Hey! It’s May! Happy day! New free games are blossoming along with the leaves and flowers, and we’re giving you a heads-up on some of the best titles available. This week’s recommendations include a skiing ogre, a candy-eating chameleon, and a certain robot unicorn who’s dying to run with you. Oh, and Draw Something is back. Something about begging for your forgiveness. Read More
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Plants Vs Zombies 2 Gets a Teaser Trailer and Release Date
The wait is almost over! We’ve known for a while that PopCap was working on Plants Vs Zombies 2, but they’d only given us loosey-goosey release windows. They’ve just firmed it up (and pushed it back slightly). The game is officially coming out in July. They’ve also released a masterful teaser trailer for the game that you can and should watch below. Read More
Trailer Released for Snoop’s ‘Way of the Dogg’
Snoop Dogg doesn’t stop. The heroic rapper/reggae singer has a rhythm-based fighting game coming out, and he’s just released a glorious trailer that sets the stage for the action. Check it out below. Read More
App Store Approaches 50 Billion Downloads
The App Store is a popular place. It’s so popular, in fact, that it has served up nearly 50 billion app downloads. To celebrate this impending milestone, Apple has put up a download counter on iTunes, and plans to give away a $10,000 App Store gift card to the person who downloads the 50 billionth app. They’ve also put up a list of the most popular apps of all time. Check out the list below. Read More
Trailer Released for Solstice Arena
Zynga has just revealed a mobile online battle arena (MOBA) game they’re working on, called Solstice Arena. It’s a game of three-on-three team combat that you can play by yourself, with friends in a co-op mode, or in a player-vs.-player context. Watch the trailer below. Read More
Updated: Best Games Currently On Sale or Free
Once again, for no particular reason, a number of developers have dropped the prices on some great games. In fact, many of them are totally free to download. So check out our picks for the best of the bunch, read the reviews, and hop over to the App Store to download them while they’re free or cheap! Read More
Angry Birds Seasons Update Will Introduce Portals
This morning Rovio posted a humorous little Vine video that shows off a new feature coming to Angry Birds Seasons in its next update. It’s portals, and they’re shown in a silly video made using plushy birds and pigs. Read More
Gangstar Vegas Trailer Released
Not to be outdone by the new Grand Theft Auto V trailers, Gameloft has just released a teaser trailer for Gangstar Vegas, the next in their GTA-inspired series. There’s no gameplay footage in the trailer, just some elliptical live-action shots of “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” sex, gambling, and violence. Read More
Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol Coming to iOS May 9
The battles in the Great War stretched from the depths of the sea to the heights of the sky. Ace Patrol, a new iOS strategy game by master developer Sid Meier, will bring some of those epic airborne dog fights to the small screen next week. Read More
What’s at the Center of Molyneux’s Curiosity Cube? We’ll Find Out Soon
How many taps does it take to get to the center of Peter Molyneux’s Curiosity cube? The world may find out soon. Molyneux claims that the Curiosity – What’s Inside the Cube “social experiment” is coming to an end, and that whatever’s at the core of the cube is supposed to be “life changing.” Read More
Game of the Month, April 2013: Badland
Developers have been pumping out loads of great games this year, and April was no exception. Whether you wanted to play a huge, classic RPG like Final Fantasy V, or get the wits scared out of you with Eyes – The Horror Game, the App Store had you covered. But only one game can receive our coveted prize for April, and this month it’s Badland.
Big Game Night: Star Command, Leviathan: Warships, and More
It’s Wednesday, so it must be a big game night on the App Store. Each Wednesday at 11pm EST, developers release their big games in hopes that they’ll be featured by Apple. These are just a few of the games launching tonight, so click ahead for your pre-release coverage and early iTunes links! Read More