Well Supercell, that was fast. After just 4 sneak peeks, today Clash of Clans [Free] is getting its first of many balancing updates and the first new unit in more than two years. We've already written about the Bowler, the new unit, as well as the various nerfs and buffs and the … | Continue reading

Well, that didn't take long, did it? If you've been enjoying wrecking enemy towers with Clash Royale's [Free] Prince, you might have to rethink your strategy a bit. According to Supercell, the first balance changes since global launch are supposed to boost some underused cards as … | Continue reading

We've been super stoked for Albion Online for a while now, and as a veteran of Ultima Online, there arew few things I'm looking forward to playing on my iPad more than this. Well, we got a brief look today at how the touch interface of the game is going to work, and, well, it's e … | Continue reading

The Frostrune from Norwegian game developer Grimnir is a point and click adventure game that is rich in Viking history. Starting the game, the player finds themselves shipwrecked with a small building in the distance. Richly illustrated, the game has been in development since 201 … | Continue reading

Egg! is the tamagotchi style game from the well funded Nix Hydra Games in Los Angeles. In Egg! the players raise an egg from the point it is laid to when it hatches. The egg itself will be demanding and annoying at times, just like a tamagotchi should. It may require washing, fee … | Continue reading

Fighters of Fate is the first game from Pincer Games and it's an ambitious attempt at a highly customized turn based PvP card combat game. A lot of attention has been paid to the player customization with a bazillion possible combinations. Not unexpected from the developers, two … | Continue reading

We got a quick look at Tableaux this afternoon, and it's one of those games that I'm sort of surprised that there aren't way more games doing this sort of thing. So Tableaux is less of a game and more of a framework to play tons of different games as it's a totally open table | Continue reading

The accessibility of game development has made it almost anyone who is interested in making a game can just download the (typically totally free) tools and just go nuts building whatever they feel like doing. That's exactly what Nicole Stark, her husband, and their four daughters … | Continue reading

Raw Fury announced recently that they are bringing their Steam hit game Kingdom to mobile. Developed by Noio, Kingdom is a 2D simulation of a king or queen building out a new kingdom from scratch. Starting off by building the center of the base, recruiting troops, and assigning t … | Continue reading

Living in this post-Hearthstone world, it's evident that people are hungry for collectable card games. Star Crusade aims to take a bite out of that market with a surprisingly cool new game that feels a lot like existing CCG's while having a bunch of new interesting thing that mak … | Continue reading

Well, here we go again. As it did with Clash of Clans [Free] Town Hall 11 Update, Supercell has started teasing us about what's to come in the next update and also announced the first in a number of frequent balancing updates to come in 2016. Shifting away from doing only major u … | Continue reading

Ticket to Earth from Robot Circus is an upcoming turn based RPG with an interesting twist of a new mash-up game mechanic. While it's still early in the development for Ticket to Earth, with the game is expected to launch late in the year, the early game play is there and it looks … | Continue reading

While there's a ton of talented artists in the mobile gaming landscape, PagodaWest Games could make a great case for being the best at what they do. Major Magnet [$1.99] and Major Magnet Arcade [Free] are stupid gorgeous. Even Circle Frenzy [Free], a high score chaser, has much b … | Continue reading

PixelLicker, the developers of Slayin' [$0.99], the mega-rad Flash game that later hit iOS, are back at work on a new game about to hit iOS, and it's looking fantastic. Treasure Buster will have you launching your character around various rooms trying to hit enemies and collect t … | Continue reading

As always, Bulkypix has a ton of games coming out in the near future, and I was able to go hands-on with some of them here at GDC this week. First up was the virtual reality version of Please, Don't Touch Anything [$1.99] which we enjoyed in our review and picked as our Game of | Continue reading

I've said many times before how platformers are my favorite genre, I literally have dozens of them on my phone at any given time. So I was pretty excited to check out Le Parker - Sous Chef Extraordinaire at GDC this week, a gorgeous upcoming platformer from developer Play Pretend … | Continue reading

GDC can at times bring out games that wouldn't surface otherwise. Today we saw a couple voxel art quick reflex games from Mike Meyers. The first of which is currently titled Flip Out and is a three lane avoidance game where jumping left and right while advancing forward are the o … | Continue reading

