Blog Profile / Touch Arcade
| URL : | http://toucharcade.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Mobile / Mobile Apps | |
| Posts on Regator: | 7205 | |
| Posts / Week: | 36.5 | |
| Archived Since: | August 9, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
2K Announces New Sid Meier-Developed Game, 'Sid Meier's Ace Patrol,' Set For Release On May 9th
My brain just collapsed on itself. Legendary game designer Sid Meier is back at it, and his latest project, a WWI-era aerial combat strategy game called Ace Patrol, is coming to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch this May 9. According to publisher 2K Games, it'll be a free-to-play title that'll tasks users with piloting a [...]
Out-fling Your Facebook Buddies in 'Angry Birds Friends', Now Available for Free
Hey, do you like Angry Birds? And do you have friends? Well you can finally combine these two major aspects of your life in one handy iOS game. Yes, as we've talked about previously, Rovio has just taken their ultra-popular Facebook social game and brought it to the App Store as Angry Birds Friends [Free]. [...]
As Featured on "The Ellen Show," 'Heads Up!' is a Party Game You Need
If you imagine a venn diagram where one circle is people who read TouchArcade and the other circle is people who watch The Ellen Show on the reg', I'm really not sure what (if any) overlap there'd be. Regardless of whether you're an Ellen superfan or you don't even know who Ellen DeGeneres is, you [...]
Firaxis's Recently Pulled 'Haunted Hollow' Is Back
Time warp! Civilization creator Firaxis's turn-based strategy game, Haunted Hollow [Free], is available for download on the App Store. If you didn't grab it the first or bazillionth time it managed to see a release before yesterday, consider picking it up. It's a neat, bubbly competitive one-versus-one supernatural slugfest that tasks you with building up [...]
'Star Command' Review - The Space Sim Kickstarter Darling Finally Comes to Port
Two years, two Kickstarter campaigns, and lots of hookers and blow later, developer Warballoon has finally beamed up Star Command to the App Store. Do some screws still need tightening? Affirmative. Should you dive in immediately? Absolutely. After designing and naming your avatar and ship, you learn the ins and outs of running your rig. [...]
Out Now: 'Star Command', Steve Jackson's 'Sorcery!', 'Dark Avenger', 'Paper Titans' and Much More
It's Wednesday again, which means a slew of new iOS games have been releasing into the various international App Stores all day, and have finally arrived in the US App Store right… now! Or in the next few minutes, at least. These things take time, ok? The long, long, looonnngggg awaited Star Command will likely [...]
'The Blockheads' Review - Two-Dimensional Minecraft That's Anything But Flat
In recent years, Minecraft has become the common ancestor of an entire sandbox subgenre. While it boasts a player base bursting with creativity, this is a subgenre that often suffers at the hands of less ambitious developers. Uninspired Minecraft imitations continue to pour into the iOS market, each trying to capture and cash in on [...]
NOPE: 'Better Than Portal' Is Not
We're being trolled, right? Maybe? I honestly can't tell if the titling for this is an attempt to draw interest by capitalizing on a popular brand or just misguided confidence in a product. Either way, Better Than Portal [$0.99] invites a comparison that it can't live up to in any way, shape, or form. In [...]
'Stick Stunt Biker 2' Continues the Confusing Popularity of the Original
Djinn Works are like the Kings of simplistic "stickman" games. They've put out some incredibly popular titles over the years, like the Rope'n'Fly and Line Runner series, as well as various sports that these stickmen compete in like Stickman Games or Stickman Base Jumper. Stickmen have all the fun, I guess. It's hard to pinpoint [...]
'Sorcery!' is An Impressive Digital Conversion of Steve Jackson's Classic Gamebooks
British game designer Steve Jackson is a cornerstone of the gaming world. He co-founded Games Workshop back in the '70s before co-creating the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series with Ian Livingstone in the early '80s. That might be enough for others to just call it a career and retire off into the sunset, but Jackson instead [...]
Gamevil Throws Its Hat into the 'Diablo'-like Ring with 'Dark Avenger'
If you spin the clocks back to GDC (which feels like ages ago even though it totally wasn't), we actually had our pepperoni-greased hands all over Gamevil's Dark Avenger which is due out this evening at 11:00 PM Eastern, or potentially way earlier if you're in Europe or Asia. We took some extensive hands-on video [...]
Blitz's Papercraft-Powered 'Paper Titans' is a Neat Looking Game that Lacks… Something
Paper Titans just doesn't have enough to it. It's too small in scope and scale, for one, but it's also utterly unremarkable. The mechanics are stale, the amount of repetition it has you do is absolutely numbing, and the 3D puzzles are dull at best. You might want to look over this one tonight as [...]
Hey, It's Actually Happening: 'Star Command' Is Hitting Tonight
It's happening: War Balloon's sci-fi ship tragedy simulator, Star Command, is available on the New Zealand App Store. Basically, this is the first stop on its automated global release tour that will see the game finally released everywhere. For realsies. Back in April, I took a look at a build that's pretty representative of the [...]
'LEGO Batman: DC Super Heroes' - A LEGO Port That's No Joke
The LEGO series returns with this enjoyable romp through the DC Universe.
'Space Hulk' Developers Post New Q&A Video
This past December, Games Workshop announced that a new iteration of Space Hulk, a turn-based strategy game based in the Warhammer 40k universe, would be coming to PC, Mac, and iOS devices this year. We talked with the developers in a bonus podcast back in March, and our pals over at Board Game Geek got [...]
Tower Offense 'Anomaly' Series Goes On Sale
Being a creep ain't all that bad. Well, at least, that's what the Anomaly series has taught me. If you're not familiar, these are tower offense games. Both have you play as the horde of dudes descending on a bunch of turrets instead of the other way around. It's a neat twist that literally turns [...]
PC Tower Defense Game 'Go Home Dinosaurs' Coming To iPad This May
Firehose Games's PC tower defense game, Go Home Dinosaurs, is a game about protecting an army of gopher's midsummer stash of BBQ from a toothy, slow-walking horde of prehistoric foes. Let that sink in for a moment. In the upbeat, ridiculous world of Go Home, gophers and dinosaurs come together to fight over delicious meat [...]
'Gun Commando' Review - Viewing the Past Through Smudged, Rose-Tinted Glasses
Ripstone Ltd. would like to sell you a time machine. For only a buck, you can download Gun Commando [$0.99] and travel way back to 1993, a year when Bill Clinton was president, Sega and Nintendo went 15 rounds in the 16-bit console prize fight, and first-person shooters didn't bother with radical ideas like aiming [...]
'They Need To Be Fed 2' Review - Orbiting Death in Every Level
There is something inherently perverse about intentionally creating the thing that will destroy you. I don't mean that in any sort of metaphorical sense; this isn't some sort of child-destroys-the-parent thing. In Bit Ate Bit's They Need To Be Fed 2 [$1.99], you are charged with growing a monster and then crawling into its mouth [...]
'Triple Town' Gets New Mode and New Theme in Latest Update
In January of 2012, developer Spry Fox released their novel approach to the match-3 genre called Triple Town [Free]. It used the basic rules of match-3 but the twist was that you could match certain items and upgrade them into new and better items, thus expanding the entire strategy of matching and where to place [...]