At the end of the first game you were on top of the world thanks to the BurgerTron 2000 machine, but by the start of Burger Shop 2 your restaurant empire is in shambles - and you don't know why. All you know is that you woke up one morning in a dumpster with a bump on your head to find that all your restaurants have been shut down and boarded up. When a shady character appears and offers to sell it all back to you for a dollar, you take him up on it. As you retrace your steps to try to find out what went wrong, you'll also rebuild each of your eight restaurants back up to their former glory.

The premise at first seems like a contrived and rather lazy way of all-too-conveniently making you start from scratch again - until you realize that the developers are in on the joke too. The story is peppered with self-referential humor and snappy dialogue that doesn't overstay its welcome and really makes you want to keep playing just to see what happens next.

The layout is the same as the first game: customers arrive at the bottom of the screen and your job is to their food and beverage orders by clicking on the correct ingredients as they're spewed onto a conveyor belt by the Burger Tron 2000. To serve a BLT sandwich, for example, you must click on the top and bottom bun halves, bacon, lettuce and tomato, then deliver the sandwich to the customer.

Serve customers quickly and they'll leave cash and big tips, but take too long and they'll storm off. By earning a certain amount of cash you can advance to the next level and even earn an Expert score. There are eight restaurants and 15 levels per restaurant for a total of 120 levels.

Like the first game, there's much more to Burger Shop 2 than simply serving sandwiches. In between levels you can upgrade your restaurants to serve fries, beverages, ice cream, condiments, and more. There are more than 100 different recipes to make in the game, and you'll always be adding one more upgrade to the shop right up until the last level.

The ingenious thing about the upgrades is that many of them do double, or even triple duty. Take the vanilla ice cream machine. You can fill a glass with ice cream then drag it onto the milkshake machine to make a vanilla milkshake, or fill a glass of cola with ice cream to make an ice cream float. Combine ice cream with a paper cup to make vanilla soft-serve, to which you can add sprinkles, a cherry, chocolate sauce, sprinkles with chocolate sauce, chocolate sauce and a cherry.... You get the idea.

Burger Shop 2 features new breakfast, lunch and dinner menus that introduce a ton of new foods and ways of preparing them. Breakfast plates include eggs, sausages, hash browns, orange juice and different kinds of cereal, as well as English muffins, toast and waffles that can be placed in the toaster one- or two-at-a-time. New dinner options include steak, pork chops and salmon that must be baked in the oven, various pizzas, and vegetables and pasta that have to be boiled. There's also a selection of soups, desserts and donuts.

Many of the customers will be familiar, but there are some fun new ones as well. The clown - with his crazy orders of vanilla ice cream with mustard on top, empty fry cartons and lettuce burgers - is still my favourite customer, but I also got a kick out of new customers like "animal lover," a highly impatient who can be placated by giving her dog a biscuit, and "shirtless guy," whose flabby, exposed torso offends other patrons until you can slap a T-Shirt onto him.

Although the pace is relentless, the control is exquisite and you'll never find yourself fighting with the mouse. There are some nifty tricks and short-cuts that you can use to make the controls feel even smoother, all of which are clearly explained in tutorials. The game's graphics and audio are equally enjoyable.

Once you've completed Story Mode's 120 levels, there's still plenty to do. You can go back and try to beat your score on individual levels, try the more difficult Expert mode, play Challenge Mode to see if you can achieve a Gold rating in every restaurant, or chill out in Relax Mode where customers never get upset. Trophies you've earned along the way - 120 in all - can be admired at any time in the Hall of Fame.

As long as you don't mind your time management games a little on the frantic side, Burger Shop 2 is a must-download.

There's a lot going on in Slingo Supreme, but I'll do my best to sum it up for those not familiar with the game. In essence, it's exactly what the name implies – a mixture of slots and bingo. Each game starts with a 5 x 5 board of randomly set numbers, with a row of five numbers along the bottom that changes with each “pull” of the lever, like a slot machine. The task is to match each number from the bottom row with one from the corresponding column above it. You're given 20 pulls of the lever to accomplish this task, with the ultimate goal of racking up a high score and completely clearing the board of numbers. This is Slingo at its most basic level, but there are many twists to the formula.

For starters, you can randomly get jokers in the bottom row which allow you to choose any number in the column to clear, or super jokers which let you clear any number on the entire board. Sometimes you'll get a devil in the row which will deduct points from you, unless you get lucky and a cupid appears to block him. This all applies to Classic mode in the game, but there is also Supreme mode. In Supreme mode, you can choose from sixteen different powerups to use, which allow for bonuses such as earning extra spins, score multipliers, mystery chests, and more. Running into a devil is also a bit different, as it allows you to wager a portion of your score in one of several mini-games against him, with the possibility of doubling your entire score should you win.

