Best games for your new iPhone or iPad PART 1

Goodbye, Game Boy. The best mobile game platform is iOS, and both the iPhone and the iPad have an embarrassing depth of riches to plumb. Whether you’re a classic shoot-em-up gamer or just looking for something fun and simple to relax with, trust us, the games are here. But iOS is also connected to the internet, which means that playing games with your friends is easier than ever: you can challenge people with quizzes, word games, and show off your high score on Facebook. Here are our favorites this year.

-Device 6

-Quizup

-Gentlemen!

-Pivvot

-Kingdom Rush Frontiers

-Badland

-Ridiculous Fishing

-Tilt to Live 2

Device 6

A stylish mystery novel masquerading as a game, Device 6 mixes interactive puzzles with a compelling story about a woman trapped in a castle. The game's six chapters play out like a 1960s spy thriller.

Quizup

If you're not already addicted to QuizUp, play it once and see what happens. There are hundreds of topics to choose from, you can play against anyone in the world in real time, and you can talk to other players and debate the same questions you just battled over. This is your chance to prove to the world you're the master of Bollywood, general math, and the Green Bay Packers — don't screw up.

Gentlemen!

Gentlemen! is possibly the most charming multiplayer game to combine a catchy piano soundtrack, bowler hats, and physics. You and a friend share an iPad to guide two gentlemen dueling to the death by moving through various levels and attacking each other with knives, bombs, and killer pigeons.

Pivvot

Pivvot offers up the perfect example of how well twitch gaming can work on a touch screen. The concept is simple: you control a tiny circle traveling along a line, and you need to avoid obstacles by pivoting. Once you unlock the endless and random modes it turns from a simple time-wasting game to a truly challenging experience.

Kingdom Rush Frontiers

Kingdom Rush Frontiers isn't that much of a change from the original Kingdom Rush, but it's just enough that you'll get hooked all over again. The tower-defense gameplay is back with an array of new towers and tower upgrades, new spells to curse enemies with, and an upgraded arsenal of weapons including dynamite and freeze potions.

Badland

Guide a fuzzy creature through a gorgeously colorful forest filled with dangerous inhabitants, trees, and flowers in Badland. The side-scrolling adventure game is Limbo-esque in its beautiful design, but shakes everything up in its 80 levels with a dramatic soundtrack that will make you feel like you're in the game and graphics that will keep your eyes glued to the screen.