Escape From Age Of Monsters review
A stylish endless runner that doesn't do enough to stand out in an increasingly crowded genre.
A stylish endless runner that doesn't do enough to stand out in an increasingly crowded genre.
Simon Read’s single-player sim effectively evokes the circus of the modern game.
The popular PC strategy series is less complex but no less satisfying on its iOS debut.
Revenue during the quarter, the second of Apple's fiscal year, rose by over 58 per cent, to $39.2 billion (£24.3bn), thanks to a dramatic increase in sales of iPhone and iPad. More >
SpellTower is now available for iPad and iPhone for just 69p. It's still got some way to go to reach number one, however: the two games ahead of it are Rovio's Angry Birds Space, and Draw Something. OMGPOP's game has been so successful that the studio was recently bought by Zynga for $180 million. More >
1Jeff Minter’s latest iOS experiment proves a typically odd way of encouraging healthy eating.
Bullet-hell and score-running collide in this exuberant iOS update.
Each issue from November 2010's E220 to our current edition, E239, is now available on the App Store, priced at just £1.49 apiece to UK readers, $1.99 to those in the US, and €1.59 for those in the Eurozone. More >
1With so little to fix, how has Rodeo Games approached the second instalment in its turn-based strategy series?
Zach Gage’s intelligent take on Asteroids benefits from unusually taut touch controls.
1Considerably more ambitious than Rovio's previous tower destruction efforts.
The smartphone versions will be stripped down, but still able to share data with the PC and Vita releases, and are scheduled for release this Christmas. More >
1An enhanced version of 1998 BioWare RPG Baldur's Gate is headed to iPad, developed by Edmonton studio Overhaul Games. Due on the App Store this summer, Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition runs on an unpgraded version of BioWare's Infinity Engine. The download will include the original game, the Tales Of The Sword Coast expansion, and brand new content including a new adventure and party member. More >
1A survey of over 2,000 mobile app developers has found evidence of waning interest in Google's Android OS for a fourth consecutive quarter. Gamesindustry.biz reports that the survey, conducted by Appcelerator and analyst firm IDC every three months, polled 2,173 developers and found that 78.6 per cent expressed interest in developing for Android. More >
1Fluttermind’s lonely iPad puzzler is as beautiful as it is fiddly.
Apple has sold over three million units of its new iPad since launching the device on March 16. More >
2Glow Play's painfully trendy iOS music-puzzler doesn't always hit the right notes.
Kurt Bieg offers a rhythm action masterclass – but is the designer having most of the fun?
PC strategy series Total War is headed to iOS and Android, publisher Sega has confirmed. Developer The Creative Assembly is hard at work on Total War Battles: Shogun ahead of its release for iPhone, iPad and Android next month. Both studio and publisher insist that this is no shoehorned PC port, but has been designed specifically for mobiles with multi-touch controls. More >
Apple unveils its new tablet with 2048x1536 resolution and quad-core GPU at San Francisco event; new Infinity Blade announced.