If there's one genre I almost never get to experience, it's fishing. I have plenty of nostalgia for SEGA's huge line of bass-centric games as well as their amazing arcade machines where you can actually feel the tension in the rod, but in this modern era, I generally don't go out … | Continue reading
Generally speaking, I'm not the sort of gamebook fan that replays books terribly often after finishing them. I'm usually okay with getting whatever story and ending comes from my choices, so long as it's an ending and not a "game over". With The Daring Mermaid Expedition [Free], … | Continue reading
There are two Slitherine games that I've been waiting to play on iOS, but it had been a while since we'd heard any news on a possible release date. Those games were Heroes of Normandie, the digital port of the slightly over-the-top tabletop board game, and Gettysburg: The Tide Tu … | Continue reading
When I wrote a few days ago about the World of Tanks Blitz [Free] 2.8 Update, I described how I was glad Wargaming.net had decided to make higher Tier tanks more affordable to play by decreasing repair costs and increasing profitability. And up to that point, all was well. But th … | Continue reading
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James Batchelor writing for Develop-Online polled some industry experts on the future of mobile, and what's interesting is the talk about Assassin's Creed: Identity [$4.99] is an example of a game that soft launched as free-to-play and then went paid, and is apparently doing well … | Continue reading
If you like Pokemon (and most gamers are on a slider of liking to adoring the franchise), you'll be happy to know that after Japan, Pokemon GO will soon go into field testing in Australia and New Zealand. If you want to be one of the lucky ones to check it out, go here to | Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago, Square Enix released a wonderful remake of their 16-bit classic Romancing SaGa 2 on iOS, Android, and Vita in Japan. After putting the game through its paces, I put together some impressions of the game, but wondered at the end if the rest of world had a ch … | Continue reading
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload. This week, we're continuing our little monthly project looking at the history of handheld RPGs. That means that we will not be taking a look at a specific RPG from the App Store's past this time around. Last month, we looked a … | Continue reading
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I've been in love with top-down shooters for decades, and when the iPhone came along it's a genre that proved to translate extremely well to the touchscreen. Feral Fury is an upcoming top-down shooter from two Norwegian developers who were inspired to make an "Isaac-like" dungeon … | Continue reading
Turbo's Super Senso, a promising turn-based strategy game that we've previewed before, has picked up an interesting publisher in GungHo. The publisher of Puzzle and Dragons [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/puzzle-dragons-english/id563474464?mt=8"] and the upcoming G … | Continue reading
If you enjoyed Lara Croft GO [$4.99] - or even Hitman GO [$4.99] - I think you will enjoy this GDC talk by Antoine Routon of Square Enix Montreal. Routon talks about how Hitman GO came about, and then how they went from there to making Lara Croft GO. He talks about how their init … | Continue reading
If you enjoy your roguelikes with a twist, you might want to keep an eye out for the upcoming Hero Generations Regen, a roguelike/4X game (according to the game's website) that has you exploring a cute-looking procedurally generated world. Up to here, nothing new. The clever twis … | Continue reading
There's no denying that the surfer culture is an extremely laid back one, so it's sort of apropos that Diverso Games' latest title Go Surf [$2.99] shuffled onto the App Store just a wee bit later than all of yesterday's new releases. Hey, it's cool bro! We're all a little late so … | Continue reading
And now we've seen them all. Yogg-Saron, the last God from the Whispers of the Old Gods Hearthstone [Free] expansion has finally been unveiled, and he's kind of crazy. Yogg-Saron, Hope's End (as is the card's full name) is a ten mana 7/5 Legendary with a battlecry "Cast a random … | Continue reading
When it comes to high score chasers on mobile, there's a few studios that crank out reliably good stuff. Happymagenta is a consistently good creator, but Umbrella deserves a ton of credit too. Boom Dots [Free] and Down the Mountain [Free] are both quite solid, entertaining games. … | Continue reading
Gerald Kelley's Abzorb [$2.99] has just gotten an update on iOS that adds in a new Daily Challenge mode that should encourage you to come back again and again to this one. Each day, you get 5 levels to play back to back – get through all 5 without failing and get your scores on | Continue reading
It's been a long time coming since I first previewed Heavy Rockets, but the fun, neon-infused, game of fast rockets shooting and racing each other finally has a global release date. April 21st will be the date when everyone can explore the glowing neon catacombs for themselves – … | Continue reading
The fantastic Tennis Champs Returns [Free] has just made it easier to take your stylishly-appointed tennis player to the top of the world rankings from whatever iOS device you're playing on, as the game now supports iCloud saves. The iCloud saving isn't an automatic process and n … | Continue reading
If you're a fan of the silhouette visual style popularized by Limbo [$4.99] and Badland [$2.99], April is shaking up to be a good month for you, as another game with that style is set to hit iOS. Toby: The Secret Mine is a puzzle-platformer that originally released on Steam last … | Continue reading
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Such is the philosophy that Disney Crossy Road [Free] abides by. It pretty much lives up to its title, in that it's Crossy Road [Free] but with Disney characters and themes. And it is a Disney geek's dream. It would have been easy to just throw Di … | Continue reading
Good news! KINGDOM HEARTS Unchained χ [Free] just popped up on the App Store, so this week is suddenly shaping up to be a pretty good one in terms of releases. If you don't know much about the game, Tetsuya Nomura described the game as taking place during the beginning of the KIN … | Continue reading
It's already been a week since the last batch of new games hit the App Store, and chances are you've still got some stuff from last week that you haven't even launched yet. I know I do! Such is life as an iOS gamer. Anyway, this week has shaped up to be surprisingly good with | Continue reading
