'Fire Emblem Heroes' Celebrates Hallowe'en with a 'Trick or Defeat' Event

One thing the developers behind the hit Nintendo mobile game Fire Emblem Heroes [Free] have learned is that seasonal variations of characters go over really well with the player base. With Hallowe'en being a relatively big deal in many countries around the world these days, it's … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

RPG Reload Glossary - The Origins of JRPGs

Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the regular feature where we sometimes hold down the confirm button because we are lazy. To be specific, welcome to the RPG Reload Glossary, where we get all up in fussy semantics, history, and other things that polite society … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

'Heart of the House' is the New Interactive Novel from Choice of Games and Former TouchArcade Writer Nissa Campbell

We typically cover lots of interactive fiction and gamebooks, partly because the medium fits so well on the mobile platform but mostly because our own Shaun Musgrave is pretty obsessed with them. He is the GO TO gamebook expert in these parts. However, the latest release from pro … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Hi-Rez Soft-Launches their 'Paladins' Mobile MOBA Spinoff 'Paladins Strike' in Australia on iOS and Android

Hi-Rez Studios announced back in August that they'd be bringing a spinoff of their ultra-popular hero-based first-person shooter Paladins: Champions of the Realm to mobile in the form of a game called Paladins Strike. Eschewing the first-person perspective for a more mobile-frien … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Blizzard Responds to 'Hearthstone' Fireside Gatherings Issues

As you probably know if you play Hearthstone [Free], Blizzard has recently introduced new, fancier Fireside Gatherings and has used the new Warlock Hero, Nemsy Necrofizzle (which can only be gained at a Fireside Gathering), as a way to promote the new social elements of the game. … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

'Far Tin Bandits' Is a Fun and Silly Shooting Game Coming Tomorrow

A game all about shooting tins doesn't sound that fun, does it? But then you have something like Far Tin Bandits, which adds mutated bean bullets that make the tin-shooting part of the game a much more interesting endeavor. In this game, you load up your bean shooter and try and … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

'Nory's Escape' Will Have You Drawing Your Way Across Levels, Also Works With Your Apple Pencil

Platformers work great on mobile devices, but sometimes controls can get in the way, especially when your fingers get in the way of the action. Nory's Escape wants to offer you a different way to make it through the various levels that seems to be working well in the trailer belo … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

'BlizzCon Mobile' App Available, a Must-Have for Those Attending or Watching the Event

If you're one of the lucky ones heading to Anaheim for BlizzCon 2017 next week or even one who's just going to watch through the Virtual Ticket, you should definitely download the BlizzCon 2017 Mobile app [Free], available on both iOS and Android. The app is your main hub for wat … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Asmodee Digital Releases Trailers for 'Scythe' and 'Catan Stories', Announces Even More Upcoming Games

Asmodee Digital sure is busy. Today, the digital board game developer announced what it's currently working on, and although we knew about most of the digital board games coming our way, it's still a pretty impressive list and worth repeating. The one I'm most looking forward to … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

'Vainglory' Going 5v5, and You Can Pre-Register for Early Access

It looks like the mobile MOBA war is heating up. Tencent's Arena of Valor is getting ready to launch in North America and bring with it all kinds of fun features, but Vainglory [Free], probably the most popular mobile MOBA on the global market, isn't sitting still either. Today, … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Dystopia Simulator 'Beholder' Gets "Blissful Sleep" Expansion

[appicon]Beholder [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/app/beholder/id1205486761?mt=8"] is a very well designed dystopia simulator where you have to make very difficult choices as the landlord in a totalitarian regime, and now you can enjoy even more despair in the expansion B … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Gory Hack 'N Slash 'Runic Rampage' Releasing on iOS (and Possibly Android) Next Thursday

You know something? I am a simple man. Give me a big ol' hammer and tons of bad guys to squish with it, including copious amounts of blood and body parts flying around, and I'm a happy camper. That's pretty much exactly what Runic Rampage promises, and it's heading to iOS next we | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Snowman Announces a Delay to Beautiful Coming of Age Story 'Where Cards Fall'

