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Shove Pro: The only shoving simulator you need

Rad Dragon, the goofs behind The Moonlighters, are making a shoving simulator for iOS. In Shove Pro, players take on the role of fictional stuntman Lars Speedwagon, who creates fabulous displays of shoving across European ci...   more

Shove Pro: The only shoving simulator you need photo

22 Cans' Curiosity - What's Inside the Cube? out now

Peter Molyneux's latest flight of fancy -- Curiosity - What's Inside the Cube? -- is now available to download for free on iOS, with an Android version promised soon.  In case you're not caught up with the mad idea, it's...   more

22 Cans' Curiosity - What's Inside the Cube? out now photo

Review: Borderlands Legends

While many longtime game fans sneer at mobile gaming, I've always tried to keep an open mind about it. Done right, a touch-based game is perfectly valid as a form of interactive entertainment, and while there are plenty of ba...   more

Review: Borderlands Legends photo

Review: Halo 4: King of the Hill Fueled by Mountain Dew

I'll admit to not being the world's biggest Halo fan, so it took me by surprise to find out that Microsoft had changed Halo 4's name since I last saw it at E3, deciding instead to call it Halo 4: King of the Hill Powered by M...   more

Review: Halo 4: King of the Hill Fueled by Mountain Dew photo

Borderlands Legends is now out for iOS devices

Borderlands goes mobile with Borderlands Legends, a new title now available on the App Store for iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad. This game looks a lot like the console titles, but claims to be more strategic than action-y. Brick...   more

Borderlands Legends is now out for iOS devices photo

Airtight Games' first mobile title, Pixld, is out now

Airtight Games, the folks behind recent the fantastic first-person puzzle-fest, Quantum Conundrum, recently announced the launch of a mobile games studio. And now they've just released their first mobile game, called Pixld. &...   more

Airtight Games' first mobile title, Pixld, is out now photo

Contest: Win a new iPad Mini! (Update)

[Update: The finalists have been selected! Head over to Big Fish's Facebook page and vote for your favorite!] Our buddies at Big Fish Games are currently giving away codes for their latest golf-themed iOS puzzler, Fairway Sol...   more

Contest: Win a new iPad Mini! (Update) photo

Preview: Borderlands Legends

If you followed Destructoid at all last month, you know that the site was pretty collectively excited about Borderlands 2. Of course, in the fast cars, loose joysticks world of videogames, a month ago is practically forever a...   more

Preview: Borderlands Legends photo

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City coming to iOS and Android

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is preparing to enjoy its 10th anniversary, and Rockstar is celebrating by porting the 80s-themed classic to iOS and Android devices. I'm up for that! Although a date is yet to be revealed, it seem...   more

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City coming to iOS and Android photo

Preview: Wizardlings

I had a chance to check out Square Enix's casual iOS (and soon Android) RPG Wizardlings at New York Comic-Con a week or so back. It's a cute little title that has your hero or heroine moving to lift the darkness and push back...   more

Preview: Wizardlings photo

Apple announces the iPad Mini, starting at $329

Apple's supply chain has grown so big that we'll never see the 'one more thing' kind of surprise again. For example, they announced this morning that 100 million iPads have been sold to date.  You won't be surprised to h...   more

Apple announces the iPad Mini, starting at $329 photo

Make your iPhone happy with DoDonPachi Maximum

Cave is arguably the best thing to happen to mobile gaming. There. Said it. I seriously suck at bullet hell-type games, but I still have to get everything that Cave sends your way for iOS devices. They're that good. The next ...   more

Make your iPhone happy with DoDonPachi Maximum photo


Make your iPhone happy with DoDonPachi Maximum photo
Make your iPhone happy with DoDonPachi Maximum photo
Make your iPhone happy with DoDonPachi Maximum photo
Make your iPhone happy with DoDonPachi Maximum photo
Make your iPhone happy with DoDonPachi Maximum photo
Make your iPhone happy with DoDonPachi Maximum photo



Review: The Last Express (iOS)

