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Laying the groundwork for Galcon 2

by Mike Schramm (Apr 1st, 2013)

Developer Phil Hassey kicked off our meeting at last week's GDC by showing me a necklace and a fridge magnet set both based on his oft-remade game Galcon, just two of the different rewards in the Kickstarter that recently raised him over $25,000 for development. Hassey has remade Galcon quite a ...

Deepworld now available on the Mac App Store

by Mike Schramm (Apr 1st, 2013)

Deepworld is a game that I've been covering since last year's GDC, when the three guys running the game came to tell me that they were putting together a 2D, multiplayer online sandbox title, in the same vein as Minecraft but with a steampunk twist. Last year, the game launched on Mac, and then ...

GDC 2013: Space Hulk lurches towards release

by Mike Schramm (Apr 1st, 2013)

Since I'm a huge Warhammer 40k fan, I was very excited to hear that a company named Full Control is planning to port the old Space Hulk board game to iOS, and I was even more excited to find the game up and running on the floor of GDC last week in San Francisco. Unfortunately, Full Control's ...

Tengami is a beautiful journey through heavenly paper

by Mike Schramm (Mar 28th, 2013)

Jennifer Schneidereit is one of three developers who worked with legendary game developers Rare on Kinect Sports. That same group of three later created their own company, Nyamyam games. They started work on their first title, Tengami, about two years ago. Since then, it has been honored with ...

Apple pulls sweatshop game from App Store

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 22nd, 2013)

Apple has a strict set of rules governing its iOS App Store. Run afoul of them and you may be kicked out of the playground. One of the latest apps to feel the wrath of Apple's banhammer is Sweatshop HD, a tower defense game in which players run a factory sweatshop. According to PocketGamer, ...

Blizzard reveals Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, coming to iPad and PC

by Mike Schramm (Mar 22nd, 2013)

Blizzard Entertainment has revealed a brand-new game coming to the iPad and PC at PAX East this weekend, and all I can say is that it's about time. Blizzard is by far my favorite game developer, and I've been disappointed that as great as their games are, the company has never once made a solid ...

Halfbrick teases a new game called Fish Out of Water, more coming at GDC

by Mike Schramm (Mar 20th, 2013)

Halfbrick Studios has posted a quick teaser for a brand-new game on its website, but here's all we know. It's got something to do with fishing. As you can see above, the creators of Jetpack Joyride and Fruit Ninja have something wet and colorful planned for their next title, but outside of a ...

WSJ profiles Letterpress creator Loren Brichter, the 'high priest of app design'

by Mike Schramm (Mar 18th, 2013)

Here at TUAW, we're big fans of Loren Brichter, the app developer behind Tweetie (which eventually became the official Twitter app) and the great word game Letterpress. But the Wall Street Journal appears to have just discovered the dev -- in a profile that appeared over the weekend, the paper ...

Mac Game of the Week: Endless Space is a beautiful space-faring 4X strategy game

by Mike Schramm (Mar 14th, 2013)

There's no question that iOS games tend to be a little more oriented towards the quicker and the easier, so when I head back to the Mac platform looking for a game to spotlight, I like to go a little more cerebral. And Endless Space, as you can probably tell from the screenshot above, is ...

Firemint devs form new Australian studio, Loveshack Entertainment

by Mike Schramm (Mar 13th, 2013)

Joshua Boggs, Adrian Moore and Ollie Browne are three developers who formerly worked at Firemint, the venerated studio behind iOS hits like Flight Control, Spy Mouse, and (after an acquisition by EA and a merger with Iron Monkey to become Firemonkeys) the recent hit Real Racing 3. They decided ...

Rovio releasing a game based on The Croods movie

by Mike Schramm (Mar 7th, 2013)

Rovio has announced another game, and it's yet another surprising title from the Finish developer of Angry Birds. Rovio's first non-Angry Birds game was Amazing Alex (which was a rebranding of another developer's game), its second was the spinoff Bad Piggies, and now they're making: The Croods, ...

Mac Game of the Week: Runner2 is a gorgeous, trippy journey

by Mike Schramm (Feb 28th, 2013)

The Bit.Trip series of games are always fun examples of mixing music and gameplay, and Bit.Trip Runner was probably my favorite of these. It is a relatively simple game, where a little black box of a guy named Commander Video runs along, jumping up over obstacles and onto platforms in time with ...

XCOM: Enemy Unknown headed to Mac in Elite Edition

by Randy Nelson (Feb 26th, 2013)

Strategy game fans got some great news today with the announcement that XCOM: Enemy Unknown is coming to Mac (can we please call it "OS XCOM" now?) this spring. The highly rated game from Civilization developer Firaxis is being ported to OS X by Feral Interactive from last October's PC release. ...

Plants vs. Zombies for iPhone and iPad now free as Apple's App of the Week

by Randy Nelson (Feb 21st, 2013)

In case you're one of the handful of people who hasn't played PopCap's fantastic tower defense-style game Plants vs. Zombies since its release in 2012, we've got some good news for you. The game has gone free today on iPhone and iPad as the App Store's latest App of the Week. Both versions will ...

Mac Game of the Week: Assassin's Creed 2, now on sale for $4.99

by Mike Schramm (Feb 21st, 2013)

As you may have noticed in our daily deals post today, Amazon is having a huge sale on Mac games, with some of the highest-profile titles of the last few years offered up with huge discounts. There are a few really great bargains in there (including Rage for US$4.99 and Civ V for $7.50), but ...