So, today we're going to talk about some great tournaments and some...I'm kidding; today is all about the announcement for the upcoming Hearthstone [Free] expansion, Whispers of the Old Gods that has finally arrived. On Saturday night, Ben Brode and Young Woo gave us the announce … | 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. This week we saw a nice mix of updates from big names, indies, free-to-play, and paid games. A rare moment of balance. Of course, you can keep an eye … | 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
The week before GDC is always totally insane for us, but things are even going to get crazier next week as we meet with dozens of different developers to see what kind of new cool stuff they're working on. In this episode, we talk a bit about GDC then shift gears to discuss the f … | Continue reading
We've been posting about our Patreon for a while now, and we've really never done that much for our backers beyond just doing what we're doing and offering up some minor rewards in the form of forum titles. That's largely intentional, as we want to keep providing an awesome web s … | 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
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
If you didn't play last year's Blokshot Revolution [Free], you're missing out as the game was really, really good – Shaun Musgrave gave it 5 stars. Now, the team at Foxhole Games is set to release their next game, a sort of continuation of the mechanics of Blokshot Revolution but … | Continue reading
[appicon]The Room trilogy has offered mobile gamers some of the prettiest games on the platform as well as showing off how the touchscreen interface could offer different gameplay experiences than a controller or a keyboard. The games' tactility combined with the occult themes ma … | Continue reading
It hasn't been that long since we got the 0.14 update for Minecraft Pocket Edition [$6.99], and yet I'm already waiting for update 0.15 to hit because I want those pistons for my completely-unnecessary secret chamber entry. After a relative silence of a couple of weeks, the devel … | Continue reading
[appicon]Plague Inc. [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/plague-inc./id525818839?mt=8"] was one of my favorite mobile games for quite some time back when it came out. The idea of trying to kill the world by picking the correct combination of symptoms was very entertain … | Continue reading
We've been following along with the development of Paper Wizard since we first caught wind of it in early February, and last night developer Ideatory announced in our forums that the game will be arriving this Monday, March 14th. Paper Wizard is a dual-stick shooter where you're … | Continue reading
About a month ago, I wrote about an interview by Paradox Interactive's CEO, Fredrik Wester, where he talked about the possibility of Paradox bringing franchises like Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis, and even Stellaris to mobile in the next year, year and a half. Needless to sa … | Continue reading
In addition to the announcing the first details to its next Hearthstone [Free] expansion, Whispers of the Old Gods this morning, Blizzard also unveiled to all players the first six of the slated 134 cards of the expansion pack. Two of the announced cards, the Legendary C’Thun and … | Continue reading
The latest Hearthstone Expansion is Nearly Here and We Have The Latest Details On It | Continue reading
A new game recently popped up in our forums that's shaping up to be pretty awesome. I'm reluctant to make too many comparisons without playing it first, but the teaser trailer is giving me some serious Journey vibes along with generally being surprisingly beautiful. Definitely gi … | Continue reading
I saw Dash Masters and thought that the game looked like fun. It has back-and-forth zig-zag jumping, to go along with homing missiles being shot out, and a dash attack. It's a high score chaser, as you try to ascend as high as possible, while collecting coins that go toward upgra … | Continue reading
Nexon's Legacy Quest [Free] was originally announced more than a year ago, in February 2015, and just a week or so after that it ended up being one of my favorite games that I saw at GDC that year. The game had been in soft-launch since last September, and has undergone numerous … | Continue reading
Those guys over at Wargaming.net continue to update World of Tanks Blitz [Free] almost monthly, ensuring that the game stay fresh and tankers have new battlefields to explore and new tanks to blow up. Yesterday we got update 2.7, with its highlight being a whole new map, Mirage. … | Continue reading
Expect to see more and more online multiplayer games on mobile this year. It's always been a thing that companies have wanted to crack, since there is an interest. But up until Clash Royale [Free], it didn't feel like anyone got the live PVP multiplayer thing quite figured out. W … | Continue reading
Parta Games has just soft launched Choppa in a few countries including Canada. This game is kind of like what would happen if Retry [Free] was less about speedrunning and more about saving people from burning fires. You navigate hazardous courses – and the occasional bird that wa … | Continue reading
You might remember that quite a few months back, we wrote about Failbetter Games deciding to bring its browser game Fallen London over to mobile. Well, today we finally got the news that we'll be getting Fallen London's intriguing version of the supernatural to mobile on April 16 … | Continue reading
Solo developer Jared Baily of Nocanwin has long been one of my favorite developers, not just because he has the best first name in existence, but because he's constantly trying new and interesting ideas for games. After his well-received Rocket Ski Racing [Free] released back in … | Continue reading
This morning Apple sent out invitations for a media event on March 21st, teasing the tagline "Let us loop you in." The rumor mill is in full force trying to decode any hints offers in the invite, but most seem to expect that we'll see some new Apple Watch bands, a 4" iPhone which … | Continue reading
