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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on iPad, X-Men Arcade out now on iOS

by Mike Schramm (Jun 2nd, 2011)

It's Thursday again and that means more big profile releases in the App Store. This week there are two big titles out to play with, in addition to lots of other smaller releases. First up, Konami has released a port of the old X-Men: The Arcade Game on iOS, the side-scrolling beat-em-up from ...

TUAW's Daily App: Third Blade

by Mike Schramm (Apr 27th, 2011)

Com2Us is a Korean publisher that's produced some quality iPhone titles, and its latest release, Third Blade, keeps that trend going. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of original iPhone gameplay here (it's a traditional beat-em-up, though there are some nice RPG elements as you go), but while ...

TUAW's Daily App: Brutal Fantasy

by Mike Schramm (Jan 14th, 2011)

Brutal Fantasy: The Orcs of Undermountain is an interesting mashup of action and role playing. The actual gameplay is a beat-em-up like the old Golden Axe and Double Dragon games. You play as a knight battling through all kinds of different minions and bad guys, using a virtual D-pad and action ...

TUAW's Daily App: HYBRID 2: Saga of Nostalgia

by Mike Schramm (Sep 13th, 2010)

Gamevil's new action RPG HYBRID 2 is an excellent game, but it's not one that I would recommend for just anyone to pick up. We've spotlighted plenty of great casual games and apps here on the Daily App, but HYBRID 2 doesn't fit in that category. If you've never played a Japanese-style action RPG, ...

Simpsons Arcade (sort of) released on iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Dec 21st, 2009)

If you happened to be wandering around a St. Louis, Missouri arcade in the early nineties, you'd probably find a young me, playing the Simpsons Arcade game (either that or the Avengers game, I loved that one too). It was great: beat-em-up action, The Simpsons, and impressive animations and graphics ...