A trio of independent studios in France are teaming up to release Void & Meddler, a sickly neon point-and-click adventure … Continue reading "‘Out There’ Developer’s New Project is Cybe...
https://toucharcade.com/2015/05/15/void-meddler-cyberpunk-mi-clos/
Alper Sarikaya’s next game is a big-boned (or at least big-pixeled) little number called Sword of Xolan, an action platformer … Continue reading "Pixel People: Alper Sarikaya’s Action Pla...
https://toucharcade.com/2015/05/14/alper-sarikaya-pixel-art-sword-of-xolan/
Earlier this week GREE announced that it was scuttling its office in Vancouver, British Columbia and discontinuing development, effective immediately. … Continue reading "GREE International C...
Shinra Technologies has announced that Human Head Studios (of Prey fame) will be joining its joining its Prototype Accelerator program. … Continue reading "‘Lost Within’ Developer Human H...
https://toucharcade.com/2015/05/13/human-head-studios-shinra-technology-partnership/
Well, that didn’t take long: last week Capcom and Beeline Interactive were conducting polls and looking for beta testers for … Continue reading "Capcom and Beeline Announce ‘Ghostbusters ...
https://toucharcade.com/2015/04/23/ghostbusters-puzzle-fighter-capcom-beeline/
Over on our forums, Offworld Games announced today that their iPad port of The Confrontation will hit the App Store … Continue reading "Offworld Games Announce ‘Reiner Knizia’s The Confro...
https://toucharcade.com/2015/04/23/reiner-knizia-the-confrontation-ipad/
The Crissaegrim NES30 Pro isn’t 8bitdo Tech’s first portable iOS gamepad, but it’s certainly the flashiest. Normally, I’d be skeptical … Continue reading "8bitdo’s ‘Crissaegrim NE...
https://toucharcade.com/2015/04/23/8bitdo-crissaegrim-nes30-pro-controller/
Bittsersweet news from Fireproof Games this week: the Guildford, England-based firm announced that The Room 3 is being delayed. Originally … Continue reading "‘The Room 3’ Will Stay Locke...
https://toucharcade.com/2015/04/22/fireproof-games-the-room-3-delayed-summer/
EA’s free-to-play soccer game FIFA 15 Ultimate Team (Free) has been updated with Apple Watch support in anticipation of … Continue reading "Update Brings Apple Watch Support to ‘FIFA 15 U...
https://toucharcade.com/2015/04/21/apple-watch-fifa-15-ultimate-team/
Earlier this month, we told you about Wrassling, an upcoming game by Colin Lane (Golf is Hard (Free)) and Folmer … Continue reading "Goofily Piledrive Dudes in ‘Wrassling,’ Coming to the ...
https://toucharcade.com/2015/04/17/wrassling-release-date-april-23/
Czech outfit Amanita Design has released a gorgeous new trailer for the upcoming Samorost 3, full of organic weirdness and … Continue reading "In Case You’d Forgotten, Amanita Design’s �...
https://toucharcade.com/2015/04/17/amanita-design-samorost-3-ios-trailer/
To celebrate the release of Stealth Inc. 2 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows (via the Humble Bundle … Continue reading "Sneaky Freebie Alert: Puzzle-Platformer ‘Stealth Inc.’ is Gra...
https://toucharcade.com/2015/04/17/freebie-alert-stealth-inc-free/
As if to purposefully thwart our attempts to collate each week’s iOS releases in one neat post, Square … Continue reading "‘Masters of the Masks,’ A New RPG from Square Enix and Lostmo...
https://toucharcade.com/2015/04/16/masters-of-the-masks-square-enix-lostmoon/
With all of the consternation and hot takes about the Apple Watch, it’s hard to believe that a. it was … Continue reading "Shaken, Not Stirred: ‘I Am Bread’ Developer Bossa Studios Anno...
https://toucharcade.com/2015/04/16/bossa-studios-spy-watch-apple/
Yesterday was, for most Americans, the deadline to file taxes for 2014, and never has Jesus’ admonition that … Continue reading "Tube-Runner ‘Proun+’ and Stealth Puzzler ‘Hitman GO�...
