Posts Tagged ‘Sales’
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 [...]
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, [...]
‘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 [...]
Three for Free During the Donut Games Crazy Summer Sale
Just as they did about a year ago, Donut Games is throwing a “Crazy Summer” sale and offering up 3 of their titles for free for a limited time. What is especially cool about this deal is that all 3 of these games are among the back catalog of Donut games that have recently been [...]
‘Spirit’ and ‘Spirit HD’ Get High Resolution Makeovers, Both on Sale for 99¢
When I think about excellent but underrated games on the App Store, Marco Mazzoli’s Spirit [99¢/HD] immediately comes to mind as a prominent example. Launching back in February of last year, Spirit is a neo-retro arcade game that uses a control mechanic that’s perfectly suited to the touch screen. You control your tiny “Spirit” with [...]
Konami Gets Into The $.99 (or Free) Spirit
Good news if you’re a Konami fan: the Japanese publisher and creator has received the July 4th memo being passed around, and as a result, most of its titles on the App Store are now listed at a paltry $.99 instead of their standard prices. For a limited time the over-the-shoulder shooter based in the [...]
‘Real Racing’ Series And ‘Flight Control HD’ Go On Sale
Some of the App Store’s best simulation racing games have received a price slashing as the US prepares to celebrate its independence with drink, food, and things that blow up and make pretty colors. For the third or fourth time only, the Real Racing series is up on the sale block, each title receiving an [...]
Independence Day Weekend Game and App Sale!
This weekend we celebrate Independence day here in the US. And as app developers tend to do, they have put a whole bunch of games and apps on sale this holiday weekend. We’ll update this post regularly with the latest, so please check back. Included below are just about every game that EA makes, a [...]
EA Throwing Its ‘Biggest Sale Yet’ With Its Latest For Independence Day
EA doesn’t kid around when it comes to App Store sales. During Christmas 2010, the publisher offered up much of its catalogue for 99 cents. It’s doing the same right now in celebration of the US’ Independence Day, and I’m guessing it’ll net similar results: total App Store chart domination. Around 90 of EA's titles [...]
Adult Swim Gets Into The Price Cutting Mood
Adult Swim Games isn’t above creating games that revolve around mechanical unicorns, horrible electronic music, and air dashing through concrete stars. It also isn’t above July 4 sales, as if that was an actual surprise as opposed to a writer’s early morning contrivance. So, what games are on sale? A lot. In fact, most of [...]
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 [...]
‘Street Fighter IV Volt’ Review – At Long Last, Street Fighter Gets Online Multiplayer
I was really excited when Capcom announced at E3 this year that their wildly successful Street Fighter IV [$4.99] for iPhone would be getting a follow up title called Street Fighter IV Volt [99¢]. I’ve been a huge Street Fighter fan for the majority of my life, and the original iPhone version is easily my [...]
‘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 [...]
Freebie Alert: ‘Death Rally’ – Grab This Game Now
Got a case of the Mondays? Well I've got the cure, right here: Death Rally [Free]. We gave the game five stars in our review, and I'd go as far as to say that Death Rally is easily among the best top-down racers available on the App Store if not the best. Seriously, don't miss [...]
‘Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP’ Swingle Day Swuper Swummer Swolstice Swale
Surely you've heard of Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP [99¢ / $1.99], right? If not, I'm pulling this web site over right now and giving you a lecture on the subject. S&S is a fantastic collaboration between musician Jim Guthrie and artist Craig D. Adams with Capybara Games providing the glue that put the whole [...]
Freebie Friday: ‘Army of Darkness Defense’ – Gimme Some (Free) Sugar, Baby!
Last month, Backflip Studios unleashed Army of Darkness Defense [Free/HD] into the App Store. Based on the campy B-movie Army of Darkness, a particularly popular entry in the cult classic Evil Dead franchise, the video game incarnation is a castle defense game with some very light RPG elements. The castle defense premise plays perfectly into [...]
