Category Archives: iOS

Injustice: Gods Among Us developer NetherRealm Studios is reported to be putting together an iOS build of its DC Comics brawler.

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Not content with being the creators of the most popular online tank game on the PC, Wargaming is taking World of Tanks on the bus as well, as World of Tanks Blitz will someday be available for Android and iOS devices, both tablets and phones.

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Navigating the mobile gaming universe can be a nightmare, because, well, there are a whole lot of those games. I play 5-10 new ones every week, in fact, but at the same time it’s rare that a new game will break into the top overall downloads chart. And Atari founder Nolan Bushnell tells All Things D that an environment like that will burn out developers.

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The developers of Cut the Rope tell Polygon that while they totally are making new games, and they want to get a few new ones out each year, they don’t want to be one of those studios that comes knocking every couple weeks.
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eJay Pure could see the music-creation franchise relaunched this year if its newly-posted Kickstarter campaign proves successful.

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Ecco the Dolphin never got another outing after the rather brilliant Defender of the Future on Dreamcast and PS2. However, the creators of the original games have formed a Kickstarter campaign to make a spiritual sequel called The Big Blue.

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Haunted Hollow is the next game from XCOM developer Firaxis. It’s a strategy title heading to iOS devices that has a supernatural twist. Publisher 2K Games has released a piece of debut artwork to go along with the announcement.

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Demiurge Studios has announced Shoot Many Robots is now available for download on Android devices from Google Play. Those who aren’t Android users shouldn’t fret, as it will also be made available for iOS “in the near future.” Shoot Many Robots was released on Steam, XBLA and PSN last year.

Scurvy Scallywags is the next game from legendary adventure game developer Ron Gilbert. Just a week after he bid farewell to Double Fine, he’s back with the announcement of his next game. It’s described as a “musical match-3 pirate RPG”. You can’t say the man isn’t creative.

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Urban Trial Freestyle developer Tate Multimedia has confirmed that its answer to Red Lynx’s Trials Evolution is heading to 3DS and iOS in spring.

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Ridiculous Fishing developer Vlambeer has suggested that developers need to stop being afraid of charging $3 for mobile games, partly because it’s impossible to create a “non-evil” freemium model. They say such ‘free’ methods simply don’t reflect well.

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Real Racing 3 has done big numbers since it launched, according to an infographic from publisher EA. You can see it here. Now, vice president of EA’s mobile and social studios Nick Earl has stated that the “market has spoken” and that only the “vocal minority” took issue with the game’s micro-payments to begin with.

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Ea has released an infographic for Real Racing 3, and since its launch on mobile February 28, it’s been the number one free app in 90 countries on the iOS Store. Players have competed in 25 million races per day, with 350 million completed to-date. This was accomplished by users spending at least 25 minutes per day with the game, with a total of 14 million hours spent racing since launch. Check out more stats below.

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Duke Nukem 2 has been announced for iOS by 3D Realms and Interceptor Entertainment.

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Le Vamp is the new endless runner from The Conduit studio High Voltage Software. It’s out today on iOS.

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Shackleton Crater is the latest game to hit Kickstarter, allowing up to four players to create lunar bases on an accurately-mapped Moon surface. The turn-based strategy game is open for funding now.

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Square Enix is holding a sale of some of its iOS games, the publisher’s tweeted. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and Mensa Academy are both reduced, with the isometric Croft adventure now down to £0.69/€0,89/$0.99. Crystal Dynamics’ recent Tomb Raider reboot took the top spot in the UK charts this week.

Gero Blaster is a new title in the works from Cave Story’s Daisuke “Pixel” Amaya, who showed off the game at BitSummit in Japan this weekend. The side-scrolling shooter has players donning the persona of Kaeru, a frog, who is trying to find his kidnapped girlfriend. According to information gleaned by Nintendo Life, Nicalis will publish the iOS title, which looks to also be heading to 3DS. A release date wasn’t provided. You can check out larger shots of the game and a video on AGB. Thanks, manamana.

Harebrained Schemes has released Alpha footage of Shadowrun Returns, which contains a narrated walkthrough of the 2D turn-based RPG. The  fully funded Kickstarter was originally set for a January 2013 release, but has been delayed into early summer for PC, iOS and Android.

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Death Inc. developer Ambient Studios has missed its Kickstarter goal, but the developer has revealed it will carry on regardless. In the meantime, the team has launched an iPad puzzle game called Monster Meltdown.

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