Posts Tagged ‘iPod touch games’
‘Emissary Of War’ Passes The Sniff Test
A new RPG is hitting this summer and it appears to have all the makings of a solid third-person, narrative-led hack-and-slash. Swords and an odd world? Check-check. Spiders and other monsters? Check-check. Simple click-treat action? Check. Muscles? Check. A dry, weird name? Yeah, Emissary of War passes that test, too, I think. But does it [...]
Trailer for Upcoming ‘Roboto’ – Fast Paced Platforming with Stunning Visuals
As a huge fan of both action-platforming games and endless runners, I’m pretty darn excited for the upcoming game Roboto from developer Fenix Fire. Roboto looks to blend aspects from both of these genres. The levels in the game are heavily designed for running and jumping through quickly like an endless running game, except you [...]
Hands-On with ‘Bumpy Road’ 2.0 Update, Coming Later this Month
Back in May, Simogo Games released Bumpy Road [$2.99], a title that was a mixture of endless runner and time trial gameplay with a whimsical art style and incredibly unique controls. I gushed about how much I enjoyed Bumpy Road in our review, and last month the game was improved further when Simogo released the [...]
Minter’s New Game, ‘Deflex,’ Hits The App Store
Jeff Minter’s latest creation, Deflex [$1.99], a psychedelic puzzle game inspired by a previous Llamasoft release for pre-1985 machines like the VIC-20, is now available on the App Store. As Blake discovered when he got his hands on a pre-release build a couple of weeks back, Deflex isn’t the easiest game in the world to [...]
Freebie Alert – Vertical Shooter ‘Sky Force’ Temporarily Free
A while back, developer Infinite Dreams promised that if they could get to 5,000 “Likes” on their Facebook page that they would drop the price of their vertical shmup Sky Force [Link] to free for 48 hours. Yesterday they hit that goal, and true to their word you can now grab the full version of [...]
‘Snuggle Truck’ To Add Level Editor And Sharing Options In Next Update
Provided Owlchemy Labs can energize the creative members of their playerbase, Snuggle Truck [$1.99/HD] owners won’t want for levels in the near future. A new level editor as well as a hip new social component that lets you share, rate, and explore each other’s levels, will appear in the game’s next update — an update that’s [...]
A Hands-On Preview of Amiga Classic ‘Defender of the Crown’ for iOS
For quite some time now we have been tracking Manomio's upcoming iAmiga emulation system for iOS, designed as a sort of wrapper or delivery vehicle to bring licensed Amiga games to the App Store. At the end of last year, we posted an exclusive preview of the in-development system, including a demo video showing a [...]
‘Epoch,’ An Unreal 3 Shooter Being Created By Industry Vets, Announced
A new studio founded by a duo of veterans responsible for titles like XCOM as well as a smattering of other originals like BioShock, Fallout: Tactics, and Freedom Force, have announced its first game, Epoch. It’s an arena-based, gesture-controlled cover shooter built with Unreal 3 for iOS devices. As you’d imagine, it looks beautiful — [...]
Pangea Software Games Go Free in Anniversary Sale
As of yesterday, the App Store has been online for three years. Crazy, right? I remember downloading my first apps on my O. G. iPhone standing in line outside of the Apple Store in line for the iPhone 3G which launched the following day. I'm not entirely sure what the first thing I downloaded was, [...]
‘Machinegun Jetpack’ Probably Hitting This August, Will Support IAP
Back in March, I felt luckier than a field of four leaf clovers when I was among the first to see Fruit Ninja [$.99 / HD] creator Halfbrick’s latest side-scrolling title, Machinegun Jetpack. It’s a mix of infinite runner and shooter like Monster Dash [$.99 / HD]. Heck, it even stars that game’s hero, Barry [...]
‘The King of Fighters-i’ Review – A New King of iOS Fighters is Crowned
Last year, Capcom raised the bar for traditional fighting games on the touch screen with Street Fighter IV [$4.99], and a couple of weeks ago they upped their game again by releasing Street Fighter IV Volt [$6.99] with online multiplayer. To a lesser degree, we’ve also seen Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 [99¢/HD] on the App [...]
Dual-Stick Shooter ‘Occurro!’ Returns to the App Store, Now Permanently Free
Way back in early to mid 2009, we were at the height of top-down dual-stick Geometry Wars-style space shooter releases. It seemed like every week or two there was another new one to check out, and although they each had their own sets of strengths and weaknesses, the vast majority offered up pretty compelling arcade [...]
Rocketcat Games Reveals Upcoming ‘Mage Gauntlet’ Trailer
If you're anything like me, you've been wondering, "When in the world is Rocketcat Games going to release something that doesn't rely on a swinging mechanic?" Don't get me wrong, HookChamp, Super QuickHook, and Hook Worlds are all fantastic games, but I doubt I'm alone in looking forward to what Rocketcat would release outside of [...]
‘Puzzle Family’ Review – Minigame Madness
Com2Us's ultra-Korean Puzzle Family (Free / $1.99) is now available worldwide. It's full of crazy-fun minigames, but to get in on all the fun you're either going to need to pony up some cash, or invest some substantial time playing. Here's the deal: you start out with three of the game's eight minigames available to [...]
‘VineKing’ Review – Multitask Your Way to a Greener World
How much of a multitasker are you? If you're anything like me, you've probably got a dozen tabs open in your browser, three other programs on your desktop and a game or two waiting on your phone. But that might just make you a singletasker with a short attention span. If you want to prove [...]
EA and Chillingo Summer Showcase 2011 Hands-On Videos
Yesterday the gaming media at large descended upon EA’s Redwood Shores headquarters in order to do 3 things: watch dogs catch frisbees, eat from a wide variety of lunch trucks, and play a ton of upcoming video games. The first two activities were definitely enjoyable, but the real fun was being able to check out [...]
‘Game Dev Story’ Sale 2: Sale Harder, Also ‘Hot Springs Story’ Joins The Party
Kairosoft’s Game Dev Story [$.99 / Lite] is now even cheaper than it was a week ago when the studio put it on sale. The simulation game that puts you in the shoes of a game creator, designer, administrator, and event planner is now $.99 instead of $1.99 or its standard $3.99. That’s a total [...]
EA Reveals Origin For iOS, Basically Xbox Live
Since EA revealed its intentions to bring Origin to the App Store, we’ve been wondering how it will be implemented and what it will do for enthusiasts. Those questions were kind of answered at EA’s Summer Showcase event in San Francisco earlier this afternoon. In a nutshell, it’s an Open Feint-like interface that sits on [...]
‘Aralon: Sword And Shadow’ Goes On Sale For $4.99, More ‘Pocket RPG’ Screens Emerge
Crescent Moon's Aralon: Sword and Shadow is one of the App Store’s meatier games, so it often demands a meatier price point. If its standard price of $9.99 is too much for you to swallow, I think you’ll dig this news: the game, which is a Universal app, is now just $4.99. That’s, like, a [...]
‘Color Bandits’ Review – Casual Contra
Adding color to a black and white world isn't exactly a new concept in games, but Kaia Games' Color Bandits [99¢ / HD] attempts to add that layer to a side scrolling shooter with a resemblance to Contra in terms of gameplay, but not in challenge. As far as story and setting is concerned, Color [...]