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Arcane Legends gets a new expansion, with a new exclusive item from TUAW

by Mike Schramm (Feb 21st, 2013)

Spacetime Studios is releasing an update for its latest mobile MMO this afternoon, called Arcane Legends, and not only will you get access to a bunch of new content, but TUAW has an exclusive item for you to download in the game. The expansion is called Kraken Isles, and contains all sorts of ...

Hands on with NimbleBit's next title, Nimble Quest

by Mike Schramm (Feb 19th, 2013)

I am a huge fan, as you may already know, of the two brothers behind NimbleBit and all of their work, from the earlier titles like Scoops and DizzyPad to the much larger freemium hits they've had like Tiny Tower and Pocket Planes. The last time I talked to either of the Marsh brothers in ...

Free Pokemon TV app wants to be the very best, like no one ever was

by Mike Schramm (Feb 12th, 2013)

I'll admit it: I may have just written this post for the headline. But an official app from Nintendo's huge pet-hunting franchise is always news, and a free app like this might be just the thing to keep your kids busy for cheap while they're playing with the iPhone or iPad on a long car ride. ...

Box offering 25 GB for free in promotion

by Mike Schramm (Feb 8th, 2013)

Filesharing service Box is offering up 25 GB of free cloud storage in a new promotion (supposedly for "Gameday," but it seems to still be in effect anyway). To qualify, you must be a new customer on a free plan, or just sign up for a new account with a new email address. The deal is also for ...

Daily iPhone App: Pangolin bounces its way through your custom-made platforms

by Mike Schramm (Jan 18th, 2013)

Last year, I participated in the game jam at 360iDev, and my idea for a game there was to make a touchscreen 2D puzzle platformer where you could swipe across the screen to create platforms to close gaps or create a navigation path. Given that I'm still a beginner game programmer, that game ...

Aralon: Sword and Shadow HD available for free through new Free Play program

by Mike Schramm (Dec 12th, 2012)

Touch Arcade blogs about iOS games, and they've just announced Free Play, which will periodically feature selected iOS games for free. There are quite a few programs like this around, of which Free App a Day is probably the most popular. But a lot of those programs do things such as charge ...

Pocket for Mac gets a big update, better Twitter, Facebook, and Evernote support

by Mike Schramm (Nov 27th, 2012)

Pocket used to be called Read It Later, and it actually did fairly well under that branding, as I remember. But the app was revamped to Pocket a little while ago, and since then, has been growing a little empire of apps designed to save content on one device, and pass it around to any number of ...

App Rewards Club reports on what going free can do for developers

by Mike Schramm (Nov 14th, 2012)

App Rewards Club is an app and service put together by a few iOS developers to help their fellow app devs with user discovery on the App Store. Like the Free App a Day service, App Rewards Club highlights free apps every day, which benefits users because they can grab apps for free, and then ...

Daily iPhone App: Chip Chain is a great, free matching game

by Mike Schramm (Nov 13th, 2012)

Chip Chain is a great game, and considering that it's free (there are in-app purchases, but I didn't find them overly invasive at all), it's probably well worth a download no matter what. As much as the game is polished and professional, it hasn't yet caught me up in its mechanics, and I'm ...

Daily iPhone App: Eyelord has your fill of squishy orb matching

by Mike Schramm (Oct 24th, 2012)

Eyelord is the latest title from the folks at Secret Exit, whose game Zen Bound and its sequel you probably know well. Zen Bound was a well-produced game with a really excellent design, and Eyelord follows that trend, with a simple mechanic held up by triple-A quality production. The game is ...

Carmageddon for iOS out now, free for a day

by Mike Schramm (Oct 17th, 2012)

Carmageddon is an old PC title from the company now called Stainless Games, and earlier this year, they held a Kickstarter to update the game and release it out on iOS. The Kickstarter got funded, and Stainless has now delivered on its promise, and released the title on Apple's App Store. The ...

DeskPets' CarBot is a little iOS-controlled car

by Mike Schramm (Oct 11th, 2012)

The Parrot Quadricopter is probably the coolest thing you can control with your iPhone, but not all of us are willing to shell out $300 for a fully equipped airborne vehicle. For the rest of us, however, a company named DeskPets has released CarBot, a much more affordable (under $30) little ...

App Store acting wonky by showing free apps in the top paid list

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 7th, 2012)

Anyone else notice that the desktop version of iTunes is acting weird today? We were browsing through the top paid apps in several categories (Medical and Social Networking, for example) and noticed that all apps listed are free apps. Amusingly, the top paid app in the Books category is ...

Daily iPhone App: One Epic Knight keeps a Tiny Hero running

by Mike Schramm (Aug 29th, 2012)

David Whatley has been making games on the App Store for a while now -- after an early hit with GeoDefense, he and his team released an antihero tower defense title called Tiny Heroes, and now they are taking on the Temple Run-style 3D endless runner genre with a recent game called One Epic ...

New and updated on the App Store: Skype, Kartrider Pit, King's Bounty: Legions, Spell Sword and more

by Mike Schramm (Aug 21st, 2012)

This Tuesday has for some reason brought a bevy of new apps and updates to the App Store, so if you're looking for something to download (or wondering what that little red circled number on your App Store icon means), here's what's new right now. Both Skype for iPhone and Skype for iPad ...