Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload Play-Along. Each month, we'll be playing an iOS RPG together, sharing laughs and tears in equal measures. The post on the front page (like this one!) is basically here to announce the game in question and give a few tips on gett … | Continue reading
Arena of Valor, Tencent's popular MOBA, is still nowhere near ready to make its debuts in North America, but that doesn't mean it's not growing still. On December 4th, the game will receive Update 11, and this update has some pretty cool new features that I'm pretty sure I'll enj … | Continue reading
Over the last 7 days, Pokemon GO [Free] players managed to catch 3.36 billion Pokemon, beating the 3 billion Global Catch Challenge goal by some margin (not that I had any doubt they would manage that). The global event saw players try and grab as many Pokemon as they can to unlo … | Continue reading
Orangepixel's post-apocalyptic open-world action game Ashworld was officially announced in December of last year, but work on the title goes back even further than that. It's quite a departure from the one man studio's previous efforts in terms of scope, but it still retains the … | Continue reading
Esports somehow have become the biggest thing ever, and it's been fascinating watching everyone try to combine mobile (also the biggest thing ever) into one massive show-stopper. Amazon's efforts have been directed towards their Champions of Fire Invitation which is on its second … | Continue reading
Something we see discussed a lot around TouchArcade is people constantly asking how to get into making games. While it might've been exceedingly difficult in the early days of the App Store, in 2017 you can get started developing with little to no actual code knowledge thanks lar … | Continue reading
Jam City has been ripping it up for a while now with Cookie Jam [Free] likely being their most recognizable title, based solely on the amount of advertising they've done for the game. Around here, folks probably know them as the developers of Family Guy Freakin Mobile Game [Free] … | Continue reading
Nintendo's latest mobile game release, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp [Free], has had a pretty strong first week on the App Store. That's hardly surprising, though, as pretty much anything Nintendo releases is guaranteed to get a lot of attention up-front. Only time will tell if Po … | Continue reading
Crime doesn't pay, they say, but in the upcoming multiplayer game Cash, that's all it does, provided you're good at robbing people. In Cash you play as a criminal mastermind who has to gather the right crew of, well, hard-working gentlemen, and together you will plan bank heists … | Continue reading
This is a very pleasant surprise for anyone who likes Hearthstone [Free] and all those Critical Role faithful: the two will come together tomorrow, November 30th, for what should be a great stream. If you don't know what Critical Role is, it's a web series by a group of voice act … | Continue reading
Elder Scrolls: Legends' [Free] latest expansion, Return to Clockwork City, is bringing players back to, well, Clockwork City, which was first seen in The Elder Scrolls III Tribunal expansion. The Clockwork City was built by the tinkerer god Sotha Sil, but the city later became hi … | Continue reading
It's time for a brand new Hearthstone [Free] Tavern Brawl, and even though it doesn't have anything to do with the upcoming expansion, it still awards you a Kobolds & Catacombs pack. The Void Singularity has you building your deck and then going to war. The fun part of this brawl … | Continue reading
Back in August developer The Gentlebros released Cat Quest [$4.99] to the world, and it was basically a masterclass in how to make an open-world style action RPG for mobile by streamlining the game for pick up and play without losing any of the fun in the process. Also it's fille … | Continue reading
Carcassonne is a great board game that's seen a great iOS adaptation, but today Android users have reasons to be happy too. Asmodee Digital has remade the classic board game and released it on Android (the iOS version stays as is since Coding Monkeys has the rights for that one), … | Continue reading
Albion Online is finally getting closer to making its way to our tablets (since the game is going into beta soon). It also continues to grow and change. Next week, the Kay update will go live, and it's bringing some important changes to Guild vs. Guild Battles and Raids. Guild vs … | Continue reading
The original Reigns [$2.99] delighted basically everyone when it was released last year. We loved it in our review, and really, my primary criticism of the game is how much it left me wanting more. Well, I've been playing an early copy of the upcoming sequel, Reigns: Her Majesty, … | Continue reading
