‘Daddy Long Legs’ Coming to iOS ‘Soon,’ Bringing Physics-based Hilarity With It
Here’s your delightful weirdness for the day: Daddy Long Legs, the newest project by Danish outfit Set Snail, is about moving a set of spindly, angular legs forward as far as you can before physics,...
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‘The Wolf Among Us’ Review – Red in Tooth and Claw
The first thing that happens in Telltale Games’ The Wolf Among Us (Free) is that Sheriff Bigby Wolf talks to a toad in a cardigan. The second thing, at least for me, was that he gets beaten to death...
View ArticleUbisoft Clarifies Episodic Format for ‘Valiant Hearts,’“No Comment” on...
Earlier this month, Ubisoft announced the imminent release of a touch-friendly version of Valiant Hearts: The Great War for iOS. The announcement came with news that the game would would be “based on...
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Check Out ‘Sunburn,’ a Game About Throwing Astronauts into the Sun
Dying alone in the dark enormity of the cosmos is one of science fiction’s great set pieces: one of the best scenes in all of Star Trek features Tom Paris and B’Elanna Torres running out of oxygen...
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PSA: This Weekend is the Last Chance to Get the First Wing of ‘Hearthstone:...
[appicon url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id625257520?mt=8"] If you’re a casual Hearthstone (Free) player that’s been side-eyeing the “Curse of Naxxramas" expansion, you should act quickly to snag...
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‘The Nightmare Cooperative’ Review – Strength in Numbers
The cooperative element of Lucky Frame’s new puzzle-roguelike The Nightmare Cooperative ($0.99) reveals itself after a few quick crawls through the game’s tile-floored dungeon. Your party of up to four...
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1930’s Heist Game ‘Calvino Noir’ Will Sneak onto iOS Later This Year
Daniel Walters and Ceri Williams, the duo behind Micro Macro Games’ gorgeous and unfortunately overlooked Morphopolis (Free), are working on a stealth-slash-heist game due for the App Store later this...
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Harmonix and Tilting Point Making Multiple Music Games for Mobile
As if they weren’t busy enough, Harmonix Music Systems recently signed a publishing deal with Tilting Point to bring multiple new games to mobile devices. Tilting Point, to jog your memory, is a mobile...
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Mojang, Microsoft Promise that ‘Minecraft: Pocket Edition’ Will Continue to...
Microsoft announced earlier this morning that it had acquired Mojang — and Minecraft right along with it — for a cool $2.5 billion. The acquisition is expected to be finalized later this year, and...
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Low Poly Environmental God Game ‘Biome’ Coming to iOS Next Year
Biome is an upcoming environmental toy from the trio of developers that make up the fledgling studio known as Knick Knack. All angular polygons and electric greens and blues, Biome lets you “explore...
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Changes to Leeroy Jenkins, Starving Buzzard Coming in ‘Hearthstone’ Update...
According to a forum post by Blizzard community manager “Zeriyah," upcoming balance changes for Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Free) will affect the Leeroy Jenkins and Starving Buzzard cards. This...
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Victorian-Era Strategy Game ‘Antihero’ Lets You Stab, Sneak, and Steal Your...
I’m not particularly good at strategy games or asynchronous multiplayer — supply lines and terrain and Panzers are beyond me — so I can’t do much but turn my nose up at the 4X genre’s creeping...
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Mojang Is Slashing the Price of ‘Scrolls’ Before Its Upcoming iPad Release
Scrolls — the hex-tiled collectible card battler and the subject of a hilariously asinine lawsuit — cost $20.95 when it was put into open beta last year. However, the development team at Mojang are...
View ArticleSpace-Puzzler ‘Sunburn!’ Gets a New Trailer, Launching Later This Fall
You may remember Sunburn!, the sickly-sweet puzzle game about launching a crew of stranded astronauts with a suicide pact into a nearby star. I first wrote about the game last month, but the premise...
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‘Inklewriter’ is a Free Gamebook Creator from the Studio Behind ’80 Days’ and...
The internet is sometimes an exhaustingly terrible place, but one of its redeeming qualities (for our purposes, at least) is that it’s made making video games easier than ever. Another tool of this...
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‘Valiant Hearts: The Great War’ Review – In the Trenches
One of my favorite poems in the English language canon has, ironically, a Latin title: “Dulce et Decorum est." In it, English poet and soldier Wilfred Owen tells his audience that, had they seen the...
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Subway Planning is Surprisingly Fun in ‘Mini Metro,’ Coming to iOS Later This...
When I was in the eighth grade, a city planner came to my pre-algebra class to talk about the mathematics involved in managing traffic lights. He gave a series of problems and asked us to find ways to...
