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Apple pulls sweatshop game from App Store

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 22nd, 2013)

Apple has a strict set of rules governing its iOS App Store. Run afoul of them and you may be kicked out of the playground. One of the latest apps to feel the wrath of Apple's banhammer is Sweatshop HD, a tower defense game in which players run a factory sweatshop. According to PocketGamer, ...

Daily iPhone App: Bad Hotel combines hotel building with music

by Mike Schramm (Nov 28th, 2012)

Bad Hotel is a great game that you may have missed on the App Store earlier this year. I certainly missed it, though since it arrived (back around August), I believe, it's come up a few times in various game design and game reviewer circles. It's a weird mix of music and gameplay that is ...

Daily iPad App: Fieldrunners 2 HD arrives on iPad

by Mike Schramm (Sep 13th, 2012)

I've been a fan of Fieldrunners 2 for a while now -- it's my opinion that this is the best tower defense game ever made. With rock solid gameplay, plenty of content, and lots of little upgrades and tweaks to make, Fieldrunners 2 sits at the top of the huge pile of games that this genre has ...

Daily iPhone App: Fieldrunners 2

by Mike Schramm (Jul 24th, 2012)

I already sang the praises of Fieldrunners 2 when it hit the App Store last week, but it's worth one more spotlight. Tower defense is one of the most well-traveled genres on the App Store, but Fieldrunners 2 really does bring a lot of innovation to it, and it does so in such a well-polished and ...

Fieldrunners 2 available now

by Mike Schramm (Jul 19th, 2012)

The sequel to one of the iPhone's first big hits, Fieldrunners, is now available on the App Store. Fieldrunners 2 is a really impressive update to the genre of tower defense. You'll find brand-new Retina Display graphics, over 20 different towers (some completely new to the genre), twenty new ...

Daily iPhone App: Spice Invaders

by Mike Schramm (Feb 9th, 2012)

If you're tired of tower defense games, I don't blame you. Feel free to skip this post, but let me say this before you go: I wouldn't spotlight yet another tower defense game if it wasn't special. That's why Spice Invaders has made the cut. The standard tower defense tropes are in place. Build and ...

Daily iPad App: Kingdom Rush

by Mike Schramm (Jan 19th, 2012)

I first played Kingdom Rush as a Flash game online, and it's very good in that context as well. It's pretty straightforward tower defense, in that you face a series of invading monsters, and need to build up towers to defend against them. But Kingdom Rush outgrows its simple tower defense roots ...

Daily iPad App: Defenders of Ardania

by Mike Schramm (Dec 14th, 2011)

Tower defense is a genre that's almost run its course, if you ask me. But Defenders of Ardania is still a really solid tower defense title for the iPad that does find some innovation left in the process of setting up towers and letting them take out the incoming bad guys. The twist here is that ...

Daily iPhone App: Gem Keeper

by Mike Schramm (Nov 3rd, 2011)

Gem Keeper is a relatively new game from developer NCSoft, which usually makes Korean MMO titles for the PC. The company has released a couple of apps for iOS, but this is the first full game made for North American audiences -- and it's a good one. It's a pretty basic tower defense title, but ...

Daily iPhone App: Magic Defenders

by Mike Schramm (Oct 20th, 2011)

Magic Defenders isn't new, but it has claimed a lot of my iPhone gaming time lately. It's a tower defense game, so if you like that genre, odds are that you'll like this one. Instead of building towers, you play the game as a mage that's casting spells against waves of attackers. The game ...

Daily iPhone App: Tiny Heroes

by Mike Schramm (Sep 12th, 2011)

Tiny Heroes is a fun one from David Whatley, the mind behind the popular GeoDefense titles for the App Store (who's also, incidentally, speaking later on this week at the 360iDev conference going on here in Denver). This one is tower defense as well, but it's got a nice Dungeon Keeper-esque ...

TUAW's Daily iPhone App: Two Worlds II Castle Defense

by Mike Schramm (Jul 7th, 2011)

Two Worlds is an RPG series for consoles that's had a few releases already, but this game for iOS only uses the same setting and assets as those titles. As you can tell from the title itself, it plays very differently from the third-person RPG. It's a castle defense game of a sort, but rather ...

Sentinel 3 on sale for $0.99, $1.99 DLC update adds large number of features

by Michael Grothaus (May 26th, 2011)

The popular sci-fi tower defense game Sentinel 3 is on sale for only US$0.99 for a limited time. Normally $2.99, the sale price is in celebration of the release of a massive new downloadable campaign that is available as an in-app purchase for $1.99. The new 15-map campaign features 15 endless ...

Anomaly: Warzone Earth coming to Mac, iPhone and iPad

by Mike Schramm (Jan 18th, 2011)

Anomaly: Warzone Earth is a tower defense game with a twist -- instead of placing towers to take down attackers, you actually control attackers, trying to navigate a convoy in between alien defenses. Through both a 14-mission story/campaign mode and a few endless options, you command your squad ...

TUAW's Daily App: Monster Feed

by Mike Schramm (Oct 26th, 2010)

Monster Feed is a colorful little tower defense title for the iPad, and it's a little more action-based than most TD titles. A lot of your interaction with the oncoming hordes is actually interactive, as you have not only towers to build and grow but also spells and even summonable minions fighting ...