The TouchArcade Borg Collective was pretty enamored with Pandemic: The Board Game ($4.99) when it came out in the … Continue reading "After 18 Month Hiatus, ‘Pandemic: The Board Game’ Spr...
https://toucharcade.com/2015/04/15/pandemic-the-board-game-universal-update/
Whether or not you like its doofy writing or calculated Disney licensing, Kingdom Hearts has always been refreshing in the … Continue reading "Apparently, There’s a ‘Kingdom Hearts’ Sma...
The next time you’re settled into a Shinkansen bullet train and get the urge to play Final Fantasy XIII, you … Continue reading "Square Enix Just Released a Streaming Version of ‘Final Fa...
https://toucharcade.com/2015/04/10/final-fantasy-xiii-streaming-ios/
Last week, Mi-Clos Studio released Out There: Ω Edition, a graphical overhaul of last year’s excellent iOS space-faring adventure … Continue reading "‘Out There: Ω Edition’ Launches o...
https://toucharcade.com/2015/04/09/out-there-omega-edition-release/
Just a few days after orchestrating what appears to be the longest ever turn in Hearthstone (Free), French player and … Continue reading "‘Hearthstone’ Mad Genius Draws 14,000 Cards and D...
https://toucharcade.com/2015/04/08/hearthstone-most-cards-fatigue-ever/
I’m not much for horror games, but I’ve been fascinated with the way the collective gaming internet has taken … Continue reading "Warner Bros. Tapped the Producer of ‘The Ring’ to Mak...
https://toucharcade.com/2015/04/08/five-nights-at-freddys-movie/
This morning, EA Mobile announced a deal with Illumination Entertainment to develop and publish a set of Minions-inspired mobile games, … Continue reading "EA Mobile Inks Long-Term Deal to De...
https://toucharcade.com/2015/04/07/ea-mobile-despicable-me-minions-paradise/
During the same Level-5 Vision 2015 event that brought wind of Fantasy Life 2 on iOS, Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino … Continue reading "Level-5 Announces ‘Layton 7’ for Mobile (Again), Still D...
https://toucharcade.com/2015/04/07/layton-7-for-mobile-announced-again/
At last week’s Juegos Rancheros event in Austin, Texas, Adam Saltsman—best known for his work on Canabalt ($2.99) and Hundreds … Continue reading "Watch Adam Saltsman Talk About His New T...
In case your nostalgia for the 1990’s, video games, and 1990’s video games hasn’t been sufficiently commodified, peripheral manufacturer Hyperkin … Continue reading "Hyperkin’s ‘Sma...
https://toucharcade.com/2015/04/06/smart-boy-turns-your-iphone-into-a-game-boy/
Here’s the conundrum: Hearthstone‘s (Free) “Goblins vs. Gnomes" expansion has got you all in a tizzy, buying booster packs is … Continue reading "Should You Be Buying “Classic” or �...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/12/12/hearthstone-goblins-vs-gnomes-spreadsheet/
Today, Lucky Frame founder, director, and all around pleasant dude Yann Seznec announced that his company was no longer in … Continue reading "‘Bad Hotel’ and ‘The Nightmare Cooperative...
Stoic Studio announced today that the follow-up to The Banner Saga ($9.99), their lush, Ragnarok-themed tactical RPG, is coming to … Continue reading "Stoic Studio Announce ‘The Banner Saga...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/12/09/the-banner-saga-2-trailer/
Just two day ago, Blizzard announced that “Goblins vs. Gnomes," the newest themed expansion for Hearthstone (Free), was set to … Continue reading "New “Goblins vs. Gnomes” Cards Now Ava...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/12/04/hearthstone-goblins-vs-gnomes-arena-event/
"Goblins vs. Gnomes," the new 120-card expansion for Hearthstone (Free), will be available on December 8th. Where Hearthstone‘s previous … Continue reading "“Goblins vs. Gnomes” Expansi...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/12/02/goblins-vs-gnomes-hearthstone-release-date/
Bringing The Banner Saga ($9.99) to tablets gave John Watson nightmares. “This launch was even bigger to us personally … Continue reading "Stoic Studio Talks ‘Banner Saga’ Mobile Develo...
