Release Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Little Inferno out on Mac

by Mike Schramm (Apr 16th, 2013)

Little Inferno arrived on iOS in January. It's a wicked, little satirical adventure about burning toys that's gotten a lot of critical acclaim. Now, the game is available on the Mac. You can pick it up directly from the developer Tomorrow Corporation, or grab it on Steam or ...

Alleged Office roadmap says Office for iOS possibly not until 2014

by Mike Schramm (Apr 10th, 2013)

The rumor mill had previously stated that Office for iOS might be coming as soon as last month, but obviously that never happened. Now, an alleged roadmap for the Office family of products from Microsoft says we may not see Office for iOS this year at all. ZDNet reports that it has obtained a ...

Daily iPhone App: Badland is a gorgeous alien journey

by Mike Schramm (Apr 4th, 2013)

One of my favorite things about the App Store is that it can offer some completely original and crazy ideas. Developers do have to get approval from Apple to be published, but that approval doesn't require a game to make sense or be clear, only that it works as advertised. Badland is one such ...

Ultima Forever looks impressive, but may have some freemium problems

by Mike Schramm (Apr 3rd, 2013)

Ultima Forever is one of the weirdest brand experiments I've seen pop up on iOS so far. Ultima is, of course, one of the oldest and best-loved RPG series in video games, with over a dozen different variations and versions. And EA has decided to bring the Ultima series to iOS with Ultima ...

Rocketcat goes deeper into the Mage Dungeon with Wayward

by Mike Schramm (Apr 1st, 2013)

Kepa Auwae's Rocketcat Games is one of my favorite iOS developers: Auwae himself is full to the brim with creative ideas about gaming, and all of Rocketcat's releases, from Hook Champ to Mage Gauntlet to Punch Quest, are extremely polished and well-designed. I got to meet with Auwae in person ...

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 ...

Tilt to Live getting a sequel and it's Redonkulous

by Mike Schramm (Mar 22nd, 2013)

One Man Left Studios is most recently known for its great social Outwitters title, but of course the two-man developer team (made up of Alex Okafor and Adam Stewart) is best known for the popular Tilt to Live, a relatively early iOS hit. And now the team is going back to its history, and ...

Firaxis bringing Haunted Hollow to iOS

by Mike Schramm (Mar 21st, 2013)

Firaxis is one of my favorite game developers -- they're the group behind the Civ series as well as the recent (and excellent) XCOM: Enemy Unknown reboot. Today, they've surprise-announced a game called Haunted Hollow, which is coming to iOS later on this spring. As you'd imagine from Firaxis, ...

SolForge preview gets an update, with new decks to play

by Mike Schramm (Mar 20th, 2013)

SolForge is an interesting iOS card game that keeps getting even more intriguing. The game, which is being made by a company called StoneBlade Entertainment (formerly Gary Games, the gang behind the great Ascension), earned a nice chunk of change on Kickstarter a while ago, and then saw a free ...

NimbleBit's Nimble Quest coming to iOS and Mac March 28

by Mike Schramm (Mar 19th, 2013)

NimbleBit has announced that its latest game, Nimble Quest, is due March 28, right in the middle of next week's Game Developers' Conference in San Francisco. I've been playing the game for a few weeks, and it's great. It's definitely more arcade-y than NimbleBit's other games (including Pocket ...

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, ...

Sega announces Sonic Dash, an endless runner starring the blue hedgehog

by Mike Schramm (Mar 5th, 2013)

Having tried some traditional Sonic the Hedgehog gameplay with Sonic Episode 4 (which didn't seem to do that well for them), Sega has now moved to the strategy of using Sonic in much simpler, arcade-style iOS games. Sonic Jump came out a little while ago, featuring an endless jumping/Doodle ...

Disney adds a little originality with Toy Story: Smash It

by Mike Schramm (Feb 28th, 2013)

Last time I spoke with Disney's Bart Decrem, I asked him about the company's plans to put out original mobile games. Lately, they've been on a bender of rebranded iOS hits, including Temple Run Brave, Monsters Inc. Run, and Where's My Perry?, which is a branded remix of Disney's own original ...

Adobe brings Photoshop Touch to the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Feb 27th, 2013)

Just about a year ago at this time, Adobe released an iPad version of their flagship app, called Photoshop Touch. Now, a year later, they've announced a version of the app built specifically for the iPhone's smaller screen, that should be propagating out to the App Store very soon, ...

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 ...