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Daily iPhone App: Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies

by Mike Schramm (Dec 15th, 2011)

EA has been on the App Store for a long time. Say what you want about subscription minigames and in-app purchases, but recent release of Tetris and Bejeweled demonstrate that EA has a good play. Activision, on the other hand, still doesn't quite get the App Store, and the result is games like ...

Daily iPhone App: Wizard Ops

by Mike Schramm (Dec 6th, 2011)

Wizard Ops is quite a game -- it doesn't feature a ton of polish (as you can probably tell from the screens above), but what it lacks in graphical flair, it definitely makes up for in the gameplay department. It's a game about wizards, obviously, who can cast magical spells, but it's actually ...

Daily iPhone App: Extraction Project Outbreak

by Mike Schramm (Nov 30th, 2011)

Extraction: Project Outbreak is a recent title from Chillingo that's an interesting mix of shooter and what's essentially real-time strategy. You control one soldier as you fight through a series of missions, and the control scheme is pretty interesting. You touch on the screen to move around ...

Daily iPhone App: Asteroids Gunner

by Mike Schramm (Nov 16th, 2011)

I launched Asteroids Gunner with low expectations. Asteroids is one of the oldest games around, and it's hard to see how even Atari can squeeze anything more from this relic. But lo and behold, it has. Asteroids Gunner is a remarkable freemium dual-stick shooter, turning the top-down 2D ...

TUAW's Daily iPhone App: 8-bit vs. 16-bit

by Mike Schramm (Aug 3rd, 2011)

8-bit vs. 16-bit is a standard arcade shooter (in which you take down enemies as they fly at you on a 2D screen) with one very meta twist: You can flip back and forth between an 8-bit (as in, the old NES and Atari-style graphics) and a 16-bit (like a Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis) mode at any time. ...

TUAW's Daily iPhone App: Velocispider

by Mike Schramm (Jun 6th, 2011)

Lord knows why you'd want to actually combine a spider and a Velociraptor, but developer Retro Dreamer did anyway, and the result is Velocispider, a fun pixelated shoot-em-up game that's out universally on the iPad and iPhone. The Araknasaur (as the creature's called) serves as your cannon for ...

TUAW's Daily App: Sky Combat

by Mike Schramm (Mar 3rd, 2011)

I can't say that I'd call a top-down arcade shooter the best fit for the iPhone's touchscreen, but in the case of Chillingo's Sky Combat, it works. You drag a finger around the screen, guiding an auto-firing chopper through quite a few different maps of various forces, attacking and defending ...

TUAW's Daily App: Super Blast 2

by Mike Schramm (Jan 3rd, 2011)

I have to admit that I never played Super Blast, but the sequel has entertained me for a little while now. It's a straight-up shooter game with a nice, easy control scheme. All you do is tilt your device to aim and shoot, and you can occasionally tap the screen to clear it with a bomb. It's a ...

Red Nova is fast and fun but needs a little work

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Dec 22nd, 2010)

In the game Red Nova (for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch) you play a lone ship against a bunch of flying enemies in a 3/4 angled, fast-paced arcade space shooter. Red Nova launched to some acclaim, and I can see why. The sound is great, the graphics, while low-polygon, are good and the animation and ...

TUAW's Daily App: Neo Defender 2

by Mike Schramm (Dec 13th, 2010)

Neo Defender 2 is another title from the good folks at Appular, who we've talked about here on TUAW before. Neo Defender 2 is an Asteroids-style shooter, but the twist is that instead of moving around the screen, your ship stays firmly in the middle, leaving you to watch all sides and protect ...

Rage: Mutant Bash TV brings id Tech 5 to iOS

by Mike Schramm (Nov 15th, 2010)

We saw id games' newest title, Rage, demonstrated earlier this year on an iOS device, but now there's more details and specifics on just how it's coming to iOS. It's not a straight port of the PC and console shooter -- rather, id is calling it Rage: Mutant Bash TV, and releasing this version of the ...

TUAW's Daily App: Silverfish

by Mike Schramm (Nov 10th, 2010)

Silverfish is an arcade shooter with an interesting twist: you don't actually shoot at all. You control a little bug-like ship (kind of gross, actually, if you've ever been plagued by the real thing) that you can move around the screen by swiping up, down, left, or right. You're chased by enemies ...

TUAW's Daily App: Project Sanctuary

by Mike Schramm (Aug 25th, 2010)

Project Sanctuary is one of the best dual-stick shooters I've seen on the App Store yet. It's quick and responsive, and it's got a surprisingly solid back-end, which includes four different characters to choose from, multiple game modes and settings, and even an in-game talent tree where you can ...

Team Fortress 2 out for Mac Steam

by Mike Schramm (Jun 11th, 2010)

Valve has released Team Fortress 2 for the Mac, along with a funny little video trailer highlighting the old PC vs. Mac fanboy wars (and a great comic featuring the TF2 characters' first visit to the Apple Store). If you've never played TF2, you're in for a treat -- it's a multiplayer team-based ...

Phoenix Wright, Hexen II coming to the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Feb 27th, 2010)

Good news for fans of good games: the terrific DS courtroom simulator (which, trust me, sounds much less fun than it actually is) Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney is coming to the iPhone, and Slide to Play has posted some hands-on video. The game takes the two DS screens and stacks them on top of ...