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Daily iPad App: Leviathan Warships features sweet, turn-based boat warfare

by Mike Schramm (May 8th, 2013)

First of all, go enjoy the wonderful trailer for this game. If you're not sold on Leviathan Warships (US$4.99 on the App Store) after watching that, then I'm not exactly sure what else you want. Leviathan Warships is a turn-based naval strategy game. Your job is to guide a series of ships ...

Vendetta Online now available on the iPad

by Mike Schramm (Apr 17th, 2013)

Vendetta Online was officially released for the PC back in 2004 -- it's a space combat-based massively multiplayer online game that has been updated and developed almost constantly since it first went online in 2002. A few years ago, the game went mobile on Windows tablets, and today, Vendetta ...

Steve Jackson's Sorcery! gamebook coming to the App Store

by Mike Schramm (Apr 15th, 2013)

Steve Jackson's Sorcery! is an old series back from the early 1980s where you "played" through a sort of Choose Your Own Adventure-style story, except that instead of just flipping pages, you actually cast spells, fight in combat and do other fantasy-based activities. These books were reprinted ...

TUAW's Daily iPhone App: Occurro! - The Game of Stellar Combat

by Mike Schramm (Jul 13th, 2011)

Occurro is, I would say, an above average space-based dual stick shooter for the iPhone. It doesn't offer much more than an arcade experience, as you pilot a small ship around the screen with one thumb while shooting in any direction with your second thumb. But Occurro is a particularly ...

GDC 2011: Remedy brings Death Rally to iOS

by Mike Schramm (Mar 8th, 2011)

Finnish developer Remedy Entertainment is known for making full-fledged console titles like Max Payne and Alan Wake, but it's stepping into the iOS arena with a touch-based remake of its old racing combat game Death Rally, originally released back in 1996. I got to see the game in action at GDC ...

Chopper 2 out now

by Mike Schramm (Jul 27th, 2010)

We've mentioned Chopper 2 a couple of times during development, once to show off the TV out function built into the game, and again when we met up with creator David Frampton at WWDC. Now, development has finally finished, and he's released the game out on the App Store. You can pick it up for a ...