When The Last Express was first released in 1997, it was considered an incredibly engaging mystery set on the Orient Express as it traveled from Paris to Constantinople on the eve of World War I. In many ways the game was far...   more

Review: The Last Express (iOS) photo

Infinity Blade Dungeons pushed back to 2013

Dungeon-crawling iOS spin-off Infinity Blade Dungeons is going to miss its target release date, instead coming to Apple devices some time in 2013. In the world of games that are released roughly 2.1 seconds after they're anno...   more

Infinity Blade Dungeons pushed back to 2013 photo

Rockman Xover fan-made demo, plus actual game details

Capcom insists on seeing this construct through to the end, so I might as well keep abreast of the latest news and developments. First up is this fan-made Rockman Xover Flash demo that recreates the TGS build Conrad played. I...   more

Rockman Xover fan-made demo, plus actual game details photo


Rockman Xover fan-made demo, plus actual game details photo
Rockman Xover fan-made demo, plus actual game details photo
Rockman Xover fan-made demo, plus actual game details photo
Rockman Xover fan-made demo, plus actual game details photo
Rockman Xover fan-made demo, plus actual game details photo
Rockman Xover fan-made demo, plus actual game details photo



Civil War arrives in Marvel Pinall

The infamous six-part comic event from the Marvel universe is now in playable pinball form thanks to Zen Studios. The new table will let you side with either Iron Man and his Superhuman Registration Act, or with Captain Amer...   more

Civil War arrives in Marvel Pinall photo


Civil War arrives in Marvel Pinall photo
Civil War arrives in Marvel Pinall photo
Civil War arrives in Marvel Pinall photo
Civil War arrives in Marvel Pinall photo
Civil War arrives in Marvel Pinall photo
Civil War arrives in Marvel Pinall photo





Borderlands Legends

While many longtime game fans sneer at mobile gaming, I've always tried to keep an open mind about it. Done right, a touch-based game is perfectly valid as a form of interactive entertainment, and while there are plenty of ba...   more

 Borderlands Legends photo

The Last Express (iOS)

When The Last Express was first released in 1997, it was considered an incredibly engaging mystery set on the Orient Express as it traveled from Paris to Constantinople on the eve of World War I. In many ways the game was far...   more

 The Last Express (iOS) photo

Tiny Troopers

I whiled away many hours in my youth playing Cannon Fodder on the Amiga, mostly replaying failed missions. It could be a brutal game, and its anti-war message was completely lost on my young mind, but I delighted in my victor...   more

 Tiny Troopers photo

Rayman Jungle Run

When did Ubisoft start becoming awesome again? Who would have thought the French studio would be the one to properly reinvigorate the 2D platforming genre, thus beating Nintendo at its own game? That's how I felt when I first...   more

 Rayman Jungle Run photo

Super Hexagon

Super Hexagon is a game that makes your eyeballs feel like they're being forcibly twisted against your will while still in their sockets. It is a game that makes your brain feel like it's being torn up and stitched back toget...   more

 Super Hexagon photo

Horn

Phosphor Games knocked it out of the park with The Dark Meadow, providing a genuinely enthralling mobile game that had an interesting story and one Hell of a primary antagonist. Nevertheless, the Unreal-powered combat crawler...   more

 Horn photo

Rigonauts

I wish I was a practical gent, especially when it comes to construction. Unfortunately, I can't even put up a shelf without a lot of hassle, injuries, and the expectation of fanfare at the end. Thankfully, there are a nu...   more

 Rigonauts photo

The Act

I think I may be autistic. Or something. But, I’m not alone in having this thought. Paranoid self-diagnosing is a habit that our ADHD generation can’t kick any sooner than the meds we’re on. Very few of us...   more

 The Act photo

Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013

With two predecessors in its wake, Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 is the third installment to hit Xbox Live Arcade, iPad, Steam, and the PlayStation Network. The DotP series has generally been known fo...   more

 Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 photo

Adventure Time: Legends of Ooo

Adventure Time is a great cartoon show, one that makes having a child a lot more fun than it would be if all I had to listen to was the screeching of Fairly Odd Parents every single day. Tapping very much into the Internet ge...   more

