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Daily iPhone App: Chickon

by Mike Schramm (Nov 21st, 2011)

You might have already played Galcon, it's a solid realtime strategy game from the early days of the App Store, where you guided little ships from planet to planet, eventually swarming over all of the planets in a certain galaxy. That game was fun, but it was a little more abstract than ...

TUAW's Daily App: Knights vs. Aliens

by Mike Schramm (Apr 7th, 2011)

Knights vs. Aliens is a brand new title to the App Store that serves as an interesting update to one of my early App Store favorites, Galcon. Instead of sending triangles around between planets, though, you're pointing squads of knights around the world, trying to take over castles from aliens, ...

Galcon Labs in the App Store now

by Mike Schramm (Oct 3rd, 2009)

Galcon (App Store link) was one of the most popular games of last year -- it presented a fascinating mix of strategy and real-time arcade gameplay onto the iPhone just as it was starting out, and along with games like Fieldrunners and Flight Control, really cemented a place for the platform in the ...

GDC09: iPhone gaming roundup

by Mike Schramm (Mar 25th, 2009)

The Game Developers Conference is on in San Francisco, and game companies are starting to pull out the major announcements on what's coming to the iPhone in the next year. Here's a roundup of all the titles we've heard mentioned already. EA announced a huge lineup of ports from their already ...

Wired's top 10 reader-approved iPhone games

by Mike Schramm (Feb 17th, 2009)

Our friends at Wired recently asked their readers what their favorite iPhone games were, and their list is a pretty darn good overview of some of the best choices for gamers on the App Store. Some of the picks are already well known -- we posted about Trism way, way back, and of course Galcon has ...

iPhone is dominating independent gaming

by Mike Schramm (Jan 27th, 2009)

Our friends at Joystiq make a very insightful and very telling discovery: the iPhone more or less owns the finalist list for the 2009 Independent Games Festival Mobile category. 11 of the 14 contestants aren't on the Nintendo DS or PSP -- they're built and played on the iPhone and the iPod touch. ...