Okay, let me say this in advance of those pesky facts and numbers; most of you have already made up your mind about this article simply from the title. Yet no, we're not trumpeting mobile gaming's success and declaring PC dead, we are simply the messenger here. And now, with the … | Continue reading
I believe it's quite fair to say that The Walking Dead franchise has turned many of us into followers of everything zombie-related and, especially, everything TWD related. So, it's no surprise that there are two The Walking Dead games in the first 150 top grossing apps of the App … | Continue reading
While for some the name Phil Tippett might not say much, for those with an interest in movie visual effects, he's a pretty big name. Tippett is a two-time Academy Award Visual Effects Supervisor and Director best known for his work on the original Star Wars films, Robocop, Jurass … | Continue reading
You might've seen our review of _Prism we posted a while ago, and while the game itself is super cool, the program it came from is even cooler. It's called Stugan, and it's is a non-profit accelerator program that takes place in a remote cabin in Sweden. If you get accepted, you' … | Continue reading
We've been following the progress of Extreme Gear ever since spotting it for the first time back in late January, but today is the day that Zero Games' Extreme Gear: Demolition Arena [Free] has finally arrived in the App Store. If you haven't been following along, Extreme Gear is … | 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
Noodlecake Games and Jan Ilavsky's Hyperbolic Magnetism are set to release Chameleon Run next week on April 14th for iOS. The gang got to see it at GDC, but now you'll get to play this color-switching runner for yourself real soon. You'll be switching colors to land on the proper … | Continue reading
If you've been patiently waiting to see and hear more about Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls Legends CCG, I'm afraid you'll have to wait at least a bit longer. According to Pete Hines, VP of marketing at Bethesda, they are getting closer to talking about it and showing the game, but … | Continue reading
Snail Games, publishers of the action-RPG Taichi Panda [Free], which has been one of the more notable entries in a crowded hack 'n slash field, are set to bring more intense action to mobile very soon. They've announced that Taichi Panda: Heroes will be going into a closed beta t … | Continue reading
Minecraft Pocket Edition [$6.99] developers have repeatedly said they aim for total parity between the various versions of the game. Today we got more evidence on how serious the developers are since they announced that MCPE will get command blocks, mods, and more as they work to … | Continue reading
Square Enix played it very smart when it came to bringing its franchises to mobile. Instead of making a Tomb Raider endless runner or a Match 3 Hitman, it reimagined those franchises into mobile-appropriate games in the form of Lara Croft Go [$4.99] and Hitman Go [$4.99]. Well, i … | Continue reading
Atypical Games busted onto the scene with their exhilarating Sky Gamblers series of aerial dogfighting games, and then took the fight to the land and sea as well in the excellent Battle Supremacy series. Today they've unveiled their latest game which focuses on land battling… in … | Continue reading
When Minecraft: Story Mode [$4.99] launched in October of last year, we were pretty impressed with how quickly Telltale was releasing new episodes compared to their previous episodic games. In just a couple of months 4 episodes were released with the last episode arriving just pr … | Continue reading
A debate on YouTubers, let's play videos, and how they affect developers has been raised by one of the developers of That Dragon, Cancer, and while I think there's cogent arguments for developers negatively affected by the current status quo, I don't think they're strong enough t … | Continue reading
Super early this morning, Lemon Jam revealed their upcoming title Into Mirror on our forums. They're calling it a "cyberpunk platformer" where you play as a secret agent in the mysterious "Mirror World" on the hunt for a lost girl with the help of your partner, Kate. There's upgr … | Continue reading
Late last night US time Pokemon Go started their Japanese "field test", inviting select Android users to try out the game early. Immediately following, Twitter was blowing up with all sorts of people selected for the test... ...aaaaand no one seemed to be able to get the game wor … | Continue reading
Last night in our deals forum a TouchArcade community member posted that the fantastic Forget-Me-Not [Free] had gone free for... Mysterious reasons. Well, doing a bit more digging revealed that this originally was a last-change fire sale as Nyarlu Labs wasn't planning on renewing … | Continue reading
Although Nintendo proper is just now dipping their toe into the mobile market with Miitomo, the Pokemon Company has been around for a while now. At first, they were only producing Apps that more or less only existed to promote the brand, like the Pokedex or Pokemon TV, but last y … | Continue reading
Some of my favorite mobile games are ones that can be played with one hand in quick sessions. After all, if you have your phone always with you, then why not fill any empty gaps by playing a game? I love deeper experiences as well, but the ones I keep coming back to are the | Continue reading
Good news for those of y'all who need a game where you smash stuff with a giant spiked ball behind your car: Flail Rider arrives on March 31st. The game, inspired by a Ludum Dare project by developer Catpancake and published by BulkyPix, has you trying to wreck up one of three di … | Continue reading
Many of you are already wondering whether we need another mobile MOBA after the latest deluge of MOBAs hoping to draw substantial player bases in order to survive. Well, the trailer for the upcoming MOBA PigBang starts by pretty much answering that same question and proceeds to c … | Continue reading
Alright so this is a weird one, but it seemed too cool not to post. Apparently, the Flappy Bird phenomena is alive and well, at least inside of the Super Nintendo code injection scene. If you haven't been following all this, strap in for some raw insanity- The extreme cliffsnotes … | Continue reading