In March of last year, Alto's Adventure [$4.99] creator Snowman and developer The Game Band announced their new collaborative project Where Cards Fall. With just a teaser image and vague description, it was hard to tell what Where Cards Fall was all about, but we were certainly i … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

'Stardew Valley'-like 'Blocky Farm' Hits the App Store

We posted about the release date a few days ago, but Blocky Farm [Free] was mysteriously absent from last night's new games roundup as we had yet to find it anywhere on the App Store. Well, following the old adage "Better late than never," Blocky Farm hit the App Store early this … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

'DreamWorks Universe of Legends' is an ARPG With Characters from 'Shrek', 'How to Train Your Dragon', and More

[appicon]Now this is the kind of game I can get behind. DreamWorks has decided to gives us an action RPG game called DreamWorks Universe of Legends [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1120433319"] starring characters from some of its biggest hits of the last few years, … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

King's 'Bubble Witch Saga 3' Introduces Collaborative Play and Halloween Snapchat Lenses

King's Bubble Witch Saga 3 [Free], the bubble-busting cousin of Candy Crush Saga, is celebrating Halloween with a first: during this live event, players can play collaboratively. Starting today and up until November 1st, you'll have to help Stella the witch (appropriate for Hallo … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Out Now: 'Sheltered', 'Bury Me, My Love', 'Decap Attack', 'Afghanistan '11', 'Battlevoid: Sector Siege', 'Heroes Fally', 'Subsurface Circular', 'ICEY', 'The Sun: Origin' and More

It's that time of week again when we round up all the best new iOS games of the past 7 days, and even though almost all of my attention is focused on impatiently awaiting Super Mario Odyssey's release this Friday, there's still a number of cool mobile games on my radar this week. … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

'Clash Royale' King's Cup Challenge Is Live, and It's Fun

Supercell continues to give us new, fun ways to play Clash Royale [Free], and this week's King's Cup Challenge is among the most interesting, at least for me. The King's Cup Challenge is a blind deck style Challenge where you get a deck created by the teams competing in the King' … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Uwe Rosenberg's 'Bohnanza The Duel' Releasing Tomorrow

Uwe Rosenberg, the popular board game designer, is having great success in the digital space, so it shouldn't be surprising that tomorrow we are getting another one of his games, Bohnanza The Duel. This bean card game is a two-player variant of Bohnanza, and in it you plant beans … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

One-Handed Side-Scrolling Brawler 'Beat Street' Launching November 16th, New Trailer Released

It was way back in March that Lucky Kat Studios officially announced Beat Street, a side-scrolling beat 'em up like those classics that were so popular in the arcades of the '80s and '90s but built for the ground up to be played in portrait mode and controlled with just one hand … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

The 'Hearthstone' 'Headless Horseman Rides' Tavern Brawl Is Live

It's almost Halloween time, and Blizzard is bringing us a pretty fun Hearthstone [Free] Tavern Brawl to celebrate Hallow's End. Headless Horseman Rides has you picking the best "costume" and going to war against a boss in a match that will remind you of solo adventures. Once the … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Robot Fighting Game 'Stellar Arena' Looking for Testers

What is it about huge robots smashing each other that gets most gamers all giddy? Just have metallic behemoths punch and blast each other, and we are happy. Stellar Arena, an upcoming PvP robot brawling game, hopes to scratch that robot-crushing itch, and you can help make the ga … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

'Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise' Chapter 4 Expansion "A Narrow Escape" Releasing December 7th

It was nearly two years ago to the day that developer Yak & Co launched their stylish point-and-click puzzler Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise [$4.99] on the App Store. With is '60s-era spy theme, colorful characters, and high production values, we really enjoyed Agent A in our orig … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

'Stickman Cross Golf Battle' Gets First Official Trailer and is Looking for Beta Testers

Back in late August we posted about Stickman Golf Battle, the newest game from Djinnworks who have created an entire line of "Stickman" sports games. The idea was to take the player-versus-player focus of their previous game Stickman Skate Battle [Free] and apply it to a full-blo … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

