Posts Tagged ‘Shooter’
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 [...]
‘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 — [...]
Slingshot Justice
Slingshot Justice By Phillip Levin on July 11th, 2011 Our Rating: :: ALL RIGHTiPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad Protect the lemonade stand from an onslaught of bullies. Developer: Anomalous Interactive Price: $0.99 Version Reviewed: 1.0 Device Reviewed On: iPhone Graphics / Sound Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars [...]
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 [...]
Call of Mini: Zombies Review
Call of Mini: Zombies Review By Jason Wadsworth on July 8th, 2011 Our Rating: :: 360 UNDEAD DEGREESiPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad This twin-stick shooter puts various weapons in the player’s hands and lots of zombies in their sights. Developer: Triniti Interactive Limited Price: $0.99 Version Reviewed: 1.2 [...]
‘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 [...]
‘Battle Squadron ONE’ – A True Classic Amiga Shooter Comes to iOS
Back in January we heard the excellent news that Cope-Com would be bringing an exact port of their classic Amiga shooter Battle Squadron to iOS. Originally released for the Amiga in 1989 (arriving on the Genesis / MegaDrive the following year), Battle Squadron is widely considered one of the very best Amiga shooters ever released [...]
‘Danmaku Unlimited’ Review – A Beautiful Bullet Hell Shmup
I'm late to the party on this one, but if you have any room in your heart for bullet hell shooters you should take a look at Danmaku Unlimited [$1.99 / Lite] You might know that already, but there's a good chance you don't. Maybe you've been living under a rock. Maybe you don't venture [...]
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 [...]
‘Gun Bros’ Gets Online Co-Op And New Challenges In Update
Glu Mobile’s Gun Bros [Free] now has even more features, including a real-time co-op element that’s sure to tickle fans of the F2P dual-stick shooter. Available this morning, the update adds “BRO-OP,” the long-awaited co-op compliment to the game that, before, had to lean on imported AI copies of friends. The mode supports play over [...]
Video: Retro Shooter ‘P-47 The Phantom Fighter’ from DotEmu
Back in March I sat down with Xavier Liard at GDC 2011 to discuss some titles on the way from his retro-centric studio, DotEmu. One of the titles on the list was the 1988 arcade shooter P-47: The Freedom Fighter, which also saw release on the Amiga, C64, and various other platforms. The game pits [...]
CAVE’s ‘Deathsmiles’ Hitting the App Store on July 7th
Just a couple of weeks ago, CAVE released a new trailer for their upcoming iOS version of manic horizontal shooter Deathsmiles, along with an apology for the game missing its intended Spring release window. It turns out that they didn’t miss it by much though, as CAVE has officially announced that Deathsmiles will be releasing [...]
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 [...]
‘D.A.R.K.’ Review – Dead in Space
GameLab's D.A.R.K. [99¢] is game with a conflicting sense of self. It's trying to simultaneously be a tense, science fiction horror game and a dual stick shooter with RPG elements. It's a difficult line to toe and in a lot of ways, D.A.R.K. is leading with the right foot, even if it flounders a bit here and [...]
Coming Tonight: ‘Transformers 3′ – Autobots, Roll Out!
Are you the kind of person who wears a Optimus Prime trucker hat and a full Transformers-themed wardrobe to accompany your various Transformers tattoos? Well, I've got some good news for you. To accompany the release of the movie this week, EA is launching the cleverly titled iOS game Transformers 3 [$4.99 / HD]. We [...]
Elevator Zombies Review
Elevator Zombies Review By Rob Rich on June 27th, 2011 Our Rating: :: RETRO FUNiPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad Gun down walking corpses, escape high rise buildings and explore lots and lots of doors in this surprisingly addictive homage to an old classic. Developer: Triniti Interactive Price: Free [...]
‘AirFox HD’ Brings the ‘River Raid’ Experience to iPhone, iPad
When Atari's Greatest Hits landed back in April, bringing 100 Atari arcade and VCS/2600 classics to iOS, retro gamers across the land bowed to Atari and the awesome they had brought. But still, there are plenty of great cartridge titles that aren't part of Atari's collections. Most notably, games by other studios. Studios like Activision, [...]
