In October of last year, developer Drool released a frantic rhythm game called Thumper onto desktop and PlayStation 4 with virtual reality support through Oculus and PlayStation VR. It was incredibly well-received, to put it mildly. Since then, the game made its way to the Xbox O … | Continue reading
Hello everyone, and happy post-Kobolds & Catacombs week. As is always the case after a Hearthstone [Free] expansion drops, the community is all energized and players are trying to figure out what decks to put together and whether their new Legendary is useful (hint: usually, it's … | Continue reading
The card game genre is among the most populated on the App Store, but most of those card games don’t resemble Fantasy Flight Games' The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, the story-based single-player or cooperative living card game that works in ways very different from those of … | Continue reading
While drinking from the fire hose of new releases that is the raw iTunes RSS feeds today we stumbled across something peculiar: Playdead's Inside and Annapurna's Gorogoa are both showing up as a new listings on the App Store, but you can't download them just yet. Instead, you can … | Continue reading
Developer Turborilla first popped onto our radars in the mobile gaming world way back in January of 2011 when they released their popular desktop racer Mad Skills Motocross on iOS. I enjoyed the game very much back then for its nuanced physics system that allowed for highly compe … | Continue reading
If I challenged everyone who reads this article to come up with a list of developers who were absolutely instrumental in elevating the platform of touch-based mobile gaming from its meager roots of simple puzzle games and bad ports to what it is today, I'd expect to see Simogo on … | Continue reading
A few weeks back, we wrote about Telltale's substantial layoffs and promise to focus on fewer, better quality games. We haven't heard much about Telltale's future since then, but a recent interview by Telltale's new CEO, Pete Hawley, points to the kind of changes we might see dow … | Continue reading
One of last year's best games, and really one of the more enjoyable and unique games for mobile in general, was Kestrel Games' Rule with an Iron Fish [$2.99]. It's a game about fishing but is certainly not a fishing simulation game, of which there are several on the App Store. In … | Continue reading
Even before its release, we were all over GRID Autosport [$9.99]. It's a real-deal, full-blown premium racing experience that we absolutely loved in our review. The entire game reminds us of the old days of the App Store, when developers would release incredible game experiences … | Continue reading
Hello everyone, and welcome to Musgravian Musings, a little space of my own where I can do some non-review reflections on recent game releases. In general, the featured games are ones that have caught my interest in some way or another, and will tend to be games that I didn't (an … | Continue reading
After digging a little deeper into obscurities for the last couple of releases, SEGA has gone back to one of their tried and true 16-bit franchises for the latest addition to the SEGA Forever line-up. The Streets of Rage series has lain dormant for a very long time now, but in it … | 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. As we march ever closer to Christmas and the App Store freeze, I keep expecting a deluge of updates to drop on my head. So far it hasn't been too bad, | Continue reading
The surprise release of Ace Attorney Investigations last week caps off a strong push by Capcom over the last couple of years to get just about every entry in the series onto mobile devices. The mobile ports have been excellent, offering crisp, high-resolution versions of the DS a … | Continue reading
Freshly back from the Clash Royale [Free] championships, I go over just how surprising the world of mobile esports is. Oh, and if you're curious about the prize linked savings account stuff I mentioned, check out this web site and/or check out this podcast. Neither have anything … | 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
Just in time for the weekend and the upcoming holidays, Pokemon GO [Free] has added the 50 new Pokemon from the Hoenn Region and its dynamic weather system. As we talked about in a story earlier this week, this update brings Pokemon like Treecko, Torchic, Mudkip, and many other o … | Continue reading
Race for the Galaxy [$6.99] is getting ready to grow. The third expansion, The Brink of War, will add four new starting worlds to the game, thirty six new developments to build and worlds to settle, five new goals, and Prestige, a new way to earn victory. The expansion also adds … | Continue reading
Taiwanese developer Noice2D, which is really just two people, have announced their new upcoming mobile game called Tako Bubble, and it's looking really neat. Tako Bubble is a turn-based puzzle platformer that has you guiding an adorable octopus around numerous hazards and enemies … | Continue reading
Supecell has the art team (and money) to make some great Clash Royale [Free] commercials, and the latest one, called "Cards Coming to Life," is one of the best commercials yet. The commercial turns many of your favorite Clash Royale characters into perfectly designed anime charac … | Continue reading
Getting Over It [$4.99] (and Sexy Hiking before it) are making climbing with a hammer sexy and popular, so I was expecting to see more games in that genre. It didn't take long as Naquatic announced on our forums today that it's developing Climby Hammer, a take on the climbing for … | Continue reading
James Senter, creator of the A Dark Room [$1.99]-inspired text-based incremental game Nano Empire [$0.99] which became hugely popular in the accessible games community for its VoiceOver support for the visually impaired, has announced his next game and I'm loving the premise to d … | Continue reading
I don't know about you, but I can't wait to get my hands on the mobile version of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. The game is pure fun and terror (hiding in a bathroom has never been more nerve-wracking), but it also currently comes with only one map, and as large at that map is, … | Continue reading
Over the past decade I've grown to love a lot of iPhone games, but there's a handful of games that I love on a whole different level, like I SUPER DUPER LOVE them. Andy Wallace's Particle Mace [$2.99] is one of those games. Released in early 2015, Particle Mace on first blush loo … | Continue reading
Here's a story today that's almost too cool to believe: A million years ago in App Store time, First Strike [$3.99] got posted to our forums. OK, so it was early 2014, but still, that's ancient history for mobile. It was (and still is) a really cool game that involves waging glob … | Continue reading
