Way back in 2002, the worlds of Disney and Square Enix collided in the original Kingdom Hearts for Playstation 2. The series has spawned tons of games since then and gone on to become one of the more beloved video game franchises around. Just about a year ago, series director Tet … | Continue reading
The Legend of Zelda originally released on the NES in 1986, and went on to become one of the most successful and popular video game series on the planet over the next 3 decades. That makes 2016 the 30th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, which is a big milestone for an absolutel … | Continue reading
It seems like all the rage right now is Crossy Road [Free] games crossed with dungeon-crawling. There was The Quest Keeper [Free] last year, Looty Dungeon releasing this week, and now Boxy Kingdom. Developed by a team including the founder of 3D Realms in Scott Miller, and Gears … | Continue reading
About a month ago I was quite intrigued with an upcoming game called No Thing from developer Evil Indie Games. It appeared to be a first-person runner type of game but with crazy retro-inspired visuals, an oddly unsettling computer voice narrating the storyline, and just lots of … | Continue reading
While we're getting a revamped Micro Machines on mobile someday (it's still in soft launch), people who might want something closer to the original 2D top-down racers will want to pay attention to Pixel Machines. It takes quite obvious inspiration from the classic Micro Machines … | Continue reading
Naquatic, developers of shockingly-deep clicker games such as CivCrafter [Free], are about to drop a new sports clicker after last year's Football Clicker [Free]. Welcome Soccer Clicker, set to hit the App Store this week. The developers got a lot of feedback that people wanted t … | Continue reading
In January of this year I was pleased to see Sega release an update for Sonic 4 Episode 2 [$2.99] that addressed some iOS compatibility issues which had rendered the game unplayable. Sure the game was broken for about 2.5 years before the fix arrived, but I was still glad to see … | Continue reading
While I doubt this news will come as a surprise to anyone, this morning marks the first time we've seen Gameloft come straight out and say that they're no longer producing premium titles, and all of their future games will be free to play. It makes sense, given the reality of the … | Continue reading
While many genres are forced to stick with conventions (action games typically have an ending, for example), puzzle games can basically do whatever they want. That's both a boon and a curse, as developers can often completely blow your mind or go so far out there that the concept … | Continue reading
Welcome to another Hearthstone [Free] weekly news roundup where you can read all that happened in the world of the game during the last week of March. And, as you can guess, the closer we get to Standard, the more everyone's focusing on the expansion and the upcoming changes and … | 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. Well, I'm mostly recovered from last week's cold, though it did hang on through most of the week. But you're not here for Shaun updates, are you? You' … | 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
This week's podcast is overwhelmed by excitement surrounding two things: The Tesla Model 3 and Miitomo [Free]. If car stuff doesn't interest you (We talk about the rumored Apple Car and other sort of related things as well) skip to around 15:00 in to get straight to the game chat … | 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
Monkey Swingers [Free] is a game that has some immediate appeal, but it doesn't take long for it start pushing you away. Not only is the game quite tough, it also demands a fair bit of concentration, and a good run usually lasts longer than the excitement does. If you intend on g … | Continue reading
MildMania is preparing to release an aggressively cute and colorful puzzle platformer next week called Cattch, and it's definitely one that should be on your radar. First of all it starts a cat, which always earns points in my book, but it also features a really interesting level … | Continue reading
Capcom has announced that they're putting a big investment into mobile gaming, launching a Mobile Business Division specifically geared towards mobile game development. And this isn't just news for Japanese games that will never hit western shores – the games are set to release g … | Continue reading
Two-person Finnish developer Huijaus Studios has announced their first project, an ambitious stealth puzzle game called Mr Future Ninja, and it's looking really awesome. An evil sci-fi corporation has abducted the world's ninjas with plans to clone them and offer them as servants … | Continue reading
The MOBA genre has had some promising moments on mobile in recent years. Mostly, we've either seen games like Fates Forever and Vainglory, which tried to port most PC MOBA mechanics to mobile but with a different UI, or games like Call of Champions, which tried to rethink MOBA me … | Continue reading
If you're one of the many Baldur's Gate fans, I've got kind of good news for you. Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear, Beamdog's first attempt at developing an original game in the Baldur's Gate universe, has been released for PC, and hopefully iOS and Android releases won't be t … | Continue reading
Kiloo and Funday Factory's Spellbinders was one of the games that got our attention at GDC 2016 because it managed to put what seems like a pretty tactical experience into super short session lengths. Today, the developers announced that the game is coming out worldwide on April … | Continue reading
The A/RPG Titan Quest originally came out for PC in 2006 and was pretty well received. In it, you assumed the role of a warrior of the ancient world fighting against harpies, centaurs, and all the other monsters from Xena the Warrior Princess. So, when DotEmu announced in 2015 it … | Continue reading
Alright, so this story is a little weird as I'm going to be trying really hard to tip-toe around any actual official title names as last time one of these huge Gameloft leaks happened we got DMCA'd by them back into the stone age and we had to take everything related to the names … | Continue reading
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the weekly feature where everyone has pointy ears. Each week, we take a look at an RPG from the App Store's past to see how the searing light of the modern age treats it. It's a chance to revisit old favorites, reflect on how … | Continue reading
