Sometimes you just have to sit back and really appreciate living in the future. Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete, a role-playing game that occupied two PlayStation CDs back in 1999, is being adapted for iOS as Lunar: Silver Star Story Touch. The Lunar series has enjoyed a cult following since the 1994 release of Lunar: [...]
Last week, Apple announced the iPhone 5, and in this week’s podcast, we give you our thoughts and hands-on impressions. Is updating apps for the extra-big screen going to be a new challenge for developers- What does the A6 chip mean for games- And how much fun is it to click the little hidden button [...]
It seems like every few months a Mario clone appears on the App Store, and it’s usually swiftly removed. So if you want a clunky, awful clone of the Nintendo 3DS game Super Mario 3D Land, you’d better grab up 3D Cartoon Land: Safari quickly, because it probably won’t have much of a shelf life. [...]
Back at E3, we had our first look at the mobile version of Capcom’s upcoming crossover fighter, Street Fighter x Tekken. However, the demo build that was on display only had four characters for us to try out. Now that the game is closer to release, we’ve taken another hands-on look at the full roster, [...]
Wonderputt is in good company, because golf games are pretty common on the App Store. Wonderputt uses the basic touchscreen controls found in other golf games, but it also brings new ideas to the putting green. The sense of design in Wonderputt makes the game surprising, and it’s a delight to play. Just like in [...]
Stan Lee, the most famous of all comic creators, has announced an upcoming iOS game called Stan Lee’s Verticus. In the game, a team of intergalactic criminals have planted a doomsday device in the core of the earth, and only one hero can stop it. The game hits the App Store this fall, but you [...]
10tons, the developers behind some pretty excellent iOS fare including Heroes of Kalevala and Azkend 2: The World Beneath, recently announced that it will be updating some of its titles for the iPhone 5 and iOS 6. That means select games will tuned up for the new iPhone’s four-inch Retina screen. The games to be [...]
Apple has announced that two million preorders were placed for the iPhone 5 in the first 24 hours it was available. To compare, that’s more than twice the previous record of one million set by the iPhone 4S. That’s a lot of iPhones. The iPhone 5 became available for preorder on September 14, while the [...]
When you first boot up LAD, the newest game from Black Chair Studios, you may think you’re playing a sequel to the famed indie title Limbo. With LAD’s stark visuals, haunting soundtrack and bleak storyline, the parallels are obvious. But that’s where the comparisons end. Whereas Limbo is a smooth, wonderful journey through a dark [...]
Many of us long to become a real-life National Football League kicker, but only a few can wear those tight pants with style. The rest of us will have to be satisfied with playing NFL Kicker 13. Since iOS devices respond poorly to being kicked, developer Full Fat Productions has opted to make this a [...]
In the fantasy parlance of Spectromancer, a “spectromancer” is a powerful magician who has expert control over a wide range of skills. For example, he or she might raise the dead, summoning zombies and ghosts to fight for them. Or, a spectromancer might be able to create mechanical abominations, like steampunk robots and warships. No [...]
At their iPhone 5 announcement on Wednesday, Apple also announced that there are over 700,000 apps currently on the App Store. That’s a staggering amount of software, so you’re going to need some help in finding the best new games. Every week in Under The Radar, we find the indie gems that get buried under [...]
If you’re old enough, you may have fond memories of playing (and dying in) the 1982 game Sword of Fargoal. A couple of years ago, developer Jeff McCord rebooted the game for iOS, and we liked it quite a bit. Now McCord and a few others want to make a sequel, and they’ve turned to [...]
If the mobile games market is progressing at breakneck speed (and it is), then the mobile free-to-play/ social game market is progressing fast enough to go to plaid. Numbers continue to decline for Facebook gaming while more casual gamers make the jump to mobile. Even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently acknowledged that people are spending [...]