A small team in Mojang’s studio in Stockholm, Sweden has been quietly and unassumingly developing Scrolls, a card-based tactics battler, … Continue reading "Final Release Version of Mojang�...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/10/20/scrolls-releasing-late-next-month/
Remember earlier this summer when Ubisoft sneakily soft-launched Assassin’s Creed Memories (Free) in New Zealand and Australia, with nary an … Continue reading "‘Assassin’s Creed Identi...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/09/30/assassins-creed-identity-soft-launch/
When I was in the eighth grade, a city planner came to my pre-algebra class to talk about the mathematics … Continue reading "Subway Planning is Surprisingly Fun in ‘Mini Metro,’ Coming t...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/09/29/mini-metro-ios-later-this-year/
One of my favorite poems in the English language canon has, ironically, a Latin title: “Dulce et Decorum est." In … Continue reading "‘Valiant Hearts: The Great War’ Review – In the T...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/09/29/valiant-hearts-the-great-war-review/
The internet is sometimes an exhaustingly terrible place, but one of its redeeming qualities (for our purposes, at least) is … Continue reading "‘Inklewriter’ is a Free Gamebook Creator f...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/09/24/inklewriter-gamebook-creator/
You may remember Sunburn!, the sickly-sweet puzzle game about launching a crew of stranded astronauts with a suicide pact into … Continue reading "Space-Puzzler ‘Sunburn!’ Gets a New Trai...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/09/24/upcoming-sunburn-trailer/
Scrolls — the hex-tiled collectible card battler and the subject of a hilariously asinine lawsuit — cost $20.95 when it … Continue reading "Mojang Is Slashing the Price of ‘Scrolls’ B...
I’m not particularly good at strategy games or asynchronous multiplayer — supply lines and terrain and Panzers are beyond me … Continue reading "Victorian-Era Strategy Game ‘Antihero’...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/09/16/tim-conkling-antihero-ios/
According to a forum post by Blizzard community manager “Zeriyah," upcoming balance changes for Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Free) will … Continue reading "Changes to Leeroy Jenkins, St...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/09/16/hearthstone-leeroy-jenkins-starving-buzzard-nerf/
Biome is an upcoming environmental toy from the trio of developers that make up the fledgling studio known as Knick … Continue reading "Low Poly Environmental God Game ‘Biome’ Coming to i...
Microsoft announced earlier this morning that it had acquired Mojang — and Minecraft right along with it — for a … Continue reading "Mojang, Microsoft Promise that ‘Minecraft: Pocket Ed...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/09/15/minecraft-pocket-edition-post-mojang-sale-availability/
As if they weren’t busy enough, Harmonix Music Systems recently signed a publishing deal with Tilting Point to bring multiple … Continue reading "Harmonix and Tilting Point Making Multiple ...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/09/15/harmonix-tilting-point-deal/
Daniel Walters and Ceri Williams, the duo behind Micro Macro Games’ gorgeous and unfortunately overlooked Morphopolis (Free), are working on … Continue reading "1930’s Heist Game ‘Calvi...
The cooperative element of Lucky Frame’s new puzzle-roguelike The Nightmare Cooperative ($0.99) reveals itself after a few quick crawls through … Continue reading "‘The Nightmare Cooperat...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/09/05/the-nightmare-cooperative-review-2/
If you’re a casual Hearthstone (Free) player that’s been side-eyeing the “Curse of Naxxramas" expansion, you should act … Continue reading "PSA: This Weekend is the Last Chance to Get ...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/08/28/hearthstone-naxxramas-arachnid-quarter-free/
Dying alone in the dark enormity of the cosmos is one of science fiction’s great set pieces: one of the … Continue reading "Check Out ‘Sunburn,’ a Game About Throwing Astronauts into th...
