While it seemed obvious Pokemon Go would do well, I'm not sure anyone expected the title to be a straight up global phenomenon. This trouble here is that when a game hits that hard, it's typically impo | Continue reading
Final Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition is a mobile remake of the massive Final Fantasy XV that released last year on PS4 and Xbox One platforms. When Eli played the opening section of it, he was pretty impressed with how well it followed the console game. The one thing we were all skep … | Continue reading
Words With Friends is probably one of the most recognizable mobile games in the world (along with games like Candy Crush Saga and, maybe, Clash of Clans), but after 8 years of life, Words With Friends is showing its age, so Zynga had decided to release today the sequel, Words Wit … | Continue reading
[appicon]As you probably know if you've been reading my reviews of Telltale's Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2 [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minecraft-story-mode-s2/id1235920003?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4"], I haven't been too excited with the first three episodes. My pri … | Continue reading
We always get a positive response whenever we post about Switch stuff now and again as it seems like there's loads of crossover in our audience between people who are into gaming on the go who also, unsurprisingly, are also really into the Nintendo Switch. Maybe we'll eventually … | Continue reading
BlizzCon is officially over, unfortunately, but it was a blast to attend, and we got plenty of fun Hearthstone [Free] news to hold us over until the next expansion hits. During the Hearthstone Q&A panel, the developers went beyond just talking about the upcoming expansion, so we … | Continue reading
Every time I look at Patapon, the popular Playstation game with its great art style, I wonder why we never got a game that looked like that on mobile. Well, it looks like we are getting a Patapon-like game after all, and it's called Beasts Evolved: Skirmish. The developers aren't … | Continue reading
It's been a while since we've heard anything about OrangePixel's open-world adventure Ashworld, which isn't all that surprising as the game is much more ambitious than the studio's usual platforming and action games, which have typically had a fairly quick development cycle. No, … | Continue reading
Following its initial release on mobile this past March, updates for Rocketcat and Madgarden's zombie apocalypse adventure game Death Road to Canada [$10.99] have been coming in regularly throughout this year. In addition to a number of more minor updates, Death Road has also bee … | Continue reading
Sports Interactive's Football Manager Mobile has always sat at a weird place in the series that is Football Manager primarily because of the feature envy caused by its tablet brother, Football Manager Touch. Players who only have mobile phones often complain that SI could add man … | Continue reading
The down side of having tons of mobile devices is you eventually end up needing something to carry all of them in. Waterfield has been killing it for years now when it comes to making fabulous bags for MacBooks, iPads, and other things we find ourselves hauling around all the tim … | Continue reading
The 32-bit Appocalypse has come and gone, and apart from the few of us resolutely holding on to iOS 10, it seems many have accepted the perilous fate of many classic App Store games as Apple make further strides towards modernisation of their software. Thankfully, missing the iOS … | Continue reading
This morning was one of those days where I just didn't want to wake up - but then I remembered the excellent Cally's Caves 4 [Free] was scheduled to release on the App Store. After two and a half years of fervent anticipation from the previous entry in the series, it's fair to sa … | Continue reading
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds is a PC game on Steam which has quickly become the hottest thing since sliced bread. If you've never played it, the basic format of the game is 100 random players get dropped on an island, loot guns and other items, and the fight to the death. It … | Continue reading
The clicker game genre, alongside its auto-runner and match-3 contemporaries, seems to be the recipient of a lot of cynicism and pessimism amongst mobile gamers. A lot of this is deserved - the aforementioned App Store archetypes have led to a number of low-effort releases - but … | Continue reading
While the iPhone X was only announced a couple months ago, the wait for its release felt like an eternity- Particularly as those not anxious to be early adopters of the new Face ID system and home button-free UI's picked up their iPhone 8s a few weeks ago. I picked up my iPhone X … | Continue reading
While "roguelike" has become something of a muddied term over the years, it's typically the core tenets of the genre that are most appealing to gamers. Namely an experience that's random, unpredictable, and infinitely replayable. Or at least that's what I personally love about ro … | Continue reading
Kobolds & Catacombs, Hearthstone's [Free] upcoming expansion, is one step closer today since the update that just hit has added the pre-purchase bundle and, more importantly, has given every player a free Legendary from the upcoming set, Marin the Fox. The pre-purchase bundle is … | Continue reading
Niantic has always marketed Pokemon GO [Free] as a social game, always remarking how entertaining it is to play with friends and family. Yet, despite this social focus, the game doesn't really have robust social features. Niantic appears to be moving to remedy those issues if the … | Continue reading
If you like high-stakes esports or just enjoy playing and seeing others play the hit game Summoners War [Free], then mark November 25th on your calendar because that's the day Summoners War World Arena Championship will take place. The best Summoners War players will make their w … | 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 had to sum up the bulk of the updates from last week, it would only take three words: iPhone, X, compatibility. But I've sifted through the lists … | Continue reading
Whether you're reading articles on a dedicated mobile gaming website, or talking about newfangled smartphone applications with your elderly relatives, the Monument Valley [$3.99] series surely needs no introduction. After achieving literal world domination of both the mobile gami … | Continue reading
While the majority of our coverage thus far at BlizzCon has centered around the Hearthstone [Free] Kobolds and Caverns Expansion, as well as the pretty awesome new single player Dungeon Run mode that will debut with the expansion, there were plenty of other interesting things tha … | Continue reading
Hello again from BlizzCon 2017. We have some cool news today straight out of the Hearthstone [Free] Q&A panel, but it wasn’t the Q&A part that was the most exciting. What the developers did for the first time was let the attendees vote for 1 new Arena card per class to be added t … | Continue reading