‘Marathon’ for iPad to Be Released Soon, With a Big Thumbs-Up from Bungie
I think Jared is a time traveler. On last week’s podcast, The Bearded One asked us what happened to Marathon for the iPad. We reported on that back in February, but the project seemed to have gone dark. And here, just yesterday, Bungie out of the blue issued an update of sorts and interviewed the [...]
Absolute Instant Review
Absolute Instant Review By Jason Wadsworth on June 23rd, 2011 Our Rating: :: SHOOT DODGE REPEATiPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad This bullet hell shooter follows the standard genre tropes with one interesting exception. Developer: Mobili Studio Price: $1.99 Version Reviewed: 1.0.1 Device Reviewed On: iPhone 3GS Graphics / [...]
‘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 [...]
iDaTank Review
iDaTank Review By Jason Wadsworth on June 23rd, 2011 Our Rating: :: TURRETS UPiPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad Navigate an upgradeable tank over small asteroids collecting crystals and destroying enemies. Developer: Pavel Tsarev Price: $1.99 Version Reviewed: 1.0.1 Device Reviewed On: iPhone 3GS Graphics / Sound Rating: 4.25 [...]
‘Street Fighter IV’ iOS’ Price Plummets In New Capcom Sale
Ice T once said, “I’m on the front line, and I am a rapper.” He’s also said, “I have to grow my audience.” The latter is something most game publishers can get on board with, while the former is… well, an Ice T quote. Regardless, we see the attempts to draw more people in every [...]
Bathtime Boogie Review
Bathtime Boogie Review By Timothy Smith on June 17th, 2011 Our Rating: :: BUBBLICIOUSiPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad Bathtime Boogie may look childish with its colorful graphics and bubbly gameplay, but there’s actually a lot of depth in the bath tub themed shoot’em up. Developer: Dobsoft Studios Price: [...]
Gameloft Throws A Kickin’ $.99 Sale For Father’s Day
It’s written in the United States’ constitution that every holiday must be honored with a sale or two on the App Store. No joke — it’s a new law according to yet another wiki page that I just finished vandalizing. If you're interested, the law is sandwiched between the “freedom of press” thing and that [...]
WWDC 2011: Limbic’s ‘Zombie Gunship’ Aerial Zombie Shooter
While out at WWDC 2011, I sat down with Limbic Software and Hidden Elephant to have a look at an upcoming game developed in conjunction with Digital Cavemen. Zombie Gunship is, I believe, the most promising title of the aerial zombie shooter genre. Ok, and maybe also the only member of that genre. But, I'm [...]
CAVE’s Upcoming ‘Deathsmiles’ Gets a New Trailer, Release Date Still TBD
Back in February we learned that CAVE was readying a port of Deathsmiles for the App Store, and just a couple of days later they released a teaser trailer for the game. The trailer pegged a Deathsmiles release for Spring 2011, but with Spring all but gone and no sign of the game on the [...]
SpaceArena Review
SpaceArena Review By Bobby Gooding on June 13th, 2011 Our Rating: :: A NICE TRYUniversal App – Designed for iPhone and iPad A ‘classic arcade shooter’, without so much shooting… Developer: JapJap Development Price: $0.99 Version Reviewed: 1.0 Device Reviewed On: iPhone 3GS Graphics / Sound Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Game Controls [...]
E3 2011: ‘Shadow Gun’ Actually Running on an iPad
We've posted about Shadow Gun a few times now, but really haven't gotten much confirmation that the game will actually look (and perform) like it does in the trailer footage. Heck, being skeptical about such things is entirely reasonable too, as it seems like over the course of video game history more than a few [...]
E3 Gameloft Hands-on: March of Heroes
Imagine that, a game that has a name that resembles “Brothers In Arms”, would end up being a military shooter. Pulling on the same same comradery heartstrings, Gameloft’s recently announced first person shooter March of Heroes is a very much cast from a similar mold. What sets this shooter apart from the many others on [...]