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‘Assassin’s Creed Identity’ Soft-Launches in New Zealand and Australia,...
Remember earlier this summer when Ubisoft sneakily soft-launched Assassin’s Creed Memories (Free) in New Zealand and Australia, with nary an announcement or trailer beforehand? Earlier this morning,...
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Final Release Version of Mojang’s Card Battler ‘Scrolls’ Expected Late Next...
A small team in Mojang’s studio in Stockholm, Sweden has been quietly and unassumingly developing Scrolls, a card-based tactics battler, for over three years, always seemingly overshadowed by something...
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Stoic Studio Talks ‘Banner Saga’ Mobile Development and Direction of Upcoming...
[appicon url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id911006986?mt=8"]Bringing The Banner Saga ($9.99) to tablets gave John Watson nightmares. “This launch was even bigger to us personally than the original...
View Article“Goblins vs. Gnomes” Expansion Coming to ‘Hearthstone’ December 8
[appicon url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id625257520?mt=8"]"Goblins vs. Gnomes," the new 120-card expansion for Hearthstone (Free), will be available on December 8th. Where Hearthstone‘s previous...
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New “Goblins vs. Gnomes” Cards Now Available in ‘Hearthstone’ Arena Mode
Just two day ago, Blizzard announced that “Goblins vs. Gnomes," the newest themed expansion for Hearthstone (Free), was set to go live on December 8th, next Monday. Patch notes posted today, however,...
View ArticleStoic Studio Announce ‘The Banner Saga 2’ and Confirm Eventual Mobile Release
Stoic Studio announced today that the follow-up to The Banner Saga ($9.99), their lush, Ragnarok-themed tactical RPG, is coming to all the big non-mobile platforms some time next year. The sequel will...
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‘Bad Hotel’ and ‘The Nightmare Cooperative’ Developer Lucky Frame No Longer...
Today, Lucky Frame founder, director, and all around pleasant dude Yann Seznec announced that his company was no longer in the business of making videogames. Lucky Frame made its name on the iOS scene...
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Should You Be Buying “Classic” or “Goblins vs. Gnomes” Packs in...
Here’s the conundrum: Hearthstone‘s (Free) “Goblins vs. Gnomes" expansion has got you all in a tizzy, buying booster packs is already hard enough, and you’re probably missing cards from both the...
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Hyperkin’s ‘Smart Boy’ Add-on Turns your iPhone 6 into an OG Game Boy
In case your nostalgia for the 1990’s, video games, and 1990’s video games hasn’t been sufficiently commodified, peripheral manufacturer Hyperkin has today’s Internet curio: the so-called Smart Boy, an...
View ArticleWatch Adam Saltsman Talk About His New Tactical Survival Game, ‘Overland’
At last week’s Juegos Rancheros event in Austin, Texas, Adam Saltsman—best known for his work on Canabalt ($2.99) and Hundreds ($2.99)—gave a short presentation introducing his new game, a survival...
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Level-5 Announces ‘Layton 7’ for Mobile (Again), Still Doesn’t Look Very...
During the same Level-5 Vision 2015 event that brought wind of Fantasy Life 2 on iOS, Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino also announced a new Professor Layton game for smartphones. According to Siliconera,...
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EA Mobile Inks Long-Term Deal to Develop ‘Despicable Me’ Games, Announces...
This morning, EA Mobile announced a deal with Illumination Entertainment to develop and publish a set of Minions-inspired mobile games, the first of which launches this summer. “Minions," of course,...
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Warner Bros. Tapped the Producer of ‘The Ring’ to Make a ‘Five Nights at...
[appicon url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id973482987?mt=8"]I’m not much for horror games, but I’ve been fascinated with the way the collective gaming internet has taken to Scott Cawthon’s Five...
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‘Hearthstone’ Mad Genius Draws 14,000 Cards and Deals 108 Million Damage in...
Just a few days after orchestrating what appears to be the longest ever turn in Hearthstone (Free), French player and streamer Florian “Mamytwink" Henn has again stretched the game’s rules toward their...
View Article‘Out There: Ω Edition’ Launches on PC and Mac, but the Free iOS Upgrade...
[appicon url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id799471892?mt=8"]Last week, Mi-Clos Studio released Out There: Ω Edition, a graphical overhaul of last year’s excellent iOS space-faring adventure game,...
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Square Enix Just Released a Streaming Version of ‘Final Fantasy XIII’ on the...
The next time you’re settled into a Shinkansen bullet train and get the urge to play Final Fantasy XIII, you can: Square Enix launched a cloud-streaming version of the game on the Japanese App Store...
