Spoiler! They killed Megatron at the end of the first Transformers movie. When the house lights came on in the theater, I felt an overwhelming sense of confusion wash over me. What were they going to do for Transformers 2 without Megatron!?
Well, somebody figured something out because the Trailer for Transformers 2 has been released! (I wonder if the subtle subtitle "Revenge of the Fallen" means anythi
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Apple has said that there are currently 21,178 “game and entertainment titles” available for download from the App Store.
At a San Francisco event last night the company revealed the massive gap in the number of games available for iPhone / iPod Touch and rival platforms DS and PSP. There are reportedly 3,680 games for Nintendo’s handheld and just 607 for
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A lot of news came out yesterday at the Apple media event launching the new iPods. Aside from the new hardware releases there were a number of software releases including iPhone OS 3.1 and iTunes 9. A couple of other interesting things to note.
Apple has discounted the iPhone 3.x upgrade for iPod Touch owners from $9.95 to $4.95. So, those holding out can now get the 3.x upgrade for cheaper. The 3.0 -> 3.1 upgrade is free. Of course, if you are already planning on buying one of the new iPod Touches, you can skip it altogether, since the new ones come with OS 3.1 already installed.
Another important thing to note if buying a new iPod Touch is that only the high end (32GB and
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The games on display included the just released Star Defense as well as unreleased titles including Rolando 2, Touch Pets and the first-person shooter formerly known as LiveFire. This was first time any of the press has had hands-on time with Rolando 2 or the new and improved LiveFire and we'll cover those separately.
ttoday's build had progressed notably towards completion and the core gameplay remains the same. The game taps into the virtu
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Ubisoft also took the stage at today's event and said they were putting the finishing touches on Assassin's Creed II for the iPhone. The game is due for release for console systems this November and will also be released for the iPhone on the same day.
Ubisoft emphasized the diversity of animations and sound effects implemented for dramatic kill scenes and also empha
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The game puts you in the roll of the DJ as you race down a ribbon. Your job is to follow the groove as best you can using tilt controls. You can choose to remix your songs by choosing different paths on the ribbon. Here's the game in action:
At today's press event, Gameloft took the stage a showed up an upcoming first person shooter that is due later this year. The game has universally reminded people of Bungie's HALO franchise and features mission based scenarios on alien worlds.
We contacted Gameloft who gave us this bullet list of features that will be comi
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We don't have any details to report aside from what just appeared on the EA mobile Facebook page, but these screenshots do look great, and it's hard to argue with such an extensive list of licensed cars. The console version of the game is due in September and unlike their previous Need For Speed title, Shift is more of a sim racer rather than an arcade racer.
Like most Gameloft games, it's easy to find games to compare Dungeon Hunter to. It definitely has a strong scent of Diablo to it, but the graphics seem straight out of the Microsoft PC game, Dungeon Siege. Regardless of what comparisons you make, Dungeon Hunter seems like a solid hack and slash that I could see myself spending a embarrassing amount of time playing.
Gameloft's port of Earthworm Jim is, well, Earthworm Jim. If you're unfamiliar with the game, it originally appeared on the Sega Genesis in 1994, and since then saw ports on numerous platforms soon to be including the XBOX 360 via XBOX Live Arcade, the PS3 via PlayStation Network, and the Wii via WiiWare.
The story begins with a high tech super suit falling from space and landing directly on top of an earthworm named Jim. The suit somehow mutates him in to a larger earthworm capable of controlling its various functions. Jim overhears the villains of the game discussing devious plans regarding Princess What's Her Name (Yes, that's really her name) and Jim decides to to go on an adventure to save the princess from killer golfish, evil cats, and queens with slugs for butts. The game was a hit and was even the basis for a short lived cartoon s
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In the outside chance that you don't find yourself mashing the check for updates button in iTunes as often as you check your email, here are a few game updates that have added some cool new features and fixes that have come out in the past few days. Videos may not reflect the most recent versions of the games.
Touch KO, $4.99 – . Touch KO 1.1 brings some much needed bug fixes, the ability to skip through the slow motion replays, makes combos more powerful, but most importantly added a hard mode with new AI that is much more difficult.
Minigore is a dual-stick survival shooter similar to iDracula [App Store]. Two on-screen joysticks control the game, the right controls where you shoot and the left handles your movement. You only get one life and can get hit twice before you die. The game also comes with two levels of difficulty. Your arsenal to dispatch the swarms of furries consists of your standard machine gun, a shotgun that you can pick up from a crate, and an exploding crate to inflict a
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After a lot of disappointing efforts, I’ve finally found a good iPhone mini golf game with Glu Mobile's Mini Golf Wacky Worlds [$2.99], a fantasy golf game that delivers some creatively designed golf courses that are as fun as they are challenging.
