Category Archives: iPod

Tekken Card Tournament is the new fighting game from Namco. It sees players collecting up to 191 cards and then using them to apply fists to face, feet to groins – and if you’re Kuma – arse to mouth. It’s out now on various devices and browsers.

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Team Chaos is the new development studio founded by former Zynga Austin vice president and general manager Andrew Busey. Paired up with Chaotic Moon Studios, Busey and his colleagues have formed Team Chaos, and the studio has debuted with free-to-play iOS card game Elements: Broken Lands. It’s out now.

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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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PopCap’s latest release is not, alas, an expansion to Plants vs Zombies, but instead a new take on Solitaire using the publisher’s now-famous Blitz formula. Having already attracted a large following on Facebook and launched via the App Store today, Solitaire Blitz is free, and available on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It gives players 60 seconds to clear decks and also go on an “underwater adventure”. Somehow.

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

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Sonic Dash has launched on iOS today. It’s an endless runner game like Temple Run, developed by Sonic Jump creators Hardlight Studios. Naturally, it has microtransactions.

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Remember Trilobyte? They made The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour way back in the day. They made a comeback with The 7th Guest on iOS along with a spinoff app. Now they’re building a sequel to that series for iOS, Android, Mac and PC. My goodness.
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Sonic Dash has been announced by Sega for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. It crosses the blue bugger’s running antics with Temple Run. It’s a natural fit it seems.

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Apple has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit dating back to 2011 over minors accessing in-app purchases unbeknownst to their parents. According to a report on Engadget, Apple could pay out $5 vouchers to 23 million customers, and where the amount claimed is $30 or more, must offer cash refunds. The full settlement can be viewed on Scribd.

Bit.Trip Presents Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien has been dated for multiple platforms by developer Gaijin Games.

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We’ve got a big update for the mobile version of Civilization Revolution this week, but it comes at a cost.
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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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