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Magic 2014 coming soon with new campaign and cards, sealed deck play

by Mike Schramm (May 10th, 2013)

For a long time, Wizards of the Coast would not release anything official on iOS, even though the biggest collectible card game -- Magic: The Gathering -- seemed perfect for Apple's touchscreen platforms. Then, last year, we finally got Magic 2013 on the iPad, and now Wizards of the Coast is ...

Matt Rix and Owen Goss prepare for a Snow Siege

by Mike Schramm (Mar 26th, 2013)

After a long absence from the App Store, developer Matt Rix will soon be back with Snow Siege, a game that's the result of a new collaborative effort between Rix and Owen Goss called Milkbag Games. I met up with Rix at GDC this week to talk about the new game and how it all came together. Rix ...

Daily iPhone App: Rivals at War is fun but way too freemium

by Mike Schramm (Mar 15th, 2013)

Hothead Games is a studio that's been all over the place -- it's a Canadian developer that started out making some interesting PC titles, but lately has transitioned over to iOS, making freemium games that recently have been more freemium than games. The company found a sizable hit with its Big ...

Daily iPhone App: Summoner Wars is a complicated mix of virtual board and card game

by Mike Schramm (Oct 9th, 2012)

I took a trip down to Tampa Bay, Fla., for my sister's wedding last week, and before I headed for the airport, I loaded up my iPhone and iPad with a few new apps to check out on the way. Honestly, Fieldrunners 2 HD ended up taking most of my gaming time, but Summoner Wars was a very impressive ...

The HEX Code Wallet case is nicely built, but a little too unwieldy

by Mike Schramm (Sep 17th, 2012)

A few years ago, I decided to do my best to narrow down the number of things I carry around in my pockets every single day. Instead of one giant keychain with all of the keys I've ever owned on it, I cut down to two smaller keychains, one for my house and another for my car. And instead of a ...

Daily iPhone App: Lost Cities is a great port of a popular card game

by Mike Schramm (Sep 4th, 2012)

Lost Cities is one of Reiner Knizia's award-winning board games that recently made its way over to iOS, and I think it's great. The game is simple and easy to play, but it shows off quite a bit of complexity among just a few elements. The biggest complaints I have are that the tutorial can be ...

Nukotoys digital apps and physical cards available now

by Mike Schramm (Aug 21st, 2012)

Back in January at CES, one of the most magical things we got to see was these new cards from Nukotoys, physical collectible cards that somehow interacted with Apple's capacitive touchscreens (probably with an invisible pattern, if I had to hazard a guess). The project seemed very cool, and ...

Dominion officially coming to the App Store this week

by Mike Schramm (Aug 13th, 2012)

My favorite card game to play with friends right now is called Dominion. It's a game that's set off a "deck-building" craze in the board gaming world, in that you build up a deck to play with as the game goes on. It's inspired quite a few games on the App Store already (including the excellent ...

Shadow Era physical cards now being shipped to retail stores

by Mike Schramm (Aug 7th, 2012)

Shadow Era is an iOS app that came out a long time ago -- it successfully combines a collectible card game (fairly similar to the World of Warcraft card game, if you've ever played that one) with a freemium business model, a plan that has worked out very well for developer Kyle Pool. So well, ...

Shadow Era getting physical cards to go with iOS game

by Mike Schramm (May 7th, 2012)

I am a big fan of Shadow Era, a really solid World of Warcraft-style virtual collectible card game for iOS. It's been out for a little while, and with a few excellent updates and expansion packs released, there's a lot of game here to be had, starting at the low price of free. Now there's news ...

Apple updates iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand for iOS

by Michael Grothaus (May 1st, 2012)

Apple just pushed a series of updates for its iLife iOS apps. The iPhoto 1.0.1 update doesn't add any new features, but does offer a number of stability improvements including when publishing a journal to iCloud, the URL of the journal can now be copied using a Copy Link button. It also ...

Daily Update for April 16, 2012

by Steven Sande (Apr 16th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Apple updates Cards and iBooks apps

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 16th, 2012)

Apple has released updates for its Cards and iBooks apps. The iBooks 2.1.1 update is relatively minor, only addressing some stability and performance improvements and fixing an issue which prompted users to sign-in with their Apple ID at unexpected times. In addition to stability and ...

Daily iPad App: Fairway Solitaire

by Mike Schramm (Feb 29th, 2012)

Big Fish Games has been producing Mac and PC titles for a while, and we've chronicled a few of their iOS outings here on TUAW. The company has long tried to bring its own flavor of casual gaming to iOS with some success (mostly in hidden object games). Today, I can say this about Fairway ...

Nukotoys introduces two physical card sets for interacting with iPad apps

by Mike Schramm (Jan 9th, 2012)

One of our first appointments here at CES this week was with a company called Nukotoys, which co-CEO Rodger Raderman told us was interested in asking the question for today's children: "What is a toy?" As we've reported here before, more kids than ever are interested in getting iPod touches and ...