The first thing that strikes you is the 3D visuals and the bright colors. Mini Golf Wacky Worlds seems to exude the idea of fun, which is essential to a game like this. The 3D animation tends to be smooth, although I
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Tiger Style's first entry into the iPhone market kicks off with this very interesting game description:
You are a spider. One afternoon, you discover an abandoned mansion. Where is the family who lived here? What happened, and why did they leave? Search for clues as you adventure from room to room on the hunt for your next meal.
And the game is as unique as it sounds. Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor is a beautifully created action (adventure?) game that places you in the role of a spider who must spin webs in order capture enough food to make it to the next level. Use up too much silk between meals and you won't survive.
Dot Matrix Interactive Design's KIL.A.TON is a first-rate artillery game with a well-implemented twist — simultaneous battles. This means more intense battles where enemy tanks shoot when you shoot ratcheting up the game in terms of strategy and intensity. And if that doesn’t interest you, the amount of in-game content and online multiplayer play may.
“Last tank standing”…that’s the mantra in KIL.A.TON as you battle a team of tanks through a variety of terrains. Aside from the simultaneous combat, the game incorporates a variety of elements including time constraints, equipment upgrades, and an AI that plays tough. The creative scoring system
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The wait is over, but it will likely take a true Resident Evil fan to appreciate the mobile edition of the game (or, ironically, one who has never played the original).An on-screen D-Pad controls your movement along with a array of buttons lining the right hand side of the screen that control all of your actions. Since in a game like this controls are everything, I highly recommend giving Resident Evil: Degeneration Lite [App Store] a try before picking up Resident Evil 4. They take a lot of ge
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Mobile studio Digital Chocolate has been a major player in the iPhone gaming scene and has claimed to be the #1 iPhone game studio based on downloads. There are definitely games we've liked coming from them such as 3D Brick Breaker Revolution. And most recently California Gold Rush [App Store] is getting rave reviews from forum members as well as forum reviewer Big Albie. However, the majority of their games seem to have a distinct mobile-pho
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At E3 we got a look at Gamevil's upcoming game in where fighting and special moves take precedence over the RPG storytelling elements found in Zenonia [App Store]. Like all Gamevil games, Hybrid: Eternal Whisper is a port of a popular Korean game that they're localizing to English and customizing for the iPhone interface.
The game is structured around 150 levels where you must fight off a number of combatants on
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A few minutes ago we received a provisioned copy of the Portal clone built in Unity that we posted about last week. There have been suspicions since the original video was posted that the entire thing was an elaborate hoax, but we can now confirm that it actually does exist.
The game in its current state is rather buggy, I've fallen through the world a few times and the way gravity is handled when going through portals needs some tweaking. Also, according to the developer, the c
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The iPhone has so far seen both 2D (Car Jack Streets) and 2.5D (Payback) GTA-clones but, as yet, iPhone gamers have not had a fully 3D world in which to wreak the particular sort of inner-city mayhem that has made the genre so popular. Thanks to Gameloft, that's about to change.
Yesterday Touch Arcade visited Gameloft's Manhattan studio to have a look at a preview build of their upcoming Grand Theft Auto-like iPhone title Gangstar: West Coast Hustle.
I spent the afternoon chatting with Bruce Morrison of Freeverse regarding their upcoming title which was shown at the iPhone Launch Party, Warp Gate. A game that is sounding more and more ambitious each time I hear about it, Warp Gate is a galactic conquest and trading game that is working up to having an amazing amount of depth for an iPhone game.
Players will master commodity markets, battle space pirates, and meet several friendly and hostile alien species. Featuring a fluid and ever changing economy, 6 warring factions including 2 alien species, a full arsenal of weapons including lasers, missiles, shields and beams, all spread over a galaxy of more than 75 planets and space stations in 32 star systems.
Bootant's Crazy Choppers [App Store] came out a few days ago, and since then has generated a bit of a fan following on our forums. With simple tilt controls, a basic upgrade system, and five different locales to decimate various enemy vehicles, Crazy Choppers is a steal at 99¢.
While flying around, you need to carefully keep an eye on both your health and fuel gauges. After the first few levels, enemies start firing back, forcing you to take evasive maneuvers and multiple attack runs to avoid
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Industry giant EA isn't satisfied with dominating the premium iPhone game market with App Store blockbusters like The Sims 3 [App Store], Need For Speed Undercover [App Store], Tiger Woods PGA Tour [App Store], and other titles which have all flirted with various positions on the top sales charts. EA is now setting its sights on the 99¢ market,w
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On Wednesday we posted a series of screenshots we got from Freeverse of their upcoming galactic conquest and trading game, Warp Gate. After the eager response both in the comments and on our forums, we went back to Freeverse and asked if they had anything else they could show us, especially since the video we included previously was from before WWDC last month.
