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Road Not Taken Trailer Released
Spry Fox, the makers of the insanely playable (and re-playable) Triple Town, have released a trailer for their next game, Road Not Taken. It’s based on Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken,” which you probably read in high school and can read here in full. Watch the trailer below. The trailer is a teaser, [...]
Tiny Troopers 2: Special Ops is Currently Free
Just a heads-up to budget-conscious gamers who like great games: Tiny Troopers 2: Special Ops is currently free for a limited time. This game is awesome. In it, you control a troop of cartoonish soldiers as they battle their way through loads of environments and all kinds of level types. Read our review, and then [...]
Free to Play: Game Recommendations for May 13
Welcome to this particularly bovine-heavy installment of Free to Play. This week, the bulls are on parade in Zynga’s Running With Friends, and the cows come home in I Am MT, a card-battling game that’s already a behemoth on Asia’s App Stores. Sometimes a cow’s gotta do more than just sit around and wait to [...]
Airport Scanner Coming to Android, Will Be Used in Security Research
Most of us would rather get our teeth bored with a hand-operated drill than go through airport security. Dancing with the TSA is sheer pain, but oddly enough, Kedlin Company’s Airport Scanner – a game based around hunting for dangerous items in airport security queues – is hugely popular. Earlier this week, Kedlin announced that [...]
Junk Jack Sequel Coming Later This Year
Good news for fans of 2D house building, monster hunting, food making and crafting all manner of ladders: The sequel to Junk Jack is slowly becoming a real thing. On Thursday, Junk Jack creator PixBits posted a huge update about the sequel — currently titled “Junk Jack X” — to their massively popular and just [...]
Under the Radar: May 9, 2013
The number of games that hit the App Store every week is overwhelming. We can only cover so many through our normal reviews, so in our Under the Radar feature we try to feature five indie games that stand out for their extraordinary graphics, gameplay, or concepts. Here are our picks for this week’s Under [...]
STP News: Changing of the Guard
Covering the world of App Store gaming isn’t an easy task, and it requires a lot of different people with unique skills to run a website like Slide To Play. Recently we made some changes to our staff so that we can continue to provide you with the best iOS gaming news, reviews, and features. After [...]
Big Game Night: Tasty Tadpoles, Ace Patrol, and More
Wednesday night is Big Game Night. iOS developers line up and present their goods to Apple at 11 pm EST in hopes that they’ll grab a coveted “Featured” spot on the App Store. This week, you can take to the skies with Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol—or you can rob a few families or careen through [...]
Slide To Play Podcast #182: Carly Rae Draw Something
On this week’s STP Podcast, we announce some big shake-ups among the staff, with Chris and Andrew both moving up to new positions. We also talk about Sid Meier’s first original iOS game, playing against celebrities in Draw Something 2, and keeping track of one indie game’s sales using a website called Crabstarter. Click ahead [...]
Bastion On Sale for $0.99
A dollar can buy you a few cookies, or a bottle of pop, or a fistful of goat feed at the petting zoo. All worthwhile purchases, but before you make a hasty decision, consider this: The iOS version of Bastion is currently on sale for a limited time. Bastion is a critically-acclaimed action-RPG from Supergiant [...]
'Bloom Box' Review - This Garden Puzzler Needs More Obstacles to Blossom
Who doesn’t like planting crops and a little cross-pollination? It’s the kind of relaxing fun that got thousands hooked on Farmville, until those Facebook alerts got unbearable. Bloom Box [$1.99 / Free] is the new plant-based puzzle game from Nexxstudio. If you plant your seeds in the right sequence, you can set off a chain [...]
Report: Nintendo Aims to Bring iOS Games to Wii U
Quick, for a million dollars worth of gold coins and mushrooms: What’s the best way for Nintendo to boost its crawling sales of the Wii U? The company may already have one answer. According to rumor, Nintendo is currently looking into ways that smartphone applications can be used on its consoles’ touch screens. The news [...]
Free to Play: Game Recommendations for May 6
Hey! It’s May! Happy day! New free games are blossoming along with the leaves and flowers, and we’re giving you a heads-up on some of the best titles available. This week’s recommendations include a skiing ogre, a candy-eating chameleon, and a certain robot unicorn who’s dying to run with you. Oh, and Draw Something is [...]
Plants Vs Zombies 2 Gets a Teaser Trailer and Release Date
The wait is almost over! We’ve known for a while that PopCap was working on Plants Vs Zombies 2, but they’d only given us loosey-goosey release windows. They’ve just firmed it up (and pushed it back slightly). The game is officially coming out in July. They’ve also released a masterful teaser trailer for the game [...]
Trailer Released for Snoop’s ‘Way of the Dogg’
Snoop Dogg doesn’t stop. The heroic rapper/reggae singer has a rhythm-based fighting game coming out, and he’s just released a glorious trailer that sets the stage for the action. Check it out below. In the game, you play as America Jones, the best fighter in the city. When your woman is murdered by thugs, you [...]
App Store Approaches 50 Billion Downloads
The App Store is a popular place. It’s so popular, in fact, that it has served up nearly 50 billion app downloads. To celebrate this impending milestone, Apple has put up a download counter on iTunes, and plans to give away a $10,000 App Store gift card to the person who downloads the 50 billionth [...]
Trailer Released for Solstice Arena
Zynga has just revealed a mobile online battle arena (MOBA) game they’re working on, called Solstice Arena. It’s a game of three-on-three team combat that you can play by yourself, with friends in a co-op mode, or in a player-vs.-player context. Watch the trailer below. They say each session will last about 10 minutes, which [...]
Removing friction at the point of player payment
It's hard enough to get players to pay for games or items -- so it's dangerous to be unaware of the how the payment process. This blog post explores the complexities of international payments....
'XCOM: Enemy Unknown' Hits the New Zealand App Store
I'm not sure it's possible for us to be much more excited about an iOS game release as we are for 2K's XCOM: Enemy Unknown which just hit the New Zealand App Store for the equivalent of $19.99. It won't be available in the proper US App Store until 11:00 PM Eastern tonight, but, if [...]
Review: Throw with Joe: Play With a Legend in Tilt-Controlled Football Game
Want a fun app that benefits a good cause? Check out Throw with Joe, the arcade-style football app where you are the quarterback. Throw with Joe is a “joint” effort of legendary quarterback Joe Montana and Joint Juice and the proceeds from the sale of the app benefit the Arthritis Foundation.
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