For anyone who has played developer Bennett Foddy's landmark release QWOP [$0.99], you'll know that it's a game that makes the simple act of running into an unimaginably difficult endeavor. Back in October, Foddy revealed his newest game called Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy … | Continue reading
Sam Barlow's Her Story [$3.99] is pretty much universally acclaimed (we gave it 4.5 stars in our review and praised its acting and writing), and many players are looking forward to Telling Lies, Barlow's other big project. Today, Barlow announced another upcoming game called #War … | Continue reading
Sorry this new games roundup is coming a bit later in the day than we typically post them, this is basically me today, looking at my inbox. We're in the magical time of the year where developers are all jockeying for position to get their games out for the holiday season, which i … | Continue reading
We've been all over covering Supercell's latest Clash Royale [Free] esports event, and for good reason. The Clash Royal Crown Championship World Finals, the final culmination of nearly 28 million players competing in the game was absolutely amazing. I posted an article describing … | Continue reading
Pokemon GO [Free] continues to grow in fun ways, and the game's next update will change things up considerably. First of all, 50 more Pokemon originally discovered in the Hoenn region are now available to catch, with even more Hoenn region Pokemon arriving in the coming weeks. Po … | Continue reading
Back at PAX West, we got a quick look at Timber West [Free] which was one of the many micro-games the guys at Digital Melody had up their sleeve at the event. Timberman [Free] was incredibly popular when it was released, featuring the exact kind of quick, simple, and weirdly diff … | Continue reading
I feel like I've said it a million times now around here on TouchArcade, but one of my favorite things about the App Store recently is how many Steam games are getting ported to mobile that I've heard nothing but good things about but just never really played largely because my P … | Continue reading
[appicon]Orange Pixel started teasing Ashworld [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/ashworld/id1304265355?mt=8"] on our forums almost exactly a year ago now. The original pitch was simple: "It's an open-world game, mixing driving, shooting, and platforming into one big … | Continue reading
I feel like few things surprise me anymore in the world of mobile gaming, as in the last near-decade it seems like everything that can happen on the App Store has happened, at least in some respect. When I got the email announcing Bridge Constructor Portal, I did one of these. I … | Continue reading
Blizzard has been diversifying its Hearthstone [Free] pre-expansion push in all kinds of interesting ways, and after giving us things like the Critical Role episode the other day, today it's putting on a Kobolds & Catacombs Escape Room live event starring some popular personaliti … | Continue reading
Arena of Valor's latest update has added a few cool new features, but it looks like they aren't that easy to navigate. So, the developers decided to post a more detailed FAQ that explain how the various new additions work. The post explains how the Highlight Reel and Free Record … | Continue reading
If you're looking for a collectible card game that offers something different from games like Hearthstone and Magic, you might want to check out Runewards [], which has just released worldwide (outside China, though). Runewards takes inspiration from Gwent, the PC-only card game … | Continue reading
The future is gradually upon us, apparently. 57° North, the upcoming game from Mighty Coconut, tells the story of Sasha and Caleb, two cousins on a family trip to Alaska who get stranded on a remote island after a vicious storm. You will have to figure out how to help the two cou … | Continue reading
I love all of Colin Lane's and his vast array of collaborators' games, as they're largely multiplayer-focused, physics-based, and totally silly in some way. And that is certainly true of his latest upcoming game, Big Shot Boxing, which has been in the works for quite some time bu … | Continue reading
Minecraft [$6.99] is getting ready to celebrate the holidays by giving free stuff to everyone. Starting December 21st and for 12 days after that, Minecraft will have a free present for you every day on the Minecraft Marketplace. The first present will be a Noxcrew offering called … | Continue reading
Yesterday we talked about Scott Cawthon developing a Pizzeria Simulator that he "swore" was just a little minigame for the community, but, of course, no one bought that. And we were right to be skeptical because Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator is a Five Nights at Freddy's [$2 … | Continue reading