If you’re a fan of Square Enix games but don’t want to drop $20 to $30 on an iOS game, today is your lucky day: they’ve just released a freemium card battling game called Guardian Cross. It’s a universal app, and while you might have to do a little waiting, you don’t have to spend [...]
The average person doesn’t follow tech news all that closely. So what happens when you hand an iPhone 4S to someone off the street and tell them it’s an iPhone 5- Jimmy Kimmel found out yesterday when he sent out a crew to do just that. Watch the results below. … Continue Reading Here Jimmy [...]
In many ways, Drakerider is an interesting beast. Not only does it utilize some creative gameplay decisions, but also provides some cool characters and a fairly intriguing tale. Unfortunately, for all the creativity which appears at the front-end of the game, it isn’t too long before you see some old cliches and design choices which [...]
In Infinite Warrior, the game tells you which direction to swipe by putting arrows on the shields of enemies. These bright yellow arrows flying across the screen reminded us of mini-games in Mario Party, which juxtaposes strangely with the Assassin’s Creed-esque attack scenes. Despite that strange combination of elements, the game is worth a look– [...]
When you wipe out a stage full of aliens in Bulkypix’s Soldier vs. Aliens, you’re given the option of heading back into the fight to “mop up” any remaining levels you didn’t clear the first time. This word choice seems appropriate, because cleaning up aliens in this game and earning enough money to buy decent [...]
At Apple’s press event today, not only did we get a surprise concert from the Foo Fighters, but we also had a chance to go hands-on with Apple’s upcoming iOS devices. The iPhone 5 is slightly lighter and thinner than its predecessor, but the real showstopper is the longer, 4″ screen. Apple has a tendency [...]
Firemonkeys has taken to Twitter to release a screenshot of their upcoming game Real Racing 3. Why is a screenshot a big deal- First off, it looks darn good. But more importantly, it’s in the iPhone 5′s native aspect ratio of 16:9. Check it out below, and then imagine playing all of your iPhone games [...]
Welcome to Wednesday. Apple makes its Featured Picks tomorrow, so we’re going to take a sneak peak at what’s coming via New Zealand’s App Store. Come back at 8pm PST to download the newest offerings via our kiwi links! Cosmic Bump When a pack of aliens crash-lands on our planet, they resolve to get home [...]
This morning Apple officially unveiled the iPhone 5. If you’ve been following tech rumors for the past few months, you’ll find few surprises here, but they’ve made loads of improvements, both small and large. Read on for the details. First things first: The iPhone 5 will be available on September 21, with preorders beginning on [...]
Today at 10am PST, Apple will pull back the curtain on one of their most highly-anticipated new devices, the iPhone 5. We’ve already got a pretty good idea of what to expect (listen to us discuss some of the device’s new features on our latest podcast), but we’ll be live at the event in San [...]
On an App Store selling graphical powerhouses like Infinity Blade II and Dead Trigger, the Stickman series might seem an unlikely top seller. These simple games feature basic graphics, a stick man, and a crinkled graph paper background. But what they lack in visual flair they make up for in accessibility and satisfying gameplay. In [...]
Shocking news: People love free stuff, especially free apps. According to recent research from Connecticut-based technology research firm Gartner, 89 percent of the 45.6 billion apps downloaded this year will be free. Out of that 45.6 billion, only 5 billion will be paid apps. Gartner’s study also reveals that when people buy, they buy cheap. [...]
A heads-up to all the frugal platforming fans out there: Run Roo Run is now a universal app, and it’s free to download for a limited time. If you haven’t played this game yet, we really can’t recommend it enough, especially for free. Run Roo Run is one of our favorite single-button platformers on the [...]
LAD, the Limbo look-alike we mentioned back in May, is now available in the App Store. It’s a creepy-looking puzzle platformer that looks pretty great in the screenshots. It’s not a universal app, but they’ve made an iPhone version and a separate iPad version. Both cost $1.99. LAD has the looks, but we’ll have to [...]
