Way, way back, our (then new) editor, Clark, wrote one of his first reviews for Digitally Downloaded: a little indie game on XBLA called Akane the Kunoichi. He rather liked it, and now it’s finally on the other great indie platform, the iOS App Stores. This is a good thing…
Read MoreOne of the regular complaints that we hear regarding the iPad and gaming is: “it needs physical buttons before it can be a real games playing machine!” Notwithstanding the fact that anyone who spends more than a few hours with an iPad quickly realises that it doesn’t need physical buttons…
Read MoreA new level cap and lots more added to the iOS version of everyones favorite cloud hopping adventure. Loads of new stuff was added this week to Skylanders Cloud patrol, the shooting gallery type spin-off of the popular (that’s an understatement right there) console and portable game Skyanders Spyro’s Adventure.…
Read MoreOne of the genres I have always assumed that the iPad would excel at is the real time strategy. The large touch screen is a natural fit for the genre, and should make manipulating units and controlling the ebb and flow feel natural, much like pouring over a real battle…
Read MoreSlapstick comedy classic The Naked Gun heads to iOS with Frank Drebin Jr in tow. With pretty much zero hype since it was announced and not much backing it in the way of a movie, television show, or anything, developer DNA interactive has launched The Naked Gun as an old…
Read MoreThe iOS release of the 2004 The Bard’s Tale has been updated yet again, completing the original trilogy and adding gamepad support. Honestly, there really isn’t a much better buy on the App store right now. With the latest ‘update’ developer inXile has added on all three original The Bard’s…
Read MoreThe grandaddy of the first person shooter is 20 years old. Wolfenstein 3D kicked off the FPS craze only a scant pair of decades ago- and now it’s free to play. One of the first PC games that I personally COULD NOT STOP playing, Wolf 3D was a classic the…
Read MoreThe Lordz Game studio is one of my favourite game developers. These are the guys behind the rather excellent Panzer Corps, and the Commander series of games that has appeared on everything from PC to Nintendo DS. Consistently, Lordz produces wargames that are a nice mix of accessibility and depth.…
Read MoreThe Cloud Patrol iadds to its iranks in this week’s iupdate. Aside form native support for the 3rd gen iPad’s Retina display (which you probably figured was on the way), Activision has added a bunch of new playable characters to the game. Skylanders Warnado, Wham-Shell, and Camo are now ready…
Read MoreThe second installment of Konami’s old school RPG sequel is questing on over to the App store for your iDevice of choice. Ash II: Shadows chapter 2 includes an all new character to play as, new dungeons to explore, and brand new goodies to stuff in that bag of holding…
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