in different grid sizes as well ranging from 2×2 to 7×7. Enough of introduction now, let’s now dive into Cube Touch on N900:

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Offscreen Technologies are sticking with the most popular 3×3 grid size for this version of Cube Touch and frankly speaking this is best suited for the screen size of n900. Since our N900 is no cube or not even square, anything more than 3×3 will be a difficult implementation. Not surprisingly, Offscreen have restricted this version at 3×3 and they have done a great job indeed. Sliding across the faces is intuitive and easy and so is sliding individual plates. The bottom line is this one addicting game and you are gonna spend hours on this one.

The world record for 3×3 Rubic cube is around 7 s. How close can you get to it? Better, if anyone can beat it!

Now that Nokia was prompt with their Ovi store release, let me now come to one of the most happening segments in the N900 circles, that is other than the folks going gaga over the ovi store. As I had mentioned in the previous post, the N900 needs some boost in the gaming segment for the hardware can definitely handle some high end 3D graphics as seen on Bounce Evolution.

Is Bounce Evolution the end of 3D gaming on N900? Definitely not. We have already seen some fragging action, thanks to Quake 3 on N900, and now its the turn of other baddies to land on the N900. Buckle up, for Stratagus aka Warcraft 2 and Starcraft have landed on the N900 and thats not all of it, even DOOM the classic first person shooter game is now accessible via your N900. Demo videos and download instructions after the break. Read the rest of this entry »

Here comes the weekend and in a typical jolly mood of the weekend, I was looking to having some fun gaming on the N900. After digging a few rounds of Bounce Evolution, I kinda got bored with it. Awesome 3D graphics and sound effects and engaging gameplay indeed but it being the only default game on my N900, I have played it far too many times now. So I headed straight to Downloads section of App Manager and downloaded a few games. Unfortunately there are no 3D games that can measure up to Bounce Evolution in any of the known repositories yet but I was able to find a couple of entertaining 2D games, which though not high on graphics are engaging and fun nevertheless. Hex-A-Hop is one such 2d game and its not only entertaining, but it also tests that grey matter of yours, which might have gone rusty over the mundane lifestyle of the weekdays! Read the rest of this entry »