Category Archives: iOS games

Angry Birds Star Wars — Gameplay Video

Rovio released the first game­play video of Angry Birds Star Wars. Birds using lightsabers and the force? It seems to change the game­play prin­ciple of the ori­ginal ver­sion a bit. We’ll see how well it fares when it is released on November 8.

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Apple announces iPhone 5 and new iPods

Apple just announced new mod­els of their iPhone and iPod lines. The long rumored iPhone 5 was offi­cially revealed and has a taller screen size, thin­ner and lighter design, an A6 pro­cessor (twice as fast as the pre­vi­ous A5 chip), bet­ter cam­era for low-light situ­ations, LTE broad­band and bet­ter FaceTime HD front-facing cam­era. It will be available […]

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Video of today’s Apple Media Event

Video stream of Apple’s March 2012 Special Event has been released. You can watch it here → The video pod­cast of the event is also available →

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Life at an Independent Game Dev Studio

Life at Simogo, an inde­pend­ent game developer’s ‘team of 2′ stu­dio and cre­at­ors of Bumpy Road. A behind the scenes look at the mak­ing of their latest game ‘Beat Sneak Bandit’ — the art­icle at Touch Arcade.

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Om Nom Stories

A nice anim­ated short fea­tur­ing Om Nom from ZeptoLab’s ‘Cut The Rope’. The game is one of those qual­ity titles that best embod­ies the spirit of touch inter­faces on mobile devices. ‘Cut The Rope’ games are ori­ginal addict­ive puzzles with great qual­ity art dir­ec­tion and animation.

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Look… no Flash

Nice teaser page for Bling.io, a product of Webreakstuff. @mrgan: “The teaser page for the Bling web­site is a cute homage to The Incident” It really is (check here if you don’t know what The Incident is). This kind of touch really makes ‘spread­ing the mes­sage’ of a new ser­vice a much more effect­ive task. A good concept and design are essential. […]

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The Incident Review + Episode 2 Teaser Video

I’ve been want­ing to talk about “The Incident” for some time. And I find this is my chance as a teaser trailer for epis­ode 2 of the game has just been pos­ted (video at the other end of this review). So, what is “The Incident”? It is a very cool iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad game, brain-child of Matt Comi (from Big […]

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The Secret of Monkey Island on $0.99 sale, too

LucasArts’ “The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition”, the first game of the adven­ture series joins “Monkey Island 2: Special Edition” in the recent drop of price. It’s a can’t miss $0.99/€0.79 bar­gain. The low price is only avail­able for a lim­ited time, so hurry up. ~ And Monkey Island 2 has been updated with Retina Display graph­ics support!

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Monkey Island 2 on iPhone for $0.99

LucasArts has dropped the price of the iPhone ver­sion of their clas­sic adven­ture game “Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge” for a lim­ited period of time. The price came down from $7.99 to $0.99 (€0,79). If you’re an adven­ture game fan, you obvi­ously know this clas­sic and at $0.99 it is a real bar­gain. Get it while it’s […]

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Impressive iOS Game Demo Available on the App Store Now

The Unreal engine 3 tech demo ‘Epic Citadel’ shown dur­ing the Apple Media Event today is now avail­able for free on the App Store. Only works on iPhone 4, 3GS, iPod Touch (3rd gen) and iPad — requires iOS 3.1.0 or later. Get it here.

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