Firemint’s ‘Real Racing’ Series Getting Real Cheap for the Weekend
If you happen to be one of those people that has yet to check out the phenomenal Real Racing series on iOS, Firemint is going to temporarily make it a lot cheaper for you to do so. From now through the weekend, every Real Racing title is now on sale in some capacity. Here’s a [...]
Freebie Alert: ‘Speedball 2 Evolution Free for a Few Days
The iOS version of the classic Bitmap Brothers game Speedball 2: Evolution [Link] is currently free for the next few days. Speedball 2 is a sports game of sorts, a mishmash of football and hockey (or fockeyball, as I call it) with arcade elements and a futuristic theme. It’s similar to the classic arcade game [...]
Five Alarm Freebie Friday: ‘geoDefense’, ‘Gravity Hook HD’, and ‘Zentomino’
Did you find yourself salivating at the massive list of EA sales only to discover that the balance of your iTunes account is 32¢ short of actually being able to buy anything? Well, the weekend is saved thanks to three generous developers! geoDefense, Free – I have absolutely nothing but good things to say about [...]
EA Mega Memorial Day Sale – Dead Space and More On Sale All Weekend
EA wields an incredible amount of power on the App Store. Their game catalog is incredibly vast, and consists of tons of well known IP that even non-gamers are familiar with. When they pulled a similar stunt this holiday season, EA absolutely dominated the top sales list which was great for gamers who scored absolutely [...]
Freebie Alert: ‘Super Stickman Golf’ Goes Free, Gains Pre-E3 Notoriety
Drop whatever you’re doing and head over to the App Store to download Super Stickman Golf [Link] which is currently free. Super Stickman Golf is a physics puzzle game wrapped in the veil of a golfing game. Gameplay involves choosing the trajectory of each shot as try to land your ball in the hole in [...]
A Discounted Blast From the Past: ‘Myst’ Drops to 99¢
Originally released all the way back in 1993, Myst [99¢] was the best selling PC game of all time until The Sims stole that title in 2002. If you had a computer with a CD-ROM drive in the mid-90's, chances are you've played Myst. If for some reason you haven't, or this era of PC [...]
‘Death Rally’ Gets Yet Another Update, Sill On Sale for 99¢
Well, it seems the folks at Mountain Sheep and Remedy Entertainment have been chowing down on their Wheaties based on all the work they've been getting done. Their popular combat racing game Death Rally [99¢] just launched at the end of March, and we’re already on the fourth content update. This latest one isn’t massive, [...]
Freebie Alert: ‘Flying Hamster’ Free for iPhone and iPad
Originally starting life as a PSP Mini, Flying Hamster from developer The Game Atelier made its way to iOS this past January. A horizontally scrolling shooter, Flying Hamster’s gameplay harkened back to shooters of days past, with an unforgiving difficulty and strict arcade-style level structure. The old-school design offered no mid-level checkpoints, and losing all [...]
A Roundup of Weekend App Store Sales
It's the weekend and that means sales. Here is a quick roundup of several stand-out offerings we think are worth a look. • Aralon: Sword and Shadow HD — $9.99 ? $4.99 [ review ] Crescent Moon Games is, for a limited time, offering their superb iOS Universal RPG Aralon: Sword and Shadow HD at [...]
‘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 [...]
Freebie Alert: ‘MotoTrialz’ – Free Stunt Biking for a Limited Time
There have been some seriously nice freebies as of late, and now we have one more to tell you about. Developer Tooko’s MotoTrialz [Free] has just gone free for the next several days. MotoTrialz is a side-scrolling motorcycle stunt game that’s pretty similar to RedLynx’s Trials HD. In fact, MotoTrialz originally launched last October as [...]
Freebie Alert: ‘Rat On A Skateboard’ From Donut Games Temporarily Free Following Update
Last month we told you the news that Donut Games would be revisiting their entire back catalog and updating each of their games with universal iPad support, Retina Display graphics, and Game Center integration. Just a couple of days later, the first of these updates hit the game Traffic Rush [99¢] and beyond adding the mentioned [...]