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
Every now and then, a game comes along that has wonderful ideas, but sadly fails to live up to the promise of those ideas. Mainly because the awesome ideas are either under-funded or come from inexperienced developers. That's the case we have today, but when I saw this game, I co … | Continue reading
[appicon]If you have an Eevee in Pokemon GO [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pokemon-go/id1094591345?mt=8"], and want to make sure that it evolves into one of Jolteon, Vaporeon, or Flareon, it seems as if Niantic has offered a way to do so. As discovered by Reddit u … | Continue reading
Tests can be stressful. I mean, that makes sense when you're not confident about the material on the test, but sometimes tests that cover things you know very well can be even more nerve-wracking. You shouldn't fail something if you know what you're doing, right? Now imagine the … | Continue reading
While we've already posted this trick for using the Ingress [Free] map to find Pokestops in Pokemon Go [Free], there's a considerable amount of friction in downloading and installing Ingress, signing up for the game, and using the surprisingly clunky browser map. Well, Yelp [Free … | Continue reading
Movie tie-in games are notoriously bad, and movie tie-in mobile games even more so. Oftentimes the game's release is tied to the release of the film, so development cycles are rushed in order to get the game out in time resulting in a far worse experience than if the game had the … | Continue reading
There weren't a lot of games that used the "draw a line" mechanic before smartphones, but the ones that did exist really stand out. One such title is Kirby: Canvas Curse, released on the Nintendo DS in 2005, among several other follow-ups and clones. Most of them follow the same … | Continue reading
The whole Pokemon GO [Free] craze is unlike anything I've ever seen before. I totally get that people who aren't partaking in all the craziness are sick of hearing about all things Pokemon, and to be perfectly honest I'm pretty sick of it myself. But that hasn't diminished my she … | Continue reading
FastCompany's Jared Newman has written an interesting article talking about Nintendo's challenges in mobile from here on out. Obviously Pokemon GO [Free] has been a massive success, and some commenters (ahem) think that Nintendo should focus on mobile from here on out. But Newman … | Continue reading
You know, even if I didn't love kung fu movies and think of Bruce Lee as an inspiration and a hero, I would still probably love this game. This is the kind of game touch screens were made for. Simple, unique, original, fun gaming on the go. I love games that personify this philos … | Continue reading
What do you do if you're in an area of the world that doesn't have Pokemon Go [Free] yet? The answer for most people is to just wait, and maybe spend some time reading stories like these to follow the worldwide phenomenon. If you really want to play Pokemon Go, you can take the f … | Continue reading
The thing that's been fascinating about Pokemon GO [Free] from a particular standpoint of that it's really community gaming at its finest. Because the game forces people to get out and go places to actually play it, what's happened is that it's brought people together in ways tha … | Continue reading
With the weekend almost upon us, it seems like all my friends are working up grand plans to spend as much time as possible over the next couple days wandering around and collecting Pokemon in Pokemon Go [Free]. But, if you don't have friends into the game, it's not big deal, as I … | Continue reading
Ackeron [$2.99] is remarkable for a few reasons. First, it's a remake of a 15+ year old Palm Pilot game, which I can assure you is not something you see every day. Second, it's a large, complex, single-player RPG from an indie developer, something that is becoming rare these days … | Continue reading
[appicon][applink url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pokemon-go/id1094591345?mt=8"] Update #2: Now Italy, Spain, and Portugal can try to catch 'em all! Update: The game is now out in the United Kingdom. Go get 'em, friends. It's been a grueling few days for anyone living in Eur … | Continue reading
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the weekly feature where pouring milk on an inn allows it to charge a higher rate. Each week, we take a look at an RPG from the App Store's past to see how it's holding up in the modern day. It's a chance to revisit old | Continue reading
For those of y'all wanting an interesting new clicker, Tap Transcend: Rebirth [Free] is out now. The first Tap Transcend [Free] game was an interesting little title, but now Tap Transcend: Rebirth has you starting from scratch with the universe, trying to rebuild it up. You tap t … | 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
A little more than a month ago, we learned that Cartoon Network was readying a sequel of sorts to their massively popular card battler Card Wars - Adventure Time [$3.99], and earlier today that game, Card Wars Kingdom [Free], went live in the App Store. Just as the first game was … | Continue reading
Google has announced their first event targeted toward independent game developers and players, happening on September 24th. The Indie Games Festival – not to be confused with the Independent Games Festival at GDC each year, don't be surprised if some lawyers from GDC parent comp … | Continue reading
Just when you thought Pokemon Go [Free] mania has reached peak levels of insanity, well, leave it to the two people who could potentially become the next US President to ratchet things up to the next level. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have integrated the game into their … | Continue reading
If you're a T-Mobile USA customer, good news: you can soon get free data for Pokemon GO [Free] for a year, as part of the carrier's T-Mobile Tuesdays promotion. This Tuesday, June 19th, you can get the free data through the T-Mobile Tuesdays app [Free], which has a bunch of free … | Continue reading
During GDC this past March, I was able to check out an extremely early build of a game called Old Man's Journey from Austrian developer Broken Rules. Unfortunately, at that time Old Man's Journey was in such an early state that we weren't able to capture video of it, and Broken R … | Continue reading
With Pokemon GO [Free] having a very staggered rollout worldwide, this means that while it's quite possible to play the game since the backend exists, it doesn't mean that it's perfect. Namely, in South Korea, players are flocking to a seaside town called Sokcho in the northern p … | Continue reading
