As mobile hardware reaches the point of being comparable to consoles, we’re seeing less and less “Game Boy” versions of popular gaming franchises. That is, it’s no longer becoming necessary to dumb down or limit a version of a console or PC game just to create a mobile version. In fact we’ve seen plenty of [...]
When Growtopia first popped up on our radar at the beginning of this month, we thought it looked pretty darn cool. It looked like one of those 2D Minecraft-y games that seem to be all the rage lately, and we were excited to try it out. Well as of today Growtopia [Free] is officially in [...]
Platforming games can be a finicky genre on iOS. It almost always comes down to the controls. I’ve played otherwise great games that were marred by terrible virtual controls, and on the flip side I’ve played some platformers that controlled beautifully but were bland and boring. To really shine, a platformer has to nail both [...]
Hey, it’s time for your weekly Angry Birds content update. Ok, so maybe the games are not actually updated ever week, but there’s so many different versions of the game and they each receive such frequent updates that sometimes it can feel that way. Today’s update is for Angry Birds Space [$0.99 / Free] and [...]
Everybody’s favorite free-to-play concoction Clash of Clans [Free] has just received its first significant update of the new year. Well, it seems like everybody’s favorite anyway if the top grossing charts are any indication. This thing has been dominating on that chart since last summer, and shows no signs of slowing down. Today’s update should [...]
To celebrate the release of Time Surfer [$0.99], a new endless runner that we took for a spin yesterday and are enjoying a great deal, developer Kumobius has dropped the price of their first iOS release, the platformer Bean’s Quest [Free], for a limited time. Bean’s Quest has a pretty interesting history. It originally launched [...]
Today I got together with Brad to try and help him work through his bloated feelings and meat sweats by sitting down and playing Time Surfer [$0.99], the brand new game from Kumobius, developers of the excellent bouncy platformer Bean’s Quest [$1.99 / Free]. Time Surfer takes the hill bounding mechanics of Tiny Wings [$0.99 [...]
The iPhone 5 and the 5th generation iPod touch, with their lovely 4-inch widescreen Retina Displays, have been out for a while now, and we’ve kind of wound down on covering every single game that gets updated for the larger screen. I mean, the vast majority of new releases are supporting widescreen from the gate, [...]
Last July we got the exciting news that a sequel was in the works for Super Stickman Golf [$2.99], a side-view physics game that operates under the guise of a golfing game and totally works because of it. By October we had learned that Super Stickman Golf 2 was still chugging away in development, but [...]
Might & Magic Clash of Heroes, which we first learned was heading to iOS back in June of last year, didn’t quite make its 2012 release window, but it’s not too far off the mark – it’s set to land later this month. I’ve been playing through the first campaign of Clash of Heroes and [...]
Muteki Corp’s website had been dormant for nearly a solid year, but in early December they resurfaced to announce that they were working on a revamped version of Dragon Fantasy [$2.99], their fun little 8-bit throwback RPG that released on iOS in August of 2011. We were somewhat lukewarm to Dragon Fantasy in our review, [...]
Hey, in case you were not aware, the 46th annual Consumer Electronics Show is kicking off this week in Las Vegas, and there’s already plenty of news pouring out from the Nevada desert. One thing that caught our eye is the Sensus touch-enabled iPhone case from Canopy. The Sensus was actually unveiled at GDC Online [...]
We’ve known since last April that Hello Games was working on an iOS version of their beloved franchise Joe Danger, and in June we finally saw the first screens of it on an actual iOS device. Now, a half a year later and Joe Danger Touch is almost here, and is set to arrive sometime [...]
Liv Games’ excellent strategy defense title Legendary Wars [Free] received a massive version 2.0 update back in November, adding fan requests, fixes, tweaks and heaps of new content that had been bubbling up since the game originally launched in January of 2011. Now its follow-up title Monster Wars [Free], which offers a lot of the [...]
It looks like we’re off to kind of a slow start in 2013 in terms of weekly releases. That’s not to say there weren’t a few interesting looking games in our weekly Coming Tonight post (and all of those games should be out in the US App Store now, by the way), but I guess [...]
It’s been hectic the past couple of weeks with the holidays and everything, but there have also been some pretty significant updates released for several of our favorite iOS games. As always we offer up a quick blurb on what’s new in each game and you can find App Store links as well as links [...]
There are so many new games coming out for iOS every single day, and we spend our lives trying to point you in the direction of all the ones that are worth your time. But games don’t just appear out of thin air, and it’s worth keeping tabs on some of the more interesting upcoming [...]
Polytron’s indie puzzle platformer Fez launched back in April on Xbox Live Arcade, and was featured prominently in the film Indie Game: The Movie. Shortly after it came out, we pondered on our podcast about if it would be possible to put Fez on the iOS platform, and a few months later we learned that [...]
This past October when we first heard that Team Meat was putting the iOS version of Super Meat Boy on hold to focus on finishing and releasing a new project called Mew-Genics, we were bummed, but intrigued. Details are somewhat sparse on Mew-Genics, but Team Meat has been teasing bits of the game and its [...]
I don’t typically get too excited for games that are a pretty long ways out, but there are so many awesome things going on in this video for Dragon Runner that I just had to share it. Dragon Runner is yet another auto-runner game, but with a lot of unique things going for it. There’s [...]
Have you been asking Santa for an arcade cabinet for the past 30 years and every Christmas you wake to look under the tree just to be disappointed yet again- Maybe that’s just me, but if you have a similar longing for some button mashing action then I have something that just might ease the [...]
