Ngmoco has announced that their much anticipated first person shooter Eliminate will be free in light of Apple’s announcement that free apps can now offer in-app purchases. More details are said to be following, but Ngmoco has long announced that Eliminate would carry in-app purchases for energy that allows players to earn additional credits. Every […]
Fellow wordsmiths may be happy to know that developer Mobile Pie has today announced Oh, My Word! 2 is on the way to the iPhone Fans of the iPhone’s, hangman-esque puzzler might also be delighted to know that this incarnation includes Plus+ Network capabilities to go alongside the new survival and time attack modes. The […]
Hopido is new puzzle game by Moido and is their first release for the iPhone. The game tasks you with revealing all of the tiles on a board by using a defined order in which the tiles can be turned over. You can progress by turning over most of the tiles however to successfully gain […]
A few weeks ago, TouchFoo teased us with a gravity defying trailer promising a fun, innovative, and action-packed platformer game for the iPhone. They have since fully delivered on that promise with the release of Soosiz [App Store]. The basic gameplay found in Soosiz is that of a traditional platformer, where you run and jump […]
There’s a lot going right now over at React Games, and it’s not just to do with the iPhone. The studio that brought a revamp of Free Fall Associates’ classic ’80s strategy / arcade game Archon [App Store] to the iPhone is about to release a separate single-player spin-off title that should give fans of […]
This week at AppTrawler we speak to the team at Etherfield Studios who are behind the addictive bouncing ball iphone game ‘Pitz’. The game revolves around a ceremonial rubber ball belonging to the god which must be returned by the second hour of night otherwise the Lords of the Night will not be appeased. See […]
The line-drawing genre has strangely chosen to go in every possible direction before it’s finally come around to the obvious playpen of sheep herding. Putting you in control of yokel farmer Peter, Peter und Vlad charges with herding your Bavarian flock into your barn through the now familiar line-drawing mechanic. The idea is to trace […]
FishLabs is bringing the highly rated mobile title Rally Master Pro, which we determined to be the best mobile game of 2008, to the iPhone and iPod touch. The original mobile title has some of the best 3D graphics ever seen on a typical handset. The iPhone version, as FishLabs indicates, takes things to a […]
Touch Foo’s Soosiz platformer has arrived in the App Store for an introductory sale price of .99. Soosiz is a great looking 2D platformer that we previewed a few weeks ago. Aside from the usual running/jumping mechanic, Soosiz also introduces gravity flipping jumping, allowing you to jump onto platforms directly above you. The gameplay mechanic […]
We’ve been lucky enough to be able to get out hands on a preview copy of EA’s Command & Conquer Red Alert. While I admit it’s been at least ten years since I played the PC version of the game, the look and feel seems to be remarkably intact, but most importantly the controls in […]
Deal or No Deal is a game show that took television viewers by storm. Although there were many critics and viewers either loved it or hated it, it made a huge impact on television gameshow history. The videogame world has seen it’s share of the game with arcade games put up all over the place […]
IMPORTANT NOTE: This game requires the iPhone 3GS camera and compass features for the complete augmented reality experience! Videogame invaders from outer space are attacking the real world. Only you can see and attack them with your iPhone, in this groundbreaking game! In Arcade Reality, alien invaders from space fly around your body in real-time, […]
Screenshot from the original Radio Flare Studio Radiolaris has dropped the price of their musical shooter Radio Flare [App Store] to free for this weekend only (from .99). The game is a solid side scrolling shooter for the iPhone with a musical component to it that we enjoyed when it first came out. The developers […]
Get this while it’s still free! Groove Media dropped the price for Marine Sharpshooter to zero on Saturday, and their sale prices never seem to last very long. Regular price on this game is .99. Marine Sharpshooter puts you behind the scope of a really big gun as you try to pick off bad guys […]
We first heard of Gameloft’s plans to produce a game targeted towards casual gamers based on topical humor back in the beginning of August, and if you somehow found yourself waiting for this game, you will be happy to find out that Bailout Wars [App Store] is now available for download. There was a time […]
After a dramatic two month wait, the first Minigore [App Store] update was approved this afternoon. Mountain Sheep originally intended on doing episodic content updates similar to Pocket God, but unforeseen issues with Apple’s approval process resulted in these updates being rolled out much slower than originally anticipated. Minigore is a dual stick survival shooter […]
Donuts Games’ latest title, Titanic Rescue [App Store] was released tonight. Like their other games, Titanic Rescue is packed with pixel art, great music, and silly yet strangely charming gameplay. The historically questionable premise of the game revolves around loading “gentlemen”, as the game calls them, from the sinking Titanic in to the lifeboats below. […]
In our first in a series of interviews with the developers on the front line of the iphone revolution we speak to ideal binary’s Kevin Doolan who recently launched the the 3D gravity game ‘Gravity Wave’ on the app store. We quizzed him about the perils, the pitfalls, the joys and highlights about developing for […]
This game is great for the kids. Zoo Olympic is a series of 6 mini games whose central character is a cute 2D lion these games include: Sea Escape, Lion Ball, Enjoy Flying, Memory Cards, Jumping High, Eat Meat Each use the device in different way, Sea Escape involves using an onscreen thumb pad to […]
If you loved Catcha Mouse 1 or 2 you’ll love this. If you have no idea what Catcha Mouse is then read on. Catcha Mouse 3 is a puzzle game with a simple premise; stop the mouse jumping into the holes by laying mouse traps in its path. Sounds easy enough; well it isn’t. There […]