 Adventure Time: Legends of Ooo photo

Botanicula

Amanita Design showed that there was definitely still legs in the point 'n click adventure genre when they released the charming Machinarium in 2009. The tale of a small robot seeking his true love both looked and sounded gre...   more

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The Fancy Pants Adventures (iOS)

Last April, the popular Flash platforming series The Fancy Pants Adventures received a home console installment for XBLA and PSN. For some reason, despite our hyping said game extensively, no one at Destructoid ever actually ...   more

 The Fancy Pants Adventures (iOS) photo

Waking Mars

Mars is a pretty cool place to explore, especially when you don't need to blow stuff up. Over the past couple years, film directors such as Mike Cahill and Duncan Jones have offered a much softer take on the sci-fi genre, one...   more

 Waking Mars photo

Mega Man X (iOS)

After five NES entries with a sixth one looming, plus five Game Boy spin-offs, players were understandably getting tired of the classic Mega Man formula. The first Mega Man developed for the Super Nintendo, Mega Man X, was ...   more

 Mega Man X (iOS) photo

Home Sheep Home 2: A Little Epic

To say that Aardman Animations are a bit of a British institution would be an understatement; the characters Wallace and Gromit have starred in some of the best animated films of the last two decades. Outside of the Telltale ...   more

 Home Sheep Home 2: A Little Epic photo

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P: Borderlands Legends

If you followed Destructoid at all last month, you know that the site was pretty collectively excited about Borderlands 2. Of course, in the fast cars, loose joysticks world of videogames, a month ago is practically forever a...   more

P: Borderlands Legends photo

P: Wizardlings

I had a chance to check out Square Enix's casual iOS (and soon Android) RPG Wizardlings at New York Comic-Con a week or so back. It's a cute little title that has your hero or heroine moving to lift the darkness and push back...   more

P: Wizardlings photo

TGS: Professor Layton's iOS debut isn't what you'd expect

The idea of developers dedicating resources to mobile versions of franchises is something I’ve long been against, but have slowly been warming up to. So, they might as well make something good. Layton Brothers: Myster...   more

TGS: Professor Layton's iOS debut isn't what you'd expect photo


TGS: Professor Layton's iOS debut isn't what you'd expect photo
TGS: Professor Layton's iOS debut isn't what you'd expect photo
TGS: Professor Layton's iOS debut isn't what you'd expect photo
TGS: Professor Layton's iOS debut isn't what you'd expect photo
TGS: Professor Layton's iOS debut isn't what you'd expect photo
TGS: Professor Layton's iOS debut isn't what you'd expect photo



P: The Banner Saga Factions

Somewhere between checkers and chess, the contemporary turn-based strategy game resides. Advance Wars, X-Com, Heroes of Might & Magic, and Fire Emblem are known by many, loved by some, and mastered by very few. Their i...   more

P: The Banner Saga Factions photo

P: A quick look at Rayman Jungle Run

With the success of Rayman Origins and the much-anticipated release of Rayman Legends, Ubisoft's limbless hero is back in a big way. If you're a fan in need of more, the newly announced Rayman Jungle Run could do just that for you.   more

P: A quick look at Rayman Jungle Run photo

Finally, a Pokemon-like game for mobile devices

Let me preface this by saying that I'm not 100% sure if there are already Pokemon-like games available on iOS or Android devices. I'd love to be told differently, but for now I'll tell you about ngmoco's Monster Tracker, the ...   more

Finally, a Pokemon-like game for mobile devices  photo

P: Horn could be an admirable game

So, there certainly was a reaction to the newly announced Horn when Jim posted a little clip a few days ago in which the game was shown off and Phosphor Games’ Chip Sineni made some innocent claims about the mobile and ...   more

P: Horn could be an admirable game  photo

P: Godsrule

I must admit a tiny bit of trepidation when I was about to start playing Godsrule, the cross-platform, browser-based MMORTS. A persistent RTS inspired by Scandinavian mythology? Sounds right up my street, ...   more

