Little Things is not a flashy game. Chances are, you’ve already played a hidden picture game similar to this before. You stare at a screen packed with tiny images, waiting for a lightbulb to go off in your head as you find an owl, or a cotton swab, or a donut, or whatever is on [...]
On this week’s podcast, Andrew, Chris, and Jeremy discuss the premier of Slide To Play TV, the games we’ve been playing, and make bets about the future of Fruit Ninja. Click ahead for the podcast and show notes. News: Slide To Play TV Episode 1 What We’re Playing: Love Me Not, Little Things Forever, and [...]
Do you like mobile games- Sure you do. Then maybe you’ll be happy to learn that 2K Games has you covered for casual mobile fare. The game giant, which also owns the 2K Play, 2K Sports, and Rockstar Games labels, is showing off a large mobile line-up at E3 2012. “From our blockbuster Carnival Games [...]
Bee Leader is a little like the PlayStation 3 game Flower. It’s highly polished, simple, and relatively peaceful. Also, both revolve around flowers. Bee Leader doesn’t have the same sweeping graphics, but we appreciated the simplistic and polished approach to nectar gathering. In this game, you take the role of an oversized honeybee tasked with [...]
Hey… where’s Perry- Even though the wily platypus always manages to slip away from his young owners to moonlight as a secret agent, Perry will stay fixed on your mobile device this summer while you play Where’s My Perry- for iOS and Android. As the title suggests, Where’s My Perry- is a re-imagined version of [...]
One of our first meetings at E3 this year was with Gamevil, the South Korea-based developer and publisher that has given App Store gamers fantastic series like Zenonia and Baseball Superstars. They’ve found that freemium games perform much better than paid games, so all of their upcoming games will be free to download. Read on [...]
If you’re a serious iOS gamer, it’s likely that you’re looking forward to playing Infinity Blade: Dungeons, a dungeon crawler hitting the App Store later this year. So why not take a glimpse at some new screenshots to whet your appetite- Click ahead to see them, and be sure to come back tomorrow, when we’ll [...]
Ah, spiders… nothing but trouble, for the most part. If they aren’t selling their marriage to the devil to reboot their lives, they’re turning into stealth helicopters and hunting you down in the woods. Or, in the case of Webbies, they’re helping out a grumpy old wizard who lives in the forest by entangling all [...]
Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a Spider-Man does. Earlier today in a press statement, Gameloft and Marvel announced that they’re teaming up to develop the official mobile game for The Amazing Spider-Man, coming to theaters this summer. Gameloft’s previous Spider-Man game, Spider-Man: Total Mayhem was a critical hit, and the company is excited to take another [...]
At their E3 press conference today, Microsoft announced an app called SmartGlass that will allow you to use your smartphone or tablet in conjunction with an Xbox 360. They showed a number of different uses for the app, including letting gamers use a device as a second screen as they play a game on the [...]
If you’re the kind of person that spends a significant chunk of money on in-app purchases, freemium game developers already have a label for you: “whale.” Not very flattering, is it- Splash Damage CEO Paul Wedgwood doesn’t think so, and he recently told Gamasutra that freemium developers’ practice of targeting these whales for their cash [...]
Developer Noumena is perhaps best known for their success with strategy app Warring States. Their latest effort, Kingdom Story XD, is a decidedly more stylized effort — a multiplayer-centric world-building playground with the allure of gems and other niceties for players to quickly erect a kingdom worth going to battle for. Kingdom Story XD is [...]
When Pixar’s new film Brave hits theaters this month, you can expect to see a bit of family drama, expansive Scottish scenery, and a red-headed princess being chased by a demon bear. It’s clear which aspect of the film Disney Mobile chose to focus on for the official iOS companion game, Temple Run Brave. Temple [...]
If you have your driver’s license, you probably spend a lot of time stalled in traffic. “My God,” you say to yourself day after day as you cook slowly in your car, “this highway is constantly jammed. It must’ve been designed by a monkey dying of syphilis.” Interestingly, the crew at YoAmbulante believes that its [...]
