I was really hoping to be able to ring in Walk on Stilts Day in with a whole avalanche of brand new iOS games, but it's looking like we're in the midst of another App Store SNAFU this week where iTunes isn't being super cooperative. It's making finding listings for this week's ne … | Continue reading
Philadelphia's LOVE Park, nicknamed so for Robert Indiana's iconic LOVE sculpture with the tilted O, is one of the most recognizable landmarks in the US. But it holds an extra special place in the hearts of skateboarders. LOVE Park is a legendary skate spot, from its many planter … | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
If your BlizzCon 2016 plans have been ruined, if your hopes of visiting the "hallowed" grounds of the Anaheim Convention Center on November 4 and 5 have been dashed, fear not because there's a still a way to watch the convention and see what Hearthstone [Free] surprises Blizzard … | Continue reading
It's been a bit of a long time coming, but twitchy platformer Blitz Breaker is finally arriving on the App Store August 1st. We first talked about Blitz Breaker back in February of last year, and then a few months later checked out a cool web demo that let us play a very early ve … | Continue reading
World of Tanks: Blitz [Free] continues to add features with every update - though the pace is not fast enough for some members of the community - and update 3.0 is no exception. The main addition in this update is a new mode, Supremacy, which will play quite differently from the … | Continue reading
If you've been watching and enjoying the Netflix Narcos TV show, based on the life of the infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar, then you'll probably want to check out the upcoming Narcos: Cartel Wars, developed by FTX Games, which wants to put you in the middle of a drug war while ho … | Continue reading
If you've been playing Telltale's Minecraft: Story Mode [$4.99], you'll be glad to know that the seventh episode of this long-running series, Access Denied, is available for download - or will be available today at some point. As we talked about recently, this episode moves away … | Continue reading
There are so many hidden mechanics to Pokemon GO [Free] that it can get pretty overwhelming at times. Each Pokemon has a hidden stat for Attack, Defense and Stamina that is unique to each specific creature of its species, and so while my Rattata may be in the top percentage of Ra … | Continue reading
Developer RuvixArts is set to release its debut title, Crooked Path, on August 4th. The concept behind the game is a bit abstract, and the video doesn't necessarily make the gameplay super-clear, but you'll be activating switches, hopping portals, all to explore these levels full … | Continue reading
Last week, I wrote an informative, objective and only subtly biased article to help any new players choose which team to join in Pokemon GO [Free]. While, at the end of the day, whatever team you join is currently a relatively cosmetic decision and will likely be mostly influence … | Continue reading
Suspicions have been all abound about just what the Nintendo NX would be, and Eurogamer is reporting something quite interesting: that the system will be portable with home TV dock, feature detachable controllers, and be powered by Nvidia Tegra chips. Eurogamer is saying that mul … | Continue reading
My biggest qualm with Kairosoft, apart from that Game Dev Story 2 appears to be Duke Nukem Forever-esque vaporware, is that my enjoyment with any of their titles is highly dependent in my interest of whatever the topic of their next iterative game is. This means while Pocket Arca … | Continue reading
Of the many Pokemon spinoffs out there, Pokemon Snap was my favorite. If you've never played it, the basic gist is that instead of the RPG-ish nature of the "proper" Pokemon titles, you're on a Pokemon safari of sorts and are put to the task of taking photos of Pokemon in the wil … | Continue reading
Welcome everyone to another weekly roundup of all Hearthstone [Free] news, and apologies for coming to you one day later than usual. As I wrote about yesterday, I was at San Diego Comic-Con for most of last week, so I didn't have the time to put together a whole column. Still, no … | Continue reading
While the pop-culture phenomenon may show no signs of slowing down, it's extremely refreshing to be able to put down Pokemon GO [Free] for a while and enjoy some new and exciting iOS games that are releasing this week. Blyss, by developers Dropout Games, is finally launching on t … | Continue reading
We live in some truly weird times these days, but to chop up an old saying for my own nefarious purposes: when the going gets odd, the strange get stranger. Sorry, that seemed funnier in my head. The important thing here is that you can pick up both of the Oddworld games for $0.9 … | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
It wasn't even a full week ago that we took the recently soft-launched Phoenix 2 (or, more accurately, Phoenix II) for a quick spin and really enjoyed what we saw, but already developer Firi Games feels confident in the game and has sent us a note to let us know that the game wil … | Continue reading
Over the weekend Ravenous Games announced their latest upcoming iOS project called Journey Below. It's an auto-runner where you change directions after colliding with a wall–think of the excellent Wind-up Knight games–and you can either jump or perform a dash attack by touching e … | Continue reading
This past Friday, a Sonic The Hedgehog bombshell was dropped at an event at San Diego Comic-Con that was celebrating the blue hedgehog's 25th anniversary. Sega, in collaboration with Pagodawest Games, Christian Whitehead, and Simon "Stealth" Thomley, have announced a brand new So … | Continue reading
We've been keeping an eye on the upcoming Legend of Skyfish by Crescent Moon and Mgaia Studios for a few months now, and the game is finally getting closer to release. According to a recent tweet, the game is going to be submitted to the App Store soon, which hopefully means the … | Continue reading
Razer might be best known for their cutting-edge gaming peripherals. From their keyboards with glowy LED lights, to gaming mice with lots of buttons and glowy LED lights, to their very green headsets. But the company also seems to find itself doing some unexpected things. Like ma … | Continue reading
Last week, Telltale joined Skybound Entertainment's Comic-Con panel to talk a bit more about the upcoming The Walking Dead: Season 3. While the developer didn't give away too much new information, there were still some interesting details unveiled. Telltale revealed a poster for … | Continue reading
