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Daily iPhone App -- Zoombies: Animales de la Muerte is cute, arcade fun

by Mike Schramm (May 17th, 2013)

Zoombies is a fascinating little game. It's made by a company called High Voltage that is probably best known for the Conduit shooter series, though they've been making licensed games for years (I remember visiting the studio for a tour back when ...

Daily iPhone App: Mosaique is an original and inventive puzzle game

by Mike Schramm (May 16th, 2013)

Mosiaque is a very original puzzle game that I haven't quite figured out yet. It appeared on the App Store a little while ago from a company called Winning Blimp, and the core idea of the app is that you need to clear the screen of colored ...

iOS games spending overtakes dedicated games

by Mike Schramm (May 16th, 2013)

App analytics firm App Annie has released a new report about portable gaming, and announced that iOS gamers are now spending more money on Apple's platform than on traditional handheld titles. The light blue above is last year's fourth quarter, ...

King claims 70 million daily active players, Pet Rescue Saga coming soon to mobile

by Mike Schramm (May 16th, 2013)

King, which used to be called King.com it pulled a name change at GDC this year, has announced that it has 70 million daily active players, which is a crazy number. By far, King's biggest title is Candy Crush Saga. The company notes that the game ...

FreeCiv now playable in browsers, including on iOS devices

by Mike Schramm (May 15th, 2013)

FreeCiv is one of my favorite open-source projects out there. Civilization is one of my favorite games, and FreeCiv is an open-source version that you can download and play for free. The latest update of the game has added an HTML 5 version, ...

Daily iPhone App: Steve Jackson's Sorcery is interactive e-book bliss

by Mike Schramm (May 15th, 2013)

I have to say -- the iPad is a terrific platform for interactive e-books, but so far, I haven't been very impressed by the options out there. I do use my iPad for reading a lot, but the vast majority of my reading is done in either iBooks or a ...

Daily iPad App: Sid Meier's Ace Patrol is an excellent game sold badly

by Mike Schramm (May 14th, 2013)

My birthday was last week on May 6, and Firaxis must have heard about that because in recent weeks they've released not one, but two great turn-based strategy games. First, Haunted Hollow was released as a great, original free-to-play title, and ...

Finger Tied Jr. coming next week

by Mike Schramm (May 14th, 2013)

Finger Tied is an iPad app that arrived late last year. It's put together by developer Owen Goss, and he says that a lot of users have asked him to create an iPhone version of the app, but given that it's a game that uses the iPad's big screen ...

Heroes and Castles updated to version 3.0

by Mike Schramm (May 13th, 2013)

Foursaken Media's Heroes and Castles has been updated yet again, with lots of new content to play. The game, which allows you to level up a hero by defending a town and its various resources against an army of invading minions, has been popular ...

GungHo reports Puzzle and Dragons is earning $3.75 million a day

by Mike Schramm (May 13th, 2013)

GungHo Entertainment is a game publisher based in Japan, and the company has just released some really wild financial numbers. According to the latest numbers, GungHo made US$118 million this past April alone, most of it from one game: Puzzle and ...

Road Not Taken is coming soon from Triple Town's creators

by Mike Schramm (May 13th, 2013)

Triple Town is one of my favorite games on iOS over the past few years -- it's a puzzle game with a simple ruleset and a whole lot of complexity. The creator of that game, called Spry Fox, has announced a new title in development called Road Not ...

Carmageddon free, The Incident and more on sale

by Mike Schramm (May 10th, 2013)

Just in time for the weekend, here's a few apps that have dropped their (already cheap) prices even lower, meaning that you've got plenty to play here for just a few bucks' worth (all prices USD). The PC classic turned iOS port Carmageddon has ...

Pixbits announces Junk Jack X, coming later this year

by Mike Schramm (May 10th, 2013)

There are quite a few "sandbox" games available on iOS, including the uber-popular Minecraft, and Majic Jungle's great Blockheads. But my favorite so far is Junk Jack, a 2D sandbox title put together by Pixbits. It's excellent -- its little ...

Magic 2014 coming soon with new campaign and cards, sealed deck play

by Mike Schramm (May 10th, 2013)

For a long time, Wizards of the Coast would not release anything official on iOS, even though the biggest collectible card game -- Magic: The Gathering -- seemed perfect for Apple's touchscreen platforms. Then, last year, we finally got Magic 2013 ...

Sid Meier's Ace Patrol now available on the App Store

by Mike Schramm (May 9th, 2013)

We've been blessed with not one but two great strategy games from 2K Games recently. The first, the freemium Haunted Hollow, was a Firaxis title that put some board game mechanics around a haunted town. And this latest title, Sid Meier's Ace ...

Zynga releases Running With Friends, developed with Eat Sleep Play

by Mike Schramm (May 9th, 2013)

Zynga has released a new game in the 'With Friends' series (which started back when the company acquired Words with Friends, a very popular Scrabble-like iOS game). Running With Friends is, as you can see above, not a fitness app, though that ...