Earlier this month, Ubisoft announced the imminent release of a touch-friendly version of Valiant Hearts: The Great War for iOS. … Continue reading "Ubisoft Clarifies Episodic Format for ‘V...
The first thing that happens in Telltale Games’ The Wolf Among Us (Free) is that Sheriff Bigby Wolf talks to … Continue reading "‘The Wolf Among Us’ Review – Red in Tooth and Claw"
https://toucharcade.com/2014/08/25/the-wolf-among-us-review/
Here’s your delightful weirdness for the day: Daddy Long Legs, the newest project by Danish outfit Set Snail, is about … Continue reading "‘Daddy Long Legs’ Coming to iOS ‘Soon,’ Br...
I haven’t, admittedly, played too many shoot-’em-ups on iOS, but most of them have been kind of dinky, for lack … Continue reading "New Pixely Shoot ’em Up ‘Supermassive’ is Shootin...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/08/14/supermassive-teaser-trailer/
During Gamescom, Ubisoft announced that they were bring Valiant Hearts: The Great War to iOS as a universal app next … Continue reading "Ubisoft Bringing ‘Valiant Hearts: The Great War’ t...
Square-Enix has been running a sale on its mobile games catalog for almost two weeks, but it’s been limited to … Continue reading "Square Enix’s ‘Secret of Mana’ On Sale this Week for...
Lucky Frame, the Edinbugensian studio behind Bad Hotel ($1.99), Wave Trip ($0.99), and Gentlemen! ($1.99) (all of which we loved), … Continue reading "Lucky Frame Bringing Roguelike Puzzler �...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/07/23/lucky-frame-announce-the-nightmare-cooperative/
Alongside neon, cocaine, and capitalism, conspiracy theories remain one of the enduring cultural touchstones of America during the 1980s. Some … Continue reading "Epiphany Games Announces ‘...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/07/23/ephiphany-games-announces-majestic-nights/
LA Cops is an upcoming tactical shoot-out game that takes place in a stylish, romanticized version of the 1970s. There’s … Continue reading "Kick In Doors and Blast Through Walls in Tactica...
Perhaps unfortunately, French indie duo Space Bears‘ first project isn’t about a roaming sleuth of star-faring ursids. Instead, the Paris-based … Continue reading "Space Bears Bring Abstr...
If you’re going to create an endless verbing game—running, cave flying, punching—you may as well do it with as much … Continue reading "Italian Indies Santa Ragione Announce Abstract Ru...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/07/16/fotonica-announced-for-ios/
I have a confession: I never finished Mi-Clos Studio’s engrossing space-travel roguelike Out There ($4.99). After days and days … Continue reading "‘Out There’ Gets Free “Ω Edition�...
Neil Gaiman is easily one of the most popular and prolific English-language writers working today. He made his bones in … Continue reading "Neil Gaiman’s Adventure Game ‘Wayward Manor’ ...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/07/07/neil-gaiman-wayward-manor/
This morning, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that an e-mail ad for Electronic Arts’ much-maligned Dungeon Keeper (Free) … Continue reading "British Advertising Watchdog Rul...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/07/02/dungeon-keeper-ad-banned-by-asa/
Yesterday CD Projekt Red, in conjunction with Fuero Games, announced The Witcher Battle Arena for iOS. As the name suggests, … Continue reading "Mo’ Money, Mo’ MOBA: CD Projekt RED Announ...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/07/02/the-witcher-battle-arena-announced/
Last week, we got wind that animator and designer David O’Reilly, famous for his work on Spike Jonze’ Her, Adventure … Continue reading "Solid as a Rock: David OReilly’s ‘Mountain’ ...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/07/01/mountain-available-on-app-store/
If you’re not playing Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign (Free), now’s as good a time as any to start: with … Continue reading "Everybody Is Salty About the New ‘Marvel Puzzle Quest’ Upd...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/06/27/marvel-puzzle-quest-true-healing/
According to a short and sweet post on the Ludeme Games website, Chess 2: The Sequel is iPad bound and … Continue reading "Check, mate: ‘Chess 2: The Sequel’ Coming to iPad"
Lisa Bromiel and Dan FitzGerald are the two-person team from Chicago-based Trichotomy Games, and they’re making a game about dogsledding. … Continue reading "New Dogs, New Tricks: Trichotom...