Despite Pokemon GO [Free] only having been out for about eight hours here in the UK, I've been to a multitude of bizarre locations to try and catch 'em all. Whether the PokeStops have been in churches, train stations or random stones in the ground with absolutely no significance … | Continue reading
Mobius Final Fantasy popped up out of the blue a little more than a year ago on the Japanese App Store, and at the time we assumed it'd be like all of Squeenix's other games and eventually makes its way to Western markets. Well, today we get confirmation of our obvious suspicions … | Continue reading
DomiNations [Free] is yet another super popular free to play game I wish I had time to play. We've talked about this quite a bit on episodes of our podcast in that once you get deep into "one of these," you really just don't have time to get into other ones. I've sunk so much | Continue reading
A new Batman game hit the App Store this morning, titled Batman: Arkham Underworld [Free], and it's ... actually surprisingly cool. When we originally heard about it back in March, the original pitch made it sound a lot like Batman meets Clash of Clans [Free]. In actuality, it's … | Continue reading
Decluttr is a web service that buys up your old junk, including CD's, DVD's, games, cell phones, and a bunch of other stuff. Apparently, like everyone else, they've gotten into Pokemon Go [Free] in a big way, and compiled a map based on state-specific search terms to find which P … | Continue reading
Niantic's Pokemon Go [Free] is well on its way to being to biggest video game ever, but the one trend that's arguably even more predictable than Pokemon games doing well is internet curmudgeons racing to let everyone know how much they don't like or don't care about the new popul … | Continue reading
It was once impossible, but you can request new PokeStops, and to report PokeStops for various reasons, in Pokemon GO [Free]. The game's developer, Niantic, has created a support form where you can submit addresses to create new PokeStops or Gyms, either as a general request, or … | Continue reading
Welcome to another Wednesday night slash Thursday morning and another Out Now post filled with a ton of new iOS games. The "big name" game this week was definitely Day of the Tentacle Remastered, which dropped somewhat out of nowhere earlier this week, and is an absolute treat on … | Continue reading
Back in October of last year, the two-brother team known as Rossman Bros Games released the frightfully difficult and highly underrated auto-runner Jump Jack [$0.99], which was a passion project completed in the brothers' free time and also was based on an actual bedtime story Er … | Continue reading
It was just last week we learned that adorable point-and-click adventure Love You To Bits [$3.99] would be getting two brand new levels and iCloud syncing, and today that update has gone live in the App Store. Love You To Bits was a story about a space explorer searching the gala … | Continue reading
If you like your Hearthstone [Free] Tavern Brawl with a side of RNG, today's Brawl should be just your thing. 'Servant of Yogg-Saron' Tryouts has you picking a class and then gives you a deck full of random minions. For every minion you play, a random spell is cast on a random ta … | Continue reading
One minor difficulty with Pokemon GO [Free] is that some of the Pokestops are not always convenient to get to. Some may be in the middle of the ocean. But some may be in buildings that aren't always accessible to the public, such as sports stadiums. Like, minor league baseball st … | Continue reading
Vector Unit's latest entry in their fun Riptide GP series of water vehicle racing games, Riptide GP: Renegade, has been in the works for a while now, with our latest major look at it being at PAX Prime in 2015. The good news is that the game is set to finally release, with Apple … | Continue reading
For quite some time, whenever someone wanted to make a generalized statement about how popular mobile gaming is, he would use Candy Crash Saga as the example, and that made sense given the game's 20 million peak active users in the US. However, there's a new kid in town now, Poke … | Continue reading
It's interesting watching the flow of game design over time. While it's sometimes painful to watch established game designs hop from a paid model to a free-to-play set-up, those very same free-to-play hits have now been around long enough to start inspiring developers to travel t … | Continue reading
In the fleeting ecosystem that is the App Store, games live and die by the strength of their core concept, and how well the developers are able to execute such pivotal ideas. Owing to the ease of development for iOS, there are innumerable innovative ideas in games - in terms of r … | Continue reading
While it seems that Pokemon Go [Free] has completely taken over the planet, brave developers are still releasing new iOS games this week. The haul feels a little lighter than usual as far as big name releases are concerned, and we got more than a few emails from devs who pushed t … | Continue reading
It's been a gruelling few days for anyone living in Europe. We have had to sit back and watch as our friends from America, Australia and New Zealand have been catching Pokemon left, right and center while Pokemon GO [Free] remains unavailable to play outside of these areas. Thank … | 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 have been inundated with weird, wacky and wonderful stories related to Pokemon GO [Free] ever since it became a national phenomenon in every single country it has been released in. Whether that is people using drones to catch Pokemon from afar, or the Westboro Baptist Church u … | Continue reading
Although many indies have tried to replicate the tiny racing feeling of classic early '90s release Micro Machines on mobile, the actual licensed IP has been strangely absent from the App Store. Way back in October of last year, Chillingo and original Micro Machines developer Code … | Continue reading
Monument Valley [$3.99] was one of those games that broke into the mainstream (thank you Frank Underwood and House of Cards) and stayed there. Many people I know who don't play mobile games have either seen or heard about the game. Now, Monument Valley's lead designer, Ken Wong, … | Continue reading
In an interesting and quite peculiar twist in the popularity of Pokemon GO [Free], the game has become a 'weapon' of choice for political statements. This story is so crazy, though, that you might want to take it with a pinch of salt because it borders on the unbelievable. The in … | Continue reading
Pokemon GO [Free] has only been out for a few days, but we've already seen numerous highly creative attempts at cheating the system and becoming a Pokemon master, through the traditional technique of living a sedentary lifestyle from the comfort of your sofa. We've seen record pl … | Continue reading