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Daily iPhone App: Cling is a platformer that will grab you

by Mike Schramm (Mar 25th, 2013)

Platformers are a tough genre to pull off on a touchscreen. There are a few solid core platformers out there for iOS (Mikey Shorts is probably my favorite), but in general, the lack of tactile buttons and relative shortage of screen space make really precise, strong 2D platforming games hard to ...

Daily iPad App: Feed Me Oil HD

by Mike Schramm (May 17th, 2012)

Chillingo's Feed Me Oil was released a little while ago, and it's a solid game that didn't get a ton of press when it first dropped. The reason for that is probably because it's somewhat similar to Where's My Water, in that you're trying to get a fluid simulation into a certain place on the ...

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 ...

Galcon's Phil Hassey plans a one-way trip to Anathema Mines

by Mike Schramm (Mar 12th, 2012)

Phil Hassey has had some success on the App Store with the popular Galcon, and last week at GDC in San Francisco, he was showing off a game that's actually been in development for quite a while. Anathema Mines, Hassey says, actually has some ideas he's been playing with for a long time, dating all ...

Twitter app, Cut the Rope, SpellTower, SpellCraft School of Magic all updated

by Mike Schramm (Feb 21st, 2012)

We don't usually cover every single update that arrives on the App Store, simply because there are so many apps out there and so many developers working hard all the time. But a number of very popular apps have updated recently, so here's a few big apps with lots of new content to see. The ...

Disney introduces new 'Cranky's Story' levels for Where's My Water

by Mike Schramm (Jan 26th, 2012)

Disney has released the very first new content pack for the extremely popular Where's My Water, "Cranky's Story." It features 40 new levels for the price of 99 cents. Instead of guiding clean water to a shower head as you did in the original game, this update has you direct dirty water to Cranky's ...

How Godzilab created levels for iBlast Moki 2

by Mike Schramm (Aug 31st, 2011)

I really loved iBlast Moki 2, and I feel like since it hit the App Store, the app hasn't quite gotten the recognition it's deserved. If you enjoy a good puzzle game, this one has you covered -- it's a really complex and interesting title that's wrapped up in a cute and easy-to-understand skin. ...

TUAW's Daily App: Burn the Rope

by Mike Schramm (Dec 28th, 2010)

This isn't an iOS port of the great Flash game You Have To Burn the Rope, though an upgraded version of that would be nice to have. Instead, this one is a pretty inventive puzzle title by a company called Big Blue Bubble. The idea is that you touch anywhere along a rope to start up a flame, and then ...

Lemmings-like Spirits for iPad out now

by Mike Schramm (Nov 13th, 2010)

Spirits for iPad, which I saw and played back at Indiecade this year, is out now on the App Store. The game is US$4.99, but as a premium iPad experience, it's worth it. The whole thing is extremely relaxing, and the art style is quite well done. If you enjoy Lemmings-style puzzle gameplay where ...

TUAW's Daily App: iSlash

by Mike Schramm (Nov 2nd, 2010)

iSlash is a nice puzzle-type title that reminds me of Fruit Ninja, but is probably the old arcade game Qix. You're presented with a shape on screen with a few samurai stars bouncing around inside it, and your task is to slash, with your finger, parts of the shape off, while keeping all of the stars ...

TUAW's Daily App: No, Human

by Mike Schramm (Aug 30th, 2010)

No, Human is an intriguing little morsel of gameplay for both the iPhone and the iPad. The clever premise is that humans are planning to go out and explore the Universe, and the Universe, in turn, has decided that's not a good idea. So, you're actually playing against humans, lobbing fiery ...

TUAW's Daily App: Landformer

by Mike Schramm (Jun 30th, 2010)

Owen Goss is the mind behind Streaming Colour Studios, makers of Dapple and Monkeys in Space. I first met Goss earlier this year at at the 360iDev conference, and during his panel there (in which he created a game about bacon farming in just 90 minutes), he showed off a few early shots of a ...

Topping the App Store charts with Angry Birds

by Mike Schramm (Jun 24th, 2010)

Angry Birds is one of the growing number of phenomenal success stories coming out of the App Store. It's a simple game; you drag birds in a slingshot in order to try and get them to knock down structures and hit green pigs. It's really resonated with audiences, though, and just like we heard with ...

GDC 2010: Hands-on with Superbrothers' Sword and Sorcery

by Mike Schramm (Mar 15th, 2010)

"Superbrothers" is the alias of Craig Adams, a Toronto-based artist who specializes in pixel-based artwork and cinema. He's a big fan of musician Jim Guthrie, and after the two met a while ago (and discovered they were actually fans of each other), he was inspired to create a few music videos of ...

Ngmoco cancels Rolando 3, says it can't fit into a free-to-play model

by Mike Schramm (Feb 18th, 2010)

Here's some unfortunate news out of Ngmoco: The company tells IGN that while there was a Rolando 3 (the second sequel to the very popular and excellent rolling iPhone platformer) in progress, the game has been essentially canceled, and will never see release in its current form. Why? The second ...