Fishing Kings by Gameloft is one of the finest fishing apps you can have on your mobile phone. It employs everything in your smartphone tackle box - vibration, tilt and touch - to provide as realistic a simulation as you’ll ever find. This is due in large part to a gorgeous underwater camera that takes you right into the water as you search for holes, work your lure and fight your fish. It makes couch fishing fun.

Dungeon Defenders by Trendy Entertainment is an ambitious title that strives to combine 3^rd person dungeon defense, role-playing, tower defense and online coop action into one heady brew for your mobile device. Needless to say, this is a tall order not only for the developer but also the player and the hardware.

Galaxy on Fire 2 offers the player so much freedom that it’s easy to become lost in space so to speak.  While I don’t want to give a walkthru or spoil the thrill of exploration for one of the deepest iPhone games ever made, here’s a few tips to get you through deep space.

Fishlab’s has crafted an absolute stunner of a space opera in Galaxy on Fire 2. It’s a work that’s been years in the making, more a labor of love than a game, as they’ve patiently reshaped, retooled and refined their galaxy over time to arrive at this, their crowning achievement in space. It’s perfectly balanced, like a fine wine that you want to savor and last. It’s exciting, thoughtful, absorbing, beautiful and deep.

In Ultimate Spider-Man Total Mayhem Gameloft has taken Marvel’s web-spinning, wall-climbing superhero, drawn and animated him and his enemies beautifully, and brought a comic book to life in the palm of our hands. All it takes are a few simple touches to make you feel like a high-flying superhero. Do the kids of today know how good they’ve got it?

How does the year-old Real Golf 2011 by Gameloft withstand the charge of the latest Tiger Woods 12 from EA? Real Golf’s swing meter mimics Tiger’s and with a few trips to the driving range you’ll find it works beautifully and combined with it’s gorgeous graphics, impeccable ball physics and wonderfully detailed courses allows Real Golf 2011 to maintain it’s lead as the most “realistic” golf simulation available for your iOS device and also one of the most underrated games in the app store.

While some may dismiss Gameloft’s Zombie Infection as simply a Resident Evil 4 knock-off due to its’ third-person over-the-shoulder aiming and location based damage, I found it to be one of Gameloft’s more enjoyable single-player experiences and for .99 provides more gameplay and fun than 90% of the zombie drool oozing from the app store every week.

Dinosaurs have stomped onto your iDevice in Carnivores - Dinosaur Hunter by Tatem Games.  In this port of Carnivores 2 you get to stalk 9 prehistoric mammals in 5 amazing open-world environments with your choice of  6 weapons.  Just be careful or YOU may become the hunted!

Pocket Legends by Spacetime Studios is a terrifically fun 3D MMORPG that’s a first of its kind for the Idevice and deserves to be tried by anyone remotely interested in a 3D mobile online multiplayer action/RPG.  It costs you nothing for some incredibly robust content that lets you build three different character types up 13 levels before being tempted by the DLC.  At which point, you’ll happily throw down $1.99 to continue the party.

Brothers in Arms 2: Global Front by Gameloft does a nice job of combining first-person run-and-gun action with the third-person cover system of its predecessor Hour of Heroes to give you the best of both shooter worlds if you can overcome the frustration of some horrible jeep driving sequences.