If you’re a child of 80’s video games like me, few games likely bring back more traumatic memories of horrifying difficulty than Ghosts ‘n Goblins. While the game was originally released in arcades in 1985, it wasn’t until 1986 that Ghosts ‘n Goblins cursed the NES with its presence and quickly grew in fame as […]
After the arrival of Don Bluth’s Space Ace in the App Store, fans of these classic laser disc games were hoping that Dragon’s Lair would also make its way to the iPhone. We’re not sure how long this notice has been in place, but a reader trystero an announcement by Digital Leisure that they will […]
The Settlers is a real time strategy (RTS) gaming series that has evolved quite a bit over the past two decades. Gameloft’s The Settlers as a standalone game brings a slightly different take on RTS to the iPhone/iPod Touch platform that for the most part delivers, but also bringing a few frustrations along the way […]
Fans of Stephen Colbert’s dry wit, rejoice: MTV Networks has released an updated version of their iPhone app that features The Colbert Report’s The Word, just for you. Now you can have Colbert in your pocket to bring out whenever you need a pick-me-up for a crappy day. This iPhone app has most of The […]
Here’s a unique approach to reading news. The ZenNews iPhone app gives you the latest news depending on what you think is news worthy using a diggable tag cloud. Get the scoop on the latest news from around the globe with simple words. The ZenNews iPhone app uses what is known as Zensify Tag Clouds, […]
The MiniGolf 99 Holes Theme Park app for iPhone and iPod touch is a fun game that offers comic characters and challenging gameplay. Play like Tiger Woods and challenge your way through all 99 Holes and prove you’re the best. You will start with the Gold rating and it eventually decreases depending on the number […]
It’s been a busy old month for AppTrawler and we have given you over 200 posts packed full of news, reviews, previews, hands on and developer interviews. AppTrawler has not only trawled the app store for new and emerging talent but we’ve been proactively talking to the developers finding out what makes them tick, whats […]
Bloons Tower Defense has been sitting high in the App Store charts for a while now, so it’s good to see an update released. Alongside the usual gameplay tweaks and bug fixes, the big addition is support for the OpenFeint social network, which also includes game achievements. So in the interests of full disclosure, here’s […]
Sure there are plenty of golf games on the App Store, but the latest release from Scottish developer Cobra brings wi-fi multiplayer options into play. Combined with the Plus+ social network for friendly challenges and global leaderboards, it’s the sort of thing golfing buddies should consider in terms of stoking up one upmanship on the […]
We – by which I mean me – have been fairly excited by Glenn Corpes’ iPhone racer Ground Effect. The game, which has you flying an Ekranoplan, or a low flying seaplane that uses a compressed cushion of air, uses accelerometer controls and feels really smooth to play. It’s now out on the App Store. […]
There are plenty of strange games on the App Store, but I don’t think I’ve come across many games – or titles – like Bight Games’s Fleeced! – Shear Terror. Its gameplay is a mixture of time and resource management, castle defence, and a dash of first person shooter, all wrapped up in stylised colourful […]
As is the case with most Gameloft games, very little is known about these two games short of the contents of their trailers. Thankfully, there is quite a bit of gameplay shown in both of them so it’s not very hard to get a feel for each game. The Settlers – The last in a […]
Riptide Games has released the first game that was the product of the 360 iDev Game Jam. The Game Jam was an all night coding session for developers to try to create a game in 10 hours. This particular game was created in conjunction with Jonathan Hartstein of Pyro Monkey Productions and Eric Lannan of […]
The much publicized Commodore C64 emulator from Manomio is finally coming back to the App Store. The app has had a rocky history with an initial rejection, public out cry, App Store approval and was then pulled from the App Store by Apple due to inadvertent violations of the SDK terms. Well, C64 is “almost […]
TipCat Mobile just released a very nice side scrolling shooter called Cell War [App Store]. The .99 game offers a beautifully stylized side scroller that places you as the pilot of a nano machine whose mission is fight off viruses and save the humans from disease. Designed for the iPhone, the game has some nice […]
So, is it possible to fit another worthy line-drawing game into an already crowded market? Backflip Studios thinks so with their new game Harbor Havoc 3D [.99]. Like Flight Control, the objective of the game is to route your ships to their proper docks. Simply draw a line from the ship to the dock and […]
If you were a PC gamer in the mid 90’s, the very mention of Command & Conquer likely brings back memories of massive battles, elaborate bases, the cumbersome Westwood Online multiplayer, and best of all- The game coming with two discs to give one to a friend to play against without having to buy a […]
Games with a similar gameplay mechanic to IUGO’s Cliffed [App Store] will always have a place in my heart, as I burnt through countless sets of AAA batteries in my TI-83 through school playing a calculator game called Falldown which consisted of little more than navigating a small grayscale ball through sets of obstacles trying […]
Zombie games and the App Store seem to go together like peas and carrots. I’m not sure what the allure of zombies is, but I’m not one to argue about slaying legions of undead. Developers Super Awesome Hyper Dimensional Mega Team (Yes, that’s their real name) have been working on a sports zombie apocalypse hybrid […]
Happy Halloween fellow AppTrawlers! Aptly we are overrun with monsters today in the form of the new game by Origin8, creator of BioSub, Sentinel and Poker Buddy. MonsterKill is a tower defense game with a monster twist. The aim of the game is to protect your gate from the rampaging hordes of classic horror types […]