There are eight slots to place powerups in Supreme mode, and the powerups and slots are initially locked and slowly unlock as you progress in the game. In fact, the unlocking aspect is what really hooks me about Slingo Supreme. It seems like every few games you're earning a new reward of some type, and it really compels you to keep playing. Games can be played fairly quickly, and they strike a great balance between strategic and mindless. Pulling the lever and matching numbers doesn't require a ton of skill, but smart use of powerups and efficient matching can take your scores to astronomical levels.  This video shows gameplay from the PC version of Slingo Supreme, which plays exactly like the iPhone version just with a different screen layout:

In addition to the Classic and Supreme modes, there is a Daily Challenge that tasks you with earning a certain high score using the specific powerups of the day. It's a fun mode as well, but unfortunately Slingo Supreme doesn't feature any kind of online scoring, which is a feature it definitely needs. The developer has stated in our forums that online scores will be coming in an update, but until that time there are four profile save slots so you can have some same device competition with family or friends.

Even without these additions, Slingo Supreme is an engaging affair that's well worth checking out if you're a fan of the series, or even a newbie like myself who just can't seem to put it down.

Are you a fan of Arkanoid? If so, Live Arcade may have the game for you. Ricochet Lost Worlds is, without a doubt, inspired by Breakout and Arkanoid. The main difference, aside from some better visuals (720p support!) and new power-ups, is the greater puzzle elements added. Many of the levels are very active. Instead of simply taking on a wall of destructible blocks, many will move around, making for a more difficult task.

Though the ball moves around a bit too slowly, even at its faster speeds, some of the moving puzzles are pretty inventive. It's not easy to die in Ricochet, so expect a long game. But don't worry, you can save and quit at any time, resuming play at a later date. When you do die, it's often a result of some rather touchy controls. Your floating blocker drifts one way or the other, forcing you to constantly manage its direction. While it's not as good as the classic Arkanoid, Ricochet does do some interesting stuff and will keep you occupied for a while thanks to numerous unlockable levels.

If you've never played Diner Dash, the basic setup is that you're a waitress running a busy restaurant. Customers line up at the door, and you have to seat them, take their orders, deliver their food, their checks, and clean up their dishes, all while keeping them happy enough to leave you a big tip. In Cooking Dash, you still have to do all of these things, but you also have to cook some of the food as well. This gameplay may sound menial written out here, but it's also strangely addictive and has attracted an audience of hardcore high-score seekers in addition to the casual audience.

Cooking Dash 3 has upped the ante even more by adding a drive-through window (or "dash-thru" as it's called in the game) in addition to the tables in the restaurant, and requiring you to stir or flip hot food items midway through cooking in order to get the "perfect cooking" bonus. The complexity and combinations of some of the food items have also taken a big boost, with customers able to ask for lettuce or tomato on a sandwich, as well as choose a specific kind of bread, or pick between green and black olives on their meatballs, as well as pesto or tomato sauce on their pasta, for example. However, the game is split into different themed restaurants that serve different types of food, so you won't have to deal with an overwhelming amount of complexity all at once.

Another new addition is a quick mini-game between each level. The mini-games themselves aren't anything terribly wonderful. They involve finding specific foods amongst a clutter of other foods or catching falling food on tray, but they tie in nicely to the rest of the gameplay because whatever you earn in the mini-game is available as a precooked menu item in the next regular level. This saves you a massive amount of time and is absolutely necessary in the harder levels.

And speaking of hard, Cooking Dash 3 is a great challenge on "Casual" mode, but for the first time in a Dash game, there is an additional "Expert" mode, doubling, if not tripling the amount of time you can spend with the game. Both modes still feature the baseline goal scores and expert scores for each level, as well. Personally, I was giddy at the extra mode because it really is difficult, even for veteran Dash fans like myself.

As great as the new additions are, however, the game isn't perfect. In some of the more frantic situations, it will place certain food items together on a single plate rather than on two plates, which might have been your intent. However, this happens much less frequently than it did in previous Cooking Dash games. The addition of the mini-games in between levels was a great idea, but I would have liked to have seen more variety in the types of the games to keep things fresh.

As with all of the Dash games, there is an overarching story, but it's not terribly deep or important, and the characters remain simple cartoons even though the food looks much more sophisticated.