Warp Gate features a fluid and ever changing economy filled with commodity markets to master, but fully conquering space will require the use of the game's full arsenal of weapons to deal with pesky space pirates, as well as whatever opposing factions you align yourself against. This latest trailer gives us a preview of what combat in Warp Gate... Read more »
Archon is hailed as a perfect hybrid of strategy and fast-action combat. You take control of either the Light or Dark team, each with their unique line-up of creatures. Strategically move your pieces on the chess-like board to capture squares. If you move onto an enemy square however, real-time battle ensues in the Combat Arena! Dodge with your Dragon or weave with your Unicorn and defeat your enemy. The combat victor captures the square on the Strategy Board. You win a game by annihilating your opponent's team or claiming all 5 “Power Squares.”
Galactic Gunner [App Store] just was released following an epic launch promotion of the likes I've never seen for an iPhone game. At WWDC, I sat down with developer Simon Edis, who laid the whole plan down for me, and it has been remarkable watching it unfold.
Where forum members assisted the Captain in solving various puzzles left by the Trepidoids, your enemy in the game. Starting with a simple URL hidden in a Twitter feed, the Galactic Captain eventua
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Saga Catapult is a bit of a combination of a trajectory game and a defense game. We met briefly with Silverload at WWDC and learned a little more about them.
Silverload Interactive has been around since 2005 and has been primarily focused on their persistent online real-time strategy game Sega Online for PC. Silverload explored using many of the assets they'd developed for their PC game and applying it to a mobile game. The result was Saga Catapult in which you are the
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Westbang is a reaction tap-shooter in which you have become sheriff of a small town and your job is to take out the bandits. But, don't just dismiss the game as just another tap-shooter, as Westbang successfully manages to leverage its simple mechanic into a very enjoyable game.
The game offers 25 different levels set to a storyline of you as sherrif. The goal is to survive as long as possible shooting bandits while avoiding innocent bystanders.
Armed with a six-shooter, doors will swing open randomly revealing either bandits or
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Zenonia [App Store]. Our forums have been swarming over it since we first caught wind of the game at GDC '09, and things only got worse as the beta started and its App Store release approached. But does Zenonia live up to months of hype? There's no question it stands alone in providing over 40 hours of faithful 16-bit era action RPG gameplay, but Zenonia certainly isn't perfect.
I'm reluctant to spoil too much of
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Tag Games has released a major update to its GTA-like urban action RPG Car Jack Streets [App Store] and extended the game's $.99 sale price.
Tag Games has put together the v1.1 update based on user feedback on the original release and is currently at work on the upcoming v1.2 update. According to Creative Director Jamie Bryan, the company will be supporting and expanding Car Jack Streets well into the future.
“We are an independent developer that really takes onboard how gamers receive our titles. We aim to update Car Jack Streets with their feedback at the fo
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Two notable iPhone games that we enjoyed and covered in the past have received free, lite versions.
The level complexity, 3D rendering, and cinematics come together to deliver an impressive experience. For fans of the "Hack n' Slash" genre, the overall production value of the paid app and the fun to be had is likely worth the $5.99.
The free, lite version [App Store] features only a very short first level (versus eight of the full release), but should give a basic feel for the paid app to those debating the purchase.
A new challenger approaches in the castle defense arena, Chillingo's Knights Onrush [App Store] was just released! If you're new to these types of games, the basic gameplay element consists of flicking away enemies approaching your castle.
Most of them also feature some kind of upgrade system where you spend whatever currency the game has to increase the strength of your castle door, along with several other fun defenses like boulders to drop and fireballs to throw. Knights Onrush has all of these features and more, providing much needed depth in to the genre.
Mobile developer SmallBall has released SmallBall Pinball, Grand Canyon [App Store], a free pinball game for the iPhone and iPod touch.
The first episode in a series of coming pinball releases, SmallBall Pinball is an easy-paced pinball game with a Grand Canyon graphical theme and, interestingly, a backstory.
In the first of many, SB Pinball: Grand Canyon is themed after America
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Dizzy Bee arrived on the scene on the first day of the App Store's launch, and the game was a pleasant surprise with more polish and character than practically every other game at the time. It really gave us hope for the future of iPhone gaming.
While Igloo Games did eventually follow it up with Dizzy Bee 2 [$2.99], they hadn't released any brand new games until just last night with the launch of Bed Bugs [... Read more »
Fishing Cactus has just released Equilibrio Lite Edition [App Store], a free version of its gravity-based game which challenges you to get your ball to the end goal by navigating ramps, trampolines, spikes, and more.
While the premise of the game may seem familiar, the game incorporates a number of twists to keep it interesting. There are 5 types of balls, each with different properties and gameplay characteristics. Th
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What was once paradise is now waste and rotting meat. I am surrounded by the decaying corpses of these disgusting invaders. The stink of them fills my thoughts. And I'm so hungry. Before my mind consumes itself in despair, I have to write our story. My name is Jhava, and as far as I know, I'm all that's left.