This past Sunday, Supercell held the Clash Royale Crown Championship World Finals, an event that was impossible to describe as anything but amazing. I | Continue reading
I know a few people around here probably did a spit take at that headline, as it seems like the combination of strategic card gameplay and hex grids is is a siren song for iOS gamers. Well, not a whole heck of a lot of details have been made public just yet about the upcoming | Continue reading
Red Hook Studios’ Darkest Dungeon [$4.99 (HD)] is pretty damn amazing. You can read our review here. Having originally launched on PC platforms and then ported to PlayStation platforms before iOS, it seems like DLC is going to follow the same pattern. Red Hook Studios commented o … | Continue reading
Rockstar first released LA Noire in May of 2011 on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and has seen a recent re-release on the Switch, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. Both the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game are sitting at a solid 89% on Metacritic, which shouldn't be much of a su … | Continue reading
Hello everyone, and welcome to the last Touchstone Tavern prior to Hearthstone's [Free] Kobolds & Catacombs release. Finally, we're only a few days away from a ton of cool cards joining the game, and I (and many others) can't wait to start building all sorts of fun and silly deck … | Continue reading
Scott Cawthon, of Five Night at Freddy's [$2.99] fame, has made it a habit to tease new games, new lore details, and in general all kinds of things partly in an attempt to get his huge fanbase looking under every word and behind every comma for clues. And he appears to continue t … | Continue reading
Developer Frogmind released their first mobile game Badland [$0.99] back in the spring of 2013, and the ultra-stylish flappy cave flyer (which predated Flappy Bird, btw) went on to see some extreme success. We loved it in our initial review, it won an Apple Design Award a few mon … | Continue reading
The original Jumanji movie, with the gone-too-soon Robin Williams, was one of my favorite movies growing up. As you'd expect, then, I was quite nervous about the upcoming remake of the movie (starring The Rock), but I feel a bit better about it after reading some positive early r … | Continue reading
Publisher Annapurna Interactive is bringing some eclectic games to mobile, and the upcoming Gorogoa is definitely one of them. Gorogoa, which releases December 14th, is a tile-sliding puzzle game with a unique story and gorgeous hand-drawn art. We got to see the game at PAX South … | Continue reading
Hearthstone's [Free] Kobolds & Catacombs expansion is almost upon us (3 days from release at this point), so most of its cards have already been revealed. However, there's plenty of them we still haven't seen. That's being remedied as we speak. Game Director Ben Brode and streame … | Continue reading
Before there was Pokemon GO, there was Ingress [Free], Niantic's first shot at developing an Augmented Reality game, and today Niantic announced that It's returning to its first game and rebooting it as Ingress Prime. Ingress was very popular, with 20 million downloads and hundre … | Continue reading
Hello everyone, and welcome to the week! It's time once again for our look back at the noteworthy updates of the last seven days. Tis the season for holiday updates, and we're already starting to see a bunch of them. There are some other great updates that fall outside of that pa … | Continue reading
The first ever official global esports competition for Clash Royale [Free] had its finals take place in London December 3rd. Eli attended it and you can read some of his thoughts on the production values and experience here. The arena looked mindblowing and the attention to detai … | Continue reading
Amazon’s been going pretty deep into gaming over the last few years be it through mobile or pc games. This weekend saw Amazon’s Champions of Fire take place in New York City. Unlike other esports events, this one was focussed on casual games and aimed to make competitive gaming m … | Continue reading
Capcom just released their recent Nintendo 3DS title Monster Hunter Stories on iOS and Android in Japan. Monster Hunter Stories is a spinoff from the mainline Monster Hunter franchise. Instead of playing as a hunter, you play as a rider here and the game is a turn based RPG that … | Continue reading
It feels like over the last few years, esports has grown from a niche curiosity to a vaguely mainstream thing that developers are willing to blast tons of resources into promoting- Particularly as it becomes an expectation that if you have a multiplayer game, it must have some so … | Continue reading