P: Godsrule photo

Dragon Fantasy II pays proper homage to SNES RPGs

Indie game developers Adam Rippon and Bryan Sawler began working on what would ultimately become last year’s Dragon Fantasy in the mid '90s when they were in high school. The two met in an IRC chatroom, joined forces, a...   more

Dragon Fantasy II pays proper homage to SNES RPGs photo

E3: Final Fantasy Dimensions is old-school Final Fantasy

Final Fantasy XIII or Final Fantasy XIII-2 not doing it for you? Is Final Fantasy VI still your favorite game in the series? Or perhaps you insist that Final Fantasy V’s job system is still the best thing in the world? ...   more

E3: Final Fantasy Dimensions is old-school Final Fantasy  photo

E3: Motley Blocks, a puzzle game that I love to hate

There are a handful of mobile games that I will always go back to. Fruit Ninja, Jetpack Joyride, Angry Birds Space -- basically puzzle games. It's not because I love them, but rather that I love to hate them. They're simple l...   more

E3: Motley Blocks, a puzzle game that I love to hate photo

E3: The Act looks delightful

A lot of you may not be interested in The Act, React Entertainment’s interactive, hand-drawn comedy that will undoubtedly draw comparisons to Dragon’s Lair. But I am currently lamenting the fact that I do not own ...   more

E3: The Act looks delightful photo


E3: The Act looks delightful photo
E3: The Act looks delightful photo
E3: The Act looks delightful photo
E3: The Act looks delightful photo
E3: The Act looks delightful photo
E3: The Act looks delightful photo



E3: Watch Dogs also coming to mobile devices

Watch Dogs has been the hot buzz around E3 this week thanks to that amazing presentation during the Ubisoft press conference. The game looks so good that people just assumed it was going to be a next-gen title. Well as it tu...   more

E3: Watch Dogs also coming to mobile devices photo

Penny Arcade's Rain-Slick 3 reboots the series

It's difficult to believe that it has been nearly four years since the last game in the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness series released. Many were heartbroken to hear that the original plan of four episodes would be cut...   more

Penny Arcade's Rain-Slick 3 reboots the series photo

P: A quick look at DragonCraft

Fantasy fans with Androids and iPhones have a lot to look forward to this year, courtesy of Ngmoco. Just this past GDC, we had the opportunity to look at two promising fantasy RPGs, Skyfall and DragonCraft. Whereas the former...   more

P: A quick look at DragonCraft photo


P: A quick look at DragonCraft photo
P: A quick look at DragonCraft photo
P: A quick look at DragonCraft photo
P: A quick look at DragonCraft photo
P: A quick look at DragonCraft photo
P: A quick look at DragonCraft photo



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Civil War arrives in Marvel Pinall

The infamous six-part comic event from the Marvel universe is now in playable pinball form thanks to Zen Studios. The new table will let you side with either Iron Man and his Superhuman Registration Act, or with Captain Amer...   more

Civil War arrives in Marvel Pinall photo


Civil War arrives in Marvel Pinall photo
Civil War arrives in Marvel Pinall photo
Civil War arrives in Marvel Pinall photo
Civil War arrives in Marvel Pinall photo
Civil War arrives in Marvel Pinall photo
Civil War arrives in Marvel Pinall photo



He-Man: The Most Powerful Game in the Universe trailer

Yesterday, the world spun off its axis in sheer amazement after learning of He-Man: The Most Powerful Game in the Universe. It's an iOS brawler based on the old school series, which makes my nostalgic little soul smile.  Here's a trailer for it, in which the game quite clearly takes the piss out of itself. I can respect that!   more

He-Man: The Most Powerful Game in the Universe trailer photo

Angry Birds getting a real sequel in Bad Piggies

Rovio has announced an actual sequel -- not a spin-off -- to its ludicrously popular Angry Birds series. Bad Piggies reverses the roles and puts players on the side of the green pigs that have served as cannon fodder across ...   more

Angry Birds getting a real sequel in Bad Piggies photo

Warhammer comes to iOS with Warhammer Quest

Rodeo Games is bringing Warhammer to the mobile market with Warhammer Quest, a treasure-hunting dungeon crawler in which players control a party of four.  It's currently set for a Spring 2013 release, a far cry from mos...   more

Warhammer comes to iOS with Warhammer Quest photo

Horn gets its first trailer, RAWR LET'S HATE IT RAWR!

