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Neil Gaiman’s Adventure Game ‘Wayward Manor’ Hits Desktop Next Week, iOS...
Neil Gaiman is easily one of the most popular and prolific English-language writers working today. He made his bones in comics, writing issues of Spawn and Batman before striking gold with his own...
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‘Out There’ Gets Free “Ω Edition” Expansion Later This Year
[appicon url="https://itunes.apple.com/app/id799471892"]I have a confession: I never finished Mi-Clos Studio’s engrossing space-travel roguelike Out There ($4.99). After days and days of dying,...
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Italian Indies Santa Ragione Announce Abstract Runner ‘Fotonica’ for iOS
If you’re going to create an endless verbing game—running, cave flying, punching—you may as well do it with as much hard-edged Italian style as you can muster. Enter Fotonica, a stark first-person...
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Space Bears Bring Abstract Strategy to iOS with Upcoming ‘Kingdoms’
Perhaps unfortunately, French indie duo Space Bears‘ first project isn’t about a roaming sleuth of star-faring ursids. Instead, the Paris-based combo are making Kingdoms, a two-player strategy game...
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Kick In Doors and Blast Through Walls in Tactical Shooter ‘LA Cops’
LA Cops is an upcoming tactical shoot-out game that takes place in a stylish, romanticized version of the 1970s. There’s no way Kowalski, the game’s main character, gets all the way through the game...
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Epiphany Games Announces ‘Majestic Nights,’ An Episodic RPG Thriller About...
Alongside neon, cocaine, and capitalism, conspiracy theories remain one of the enduring cultural touchstones of America during the 1980s. Some of the best crackpot theories happened in the preceding...
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Lucky Frame Bringing Roguelike Puzzler ‘The Nightmare Cooperative’ to iOS
Lucky Frame, the Edinbugensian studio behind Bad Hotel ($1.99), Wave Trip ($0.99), and Gentlemen! ($1.99) (all of which we loved), are brining their newest game to iOS. The studio’s founder, director,...
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Square Enix’s ‘Secret of Mana’ On Sale this Week for $3.99
Square-Enix has been running a sale on its mobile games catalog for almost two weeks, but it’s been limited to the Google Play store until now. Between now and the end of the week, you can save a fiver...
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Ubisoft Bringing ‘Valiant Hearts: The Great War’ to iOS in September
During Gamescom, Ubisoft announced that they were bring Valiant Hearts: The Great War to iOS as a universal app next month. The colorful puzzle-adventure game will be available on the App Store on...
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New Pixely Shoot ’em Up ‘Supermassive’ is Shooting for A Fall Release
I haven’t, admittedly, played too many shoot-’em-ups on iOS, but most of them have been kind of dinky, for lack of a better word: they’re usually a little slow and a little simple, if only to contend...
View Article‘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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