Sonic might have started his life on gaming platforms mightily strong, but the last few years haven't been the rosiest for the little blue hedgehog, and today's news won't be changing that fact. Sonic Runners [Free], the free-to-play endless runner that came out last June, will b … | Continue reading
Games based around fonts and typography are nothing new, and on mobile we've had some clever ones like the (sadly no longer available) vertical shooter Vetica which featured ships and enemies made up of the popular font, or Font Monsters [$1.99 / Free] which had you using a keybo … | Continue reading
Perchang isn't the only puzzler with a minimalist visual style and contraption manipulation coming to mobile soon, as Sunlight Games has announced that their slick-looking puzzler One Hundred Ways is also set to arrive on both iOS and Android. In One Hundred Ways, your job is to … | Continue reading
If you thought Minecraft: Story Mode [$4.99] was complete, you're completely wrong. Telltale is launching a new standalone episode, 'A Portal to Mystery' on June 7th for all platforms. Jesse and the gang travel through a new portal, finding themselves in a world overrun by zombie … | Continue reading
Hatoful Boyfriend [$4.99] is one of those games that grabs attention just with a description of its premise. It's a Japanese dating simulator where you play a human girl who attends a school for birds. Naturally, every last one of your potential suitors is some type of bird or an … | Continue reading
Perfect World is one of those up-and-coming companies that isn't very well-known in the West yet. Based in China, they're the publisher behind the upcoming Torchlight Mobile, action-RPG The Legend Of The Condor Heroes, and in partnership with Square Enix, Final Fantasy Type-0 Onl … | 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
Colin Lane, developer of Wrassling [Free] and Golf is Hard [Free], has teamed up with Matthew Barrie on a new game. Board 2 Death has you skating downhill, trying to hit the targets to do tricks and grind on rails, et cetera. Miss the target, hit an obstacle, or veer off the side … | Continue reading
Welcome to the 50th issue of our weekly Hearthstone [Free] column. Half a century is definitely a milestone that shows how much has been going in the world of Hearthstone these last few months. While it is a nice number, unfortunately it didn't come on a week with any groundbreak … | 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. If I were being completely thorough, the theme this week would be removing iAd support, but that kind of thing isn't nearly saucy enough to get into 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
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
The vast majority of this particular podcast is devoted to discussing a whole boat load of new games that came out this week, those include, in order, the following: Warp Shift [$2.99], Voez [Free], Tap Cats [Free], Leap Day [Free] (again!), Bingo Pop [Free], Hatoful Boyfriend [$ … | 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
Gameloft is in a really interesting position right now as it looks like they're due to be taken over in a hostile bid by French media conglomerate Vivendi. The name Vivendi should be familiar to gamers as they were once the majority shareholder in Activision Blizzard before selli … | Continue reading
[applink url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/miitomo/id1073816197?l=en"] SurveyMonkey Intelligence has taken a look at the performance of Miitomo in its first month, and things are, well, not gre | Continue reading
The developer of Starseed: Origin [Free], Shane McCafferty, is set to release a new game, and while fans of metal-inspired shmups might find this is neither shmuppy nor metal, there's something brutal still about AlphaPit. This is a word game where you must clear a 5x5 grid of al … | Continue reading
It's been a very long and arduous journey for Solforge [Free], but this CCG is finally almost out of beta and is coming with quite a few much-needed improvements. Solforge has been around as long as (and probably just a bit more) than Hearthstone has. However, while it has some v … | Continue reading
Australia has been responsible for two of the big crazes in mobile gaming: Fruit Ninja [$1.99 / Free] and Crossy Road [Free] both came from the home of kangaroos. Now, one game is combining the two in an oblique way. The artist and programmer of Fruit Ninja are making a game with … | Continue reading
There are two things I know when I fire up a new game from Michael Brough. One, its presentation is probably not going to win any awards. Two, I'm going to have a good time. Brough's got a talent for designing games whose gracefully skate the line between accessibility and depth. … | Continue reading
I'm frequently impressed at how quickly some small developers can create a game. It hasn't even been a year since the original Mazes Of Karradash [$0.99] released, and here I am looking at an impressively large-scale sequel. The fundamentals of the game haven't changed much in Ma … | Continue reading
I you are familiar with Rayman Jungle Run [$2.99] and like runners in general, this is a game to watch. Red Story is brought to you by From Paris Entertainment with Floriane Marchix being part of the team. The name alone might not mean much but she was a concept artist on the Ray … | Continue reading
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the weekly feature where we only use pseudo-Elizabethan English accents when no one is looking. Each week, we take a look at an RPG from the App Store's past to see how it's doing in the here and now. It's a chance to give old … | Continue reading
[appicon]The cult classic New Star Soccer [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/new-star-soccer/id498973162?mt=8"] has amassed many fans since its initial launch in 2012 - and even won a BAFTA to show for it - although the lack of any substantial updates for over a year … | Continue reading
Real-time strategy game Battleplans [] has finally escaped soft launch and gone worldwide, and it's well worth checking out. Like many mobile games, it feels like has the DNA of other titles – Clash of Clans [Free] and Tactile Wars [Free] come to mind here. You engage in short-fo … | Continue reading
