NBA Live has been around for a while now, but like the Oklahoma City Thunder a new home makes for a totally different ball game. The series’s App Store arrival comes with easy-going gameplay and straightforward touch controls tailored for accessibility. It’s a solid foundation for what amounts to a young game, though one that […]
Tetraedge is poised to bring another epic literary adventure to life on the iPhone in the next couple of weeks (this time with the help of iPhone publisher Chillingo), with a massive sequel to Silver Award-winning Jules Verne’s Return to Mysterious Island, further expanding on the events of the 1874 novel, The Mysterious Island. The […]
Smells Like Donkey, the iPhone developer behind casual beat ’em up Tap Fu, has raised major concerns over Apple’s security measures in the face of some startling piracy figures. Speaking via a blog posting, the team claims that 80 per cent of players who submitted high scores for Tap Fu during the first week of […]
When I was a kid, I constantly struggled with the idea of having a super power: would I rather be invisible or able to fly? As superhero powers go, the ability to slide at a moment’s notice doesn’t exactly evoke fear in the heart of a villain. On the contrary, it’s a frightening ability for […]
This week we talk to games veteran Ryan Mitchell whose humble beginning started in the education market and then branched out into more and more mainstream games. Ryan now has his sites set firmly on the iPhone/iPod market and has a plethora of upcoming games up his sleeves and a self made engine to build […]
The grapevine is tingling with the force… Is this True… We can only hope Relive the pivotal moments of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope on your iPhone or iPod Touch in Star Wars: Trench Run, a brand new game launching soon. Developed by Infrared5 and distributed by THQ Wireless Inc., Trench Run lets […]
We just got word from John Carmack himself that Doom Classic was recently submitted to Apple for approval. According to a previous interview with Carmack, Doom Classic will stay faithful to the original with OpenGL rendered graphics along with slightly better sound quality and a “brand new finely crafted control system”. Recently he posted on […]
Early this month Empty Clip Studios gave us an exclusive preview of the upcoming iPhone port of their download / retail Wii rhythm puzzle title, Groovin’ Blocks. Those anxious to get their hands on this one can now try the full [link] or lite [link] version, which went live in the App Store yesterday. Each […]
Ethan Nicholas is one of the big indie success stories of the App Store. Nicholas quit his job back in January after his tank artillery game iShoot grabbed the #1 spot in the App Store. Nicholas reportedly made over 0,000 within five months. The pressure is on for Nicholas who was recently profiled in a […]
Much to our surprise, StoneLoops! of Jurassica was recently removed from the App Store. This is particularly unfortunate, as we not only gave the game a glowing review, but I would also include it in any listing of really great iPhone games. Maciej Biedrzycki, co-founder of Codeminion, developers of StoneLoops explained on his blog today […]
I’m always on the lookout for new twists on puzzles. Sometimes these new twists or elements work and often times, they don’t. Besides the degree of fun which is highly subjective, the ideas that generally work and succeed are the ones that add complexity without complicating the game. When I first started playing Wriggle, I […]
Gamevil’s latest epic RPG got its own lite version today, Hybrid: Eternal Whisper Free [App Store] offers a brief look at the world of Hybrid through three included battle stages where you will be able to master nine different fighting skills. Hybrid is an adventure roleplaying game with an extensive skill system all wrapped around […]
Today marks an important anniversary: the iPod is eight years old. It was a cool October day, the 23rd, and the year was 2001. The world was still in shock after 9/11, the U.S had embarked on a war in Afghanistan, Microsoft was about to release XP, and people were scared about opening their mail […]
Last weekend was the Big Buck Hunter Pro world championship held in Chicago, IL and aside from thousands of dollars of prize money that was given away, they were also giving people the first look at the upcoming iPhone game. The iPhone version is based on the series of Big Buck Hunter arcade machines which […]
When the iPhone and iPod Touch were first discussed as gaming platforms, many people thought they would fail due to their lack of buttons. Of course, the gigabytes of awesome games on the App Store have proven such claims wrong. We thought we’d take a closer look at iDevice controls by chomping on a cigar […]
This version of Parachute Panic really brings the goods! While we felt that the game was overly difficult originally, we felt that the added easy mode in version 1.1 was too easy to be any fun while the main game remained unchanged. Luckily, some tinkering with the original formula led the crew over at FDG […]
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend us your ears: Ben Hur Live isn’t so hot. It doesn’t suckus maximus, but it’s a pretty poor racing game with just a few identical tracks and little of the excitement that a chariot race set in a coliseum should provide. We come not to praise Ben Hur Live, but to […]
I first got a look at Five Minutes to Kill Yourself [Link] as part of an oddly secretive preview from the folks at Adult Swim. With the game’s impending release in the near future, now is finally the time to pull the cover off Adult Swim’s latest iPhone adaptation of yet another one of their […]
Captain Binary – Twin Bottles Captain Binary has the sort of chin that only a superhero could carry. Not that he’s lacking in other necessary credentials, though relying on a gun for defence may be a bit of a taboo in his line of work. Not that you should let that bother you as captain […]
It’s close to Halloween so surely time for a Stephen King tie-in on the App Store? Indeed, Paramount has dug up an old film licence, providing us with a Pet Cemetery game. Stephen King should be spinning in his bed. Granted Pet Cemetery isn’t one of his best books, and the film wasn’t all that […]