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Daily iPhone App: Letter Rush puts a new spin on spelling games

by Mike Schramm (Apr 2nd, 2013)

Word games are probably my least favorite genre on the App Store at this point -- I think they're overused, and many companies these days are just kicking out half-baked spelling games in the hopes of reaching a large casual audience. But Letter Rush, put together by a former Zynga studio, is ...

April Fool's: Doodle Jump Live! takes Kevin Durant to Broadway

by John-Michael Bond (Apr 1st, 2013)

With more than 10 million-plus sales and loyal fans all over the world, Doodle Jump developer Lima Sky is making the next logical leap for the franchise, Broadway. Doodle Jump Live! will make its stage debut in 2014, with an all-star production team lead by Julie Taymor of Spider-Man: Turn Off ...

Gameloft tries to make good with Dungeon Hunter 4

by Mike Schramm (Apr 1st, 2013)

Gameloft is one of the most interesting companies on Apple's App Store. The company, run out of Paris, France, has earned a reputation for itself by essentially cloning popular console titles. When the App Store first began, huge console titles like Halo, Call of Duty, and Diablo didn't have ...

Origin Stories: Sage Board Games

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Mar 29th, 2013)

Codito Development is behind Sage Board Games, a company which has been cranking out iOS versions of board games for a few years now. Perhaps most notably, Sage has released a number of classic Reiner Knizia games, but they also publish Ravensburger's Puerto Rico and recently released Uwe ...

Aspyr bringing latest Civ 5 expansion to the Mac same day as PC

by Mike Schramm (Mar 15th, 2013)

Firaxis has announced a brand-new expansion pack for Civilization 5, called Brave New World. The expansion, coming later on this summer, will add new civs, units, buildings and wonders to the game, along with the ability to create trade routes that circle the world, and ideologies that can be ...

EA reveals 'single identity' cross-platform gaming experience

by Mike Schramm (Feb 27th, 2013)

EA has completed its Origin login service, which means that most of its games going forward (including, presumably, Real Racing 3, which hits the US App Store tomorrow) will use a single company-specific login. Now, all EA games on all platforms will be able to access that login. So, for ...

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. ...

Star Wars Pinball for iPad is paddle-flipping fun

by Dave Caolo (Feb 26th, 2013)

Zen Studios will release Star Wars Pinball for iPad tomorrow. I've spent a week with it and am happy to say that it's great. The game's attention to detail, visuals, gameplay and surprises make it a winner. There's something here for old-time Star Wars geeks as well as those who are growing up ...

Ex-Zynga Boston team starts new iOS studio

by Mike Schramm (Feb 26th, 2013)

Zynga closed its Boston studio late last year, and some of its former developers have created a new company called Proletariat Inc. The group is set to release its first iPhone game next week, called Letter Rush. The folks at Proletariat, Inc. aren't new to the startup game. They were ...

Apple reaches settlement with parents over in-app purchases

by Randy Nelson (Feb 25th, 2013)

Parents whose children purchased in-app items for real money without them knowing are going to receive compensation from Apple. As reported by GigaOM, the company has reached a settlement today in a class action lawsuit filed against it in 2011, and will issue a US$5 iTunes gift card to those ...

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 ...

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition coming to Mac on Feb. 22

by Randy Nelson (Feb 20th, 2013)

Armchair adventurers take heed: Beamdog has announced that its 2012 remake of the classic Advanced Dungeons & Dragons-based title Baldur's Gate is finally arriving on Mac this week on February 22. Developed in conjunction with Overhaul Games, Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition features redrawn ...

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 ...

EA drops dozens of iOS games to 99 cents for President's Day

by Randy Nelson (Feb 18th, 2013)

Here's some late-breaking Presidents' Day news for iOS gamers: EA has dropped the price of more than 50 of its mobile games to just US$0.99 in celebration of the holiday. Titles on sale span both iPhone and iPad and include the likes of Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Dead Space, Monopoly ...

Daily iPhone App: Hackycat makes kicking the cat fun

by Mike Schramm (Feb 18th, 2013)

Stick with me on this: Hackycat is basically a game about kicking cats. In real life, of course, I love cats, and would never want to kick one. But Hackycat, designed by a very talented artist named Ken Wong, is all about playing hackeysack with a bevy of cartoony, colorful and surprisingly ...