Heavy stuff… Such begins Last Cannon, a game in which you control a cannon at the bottom of the screen with the mission of destroying an onslaught of alien invaders bent on wiping out your installation. It sounds like a pretty well known formula, but Last Cannon packs some twists.
Your cannon has several ways of dealing with the advancing Knurlings (the aliens in question). Hitting a Knur
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Galactic Gunner. Australian brothers Jamie and Simon Edis have taken an unconventional approach to the genre–Instead of having the player control the flying and shooting like Galaxy On Fire 3D [App Store], Galactic Gunner is a shooter on rails. As the title hints, you play as the gunner and shoot by tapping where you want to fire on screen.
Kris Jones of Pocket Monkey Gamer is a one-man studio who decided to take his passion for game design and technology to start making his first iPhone game back in March. He has since seen early success with his first release Sparta [App Store] (now in the Top 50 Paid apps) which will allow him to continue to work full-time in iPhone gaming.
Jones told us that he first started visiting TouchArcade as a regular visitor, keeping up with latest iPhone gaming news, but later became an
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Featuring stylish pixel art, an entirely vocal soundtrack of human beatboxing, achievements, online leaderboards and a friends list to compare scores, Taxiball is an extremely fun game that all of us here are enjoying.
Over the past few months, iPhone gamers have all been wondering what in the world happened to Sega. They released Super Monkey Ball [App Store], then Columns Deluxe [App Store] not too long after, and then just disappeared until tonight when Sonic the Hedgehog [... Read more »
The screams of seamen echo in the deep and wild seas. Now, the seamen will go through an adventure, risking their lives, fighting at sea. Advance to where no human has been before and become a master of Sea.
And so the stage is set for the salty, high seas shooter that is WarShip [App Store] from Gooruso
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When one loooks back on the truly classic handful of video games that set the stage for what was to come and made a real mark with a simple, solid gameplay mechanic, one does not forget Namco's Dig Dug. Released in 1982, Dig Dug challenges the player to eliminate level upon level of underground-dwelling monsters. In a unique twist, Dig Dug arms the player with an air pump in order to inflate enemies to the point of exploding. It was scads of fun.
And, now, that's fun you can carry around in your pocket. Namco has just released Dig Dug REMIX [... Read more »
Gameloft's Terminator Salvation [App Store] just went up for sale following an already impressive lineup of big name titles released recently. Fans of the Terminator universe should find themselves right at home as they dive in to the action of this third person shooter.
Play as John Connor and Marcus Wright, each having their own strengths and special abilities.
4 different controls that take advantage of the iPhone-specific touch screen and accelerometer to fit any playing style.
Glu Mobile's (foot) racing / acrobatic game Cops and Robbers [App Store], has gone live in the App Store.
Cops and Robbers involves running through a series of city levels that have a Crash Bandicoot feel and involve parkour-like moves, while collecting diamonds to pay the landlord.
Features listed by the developer:
Run and rob your way through a beautiful city filled with back alleys, high rise rooftops, and other dangerous environments
Complete 9 unique levels, each with 3 challenges: Grab all the loot, Steal the diamond, Evade the cops before time runs out!
The game comes with both a full version [$4.99] and a lite version [Free].
The game has been a project of his since college and has taken him just over five years to release. It finally came out in January of this year for PC and Mac and seems to have gotten positive reviews.
Caster involves running, jumping and shooting your way around the e
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EA's Sims is a series that needs no introduction. Between The Sims and its seven expansion packs to it's sequel and the associated eight e
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While EA may have a complete monopoly on NFL games on home consoles, the App Store is wide open for competition between industry giants Gameloft and EA who both have rights to the complete NFL franchise on the iPhone. In what quite obviously is a warning shot across the bow of the U.S.S. Madden battleship, Gameloft sent us these screenshots this afternoon complete with some details on what is coming in the next NFL 2010 [App Store... Read more »
We mentioned this in our previous sales update, but Firemint's Real Racing has now dropped its price from $9.99 to $6.99 and is expected to remain there for this weekend only.
Real Racing is considered one of the most technically impressive
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It was a long time coming, but the greatest iPhone racer of them all has arrived in the App Store.
We first caught wind of an iPhone installment of EA's highly popular and long-running racing franchise back in August, and after several delays, Need For Speed Undercover [... Read more »
In the outside chance that you don't find yourself mashing the check for updates button in iTunes as often as you check your email, here are a few game updates that have added some cool new features and fixes that have come out in the past few days. Videos may not reflect the most recent versions of the games.
