Looking for something to spend your weekend doing? How about playing Geared 2 [Free] for the low, low price of free. Much like It's Just a Thought, Geared 2 was crushed under the might of the EA holiday sale.Geared 2 obviously is the sequel to Geared [99� / Lite / HD], a gear-grinding puzzle game which has enjoyed millions of downloads during its life on the App Store. I explained what makes Geared 2 awesome in our review:

Each level is composed of a set of gears, one yellow gear and one (or more) blue gear(s). Utilizing gears of different shapes and sizes, you must connect the two so everything spins. Neither Geared or Geared 2 have any kind of grid the gears snap to, which allows you to place the gears anywhere you want inside of the game.

The challenge comes from the limited set of gears available for each level, in addition to obstacles in each level such as crossed off areas where gears can't be placed but the can be dropped in to. While it all might sound fairly easy, it won't take long until you're flat out stumped on a level, and are left sitting there desperately trying to figure out how in the world to position the two gears you're given with the five you have to spin. Thankfully, the Geared games allow you to skip forward a few levels in the event that you're really stuck.

Both Geared games are totally worth downloading, and I cannot think of a single excuse not to download Geared 2 while it's free aside from "I already downloaded Geared 2."

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Sure, Mobigame is celebrating the coming of 2011 a little late according to iCal, but its App Store New Year Sale is worth swallowing that glorious moment of serendipity that comes along with pointing out the obvious. For this weekend only, three of Mobigames' releases � Trucker's Delight, Edge, Perfect Cell � are on sale, ranging from free to a dollar off.

In general, all three of these games are solid offerings and totally worth of eating your precious hard drive (or flash memory) space. Here's some handy-dandy blurbs about each if you want to dig around a bit before you start purchasing:

Truckers Delight: Episode 1, $0.99 - [Review] � [Forum Thread] � Truckers Delight is an episodic retro racer filled with the overtly sexy kind of stuff that would make your mother blush. Eli got his hands on this earlier in 2010 and said he had a surprising amount of fun with it, though I think we all know why. Unfortunately, there's still no sign of the second episode.

Edge, $0.99 - [Review] � [Forum Thread] � OK, so in Edge, you're put in control of a cube that can move around in 3D space. The point is to get your cube dude to the endpoint of a given maze, most often by a combination of platforming and puzzlin'. It's a cool game that has won a lot of awards, so it's definitely worthy of your coin.

Perfect Cell, $4.99 - [Review] � [Forum Thread] � We have nothing but good things to say about this game. Check out Jared's glowing review, which spells out what this game is: "It's sort of a mishmash of genres, with elements of action, platforming, stealth, and puzzle. These end up working really well together, and coupled with intuitive controls and a beautiful graphics engine, Perfect Cell is a good time from beginning to end."

I know, I know, a dollar off of Perfect Cell doesn't bring it down to that .99 cent price point that everyone undoubtedly wants, but hey, the game just came out and is a ton of fun. These sales are only in effect this weekend, so don't delay if you've had your eye on any of these games.

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There were tons of App Store casualties of the holiday season as EA's insane sale and the onslaught of news games drowned out the competition in the weeks leading up to Christmas. It's Just a Thought [$1.99] is one of the many games that got trampled in the holiday stampede which I just discovered today as fellow judges went through the entrants in the International Mobile Gaming Awards. At its core, It's Just a Thought is a basic tilt to move game that is so basic it doesn't even come with a way to calibrate the tilt controls. Normally this can be a deal breaker for me since I generally dislike hunching over my phone holding it perfectly level, but It's Just a Thought is cool enough that I'm more than willing to overlook all that.

It's Just a Thought starts with asking for your Facebook name and password. From there, it snags a whole ton of photos which it then uses for the main gimmick of the game which revolves around exploring deep in to your mind and stumbling across these "memories" (your photos) which you must collect. You need to tilt your phone to stay on the neural pathway, lighting up neurons as you go, and tapping on your memories to use as power-ups. It all flows together really well, and the music its set to is a real treat.

For an idea of what I'm talking about, check out the trailer:

It's Just a Thought is an extremely basic game built around a really clever gimmick of utilizing random photos from your Facebook in the game. If you don't have a ton of photos on Facebook, it will likely be pretty boring. However, if you do have a bunch of photos, the game is a really awesome stroll down memory lane as you're tapping to collect memories you've long since forgotten that were stashed away in some Facebook album.

I'm not sure how strong of a recommendation I can give It's Just a Thought because at the end of the day it is just a simple tilt-based game, but as far as the game's core concept is concerned, it's really cool� Especially if you've got an extensive Facebook photo collection.

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German developer Crytek, probably best known for its astounding visual work on an otherwise dull FPS called Crysis, is fishing for an iPad and iPhone developer with knowledge of Android development, according to a job posting on Develop Jobs.

The posting doesn't give much away in terms of what this could be for. The closest thing to game-related that I can find is this little sentence: "Designs and develops complex, integrated iPhone / iPad applications." And, yeah, I'm reaching here.

I'm guessing three things about this posting: (a) this job is for an app that'll be used as a supplemental or a marketing tool for Crysis 2, which is slated to hit the Xbox 360, PC, and PS3 later this year OR (b) this is for a brand new game that might use CryENGINE 3, Crytek's engine that's being used in multiple upcoming console and PC games this generation OR (c) this is an R&D thing.

Say if this is actually a brand new game using that engine, there's a good possibility it could be used as a tech demo of sorts. Crytek wants to license out its engine and, I'd imagine as a business, wouldn't mind getting it into App Store developers' hands. But this is just speculation � I could be horribly, terribly wrong, so keep your pants on graphics-philes. For all of our sakes. Thanks in advance!

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