Apple has compiled a list of what they consider the best iPhone games of 2009. The list is part of their iTunes Rewind 2009 where they are highlighting the best content across 2009 in music, movies, TV shows, audiobooks, podcasts, and apps. Apps are broken down into games and more traditional applications. Anyone who follows […]
Namco is finally delivering Pac Man: Championship Edition to the iPhone this Thursday, December 10th. Pac Man C.E. was a new Pac Man game that was created by Tōru Iwatani, the original creator of Pac Man. The game had been exclusive to the Xbox Live Arcade until recently, and will finally grace the App Store. […]
With the slightly bad taste of The Chronicles of Inotia still fresh in the minds of some gamers, the announcement of Inotia 2: A Wanderer of Luone [App Store] was met with some understandable concerns. The first game in the franchise was plagued with a terrible menu/inventory system, boring battles, and extremely limited RPG elements, so […]
There have been a whole mess of game updates that have been released in the latest App Store refresh. I recommend checking for updates either in iTunes or on your device to see what’s out there for the games you own, these happen to be my favorite three updates I downloaded tonight: Hook Champ, 59p […]
Sad Cat Software released Project Phoenix into the App Store tonight. Project Phoenix is a very nice twin stick tank shooter with large levels and frantic gameplay. Oh, and it’s FREE for a limited time. After successfully defending a key research facility from invading aliens in “Team Alpha” you have been promoted, and are now […]
Jeff McCord’s iPhone remake of the 1980s classic Sword of Fargoal has arrived in the App Store. We were excited to preview the iPhone remake of this dungeon crawler back in November. In a nutshell, the Sword of Fargoal places the player within the top level of a deep series of dungeons with the quest […]
From the very beginnings of games on the iPhone, back even before the App Store even existed, it has seemed like labyrinth games were a natural fit for the tilt controls of the device. There are too many games to list that share the core gameplay element of rolling a ball around a maze, and […]
NaturalMotion’s Backbreaker Football [App Store] is part physics engine tech demo and part arcade sports game combined together to create a tilt-controlled pick up and play experience that is extremely enjoyable despite being so simple. The gameplay of Backbreaker is structured in to a series of challenges where you run down a football field juking, […]
I had planned on settling in tonight, sifting through the tons of emails we’ve received from developers who are planning to or have put their games on sale, and forming some kind of massive list… Only to discover that TouchArcade forum superstar and all around cool dude Djflippy had completely one-upped me, not only posting […]
Square Enix appears to be dipping its toes into the App Store once again, releasing another title with little fanfare, Hills and Rivers Remain [App Store]. Square Enix has released a light strategy game that is best be described as a Galcon-a-like. Fortunately, it does do enough different that it can be distinguished on its […]
In what must have been an App Store approval quirk, Illusion Labs has released updates to both Labyrinth and Labyrinth Lite which offers customers an early peek at the gameplay from Labyrinth 2. The 1.7.0 version update includes the following features: Improved performance User interface improvements Improved in-game graphics Sound system improvements Stability improvements 5 […]
Gameloft has released their much anticipated skateboarding game Skater Nation into the App Store this evening. We already had some brief hands on time with the game last week and really enjoyed what we saw of it. Skater Nation is an open-world skateboarding game which really puts the other skateboarding titles available on the platform […]
The folks over at winandmac.com recently had the opportunity to sit down with a few people from Apple and have a look at a number of upcoming iPhone games and apps. Among them are two titles we’ve recently had a look at in “upcoming” posts: THQ’s Star Wars: Trench Run and Skies of Glory from […]
True Axis has released its much anticipated Jet Car Stunts racer which has been described as “a fun, over the top, 3D driving game, with massive jumps, mid-air hoops, floating platforms, spiral roadways, outlandish maneuvers and impossible environments.” The game offers two modes of play: Platforming – the player maneuvers the car from roadway to […]
Towards the end of July this year touch arcade previewed a massive multiplayer online game set in space called Outer Empires [App Store] by Ironwill Studios. Aside from its new iPhone client, Outer Empires also works by pointing any modern browser to the game’s web site at outer-empires.com. The game is quite similar to a […]
Puzzle games have been wildly popular in the casual gaming market, a fact that has inevitably, for better or worse, resulted in a saturation of the genre on the AppStore. Because of this, it’s a wonder that Totemo [App Store] can still inject a great deal of life and charm into the genre. The basic […]
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 […]
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 […]