Holy crap it's Wednesday again and I still feel like I have a massive pile of games to play from last week. This is simultaneously the best thing and worst thing about iOS- Blink and you'll miss an entire week of awesome games. Anyway, today's made up holiday is Throw Out Your Le … | Continue reading
It isn’t a secret or a surprise that Nintendo sees sales boosts and more people get into its hardware ecosystem through mobile games like Pokémon GO and Super Mario Run. Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp [Free] recently released across the world and it has made an impact in Japan on s … | Continue reading
Back in early August developers Ignacio Schiefelbein and Kris Hattori released their years-in-development side-scrolling, racing-focused cave flyer Pigeon Wings [$1.99] to a very positive reception. Not only did we pick it as our Game of the Week when it came out, but we awarded … | Continue reading
Toii, a startup studio based in New and Taipei, is working together with Taiwanese American author Ed Lin, the first author to win three Asian-American Literary Awards, to bring an augmented reality geo-based game called Unforgivable: Eliza to mobile in 2018. The developers want … | Continue reading
I think by now it's fair to say that robots will outlive us all (especially if Elon Musk continues to build autonomous vehicles), and the upcoming adventure game The Uncertain explores the possibility of such a future. In The Uncertain, which is making its jump over from Steam, y … | Continue reading
It's always kind of a toss-up as to whether 2K Games will update their iOS library or not whenever that need arises. With the 32-Bit Appocalypse arriving alongside the release of iOS 11 in September, one of the victims was 2K and Firaxis' Civilization Revolution 2 [$9.99], which … | Continue reading
Pooka: Magic and Mischief [Free], the colorful RPG game that lets you literally chase the Gloom away, is now available worldwide, and it looks like it's going to be a fun game to play either by yourself (if you like casual but pretty RPGs) or with your little ones. As we wrote ab … | Continue reading
This afternoon Apple announced the dates for the iTunes connect holiday shutdown which will occur between the dates of December 23rd and December 27th. From a developer perspective, between the freeze dates no one will be able to submit apps or updates, so you really need to make … | Continue reading
It's almost here, everyone. Kobolds & Catacombs, one of Hearthstone's [Free] biggest expansions, is releasing Thursday, December 7th, and it's going to be a great one for the single player mode if nothing else. This new update will bring a ton of new cards to the game (some of wh … | Continue reading
GNOG [$4.99] was released on the PlayStation earlier this year, and eventually made its way to Steam and (as of this morning) iOS. If this is the first you've heard of it, the easiest way to describe GNOG in the context of mobile gaming is it's sort of similar to object-based puz … | Continue reading
Game Dev Tycoon is an awesome port and a welcome addition to iOS. | Continue reading
With the cult-classic sci-fi drama The X-Files being resurrected last year, it's not surprising that the series would be expanding into different promotional avenues and spin-offs, including video games. And with the premise of the show being FBI Special Agents Mulder and Scully … | Continue reading
Hello everyone and welcome to another Touchstone Tavern, our weekly roundup of the best news stories and videos from the world of Hearthstone [Free]. As you would expect, last week was all about the upcoming Kobolds & Catacombs expansion, so we've got plenty of stories and videos … | Continue reading
Just prior to its release on Playstation 4 and Playstation VR in early May, Montreal based developer KO_OP Mode and publisher Double Fine announced that their extremely stylish and crazy puzzler GNOG would also be arriving on Steam and mobile later in the year. GNOG is an escape … | Continue reading
Those who enjoy psychological horror should keep an eye on Neverending Nightmares, the game inspired by its creator's struggles with depression and OCD that's coming to mobile this Wednesday. In this game, you play as Thomas, a man who awakens from a terrible nightmare only to re … | Continue reading
Subway Surfers [Free], Kiloo's hugely successful game that has apparently been downloaded on one in four smartphones in the world, is becoming a TV series, and today we got to see some of that series' art. The animated series will premiere in summer 2018 with 10 5-minute episodes … | Continue reading