While it's possible it's already on your radar, a while ago now Metagame, Carbon Incubator and Tilting Point all got together to release the action RPG clicker game Tap Busters: Galaxy Heroes [Free] which plays a lot like your typical clicker but the amount of zany subsystems the … | Continue reading
I've seen Hidden Folks [$3.99] in an awful lot of short lists for the best mobile games of 2017, and for good reason: It's pretty dang awesome. Basically, if you haven't played it, imagine the basic concept of the classic Where's Waldo books, but applied to an exceedingly well-do … | Continue reading
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth [] is one of the few Ace Attorney games that hadn’t hit iOS and Android. Over the last few years, Capcom has been porting everything Ace Attorney to mobile platforms and we couldn’t be happier. They recently released Ace Attorney: Spir … | Continue reading
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the regular feature where we always bring a party. To be specific, welcome to the RPG Reload Glossary, where we sift through the piles of historical debris and messy semantics to try to make some sense of it all. This time aro … | Continue reading
Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy [$4.99] is one of those games where you'll want to tie your phone to your wrist because chances are you'll be flinging it across the room multiple times. I've been playing around with the game since it came out yesterday, and it's perfect on mob … | Continue reading
Discord [Free], the chat platform for gamers of all platforms, continues to grow, and today the company announced that it currently has 87 million users, up from 25 million a year ago and from 45 million in May. That's a pretty substantial increase that shows Discord is on the ri … | Continue reading
The collectible card game Shadowverse [Free] continues to grow, and soon we will see the game's seventh expansion called Chronogenesis, coming December 28th. This huge set will add 138 cards to the game, which is much more than what we got from expansions in the past. The reason … | Continue reading
I love when games take a well-established genre and then focus on an area outside the norm. In the case of RPGs, you're almost always the protagonist setting out to save the world or whatever, often by completing quests given to you through other people in the game. But who comes … | Continue reading
Studio Rouleau's first App Store release was just a few months ago with Force Escape [Free], a stylish game with minimalist graphics and moody tunes where your job was to swat away all manner of debris as you cleared a path for a shuttle that was rocketing upwards towards escape. … | Continue reading
The whole internet seems to be talking about it today, but if you somehow missed it, Reigns: Her Majesty [$2.99] was released late last night. It's the highly anticipated sequel to last year's surprise mashup of Tinder swipes and RPG gameplay, Reigns [$2.99]. This time around, th … | Continue reading
Kobolds & Catacombs, the latest Hearthstone [Free] expansion, is finally live in NA and EU everyone, so go start opening decks and buildings decks. You will venture into a huge underground world that Kobolds have mindlessly carved over thousands of years. Treasures await you but … | Continue reading
Critical Ops [Free] has solidified itself as the "Counter Strike" of mobile since its release in October 2016. It has continued to foster an extremely loyal fan-base while bolstering a respectable eSports scene. There seems to be tournaments around every corner, as well as severa … | Continue reading
Just like every year, Apple has released the top 20 charts for each of the 2017 App Store's category, and some of the names are very surprising while others follow the trends one would expect from the App Store of 2017. In terms of overall trends, Apple is glad Augmented Reality … | Continue reading
We've already posted our Reigns: Her Majesty [$2.99] review, and chances are you wouldn't be looking up cheat guides like these if you didn't also agree, at least on some level, that the sequel to Reigns [$2.99] is incredible. The addition of the item system and the zodiac calend … | Continue reading
The original Reigns [$2.99] was easily among my favorite games released last year, as the whole experience felt like a masterpiece of game design. Via binary options, triggered by swiping right or left as if you were browsing through Tinder profiles, players were invited to rule … | Continue reading
It's the middle of the week, and that means it's time for our roundup of all the best new iOS games to hit the App Store in the past 7 days. As always it's a busy week, but I can't think of another week that had so darn many big name releases that dropped pretty | Continue reading
Here I am doing my weekly deep dive into the inner depths of the App Store to scrounge up all the new games for our weekly roundup, and I just happened to notice that Reigns: Her Majesty [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reigns-her-majesty/id1171040772?mt=8"] is avai … | Continue reading
Back in June developer Craneballs, who you likely know from their mega-popular Overkill series or the colorful top-down driving game Splash Cars, revealed an upcoming game called Fling Fighters with an extremely vague teaser trailer. A follow-up teaser screenshot indicated that t … | Continue reading
HQ Live Trivia Game Show [Free] continues to grow at a rapid pace, so rapid actually that the developers are struggling to improve the huge lag that has been frustrating players. Still, the iOS app has seen a 100 times increase in players over the last month or so, so it makes se … | Continue reading
It's been a long journey, but as promised back in October the latest chapter to the stylish puzzle adventure Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise [$4.99] has just landed in the App Store. Originally launched way back in October of 2015, Agent A is an escape room-style point-and-click ad … | Continue reading
It's almost time for Kobolds & Catacombs, Hearthstone [Free] players, and the patch that prepares the ground for the expansion has just gone live. While you won't really say any changes right now, you can get excited about all the new cards and the Dungeon Run mode. The new patch … | Continue reading
If you want to see what the closed beta for Magic: The Gathering Arena holds, head over to the official Twitch channel right now to watch the first closed beta stream. During this stream, the developers will talk about what the early stages of the beta look like and will also tes … | Continue reading