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Eye on the App Store: Last Inua, Warhammer 40K: Carnage, Castlestorm: Free to Siege, and more
We’ll soon be having the midweek madness that is Eye on the App Store over on our Twitch channel. Each week, we have a look at games that are either due out at midnight or have just launched, so you can get an impression of what strikes your fancy. Be sure to tune in live as surprises can happen with devs popping their heads in and us dropping off a few redeemable codes. This week we’ll be covering a whole host of games. There’ll be the cool platform puzzler Last Inua, where two parka-clad characters use their powers to avoid yetis and venture onwards. Action-oriented Warhammer 40,000: Carnage is also on the cards, featuring plenty of finger-bashing ork-killing combos. Th…
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METAL SLUG DEFENSE Review
When we think Metal Slug, our minds turn to classic arcade side-scroller action. What we don’t think of is the tower defense genre. However, that is precisely the catagory which SNK Playmore's new free-to-play title Metal Slug Defense falls into. That's not to say that there isn't some crossover between the classic games and this new enterprise. Creating a 2D side-scrolling tower defense title has allowed the developer to lift art straight from previous Metal Slug games. Th…
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Icy platformer Last Inua will be sliding onto the App Store later tonight
Glowforth’s chilling début title Last Inua is coming to the App Store at midnight tonight. In this icy puzzle platformer, you take control of two Inuit heroes as they try to save their snow-covered home from the demon Tonrar. The pair of frostbitten adventurers are actually father and son duo Ataataq and Hiko, and they must work together if they hope to succeed. Luckily, Hiko is blessed with magical powers that allow him to create paths of light to aid his father in navigating the slippery world, and help solve the game's various puzzles. While Hiko can utilise mystical powers, father Ataataq's unique traits are far more down-to-earth. Rather than casting spells, he ca…
Tower defence game Castlestorm - Free to Siege is out now on the App Store
The iOS port of PC and console tower defence game Castlestorm, has just smashed its way on to the App Store in the form of Castlestorm - Free to Siege. This free-to-play translation of the original Castlestorm has been in beta since February on Android devices. Now, with the kinks in its business model hammered out, Zen Studios has brought it to iPhone and iPad. The medieval styled tower defense title marries 2D tower defense combat with physics-based construction and destruction. As you build your tower, the integrity of your base is dependent both on the materials you use and your architectural skills. Place too much weight on the wrong support, and you could quickly find the…
Retry | Hands-On
Retry is the latest game from Rovio. Well, technically, it's the first game from Rovio LVL11, the company's new publishing arm created to focus on game experiences that aren't related to Angry Birds. The game is a single-tap affair in which you must guide your tiny aeroplane from airfield to airfield, avoiding environmental obstacles and severe weather effects along the way. It's also really, really, really hard. How hard? Let me show you with my hands-on video below.…
Republique Review
République begins abruptly with you receiving a call from the panicked hero, Hope. Trapped in a totalitarian state, the young girl longs for freedom. Believing that you are her last chance of escape, Hope asks you to use your hacking skills to manipulate the city’s electronics to help free her. It is a strange take on the stealth genre, that has you leading Hope remotely through the oppressive world. The 1984-inspired fiction sees the walls covered with surveillance camer…
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Order & Chaos Online gets new dungeon, fresh challenges, and black market boosts
Gameloft has just released an update for its free-to-play fantasy game Order & Chaos Online, bringing a new dungeon and challenges to the fantasy MMO. You can now travel through the land of Haradon to the Tear Coast, where you will face the Archbishop in Flame: Rebirth of Faith. The update will also provide an event book to help you track down daily and weekly quests to earn extra loot. New events and celebrations also come in the update, with the Dragon Boat Festival giving a taste of the Orient and access to a Dragon Boat mount. If all of these additional challenges are causing you difficulties, however, then a trip to the black market may be just thing to prepare your character f…
