Gaming Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

GameFly wants to get into iOS publishing, create an Android App Store

by Mike Schramm (May 24th, 2012)

Game rental service GameFly has decided to go all-in on mobile publishing for some reason. The service, which rents out console games in the Netflix style, and runs the Shacknews gaming news outlet, has had a pretty popular GameCenter app out on the App Store for a while now. But now it's ...

Laser VR: Projector + computer vision + laser pointer = fun!

by Erica Sadun (May 23rd, 2012)

On paper, Laser VR sounds like one of the worst product ideas ever: you need to buy an iPhone, a laser pointer, and a Pico projector just to get started, but darn if we here at TUAW aren't drooling over the prospect. An iPhone provides both the graphics generation piece, which is piped ...

Elgato announces Game Capture HD, shipping next week

by Steven Sande (May 22nd, 2012)

When you're into gaming, there are some times that you wish that you could go back in time and replay a particularly astounding point in gameplay where you wiped out a deadly foe or racked up a huge score in a short amount of time. Elgato wants you to relive those moments, and with the new Game ...

Enter to win a prize pack from Universal Movie Tycoon

by Mike Schramm (May 22nd, 2012)

Universal Movie Studios recently released an official iOS game, of all thing. Universal Movie Tycoon is a social free-to-play game that allows you to make and build Universal Studios with properties from the company's huge catalog. To celebrate the release of the game, Universal has teamed up ...

Daily iPhone App: Dark Legends takes Spacetime's formula to the next step

by Mike Schramm (May 22nd, 2012)

Spacetime Studios has made quite a name for itself with its popular mobile MMOs, Pocket Legends and Star Legends. The company was originally founded to make full-scale PC MMOs like World of Warcraft, but when the plug got pulled on a big project, Spacetime had to go back to the drawing board ...

Infinity Blade: Dungeons gameplay revealed

by Mike Schramm (May 18th, 2012)

Our friends at Joystiq have procured the first gameplay footage of Epic's followup to the popular Infinity Blade series, called Infinity Blade: Dungeons, and you can get a look at it below. As you can see, it's set in the same world as the first two games, but features a completely different ...

iMore lists the best free iPad games

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 16th, 2012)

My son is home sick today, but instead of staring at the TV he's poking at some strategy games on the iPad. As luck would have it, iMore published an extensive list of free iPad games, broken down by category. There are some easy hits, like Angry Birds Free, but also some little gems like ...

Astronut for iPad available, use iPhone as controller

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 10th, 2012)

If you enjoy casual games and have both an iPhone and an iPad, then you'll want to check out Astronut from The Iconfactory. The planet hopping game has been available on the iPhone for a few years, but an updated iPhone and a new iPad version now lets you use your the iPad for the game and the ...

Another title from Tiny Wings creator coming this month

by Mike Schramm (May 8th, 2012)

We haven't heard much (anything, really) from Tiny Wings creator Andreas Illiger since he released his amazing little iOS game Tiny Wings, featuring a cute bird flying through a series of random hills. Illiger was a little intimidated (not surprisingly) after his game got so big so fast, and he ...

GREE picks up Funzio for $210 million

by Mike Schramm (May 2nd, 2012)

You might remember GREE as the Japanese social network that picked up OpenFeint around this time last year. Since then, the company has been, like Zynga, Mobage, and a few other giant social networks, looking to pick up social and iPhone/mobile developers to make games for its millions of users ...

Daily Update for April 26, 2012

by Steven Sande (Apr 26th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Angry Birds Space, Jetpack Joyride, Anomaly Warzone Earth all updated

by Mike Schramm (Apr 26th, 2012)

Angry Birds Space has gotten a free update that adds ten new levels to the extremely popular bird-tossing game. There are ten new icy planets to orbit around, and the update (on iOS, at least) also provides twenty free Space Eagles to play with, and the option to earn one more free per ...

Nintendo reports first annual operating loss, Apple to blame

by Mike Schramm (Apr 26th, 2012)

Nintendo has reported its first annual operating loss ever. The company lost US$454.4 million from 2011 to 2012. The Wii is a few years old now, and the company's latest handheld, the Nintendo 3DS, hasn't been selling near as well as it was supposed to. Nintendo claims it'll turn sales figures ...

Original source code for Prince of Persia posted to Github

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 17th, 2012)

Before Ubisoft, there was Jordan Mechner, a Yale University graduate and video game designer. He may not be a household name among younger Apple fans, but vintage Apple aficionados fondly remember his first title, Prince of Persia. The story about this game took an interesting twist recently ...

Daily iPhone App: SpellTower is a fast-paced word game with local multiplayer support

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 16th, 2012)

SpellTower is a challenging word game that was recently updated to version 3.0. This latest version includes retina graphics for the new iPad and local multiplayer support. Similar to Bookworm and other word games, SpellTower has a grid of letter tiles that you use to spell words by selecting ...