If you like exploiting alien homeworlds for resources, and also enjoy the stuff Noodlecake rapid-fire releases on to the App Store, Dig Deep should probably be on your watch list somewhere. It's part of what Noodlecake plans to show off at GDC next week, but much like Super Stick … | Continue reading
As I mentioned yesterday in my Super Senso preview, I'm super stoked by this new trend we're seeing on the App Store of developers actually figuring out how to make what feels like compelling gameplay experiences with strategic mechanics that'll interest actual gamers while still … | Continue reading
While Pokemon Go from Niantic is set to hit sometime this year, it looks like another Pokemon game is set to hit mobile in Japan: Pokemon Comasters. With the help of our own Shaun Musgrave, what we've sussed out about this is that it's a game being developed by HEROZ, where you'l … | Continue reading
Surprise releases are always the most fun, no? Retro City Rampage DX [$4.99] coming to iOS certainly qualifies, as there was no word that it was coming to iOS, development of the game seemed to cease after it released on PC (Windows AND MS-DOS), Mac, Linux, PS4, PS3, PS Vita, Nin … | Continue reading
One of my favorite childhood games on PC was ZZT. It was a simple adventure game that was solely comprised of ANSI characters, to the point where everything, even the hero, looked like text. It was done so well though that the low-fi angle worked, and even though it wasn't all th … | Continue reading
We get a lot of really crazy incoming emails here at TouchArcade Towers because of how shockingly wide the larger mobile market actually is. Sure, we're a web site that focuses on iOS games, but under that umbrella also kinda-sorta includes things like cases, chargers, headphones … | Continue reading
Late last year we posted the trailer of the then just-announced Super Senso. The game has been soft launched for a while now, and following a few significant updates, Super Senso is another game you should be following our guide on how to download games from other regions so you … | Continue reading
Oh Game Dev Story [$4.99]. I have such a soft spot for you in my heart. Way back in October of 2010, I was still fairly new here at TouchArcade and Game Dev Story had just released, but was on absolutely nobody's radar at the time. It's not really hard to see why. It had | Continue reading
One of the fun things about following a specific platform over a number of years is watching how things progress. Developers and series will pop up, and if they hang around, you can see what they do to build on what they did before to try to make an even better game. Sometimes it … | Continue reading
The original Badlands is a game I often show people to demonstrate how gorgeous mobile games can be. The lighting effects and the great animation of both your little creatures and the environment makes for a beautiful game. And yet, surprisingly, Badlands 2 [$2.99] managed to sur … | Continue reading
It's Wednesday again, and aside from oodles of new iOS games getting posted to our forums this morning, it's also Get Over It Day. If you've never celebrated Get Over It Day anymore, here's the gist: If you've got something to get over, get over it. Bam. Done. Whatever drama you' … | Continue reading
Game postmortems are usually a very interesting peek behind the curtain of game development and a useful teaching tool for other developers trying to navigate the troubled waters of the App Store. When that postmortem is about a game as great as Crashlands [$4.99] and comes from … | 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
As our own Andrew called it in his review, Punch Club [$4.99] is a gut punch of nostalgia whose tropes and references will make the older ones among you smile up until the point when the grind kicks in. Despite the grind, Punch Club is a pretty entertaining and quite complex game … | 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
BorderLeap, makers of the Harmony [$0.99] series of games, are launching a new puzzler soon on the App Store, called Drop Flip. If you've played Trick Shot [$1.99], the concept of getting a ball into the bucket should be familiar. But the execution is different here, as instead o … | Continue reading
In August of last year our own resident hardcore Disney fanboy Eric Ford went to the D23 event where Disney Interactive showcased their upcoming video game projects. Among major players like Kingdom Hearts 3 and Star Wars: Battlefront was a little mobile game called Disney Magic … | Continue reading
If Alto from Alto's Adventure [$2.99] decided he's had enough of all the snow and went to the California for surfing, what you would get is the upcoming Go Surf, an endless surfer. According to the game's description, the developer Diverso Games is trying to create an involving e … | Continue reading
When Simogo released Year Walk [$3.99] (and its companion app), I really enjoyed delving into Northern European mythology and learning about all its intriguing creatures and stories. There's something about the moody, icy weather and landscape of countries like Sweden and Norway … | Continue reading
Back in November of last year, St. Lous-based production company Forever an Astronaut announced that they would be creating a series of behind-the-scenes Dev Diary videos on developer Butterscotch Shenanigans and the creation of their latest project Crashlands [$4.99]. As you are … | Continue reading
As you can probably tell by my recent reviews, I like Telltale games quite a lot, mostly for their heavy narrative focus and lack of traditional puzzles. While not all the company's games reach the same heights, I'm willing to try any game Telltale develops. Recently, Telltale co … | Continue reading
Video game news can be weird, particularly when it comes from channels which aren't usually monitored by enthusiasts, or even the games media. That's certainly the case with this interesting nugget regarding the future of Magic which was actually revealed as part of a Hasbro inve … | Continue reading
One of the main reasons players are excited about Hearthstone [Free] getting a Standard mode soon is that deckbuilding skills should matter more since most of the old archetypes should be going away. Blizzard has decided to help players improve their deckbuilding skills - or at l … | Continue reading