Posts Tagged ‘Role Playing’
‘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 [...]
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 [...]
‘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 [...]
First Screenshots Released of ‘Lunar: Silver Star Story Touch’
Back in April, we learned that developer SoMoGa was hard at work on an iOS port of classic RPG Lunar: Silver Star Story, and today we finally have the first screenshots from the game. SoMoGa was responsible for porting the Sega Saturn RPG Vay [$4.99] to the App Store in 2008, and did a pretty [...]
First Screenshots Released of ‘Lunar: Silver Star Story Touch’
Back in April, we learned that developer SoMoGa was hard at work on an iOS port of classic RPG Lunar: Silver Star Story, and today we finally have the first screenshots from the game. SoMoGa was responsible for porting the Sega Saturn RPG Vay [$4.99] to the App Store in 2008, and did a pretty [...]
Gameloft Hacks Prices in 4th of July Sale
It’s the season for savings as the US’ July 4 Independence Day celebration nears. Not to be left out of the chart-breaking action is Gameloft. As of this morning, the homage-specialists are offering a stable of some of its sharpest titles like NOVA 2 and Asphalt 6 at a mere 99 cents instead of their [...]
‘Game Dev Story’ Goes On Sale
Kairosoft’s Game Dev Story [$1.99 / Lite] is now cheaper than what it was. For a limited time, and in celebration of the release of Pocket Academy [$3.99 / Lite], the quirky simulation game that puts you in the shoes of producer, administrator, and game developer is $1.99. That’s a 50 percent savings from the [...]
Com2uS Goes Nuts, Everything For Under A Dollar
The best thing about the iTunes family of storefronts is that it carries Sharon Stone’s moody and moving flick “Last Dance.” The second best thing, which is more relevant to our interests as a site on the Internet that deals with games, is the stunning amount of video game sales. This week in particular has [...]
First Update to ‘Chaos Rings Ω’ Lands on App Store
Back when Chaos Rings Ω [$11.99 / HD] first launched, Square Enix revealed a surprising schedule of updates to continually up the level cap, add more bosses, and even more loot to collect. These updates should keep rolling out over the course of the year, with level caps and bosses being released all the way [...]
‘P1XL Party’ – A Multi-Game Pack for the Retro Lovers Out There
P1XL Games, who brought us RPG Quest: Minimae [App Store], has just released an original collection of simple, C64-styled retro games entitled P1XL Party [App Store] — and it's a collection that retro gamers won't want to miss. The initial release brings three titles — Splatform, Wandererz, and Marz — but there's more on the [...]
‘Avadon: The Black Fortress HD’ Review – Kickin’ It Old School
The name Spiderweb Software is a bit misleading, after all, it's mostly the work of one man, Jeff Vogel, who has for almost twenty years given us some of the most intricate RPGs on PC and Mac. Until now, at least, these were often an inclusive, old-schooler affair. But Avadon: The Black Fortress HD [$9.99] is [...]
‘Dream:scape’ Review – A Haunting Interactive Story
Dream:scape [$1.99] is a story of death and redemption, a haunting narrative brought to life with Unreal-powered graphics and pitch-perfect sound design. In it, you play Wilson, a coma patient on the verge of death who is given the chance to explore his own memories and discover the truth of a secret that's haunted him [...]
E3 2011: ‘Pocket Heroes’ Hands-On Shows Great Promise
It seems like every convention we see a game (or, sometimes, games) that make us take a step back and say, "Whoa, now that's really cool." As a former hardcore Dungeons & Dragons player, Pocket Heroes hit all the right notes for me. Here's the game in a nutshell: Take a party-centric tabletop-style turn based [...]
‘Baseball Superstars II Pro’ Review – Another Great Turn At Bat
Baseball Superstars has been a favorite around these parts for years now, with entries to the franchise released each fall. So it's surprising to see Baseball Superstars II Pro [$0.99] released a little over half a year after the series' last major outing. Each update to the series brings new features and improvements, and this [...]
‘Infinity Blade’ Rakes In Over $10 Million
We all had a suspicion that Infinity Blade [$5.99] was continuing to sell well at this point in its life, but we haven’t had a number to back us up. Now, we do. According to Epic Games and creator Chair Entertainment, the hack and slash third-person action game has raked in around 10 million dollars [...]
‘Fantastic Knight’ – New Video of Upcoming Action-RPG
Fans of iOS RPGs have a new one coming soon to look forward to. Developer Minoraxis, most well-known for their Fruit Juice Tycoon series, is taking a stab at the KRPG realm with their upcoming title Fantastic Knight. The game will feature two different playable characters, the young prince Wenrick and the female warrior Erien, [...]
