Welcome, PG.biz readers, to the first iPhone Quality Index (Qi) games round up, winging its way to you every Friday on these esteemed pages.

If you aren’t already familiar with Qi, let me introduce you formally...

Launched in beta by the publishers of Pocket Gamer.biz, Steel Media, Qi trawls the web for game and app reviews from the world’s most respected online and print sources.
Qi then applies its own magic formula to each site (such as 148Apps, Macworld, IGN, Slide to Play and TiPB) to establish a single definitive Qi score for each iPhone app and game.

Matching the scores

Shooting straight in at #1 best reviewed game this week on the Qi chart, Linkoidz has acquired a phenomenal 9.4 rating from four reviews.

Retro Dreamer’s novel take on the match-three genre successfully marries high-speed gameplay with an unexpected degree of strategy.
AppSpy was positively gushing in its praise for Linkoidz, declaring it “a rare gem that gets better over time and if you're after a new arcade-puzzler this is definitely a no-brainer purchase.”

UK mobile games publisher Chillingo has, of course, been in the news of late, having been acquired by Electronic Arts on October 20th in a deal worth a rumoured $20 million.

The newest game off Chillingo’s seemingly endless conveyor belt, WackyLands Boss, (from Costa Rican developer Fair Play Labs), only emerged through the App Store’s gates on Wednesday, yet has attracted two favourable reviews already for an 8.8 average.

Reaching for the stars

But the highest profile iOS game release of the week, Galaxy on Fire 2 soared onto the upper stratosphere of the Qi charts off the back of five glowing reports.

With a Qi rating of 8.5 and plenty of commercial coverage and App Store success, Fishlabs’s epic space shooter-cum-RPG may no doubt climb up the rankings over the next seven days.

Graphics-wise, Galaxy on Fire 2 outshines its predecessor, and indeed most of its competition, a point elaborated on in TouchGen’s critique:

“Never has space looked so beautiful, especially on the retina display...here we have giant planets and detailed orbiting space stations, surrounded by bright and colourful nebulas.”

You can get the up to date information about which games are reviewing best over at the Quality Index.