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The World Ends With You – Solo Remix has landed on App Store, with Square Enix once again slapping a large asking price for one of its iOS ports. An errant listing on the company’s site last week all but unveiled the DS title was heading to the platform, though …
Read More »Square Enix’s Final Fantasy Dimensions £19.99 iPhone challenge
It has never been shy of charging top dollar for its iOS games, but Square Enix is to try and push the boat out further still. The publisher has finally confirmed an August 31st Western release date for its episodic Final Fantasy mobile title Final Fantasy Dimensions, which was first …
Read More »You’re not going to convince Iwata that handheld gaming is threatened
The question, of course, is whether or not gamers still seek the kind of ‘rich’ handheld experience that portable games consoles offer. One man who has always thought and still thinks the answer is yes is Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. He’s heard all the arguments, read all the dooms of …
Read More »Molyneux forced to rename Curiosity; Game delayed to September
NASA’s Curiosity Rover may be 34.8m miles away from Earth, but that’s not stopping it causing a very terrestrial kerfuffle. Development favourite Peter Molyneux has revealed that a trademark issue with NASA means that he’s left looking for a new name for his debut iOS game, that until now has …
Read More »Fluid Football dribbles toward the top of the iOS charts
GAME OF THE DAY: Some genres have struggled in the transition from TV to touchscreen. Football is not one of them. Early efforts to bring football to smartphones focused on trying to concentrate the established console game model on the smaller, button-less screen. And sometimes it worked, too – X2’s …
Read More »NaturalMotion acquires CSR Racing dev Boss Alien
Free-to-play iOS racer making $12m a month
Read More »Indie dev PerBlue reveals huge sales figures, sees Android passing iOS
Mobile developer Perblue has revealed staggering financial figures for their free-to-play MMO Parallel Kingdom, also declaring that Android is currently outpacing iOS in nearly every way. Perblue’s CEO Justin Beck spoke at GDC Europe on how his Madison studio of nine staff members started with just $20,000 in savings. In …
Read More »Espgaluda II brings the arcade to your iPhone
GAME OF THE DAY: There are few core game genres that have successfully excelled on iOS. Cave shooters are certainly one of them. For those who are yet to experience ‘the Cave way’, it goes something like this: You fly a 2D ship horizontally or vertically along a level while …
Read More »GAME OF THE DAY: Dead City
What was it they said about Halo again? 30 seconds of fun that happens over and over again.” That’s what you need to bear in mind when playing Dead City. On the face of it, the game is limited to 49 levels (that’s seven weeks each with seven days) and …
Read More »Impossible Studios making Infinity Blade: Dungeons
New Epic branch working on spin-off to hit iOS franchise
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