We love physics puzzle games, which is why Angry Birds and Cut The Rope have earned themselves a permanent place on our iDevices. But there are no many knockoffs that sometimes we wonder if we’ll ever see an original concept again. Fortunately, Cover Orange HD got the creative juices flowing. Read More
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New App A Day: iTraceur HD
Today’s featured app is the iPad version of iTraceur, a platformer inspired by parkour, the art of freerunning over obstacles and shimmying up and down walls. But don’t go deleting your copy of Mirror’s Edge HD quite yet– iTraceur has a ways to go before it can leap over the competition. Read More
New App A Day: Ash
If you grew up on the likes of Final Fantasy and Secret of Mana, then you might want to take a look at Ash, a 16-bit style RPG that just hit the App Store. Read More
New App A Day: Demon Hunter – The Return of the Wings
New App A Day: Aqua Pearls
Today’s featured game is a Match-3 marble shooting game in the style of Zuma or Tumblebugs. It’s almost exactly like those games, but with a few extra modes that we think will appeal to compulsive colorful bubble-poppers. Read More
New App A Day: NudeRunner-Girl Edition (NSFW)
Today’s featured app is NudeRunner-Girl Edition, the game that’s currently the most downloaded free game on the App Store. From title to graphics, this game seems like it’s in direct violation of Apple’s policy on racy material; but for better or worse, somehow it made it through the approval process. Read More
New App A Day: WackyLands Boss
Today’s featured app fits right in with the horde of Halloween titles that has invaded the App Store these past few weeks. WackyLands Boss is a game where you play as the big bad monster who goes around destroying villages and slaughtering the chivalrous knights that try to stop you. What could be more fun than that? Read More
New App A Day: Gun Bros
Today’s featured app has a staggering amount of content for a free download. Gun Bros lets you equip your character with outlandish outfits and weapons, wipe out thousands of enemies, and play along with an AI version of your friends’ characters. Read More
New App A Day: Riddim Ribbon
Earlier this year we were excited to review Riddim Ribbon feat. The Black Eyed Peas, a unique-looking music game experience from the makers of Tap Tap Revenge. While we were disappointed by the high price and scarce content, a newly released version simply called Riddim Ribbon offers more songs for free. Read More
New App A Day: Deep Deep Dungeon
Let’s get something clear about today’s featured app: The title Deep Deep Dungeon refers to the distance you travel underground, and not at all to the game’s combat system. Deep Deep Dungeon’s reflex-based combat is Simple Simple. Read More
New App A Day: Hungry Helga HD
They say it ain’t over til the fat lady sings, but in today’s featured app, Hungry Helga HD, the game goes on much longer past that. Hungry Helga is a Valkyrie aboard a Viking boat, and you must bomb the fish below and shovel them into her mouth before she wastes away. Read More
New App A Day: Dracula: The Official Stoker Family Edition
Old Bram would probably flip his lid if he saw the dark magic that brings his most famous horror story, Dracula, to life on the iPad. This e-book takes interactivity to a new level, allowing you to strike a match when the scene gets dark, or open letters between Jonathan Harker and his fiancee Mina. Read More
New App A Day: The Secret of Grisly Manor
Not to be confused with The Secret of Bryce Manor, today’s featured app is an adventure game about– you guessed it– exploring a manor that’s full of secrets. As you do, of course, you pick up all kinds of trinkets that can be placed in empty slots found elsewhere in the house. It’s a tried and true adventure game formula, and it’s hard to stop playing once you start. Read More
New App A Day: We Doodle
It’s been a big week for Ngmoco. Not only have they been acquired by DeNA for a hefty $400 million, but they’ve also released We Doodle for iPhone and iPad, a game that’s very much like online Pictionary. Read More
New App A Day: Scene It? Horror
