Pixel Cup Soccer [$0.99] has been bringing fast-paced, old-school style arcade soccer to mobile devices since 2014, and now its sequel Pixel Cup Soccer 2 looks to bring more of the same but in a bigger and better package. Like NBA Jam [$4.99] and other classic arcade sports games … | Continue reading
Those of us who are of legal drinking age can likely relate to this. You go out with some mates, toss a few too many back, and the next day you wake up in a strange place and spend the entire next day trying to piece together exactly what sort of shenanigans you got into | Continue reading
Spunge Games' Faily Brakes [Free] has done pretty well for itself so far, netting over a million downloads in its first weekend and being a popular game amongst YouTubers and streamers. Who doesn't want to watch a blocky dude get flung about and sent to his horrific death? The go … | Continue reading
Sega's big free-to-play, cross-platform, raiding-strategy take on the Total War series, Total War Battles: Kingdom, will be going worldwide next week on March 24th. Technically, you could already be playing it if you had the Canadian soft launch (and we have a guide on how to get … | Continue reading
Time is a flat circle, my friends: you can now play Sonic the Hedgehog [$2.99] on Apple TV. It's certainly a welcome update because who doesn't want more Apple TV games (and this one should work better with the remote than most games). But also, it leads to the comedy of a game g … | Continue reading
Nintendo's first iOS app, Miitomo, has finally launched in Japan, alongside Nintendo's new rewards program, My Nintendo. The two are, as expected, linked in a lot of ways. Playing Miitomo earns you points that you can exchange on My Nintendo for discounts on games, console themes … | Continue reading
Well, it's finally here. We've been speculating for years what Nintendo is going to do on mobile, and we now live in a world where there's a real Nintendo app on the App Store. Miitomo [Free] is currently available in Japan only, but its worldwide release will presumably follow r … | Continue reading
The next major company to literally heed the esteemed Eli Hodapp's advice to "Just Make Crossy Road [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/crossy-road-endless-arcade/id924373886?mt=8"], JEEZ!" is Disney. The House of Mouse is teaming up with Hipster Whale to make Disney C … | Continue reading
It's become sort of a tradition that we check out Celsius Game Studio's upcoming space trader Drifter at GDC. That's a polite way of saying this game has been in the works for a really long time, but to be fair it's an absolutely massive game and is entirely the work of one progr … | Continue reading
We've been doing the same thing for years now, and we keep doing it because it's awesome. If you're in town for GDC or just live in SF, please come hang out with us as we slowly take over Bin 55 at 7:00 PM until around 11:00ish when they start doing last call. It's the | Continue reading
Recently, I wrote about an upcoming sci-fi CCG called Star Crusade: War for the Expanse and talked about how it seems to be doing enough to distinguish itself from other mobile CCGs. Today, we got our hands on another trailer, and the game continues to look very promising. This n … | Continue reading
I have to be honest here; a CCG-version of Plants Vs Zombies didn't initially catch my attention because with Hearthstone dominating my CCG playtime, I wasn't really sure the soft-launched Plants Vs Zombies Heroes could really offer anything beyond the fun aspect of the art. Well … | Continue reading
Apologies for posting this so late in the day, but we're fully observing Kick Butts Day by kicking butt at GDC. As you've probably noticed, we've had a bucket load of game previews flooding the site all week... Which sort of has put a bit of a wrinkle in our normal site features- … | Continue reading
Candy Crush and its mind-blowing success has spawned an endless see of candy-based games looking to grab even a tiny piece of that money-printing pie, and as such it's hard not to kind of dismiss any new puzzle games built around the theme of candy. In Puzzlepops!, an upcoming lo … | Continue reading
Early last month we talked about Exiles of Embermark, an upcoming RPG battling game that aims to give mobile players satisfying combat in one minute sessions. The game is being developed by Gunslinger Studio, an offshoot of Industrial Toys, and they showed off an in-progress buil … | Continue reading
Last year's Midnight Star [Free] was a fun take on first-person shooters rethought with mobile and touchscreens in mind. It had an element of "on rails" restriction, but this served to make the gunplay itself the focus which proved to be a great move, in my opinion. Now developer … | Continue reading
