Category Archives: iPad

Tin Man Games, the developers of ‘gamebook’ adventures, have nabbed the license to put out iPhone, iPad and Android apps based on the new Fighting Fantasy gamebook from Ian Livingstone, co-creator of the series.

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US rental-by-mail and lately streaming games service GameFly is moving into the digital publishing sphere with Android and iOS games.

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Mobile slice-’em-up Fruit Ninja is turning two, and to celebrate, Halfbrick has planned a significant free content update.

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Chair has announced a free content update for Infinity Blade 2, adding new features, environments, enemies and equipment.

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Some indie developers have banded together to introduce a new discount campaign called Because We May which lowers the price of quite a lot of high-profile indie titles.

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Some unedited footage of prequel adventure Infinity Blade: Dungeons has turned up online.

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GamesIndustry reports three former Disney Interactive staffers and one Borderlands veteran have joined forces to form Fun Machine, Defender of the Universe. No wait, the other thing – a studio focused on games for emerging platforms, specifically smart phones, tablets, and even smart TVs. Fun Machine’s first effort, Awesome Eats, has already totted up 800,000 downloads on iOS and appears to be about adorable vegetables.

Rovio has acquired the rights to the Casey’s Contraptions IP from Snappy Touch and Mystery Coconut, and the firm will release a new game in the series this summer. The original iPad title has been removed from the App Store. The new physics-based puzzler will be the first title from the developer that’s not Angry Birds-centric, and upon release the game will initially launch on iOS and Android before extending to other platforms. Thanks, Gamasutra.

LostWinds2: Winter of the Melodias has released on the App Store for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. It includes the ability to switch between summer and winter at will, new wind powers, new environments and characters, and graphical tweaking specifically for iOS devices. It will run you$3.99/£2.49/€2.99. Trailer is below.

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Atari has announced its library of mobile games has exceeding 10 million downloads across iOS and Android smartphone and tablet devices in less than a year. The milestone comes on the 40th anniversary of Atari and Pong, for which a $100,000 Pong Indie Developer Challenge contest is currently under way. Consisting of cash prizes and publishing agreements for the top 10 finalists, developers tasked with reimagining Pong for iOS devices. The top 20 semi-finalists were recently announced on May 1 and selected from nearly 90 total submissions, all moving on to compete for a spot on the finalist rankings for June 19th.

Gamasutra has complied the week’s top-grossing iPhone and iPad apps and Kabam’s Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North came out tops on iPhone with Zynga Poker coming in second. Slotomania HD topped iPad offerings while Battle for the North came in second place. Full thing is below.

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With just 65 hours and over $200,000 to go, former Halo designer Ryan Payton maintains Camouflaj did the right thing in asking for half a million bucks to Kickstart République.

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Andreas Illiger hopes to debut his second iOS game over the next few weeks.

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A handful of prominent talents from the Final Fantasy series have joined forces to produce Borderwalker, a neat little RPG for iDevices.

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Hot on the heels of the World Cyber Games reformat, Major League Gaming in venturing into the mobile space.

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Replay Games has secured the required funding – and then some – for Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards.

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A report from analyst group App Data suggests daily usage for Draw Something has fallen by five million users in one month. The 33% decline comes on the heels of the Zynga buyout of OMGPop which saw the social game firm outbidding other interested parties with a $210 million acquisition. The title continues to fall towards the bottom of the App Store charts, with DAU peaking at 15 million in April to 10 million 30 days later. Thanks, Develop.

You won’t need to memorise level layouts to successed with the iOS release of Super Meat Boy: The Game.

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The latest entry in Rovio’s phenomenally successful bird slinging series has hit a whopping milestone.

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The Halo veterans at Camouflaj have expanded the scope of debut project République to grace Mac and PC in addition to iDevices.

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