This morning Crescent Moon Games, creators of Ravensword: The Fallen King [$4.99] just pulled the curtain from their upcoming space-themed 3D / 2.5D platform game, Ultra Kid: Mystery of the Mutants. Inspired by fantastic games like MegaMan, Kid Icarus, and Super Mario Galaxy and others, Ultra Kid will have players flying their rockets through space […]
Taito impressed the hell out of us with its iPhone revamp of the original shmup in Space Invaders Infinity Gene, which also just made it onto our top ten list of 2009’s iPhone games. To celebrate the New Year, Taito has just dropped us a line to announce that a major 2.0 update has gone […]
Space shoot-’em-ups may remind you older, nostalgic readers of the days where there was no saving or second chances. It didn’t matter how many times you dodged death by the skin of your teeth, there was no remorse when that stray bullet collided with your ship. Game Over really was Game Over. While many games […]
Despite its reputation for bite-sized casual gaming fun, there’s also plenty of ambitious games on the App Store. Indeed, there’s currently a small explosion when it comes to space-based games. Multi-platform MMOG Outer Empires has just touched down on iPhone (alongside Facebook and browser versions), while Freeverse is working on its winter-scheduled Warpgate. First into […]
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 […]
We’d only just announced that iPhone newcomer Riptide Games was ready to submit its debut App Store title to Apple when more Gravity Sling information started circling our news planet. Riptide managed to slam the brakes on just moments before submitting the game, when it heard that Apple was now allowing micro-transactions and in-app purchases […]
**UPDATED: Release date announced for 21st October!** We’ve been eagerly awaiting the opportunity to re-launch those cows into orbit ever since we heard Gameloft was bringing the iconic, dirt eating, chewy length of worm flesh – Earthworm Jim – to iPhone and iPod touch back in August. For those of you’ve been asleep on Mars […]
A lot of indie iPhone developers have come from bigger game companies that failed to survive the credit crunch, with the unemployed ground floor troops setting up on their own in the handheld gaming world. Newly formed Riptide Games – founded by IGDA board member Brian Robbins – has a similar story, though it was born […]