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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

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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

Destructoid Mobile has been redesigned, go play

We've been promising you a better mobile for ages, and it's finally here.  You can now use virtually all of the features of our desktop site on our new smartphone site. No apps to download, no nonsense to install, no gim...   more

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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

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Molyneux is nearly ready to unleash Curiosity

Remember that Peter Molyneux game that was supposed to "change the world?" You know, Fable? Then Fable 2? Then Fable 3?I kid, I kid. But seriously, Peter "not on rails" Molyneux is now once again promising great things, as hi...   more

Molyneux is nearly ready to unleash Curiosity 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

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Review: Need for Speed Most Wanted (iOS/Android)

Need for Speed Most Wanted is quite an anticipated game for many racing fans, heralding a welcome return to Criterion's open-world style, with tons of stylish cars and modes to boot. Naturally, this is an opportunity for EA t...   more

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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

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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

Review: Punch Quest

I've played a lot of endless runners in my day -- and by "my day," I mean ever since I've seen the iOS and mobile market get flooded with them for the past three years. There's only so many times you can watch a dude run from...   more

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Shadowgate opens the castle gates once again

It's not the first time, nor the second, but a timeless adventure such as Shadowgate is always welcome to be remade again and again. At the helm of this new version is Zojoi, a company founded by Dave Marsh and Karl Roelofs w...   more

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Review: Dynaflo Liquid-Armor

Our electronic world, for all of the new abilities it can give us, is infinitely more fragile than it once was. Some modern devices literally shatter when dropped a few feet. Hell, even the more robust devices in our silicon ...   more

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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

Need for Speed Most Wanted (iOS/Android)

Need for Speed Most Wanted is quite an anticipated game for many racing fans, heralding a welcome return to Criterion's open-world style, with tons of stylish cars and modes to boot. Naturally, this is an opportunity for EA t...   more

 Need for Speed Most Wanted (iOS/Android) photo

Punch Quest

I've played a lot of endless runners in my day -- and by "my day," I mean ever since I've seen the iOS and mobile market get flooded with them for the past three years. There's only so many times you can watch a dude run from...   more

 Punch Quest photo

Dynaflo Liquid-Armor

Our electronic world, for all of the new abilities it can give us, is infinitely more fragile than it once was. Some modern devices literally shatter when dropped a few feet. Hell, even the more robust devices in our silicon ...   more

 Dynaflo Liquid-Armor 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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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: Rockman Xover is, at worst, inoffensive

The Mega Man fan community seems to have their knickers all in a twist over Rockman Xover, Capcom's latest iOS adventure for OVER-1. At least, that's the impression I get from Tony Ponce, and I don't know a greater superfan, ...   more

TGS: Rockman Xover is, at worst, inoffensive 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



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

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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



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

Take a quick look at Saltsman's new Hunger Games app

Indie legend and Canabalt creator Adam Saltsman has been hard at work with his latest iOS gig -- a teaser game for the upcoming Hunger Games film. Saltsman claims that the advantage of a "teaser game" is the ab...   more

Take a quick look at Saltsman's new Hunger Games app 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



P: Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2

I haven't committed much time to playing a Sonic the Hedgehog game since its first sequel, which would normally make me feel somewhat disqualified to talk about what the blue hedgehog is up to in modern days. But playing Soni...   more

P: Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 photo


P: Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 photo
P: Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 photo
P: Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 photo
P: Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 photo
P: Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 photo
P: Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 photo



P: 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

P: Skyfall is big fantasy in a handheld package 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

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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

Tiny Wings 2's announcement trailer is too cute

This is just too damn cute. Tiny Wings creator Andreas Illiger has just announced Tiny Wings 2 in probably the best teaser trailer ever created. Andreas uses a music box to play the theme song of Tiny Wings as the bird flies across the hand-drawn level. So cute! You won't have to wait long for the sequel as Tiny Wings 2 will be out on July 12 for the iOS. That's next week!   more

Tiny Wings 2's announcement trailer is too cute 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

TAITO's Rayforce out now on the App store

Rayforce is now out on the App store for iPhone and iPod users. It's the classic shoot 'em up you remember, but there are some new features like the obvious touch controls. Additionally, you can view the game in the origin...   more

TAITO's Rayforce out now on the App store photo


TAITO's Rayforce out now on the App store photo
TAITO's Rayforce out now on the App store photo
TAITO's Rayforce out now on the App store photo
TAITO's Rayforce out now on the App store photo
TAITO's Rayforce out now on the App store photo
TAITO's Rayforce out now on the App store 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

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