Recently, almost everywhere I look I see teenagers playing Color Switch [Free]. If I were to judge by what I'm seeing, I'd say everyone is currently playing Color Switch, and I might not be too far off seeing how the game's been hovering around Apple's Top 10 Free Games over the … | Continue reading
Fans of Titan Quest awaiting the action-RPG to finally hit iOS have something else to bide the time until its release, a new developer diary video from DotEmu. This shows off some more of the game and how it works on mobile, including the redesigned interface and touch controls o … | Continue reading
Now, this is the kind of competition I can actually get behind. Warhammer 40,000: Freeblade [Free] has decided to help players' Imperial Knights cross over from the digital to the physical world by running a clever competition for all players of the game. As you probably very wel … | Continue reading
Exploding Kittens [$1.99] continues to be great fun, and it's a game I'll often pick up, play a couple of rounds, explode more than a few times, and put it down with a smile on my face because the game is still hilarious. In the latest update, Exploding Kittens continues to provi … | Continue reading
Upcoming Crashing Season looks like a fun take on the kind of gameplay popularized by Landsliders but instead of players trying to avoid all the dangers coming their way, Crashing Season is all about taking revenge by crashing into everything and everyone in sight. In my eyes, th … | Continue reading
It's been almost exactly a year since the first (and last time) we wrote about Auroch Digital's intention of bringing Games Workshop's Dark Future board game to digital, and on the occasion of Games Workshop's Warhammer Fest and Digital Assault (a celebration of everything Warham … | Continue reading
Apparently, merpeople are the new trend in interactive fiction. Yes, I call something a trend if I spot more than one instance. I'm pretty weird that way. Anyway, a couple of months ago, Choice Of Games released The Daring Mermaid Expedition [Free], a somewhat farcical adventure … | Continue reading
If you grew up watching 80s slasher and horror movies like I did or simply enjoy that era, I have a great trailer for you to watch. Slayaway Camp, which we wrote about recently), is an upcoming puzzle game that is the brain child of PopCap's co-founder, Jason Kapalka, and of the … | Continue reading
Hello, friends. As you know, I spend most of my time at TouchArcade writing about things like old premium RPGs and interactive fiction. Real barn-burners, I assure you. Today, however, I was asked by the Shadowy Consortium who occupy the penthouse of TouchArcade Towers if I might … | 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
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the weekly feature where we rummage through garbage to find loot. Each week, we take a look at an RPG from the App Store's past to see how it's holding up in the far-flung future that is now. It's a chance to revisit old favor … | Continue reading
Do you like adventuring? Do you enjoy role playing? Do you like cards? Do you like rolling imaginary dice? Then I think you're going to like Pathfinder Adventures [Free (HD)], Obsidian's digital port of the very popular Pathfinder Adventure Card Game. I'm always interested in see … | Continue reading
BorderLeap is keeping very busy this month, with several of their games set to get updates. BorderLeap's latest entry in their most popular franchise, Harmony 3 [$0.99], just got a big update that adds in 30 new levels as part of the Encore path. These levels are particularly tri … | Continue reading
It's been only a week since Ubisoft finally released the forever soft-launched Hungry Shark World [Free] in the App Store, and already the game is dipping into the double digits in terms of millions of downloads. During Ubisoft's year-end earnings release today, the company annou … | Continue reading
4:33 Creative Lab, aka Four Thirty Three, makers of last year's hack 'n slash RPG Blade: Sword of Elysion [Free], have unveiled their next mobile project, a graphically rich side-scrolling strategy defense game called Seven Guardians. It's one of those side-scrolling castle defen … | Continue reading
Fallen Tree Games has just delivered the Infinity update to Swapperoo [$2.99], which will let you play forever. Theoretically, you could play the game forever, but you could run out of electricity someday, and use up all the solar panels on Earth, and then the sun would someday c … | Continue reading
After thoroughly enjoying their unique shooter Magenta Arcade [$1.99 / Free] just over a year ago, developer Long Hat House has sent over information on their new upcoming game, and it's looking spectacular. It's called Dandara, and it's a Metroidvania style action-platformer wit … | Continue reading
The classic rhythm-based puzzle game Lumines has been set to hit mobile in a two-headed configuration, and now we have word as when to expect the two versions of the game. First up will be Lumines: Puzzle & Music. This will be the paid version of the game, and will release in bot … | Continue reading
I never thought I'd be excited to talk about a jigsaw puzzle game, not that there's anything WRONG with jigsaw puzzles mind you, it's just that it's not the most glamorous type of game. But seriously, who doesn't love putting together a good jigsaw puzzle? Especially ones with be … | Continue reading
With the rapid-fire pace of the App Store, it's really crazy when you realize something has been around for a year. Well, that's the case with Mortal Kombat X [Free], which, sure enough, we reviewed over a year ago now with a guide posted not long after. If you haven't tried the … | Continue reading
There is no shortage of aerial dogfighting games in this world, both 2D and 3D. Tons of games try, fairly successfully, to capture that aerial combat dynamic, but very few are aces. That’s the kind of case we have on our hands today. Pilots of the Dawn [Free], from Sapeli Studio … | Continue reading
Many years ago, I encountered a really cool boss in a game called Mega Man X. As one of the last encounters leading up to the final fight, players were locked in a room with a giant robotic spider, with multiple metal "webs" hanging from the ceiling. Every few seconds the webs wo … | Continue reading
If you like blowing up tiny spaceships in space and being able to see the action in 3D, you should keep an eye out for upcoming space RTS Galaxy Reavers, a very pretty space game that should launch this month. As is often the case with space RTS games, you get to build your fleet … | Continue reading
It's once again the time of week when a ton of new iOS games hit the App Store. As much as I'd love to talk in depth about each and every one of the games on the list below, I also have a giant plate of dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets sitting in front of me, and | Continue reading
