King.com Skill Games For iPhone and Facebook

on 07/13/2009, filed in Home > Apple

Today, King.com, the online skill games provider, released its first games for the iPhone (Amazon Survival, picture) and Facebook (Kalorie King and Mars Live). According to mobile analytics company Mobclix, games represent the largest category of the Apple App store offering with 20% of the 50,000 applications available. Users can choose from 150 different skill games from King.com or mygame.com in nine different languages, so far the site has 17.5 million unique users per month (according to the company).

See the new games descriptions after the jump.

The new games:

Amazon Survival is a puzzle game where you save the Amazon forest. In attack mode, you must match as many blocks as you can before the time expires. In survival mode, you must match as many blocks as you can before spending all your energy. Amazon Survival is available at Apple’s iTunes store.

Kalorie King helps you and your friends get in shape. The object is to burn as many calories as you can in the time allotted by catching falling vegetables, fruits and vitamins to increase your score. You can challenge friends to a “weight loss” tournament, and find out who can burn the most calories the quickest. Winner can show off their score and write comments to their Facebook newsfeed. Kalorie King is available on Facebook at: http://apps.facebook.com/kalorie-king/.

Mars Lives is King.com’s premier MMOG game about the first human settlers on Mars and the challenges and adventures they face. From flying mushroom to robot sports leagues, this episodic game contains all the fun, excitement and tension faced when inhabiting a brave new world. Mars Lives is available for free on Facebook at: http://apps.facebook.com/mars-lives/game3.

Facebook: Facebook is a Social Networking service launched in 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. At first, only students from Harvard could join the service, but over time more users were allowed to join. Today, Facebook remains the leader in social networking, but most importantly, it is the top online identity provider as the overwhelming majority of Facebook users have registered using their real identities.If you have a Facebook account, you can use Ubergizmo's Social Reader.

iPhone: iPhone: The iPhone is Apple's line of smartphones. That was also the original name of the first iPhone, which was announced on January 9th 2007 by Steve Jobs during the Macworld Keynote. The iPhone was released to the public in June of the same year. The development of the iPhone started in 2004, was internally called "project purple" and was the fruit of a collaboration between Apple and AT&T. Since then, Apple has released new iPhone models every year, with the iPhone 3G in July 2008, the iPhone 3GS in June 2009, the iPhone 4 in June 2010, the iPhone 4S in October 2011 and the iPhone 5 in September 2012. The iPhone represented more than half of Apple's revenues in 2012.

About the author: Eliane Fiolet is the co-founder and editor of Ubergizmo.com where she writes about smart devices, web applications, design and usability. In her parallel life, she owns a Corporate ID design business that helps companies create great brands. Prior to opening her own agency, Eliane worked for a top design firm, Minale Tattersfield Design Strategy, where she created identities for Fortune 500 companies. She also worked in the video game industry as a designer for an award-winning adventure game. Eliane holds a master degree in visual communication and design from the “Art Décoratifs” college and she majored in mathematics and physics in high school. Follow the author on Facebook, Twitter

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