Living here in the US, I really have no idea what Power Snooker is. In fact, I don’t even know how to play regular snooker for that matter. From what I’ve read, Power Snooker is very similar to regular snooker but its a much faster paced game where players are encouraged to score more points. The launch of Power Snooker by Big Head Games will coincide with the first official Power Snooker tournament overseas. We don’t really play snooker here in the US, but the game does look pretty interesting and I am a fan of billiards.

On a side note, Big Head Game’s previous billiards game, Doodle Pool is quite fun.

Press Release

Big Head Games and Power Snooker Limited are today proud to reveal the new Power Snooker game for Apple iPhone and iPad.

Arriving in the iTunes App store in time for the launch event of this exciting new sport.

Power Snooker is an innovative re-working of the traditional game of Snooker. In Power Snooker points count, frames don’ t – the player scoring the most points in a 30 minute match wins.

Only 9 red balls on the table the centre ball being the Power Ball, sink this and for 2 minutes points count double, the PowerPlay.

A PowerZone, also delivers double points for any shot played from behind the baulk line giving the opportunity for quadruple points when combined with a PowerPlay.

A shot timer of 20 seconds limits the player’ s time to take a shot, run past this and face a 20 point penalty, forcing very fast play and at times costly mistakes.

The launch event on 30th October 2010 is to be held at the O2 Arena in London, England and features 8 of the world’ s top players including Ronnie O’ Sullivan, Ding Junhui, Allister Carter, Luca Brecel, Neil Robertson, Jimmy White, Shaun Murphy and Mark Selby.

The iPhone and iPad game faithfully features all of the rules of Power Snooker and is built from BHG’ s highly rated International Snooker engine guaranteeing a realistic, dynamic and entertaining game. Additionally featuring world wide high scores and achievements using the OpenFeint system, so now you really can see who is the best in the world!

Power Snooker iPhone/iPad is coming to the itunes app store from the 28th October 2010.