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DeNA to publish Godus on iOS

by Mike Schramm (May 20th, 2013)

Peter Molyneux's studio 22cans has been working on a Populous followup game called Godus, and the company has just announced a deal for a publisher. DeNA, the Japanese company behind the Mobage social platform, will be publishing Godus on iOS. And the game will also connect up to Mobage in ...

Download N.O.V.A. 3 and Gangstar Rio for iOS free this weekend

by John-Michael Bond (May 17th, 2013)

Looking for some new games to play this weekend? You're in luck. Developer Gameloft is offering two of its premium titles, N.O.V.A. 3 and Gangstar Rio, for free this weekend in the App Store. Picking up both titles would normally set you back US$12 so jump on this deal quickly. Gangster Rio is a ...

King claims 70 million daily active players, Pet Rescue Saga coming soon to mobile

by Mike Schramm (May 16th, 2013)

King, which used to be called King.com it pulled a name change at GDC this year, has announced that it has 70 million daily active players, which is a crazy number. By far, King's biggest title is Candy Crush Saga. The company notes that the game has 15.5 million active players on Facebook every ...

Hello Games says Joe Danger iOS is a big success, planning an update and more

by Mike Schramm (May 7th, 2013)

148Apps recently had a nice chat with Hello Games, the makers of Joe Danger, a motorcycle stunt racing game first for consoles and then for iOS, and the company says that Apple's platform has done very well for them. Throughout the app's life, Joe Danger's been in 5 million crashes total, which ...

Daily iPhone App: Haunted Hollow is frighteningly good

by Mike Schramm (May 3rd, 2013)

I've been crowing about how great Firaxis' Haunted Hollow is since GDC earlier this year, so odds are that you've probably already seen me telling you once (or more) to go pick it up. But in case the message hasn't gotten through yet: Go pick it up. Firaxis' latest game is just an excellent, ...

Origin Stories: Vectrex offers nostalgic gameplay

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 2nd, 2013)

If you were a kid in the 1980's you may remember the oddball consumer gaming console called the Vectrex. Notable for it's use of vectors instead of bitmapped graphics (like every other console), the Vectrex never quite took hold but before it was discontinued a number of fun retro games were made ...

Angry Birds Friends recruits your Facebook friends in fight against the pigs

by John-Michael Bond (May 2nd, 2013)

Charge your phone, hide your family and mourn the loss of your free time. Angry Birds has returned with the latest expansion of their fowl-flinging empire, Angry Birds Friends. The new version looks a lot like the old one at first glance. You still fling super-powered birds at structures in your ...

Some excellent new games on the App Store right now

by Mike Schramm (May 2nd, 2013)

Apple traditionally releases big new apps all together on Thursday, and this week there's an exceptionally good slate of releases arriving, including some games we've been waiting on for a while. As expected, Angry Birds Friends has arrived, and it's a social take on the popular Angry Birds ...

Daily iPad App: Tipping Point Adventure for iPad is clever and engaging

by Mel Martin (May 1st, 2013)

My experience as an adventure game player goes way back to the text-only Colossal Cave game, which then morphed into the classic Zork text games from Infocom (which, by the way, you can play even now on iOS with the Lost Treasures of Infocom app). Now, with speed and graphic power, games are a ...

Daily iPhone App: Robot Unicorn Attack 2 turns Adult Swim's biggest hit freemium

by Mike Schramm (Apr 29th, 2013)

Adult Swim has built up a nice stable of games on the App Store, and the biggest workhorse in it is Robot Unicorn Attack, a Flash game that's an endless runner where you play as the titular creature dashing and jumping to '80s music playing in the background. That game's been very successful, ...

Circles for iPhone delivers old-school memory challenge

by Dave Caolo (Apr 24th, 2013)

Circles for iPhone ($US1.99) is the latest iPhone app from Snowman. It's a fun memory game of the pick-up-and-play ilk, and it's kept me busy for the last week or so. My fellow Gen-X'ers will think of Simon, the electronic memory game from Milton Bradley that became an '80s pop culture icon. Of ...

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 ...

Sony releases a PlanetSide 2 app for iOS

by Mike Schramm (Apr 15th, 2013)

Sony has released PlanetSide 2 Mobile Uplink (free, universal), an iOS app that connects with the popular online game PlanetSide 2. The MMO has you traipsing around another world, trying to claim facilities and land for one of three factions. Now, PlanetSide 2 Mobile Uplink will help you track ...

Real Racing 3 updated with new cars, Hunter mode

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 11th, 2013)

EA has released the first major update to Real Racing 3 on iOS. Among the improvemts is a new play mode called "Hunter." In this mode, you must overtake another car in only a single lap. EA has also added some new cars, including the Chevrolet Cobalt SS and Camaro ZL1. Best of all, the game now ...

Steve Demeter's Trism to return as Trism 2

by Mike Schramm (Apr 8th, 2013)

You may (or may not) remember Trism, which was one of the first iPhone games I've ever played, and was one of the App Store's first big gaming winners. Developer Steve Demeter was behind that game, but after his huge success on the early App Store, he left the spotlight for quite a while, and ...