If you need an artsy tube racer to play today – who doesn't? – and don't want to spend a lot of money to do so – guilty as charged – then do I have good news for you. Proun+ [Free], the iOS version of the art-inspired tube racer, has just gone free-to-play permanently. Developed | Continue reading
One of my favorite games of the past few months has been Ellipsis [$2.99], a game that's difficult to classify but has you trying to collect orbs as quickly as possible to get stars on levels. The wide variety of levels and branching paths help keep it engaging, and it's just a r … | Continue reading
Whenever pretty much any controversial thing or person is in the news, then the mobile games based on them hit. And this US election season has seen countless games based on all the candidates hit. And most of them are cheaply-made stuff that use broad humor and possibly lax Appl … | Continue reading
If you've been playing the highly popular Slither.io [Free] on your iPhone or iPad, you'll know that controlling your ever-growing (and ever-dying) worm has been a bit of a challenge. Having to drag your finger around the worm to move it in different directions often resulted in … | Continue reading
It's hard to believe that it was nearly two years ago to the day that we first talked about Warhammer: 40,000: Regicide, a brutal take on Chess set in the Warhammer universe. The folks at developer Hammerfall Publishing have been busy with the game since then, first releasing it … | Continue reading
RareSloth's King Rabbit [Free] has just gotten the big update that was announced earlier this week, and along with it, the game has just gone free from its $0.99 regular price. The game was considered to go free-to-play at one point but eventually launched as a paid title, though … | Continue reading
I hope you don't mind Flamewakers because you're about to see that card many, many times during this week's Hearthstone [Free] Tavern Brawl, Top 2. In Top 2, you pick two cards and then have a deck full of just those two cards. As you can imagine, there are plenty of ways you can … | Continue reading
As far as totally made up holidays are concerned, today's celebration of Eat What You Want Day seems, well, not too shabby. So, while I'm swimming around in my pool of pistachios, let me explain what's been going on lately with these release posts- According to a few different de … | Continue reading
The Heroes Rise trilogy of gamebooks are, as near as I can tell, among the most popular releases from Choice Of Games. There are probably a lot of reasons for that, including the popularity of both superheroes and reality show send-ups, the interesting, convoluted plot, and the o … | Continue reading
File today's news that both Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem will be free-to-play under "unsurprising' since we all expected Nintendo to adopt the free-to-play model for the great majority, if not all, of its upcoming games. Today, DeNA's Chief Executive, Isao Moriyasu, stated tha … | Continue reading
I've talked several times (including yesterday) about the abundance of Warhammer games (of varying quality) on the App Store, but it's hard to deny that it's been a good time for all Warhammer fans, especially those who enjoy the sci-fi side of the Warhammer universe. If you are … | 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 was just over a week ago we were telling you about the soft-launch of EA's latest take on the grandfather of matching games Bejeweled, called Bejeweled Skies at one point but officially changed to Bejeweled Stars at some point during the soft-launch. Well, apparently the testi … | Continue reading
EA's NBA franchise, NBA Live, has been back for a few years now, but NBA Live 17 isn't going to hit consoles this fall quite yet, with an early 2017 release estimated for that. But EA has announced that a new game in the NBA Live franchise will release for mobile this fall. Detai … | Continue reading
We live in a pretty amazing time where we can beam entire video games to our insanely powerful pocket computers right out of thin air. This digital gaming revolution has a ton of benefits, like being able to buy a video game in your underwear without getting arrested, but there a … | Continue reading
Disney Infinity, the cross-platform, cross-franchise, toys-as-games entity, is now canceled, with the final playset releases being the end of Infinity. The latest financial reports for Disney coming out reveal that the interactive division of Disney lost $147 million, with Disney … | Continue reading
The Lifeline games have definitely made a mark on the App Store with their clever use of notifications as the means of furthering the narrative and with the clever way you interact with the | Continue reading
If you've been playing Hearthstone [Free] recently or even simply following the game, you'll know that with the introduction of Standard and the new expansion, Whispers of the Old Gods, players have found themselves with an abundance of confusing choices when it comes to what kin … | Continue reading
Yes, you've read that right; another Warhammer game has hit the App Store, but at least this one is relatively different than most other Warhammer-themed games. Talisman: The Horus Heresy [$3.99] takes the Talisman rule system (which some love for its casual entertainment and oth … | Continue reading
Nintendo's first mobile app Miitomo [Free] seems to be doing well in the wacky world of mobile games. The company announced last month that they had surpassed 10 million downloads across iOS and Android, and they've been continuing to release updates every few weeks with new feat … | Continue reading
As you might remember, Rodeo Games is currently on hiatus after the poor performance of their last big project Warhammer 40,000: Deathwatch [$0.99], but that hasn't stopped the studio's Creative Director Ben Murch from starting up a new company with a fellow game industry friend … | Continue reading
With the Angry Birds movie hitting the big screen on May 20th, this latest discussion on our forums feels particularly timely. Forum member HarryWarden asks the question, "Any interest in the Angry Birds movie?" and continues by saying, "It's coming just 11 days from now. I'll pr … | Continue reading
We got a good look at Noodlecake's upcoming Caterzillar back at GDC, and it seems like the easiest way to describe the game is a modern version of Soosiz [$0.99], which is A-OK with me because these kind of gravity-bending platformers always seem to break my brain in the best way … | Continue reading
If you were looking for a new Final Fantasy game to get excited for, the just-announced Final Fantasy Brave Exvius might be just what the doctor ordered. You can sign up on the game's site to pre-register to get "powerful items" to use when the game launch. The whole teaser site … | Continue reading