‘Monster Hunter: Dynamic Hunting’ Battle First Impressions – Seems Competent, But Not Amazing
Monster Hunter: Dynamic Hunting is a competent hack-and-slash title from the studio that brought the actual mega franchise to market. That’s a good sign. But, while all the mechanics are serviceable, in the early parts of the game, combat seems to suffer from weird design decisions that slow the frantic pace of battle it tries [...]
Gameloft’s ‘Order & Chaos’ Has Raked in $1m – Update On the Way
Here's a fact that might not be entirely too surprising: People are hungry for World of Warcraft. Seriously, I still know people who spend hours upon hours a day and have been playing with the same fervor since it was released in 2004. Also, tickets for Blizzcon, Blizzard's yearly almost entirelyWoW-centric convention, sell out within [...]
‘Monster Hunter: Dynamic Hunting’ Hits Tonight In The USA
Man, that was fast. Just earlier this month, word spread that Monster Hunter was coming to the App Store. Tonight at 11PM EST, said game will hit in the US for the first time. It's available in New Zealand now. As the proper name implies, Monster Hunter: Dynamic Hunting is a paired down experience, but [...]
Square Enix Reveal ‘Chaos Rings II’ Teaser Trailer
With Chaos Rings ? barely even two days old, Square Enix has released a teaser trailer for a sequel entitled Chaos Rings II. We weren't that impressed by the latest Chaos Rings offering in our review, as it felt a little too much like an expansion of the original Chaos Rings than something that is [...]
‘Chaos Rings Ω’ Review – Strap in For More of the Same
Let's get this out of the way, Square Enix's Chaos Rings ? [$11.99 / HD] is identical to the original Chaos Rings in more ways than one. In fact, its differences are so few, it's hard to differentiate the two and considering Chaos Rings ? follows the original by a full year, that's going to be a bit [...]
‘Infinity Blade’ Gets a Reduced Price and We Dive into the Arena
Game Center isn’t that great. That was the first among throngs of intelligent thoughts that followed after my first few forays into Infinity Blade’s [$2.99] new “Arena” mode, which hit the App Store this afternoon as a free update to the core — and now reduced priced — game. The second thought had something to [...]
‘Chaos Rings Omega’ Now Available in the US App Store
Late last month we learned that Square Enix was readying two new entries in the Chaos Rings saga. The following day, we saw the Japanese trailer for one of those games, Chaos Rings Omega, which is a prequel to the well-received iOS exclusive RPG Chaos Rings [$12.99/HD] which released last year. Today, Chaos Rings Omega [...]
An Indie Developer Just Might Beat Gameloft to an iOS Pokemon Clone
It's difficult to think of an appropriate way to describe the success that Nintendo has seen with the Pokemon series. The franchise celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2006, and basically seems to endlessly print money for Nintendo through an endless stream of video games, movies, cartoons, toys, and other merchandising. Part of the reason Pokemon [...]
‘Order & Chaos Online’s’ First Major Content Patch On The Way
The first major content update to Order & Chaos Online [$6.99] is coming down the pipe, so says a new thread on the World of Warcraft-like MMO’s official message board. Details on the complete patch and its eventual release are still cloudy, but we do know a number of key fixes, tweaks, and enhancements that [...]
‘Aralon: Sword and Shadow HD’ Updated with Cloud Save Ability, On Sale for $4.99
Crescent Moon’s epic role-playing game Aralon: Sword and Shadow HD [$4.99] has just received a nice update that adds the ability to save your game progress into the cloud and transfer it between devices. In addition, the game is currently on sale for $4.99 for a limited time. It’s great that Aralon is a universal [...]
‘Cthulu’ RTS Coming to The App Store
It’s official: Cthulhu is about to get its tentacles all up in your mobile devices. Indie developer Red Wasp Design has just announced that it's behind Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land, an upcoming 3D RTS / RPG for the iPod Touch, iPhone, and Android. I suppose at this point, Cthulhu is more notorious as [...]
Freebie Alert: ’100 Rogues’ – One Heck of a Roguelike
100 Rogues [Free] had had a torrid history of updates, bug fix updates for those updates, then bug fix updates for those bug fix updates (which also often introduce bugs). Regardless, it's a super-fun roguelike, and even though things get broken, they've added a ton of cool things in the life of the game both [...]
‘Zenonia 3: The Midgard Story’ Review – RPG Grinding at its Finest
When released back in 2009, the original Zenonia was one of the first full fledged action RPG's on the App Store. Gamevil received heaps of praise for both the first and second installment in the series, and Zenonia 3: The Midgard Story [$4.99] seems to live up to the ever-increasing quality iOS gamers come to [...]