The Scene It? series of trivia games can be a lot of fun, but this horror-themed version is strictly for the 17+ crowd. It features lots of video clips and images from recent and classic horror movies, most of which are famous for being especially scary or violent. Read More
New App A Day: Moon’d
We’re constantly surprised by amateur apps that feel professional, with polished graphics, spot-on physics, and a variety of interesting levels. Unfortunately, today’s featured game is not one of them. Read More
New App A Day: Across Age DX
For gamers of a certain bent, there’s little we love more than an old-school RPG, especially one with real-time fighting and intricate puzzle solving, a la Zelda or Secret of Mana. Enter Across Age, an iPhone action RPG with all of those goodies, and time traveling to boot. Read More
New App A Day: The Ball Is Too Fast, The Game Is Too Slow, The Name Is Too Long
Today’s featured app has a title that’s sure to grab attention, if not for its length, then for its tongue-in-cheek gripes about how the game functions. In our estimation, however, the first two complaints in the title are unfounded. The balls do roll fast, but that’s a good thing– it makes for challenging gameplay. As for the second part, the game is very responsive, so it moves as quickly as you can swipe you finger across the screen. They’re right about the name being too long, though– this is a video game title, not a Faulker sentence. Read More
New App A Day: Bubble Bobble Double
Today’s featured app stars Bubblin and Bobblin, the famous fruit-eating dragons from Bubble Bobble, a series of games that has graced just about every platform in the past 20 years. If you’re old enough, you probably became acquainted with the happy duo in the arcade or NES versions of the original Bubble Bobble, a timeless classic that has now made its way to the iPhone. Read More
New App A Day: Kenny Powers’ Home Run Fiesta: Deep Inside Mexico
Today’s featured app is a free adver-game called Kenny Powers’ Home Run Fiesta: Deep Inside Mexico. Based on the hilariously vulgar HBO show Eastbound and Down (whose second season began on Sunday, by the way) the game is a super simple 8-bit style baseball game, full of bleeps and bloops and pixelated mullets. Read More
New App A Day: Invisible Runner
New App A Day: Pig Shot
Today’s featured new app came to us via a press release bragging that it’s an “EPIC pig-slinging, farting and rolling experience that you can’t find elsewhere.” Was this something people were looking for? Read More
New App A Day: Aero World
We’ve seen our share of marble-rolling games on the App Store, and today’s featured app is, well, yet another one. There’s not a lot to distinguish Aero World from games like Marble Blast Mobile and Aerox, except perhaps its punishing difficulty. Read More
New App A Day: We City
With the release of today’s featured app, the iPhone and iPad are now home to three casual “We” games from Ngmoco: We Rule, We Farm, and We City. We City is cut from the same cloth as the other two, but rather than taking control of a medieval town or a farm, you create and manage a bustling modern city. Read More
New App A Day: Moonsters
Moonsters is about space tofu. You play as a horseshoe-shaped purple alien whose ship has crash landed on a planet full of winged yellow blobs of tofu that suspend themselves in the air like hummingbirds. Your job is to collect these tofus and trade them in for parts to fix your spaceship… Yeah, it’s pretty weird. Read More
New App A Day: Super Blast
Today’s featured app is a very basic– but challenging– high score game called Super Blast. With gameplay modeled after Galaga, you control a grumpy robot on a crusade to eradicate all robot-alien-monster-type things from the universe. Read More
New App A Day: Blind World
In today’s featured app, you have to navigate your way around the world by touch, and it takes a light touch indeed to reveal the mazes in Blind World. Read More
New App A Day: The Expendables Game
Today’s featured app is The Expendables Game, which, if you’re not fueled by enough adrenaline to be familiar with it, is based on a movie about every action star that matters teaming up to go on a killing spree against bad guys who deserve it. Read More
New App A Day: Plunder!