New iPhone Games on Our Forums: 'Subsurface Circular', 'The Sun: Origin', 'Night of the Full Moon', 'Sheltered', and More

I've been so busy with Animal Crossing Pocket Camp coverage that I haven't even had time to observe National Greasy Foods Day, much less comb through the App Store for this week's new releases... So this initial list is a little on the scant side. I just wanted to get something u … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

'Animal Crossing Pocket Camp' First Impressions: A Faithful Pint-Sized Version of a Nintendo Classic

As we mentioned this morning, Animal Crossing Pocket Camp is now available on the Australian App Store (and Google Play). If you're willing to jump through a few hoops to get an Australian iTunes account, you can very easily download the game and start playing right now. There's … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Check out the First Two Hours of 'Animal Crossing Pocket Camp'

Animal Crossing Pocket Camp hit the Australian App Store early this morning, and I immediately hopped on Twitch to stream as much as I could of the game. It took me just under two hours to start to run out of things to do in my first session, and I really never came across any | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Download 'Animal Crossing Pocket Camp' Right Now on the Australian App Store

Last night Nintendo announced most of the details for Animal Crossing Pocket Camp. If you missed the presentation, it's basically the same Animal Crossing that you know and love with some incredibly minor differences- Instead of building out a house, you've got a camp site and a … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

'Animal Crossing Pocket Camp' Pre-Registration is Now Live

Over on TouchArcade's Discord we were real curious if the Animal Crossing stream would end with a surprise that the game would be released. Well, sort of similar, the pre-registration went live instead. iOS users can register using their Nintendo account, while Android folks can … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Nintendo Officially Announces 'Animal Crossing Pocket Camp', Coming Late November

This evening Nintendo officially revealed Animal Crossing Pocket Camp, a game where you play as a camp site manager, gather materials, and then craft all sorts of things to trick out your camp. The graphics look stunningly similar to a console animal crossing game, and as part of … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Nintendo's 'Animal Crossing' Presentation Starts in 30 Minutes

It's almost time, guys. In about 30 minutes from now, Nintendo will give us an Animal Crossing Mobile Direct video presentation that will finally unveil more details about the upcoming mobile version of the much-beloved series. The stream starts at 8PM PT, and you can watch it on … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

'Magic: The Gathering Arena' Closed Beta Info Coming Tomorrow

If you're one of many anxiously waiting to get their hands on Magic: The Gathering Arena beta (even if it's a PC beta at the moment), you might want to watch the upcoming developer stream tomorrow at 1PM PDT. This is the stream where the developers will share with us what's in st … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

BlizzCon 'Hearthstone Inn-vitational' Hinting at Expansion Details?

So, remember when we wrote that Blizzard was being a bit vague about its Hearthstone [Free] plans for this month? And remember when we thought the vagueness might have to do with the upcoming expansion? Well, it seems like we might have been somewhat right. Today, Blizzard announ … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Atari's City-Builder/Space Shooter Hybrid 'Lunar Battle' Finally Launches Worldwide

After being soft-launched for a LONG time, Atari has finally officially released their city building space shooter hybrid Lunar Battle [Free] worldwide. Developed by On5, we originally talked about Lunar Battle when it first soft-launched way back in September of last year (I tol … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Fish Flopping Arcade Game 'Corporate Salmon' Releasing November 16th

Salmon swim upstream to lay their eggs, and employees have to climb up the "corporate ladder" to fulfill their work destinies. It's like, those two things are basically the same things. So indie developer Alex Johansson decided that mashing the instinctual behavior of salmon and … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

A 'Minecraft' Miniseries Coming from Mattel

Minecraft [$6.99] is so huge that it has captured almost every corner of pop culture—toys, games, novels—and today we got an announcement about a new endeavor from those behind the huge franchise: a YouTube miniseries. Specifically, we are getting a Mattel miniseries based on the … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