Back when rumblings of the iPhone hadn't even crossed the minds of Apple rumor hounds I rocked various cell phones and always knew Gameloft as "that company with lots of brick breaking games for all kinds of different phones". With the advent of the iPhone, the debut of the App Store, and Gameloft's first entries into said uncharted digital territory, I half expected this mental image of mine to persist. It is amazing to me
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Gameloft's highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto -esque free-roaming sandbox game Gangstar: West Coast Hustle [App Store] hit the streets today with a bang. The thread in our forums exploded, and after spending a hefty amount of time with the game since its release, I'm hap
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Gameloft has released information about their upcoming Real Soccer 2010 which promises a number of improvements over Real Soccer 2009 including the addition of real time online multiplayer.
Gameloft promises a number of new features and more content:
8 leagues, 245 teams and real players’ names thanks to the FIFPro license
Voice commentary for a TV-like broadcast of the match
14 stadiums entirely modeled in 3D to the slightest detail
Go head-to-head with friends online (Wi-Fi) or in local mode (Bluetooth + Wi-Fi)
We don't have any details to report aside from what just appeared on the EA Mobile Facebook page, but these screenshots do look great, and it's hard to argue with such an extensive list of licensed cars. The console version of the game is due in September and unlike their previous Need For Speed title, Shift is more of a sim racer rather than an arcade racer.
Ever since I saw Gameloft's Asphalt 5 at the WWDC keynote, I've been wondering how it stacks up with the existing iPhone racers, especially with competition like Need For Speed and Real Racing.
Asphalt 5 is a neat racing game, although it is obvious that it was inspired by Burnout games. Everything from the gratuitous boost system to slow motion crashes and even takedown of rival racers are in game.
German iPhone gaming site PressHome.de (Translated) managed to score a exclusive gameplay video of Fish Labs' upcoming racing game, Rally Master Pro. Originally a J2ME mobile game, Fish Labs has leveraged the graphical power of the iPhone to add all kinds of crazy lighting, weather effects and every 3D model in the game is said to have 4x the amount of polygons from the original. We posted some screenshots of the game earlier this month when it was originally revealed, but this is
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I somehow just caught wind of the iPhone game for the History Channel show, Ice Road Truckers [App Store]. Ice Road Truckers is a documentary-style reality series that is on season 3 now, with the first show airing all the way back in 2007. And, up front, if you've never seen the show, you're going to have a hard time appreciating the absurdity of this iPhone title.
The show chronicles the amazing risks that these truck drivers take traversing a series of frozen lakes that double as roads in the winter of northern North America. Thin ice, m
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Tatem Games released their first iPhone game into the App Store tonight with Racer [$0.99], a very nice touch-controlled racing game.
The gameplay is simple: you drag your finger to control your car while passing other cars in your way. Cars are moving at different speeds so you have to react quickly to maneuver around them. The game is nicely presented with all the zooming-by sound effects that you'd expect from a high speed racing game. The goal of the game is to accumulate the highest score which can then be com
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Off-road racing fans are in for a real treat in Invictus' new iPhone release 4×4 Jam [App Store]. The game appears to be a loose adaptation of the developer's 2001 off-road racing game 1nsane which, at the time, PC Gamer called "the best off-road game ever" and Gamespot called "the only 4×4 racing game to date that truly offers a sense of the freedom–and the chaos–found in real-life off-road racing."
iPhone developer Resolution Interactive, who brought us the highly enjoyable Aqua Moto Racing, has just released dirt-track ATV racing game Dirt Moto Racing [App Store] for the iPhone and iPod touch.
Dirt Moto Racing is an off-road racer that feels something like a scaled-back member of the Playstation 2's ATV Offroad Fury series. Core gameplay involves working through the game's Career mode, unlocking tours of increasing difficulty — eight in al
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Digital Chocolate has recently released 3D Rollercoaster Rush [App Store], a physics-based rollercoaster simulation of sorts, based on the studio's earlier, 2D title Rollercoaster Rush [App Store].
3D Rollercoaster Rush is a game that puts you in control of the fate of a rather overly-trusting group of riders who would probably have done well to ha
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While Flight Control [App Store] may be Australian developer Firemint’s runaway hit, they’ve been hard at work for months on Real Racing [App Store]. Prior to last week, all we saw of Real Racing was a screenshot or new trailer randomly pop up here and there, leaving iPhone communities all over the internet speculating what the final product would be like.
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Handmark's Wipeout-like futuristic racer Phaze [link], which we've been tracking since early April, is now available for purchase in the App Store. Phaze was developed by Pazzazz, who brought us Hellfire [link] and GTS World Racing [... Read more »
It was a long time coming, but the greatest iPhone racer of them all has arrived in the App Store.
We first caught wind of an iPhone installment of EA's highly popular and long-running racing franchise back in August, and after several delays, Need For Speed Undercover [App Store] has finally arrived. Was it worth the wait? Most definitely. Let's take a look.
NFS Undercover, in keeping with much of the franchise, is a mission-based racer, as opposed to the
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Glu Mobile's (foot) racing / acrobatic game Cops and Robbers [App Store], has gone live in the App Store.
