Category Archives: iPhone

Update your iOS install of Angry Birds Space to benefit from the freshly-released Fry Me To The Moon update. The free pack adds in ten new levels in which those troublesome pigs orbit icy planets, making them even harder to take down. Angry Birds Space has totted up over 20 million downloads through the App Store, so all iDevice fans will score 20 free space eagles. Nice.

Apple has reported its Q2 2012 earnings and the firm pulled in $39.2 billion in revenue with a net profit of $11.6 billion for the quarter. The firm sold 35.1 million iPhones, sales of which were up 88% year-over-year, and sales in iPad were up 151% to 11.8 million units. Mac sales were up 7% year-over-year with 4 million moved, and iPod sales declined 7% withe 7.7 million moved for the quarter.

VG247 entered the newfangled mobile age today, releasing a whizzy free iOS app created by independent developer Shane McCafferty.

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Capcom has announced Marvel vs Capcom 2 will be released through the App Store for iPhone and iPod touch in North America and Europe on April 25. It contains a 56-character roster and contains a Variable System allowing players to tag in other team members at any time. Time to pull of a Team Hyper Combo, then. Screenshots are below.

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Strategy games. Tablets. You know it makes sense. Here’s the imminently sensible launch trailer for Total War Battles: Shogun, which launched today after only, like, a million years of me asking for it.

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Popcap has announced through a press release that the iOS version of the popular Plants vs. Zombies will be receiving multiple updates.

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Sega will launch Total War: Battles Shogun for iPad and iPhone today, as reminded by EG. The effort, which comes from the digital team at Creative Assembly, has been built with touch-screens in mind. It’ll release on the App Store for £4.99/$6.99/€5.49: the Android version is coming soon, according to Sega.

A group of US iDevice owners has filed suit against Apple over bills resulting from in-game microtransactions made by children without “authorisation of their parents”.

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Challenge your mates to a Siegfried versus Ivy match via the iOS release of a Dreamcast classic.

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Beachhead has said now that it’s finished “working furiously” on the mobile app for Call of Duty: Elite on Android and iOS, it’s next project was to start on a app for tablets. However, don’t expect it to be a port of the mobile application according to product director Noah Heller.

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A free content update has been released for Infinity Blade 2. Titled the “ClashMob” update, it provides 24 new in-game items, the Gem Forge, and new social features which allow you to challenge your friends to MyMob. It has also been updated to support iOS 5.1 and a visual upgrade for use on the new iPad. The game is also on sale for $4.99. Hit up the App Store to download.

Camouflaj, the studio founded by ex-Kojima Productions producer and Halo 4 creative director Ryan Payton, has launched a Kickstarter page for Republique, an iOS stealth-survival game.

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CD Projekt RED announced during it Spring Conference today that those who currently own Witcher 2 on PC will be upgraded to the Enhanced Edition the same day April 17 it releases on Xbox 360.

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Ubisoft has announced Rabbids: Invasion, a new Facebook game, as well as Rabbids Go Phone Again and Rabbids Go HD.

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Activision has announced Skylanders Cloud Patrol for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, which features over 30 characters from Spyro’s Adventure.

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Draw Something has surpassed 50 million downloads in just 50 days. Released in February, the game quickly became a hit with iPhone and Android users with 6 million drawings created, and on launch day alone, three draws per second were recorded. That figure is now at 3,000 drawings per second. The game is now owned by Zynga which wrote OMGPoP a check for $180 million last month. Thanks, VentureBeat.

The long-lost third episode of Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness is getting a second lease at life thanks to the developer behind Cthulhu saves the World.

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Apple has an internal project that plans to bring a physical games controller to iOS devices on the table according to tech site AnandTech.

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Square Enix have announced that 774 Deaths, an all new brutal action-platformer, is out now on the App store for iPhone and iPod Touch.

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For a limited time you can grab the original Infinity Blade for just 99 cents. The RPG was the first proper game to show off how well the Unreal Engine runs on iDevice, and although surpassed by its sequel, is still one of the finest games for your smartphone. Especially for a buck; it normally goes for around $6 depending on territory.