Superbowl Savings on iPhone Football Games
Looking forward to the big game this weekend? So are a handful of iPhone developers, and they’ve decided to slash the prices on 4 major football releases to celebrate. Make sure to snag them quick — these sale prices are only going to last through the weekend!
GTA Chinatown Wars Review: Grand Theft Auto on your iPhone
Grand Theft Auto is one of the most popular, and controversial, games ever. The series has been going on since 1997, and now you can get it on your iPhone. Chinatown Wars was originally released for the Nintendo DS in March 2009, and then for the PSP in October. This week, it was released for iPhone and iPod Touch, with just as much content as the other versions.
Rock Band vs. Tap Tap Revenge 3: Battle of the Bands
Ever since Guitar Hero hit the home console scene back in 2005, music games have been all the rage amongst gamers and music enthusiasts alike. Tracing the iPhone’s roots back to the music-only iPods of yore, it seems only natural that the genre would eventually make its way to the iTunes App Store. We take a look at two of this season’s most popular music games for the iPhone and let you know which one we think is the real deal.
News: Big Fish Games improves Mac-friendliness, offers $2.99 sale
Fans of casual games can hardly go a week without seeing what new gems Big Fish Games has to offer. Indeed, it’s “new game every day” system and $6.99 price structure have made it one of the internet’s leading providers of casual gaming.
And while Big Fish Games has always catered to both PC and Mac audiences, Mac games — as is often the case — have always felt like an afterthought. Today Big Fish Games sought to rectify that and has launched it’s own separate Mac gaming portal at http://www.bigfishgames.com/mac.html.
Upcoming iPhone Games to Watch
The AppStore is known for a lot of things, but easy navigation isn’t one of them. With tens of thousands of games on the service, knowing when a real gem comes out can be more of a challenge than it should be. Big games may get featured on the What’s Hot or What’s New pages, and they may sit at the top of the sale numbers for a few weeks, but unless you’re actively checking to see what’s new on a regular basis it’s almost inevitable you’re going to miss a golden gaming experience.
Today we’re taking a look at 5 upcoming game worth keeping an eye out for. Why miss out on the big names if we can give you the heads up before they happen?
Rock Band coming to iPhone
It’s long been rumored, but today EA Mobile has officially confirmed that Rock Band will indeed be coming to the iPhone. Featuring 15 songs (plus an additional 5 that can be unlocked through play), Rock Band for the iPhone is attempting to recreate the living room rock experience as faithfully as it possibly can while still living in your pocket. Bluetooth multiplayer, World Tour mode, and the ability to expand your Rock Band library through dowwnloadable content will form the basis of what EA hopes will become the de facto music experience on the iPhone.
Ramp Champ Review: Go to the Carnival on your iPhone
If you are a listener of our podcast, you’ve probably heard us (mainly me) getting all excited about the latest iPhone game , Ramp Champ, from the design geniuses at the Iconfactory and the code gurus at DS Media Labs. Well, today is the day we have been waiting for, the app finally released into the app store late last night and I have been playing it pretty much ever since.
News: Plants Vs. Zombies Coming to iPhone
Earlier this year, PopCap Games once again proved their pedigree as the premiere publisher in the casual games space when it released Plants vs. Zombies to PC and Mac owners the world over. A unique spin on the tower defense genre, Plants vs. Zombies once again proved PopCap’s ability to re-invent the wheel. It quickly earned widespread critical acclaim and commercial success, selling “more briskly in its first 90 days of online availability than any previous game we’ve published,” according to PopCap’s VP of Marketing Ben Rotholtz.
Given PopCap’s track record it only stood to reason that PvZ would be ported to every console known to man. That’s why it comes as no surprise when PopCap Games announced this morning that, in addition to an upcoming port to Xbox Live Arcade and a recent retail box release, Plants vs Zombies will be arriving in the AppStore for iPhone users in late 2009.
Power Pros Touch Review: The Boys of Summer
Since it’s debut in the summer of 2008, the iTunes AppStore has become the de facto home for a number of genres that had previously struggled to make the jump to portable gaming. But while tower defense and match-3 puzzle games have spent the better part of a year cementing their place in the hearts of iPhone users everywhere, the last few months have seen another genre step up to the plate. For many an iPhone gamer, the summer of 2009 will be remembered as the summer of baseball.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed coming to Mac
Last fall console gamers were treated to a rather sublime Star Wars experience with the release of The Force Unleashed. Telling the story of Darth Vader’s secret apprentice, Force Unleashed once again proved that the expanded universe could weave tales leaps and bounds better than anything Lucas had ever crafted. It had also proved once again that Mac gamers are always left out in the cold. That is, until now.
LucasArts and Aspyr Media have just announced The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition for for both Mac and PC. So what makes this release so “ultimate”? Journey with us to the dark side and find out.