If you’ve been watching the news coming out of BlizzCon 2017, then you probably know by now that Hearthstone [Free] is bringing us a new expansion, Kobolds and Catacombs, in December, but, what’s more interesting to most players, Hearthstone is also getting a single player mode c … | Continue reading
Between Animal Crossing coverage, Blizzcon, and new iPhones, I feel like we've been going non-stop this week. Jared and I somehow still found time to sit down and rap about the new iPhone X. Face ID is really cool, but is going to take some brain retraining, animoji are neat, and … | 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
Two years ago now we launched our Patreon and since then while support from our community has been encouraging, we're still only half way to our goal to get back to firing on all cylinders. As you've likely noticed, there haven't been any new names on the site since Brad Nicholso … | Continue reading
While we're primarily supported by a mixture of Patreon, Twitch subscriptions and Amazon referrals these days, site sponsors go a long way in making up for the funding shortfalls of our Patreon never reaching its goal. To show our appreciation, we are now publishing these posts t … | Continue reading
Back in September we got a tasty first look at upcoming action platforming game Ghoulboy from developer Redro Games. Taking inspiration from classics like Castlevania and Ghosts'n Goblins, Ghoulboy has you running and jumping through levels and dispatching all manner of enemies u … | Continue reading
Blizzcon opened with a bang with Ben Brode taking the stage and revealing the next expansion for Hearthstone [Free], Kobolds & Catacombs. We already knew a few tiny snippets about it, like the single player vaguely roguelike dungeon crawl mode, but in the main Hearthstone panel, … | Continue reading
It was way back in March that developer Feral Interactive announced that they'd be bringing a feature-complete version of Codemasters' hit 2014 console and PC racer GRID Autosport to the mobile platform, and it's been a painful wait ever since. While originally slated for a sprin … | Continue reading
I'm not typically a big fan of card battlers, but every once in a while one will grab a hold of me. Back in early 2014, the latest game to do that was Ludosity's Card City Nights [$0.99]. One thing that drew me to it was that its card battling mechanics were simple to understand | Continue reading
Just as expected, this afternoon during the opening ceremonies of Blizzcon, Blizzard announced the next Hearthstone expansion. It's called Kobolds & Catacombs, and it'll have 135 entirely new cards to open when it launches in December. Details are few and far between right now, b … | Continue reading
Tequila Works, the Spanish developer most widely known for the puzzle adventure Rime, and Glowmade, the English developer who is just getting started, have announced their new collaborative project called WonderWorlds. It's described as "an action-adventure game creator thing" an … | Continue reading
It's new iPhone release day… again! Yep, Apple released the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus models in September, which are largely similar in a physical sense to last year's iPhone 7 models but feature glass backs that allow for inductive charging, improved Retina HD screens with True … | Continue reading
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to a special bonus edition of the RPG Reload Play-Along. Each month, we'll be playing an iOS RPG together, sharing laughs and tears in equal measures. The post on the front page (like this one!) is basically here to announce the game in question … | Continue reading
Sometimes I wonder if Justin Smith from Captain Games realizes his own genius when creating games, or if he just makes games that happen to be stunningly brilliant. One of my all-time favorite games is Enviro-Bear 2010 [$0.99], which is a silly game about a bear driving a car wit … | Continue reading
Zach Gage is one of my favorite game designers because he's really good at taking really basic game concepts that you're already familiar with, like searching for words or playing chess, and adding a weird twist that makes the end result simply phenomenal. This was the case with … | Continue reading
Wouldn't it be cool to be an octopus? I can think of so many ways having eight tentacles could improve my quality of life. One of those would be being able to swing to and fro wherever I go, assuming I was a special type of octopus that lived on land (it could happen!). Also, | Continue reading
Morphite first hit the App Store in late September, and like most Crescent Moon games, was received very well on our forums. We awarded it Game of the Week and in that post expand on what makes Morphite so special. In a nutshell, it's a pocket-sized space exploration game that's … | Continue reading
Watching Sega find its stride on the App Store has been fascinating, particularly when it comes to anything to do with Sonic. When endless runners hit so hard, it seemed like a Sonic game could be an unbelievably natural fit in that genre. Instead, Sega durdled around with Doodle … | Continue reading
Atypical Games has brought us some great flight sims, and today the developer is adding a new game to its Sky Gamblers series, Sky Gamblers: Infinite Jets [$4.99]. As you can tell from the title, Infinite Jets goes away from the WWII planes of previous games and returns to the pr … | Continue reading
Nothing can ever be straightforward when it comes to sequels and Square Enix, can it? Here we have Final Fantasy Dimensions 2 [$14.99], which is not a follow-up to the story or mechanics of Final Fantasy Dimensions [Free]. Instead, it's the sequel to an unrelated Japan-only free- … | Continue reading
So, what exactly is Butterscotch Shenanigans, the developer of the fantastic Crashlands, up to with its upcoming game Scuffle Buddies? Well, today we got to see a bit more of Scuffle Buddies, but even with that, we are still in the realm of guesswork and trying to make sense of t … | Continue reading
It's the middle of the week, "hump day" as they say, and that means a load of new iOS games are now available in the App Store. It's yet another strong week, as if I even had any free time between all the great new stuff that's come out on mobile in recent weeks as | Continue reading
It's hard to believe that 10tons launched their fantastic dual-stick shooter Neon Chrome [$2.99] on iOS almost an entire year go, as the game still feels as fresh and fun as it did last November. Following its great reception on mobile, questions quickly turned to when 10tons wou … | Continue reading
The new season of FIFA Mobile [Free] is now live, and it's brought plenty of new features and modes for you to play with. First of all, the new season brings along a reset of your team and all the players in it, coin balances and Token Inventories, and the progression in VS Attac … | Continue reading