To help see you through the week, we’re back with our regular game code giveaway! Today we’re featuring game codes for the trippy, musical space game, Strange Clouds: The Game by B.o.B., plus a lot more. Read on for this week’s rules! This week, we’ve got codes for Strange Clouds: The Game by B.o.B., Missile [...]
In London, a girl wants her mother home for Christmas, so she writes a letter to Santa, folds it into a paper airplane, and tosses it out the window. From there, you have to pick it up, throw it again, and keep it in flight across exotic locations like Africa, India, and Japan until it [...]
In case you’re new to iOS or for some other reason haven’t played the Infinity Blade series yet, today’s your lucky day: both games are on sale for cheap. Infinity Blade now costs $0.99, while Infinity Blade II is going for $2.99. Get ‘em while they’re hot, because you never know when they’ll go back [...]
With endlessly customizable touchscreen controls, iOS games can sometimes become more complicated than they need to be. Some games obscure the screen with buttons and menus, making it difficult to see the game you’re supposed to be playing. VS. Racing 2 doesn’t have this problem. Not in the least. VS. Racing 2 is a simplified [...]
You know you may be in for an interesting time when a game’s difficulty settings start at Hard and go up from there. There are no “Easy” or “Normal” settings here. And you know things are not going to be easy if a game is from Terry Cavanagh, maker of VVVVVV, one of the most [...]
Tim Schaefer’s Double Fine Productions experienced a bit of an “Oops” last week when it accidentally released its first mobile game, Middle Manager of Justice, weeks ahead of schedule. Needless to say, the version of superhero management game that players downloaded was a bit of a buggy mess. Double Fine has since pulled Middle Manager [...]
Free games are cool, like a crisp autumn night. If you’re ready to sing Fall’s praises, we have a recommendation for a perfectly monstrous accompaniment. This chorus is a little hairy, a little strange, but as far as free entertainers go, they produce a pretty neat sound. Also new this week: Life on the auto [...]
Fishdom 2 HD is a bright, colorful Match-3 game that lets you create chains of explosive matches against a soothing aquarium backdrop. But so was the first Fishdom. Fishdom 2 makes almost no gameplay improvements to the last game, so even though we enjoyed it, we can’t recommend it as highly as its predecessor. If [...]
Despite the name, Crazy Bikers 2 isn’t all that crazy. Sure, the characters themselves look wacky enough, but the gameplay is really quite straightforward. You race up and down hills while maintaining your balance in a manner similar to the Trials series, and occasionally attempt flips and wheelies to activate a turbo boost. This requires [...]
In 1924, Richard Simon and Max Schuster launched a company by publishing a book of crossword puzzles. The book was a huge hit, Simon & Schuster is still a big name in publishing, and books of crossword puzzles still sell in the millions. Huebrix is a lot like those books: if you like this one [...]
On this week’s Slide To Play podcast, we get ready for the iPhone 5 unveiling by predicting some of the most likely new features. We also discuss games we’ve been playing this week, like Wipeout and Blast-A-Way, plus answer a listener question about ideal controls for touchscreen devices. Read on for your links and shownotes! [...]
Most freemium games start you off with at least an hour’s worth of content before they start asking you to buy currency. Little Masters doesn’t play by those rules. Little Masters, a blatant Pokemon rip-off, cuts right to the chase. The chase, of course, is for your dollars. Part of the reason you run out [...]
The App Store is heating up these days, with a new iPhone just around the corner and big brand-name games launching all at once. Amid all the noise, every week we try to find five new indie games that are worth your time and money. This week we go exploring with dwarves, re-fight the Civil [...]
Developer RedLynx is known for their over-the-top racing games, like MotoHeroz, where keeping all four wheels on the ground is a grueling challenge. If you thought controlling off-road vehicles was tough, just imagine trying to control the speed of a roller-coaster being operated by a hippopotamus. Nutty Fluffies is the upcoming iOS game from RedLynx [...]
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