This week on the TouchArcade Show, we discover that I’m a total idiot. I had my microphone on the “conference” setting the entire time, meaning I was clipping basically the entire show — or, at least, more than normal. To correct this, I had to fiddle with the gain and pitch every time I talked [...]
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 [...]
There’s no denying Kumobius’s Time Surfer [$0.99] owes a lot to Tiny Wings [$0.99 / $2.99 (HD)]. It has the same swoopy hills, the same leap-and-glide movement, and the same joy of flight. After that, things go a bit off the proverbial rails. If the ’80s exploded all over Tiny Wings, we’d be part way [...]
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 [...]
In a world where endless runners are now as prevalent as platform puzzlers and tower defense, I imagine it’s tough for newcomers trying to make their mark on the genre. Bulwark Studio’s latest release, Rōnin [$0.99], looks to take the typical endless runner and infuse it with a beautiful art style, a somewhat in-depth upgrade [...]
How Shaq got into another brawler isn’t much of a surprise. Cold, hard business fueled its creation: his likeness holder One Spear Entertainment wanted a game and Hiptic delivered on that. The neat part of the creation story is that Shaq had some actual creative input on the project. Earlier this week, we talked with [...]
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 [...]
Neat: Ubisoft finally got around to alerting people to Far Cry The Outpost [Free], an official Far Cry 3 companion app that’s been kinda hiding on the App Store since the freeze. With the app, you can decode your weapon mods and swap your multiplayer load-outs on the fly. You also get access to the [...]
Earlier this morning, Jared and I spent some time with ShaqDown [$0.99]. It’s a side-scrolling brawling game starring Shaq, the former all-star NBA center and video game star. In the game, you’re tasked with plowing through hundreds and hundreds of the undead in order to do … something heroic. We kinda didn’t pay attention to [...]
Hey, it’s Wednesday again. The second Wednesday of the new year, which thankfully, is bringing us a few more games than last week. We’re still not back up to 100% of crazy nights of releases, but I feel like this is a good sign that more than three noteworthy games are out tonight. As usual, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This afternoon Apple updated their rules for how screenshots work on the App Store. As of today, screenshots for apps will be locked when the app or game is actually approved, and can’t be changed aside from actually submitting an update for said game or app which must go through the whole approval process again. [...]
Let’s clear the air: clean lines and futuristic stylings aside, Pixelbite Games’ Repulze [$0.99] shares little in common with Wipeout. One is an iOS racer that costs less than a dollar, the other is one of Sony’s most popular and enduring racing franchises. That’s not to discount Repulze, though — it’s from the same team that developed the [...]
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, [...]
There is no way to sugarcoat this: ShaqDown [$0.99] is not a great game. It is, at best, a merely serviceable game ideal only for anyone ravenously massaging their hands mad scientist-style with anticipation. This also probably is going to really, really bum out Shaq who is himself a hugely outspoken Apple enthusiast. Sorry Shaq. But [...]
The ridiculous amount of fun I’ve had blasting through Rovio’s Bad Piggies [$0.99] has really left me looking for more contraption building games on the App Store, as I really enjoyed how you not only needed to build a working contraption but also do something with it. Rigonauts was actually released on Steam before Bad [...]
Winding the clocks back to August of last year revealed Infinite Warrior [$2.99], or, as we called it, Brad Nicholson: The Video Game. Infinite Warrior is/was basically the result of taking the life of our own Brad Nicholson and game it gameplay mechanics. Similarly, Glass Bottom Games is providing the same treatment for the grand [...]
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 [...]
Earlier this morning, Jared and I spent some time with Run N’ Gun [Free]. It’s another endless runner that doesn’t do to much to break the mold. In the game, you’ll be tasked with the usual: running as far as you can while sliding, jumping, and tilting your way past weird obstacles. It’s most notable [...]
Hundreds [$2.99] could almost get away without an explanation. Here’s how the first level plays: you put your finger down on a circle. It starts growing, and a number counts up. When it hits 100, you win. You will never need a tutorial—anyone can learn to play. Audaciously simple, no- Of course, Adam Saltsman and [...]
Heads up: Jordan Mechner’s new Karateka [$0.99] is now on sale for 99¢. That’s a couple of bones off its initial December launch pricing of $2.99, if you’re keeping score at home. The app’s description doesn’t note when this sale will end, by the way, so grab it now just to be safe — and [...]
When 11 Bit Studios released Anomaly Warzone Earth [$1.99 / $3.99] on iOS in 2011, we were blown away by its unique ‘tower offense’ take on a genre that had grown stagnant. Fast forward a year and a half later and the first sequel to the acclaimed game has finally arrived. While Anomaly Korea [$2.99] continues to [...]
Here’s some pre-CES news for your eyeholes: PC and console peripheral maker Mad Catz has a new initiative called “GameSmart” that’ll add Mac and mobile support to a fresh run of some of its more popular peripherals via Bluetooth pairing. You can peep a few of the devices that’ll see GameSmart integration on the initiative’s [...]
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, [...]
Skygoblin’s The Journey Down [$2.99] is a classic point and click adventure with a certain visual similarity to Grim Fandango, due in part to the way that many of the characters’ faces are modeled on African tribal masks, and a setting and mythology that owes as much to African diasporic culture as Grim Fandango owes [...]
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 [...]
This week on the TouchArcade Show we sorta expected to talk about a lot of iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch games. Instead, we ended up chatting about Chuck E. Cheese’s, a handful of old PC releases, and Nexus 7 unboxing videos. There’s a reason for this: the iTunes Connect freeze coupled with the extended holiday [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Earlier this morning, Jared I spent some time with Repulze [$0.99]. It’s a sci-fi racing game that tasks you with completing time trials across six different tracks. There’s also a polarity mechanic thrown in for good measure. Bash through three red or green barriers in a row, and you’ll be awarded with speed boosts, which [...]
Mutant Mudds 2 is a thing that’s happening, Renegade Kid co-Founder and director Jools Watsham confirmed the other day on Twitter. And it’s probably coming to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. “We do not have any dates yet on when Mutant Mudds 2 will be released,” Watsham told us via e-mail this morning. “But, I [...]
The mobile and touch version of adventure game sensation The Last Express [$2.99] is now on sale on the App Store. Starting now and for a limited time, you can grab it for $2.99 instead of its usual $4.99. Not bad at all, eh- A fun note: this is the first time Dotemu has offered [...]
Earlier this afternoon, Eli and I gave Catch the Ark [$0.99] a spin. It’s an endless runner of sorts that tasks you with racing downstream in a raft while avoiding rocks, dinosaurs, krakens, and sharks. The more distance you cover, the higher your score. Catch the Ark also has a connection to the whole Noah’s [...]
Just before Christmas, Karateka [$2.99], Jordan Mechner’s modern re-envisioning of his 1984 Apple II classic, landed in the App Store. Karateka is a game that tells the story of Princess Mariko held captive in the fortress of the evil warlord Akuma, and of the vow of her three love-sick suitors to bring her to freedom. [...]
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 [...]
It’s officially 2013, and instead of starting this week’s release cycle with a bang we’re starting with… Well, a whimper, I guess. Regardless, I’ve been pretty stoked for Hundreds, so even if this week doesn’t have dozen of new games, I’ll still take one (hopefully) really good game. That seems like a decent trade. Either [...]
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