One of my favorite genres of touchscreen games are 3D object puzzle games like The Room because the touchscreen works great for games that simulate tactility. The upcoming game Riddlord is hoping to use the same recipe and have players solving three-dimensional puzzles in some go … | Continue reading
It's Cyber Monday today and sales abound, but if you've been looking for some cool merchandize for cheap, Supercell's got you covered. The developer's official store is running a 20% off store-wide sale for today, and if you're a fan of any of Supercell's games, you should defini … | Continue reading
The popular RPG Summoners War [Free] is expanding across mediums, and it's working with Skybound Entertainment to do so. As announced during the World Arena Championship, Summoners War will work with Skybound Entertainment, the creator of The Walking Dead comics, to turn the popu … | Continue reading
I've lamented before that there's a lack of real-deal city-building simulation games on the App Store, despite the genre being a perfect fit for a touchscreen device. In the early days there were a couple of proper paid SimCity titles but those games were far more demanding than … | Continue reading
This is my favorite part of the new Hearthstone [Free] card set release cycle: Card reveals! If you've been paying attention to the Hearthstone-iverse, Blizzard has been keeping us entertained with a constant drip of new cards from the upcoming Kobolds & Catacombs card set. Today … | Continue reading
Hello everyone, and welcome to the week! It's time once again for our look back at the noteworthy updates of the last seven days. Okay, so the long holiday weekend meant lots of great sales, but the other side of that is that there weren't a whole ton of updates. I did what I cou … | Continue reading
My review of Codemasters and Feral Interactive's GRID Autosport [$9.99] can easily be my shortest review ever: if you want the best racing game on mobile by far and one of the prettiest game ever to grace the platform, stop reading and go buy this game right now. Why? It's simple … | Continue reading
Simogo has been vocal about how supporting iOS 11 and now iPhone X has been for them. They’ve even commented about how it has affected their development of newer projects. Today they finally spoke about specific games like | Continue reading
You’d have to be living under a rock to not have heard of Playerunknown's Battlegrounds by now. The PC sensation has seen Steam records broken as it set the gaming world on fire over the last few months. If you aren’t aware of the Battle Royale genre, PUBG has you dropped on an i … | Continue reading
On Friday, GRID Autosport [$9.99] soft launched in New Zealand, which seemed a little odd as you don't typically see full-blown premium games soft launch. However, after fiddling around a bit with the game, which just hit the US App Store this afternoon, it seems like there's a p … | Continue reading
Due to the holidays this week, we recorded this episode on Wednesday so hopefully our well-wishes turned out to be true for everyone and ya'll had a good Thanksgiving and were able to score whatever deals you were hoping to get today on Black Friday. I did end up getting some Bou … | Continue reading
The idea behind the TouchArcade Game of the Week is that every Friday afternoon we post the one game that came out this week that we think is worth giving a special nod to. Now, before anyone goes over-thinking this, it doesn't necessarily mean our Game of the Week pick is the hi … | Continue reading
Two years ago now we launched our Patreon and since then while support from our community has been encouraging, we're still only half way to our goal to get back to firing on all cylinders. As you've likely noticed, there haven't been any new names on the site since Brad Nicholso … | Continue reading
While we're primarily supported by a mixture of Patreon, Twitch subscriptions and Amazon referrals these days, site sponsors go a long way in making up for the funding shortfalls of our Patreon never reaching its goal. To show our appreciation, we are now publishing these posts t … | Continue reading
We have been super anxious for Feral Interactive's mobile port of the hit 2014 console and PC racing game GRID Autosport from Codemasters ever since they announced it back in March. Following lots of updates on the game's progress during the year including new trailers and a live … | Continue reading
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the weekly feature where even our finest apparel reeks of goblin blood. In each installment, we take a look at a game from the App Store's past to see how it stands up in the here and now. It's a chance to revisit old favorite … | Continue reading