The name of LamdaMu Games & Game Ventures’ new iPhone app might make you pause and wonder as to its nature, but don’t worry, there are no sketchy deals involved. Rather, Shady Puzzles is full of challenges that are both fun and brainy. You are presented with what looks like graph paper, with […] [continue […]
A handful of iPhone apps exist to make your iPhone a USB drive that stores your files for later viewing. Other apps like Dropbox give you access to your files on the cloud from your iPhone. These are great but wouldn’t it be easier if you could just view the files you already have […] […]
Doom II RPG from id software is a new turn-based iPhone shooter game and the good news is, this one is not on rails. You use a directional pad to move around the screen plus you can now swipe the iPhone screen left/right to strafe or up/down to to move forward and back. You […] […]
In the future convicts fight for their freedom in a frantic game show called ‘The Danger Room’. On this show the contestant must battle through 9 rooms for their freedom but each room is different and you face aliens, soldiers, zombies, robots, demons and more, before the final battle with ‘The Host’. In each room […]
Lately it seems that we’ve been collecting an increasing number of comments in the discussions of some of the more popular games we’ve covered from Android users hoping to see more iPhone games in the Android Marketplace. Homerun Battle 3D [.99 / Free], a game we reviewed back when it was called Baseball Slugger, was […]
When I think of Mechs, I don’t think of the MechWarrior of old as I used to. Instead, a more immediate memory comes to mind– that very awesome scene from Matrix: Revolutions where the Zion Mech platoon were (albeit briefly) holding off the entire squid machine onslaught. Maybe it’s the John Woo fanatic in me, […]
Freeverse’s Parachute Ninja [App Store] has been getting some much deserved positive first impressions in our forums since its release last night. Parachute Ninja‘s story isn’t exactly the standout part of this game; some dude set your hut on fire so this weird little yellow guy with wicked eyebrows tells you that you need to put […]
According to the Ubisoft web site, a new game that takes place in the Assassin’s Creed universe is coming soon, exclusively to the iPhone. Assassin’s Creed II: Multiplayer will utilize a WiFi connection to hunt down three other assassins online in some type of strange top-down stealth-oriented deathmatch. Assassin’s Creed 2: Multiplayer, an exclusive game […]
Storm Basic has released their hack and slash game Tehra Dark Warrior which we previewed just a couple of weeks ago. Early feedback is rolling in our forums noting high production values with a core hack ‘n slash gameplay mechanic. From squarezero: Having played for about half an hour, I can’t disagree with the gist […]
During episode #9 of the TouchArcade podcast, Kepa Auwae of Rocketcat Games let us in on some details regarding the successor to Hook Champ [App Store], a game currently dubbed Avalanche Game. This morning MTV Multiplayer posted some new tidbits, including a image comparing the art style of the two games and the evolution from […]
Last year we reported on an upcoming multi-player update to the iPhone card game Durak. The promised update has finally arrived and delivers a number of new multi-player features. Durak is a popular Russian card game typically played between two to six people (two to four in the iPhone version). Each player receives six cards […]
Gamevil has posted a hands on gameplay video of their upcoming game iPhone game Vanquish: The Oath of Brothers which is due for launch this Friday. The game’s story is based on the Three Kingdoms and is set on horseback. The gameplay video and mechanic feels somewhat similar to Hybrid but in an ink-wash art […]
Reiner Knizia holds a PhD in mathematics, and is credit with publishing over 500 different puzzle games, many earning various awards worldwide. Developing his first game at the age of 6, Knizia left a job as a boardmember of an international bank in 1997 to pursue game designing full time. Since then, he has been […]
We just got word from Chillingo’s Clickgamer that an Angry Birds [App Store] update is in the works that adds 40 new levels, two new environments, and complete Crystal integration for online leaderboards, achievements, and all the other fun stuff Crystal provides. They’re planning on submitting the update “very soon”, and even released a new […]
Comic Zeal is a Comic Book Reader for the iphone by Biolithic which allows you to sync your current .cbr and .cbz comic files to the application as well as any rar files containing images (photo library or even scanned comics ect…). Current price is £2.39. Having been a huge comic fan for a number […]
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars [App Store] was quietly released into the App Store this evening. Chinatown Wars for the iPhone seems to lie somewhere in between the DS and PSP versions in regards to graphical quality, but as far as pure GTA gameplay, everything so far seems intact. (Complete with an awful lot of […]
We’re not entirely sure if this release was intentional, or another iTunes Connect fat-finger like Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed II Discovery, but Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars was released this evening in several European countries. We will have more details shortly, including a gameplay video. For the time being, here are the screenshots from iTunes: […]
It’s a bit of a late heads-up, but scrolling shooter fans should take advantage of Infinite Dreams’ weekend giveaway of Sky Force [App Store] in celebration of the studio’s iQuarium being in the App Store Top 100 list. Sky Force is a traditional vertical arcade shooter in which you must battle across seven different levels, […]
The iPhone has attracted a notable number of Amiga game ports since the App Store went live. Worms, Pinball Dreams / Fantasies, Krypton Egg, Beneath a Steel Sky — the list goes on. For those unaware, the Amiga was an extremely innovative platform, released in 1985 by Commodore, that saw rather limited success outside of […]
One of our very favorite iPhone games — one that we come back to and actually play “for fun” (perish the thought!) — is Rocketcat Games’ Hook Champ [App Store], which we reviewed back in October. We discussed the game in detail with Rocketcat’s own Kepa Auwae in TouchArcade Podcast #9. He gave us a […]