Cops and Robbers involves running through a series of city levels that have a Crash Bandicoot feel and involve parkour-like moves, while collecting diamonds to pay the landlord.
Features listed by the developer:
Run and rob your way through a beautiful city filled with back alleys, high rise rooftops, and other dangerous environments
Complete 9 unique levels, each with 3 challenges: Grab all the loot, Steal the diamond, Evade the cops before time runs out!
2XL Games are no strangers to the extreme racing genre. They’ve been at it for over 10 years, starting with the Motocross Madness series on the PC, then graduating to releasing six Xbox racing games based on all kinds of off-road vehicles (and watercraft) as well as BAJA: Edge of Control for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
They’ve taken their decade of experience combined with the track design of Motocross champion Stephane Roncada to create the most graphically impressive racing game we’ve seen yet on the iPhone, 2XL Supercross [... Read more »
French development house Antek Studio has recently released Pirate Wings [App Store], a futuristic racing game featuring casual combat elements, for the iPhone and iPod touch.
3D racer Pirate Wings puts you in the shoes of monkey rocket jockey Raoul or one of his friends in a cartoony but dangerous race to the finish line. Besides dodging the course's twists, turns, and obstacles, there's also the element of combat; you've got lasers, rockets, and mines to help eliminate the competition.
The game features three play modes:
Races Mode with 9 race circuits, 3 different environments (Can
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2XL Games released their much anticipated offroad motorcycle racing game tonight: 2XL Supercross [App Store].
The $7.99 game offers a truly remarkable package from the creative team who also developed Motocross Madness, ATV Offroad Fury, and MX Unleashed for other platforms. This iPhone game offers a laundry list of features:
Tracks designed by Motocross champion Stephane Roncada
I-play and Firemint have released a new Fast & Furious [App Store] iPhone game to the App Store this morning. This racing game is a tie-in to the Fast & Furious movie that is also opening today.
The game is more of an arcade racer than a traditional sim racer. It ties in with scenes inspired by the actual movie and offers a story mode that takes you through the different races. The game offers 36 different vehicles, 18 levels with 4 unique environments.
Most interesting, however, is the fact that Firemin
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Aqua Moto Racing [App Store] is a Jet Ski racing game, which hit the App Store last month. As Resolution Interactive’s second title, Aqua Moto Racing has secured their reputation in my book as yet another developer to keep an eye out for when looking for great games. Featuring 18 tracks that take place in three different aquatic locations, Aqua Moto Racing provides a dynamite package of speed, great graphics, and the best controls of any iPhone racing game I’ve played. Add to that the $2.99 price tag and <
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Earlier this week we pointed to a video preview of Namco's then-upcoming Alpine Racer [App Store], a downhill ski / snowboard title that was described as "SSX-like." Since then the game has appeared in the App Store and, as a particular fan of SSX across several living room and mobile consoles, I must say that "SSX-like", Alpine Racer is not.
Oh, it's not the worst ski / snowboard title I've encountered. In fact, it's likely the best such title in the App Store. But I've played b
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Firemint has kindly provided this annotated video of their upcoming Real Racing game which reveals some features of the game. These include:
Up to 6 cars on screen
Animated cockpit with driver and instruments showing race data
Touch on right to accelerate. on Left to brake
Licensed songs, different types of vehicle types
Realistic physics and collision response
Camera button to switch views
Different AI personalities
The game is still in "pre-beta" but they are paying attention to viewer feedback in forums. In fact, Alex Peters of Firemint has become an active participant in our forums. She notes
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Stock car racer Days of Thunder [App Store] from Freeverse is based on the 1990 film of the same name and places you in the role of main character Cole Trickle (played by Tom Cruise in the film), a hot-shot auto racing rookie seeking to win on the NASCAR curcuit. Other characters from the film are also represented, such as crew chief and mentor Harry Hogge who quips words of advice both during and between races and love interest Dr. Claire Lewicki.
NASCAR tracks are generally oval or triangular in shape and, as such, the game's 12 tracks (across six different circuits) present a relatively simplistic and rep
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Decane has released their second game into the App Store. Their first game was Bubble Bang [App Store, $0.99] a nice bubble color-matching game [Lite version]. For their second game, however, they've gone in a different direction: Big Fun Racing [... Read more »
Freeverse sent on these screenshots and a new teaser video for their upcoming game Days of Thunder. We took a look at this new title at Macworld San Francisco where they were demoing it.
Based on the 1990 film of the same name, Freeverse is developing Days of Thunder for Paramount and tells me that the iPhone game brings the film’s storyline along with the
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Hope you've saved up, because it seems like Gameloft is intent on getting all your money. Gameloft has released their new racing game Ferrari GT: Evolution [App Store] tonight. The $9.99 game lists the following features:
33 authentic Ferrari car models: the new Ferrari California, F430, Enzo Ferrari, F40, Testarossa, 250 GTO, and more.