The 'Hearthstone' Dual Class Arena Is Live—One Free Arena for Everyone

It's the scariest time of the year in Hearthstone [Free] as the Hallow's End celebrations have officially commenced, and they have done with a special dual-class Arena mode, the first of its kind. As we've talked about in an earlier story, in this special Halloween Arena you get … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Annapurna Brings 'Florence', a Story About First Loves, to Mobile in 2018

Annapurna Interactive is bringing some great games to mobile, including Flower and the next game from the developer of Her Story, and today it announced that its bringing Florence to mobile in 2018. Florence, developed by Mountains, tells the story of the highs and lows of a youn … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Slitherine's 'Afghanistan '11' Hits the App Store

Slitherine has made a fantastic name for themselves in the strategy game arena of the App Store, particularly when it comes to games based around realistic settings. Their previous release, Vietnam '65 [$9.99 (HD)], for instance, tackled the Vietnam War. These kind of war games a … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

'Into the Dead 2' - How to Get Better Guns and Win Without Spending Money

When the original Into the Dead came out I absolutely fell in love with it because the joy of running through a horde of zombies and using your limited amount of ammo to shoot the zombies in the head was just so satisfying. PikPok brought, even more, satisfaction to the series wi … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Best Decks, Hand Waves, Dual-Class Arena, and More 'Hearthstone' Weekly News in 'Touchstone' #115

Hello everyone and welcome to another Hearthstone [Free] weekly roundup of the best news and videos. We are back after a week off, and it's good to be back. We had some fun stories and videos last week, ranging from silly videos, controversial hand movements, fun new features com … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Charming 'Blocky Farm' Releasing October 26th, Probably the Closest to 'Stardew Valley' We'll Get on Mobile

Farm management games are the bees knees currently, especially after the success of Stardew Valley on PC and Switch. Mobile devices won't be left behind the trend, though, as Blocky Farm, the super-charming farm management game, is finally releasing October 26th after quite a lon … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

'Hearthstone' Adds "Blizzard Groups" Chat Feature, New Gifting Features, and Gives a Free Pack to All

Blizzard has been hard at work improving Battle.net's capabilities, possibly in response to the popularity of platforms like Discord, and today it announced some cool new features for the Battle.net desktop app. Specifically, there's a new Social tab that includes the new Blizzar … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

'The Walking Dead' Season 8 Missions Come to 'The Walking Dead: No Man's Land'

The Walking Dead Season 8 is officially back, and it's time once more to get devastated by dear characters perishing in awful, usually predictable ways. AMC has been working with Next Games, the developer of The Walking Dead: No Man's Land [Free] to bring some cool new ideas to t … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Randomly Generated Action Platformer 'Ultra Zultra' Gets New Trailer and is Looking for Beta Testers

It was about thirteen months ago that we took our first look at Ultra Zultra, an action platformer with roguelike elements from Guatemalan developer Oscar Morales, aka Vidsneeze. Well, after a year filled with some development difficulties, Vidsneeze has reintroduced a slightly t … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Tencent's 'Arena of Valor' Getting the Joker Soon, HaHaHaHaHa

Tencent's MOBA Arena of Valor continues to take the world by storm partly because it seems to be a great game but also because it comes with the might of Tencent behind it. What I'm excited about is the ability to play with the game's many DC Heroes—Batman and many others—and now … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

'Fallout' and 'S.T.A.L.K.E.R' Inspired Post-Apocalyptic RPG 'The Sun: Origin' is Finally Available

Originally announced in July of last year, we first reported about the ambitious upcoming post-apocalyptic first-person adventure The Sun in July of THIS year when its first official trailer dropped, and we thought it was shaping up quite nicely. In truth, The Sun has been in dev … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

'Night in the Woods' Coming to Mobile in 2018, and We Can't Wait!

When the adventure game Night in the Woods first released on Steam, it caught everyone by surprise because of how real the characters and their stories felt and how emotionally powerful it was. And, according to a tweet today, we'll get to experience Nights in the Woods on mobile … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago