Category Archives: App Store

Real Racing 3 is hitting mobile platforms next week, and publisher EA has just released the game’s teaser trailer. It shows off superb car models and quite superb HD visuals. And they say mobile games can’t look good…

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PS4 got a glittering reveal last night in New York, with plenty of talk about connectivity, and making Sony’s format accessible across all devices. As it happens, Sony will launch ‘PlayStation App’ on iOS and Android, that will let gamer user their mobile device as a second PS4 screen.

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Draw Something owner Zynga has revealed that the doodling mobile app has been downloaded over a 100 million times since it launched.

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Peter Molyneux will give the opening keynote at this year’s F2P Summit in London. The discussion is entitled ‘Learnings from Curiosity to Godus’, and will see Molyneux reflect on his experience at new studio 22 Cans, from the buggy launch of Curiosity, through his Godus Kickstarter campaign.

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Kwalee, the independent mobile gaming studio headed up by Codemasters co-founder David Darling, has decided to change the name of its facepalm-inducing puzzler Pussy Flip.

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Ready to grind your fingers down to bloody nubs? DanceDanceRevolution: Dance Wars released on February 14th on iOS. We missed the initial release, but Konami has now published a launch trailer and screens for the screen-tapping lark.

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Real Racing 3 developer FireMonkeys has decided to take the next instalment of its critically-acclaimed racing series free-to-play under publisher EA. That – of course – means microtransactions will be involved, and it’s got fans upset.

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Borderlands Legends is getting a new iOS update, and Gearbox Software has just dropped a wub-wub bomb all over the internet. By that I mean a trailer and details, obviously.

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Steam is now available for iPad. Previously only available for iPhione through the App Store, you can now add it to your Apple-branded tablet. You go on with your badass large screen, there iPad. Thanks
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République is one of the many Kickstarter success stories out there today.Developed by industry veterans, the game is coming to iOS in the summer and PC and Mac “soon after”, according to a press release sent to VG247. Developer Camouflaj also sent us a new batch of screens.

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Sine Mora has been one of the most discussed scrolling shooters of the generation, so it’s interesting to hear that the game’s creative director Theodore Reiker has left developer Digital Reality to form a new studio – Prior Games. The developer has confirmed that he’s teaming up with another Japanese studio to release a new shooter in 2014.

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A quick one for numbers fans; the App Annie Index’s Q4 2012 report shows iOS games are still bringing in significantly more revenue – up to three and half times as much – as Android releases, despite the latter platform’s increasing popularity. That said, Android’s Google Play store’s revenue doubled over the three month period while the App Store grew by just 20%. GamesIndustry has all the details.

Splash Damage’s RAD Soliders was released just before Christmas, and it has already been played by over 2 million players. On top of this, the minutes played accumulated to over 90 million and players have “sent 4.5 million turns in online play.” The firm noted the titles was the Christmas #1 game in on the App Store in the US, China, Russia, Brazil and the UK. The free-to-play game was recently updated and can be picked up on the App Store.

Epic Games has announced the release of Epic Citadel for Android devices, which is the free app used to demonstrate the studio’s Unreal Engine 3 tech.

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Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes has launched on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Ubisoft has published a new trailer and pricing details. Check them out after the jump.

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Hunted Cow has today released Tank Battle: North Africa, its sequel to the well-received Tank Battle: 1944.

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STOP RUNNING FOR ONE SECOND! In a not-so-shocking move, Temple Run 2 is will be available to play from tomorrow on North American iOS devices.

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A teaser site for All the Bravest has been launched by Square Enix, and it clearly shows the silhouettes of Final Fantasy sprites fighting a Behemoth. Not the url has “ff_atb,” in it, and Gematsu also points to an iTunes link found in the source code, indicating it’s a mobile title. The site is expected to stop teasing folks on Thursday when it goes live. A trademark for All the Bravest appeared back in December.

The Snowman and the Snowdog saw many tears shed over the Christmas holidays. One bunch who definitely aren’t crying right now are the developers of the Channel 4 show’s companion app Crash Lab, founded by ex-Free Radical dev Steve Ellis.

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Minecraft developers Mojang and 4J Studios sold over 15 million combined downloads of the insanely popular sandbox title last year. New figures from creators Mojang have broken down the lofty total.

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