Independent developer TouchMint has come out with a really clever companion app to Clash Royale [Free] that will help you figure out when your long-awaited magical and giant chests are bound to hit. Chest Tracker for Clash Royale [Free] is pretty much what it says on the tin: it … | Continue reading
With the success of Crossy Road [Free] and its many spinoffs, it can be tough to get excited when a developer describes their upcoming game is an "endless hopper." You immediately imagine yet another Verby Noun game that doesn't do anything especially different from the many simi … | Continue reading
Here's something interesting that Apple's doing – they've launched a collection of games on the App Store that are nominated for Game Developers Conference's 16th annual Game Developers Choice Awards. There are 12 mobile games up for awards, and they're all worthy choices, includ … | 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
Invictus is here at GDC showing off a trio of their upcoming games. Two are vehicle-based and somewhat similar to their popular Daytona Rush [Free], while the third is a nifty digital take on the old underwater ring toss toys that I loved when I was a kid. First is Prime Time Rus … | Continue reading
The iPhone really is a pretty perfect platform for vertical shooters. Portrait mode fits great, and touch controls also work really well. For whatever reason, aside from the giants of the shooter scene, we really don't see too many indie shooters anymore. Well, Hyperstellar is on … | Continue reading
You may know Randy O'Connor from his self-published shooter Dead End HD [$0.99] or his unique game concept collection app Distractions [Free], or perhaps you're aware that he has worked with Tiger Style in the past as lead artist on Waking Mars [$4.99] and contributing artist on … | Continue reading
Back in the early days of the App Store when platformers were all the rage developers did a lot of things with gravity, rotating the camera around, and other things like that. Soosiz was an early standout, but that kind of gameplay almost felt forgotten... At least until Noodleca … | Continue reading
Prior to GDC, we posted a brief preview of Noodlecake's upcoming Dig Deep which was so vague it actually seemed to make people mad. Well, today we've got all the details on the game with this surprisingly rockin' hands on video of Dig Deep: Subscribe to the TouchArcade YouTube ch … | Continue reading
While runners with a color changing mechanic aren't really anything that new, Noodlecake's upcoming Chameleon Run is another one that seems to do everything right. There's a surprising amount of depth in the game which slowly shows itself through multiple replays of individual le … | Continue reading
Noodlecake was teasing Super Stickman Golf 3, and today we got a brief look at the future of the Super Stickman Golf-iverse. Two big things that were revealed today includes a new card system for power-ups, and the ability to put spin on the ball. Subscribe to the TouchArcade You … | Continue reading
I think one of the best things Flappy Bird ever did for the App Store was bring about the trend of super-quick retries. The upcoming Endless Wave takes that idea and runs with it, as you're (obviously) surfing on an endless wave, which in itself is cool- But if you die, you just … | Continue reading
I feel like we're on the verge of describing way too many games as being MOBA-like, but it still feels vaguely appropriate here when it comes to Kiloo's upcoming title, Spellbinders. In the game, you play as different characters, commanding various unique forces on a battlefield … | Continue reading
Kiloo is on fire lately with all their various successes on the App Store and their latest likely hit, Tesla Tubes is hitting the App Store this Thursday. It has a basic puzzle mechanic involving connecting two points, like quite a few other games on the App Store, but where Kilo … | Continue reading
This War of Mine [$3.99] put gamers in an awkward position when it came out because while the game is great in so many ways, it was tricky saying that you really enjoyed a game about the despair of civilian population in warzones. This was a game about war at its grittiest, and w … | Continue reading
So, over the past few days I've been playing an early build of Obsidian's Pathfinder Adventures (formerly known as Pathfinder Adventure Card Game), and if you like RPGs, CCGs, and the feeling of rolling dice for your life, I think you're going to love this one. If you don't know … | Continue reading