A multiplayer mode to challenge your friends in heated races.
3 control modes (including motion detection) for varied and realistic driving sensations. <
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I-play has released a new racer for the iPhone called Fast and Furious: Pink Slip [App Store]. The $5.99 mobile game was recently previewed by IGN who had a chance to play with an early BREW and Java version.
Designed as a pure arcade-style racer instead of a more narrative-driven game like the previous entry in the series, Fugitive, Pink Slip is exactly what the title promises: A series of breakneck races where your wheels are always on the line. The racing is sprea
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Some of the most intense, adrenaline-pumping racing action ever seen on a game console comes thanks to the futuristic, anti-gravity racing franchise, Wipeout. The original, highly acclaimed Wipeout from Psygnosis made its debut on the PlayStation back in 1995 and put the player in the pilot's seat of a variety of sleek anti-gravity racing vehicles. The game challenged them to hurtle at breakneck speed down a series of unearthly metallic tracks while dodging enemy mines, missiles, and various other futuristic forms of weaponry. The sense of speed and immersion was immense and made for a pure white-knuckle gaming experience.
I'm a huge fan of the franchise and have been since day one. (In fact, it was Wipeout–alone–that prompted me to buy my first PlayStation.) As such, it has pained me to realize that there will never be an official Wipeout title brought to the iP
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Sandlot Games has released an App Store title that–and we'll come right out and say it–is one of the best games available for the iPhone and iPod touch. Snail Mail [App Store] is a kart-style racer in which the player controls a racing snail on a mission to collect packages and deliver them to the farthest reaches of the universe while dodging obstacles such as laser towers, slugs, asteroids, and salt (it burns!).
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
SNAIL MAIL
Episode 1: A New Recruit
There is turmoil within the Republic. The SLUG PIRATES have established trade barri
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Polarbit, the developer behind Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D and Raging Thunder has released another racing game for the iPhone. This time though, it's an acquaitc affair in the vein of Midway's Hydro Thunder. Wave Blazer [App Store] puts the player at the wheel of a high-powered jet boat that races along various harrowing courses in an effort to grab the gold.
It takes a certain kind of person to strap themselves down in what basically amounts to an over-sized arrowhead with a four-tho
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iPhone developer ATOD AB has recently released Fastlane Street Racing [App Store], a Ridge Racer-style racing game that has generated much commentary–most of it rather positive–in the App Store user reviews and our forums since its release.
The first thing that hits you about Fastlane is the game's graphics quality. Fastlane is the best looking iPhone racer, hands down. What's more, the game runs at a decent framerate and experiences very few slow-downs. Of course, you're racing only three other vehicles and the on-road traffic is at a bare minimum, but still–it's a lovely looking game.
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In a somewhat surprise release, Resolution Interactive has released Clusterball [App Store] to the App Store tonight.
We previously highlighted some impressive footage of the game, but haven't heard much since August.
Strap yourself down in the hot seat of a high performance aircraft and get ready for a true adrenaline rush. Clusterball(r) Arcade is a fast paced action game played in third person.
In Clusterball Arcade your objective is to collect balls from ramps and score them through ring shaped checkpoints. Success is highly d
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Mobile developer Polarbit currently has two solid games on the iPhone: Raging Thunder and Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D, both of which have been very well reviewed.
Yesterday, we received a tip that Polarbit would be bringing two additional titles to the iPhone by the end of this year. These are said to include Wave Blazer and then Armageddon Squadron.
While we haven't gotten confirmation of these plans, it would certainly be no surprise to us that Polarbit would be further investing in the iPhone platform after the huge success of Nitro Kart. With the high quality of their current apps, we are very much looking forward to these titles.
One of the very first iPhone jailbreak games I played was Raging Thunder [App Store], a 3D racer from Polarbit. It was rough around the edges, sported a rather crude menu interface, and was perhaps the most impressive iPhone game available at the time. That was months ago, and since then the iTunes App Store and iPhone 2.0 have arrived, making iPhone gaming "official." And thanks to Polarbit's recent App Store release, Raging Thunder is now official as well.
Happily, the new Raging Thunder is far more polished than the the original, jailbreak incarnation.
Like the recently released Asphalt 4
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The developers of Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart have released a new racing title to the App Store called Raging Thunder [App Store]. The $7.99 title claims to be a "coin-op style racing game" and boasts having "the most breathtaking 3D graphics on the iPhone yet."
Features listed by the developer include:
WiFi multiplayer
State-of-the art 3D graphics
Boost, draft and tackling physics
Customizable controls
There is a lot of competition amongst racers in the App Store. We had felt
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Yesterday we posted a quick "first look" at Gameloft's just-released iPhone racer Asphalt 4 Elite Racing [App Store]. We've since spent more time with this title and wanted to share our thoughts.