Fans of the classic Milton Bradley/Games Workshop role-playing board game HeroQuest who are looking for a similar experience on mobile have a few decent choices available to them. There are games that use the basic concept as a springboard for a larger, deeper adventure such as H … | Continue reading
Hello everyone, and I hope you've had a great week and a fantastic weekend. Normally, this is where I tell you about everything that happened in the world of Hearthstone [Free] last week, but because I was at San Diego Comic Con for most of last week, our weekly roundup will be p … | 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. Yikes, it's another really light week of updates. That summer heat must be getting to everyone. Er, except the people in the Southern Hemisphere, I su … | Continue reading
Whoops! Nintendo's share prices in Japan have plummeted 18% after the report on July 22nd that warned investors that Nintendo didn't actually own that much of Pokemon GO [Free] and thus wouldn't have the financial impact on their company that the flood of stock purchases would se … | Continue reading
Indie publisher tinyBuild Games has said for a while that their violent party-murder game Party Hard would be coming to mobile. But, the actual existence of a mobile version of Party Hard has been something I've been unable to verify. I've prodded tinyBuild employees at shows, an … | Continue reading
Sorry guys, the Legendary Pokemon giveaway at today's San Diego Comic-Con Pokemon GO [Free] panel ended up being nothing but a rumor, to the disappointment of thousands of attendees (yours truly included). Everyone knows by now that the game is a worldwide phenomenon that's been … | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
We're almost over talking about Pokemon Go [Free], or so it would seem, as we only spent about five minutes this weeks talking about the game- Primarily surrounding the incredibly massive Pokemon Go Chicago meetup which was attended by thousands of people standing around waiting … | Continue reading
Hey everyone, it's Friday and we're close to the end of the week of TouchArcade blasting stories out (unless anything cool happens over the weekend we need to cover), but the fact still remains: To survive, we very much need your support. The business of running a web site is tri … | 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
It's pretty darn common to see new games trickle out well after our weekly Out Now post, and this week was no different. Gone are the days of iOS games releasing (mostly) like clockwork. The latecomers this week are numerous and noteworthy enough that we figured we'd round them u … | Continue reading
The nice thing about Pokemon GO [Free] being built on various databases with available APIs is that it has inspired people to make their own tools to find Pokemon, to try and streamline the process. Pokevision is one of the most powerful tools yet – it allows you to scan the area … | Continue reading
Cranky internet commenters have been calling it since about two hours after Pokemon Go [Free] hit the App Store, but according to survey company and analytics firm SurveyMonkey, Pokemon Go peaked on July 14th. They're figuring that based on the number of people playing Pokemon Go … | Continue reading
I got into poker at a relatively young age. For most kids in conservative families, it's usually the same story -- one of your relatives probably teaches it to you and tries to get you to sip a beer. I carried over my knowledge of straights and flushes into middle school, where I … | Continue reading
In likely the least surprising Pokemon GO [Free] development to come out this week, Apple has recently confirmed that Niantic's overnight sensation has broken the record for most downloads in the first week of availability. That means it even beat out ultra-popular game series li … | Continue reading
So, you're having trouble catching all those rare Pokemon in Pokemon GO [Free]. By which I mean, that 100th Rattata and you're sick of wasting your Pokeballs with bad tosses. Sure, you can try to get that masterful curveball down, but maybe your curveball is more of a slurve and … | Continue reading
A new Steven Universe game has just hit the App Store, just in time for the 20 episodes in 4 weeks that the show is about to air on Cartoon Network. No kidding, Gravity Falls fans. Soundtrack Attack [Free] is pretty much designed for the Steven Universe super-fan. I mean, it star … | Continue reading
Teeny Titans [$3.99] is perhaps my biggest surprise of 2016. If you're somehow unfamiliar with the game, it's a Pokemon-like that has you running around the world of Teen Titans GO battling and collecting little figures based off of characters from the show. It has a super clever … | Continue reading
One aspect of video gaming that Pokemon pioneered back in 1996 was version exclusives, which required you to find someone with the alternate title (or buy both games if you had more money than sense) to be able to truly Catch 'Em All. Of course, the recently released Pokemon GO [ … | Continue reading
[appicon]So far, Pokemon GO [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pokemon-go/id1094591345?mt=8"] has made a lot of money. It's jumped high up the top grossing ranks almost instantaneously in the countries where it has been released. And Nintendo has seen a massive bump i … | Continue reading
"Good artists copy, great artists steal." It's a line that essentially means that explicitly mimicking something is easy enough to do – making a clone of a game is simple enough. But it's another thing to take the ideas of one game and use them in another to create something that … | Continue reading
I first played Guild of Dungeoneering [$3.99] on PC at PAX South 2015, and I thought from the first time I played it that it would be perfect for mobile. Well, it took a year and a half between the game's continued development and PC release to finally make it happen, but this cu … | Continue reading
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the weekly feature where heroes might be gone, but are never forgotten. Each week, we take a look at an RPG from the App Store's past to see how it holds up in the here and now. It's a chance to revisit old favorites, reflect … | Continue reading
There's nothing finer than when a great game from years past gets an update out of the blue. That's the case today with the fantastic Picross game Paint it Back [Free], which originally launched way back in October of 2013 and hasn't seen an actual content update in nearly two ye … | Continue reading