Today’s featured app is Plunder!, a freemium strategy game that takes place on an ocean grid and, like some 70% of the games on the App Store, involves pirates. But don’t let that overused premise stop you from downloading this game. What we didn’t realize when we first booted it up was that Plunder is a whirlpool of addiction just waiting to suck you in. Read More
New App A Day: Seed 2 – Vortex of War
Today’s featured app is Seed 2 – Vortex of War, an action RPG that plays a lot like Zenonia and Seed 1 – Rise of Darkness. Once again, the continent is under attack from nasty villains, and it’s up to the androgynous hero Litta and his Obi-Wan-like mentor Kanto to put them back in their place. Read More
New App A Day: Rocketeer
If you’re like us, the first thing you thought when you saw there’s an app called Rocketeer was, “Oh, they made a game based on that 1991 Disney movie about a guy with a jetpack! You know, the one Family Guy said stupid people rent when they need a thrill.” Well, this game isn’t based on The Rocketeer. Read More
New App A Day: Road Hog
Every day, we sort through our inbox of new games and find one to feature for you. Don’t take this as a recommendation, though, especially for today’s game, Road Hog. Read More
New App A Day: Lite-Brite
Today’s featured app is brought to you by the letters E and A. Since 1967, children worldwide have been shoved off into corners to be entertained by the magical multi-colored glowing box that is Lite-Brite. Finally, this beloved toy has landed on the iPhone. Read More
New App A Day: Megaplex Madness – Now Playing
Today’s featured game is one that starts out in a dusty old movie theater you just purchased on an entrepreneurial whim. As the new owner and manager of the place, it’s up to you to fix what’s broken, hire staff, and give customers a positive experience that will keep them coming back. Read More
New App A Day: Great Adventures for iPad
Do you enjoy the Sims, but wish it packed more mystery and excitement? Do you like adventure games but find it weird that the characters never have to eat or sleep? Then Great Adventures was practically made for you. Today’s featured app is an iPad game that delivers a surprisingly compelling mystery story while making you tend to the characters’ health and well being. Read More
New App A Day: Solomon’s Boneyard
Today’s featured new game is from the creator of Solomon’s Keep. In this prequel, you control a wizard in a hopeless survival situation, blasting hundreds of skeletons and zombies until they overtake you. Read More
New App A Day: Red Card Rampage
How mad do you get when you’re watching sports and the referee makes an idiotic call, costing your team points or, worse, the game? Wouldn’t it be satisfying if you could kick a soccer ball at his big stupid bald head? In Red Card Rampage, you can. Read More
New App A Day: A Skeleton Story… The Game
If you saw the trailer for A Skeleton Story (found below) you probably thought what we did: Is this Grim Fandango for the iPhone? Once you get past the gorgeous introductory cutscene, though, you’re left with a pretty standard running and jumping game. Read More
New App A Day: Rimelands: Hammer of Thor
Crescent Moon, whose last big RPG release on the iPhone was the Oblivion-style Ravensword, has teamed up with Dicework Games to release Rimelands: Hammer of Thor, and it’s our latest featured app. Read More
New App A Day: Lamp of Aladdin for iPad
The story of Aladdin and his genie-filled lamp has been told many times, but never, to our knowledge, in the form of a Match-3/ hidden object game. As it turns out, these two genres compliment each other nicely, making Lamp of Aladdin an enjoyable experience for anyone in the family (except maybe the mopey teen, who will think it’s too childish). Read More
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New App A Day: Slice It!
Today’s featured game is the latest release from Com2Us, a company known for making Inotia 2: A Wanderer of Luone and Homerun Battle 3D. Like many successful puzzle games, Slice It! has a simple-as-pie hook that becomes more and more brain-racking as you progress. Read More
New App A Day: Zombie Flick
Today’s featured new app is reminiscent of the scene in Shaun of the Dead, where Shaun and Ed cart out a random box of junk to toss at the zombies in their backyard. Wrenches, toilet paper rolls, or mugs– they’re your ammo in Zombie Flick. Read More
New App A Day: Super Mega Worm
Today’s featured app is Super Mega Worm, a high-score game with a monstrous sense of humor. You play as a giant worm that needs to keep a full stomach to stay alive. Anything with a pulse is fair game, including cows, birds, rednecks, cops, and mothers pushing strollers. As you swallow more people, you level up and unlock new abilities, like projectiles that shoot from your mouth. Read More
New App A Day: Cave Run
Today’s featured new app is based on the famous scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, where Indiana Jones is fleeing from a giant boulder as the ancient cavern he just looted (err, excavated) starts crumbling around him. Check out our first impressions and video of Cave Run. Read More
New App A Day: No, Human
In No, Human you play as The Universe. Your goal? To stop humans from spreading to your every edge and corner. But because it would be no fair to blow up Earth and wipe them all out at once, you limit yourself to destroying all space ships and stations you find floating out in the endless vacuum of space. Read More
New App A Day: Katy Perry Revenge
We get a lot of emails every day about brand new games that populate the App Store, but not all of them are worth covering. Usually out of dozens of new games, we find just a few noteworthy announcements. Every day we’ll try to pick out one– just one– new game that stands out. Today, it’s Katy Perry Revenge. Read More