I literally cannot calculate how many hours I spent on Contra back in the day, especially playing it on my PC with my brother. That game was so much fun, and we had reached a point where we had the whole thing pretty much memorized. Now, we'll get to play it again (hopefully) on … | Continue reading
Card Thief, the followup to the fantastic Card Crawl [appprice url="asdf"] released last year by Tinytouchtales, is well into development. A new developer's blog has just been posted that runs down some of the new features that they're working on. For example, guards, one of the … | Continue reading
Cruise Control is looking pretty cool, and it needs beta testers. The game has you driving down an endless highway, swerving through traffic, and dodging all sorts of hazards, such as laser pterodactyls. The game features one-touch controls a la Super Arc Light [appprice url="htt … | Continue reading
Early last month we learned that Ravenous Games was working on a new puzzle roguelike starring everyone's favorite bug-eyed dog breed: Pugs. Today they've announced that that game, Pug's Quest, is officially complete and heading to the App Store next week on April 7th. Similar to … | Continue reading
As anyone who has watched recent seasons of The Walking Dead is more than happy to tell you, Michonne is a total bad-ass. You could make a strong argument that she's the most bad-ass, but, all that's going to do is start an argument with Daryl fans. Anyway, The Walking Dead: Mich … | Continue reading
We originally posted about Risky Lab's Warbits way back in April of 2014, and now nearly two years later to the day and Warbits is finally set to hit the App Store in a couple of weeks, on April 14th. For a refresher course, Warbits is a turn-based strategy game that's an homage … | Continue reading
Welcome to another weekly roundup of Hearthstone [Free] news, and as has been the case the last few weeks, Whispers of the Old Gods news is what's capturing all the headlines. We continue to see a trickle of cards spoiled daily, with some creating anticipation while others having … | 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. Regrettably, I've been wrestling with a humdinger of a cold for the last few days, so this week's article is going to be slightly less thorough than u … | 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
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 kick off this week's podcast with a quick health check, and it'd appear that miraculously no one got sick at GDC. Mike regales us with a tale of meeting "young people," and then we dive deep into talking about games. Those discussed include Thomas Was Alone [$1.99], Basketball … | Continue reading
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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
Back in January we told you about Prison Run and Gun, an action platformer shooter that was a mobile spinoff of the desktop action platformer shooter Hot Guns that's currently on Steam Early Access. While both games look pretty similar, Hot Guns is actually designed around 2-4 pl … | Continue reading
One of the best and most important games in iOS history, Superbrothers Sword and Sworcery EP [$1.99], just turned 5 today. It's an utter classic, and if you haven't played it, then you really, really should – it's a stunning artistic achievement, features amazing sound and music, … | Continue reading
DeNA and Square Enix's Final Fantasy Record Keeper [Free] is celebrating its first birthday as a worldwide game. There was a time when several TA staffers were deep in the thrall of this game, and I'm pretty sure a certain unnamed RPG expert on staff has sunk triple-digit hours i … | Continue reading
If you're looking for a good time-waster to enjoy this wekeend, may I recommend BioBeasts? [Free] This game released earlier this year, and I didn't get around to playing it right away, but it intrigued me enough to at least download. And then one day after release, I got around … | Continue reading
Bit Free Games, makers of the stylish one-touch skateboarding game Halfpipe Hero [Free], are working away at their next mobile gaming project, a tile-smashing game called Brick Ninja. Like the "Piano Tile" games that flooded the market some time ago, Brick Ninja has you tapping t … | Continue reading
Eagle-eyed Nintendo site Nintendo Inquirer noticed some troubling differences on the English Miitomo web site, namely, all mentions of a March release have since vanished. Here's the before and after: Notice how that little "Launching March 2016" bubble is gone? Curious indeed. I … | Continue reading
We first learned about Midnight Star Renegade, the follow-up to 2014's enjoyable on-rails first-person shooter Midnight Star [Free], at the beginning of this month, and last week at GDC we were given a lovely hands-on demo from developer Industrial Toys and really liked what we s … | Continue reading
Motorsport Manager [Free] is free for the first time ever, and if you enjoy games where you manage racing drivers but are tired of the Kairosoft offerings, you should definitely pick this one up. When Motorsport Manager originally came out in 2014, people who enjoy racing games w … | Continue reading
You would definitely be forgiven for looking at the screenshots in this review and assuming this game was some kind of clone or expansion DLC for Monument Valley [$3.99]. But aside from the Escher-esque optical illusions in the levels, the design, mechanics, and even the other as … | Continue reading
It's a well-known fact that cats have effectively taken over the the internet, the world, and my house. So, it's not a surprise that they are also the stars of more and more games. In the upcoming Garrison Cats by PocApp Studios, you are in charge of a group of cats that have fou … | Continue reading
One of the first game's I really enjoyed on my PC back in the day was the original Microsoft Flight Simulator, which I thoroughly enjoyed (even though I could rarely land without almost crashing). And to be honest, I miss playing a good flight simulator game, and I'm hoping the u … | 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