Ever since Phosphor Games announced that mobile gaming is replacing console gaming, it's become something of a villain. While its last game, Dark Meadow, was excellent, any talk of the upcoming Horn has been flavored with vi...   more

Horn gets its first trailer, RAWR LET'S HATE IT RAWR! photo

Can you believe Real Racing 3 is an iPad game?

Take a second to clear your mind, and just hit play. Granted I gave it away in the title (SEO!), but had I not revealed it, what platform would you have assumed Real Racing 3 was for? Personally, iOS would have been my last ...   more

Can you believe Real Racing 3 is an iPad game? photo

Cave's Bug Princess 2 Black Label flying to iOS platforms

Oh would you look at that, Cave Interactive will be ferrying yet another shooter from the arcades to the pockets of shooter fans everywhere. After releasing Akai Katana on the Xbox 360 last month, the Japanese deve...   more

Cave's Bug Princess 2 Black Label flying to iOS platforms photo

Sword & Sworcery heading to Japan with new remix album

Just as the solar eclipse is peaking in Japan comes news that Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is set to be released in Japan! Superbrothers and Capybara Games will be releasing one my favorite iOS games of all time in...   more

Sword & Sworcery heading to Japan with new remix album photo

Indie Megabooth bringing an overload of indie love to PAX

16 indie studios. Over 20 games. 1 MEGABOOTH. PAX East 2012 is seeing a Super Friends-like team-up by some of the best indie guys and gals around. Charlie Murder, Airmech, Miegakure, Antichamber, Kairo, Monaco, Go Home Dinos...   more

Indie Megabooth bringing an overload of indie love to PAX photo

Chaos Rings II launches March 15, so watch a trailer

Square Enix has revealed that iOS RPG sequel Chaos Rings II is launching worldwide on March 15. It's also got a launch trailer, which you can stare at above.  I shall certainly be looking forward to this. I really dug t...   more

Chaos Rings II launches March 15, so watch a trailer  photo

Preview: Skyfall is big fantasy in a handheld package

Role-playing games have had a long and prosperous history in video and tabletop gaming, but haven't quite repeated this success on mobile and tablet devices. From the minds at Ngmoco comes Skyfall, a free-to-play social RPG ...   more

Preview: Skyfall is big fantasy in a handheld package photo

New Alien Confidential & Rocket Fox games, comics coming

As we revealed last month, Namco Bandai is using its new ShiftyLook website to release comics based on "dormant" IPs. It was also hinted at, but some of these dormant IPs are being brought back as games as well! The next comi...   more

New Alien Confidential & Rocket Fox games, comics coming photo


New Alien Confidential & Rocket Fox games, comics coming photo
New Alien Confidential & Rocket Fox games, comics coming photo
New Alien Confidential & Rocket Fox games, comics coming photo
New Alien Confidential & Rocket Fox games, comics coming photo
New Alien Confidential & Rocket Fox games, comics coming photo
New Alien Confidential & Rocket Fox games, comics coming photo



Classic adventuring in Journey Down

The words "point and click adventure" always make me take notice of a game, add great art and a unique hook and I'm pretty much sold. So this trailer for Journey Down, a classic adventure game with a central African arts and...   more

Classic adventuring in Journey Down photo

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 revealed

It's been quite some time, but the second episode of Sonic the Hedgehog 4 has finally been unveiled. The first teaser trailer made an appearance on GameSpot (skip to 1:16 in the video above) and it's already announced some s...   more

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 revealed photo

Batman: Arkham City Lockdown pops up in iOS

If you're finished with Batman: Arkham City and sad that you've got no more bat-themed gaming to do, fret not. Batman: Arkham City Lockdown appeared on iTunes last night without herald, and is yours to download for $5.99. Ar...   more

Batman: Arkham City Lockdown pops up in iOS photo

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