When Clash Royale [Free] descended into out plane of existence, it felt like the harbinger for a lot of other short-form multiplayer games. Warpship, now in soft launch, feels like it's going for that exact thing. You and another opponent face off in real time, using energy simil … | Continue reading
I've been keeping an eye on the upcoming Take Off - The Flight Simulator for some time now, since it seems to promise the kind of flight simulation game I enjoy. And even though I don't usually care much about trailers, I have to say that Take Off's release trailer is one of the … | Continue reading
We're just about a month away from the release of Independence Day Resurgence, a 20-years-later sequel to the blockbuster 1996 alien-invasion flick Independence Day, and while this new movie will be sans Will Smith it will have the obligitory mobile tie-in game launching alongsid … | Continue reading
Back in January Roadhouse Interactive announced that they were collaborating with legendary metal band Iron Maiden for a new mobile RPG called Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast. In it you'd amass an army of Eddies, Iron Maiden's iconic mascot, from various themes and time periods … | Continue reading
I always seem to gravitate towards Nitrome's games. I don't know what it is, but I always pick up their latest game not knowing that it's actually them. And there's a common theme after all these experiences -- I usually come out enjoying myself. With a neat new gimmick, now I ca … | Continue reading
This is really happening; yesterday Ubisoft dropped us a note about their upcoming Rabbids game, it's a CCG based on the crazy world of Raddid Rabbits and it just soft launched. You lucky Canadians, or Canadian account holders, can head over to the App Store and start downloading … | Continue reading
If you enjoy unlocking new figurines and new worlds in Disney Crossy Road [Free], then today's update should hit the spot. As in the case of the Jungle Book, the game has added Alice Through the Looking Glass figurines to celebrate the movie's opening. There are 25 new figurines, … | Continue reading
If you've been enjoying the fantastic Exploding Kittens [$1.99], I have good news for you. The game has just received the 3.0 Update, which has added the new Betrayal Card Pack that adds four very interesting cards to the game. We're getting Fake Shuffle, that pretends to shuffle … | Continue reading
One of the best games I've played recently is the upcoming Armajet, the 2D Multiplayer Shooter that's been in closed Alpha since May 13th. I was very pleasantly surprised at how fun the game is and how despite its various Alpha bugs, the game already feels well on its way to be a … | Continue reading
The latest Goat Simulator [$4.99] game has just released, and it's out now on iOS. Goat Simulator: Waste of Space [$4.99] was suprisingly announced on May 25th, and before we even knew it, the game is out now on iOS. It's technically DLC on other platforms, but like Goat Simulato … | Continue reading
It's that magical time of week when a flood of new iOS games hit the App Store. Like we even need more games on our phones, am I right? This week in particular is heavily loaded with awesome stuff, including the surprise iOS port of absurd pigeon dating simulator Hatoful Boyfrien … | Continue reading
Nimblebit has been teasing a huge update to their massive hit Tiny Tower [Free] to celebrate its 5th anniversary since last month, and beta testing the update with folks in our forums since then, and as promised today that update has gone live in the App Store. This update contai … | Continue reading
It seems like in the world of video games, everyone looks at what Riot is doing with League of Legends eSports and says, "I want me a piece of that." To some extent, that effort has been marginally successful in the PC world. DOTA 2 has pretty huge events, as does Heathstone, Cou … | Continue reading
Two things that I absolutely adore in this world: Cats and '90s fighting games. The problem is that I've only ever been able to enjoy these two wonderful things separately… until now. Or in the next couple of weeks, at least. That's because Cat Puncher is getting ready to bust on … | Continue reading
Now here is something to write home about. I'm totally allowed to use this old saying because Dotemu, the makers of the recently released Titan Quest [$6.99], are bringing an oldie goldie to iOS and Android, June 30th. Neo Turf Masters is not just another golf game, this is a cla … | Continue reading
Aspiring Poke-masters who signed up for the US "Field Test" of Pokemon Go (The fancy name they're calling something that's in between a beta and a soft launch.) should be getting their invites to download the game. If you signed up, today is a good day to spend the whole afternoo … | Continue reading
When the Apple Watch released, a number of developers attempted to take advantage of the buzz by either updating old games with new features, or by releasing new games specifically designed with the Apple Watch in mind. One of the more success of the latter group was Lifeline [$0 … | Continue reading
Since it's Towel Day, let me provide an important reminder that a towel is the most useful thing you can have in the universe. In fact, if I'm ever on the Discovery Channel show Naked and Afraid, my single survival item I'll bring with me will bring a towel, without question. Any … | 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
One of my surprise favorites of 2016 has been Craneballs' Splash Cars [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/splash-cars/id1042273323?mt=8"], which takes the simple isometric driving of another favorite of mine, Pako [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pako-car … | Continue reading
Originally announced in August of last year, and following its initial soft-launch this past January, Activision's latest game in the mega-popular Skylanders series Skylanders Battlecast [Free] is now widely available. Skylanders Battlecast takes the extensive roster of character … | Continue reading
Developer Full Fat has been on the scene with made-for-touch sports games for many years now with the likes of the Flick Golf, Flick Soccer, Flick Rugby, and Flick Quarterback series. The whole "flick" thing always made so much sense on a touchscreen, especially in Flick Golf [Fr … | Continue reading