I'm in London right now for the Clash Royale world championships, and had planned on doing this real cool podcast focusing on mobile esports based on my experiences here... Then the reality of hotel WiFi kicked in. I'm currently rocking around 50% packet loss, which has made even … | Continue reading
The idea behind the TouchArcade Game of the Week is that every Friday afternoon we post the one game that came out this week that we think is worth giving a special nod to. Now, before anyone goes over-thinking this, it doesn't necessarily mean our Game of the Week pick is the hi … | Continue reading
Two years ago now we launched our Patreon and since then while support from our community has been encouraging, we're still only half way to our goal to get back to firing on all cylinders. As you've likely noticed, there haven't been any new names on the site since Brad Nicholso … | Continue reading
While we're primarily supported by a mixture of Patreon, Twitch subscriptions and Amazon referrals these days, site sponsors go a long way in making up for the funding shortfalls of our Patreon never reaching its goal. To show our appreciation, we are now publishing these posts t … | Continue reading
Football Manager Touch 2017, Sports Interactive's classic football (soccer for some of you) management game, was one of my top 10 games of the year despite some serious technical issues that led to plenty of crashes. Those issues aside, though, the game was a fantastic and deep s … | Continue reading
If you like retro platformers, do I have a game for you today. Witcheye, from the co-creator of the NES game The Great Gatsby, is an upcoming game that looks like a fantastic ode to classic NES games. You play as a witch who transforms into a flying eyeball to get back her stolen … | Continue reading
If you do your gaming on the Android side of the ocean and are looking for some good games to play, check out Google Play's Best of 2017 awards for inspiration. The most popular new games of the year were Super Mario Run, Bubble Witch 3 Saga, Magic Tiles 3, CATS: Crash Arena Turb … | Continue reading
A few days ago we wrote about Riddlord: The Consequence, a game that looked a lot like The Room in that it has players manipulate objects in 3D space, and now that game is out. Riddlord has you solving three-dimension | Continue reading
If you're a fan of Clash Royale [Free], eSports, or just like in your spare time to watch people play games, you should tune into the Clash Royale Crown Championship, taking place this Sunday, December 3rd, in London. This is the conclusion of Clash Royale's first-ever official g … | Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago, we checked out the debut trailer for Treasure Raiders, a new character-based action game with multiplayer elements from Oasis Games and NetEase. It looked really cool! And in a sea of endless generic free to play action RPGs on the App Store, its personalit … | Continue reading
HQ Trivia [Free], the live quiz game by the co-creator of Vine, continues to grow like crazy. When I first started playing the game only a few weeks back, I had to compete with around 20 thousand other players; just the other day, I had to do so against over 200 thousand players, … | Continue reading
Australian indie developer Tristan Slywa aka FABA is readying the release of his second iOS game following the clever color-matching high-scorer Boomdude [Free] earlier this year, and if you like frogs and weirdness I think you'll be in for a treat. The new game is called Frog So … | Continue reading
Have you always felt you are an underappreciated artist, one severed ear from becoming a Van Gogh? A few cubes away from a Picasso? Then maybe Passpartout: Starving Artist [$4.99] is the game for you. The just-released game is a port of the PC game with the same name, but it look … | Continue reading
Mobius Final Fantasy [Free] will have Cloud Strife join as the second Ultimate Hero. There will be new storylines from the Final Fantasy franchise and the Final Fantasy VII Remake collaboration returns this month for Mobius Final Fantasy The storylines allow players to team up wi … | Continue reading
There’s a great YouTube program called toco toco that does video features with creators and artists in Japan about their inspirations and places in Japan. The latest episode features none other than Yoshiro Kimura of Million Onion Hotel [$3.99] and Dandy Dungeon [Free] fame. The … | Continue reading
If you would have asked me a few months ago, I never would have guessed that the "battle royale" genre popularized by Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) on PC would be the Next Big Thing™ in the mobile space, but here we are. Alongside games like Guns Royale and the soft-launch … | Continue reading