Creature Quest has been a bit of a weird game to follow, because it's made by Jon Van Caneghem, a guy with an extensive Wikipedia page filled with all the monumental things he did to evolve the world of PC strategy gaming. When you hear he's got a game coming, you're kind of expe … | Continue reading

As someone who doesn't really follow things going on in the world of kids' entertainment or Japan, this morning's meeting was a bit of an eye-opener as I realized just how incredibly, ridiculously popular the Yo Kai Watch universe is. I guess the show is huge, the 3DS game is abs … | Continue reading

Starr Mazer is an upcoming hybrid point-and-click adventure game mixed with classic scrolling shoot 'em up gameplay. It sounds like a wacky mashup, but the game looks freaking awesome, which is why it was funded with room to spare during its Kickstarter campaign last year. While … | Continue reading

Just over a week ago developer No Code revealed their latest project, a crazy one-touch shooter called Super Arc Light. I had a chance to sit down and try it this week at GDC, and it's even more awesome in person than the already pretty awesome trailer led me to believe. You trav … | Continue reading

Pixeljam has been one of my favorite developers since they busted on the mobile scene with one of my all-time favorite games Glorkian Warrior [$2.99] two years ago, and their most recent title Last Horizon [$2.99] has similarly crept into my collection of frequently played games. … | Continue reading

I loved Lucky Kat's Sky Chasers [Free], a cave flyer with the heart of a platformer that launched back in January, so I was excited to see them begin teasing a new project called Combo Critters just about a month ago. Combo Critters has gone through several iterations since Lucky … | Continue reading

In the (possibly) not too distant future, humans end up destroying the planet, and the world's apes are not super happy about that. So they retaliate in the only way they know how: By stealing a zeppelin and bombing the crap out of everyone. That's the premise behind ApeStorm: Fu … | Continue reading

Carter got a chance to see Looty Dungeon back at PAX South which got people around here really excited. Well, we actually got to see the game in action today and I'm thinking the ol' TouchArcade crowd is really going to dig this one. Check out Looty Dungeon in all of its looty du … | Continue reading

EVE Online is one of those games I wish I had time to play, but I've sort of reached a point in my life where I just don't have it in me anymore to get involved in a super-complex PC MMORPG. Well, at GDC we ran into the guys from Blackjack Studio, who are working | Continue reading

Among the bucket of games we saw today was Rival Gears, a game which on the box might seem like a pretty standard free to play racer. Getting a little deeper, it has some really cool mechanics which makes it stand out from the pack. First off, instead of CSR-style minimal gamepla … | Continue reading

Our focus around here is definitely more gamer-y games, and what's cool about GDC is when you run into games like this that are totally outside of what you usually cover. Hearts Medicine is a massive female-targetted game series that combines a lot of familiar mini games and time … | Continue reading

One of the highlights of GDC for us so far is meeting all four of the Foursaken Media brothers. Aside from being supremely cool dudes, they've also got a game on the horizon. It's called War Tortoise, and the way they're pitching it is as a active clicker/shooter of sorts which s … | Continue reading

In their own words, the NYU Game Center "is dedicated to the exploration of games as a cultural form and game design as creative practice. Our approach to the study of games is based on a simple idea: games matter." They expand on that mission statement on their website, but the … | Continue reading

We've posted quite a bit about King Rabbit, the game formerly known as Furdemption 2. They changed the name and are barreling towards their release date which is coming very soon. We got a quick look at GDC, and like most sequels, it seems like a really strong iteration of the or … | Continue reading

As an American, cricket is one of those sports that I know absolutely nothing about. My main frame of reference for the sport is the cricket scene in King Ralph, which I can only assume is hyper-representitive of what playing cricket is actually like. But, if you are into cricket … | Continue reading

Stronghold Kingdoms is a massive online strategy free to play game which previously was only available on the PC which is on the fast track to mobile devices. Cooler yet, the whole thing is going to be totally cross platform. Effectively, the game already exists and it's getting … | Continue reading

[appicon]The Sketch Nation series goes way, way back and in fact it was just about 6 years ago on the dot that we sat down to check out the original Sketch Nation at GDC 2010. The series has evolved a lot in the years since, and the most recent version of the game is called Sketc … | Continue reading

Most people will probably know Umbrella Games from their Q-bert meets Crossy Road game Down The Mountain [Free] which launched last year, and they're now continuing in that vein with their upcoming RPG Magic Mountain. Utilizing that same blocky voxel style, Magic Mountain has you … | Continue reading