When I first heard of Geometry Wars I was a bit hesitant to pick it up due to the fact that I thought it was a puzzler. However, after I tired the game out on a massive HD screen I fell in love with the absolute chaos. Well, I’m telling you this because it was just announced that Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 is now on Xbox Live for just 400 Microsoft Points or about $5. This is a 50% price drop from it’s previous price point of $10, if you didn’t know.

But anyways go check it out, it’s only 5 bucks.

If you’re looking to pick up an iPad right on its launch date, April 3rd, you may want to know that the iPad Geometry Wars app is now available for pre-order. It’s currently priced at $9.99 and you can pick it up here.

If you’ve played the Xbox Live Arcade version of this game, you know it’s awesome. If I were to getting an iPad I’d definitely spend the extra $10 to have the game right on the launch date.

Sometimes, just sometimes, mind you, games don’t need a point.  All they need is some fun gameplay and an interesting hook, and this is the idea behind PowerUp Forever, a new shooter game on Xbox Live Arcade that’s an amazing hybrid of Warning Forever, Geometry Wars and Katamari Damacy.

I know, not exactly the most likely pedigree, but in a game where you fly around, blast stuff, and grow larger and more powerful with every successive level, you can definitely see the connections.  As you grow, you get new weapons, and you’ll need them to take on the new, larger enemies you find that were formerly part of the background.  The difficulty is surprisingly rich, with enemies moving in hard and fast to intercept as early as the fourth level.  Controls have some issues in this game, sadly, as switching between weapons isn’t terribly easy, and the more advanced weapons have an unfortunate tendency to run out of juice quickly, forcing you to switch back to your main gun so rapidly you might well start to wonder why you even bothered switching to the other guns to begin with.

Yes, it’s similar to a whole lot of other games you’ve played, but a couple new twists make this one worth trying.

If Geometry Wars was a little slow-paced for you, then you’ll be surprised and greatly pleased by Armor Games‘ new addition, Cell Warfare.

Playing almost exactly like Geometry Wars, only with keyboard and mouse, you’ll move around a closely-defined field, blasting rival cells in a variety of game modes, complete with an achievement menu.

It’s extremely fast paced, requiring you to both keep track of your cell as you blast the competition but also keep track of where the competition is to blast.  Cell Warfare requires an incredible amount of focus to play fully, and it’s this focus that actually makes it something of an improvement over Geometry Wars.  First, the price is better–Cell Warfare is free.  Secondly, Cell Warfare’s requirement of increased focus lends more depth to the game, making it a marked improvement.

Cell Warfare is a very fun casual game with lots of nifty features, and you’ll definitely enjoy it if you even vaguely liked its predecessors.