Most people in the mobile world are probably familiar with Ninja Kiwi for their freakishly popular Bloons series, but before then they had a pretty popular physics puzzler Flash game called Boombot and its sequel Boombot 2, and finally the series is making its way to the touchscr … | 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
All the way back in November of 2013, Ravenous Games once again teamed up with Bulletproof Outlaws, the artists they worked with on their popular platformers League of Evil 2 and 3, on a new action shooter called Paranormal Minis. Originally a dual-stick shooter, progress on Para … | Continue reading
Square Enix's SaGa series has always had a difficult relationship with players outside of Japan. Although in certain details it's not terribly different from the Final Fantasy series, SaGa is very much a product of its creator, Akitoshi Kawazu. It's not afraid to go way outside o … | Continue reading
And then they were three Old Gods in Hearthstone [Free]. After C'Thun and N'Zoth, Blizzard unveiled Y'Shaarj, the biggest of the Old Gods and once the head of the largest empire on Azeroth. The third of the gods from the upcoming Whispers of the Old Gods expansion, Y'Shaarj is, o … | Continue reading
We've been following the progress of Power Hover's [$2.99] forthcoming update for the past few months as developer Oddrok has been posting bits and pieces of the update in our forums. Now it's all coming full circle as that update is finished and set to arrive next Thursday, Apri … | Continue reading
Earlier this month we checked out the trailer for Go Surf, a new one-touch endless surfing game that had a really killer visual style. Developer Diverso Games has got in touch with us to let us know that Go Surf now has an official release date, and should be arriving on the App … | Continue reading
With a name like Mediocre, it’s almost like the studio is baiting reviewers. “Go ahead,” they're saying, “just try to make some lame joke about our games being mediocre.” Of course we can’t say those things, because Smash Hit [Free] and Does Not Commute [Free] (and earlier titles … | Continue reading
I quite enjoyed Rope Racers [Free] in my review last week, and in fact I’m still playing every day. Flying through each level via ropes and trying to beat nine other people to the finish is incredibly fun, but unfortunately the game has just about every free-to-play mechanic you … | Continue reading
The latest version of 'Vainglory' has landed with a new hero, skins, and a new streamlined gameplay mode. | Continue reading
How can hurting kittens be any fun? I mean, they truly are the cutest beings ever, and yet here I am reviewing a game called Exploding Kittens [$1.99], which I very much enjoy playing. I suppose it's somewhat similar to playing Cards Against Humanity and making the weirdest, most … | Continue reading
We've been talking about what Nintendo is going to do when it comes to smartphones for quite literally years now, and while Miitomo has been soft launched in Japan for a couple weeks now, it's finally available in the US App Store. Something to keep in mind before downloading Mii … | Continue reading
While we're waiting for Nintendo to hit the big red button on the worldwide release of their first mobile app, Miitomo, let's catch up on how the social networking app is doing in its home country, where it launched a couple of weeks ago. Miitomo was an immediate success there, s … | Continue reading
Tonight, Square Enix held a big event to discuss and show off all things Final Fantasy 15. The long-awaited RPG, previously known as Final Fantasy Versus XIII, will be hitting PlayStation 4 and other platforms later this year, and Square has planned a lot of extra side projects t … | Continue reading
It's that time of week again when all the new games hit the App Store. Well, not really, they all sort of just come out whenever they feel like it now, but this IS the time that we decide to round them up into a nicely-formatted list for your perusing pleasure. This week has some | Continue reading
Sure, a while back I said I was done with idle clickers. But I'm done with them in the same way I'm done with match-3 games, for the most part: I'll play the occasional one because I still enjoy the core idea, but I've just played too many of them to want to keep diving | Continue reading
Prolific simulation developer Kairosoft, of Game Dev Story [$4.99] fame, has been releasing the Japanese versions of their latest iOS games in App Stores worldwide recently. The English versions of the games typically follow anywhere from two weeks to a few months later, but alwa … | Continue reading
This is some disheartening news for Apple TV gaming. Disney said recently in a customer support reply that "there are currently no plans for futher updates to the Apple TV version" of Disney Infinity 3.0. Now, this doesn't likely impact Toy Box 3.0 [Free], but the Apple TV versio … | Continue reading
Foursaken Media's freight train of releases is just about to pick up in 2016. They've already released All is Lost [Free] and have the clicker-inspired War Tortoise coming out in late April. But no, they ain't stopping, as they've just announced Adventure Company, a class-based a … | Continue reading
If you have room in your life for another square-hopping verby noun game, developer Taco Illuminati has announced that their game Looty Dungeon is set to hit the App Store next week on April 7th. We first got a taste of Looty Dungeon during PAX South in January, and then got to c … | Continue reading
Second new Hearthstone Tavern Brawl in a row, so we must be doing something right. This time around, there are no preconstructed decks to frustrate anyone with their complete lack of bala | Continue reading
It's hard to believe we've been celebrating Pencil Day for 158 years now, but for some people, it's better than Christmas. If you're looking for some great iOS games to play while you partake in Pencil Day festivities, you're also in luck as the iOS gaming gods have blasted the A … | Continue reading
The quite popular A/RPG Soul Seeker [Free] is getting a pretty big update soon that should make players quite happy. If you haven't played the game, Soul Seeker offers real-time combat and over 200 hundred heroes, all wrapped up in a pretty intense package. The new update will of … | Continue reading