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Halo co-creator's iOS game Morning Star getting a tie-in comic app

by Randy Nelson (Feb 19th, 2013)

Morning Star, the upcoming iOS first-person shooter from Industrial Toys and Halo co-creator Alex Seropian, will be getting the comic book tie-in treatment in the form of an interactive graphic novel designed for Apple's mobile devices. Called Morning Star Alpha, the comic is being penned by ...

Duke Nukem Forever out now on Mac

by Mike Schramm (Aug 18th, 2011)

True to its word, Aspyr Media put Duke Nukem Forever on the Mac in the month of August, a short while after the game's release on PC. You can pick up the title at GameAgent through Aspyr's website, or on Steam (where you get it, thanks to SteamPlay, for both Windows and Mac), but if you want to ...

Bungie's Marathon, Swords and Soldiers now available on the App Store

by Mike Schramm (Jul 7th, 2011)

Two games we've been eager to see on the App Store have arrived. First up, the unofficial version of Marathon (that's officially approved anyway) is out and ready for you to play. It's a free app by programmer Daniel Blezek, who translated Bungie's old FPS from the Mac to Apple's tablet. This ...

Fling adds a joystick to your iPad

by Michael Terretta (Jan 4th, 2011)

The Fling tactile game controller is a real joystick that attaches to your iPad so you can instinctively feel what you're doing with your thumb and increase your accuracy. Xbox and PlayStation controllers taught console gamers to use a left thumb joystick for movement or aiming. Action games ...

Borderlands Game of the Year edition for Mac gets a release date

by Mike Schramm (Nov 19th, 2010)

2K Games Feral Interactive (the company publishing this title for the Mac) has announced that the Game of the Year edition of the great "Diablo shooter" game Borderlands is on its way. It'll be out on December 3rd, and like other versions of the special edition, the game will include all of the ...

ARDefender augmented reality shoot-em-up hands-on

by Erica Sadun (Nov 9th, 2010)

ARDefender has been out for a couple of months but surprisingly it's fallen under the radar of a lot of iPhone users. Combining augmented reality technology with a basic aim-and-shoot, ARDefender allows you to transform your physical desktop or office floor into a battleground. It costs just a buck ...

Xenome: Episode 1 is a fully immersive post-apocalyptic RPG on your iPhone

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 8th, 2010)

As I kid I burned up an entire summer playing Wasteland on my Apple II. I spent countless hours playing Fallout many years later. Xenome is clearly inspired by these two games, and promises to chew up yet more of my time. You play a lone wanderer in the desert, searching for something and having a ...

Team Fortress 2 out for Mac Steam

by Mike Schramm (Jun 11th, 2010)

Valve has released Team Fortress 2 for the Mac, along with a funny little video trailer highlighting the old PC vs. Mac fanboy wars (and a great comic featuring the TF2 characters' first visit to the Apple Store). If you've never played TF2, you're in for a treat -- it's a multiplayer team-based ...

GDC 2010: Ngmoco explains how Eliminate was built

by Mike Schramm (Mar 9th, 2010)

As they explained during the presentation, they had a heck of a goal with this project: they wanted to put together "the definitive FPS for iPhone," complete with all of the functions of a standard console deathmatch-style FPS, in just five months with just three engineers. And they started with the ...

Phoenix Wright, Hexen II coming to the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Feb 27th, 2010)

Good news for fans of good games: the terrific DS courtroom simulator (which, trust me, sounds much less fun than it actually is) Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney is coming to the iPhone, and Slide to Play has posted some hands-on video. The game takes the two DS screens and stacks them on top of ...

Eliminate now available on the App Store

by Mike Schramm (Nov 3rd, 2009)

Ngmoco's Eliminate has been building up buzz ever since it was announced, and now the first-person shooter is out on the App Store to try for yourself. As you can see above, it offers some relatively basic FPS gameplay when compared to shooters on other platforms (I've been having a lot of fun ...

Duke Nukem 3D brings classic carnage to iPhone gamers

by Michael Rose (Aug 11th, 2009)

Now playing on iPhones: the first-person shooter that armed a generation, Duke Nukem 3D [iTunes link], in all its crass and pixelated glory. While it may not be the best 13-year-old game on the platform, it's bound to be one of the more popular ones; the control system has been expanded for the ...

3D Realm: Prey coming to the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Feb 11th, 2009)

This is pretty exciting -- 3D Realms has announced that their 2006 first-person shooter, Prey, is coming to the iPhone. IGN has a preview up now, and it looks pretty impressive -- the texture work is very well done, and the gravity-defying puzzles that helped the original game stand out as an ...

Rumor: Bioshock headed to the Mac

by Mike Schramm (Jan 13th, 2009)

Is there anyone out there who doesn't have a PC, or a console, or a Windows partition on their Mac, or was just somehow able to avoid the critical, cultural, and widespread success of 2007's amazing Bioshock? If so, you're in luck -- while console gamers are breathlessly waiting for Bioshock 2 ...

Call of Duty 2 Hits Stores

by Dan Lurie (Jun 13th, 2006)

At long last, the long awaited sequel to one of the greatest first person shooters of all time--and 2003 Game of the Year--is available in stores as an OS X compatible Universal Binary. The series, set in World War II, is known for its extensive use of sound and environmental design to make the ...