The first thing you'll probably notice about the upcoming Pirates War: The Dice King is it's whimsical, colorful art, but I think the game has plenty to offer besides good looks. The developers describe the game as a strategy game first and foremost that's plays like a Pirate-lad … | Continue reading
The creator of Rop [$0.99] and Hocus [$0.99] has another stylish, monochrome puzzle game in the works. Voi is a take on tangram puzzlers, where you must move blocks around grids in order to get them to match the given sape. But where Voi mixes things up is that each shape you pla … | Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago, we checked out the gameplay trailer for Dawnbringer, an upcoming open-world action RPG that uses battle mechanics that are similar to mobile classic Infinity Blade. With Dawnbringer's launch looming next Thursday, developers Kiloo and Copenhagen Creators ha … | Continue reading
Turn-based tactical games have been definitely making a comeback on the App Store recently, with Warbits [$3.99] and Lost Frontier [$2.99] gaining plenty of acclaim. As good as those two games are, none of them has car combat, and that's where the upcoming Auto Warriors plans to … | Continue reading
Mika Mobile. I have a certain fondness and emotional connection to these guys. Back in 2011, I had just started my career as a mobile game critic. Working for a different site, I had the pleasure and privilege of playing and reviewing the Android version of Battleheart [$2.99] as … | Continue reading
Never Alone: Ki Edition [$4.99] is a game that seems to set out to do at least two things. First and foremost, it's trying to deliver an atmospheric puzzle-platformer game. It mostly succeeds at that, though it certainly makes a few mistakes that we see fairly often in this sub-g … | Continue reading
The App Store gods have been kind to my weird self this year, first with the gloriously twisted adventure tale of I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, and now with another point and click adventure that is just wrapped in brutal art within a bleak world and some moral quandaries th … | Continue reading
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the weekly feature where we add a piece to our banner with each game played. Each week, we take a look at an RPG from the App Store's past to see how it holds up in the harsh light of today. It's a chance to play | Continue reading
Faily Brakes [Free]has been one of my favorite endless high-score games since its original launch in February. Part of that is that it's fun and challenging to careen out of control with no brakes and deftly avoid running into trees, traffic, trains, and more as you cruise for th … | Continue reading
Paranormal Minis, an upcoming collaborative mobile game project from Ravenous Games and Bulletproof Outlaws, has a somewhat strange history, as we've covered here before. In a nutshell, the game was announced in 2013, then put on the shelf before getting a major design overhaul a … | Continue reading
It should go without saying, but we're huge fans of Mobcrush around here. If for some totally insane reason you haven't heard of Mobcrush before, it's basically Twitch but focused on mobile games. It's super cool for us, as (obviously) we're totally into mobile, and it's great st … | Continue reading
Beat 'em ups started out with a simple enough premise. Punch stuff, get points. It's that easy! In an era where quarters equated to extra lives, and arcade owners could jack up the difficulty with the flip of a switch before the doors opened, it was a lucrative business. But once … | Continue reading
The Slaughter: Act One is a very strange old-school style adventure game that launched on desktop platforms back in January, and is heading to iOS towards the end of this month on June 29th. In their email to us, developer Brainchild describes The Slaughter as "Monkey Island meet … | 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
Any video game which attempts to include educational elements has to run a very fine line or risk alienating a significant proportion of their potential userbase. Make it too simple and people who already understand the concepts will likely not find any enjoyment - however if it’ … | Continue reading
Long-running French turn-based-strategy-inspired MMORPG Dofus is on its way to mobile as Dofus Touch. While this is separate from the main Dofus game on desktop, this is meant to be an adaptation for mobile. That means that the interface has been built for tablets, and the game w … | Continue reading
Card Wars [$3.99], the card game based on the Adventure Time episode of the same name, proved to be a rather popular game for Cartoon Network that's actually managed to stick around the top paid charts for a while now. Now, a sequel to Card Wars is set to release this summer, wit … | Continue reading
The Cartoon Network has been giving us some really good games recently. From Card Wars - Adventure Time to Attack the Light and Flipped Out - The Powerpuff Girls, CN has been leveraging its IPs quite successfully, and its next game seems equally as promising. According to a post … | Continue reading
It's another one of those crazy release weeks where more new iOS games hit the App Store than I know what to do with. It's even worse this week as cool stuff has been trickling out since late last week and over the weekend. I'm personally most excited for Heroes of Loot 2 as it's | Continue reading
If you want an iOS MFi controller that holds your device and isn't just a Bluetooth controller, then good news: it just became easier to get your hands on the Gamevice. Starting today, you can pick up the Gamevice at Apple Stores around the world, for $99.95 each. Now, that is ex … | Continue reading
While the upcoming BATMAN - The Telltale Series has been getting most of the buzz when it comes to Telltale's next projects, The Walking Dead: Season 3 hasn't been too far behind. Yes, TWD is one superhero short at a time where everywhere you look you see superheroes, but the ser … | Continue reading
With WWDC next week, there's sure to be some big announcements coming out particularly with the potential iOS 10 announcement. But a couple of big announcements have made their way out ahead of the big keynote. In an interview with The Verge, Phil Schiller revealed that paid sear … | Continue reading
It's a beautiful day today in the Chicago area, particularly as we all come together to celebrate National Jelly-Filled Doughnut Day. I'm not super sure that this is even a real holiday as much as it's just something some dude on YouTube made up, but really, when you think about … | Continue reading
If you've ever seen any of those crazy all-legendary Hearthstone [Free]decks and wished you had the dust to build one yourself, this Week's Tavern Brawl will fulfill that wish. Cloneball has you picking a class and then throws four copies of a number of random Legendaries in your … | Continue reading