2012 had a lot of cool surprises and good games, as you’ve probably noticed. But not all of those good games could be neatly categorized. This post is for the weirdos, the games that straddled too many genre lines or are members of genres that have too few rad games to sufficiently flesh out a [...]
So maybe the physical arcade is dead, but the spirit and experience of the arcade lives on in the App Store. It’s a platform with a ton of simple titles with one goal: score a lot of points. It’s also a platform rife with disposable games — games that have kick, but allow you to [...]
I’ve always hated trying to categorize games into their different genres. Heck, not even in just games but music, movies, pretty much everything. However, as is especially the case with video games, some things could fall into a number of different categories. While an “action” category is a bit nebulous (don’t pretty much all games [...]
While looking quite a bit different from each other on the surface, all of the shooters here actually have a lot in common. Fast, frantic action that will test your reaction times and aiming ability, both offline and online. The major difference here is perspective. Some are first-person affairs, some are behind the back, and [...]
The platforming genre has been a staple of video games since Mario invaded our living rooms nearly three decades ago, and it’s a genre that thrives on iOS as well. Plenty of fantastic platformers were released to the App Store this year, in a variety of flavors. Some take the more traditional route and offer [...]
Fighting games have really emerged to become one of the most popular genres on iOS. If you had told me that back in the early days of the iPhone, I wouldn’t have believed you. But somewhere along the way developers have found a way to make fighting games work through a combination of responsive virtual [...]
Racing games are one of the oldest genres to be digitized into video games, and they make a great fit for a mobile or handheld device. That rings especially true with iOS devices which come equipped with gyroscopes that feel incredibly natural as faux steering wheels during an intense race. This year it went beyond [...]
Scrolling shoot ‘em ups, or shmups if you’re lazy, have found a happy home on iOS devices. The tall screens are a perfect place for the action to unfold, and it’s one of the few genres that actually feels at least as good or better on a touchscreen rather than with physical controls. At least [...]
iOS devices almost seem made for pinball games. It’s the kind of thing that can be controlled perfectly fine with just simple taps, and the added benefit of motion detection by way of the iOS gyroscope means you an get down and dirty shaking your device to get certain results, just as if you were [...]
One of my favorite things about iOS devices are their large touch screens, especially on the iPad. Some developers have really explored this facet by offering great same-device multiplayer modes, or entire games built around just that idea. Normally these offer experiences that are amongst my very favorite in all of gaming. In our increasingly [...]
It seems like Subatomic and Halfbrick are on the same page lately, as both companies released an update last week for the iPad versions of their game which have finally come to the iPhone versions this week. One week ago today, Fieldrunners 2 HD [$2.99 (HD) / Free (HD)] was updated with a couple of [...]
Easily one of my favorite games this year is Atebits’ Letterpress [Free], an asynchronous online word battling game. Now, I enjoy word games just fine but I often lose interest in them quickly, or get frustrated staring at a game board for ten minutes racking my brain to think up the longest, most elaborate word [...]
Last week we briefly mentioned that Fruit Ninja HD [$0.99 (HD) / Free (HD)] for the iPad had received a new update that included a couple of new blades, two new backgrounds, and a handful of new challenges. We also expected that same update to hit the iPhone version of Fruit Ninja [$0.99 / Free] [...]
After an incredibly positive response from our new TouchArcade Free Play feature last week, we’ve already nailed down another fantastic title for you to grab for free. Arc Squadron [Free] from developer Psyonix is an arcade-style space combat game built using the Unreal Engine, so it’s definitely a visual showpiece title. Beyond its great looks, [...]
Wow, this is awesome news. One Man Left’s fantastic arcade title Tilt to Live [Free] and its iPad-only counterpart Tilt to Live HD [Free (HD)] are both receiving updates that will take their previously local-only cooperative multiplayer modes online using Game Center. If you’re unfamiliar, Tilt to Live is an avoidance game that has you [...]
The developers who collaborated to bring the stellar list app Clear [$1.99] to the App Store, Impending and Realmac Software, are teaming up again to throw their collective hats into the gaming ring. Well, “game” I guess only if you consider virtual pets games, which I do! Their upcoming virtual pet simulation Hatch has just [...]
Last month we learned that 3D Realms’ controversial 1997 first-person shooter Shadow Warrior was heading to the iOS platform courtesy of General Arcade. Shadow Warrior uses the same game engine as Duke Nukem 3D and is also similarly violent and offensive, at least by late-90s standards. It was designed as an homage to over-the-top kung-fu [...]
It was way back in April of this year that we first took a look at an ambitious online multiplayer 2D sandbox game called Deepworld [Free (HD)], and at long last the game has found its way into the App Store. Deepworld takes that whole Minecraft thing – building a world out of various kinds [...]
Whoa, Christmas really has come early with the sheer amount of incredible freebies lately. Well get ready for a doozy: the first episode of Telltale’s Walking Dead: The Game [Free] is currently free for some reason. Why is it free- Don’t concern yourself with such things, just get to downloading already. Walking Dead: The Game [...]
We’ve been patiently waiting for the sequel to 2009′s Ravensword: The Fallen King [$2.99 / Free] ever since, well, 2009. Even though it was officially announced nearly 3 years ago, things didn’t really start cooking until this year. Now after all this time, Ravensword: Shadowlands is almost upon us, set to release this Wednesday night. [...]
Whoa, this is nuts. Australian developer Halfbrick Studios is looking to end the year with a bang, and their way of doing this is apparently to slash the price of every single one of their titles on both iPhone and iPad to free for 24 hours. I can dig it. Most notably, I think, is [...]
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