This morning Versus Evil, a publisher-consultant for independent games, announced via Twitter that Stoic Studio’s The Banner Saga was making … Continue reading "Gorgeous Tactical RPG ‘The...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/06/25/the-banner-saga-on-tablets-this-summer/
We’ve known since late last year that Wadjet Eye Games was in the process of porting its back catalogue to … Continue reading "First Three ‘Blackwell’ Adventure Games Coming to App Stor...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/06/25/blackwell-trilogy-release-date/
We dug on Crowman and Wolfboy($0.99)when it was released as a premium title late last year, but the invisible … Continue reading "Stylish Runner-Platformer ‘Crowman & Wolfboy’ Goes Free...
Armello sounds like a candy bar stuffed with caramel and, like, nougat, but it’s actually a gorgeous strategy game coming to … Continue reading "Gorgeous Strategy Board Game Hybrid ‘Arme...
This morning a new update washed up on Boom Beach’s (Free), uhh, beaches. Supercell is calling the update “A New … Continue reading "‘Boom Beach’ Update Looks to Restore Challenge and...
Auro is a turn-based tactics game about, well, pushing monsters out of their hexagonally-tiled dungeon and into a huge underground lake. … Continue reading "Hexual Urges: Release Date Announ...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/04/24/auro-release-date-announced/
Here’s something neat I found over the weekend: it’s called Miniverse, and it’s an action-puzzle game in development from a … Continue reading "Introducing ‘Miniverse’: A Clever Puz...
DrinkBox Studios, best known for last year’s Guacamelee!, are making their mobile debut in 2015 with Severed, a first-person exploration … Continue reading "In ‘Severed,’ You Dismember ...
In a late-night post on its Facebook page, Rocketcat Games officially announced that Wayward Souls will hit the iOS App … Continue reading "‘Wayward Souls’ Is Finding Its Way to the App S...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/04/14/wayward-souls-release-date/
Earlier this morning at PAX East, Blizzard announced a new single player campaign for their breakout free-to-play card battler game, … Continue reading "PAX East: Single-Player Mode ‘Curse ...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/04/11/single-player-mode-for-hearthstone-coming/
Yomi is a tabletop card-battling game that takes place in David Sirlin’s Fantasy Strike universe. At some point, Sirlin made … Continue reading "‘Street Fighter’ Dev Releasing Card-Batt...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/04/10/street-fighter-dev-releasing-card-battler-yomi-on-ipad-next-week/
SleepNinja Games is teaming up with Cartoon Network to publish Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake, an upcoming “environmental puzzle" game … Continue reading "Sugar High: Cartoon Network to Publ...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/04/09/upcoming-monsters-ate-my-birthday-cake/
Kind of Soccer, a new game by Swiss designer Christian Schnellmann, isn’t soccer at all, or even kind of like … Continue reading "Just for Kicks: ‘Kind of Soccer’ Coming Out This Month"...
Kalypso Media has formed a sister company to develop and publish games on iOS and Android, according to a press … Continue reading "‘Tropico’ Publisher Kalypso Media Pushing Into Mobile W...
Earlier this week, Mode 7 Games announced (via Facebook and co-founder Paul Taylor’s Twitter account) that Frozen Synapse (Free) was … Continue reading "Small Arms: Tactics Gem ‘Frozen Sy...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/04/04/frozen-synapse-coming-to-iphone/
The App Store is, as a rule, wild about visually-pleasing puzzle games for the iPhone. iPad-only puzzle games? Not so … Continue reading "Elegant iPad-only Puzzler ‘Shapist’ Coming Soon t...
https://toucharcade.com/2014/03/31/shapist-coming-soon-to-iphone/
D3 Publisher, the monster-geniuses behind Puzzle Quest, have always been more concerned with iteration and execution than novelty. They weren’t … Continue reading "‘Marvel Puzzle Quest: D...
https://toucharcade.com/2013/10/12/marvel-puzzle-quest-dark-reign-review/
It took me a long time to beat Grapefrukt’s Rymdkapsel ($3.99) a second time, even after playing it for a … Continue reading "‘Rymdkapsel’ Review – Minimalist Base-Building Among the ...