Are you still playing Miitomo [Free], or are you one of the many who've left their little Mii character neglected, locked up in his or her own home, wearing the same clothes for the last few months? Well, Nintendo is hoping that no matter how close you've been with your Mii recen … | Continue reading
Square Enix Montreal is continuing to expand their series of fun and clever GO games based on Square Enix properties. Next up on the list is Deus Ex GO, which promises to be pretty much what it says on the tin: turn-based puzzle-action set in the Deus Ex universe, specifically fe … | Continue reading
I like playing card games and also enjoy The Witcher universe (both the books and the first two games). So, I was intrigued to see everyone who played The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt loving Gwent, Geralt's favorite card minigame. I've been hoping we would see the game spun off as a stan … | Continue reading
Paradox Interactive is mostly known for its complex strategy games covering wars and situations both real and imagined. Its most famous series in that vein is probably Europa Universalis, but Paradox shepherds several successful strategy brands, including both internally develope … | Continue reading
It isn't a proper release day on the App Store if a Kairosoft game doesn’t drop now and then. Skyforce Unite! [Free] is the newest in their long line of simulation games and appears to be rather left field for Kairosoft’s standard, with the game presenting a bizarre amalgamation … | 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
You may not love the free to play "games as services" model, but one thing that it does allow is a more constant revenue stream which can enable the steady flow of updates over months and years that we've come to expect from our mobile games. Bad Piggies [Free / Free (HD)] origin … | Continue reading
Back in December of 2014, a heavily old-school-inspired CRPG named Dungeons of Chaos was released for the iPad. A passion project from solo developer Volker Elzner, Dungeons of Chaos was meant to replicate the experience of classic computer RPGs from the '80s like Ultima and Wiza … | Continue reading
Blending genres is always a tricky proposition because the one genre's mechanics can easily mess with the other's. So, when I heard that the upcoming Primal Legends is hoping to successfully blend Candy Crush-like match-3 mechanics with Hearthstone-like deck building and turn-bas … | Continue reading
Flange Studio has announced their upcoming Gun Glory: Anarchy, a third-person shooter set to drop in June worldwide. This colorful cover-based third-person shooter will have you playing as one of a motley crew of heroes fighting pretty much every enemy in the book from giant robo … | Continue reading
Things have been heating up over the last few months in the world of Clash of Clans [Free] when it comes to Supercell's commitment to getting rid of cheaters running the various hacks and mods out there. Long story short, people running these various third party utilities were gi … | Continue reading
Get ready for more DC superheroes to battle each other. The existence of Injustice 2 has leaked out ahead of the game's release thanks to some GameStop incompetence. Polygon got a tip of the game's existence due to some preorder posters for the game getting sent to stores, and an … | Continue reading
Orangepixel's Heroes of Loot 2 [$3.99] was surprisingly announced to release this week, what with the busy times over the summer with various big releases and sales sure to hit. The game got approved for sale quickly enough that a June 9th relase was planned. However, Orangepixel … | Continue reading
A really cool game got posted to our forums this morning, it's called Fury Roads Survivor [Free] and it's like if you took police chases from Grand Theft Auto games, but had them all take place inside a wasteland that's obviously nodding pretty heavily towards Mad Max movies with … | Continue reading
The folks at Featherweight Games, who made the fun Skiing Yeti Mountain [Free] that released in 2015, have teamed up with publisher Yodo1 Games and Dan Graf, who's worked on both Mad Max: Fury Road and Fruit Ninja [$1.99], to release Rodeo Stampede on June 23rd. This endless runn … | Continue reading
Brad Erkkila, developer of the fun FlipChamps [Free], is working on a new game that uses a similar formula, but new gameplay: It's a Space Thing. Here, you'll be running along your side of the arena with open walls that loop back around to each side. You can fire upward, but also … | Continue reading
Weyrdworks is about to release its debut title on mobile, Super SteamPuff. This action game gives you a jetpack, gun, and dodge ability, and then charges you to try and defeat your opponents on the other side of the screen, dodging fire and picking up powerful bullets in order to … | Continue reading
After bringing turn-based strategy game Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon [$19.99 (HD)] to iOS (with great success in my opinion), Slitherine is now developing the second installment of its Armageddon-based wargames, but this time around you get to lead the Orks instead of the Imperia … | Continue reading
Hello, gentle listeners! This month we've got an exciting episode of the RPG Reload Podcast for you, as it happened to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the featured game, Dragon Quest [$2.99]. Eric Ford and Andy Fretz spent the last month playing through one of the most impo … | Continue reading
Back in November of 2014, two of the creators behind classic point-and-click adventure Maniac Mansion Kickstarted a new adventure game project called Thimbleweed Park. It's been in development for quite a while and we got our first glimpse of the game in action when a teaser trai … | Continue reading
Way back in November of 2013, Ravenous Games announced a new game in collaboration with Bulletproof Outlaws (who have done artwork for several Ravenous games) called Paranormal Minis. Originally it was designed as a dual-stick shooter, but after other projects filled up Ravenous' … | Continue reading
We've been following the progress of Orangepixel's upcoming arcade-style dungeon crawler Heroes of Loot 2 ever since its official announcement late last year, and following its Steam Early Access launch last month it was hoped that the mobile version of Heroes of Loot 2 would be … | Continue reading
Just a few weeks ago we talked about the limited soft-launch of a new mobile fighting game in the BlazBlue series, and although the planned worldwide launch was all set for June 8th, BlazBlue Revolution Reburning [Free] snuck out early around the globe over the weekend. While the … | Continue reading
The clicker meets the action RPG in Nonstop Knight [Free]. Essentially, the progression of action-RPGs with loot, character leveling, and elements of clickers like idle revenue generation, and prestiging to reset your progress in the name of permanent stat upgrades, are combined … | Continue reading