If you follow the various Magic Duels [Free] communities on the internet, it's plainly obvious that the game has been rife with issues, effectively since it launched almost a year ago now. Wizards has been trying to fix the game, but previous updates have reminded me of those old … | Continue reading
eSports continue their rise in popularity at the moment on both mobile and on PC (I'm very close to starting a drinking game where you have to drink whenever someone mentions "eSports"). Games like Hearthstone [Free] are becoming increasingly popular as competitive sports with th … | Continue reading
Developer Joint Custody have announced their new project Scéal, a narrative-driven adventure for desktop and mobile, and it's one of the most unique looking games I've seen in a long time. Scéal (pronounced Shkeal for those playing at home) is about a girl who has died and return … | Continue reading
[appicon]If you dislike RNG in Hearthstone [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hearthstone-heroes-warcraft/id625257520?mt=8"], then you should definitely stay away from today's Tavern Brawl, Too Many Portals. If you enjoy all kinds of crazy RNG-induced shenanigans, you … | Continue reading
We bring this to you with a huge heaping bowl of salt, especially in a world where elaborate fakes can be created in a world of 3D printing and Photoshop. But a YouTube user uploaded a video of their recently-updated PlayStation app [Free] having a Remote Play feature in the app, … | Continue reading
Sorry this post is a little later in the morning than we typically post it, but today is National Twinkie Day and let's just say the festival at my house is in full swing. Anyway, this week is a little light on game releases so far, which either means the runway is being cleared … | Continue reading
Blocky Pixel is bringing its take on endless, Crossy Road [Free] inspired shoot 'em ups to the App Store next week on April 14th with Astro Attack. While Shooty Skies [Free] does exist, this game aims a bit more for being like Space Invaders, with formations of enemis that move b … | Continue reading
If you enjoy superheroes, card games, and you haven't played Sentinels of the Multiverse [$9.99 (HD)] yet, I'd kindly suggest you remedy that. The great co-op (and solo) game is a lot of fun to play and is continually expanding its universe through new expansions and through comi … | Continue reading
A few weeks ago we wrote about Disney Crossy Road, a "Disney-fied" version of Crossy Road [Free] developed by Disney in cooperation with Hipster Whale. Now, the game has soft launched in Canada, and you can all go join in the fun of seeing Mickey hit by various vehicles. We don't … | Continue reading
World of Tanks Blitz [Free] is one of those games that hits a great balance between short, fun gameplay and long-term goals, and that's why I often return to it. The way you advance in WOT Blitz is by researching higher Tier tanks up to the top Tier X beasts. And trust me when I … | Continue reading
If you've enjoyed Telltale's Minecraft Story Mode but now want to go back to building and blowing things up in Minecraft: Pocket Edition [$6.99], Mojang is making it possible that you can have the best of both worlds, sort of. In celebration of Story Mode Season One's conclusion, … | 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
Remember Eisenhorn: Xenos? Pixel Hero Games' action game set in the Warhammer universe based on the Eisenhorn books? Well, the good news is that the game is still kicking, as the developers have released a new trailer today, and a release date for the PC version is set for May 19 … | Continue reading
Those folks over at Umbrella Games sure are burning the midnight oil. Not only did they announce and show us two new upcoming titles at GDC last month (the blocky RPG Magic Mountain and the one-touch platformer Back To Square One), but they've just announced yet another title tha … | Continue reading
Ah, building a house of cards is a classic way to kill time. I used to love building card houses when I was a kid hanging out at my grandparents' house, but I was one of those jerks who would bend a card in half in order to get started rather than balancing two cards against each … | Continue reading
Noodlecake and Hyperbolic Magnetism's new game Chameleon Run comes out this week on April 7th – for real, after a couple of date flip-flops – and there's an interesting story behind the game's development that's been catalogued by developer Jan Ilavsky. Notably, the game has been … | Continue reading
In late February we were introduced to Legend of the Skyfish, an upcoming action-adventure-puzzler from Mgaia Studios and Crescent Moon. It featured a really gorgeous hand-painted art style and top-down adventuring that was reminiscent of old-school The Legend of Zelda. What real … | Continue reading
Crossy Road [Free] took the core gameplay mechanic of Frogger and made it voxel-ized and endless. It was an absurdly successful formula, and for the past year and a half we've seen a zillion games that have tried to take that formula and add their own unique twist to it. Meanwhil … | Continue reading
If you are a Disney nut (*cough* Eric Ford *cough*) then chances are that you've been spending a lot of time making bad ass theme parks in the recently-released Disney Magic Kingdoms [Free]. Even if you hate free to play city-builders, the allure of Disney's iconic characters and … | Continue reading
Riverman Media made one of the best games of 2015 in The Executive [$4.99], and they're working on a new game for release sometime in 2016. The title is a bit of a mouthful: MUL.MASH.TAB.BA.GAL.GAL. Yeah. The basic idea behind the game is that it's kind of like Pong but you contr … | Continue reading
The original Mimpi [Free] was a cute, somewhat short puzzle-platformer with inspired art design and serviceable controls. Mimpi Dreams [$2.99], the sequel, is a cute, somewhat short puzzle-platformer with inspired art design and excellent controls. The original game was an excell … | Continue reading
Making video game sequels has always been a tricky business, but in the modern age of updates and add-ons, I can't even imagine how difficult it is to make the best choice for a follow-up. On the App Store in particular, the audience has become accustomed to getting reasonably si … | 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
[appicon]Hi there, friends! It's time once again for the RPG Reload Podcast, where Eric, Andy, and I discuss all kinds of things RPG and otherwise. First of all, I have to apologize. This was recorded at the height of a nasty cold I had, and I sound exactly how I felt. I hope to … | Continue reading