The Apocalypse is often depicted as a single event, like a nuclear strike, a or a killer virus. But imagine if Earth’s end came in the form of a double whammy, like an alien invasion coupled with a virus that turns people into zombie-like creatures. Oh man. That would suck. But in Razor: Salvation, that’s [...]
Madfinger Games, the makers of the beloved cover-based shooter Shadowgun have just released a trailer for their next game, a tense-looking zombie shooter called Dead Trigger. Check it out below. As one of the few humans left on the planet after a zombie infection has transformed most of the world’s population into flesh-eating monsters, your [...]
Nary a month goes by without a number of great iOS games being released, and May was no different. New entries in terrific series of first-person shooters, fighting games, platformers, and strategy games all hit this month, and received wide acclaim and Must Have scores. But a new flying game from N-fusion Interactive earned our [...]
Today we’re pleased to finally reveal Slide To Play TV Episode 1, the first episode of a biweekly web TV series that takes you inside the world of iOS games! Your hosts Andrew Podolsky and Raychul Moore review top iOS games like NOVA 3 and Sonic 4: Episode 2, serve up iOS news, spotlight our [...]
Project 9: the Underground Aryan City is a strange game. It seems hopeful at first, with its colorful 3D graphics and bizarre storyline about Nazis in the Arctic, AI robots, and aliens… or something. The game seems intent on throwing in every possible clich
Freemium games are arguably the fastest-growing portion of the App Store’s market, but they’re looked upon with suspicion from core gamers and suburban moms alike (thanks to increasing instances of kids spending hundreds of dollars on in-app purchases). The Free to Play column will dissect what separates a bad freemium game from a good one. [...]
What do rebels, dinosaurs, and a pirate parrot have in common- Not much, except that they’re the stars of today’s Under The Radar indie iOS games. These five games stand out due to their creative concepts and artwork, so give them a download to support your App Store indies! Rebel Hero You’ve played side-scrolling beat [...]
A couple of years ago, PlayForge, wanting to get in on some of those sweet Farmville dollars, released the first Zombie Farm game. Combining the strangely addictive gameplay of Farmville with the neat concept of “growing” and building a zombie army to invade your neighbors, the first game became one of the most successful freemium [...]
According to data from research initiative GameTrack, Angry Birds comprised 10% of the UK’s gaming volume in the first quarter of 2012. This should shatter any lingering ideas you had about birds being small, timid creatures. Now we know without a doubt that they’re aggressive and voracious enough to catapult themselves into the midst of [...]
Sega originally created the Virtua franchise as an attempt to make more realistic games through the use of 3D modeling, thus resulting in characters that seemed to move and act more like they would in real life. This led to a number of “Virtua” series, including Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racing, Virtua Cop, Virtua Striker, Virtua [...]
Killing zombies: if you’re a gamer, you’ve probably honed this skill all your life. Feel free to consider yourself an expert on the subject. Alive4ever Mini is the latest attempt at making that oft-cheapening experience feel brand new again. And while it doesn’t exactly succeed, it does serve up some serviceable dual-stick shooter fun. Meridian [...]
This week, Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign released an official iPhone app called With Mitt that allows users to take a photo and add a custom frame expressing their support. However, one of the photo frames has a crucial typo: Romney’s app pledges support for “A Better Amercia.” It’s an important warning and reminder to marketers [...]
Watch your step: Moogles at Work. E3 is coming, and popular RPG developer Square-Enix will be on-hand to show off a whack of iOS and Android titles. The biggest mobile game in Squeenix’s pipeline is Final Fantasy Dimensions, a retro-style RPG that will make oldschool Final Fantasy fans wag their tails. Judging by the game’s [...]
Subway Surfers is an interesting new game for the iPhone, one which follows the trend of taking the popular “run forever” style of gameplay and offers it in 3D. The actual game betrays a few things about the title, however. While it is clearly inspired by the activity known as train surfing, there are some [...]
Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stage at the D10 conference yesterday to discuss various aspects of the company and its direction. When asked about Apple’s future in gaming, Cook stated directly that Apple was “not interested in being in the console business.” Here’s the full quote, according to AllThingsD’s live blog of the event: [...]
What’s this- Limbo for iOS- Not quite. Black Chair Games, the studio behind titles like Line Ar(X) and Star Serum, is putting together a puzzle-platforming game that looks a little bit like a previous adventure starring a shadowy boy in a shadowy land. But Black Chair Games’ founder, Keith Curtis, promises that his game, LAD, [...]
Today we have a giveaway 65 million years in the making… although really, it’s just been a few months since the Jurassic Park series came out on iPad 2 and 3. Since only high-end iPads will run the game, we will have more iPhone game codes for you to redeem on our Facebook page today [...]
Everyone likes getting new things, but unfortunately most stuff costs money. Enter the App Store, where developers never seem to tire of marking their games down to free in order to spur game sales when the price goes back up. Read on for today’s best temporarily-free games! Charadium II and Charadium II HD Before Draw [...]
Playing Junk Jack for the first time will instantly bring to mind fond memories of playing Minecraft and it’s lesser known cousin, Terraria. You’re presented with a blank world full of pixely possibilities, just waiting for you to fill it. Plunging the depths of your creativity has rarely been more fun, and more exhausting, than [...]
Extreme Skater has the premise of a Saturday morning cartoon from the 90s. An offroad skateboarder happens upon a mysterious crystal meteorite that grants him abilities far beyond any normal skateboarder. Once granted these radical powers, this extreme skater embarks upon impossible adventures to find even more crystals and learn some outrageous tricks along the [...]
Do you remember seeing the Batmobile from earlier Batman movies use a grappling hook to get around tight corners- Do you remember thinking, “That’s so cool! I wish I could do that!”- Well, if you put that idea in a videogame, then Slingshot Racing, a steampunk themed racing game, gives you just what you were [...]
Aliens live among us. They can be a rowdy lot, and it’s up to the Men In Black to keep them in line– and to keep their existence a secret. In Men In Black 3, Gameloft’s latest freemium sim, you head up the MIB organization, managing its affairs and making sure unscrupulous aliens don’t harm [...]
Apple has apparently started a new thing called “Free App of the Week,” in which they (presumably) offer a different paid app for free every week. This week they’ve selected Cut the Rope: Experiments, the second game starring the cute critter named Om Nom who hungers endlessly for candy. Feed him, won’t you- Apple doesn’t [...]
When the original Defender Chronicles was released in 2009, it was a well-done tower defense game with a few twists: you could customize characters as if you were playing an RPG, and enemies advanced up and down levels from a side-view perspective. Defender Chronicles II gives you more characters, more options, and more monsters to [...]
Fruit Ninja celebrated its two year anniversary with an update that adds an in-game store that lets you purchase power-ups. Buying these power-ups requires currency, which comes in the form of starfruit. You get starfruit just by playing the game, but– as is the way of these things– if you want more, you can buy [...]
There are far too many games coming out on the App Store every day for us to review all of them fully. So, we have to pick and choose which games we’re going to cover. These five games made the cut because there’s something special about them– they’re independently developed, have a high level of [...]
Wow, it’s a great weekend to be an iOS gamer. In a confluence of events (Memorial Day weekend sales and the Because We May movement), tons of games have gone on sale or free for the weekend. See below for our picks of the best games discounted for a limited time. We’ll be updating this [...]
Starting today, Mini Motor Racing for the iPhone/iPad Touch is a free download! Its bigger, glossier cousin, Mini Motor Racing HD, is also up for grabs at the low, low price of zero dollars. The games’ developer, The Binary Mill, is participating in the Free App of the Day program, so this attractive price tag [...]
Enter your email address below to receive updates each time we publish new content.
