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AEG was showing off their newest game, Inner Compass. Most game companies strive to strike a single tone with the … Continue reading "PAX Unplugged 2019: Digital Highlights Run Down"

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Here at TouchArcade, we like to keep our finger on the pulse of innovation, no matter where it might pop … Continue reading "PAX Unplugged 2019 Most Innovative Games: ‘Blinks’ Gaming Plat...

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In May of last year, developer The Gentlebros announced Cat Quest 2, a full sequel to their popular action RPG … Continue reading "PAX West 2019: ‘Cat Quest 2’ Continues to Look Great Ahe...

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After months and months of rumors that Nintendo was going to release some sort of hardware revision of their mega … Continue reading "PAX West 2019: Here’s a Quick Look at the Nintendo Swit...

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Two years ago at PAX West 2017 a quirky-looking dungeon crawler caught our eye at one of the little kiosks … Continue reading "PAX West 2019: Dungeon Crawler Puzzler ‘Plunge’ Out Now on S...

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Back in May, software developer Panic, Inc. sort of broke the internet when they unveiled a quirky new handheld gaming … Continue reading "PAX West 2019: Hands-On Time with the Playdate Handh...

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Simogo is one of the most legendary developers on mobile, and their library of games that they’ve released over the … Continue reading "PAX West 2019: A Lengthy Demo of Simogo’s ‘Sayona...

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Augmented reality is a tech that seems like it’s still trying to find its place in gaming. It’s not often … Continue reading "PAX West 2019: ‘Nibblity’ is an Augmented Reality Virtual...

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There was too much happening at PAX this year. From what I heard from many veterans of last year’s Unplugged, … Continue reading "Best of PAX Unplugged 2018"

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While video games continue to have a bit of an identity crisis between lower Kickstarter completion rates or the ever … Continue reading "Pax Unplugged 2018: When Should You Make a Digital Bo...

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Card games that centralize a head to head online experience have carved out a niche in the iOS marketplace and … Continue reading "PAX Unplugged 2018: The Competitive Card Game Market is abou...

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While we mused previously on how developers nowadays are being very guarded whether their games are coming to mobile or … Continue reading "PAX West 2018: Tons of Games Heading to Mobile and ...

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The PAX conventions are generally overwhelmingly busy for us just trying to cover whatever mobile games are at the show, … Continue reading "PAX West 2018: Games Heading to Console or PC that...

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It wasn’t long after we landed in Seattle for PAX West 2018 that we had to hustle over to Redmond, … Continue reading "PAX West 2018: Nintendo’s Latest Nindies Showcase Featured a Dozen G...

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We’re huge fans of Raw Fury’s Kingdom: New Lands ($4.99). It’s an ultra-clever kingdom building game that’s played as a … Continue reading "‘Kingdom: Two Crowns’ is Headed to Mobi...

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We’ve been covering the upcoming Metroidvania title Dandara for well over a year now. It’s a super clever title as … Continue reading "We Got an Update on ‘Dandara’ at PAX West"

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The digital strategy board game Armello has a heck of a story behind it. It was originally announced as an … Continue reading "The Digital Board Game ‘Armello’ is Finally Coming to iOS, W...

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We posted our hands on with Reigns: Her Majesty from the show floor of PAX this morning, and while the … Continue reading "‘Reigns: Her Majesty’ Developer Walkthrough – Live from PAX We...

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As we mentioned last week, Super Meat Boy Forever is once again a thing on mobile. We’re still skeptical as … Continue reading "‘Super Meat Boy Forever’ Plays Exactly How You’d Expect...

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When Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition was announced late last month, our we raised our eyebrows with some warranted skepticism … Continue reading "Check out the First 20 Minutes of ‘Final Fa...

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Wandering through every last nook at PAX looking for anything to do with mobile, we stumbled across the booth for … Continue reading "PAX: The Fidgetly CTRL Smart Fidget Spinner is just as ri...

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Probably my favorite game from the handful we saw from Digital Melody here at PAX West is one called Diggerman. … Continue reading "‘Diggerman’ is a Super Fast-Paced Digging Game from Dig...

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While Digital Melody was busy showing us many of their upcoming mobile games here at PAX West, they also wanted … Continue reading "‘Extra Color’ is a Frantic Color-Based Arcade Game We S...

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One of my favorite things about gaming the last few years is the recurring trend of seeing these otherwise obscure … Continue reading "‘Lotus’ Is the Latest Board Game to Get a Really Coo...

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Digital Melody is probably most well-known for their ultra-popular Timberman, and along with Timber Tennis they’ve tried expanding the brand … Continue reading "‘Timber West’ is a Shoot...

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It seems like the unbelievable success of Hearthstone (Free) has created a swarm of new digital collectable card games from … Continue reading "‘Eternal’, ‘The Elder Scrolls Legends’ ...

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One of the other games we checked out here at PAX West from Timberman developer Digital Melody was a neat … Continue reading "‘Find the Balance’ is a Puzzle-Like Object Balancing Game we ...

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Digital Melody was at PAX West showing off Timber Tennis (Free) which is getting a Nintendo Switch release, but they … Continue reading "‘Runventure’ is a Clever One-Thumb Platformer from...

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Nestled along the side wall of the PAX show floor were the developers of Tunnels & Trolls Adventures (Free), a … Continue reading "The Developers of ‘Tunnels & Trolls Adventures’ Have Rad...

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The developers at Rusty Lake have put out some of the creepiest and most unsettling games on mobile between their … Continue reading "The Very Unsettling Point and Click Adventure ‘Rusty La...

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We first posted about Tiny Bubbles early last month, and I think it was easy to be skeptical about the … Continue reading "‘Tiny Bubbles’ Is a Puzzle Game That’s Way More in Depth Than ...