While card game mechanics seem to be in almost every game on the App Store recently, you won't hear many complaints from me because I've always enjoyed card games, from Ascension [Free] to Hearthstone [Free] and beyond, although their themes are often a bit too similar. VEmpire: … | Continue reading
PikPok is no stranger to making crazy games, as they're the guys behind a ton of totally off the wall titles published by Adult Swim. Their latest game fits right in with what we've come to expect in that it's delightfully weird but incredibly well done. It's called Doomsday Clic … | Continue reading
One of the themes of this GDC seems to be meeting up with developers we saw last year who now have games which are way closer to release than we were when we saw them originally. Disco Party is one such example, and all we posted last year was a few screenshots, well, the puzzle … | Continue reading
One of the surprises of GDC so far has been Rodeo Stampede, a game that combines voxel art and animal collection with a really fun core game of lassoing animals and hopping from beast to beast in a massive stampede. The core gameplay loop involves hopping on an animal, and launch … | Continue reading
Following their release of Thumb Drift [Free] just about a month ago, SMG Studio is getting back to their "One More" series of twitch games which so far include One More Line [Free] and One More Dash [Free]. The latest is called One More Jump, and interestingly it's not developed … | Continue reading
Infinite State Games, who made the fun and stylish Fruitorious [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/frutorious/id524952395?mt=8"], are bringing their Playstation Vita game Don't Die, Mr. Robot! to iOS next week on March 24th. This arena survival game, which has you tilt … | Continue reading
In September of last year, Deed - The Game [Free] officially launched in the App Store, but it wasn't until today at GDC that I'd even heard of it. There are a couple reasons for that, I think. For one, it's based on a physical board game named simply Sustainable Business that's … | Continue reading
Any Empire Records fans out there? No? Well whatever, I thought the title was clever. Halfbrick has a ton of games on deck, and the one they showed us today is based on the webisode series Dan the Man. The game shares the same title, and is a surprisingly great touchscreen platfo … | Continue reading
We're huge fans of Qwiboo stuff around here, as I can't even imagine how much time I've spent endlessly retrying in Bike Baron [$1.99] and shooting hoops in Ball King [Free], so when there's a new Qwiboo game on the horizon... Well, we're excited. For inspiration, they're learnin … | Continue reading
Pixowl's The Sandbox [Free] has been a hit with our community, like most of the world-building crafting games out there, but it's been out for a while and due for a refresh. ...Which is exactly where the upcoming The Sandbox 2 comes in. The Pixowl guys are aiming to make "The Mar … | Continue reading
What do you get when you combine platforms to lunar lander style gameplay? A neat little indie game we saw this afternoon called Mars Mars. In the game, you play as an astronaut on Mars (Surprise!) and you blast off from platform to platform, the tap either side of the screen to … | Continue reading
The first episode of The Walking Dead: Michonne [$4.99] was an entertaining start to Telltale's new miniseries primarily because of the complexity of the lead character (spoilers ahead). The way Telltale tried to bring Michonne's pre-apocalypse life into play made for an intrigui … | Continue reading
Several years back The Grinns Tale launched on Facebook as primarily a city-building game with battling and RPG elements peppered in. Since that time, city-builders have oversaturated the mobile market, so when considering taking the game, now known as Grinns Legacy, to the mobil … | Continue reading
It's Monday of GDC, which means you're going to hear a lot about games that are in the works in the future. But interestingly enough, this Monday is actually a notable release day for a few interesting indie games that have rolled out. Could be that they're trying to draw attenti … | Continue reading
Out first meeting at GDC was with Molly and Erik from Arcane Circus, they're from a city I can't pronounce in The Netherlands, and had one of the best game pitches I've seen in a long time. The game itself is a collection of mini games centralized around the idea of doing everyth … | Continue reading
The topic you hear all the time around mobile games is trying to create the first big mobile gaming eSport. Vainglory [Free] is really trying at it, throwing events all the time including one this past weekend in Santa Monica. And you see things like Super Senso aiming towards co … | Continue reading