Asphalt 4 Elite Racing is a 3D auto racing game that features 28 different vehicles (Corvette, Ferrari, Aston Martin, Bugatti to name a few) and nine different venues (New York, Paris, Dubai, Shanghai, etc.). The iPhone version of the game is a port of the original mobile version which is available for a wide variety of platforms.
As we recently reported, Handmark Inc. has released GTS World Racing [App Store] through the iTunes App Store. After spending some time with this title, we can recommend it as a solid iPhone racer.
Unlike the popular Crash Bandicoot Nitro Cart 3D and Cro-Mag Rally which are kart racers that put a priority on the "zany" or "fun" elememts of racing, GTS Word Racing is one of the two App Store racing titles that strives to capture a more realistic racing experience (the other being Wingnuts Moto Racrfrom Freeverse).
Freeverse was one of the early development houses who jumped into iPhone gaming. Freeverse has been a long standing Mac developer with dozens of gaming titles.
The much anticipated Wingnuts Moto Racer [App Store] is amongst their first games for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The OpenGL 3D racing game offers accelerometer (tilt) based controls in a classic arcade-style racing game.
The iTunes App Store just landed and there are lots of games out there. I doubt anyone has had a chance to experience them all–we here at Touch Arcade surely haven't. It's been a rather busy day.
That said, in my admittedly limited expierience of the full game catalog, here at the close of the iPhone 3G / iPhone 2.0 launch day, I must point to Cube Runner [App Stor
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Do you suffer from the dreaded and painful Floating Steering Wheel Grip, bane of the hardcore Wii gamer? Do you weep when you must power off Mario Kart and head out the door for school or work? Well, if you're an iPhone or iPod touch user, Polarbit is here with the answer: Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D.
The nefarious Nitrous Oxide has joined forces with evil genius Dr. Cortex and his demented side-kick Ripper Roo, in a plot to beat the Bandicoots into submission once and for all, and at long last clear the way for world domination. In order to lure Crash and his gang out in the open, they stage a Kart tournament. The winners will be crowned “Kings Of Kart Racing For All Eternity”, the losers will be banished from N. Sanity Island.
As we recently reported, Laminar Research has released a "mini-version" of its hugely popular, realtime physics-based flight simulator X-Plane 9 for the iPhone [App Store]. We've recently logged some flight time with this title and are anxious to share our thoughts.
X-Plane 9 for the iPhone is based on the desktop version of X-Plane 9, which is available for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows. X-Plane sets itself apart from other flight simu
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A lot of news came out yesterday at the Apple media event launching the new iPods. Aside from the new hardware releases there were a number of software releases including iPhone OS 3.1 and iTunes 9. A couple of other interesting things to note.
At E3 we got a look at Gamevil's upcoming game in where fighting and special moves take precedence over the RPG storytelling elements found in Zenonia [
On Wednesday we posted a series of screenshots we got from Freeverse of their upcoming galactic conquest and trading game, Warp Gate. After the eager response both in the comments and on our forums, we went back to Freeverse and asked if they had anything else they could show us, especially since the video we included previously was from before WWDC last month.
Tag Games has released a major update to its GTA-like urban action RPG Car Jack Streets [
The level complexity, 3D rendering, and cinematics come together to deliver an impressive experience. For fans of the "Hack n' Slash" genre, the overall production value of the paid app and the fun to be had is likely worth the $5.99.
Mobile developer SmallBall has released SmallBall Pinball, Grand Canyon [
Fishing Cactus has just released Equilibrio Lite Edition [
Glu Mobile's (foot) racing / acrobatic game Cops and Robbers [
EA's Sims is a series that needs no introduction. Between The Sims and its seven expansion packs to it's sequel and the associated eight e
It was a long time coming, but the greatest iPhone racer of them all has arrived in the App Store.
Handmark's Wipeout-like futuristic racer Phaze [
French development house Antek Studio has recently released Pirate Wings [
Aqua Moto Racing [
Earlier this week we pointed to a video preview of Namco's then-upcoming Alpine Racer [
Stock car racer Days of Thunder [
Sandlot Games has released an App Store title that–and we'll come right out and say it–is one of the best games available for the iPhone and iPod touch. Snail Mail [
Polarbit, the developer behind Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D and Raging Thunder has released another racing game for the iPhone. This time though, it's an acquaitc affair in the vein of Midway's Hydro Thunder. Wave Blazer [
iPhone developer ATOD AB has recently released Fastlane Street Racing [
Do you suffer from the dreaded and painful Floating Steering Wheel Grip, bane of the hardcore Wii gamer? Do you weep when you must power off Mario Kart and head out the door for school or work? Well, if you're an iPhone or iPod touch user, Polarbit is here with the answer: Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D.
As we recently reported, 