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We first heard about West of Loathing, a Western-themed spinoff of the massively popular MMO Kingdom of Loathing, back in … Continue reading "‘West of Loathing’ is Up and Playable on an i...

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We’ve been following Thimbleweed Park for well over a year now, and while the game launched on Steam to overwhelmingly … Continue reading "We Saw ‘Thimbleweed Park’ Running on an iPad a...

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It was just this past week that Capcom announced a new entry in their beloved Puzzle Fighter series for mobile, … Continue reading "Capcom’s Recently Announced ‘Puzzle Fighter’ for Mobi...

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While Vainglory (Free) is still the king of the mobile MOBA market, there’s loads of developers eager for a shot … Continue reading "Square Enix’s ‘Flame vs Blaze’ Is Another Mobile M...

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While Final Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition was stealing the show when it came to mobile stuff in the Square Enix … Continue reading "Square Enix’s ‘King’s Knight’ Is a Dungeon Crawler Ver...

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UPDATE: We’ve got a way better video up with the actual developer talking about the game here. Be sure to … Continue reading "Hands-On with ‘Reigns’ Sequel ‘Reigns: Her Majesty’ at ...

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Versus Evil had a presence at PAX South 2017, and mobile will play a role. The starring mobile game at … Continue reading "PAX South 2017: Versus Evil Shows Off ‘Like a Boss’, ‘Let Them...

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It’s no secret that we really love Crashlands ($6.99) around here, and one of the early things we heard of … Continue reading "PAX 2016: A Look at the ‘Crashlands’ Campaign Editor"

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Wandering the 6th floor of PAX lead to discovering Eon Altar, a PC/Mac Steam game that normally we wouldn’t pay … Continue reading "PAX 2016: ‘Eon Altar’ Uses Mobile Devices as Controll...

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It seems like ever since Hearthstone hit the mobile scene so hard, everyone has been dying to get a piece … Continue reading "PAX 2016: ‘Eternal’ is Another Cool Looking Digital Card Game...

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Continuing the trend of popular board games getting digital adaptations is Lanterns: The Harvest Festival on display at PAX. If … Continue reading "PAX 2016: Tile Placement Game ‘Lanterns: ...

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Evolution is a physical board game with a pretty fascinating mechanic: You’re doing everything you can with the cards you’re … Continue reading "PAX 2016: ‘Evolution’ Hops from Board ...

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Hidden away in the corner of the 6th floor show room was a really cool puzzle platformer of sorts called … Continue reading "PAX 2016: Check Out ‘Neilos’, a 2.5D Puzzler"

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We’ve covered Antihero quite a bit in the past, including last year at PAX, and this year we got another … Continue reading "PAX 2016: Another Look at the Victorian-era Strategy Game ‘Ant...

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Hidden away in the incredibly packed Indie Mega Booth this year at PAX was the “folktale adventure" Burly Men at … Continue reading "PAX 2016: A Look at the Folktale Adventure ‘Burly Men ...

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If you haven’t heard of it, End of the Mine is another rad looking indie mining and resource management game … Continue reading "PAX 2016: A Quick Look at ‘Endless Mine’, The Mobile Com...

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Back at E3, we got a nice long look at the upcoming Galak-Z, an anime-style space shooter that has a … Continue reading "PAX 2016: As ‘Galak-Z: Variant Mobile’ Development Continues, They...

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We’ve been covering Turbo’s Super Senso for quite a while now. Since we last got a look at it, the … Continue reading "PAX 2016: A Look at What’s New in ‘Super Senso’"

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If you spent Labor Day weekend disconnected from the Internet, you missed out on our full coverage of everything iPhone … Continue reading "PAX ’09 Wrapup: There is More in Seattle Than Fra...

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The iPhone PAX Panel hosted by Pocket Gamer’s Tracy Erickson started with a medly of iPhone game clips — everything … Continue reading "PAX ’09: “Touching a New Generation: How the iP...

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This evening at PAX I met with Don Lim, general manager at Com2Us America. First off, if you were wondering … Continue reading "PAX ’09: Com2Us ‘Sniper Vs Sniper’ Hands-On and Video"

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Across from Subatomic Studios I ran in to Sam from InstantAction. He showed me an early development version of a … Continue reading "PAX ’09: Early Preview of InstantAction’s ‘Flipt’"...

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Wandering around the PAX floor today sniffing out iPhone news I came across Ash from Subatomic Studios showing off Fieldrunners … Continue reading "PAX ’09: ‘Fieldrunners’ PSPGo Levels ...

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Ever since I saw Gameloft’s Asphalt 5 at the WWDC keynote, I’ve been wondering how it stacks up with the … Continue reading "PAX ’09: ‘Asphalt 5’ Hands-On and Video"

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I admit when I first heard about Shrek Kart I groaned a little, as everything that has anything to do … Continue reading "PAX ’09: ‘Shrek Kart’ Hands-On and Video"

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Gameloft’s port of Earthworm Jim is, well, Earthworm Jim. If you’re unfamiliar with the game, it originally appeared on the … Continue reading "PAX ’09: ‘Earthworm Jim’ Hands-On and...

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Like most Gameloft games, it’s easy to find games to compare Dungeon Hunter to. It definitely has a strong scent … Continue reading "PAX ’09: ‘Dungeon Hunter’ Hands-On and Video"

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The first title of the day is Gameloft’s Blades of Fury, a game quite obviously inspired by Soul Calibur. Like … Continue reading "PAX ’09: ‘Blades of Fury’ Hands-On and Video"

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I arrived in beautiful Seattle this morning, and after a somewhat expected rental car fiasco I’ve since spent my time … Continue reading "Hello From the Penny Arcade Expo ’09!"

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