Category Archives: iPhone (all)
Daily iPhone App: Combo Crew does beat-em-up on a touchscreen
Combo Crew is an interesting experiment that just showed up this week on iOS. Beat-em-ups and fighting games are great on consoles, where you’ve got plenty of buttons and d-pads to pull off various moves with. But while they’ve appeared on iOS a few times (Capcom’s Street Fighter 4 has done fairly well on the App Store), usually these games on a touchscreen tend to just fall back on virtual buttons, which are generally way more clunky and less precise than physical moving parts.
Memorial Day brings lots of great sales on iOS games
Happy Memorial Day Weekend! Here in the US, most of us are celebrating a three-day weekend that also serves as the start of summer, which means BBQs, poolside hangouts, and lots and lots of time in the sun. Oh, and it means one more thing these days: iOS game sales!
- Card game maker Playdek has an awesome sale on, including Ascension (and its IAP), Nightfall (and its IAP), Penny Arcade: The Card Game, and Fluxx all for just 99 cents each. You should definitely pick up one or all of those — Nightfall is complicated, but it’s probably my favorite.
- Puzzlejuice is on sale for 99 cents; it’s a really brilliantly designed word puzzle game.
- EA Mobile has a huge sale on, featuring more than 55 games either 99 cents or free. Some choice picks: Tetris Blitz, The Sims 3 for 99 cents, Need for Speed: Most Wanted for 99 cents, and NBA Jam also for just under a buck.
- Plague Inc is down to just 99 cents.
- High Voltage’s great Zoombies: Animales de la Muerte just recently appeared on the App Store, but it’s already on sale for 99 cents.
- The great board game adaptation Small World for iPad is down to just $2.99. This is an especially good deal, because the game’s about to get a big update for free.
- WELDER is on sale for free. So is Pocket Heroes and Angry Birds Space.
- I didn’t think AVP Evolution was that great a game, but it’s only 99 cents right now.
- Penumbear is an excellent and beautiful platformer that’s only 99 cents as well.
- Adventure Bar Story, which is a bar simulator set in a fantasy RPG world, is on sale for free.
- The excellent puzzle game Sporos is free.
Propellerhead to stop selling ReBirth for iPhone
Act quickly mobile music producers. Propellerhead, makers of the recording software Reason, have announced that they will stop selling and supporting the iPhone app ReBirth on June 1. ReBirth is a iOS version of the company’s Techno Micro Composer that started as a Mac program. The app emulates a Roland TB-303 bass synth and TR-808 and 909 drum machines. Using FX and sequencers the app allows users to create whole songs.
Ninja Theory partners with Chillingo to publish Fightback
Ninja Theory is an excellent game developer based in the UK that’s produced Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and the recent Devil May Cry reboot. Now, Ninja Theory is releasing its first iOS title, Fightback, which EA studio Chillingo will publish. Fightback, as you can see above, looks like a fairly gritty arcade-style beat-em-up, and it boasts some AAA grade production values, as well as some interesting touch-based combat.
Ninja Theory partners with Chillingo to publish Fightback
Ninja Theory is an excellent game developer based in the UK that’s produced Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and the recent Devil May Cry reboot. Now, Ninja Theory is releasing its first iOS title, Fightback, which EA studio Chillingo will publish. Fightback, as you can see above, looks like a fairly gritty arcade-style beat-em-up, and it boasts some AAA grade production values, as well as some interesting touch-based combat.