Walking along a grassy forest floor among silhouetted trees shooting interminably upward, each step rumbling in his ear, the Boy … Continue reading "‘Limbo’ Review – An Incredible Atmos...
Iceland-based CCP Games is best known for EVE Online, a ruthless, Byzantine MMO set in the cold, vast reaches of … Continue reading "We Sit Down With CCP and Learn of Mysterious Plans for a P...
So far, I’ve played what I would call the prologue of Wadjet Eye’s Gemini Rue ($4.99): I’ve experimented with the … Continue reading "‘Gemini Rue’ Makes Exploring a Cyberpunk Worl...
https://toucharcade.com/2013/04/15/gemini-rue-makes-exploring-a-cyberpunk-world-easy/
Multiplayer videogames tend to bring out the worst in me. I have a temper. I have cursed at and been cursed … Continue reading "‘Badland’ Review – A Stylish, Physics-based Adventure"
Last month we told you, rather breathlessly, about Wadjet Eye Games’ plans to bring Gemini Rue to iPhone and iPad. … Continue reading "Neo-Noir Adventure ‘Gemini Rue’ Dated for Early Ap...
https://toucharcade.com/2013/03/26/neo-noir-adventure-gemini-rue-dated-for-early-april/
Liberation Maiden ($2.99) began as part of Level-5‘s Guild01 compilation, a collection of four downloadable Nintendo 3DS games made by some … Continue reading "‘Liberation Maiden’ Revi...
https://toucharcade.com/2013/03/14/liberation-maiden-review/
Development on Team Meat‘s Mew-Genics is in full swing, so much so that the iOS version of Super Meat Boy was … Continue reading "Team Meat “not sure” About ‘Mew-Genics’ on iPhone,...
You know how they say brevity is the soul of wit? Indie publisher Wadjet Eye Games must be witty indeed, … Continue reading "Wadjet Eye Games Announce Neo-Noir Thriller ‘Gemini Rue’ for i...
I was in a panic. An actual panic. The forest around me was changing, and I couldn’t find my way … Continue reading "‘Year Walk’ Review – Be Careful What You Wish For"
https://toucharcade.com/2013/02/21/year-walk-review-be-careful-what-you-wish-for/
There’s a great story — perhaps apocryphal — about Will Wright designing SimCity to reflect his political beliefs. Specifically, the thinking … Continue reading "‘Beastie Bay’ Revi...
Richard Perrin’s Kairo ($0.99), released under his Locked Door Puzzle label, is billed as a minimalist, first-person exploration puzzle game. … Continue reading "‘Kairo’ Review – Mini...
https://toucharcade.com/2013/02/07/kairo-review-minimalist-abstraction-never-felt-so-good/
The judges of the Independent Games Festival have been — for better or worse — the de facto kingmakers and … Continue reading "Here are the iOS games nominated the 2013 Independent Games ...
Let’s clear the air: clean lines and futuristic stylings aside, Pixelbite Games‘ Repulze ($0.99) shares little in common with Wipeout. One is … Continue reading "‘Repulze’ Review �...
A quick word to developers releasing melodramatic arch-fantasy games on iOS: give your Viking brute a name or I will … Continue reading "‘Wraithborne’ Review – Fus Roh Derp"
As a precocious teenager, I had an irrational fear of the police. Every time I saw them, my hands started … Continue reading "‘Heads Up! Hot Dogs’ Review – Humorous Hot Dog Hijinks"
https://toucharcade.com/2012/11/06/heads-up-hot-dogs-review/
After a few hours of Oneclick’s Angel Salvation (Free), you’re likely to have developed Tetris Syndrome: colored gems, healing crosses, and … Continue reading "‘Angel Salvation’ Re...