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Apparently, There’s a ‘Kingdom Hearts’ Smartphone Game in the Works
Whether or not you like its doofy writing or calculated Disney licensing, Kingdom Hearts has always been refreshing in the face of the stridently grimdark self-seriousness of other big-budget console...
View ArticleAfter 18 Month Hiatus, ‘Pandemic: The Board Game’ Spreading to iPhone and...
[appicon url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id700793523?mt=8"]The TouchArcade Borg Collective was pretty enamored with Pandemic: The Board Game ($4.99) when it came out in the halcyon days of 2013....
View ArticleTube-Runner ‘Proun+’ and Stealth Puzzler ‘Hitman GO’ Are On Sale Today
[appicon url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id792699877?mt=8"] Yesterday was, for most Americans, the deadline to file taxes for 2014, and never has Jesus’ admonition that “It it most blessed to give...
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Shaken, Not Stirred: ‘I Am Bread’ Developer Bossa Studios Announces...
With all of the consternation and hot takes about the Apple Watch, it’s hard to believe that a. it was only announced a month ago and b. it’s not even out yet. Today, Bossa Studios joined the...
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‘Masters of the Masks,’ A New RPG from Square Enix and Lostmoon Games, is Now...
[appicon url="https://itunes.apple.com/app/id945627193"] As if to purposefully thwart our attempts to collate each week’s iOS releases in one neat post, Square Enix went off and released a new game...
View ArticleSneaky Freebie Alert: Puzzle-Platformer ‘Stealth Inc.’ is Gratis This Weekend
[appicon url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id660730799?mt=8"]To celebrate the release of Stealth Inc. 2 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows (via the Humble Bundle store), Curve Digital has...
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In Case You’d Forgotten, Amanita Design’s ‘Samorost 3’ Is Still in the Works,...
Czech outfit Amanita Design has released a gorgeous new trailer for the upcoming Samorost 3, full of organic weirdness and fungal wonder, alligators made out of petrified wood and entire planets...
View ArticleGoofily Piledrive Dudes in ‘Wrassling,’ Coming to the App Store Next Week
Earlier this month, we told you about Wrassling, an upcoming game by Colin Lane (Golf is Hard (Free)) and Folmer Kelly (Irrupt ($1.99), #SUPERHYPER ($1.99), Upthing (Free)). Eli, Jared, and Carter like...
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Update Brings Apple Watch Support to ‘FIFA 15 Ultimate Team’
[appicon url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id870794720"]EA’s free-to-play soccer game FIFA 15 Ultimate Team (Free) has been updated with Apple Watch support in anticipation of the wearable’s release...
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‘The Room 3’ Will Stay Locked Away ‘Til Summer, Says Fireproof Games
Bittsersweet news from Fireproof Games this week: the Guildford, England-based firm announced that The Room 3 is being delayed. Originally scheduled for a spring release, the upcoming entry into the...
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8bitdo’s ‘Crissaegrim NES30 Pro’ is an iOS Controller with a Weird Name and a...
The Crissaegrim NES30 Pro isn’t 8bitdo Tech’s first portable iOS gamepad, but it’s certainly the flashiest. Normally, I’d be skeptical that the NES30 Pro actually exists—the internet is littered with...
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Offworld Games Announce ‘Reiner Knizia’s The Confrontation,’ Set for This Summer
Over on our forums, Offworld Games announced today that their iPad port of The Confrontation will hit the App Store later this summer. The Confrontation is a turn-based strategy game by famed German...
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Capcom and Beeline Announce ‘Ghostbusters Puzzle Fighter’
Well, that didn’t take long: last week Capcom and Beeline Interactive were conducting polls and looking for beta testers for a licensed Ghostbusters iOS game. Today, Beeline officially announced...
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‘Lost Within’ Developer Human Head Studios Is Partnering with Shinra...
Shinra Technologies has announced that Human Head Studios (of Prey fame) will be joining its joining its Prototype Accelerator program. While the partnership hasn’t yielded any formal game...
View ArticleGREE International Closed its Vancouver Studio and Canceled All of Their Games
Earlier this week GREE announced that it was scuttling its office in Vancouver, British Columbia and discontinuing development, effective immediately. GREE International is the western arm of GREE...
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Pixel People: Alper Sarikaya’s Action Platformer ‘Sword of Xolan’ Coming to...
Alper Sarikaya’s next game is a big-boned (or at least big-pixeled) little number called Sword of Xolan, an action platformer of the old school in both form and format. You’ll play, of course, as...
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‘Out There’ Developer’s New Project is Cyberpunk Point-and-Click ‘Void &...
A trio of independent studios in France are teaming up to release Void & Meddler, a sickly neon point-and-click adventure full of recreational hormone supplements, synthetic memories, and screech...
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