AppSpy Plays: World of Tanks Blitz - live on Twitch (5pm UK | 9am Pacific | 12pm Eastern)
If today’s your first day back at work after yesterday’s bank holiday you may be having a case of the late Monday blues but, fret not, we know precisely two sights that'll cure what ails you: Tanks and explosions. That’s right, Wargaming.net’s World of Tanks Blitz has just soft-launched in several European countries and, seeing as we’re the sneaky sort, we’ve snagged a copy and will be taking to the battlefield live on our Twitch channel at 5pm in the UK, 9am Pacific Time, and 12 noon Eastern Time. So come along and join us on the AppSpy + Pocket Gamer Twitch channel to get a preview of the game and give us some pointers. Just try not to flood the chat…
World of Tanks finally rolls onto the App Store in selected territories
Developer Wargaming.net has just soft-launched its free-to-play game World of Tank Blitz in selected territories. The developer’s new iOS title is a translation of its incredibly popular PC MMO World of Tanks, which currently boasts over 80 million subscribers. World of Tank Blitz optimises the PC experience for touchscreens, while still offering frantic seven on seven team battles. This mobile version of the game has many of the same features as the original. First off, you can choose between 90 different tank types. These will conform to four different tank classes, light, medium, heavy, and tank destroyers, making careful construction of your seven tank squad vital if yo…
Fruit Shake | Hands-On
Fruit Shake is a match-3 puzzle game with a few sweet twists on the Candy Crush Saga formula. Firstly, the confectionary has been ditched in favour of far healthier pineapples, berries, strawberries, and the like. Second, tiles aren't four-sided, they're hexagonal, which presents its own challenges. Third, there's a spin ability included, in which you can tap and hold a tile to turn the surrounding icons round it. Being a bit tired of the genre now, I cautiously decided to give Fruit Shake a go. You can see the results below.…
Superfrog HD Review
Some things - including old and beloved games - are often better left in the past. It isn't that these games were rubbish when they were originally made, rather gaming’s constantly evolving nature leaves many games feeling like relics. Team 17’s Superfrog HD is a perfect example of this. The problems span issues with both the original 1993 Amiga release of Superfrog, and this new HD remake. Take the controls. Not one of the three interface options provide a decent re…
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Compete with gangsters from around the world and reclaim your turf in Days of Crime [Sponsored]
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If you enjoy games filled with guns, turf wars, and plenty of opportunities to fill unscrupulous baddies full of hot lead, you may like Happylatte's Days of Crime. Days of Crime is a skill-based Player vs Player (PvP) combat-filled action title inspired by the 1979 movie The Warriors. In it, you’re pitted against hundreds of other gun-toting wannabe gangsters from around the globe and a range of NPC bosses. Following a 5-year stint behind bars for an undisclosed crime, you return to your hometown with the sole aim of taking back the streets on which you were raised. You do this with a gun and a range of other deadly items. Every time you take on a thug in Days of Crime, you’…
AppSpy Plays: Bridge Constructor Medieval - live on Twitch (5pm UK | 9am Pacific | 12pm Eastern)
I've a confession to make: I am rubbish at building bridges, as demonstrated in my hands-on with Bridge Constructor Medieval. Thankfully, our man Alex here at AppSpy isn't half-bad, which is why we gave him the game to review. Since he really liked it - as we did when we gave it another quick go during Eye on the App Store - we just had to return to it for an AppSpy Plays. Live on Twitch we'll be attempting to forge mighty bridges, in an effort to stop as many horses from falling to their explosive dooms as possible. We'll need your help if we're to succeed, so come join us back here at 5pm UK, 9am Pacific, and 12pm Eastern, or over on our Twitch channel. Watch live video from AppSpy on…
Tony Hawk's Shred Session is coming to iOS this summer
Activision’s Tony Hawk series defined skating games for most of the 2000s. Now, over a decade later, the company is bringing a new instalment of the series to the iPhone and iPad in the form of Tony Hawk's Shred Session, a free-to-play lane-based autorunner. As a lane-based endless game, Tony Hawk's Shred Session looks pretty standard. Swiping left or right shifts your skater between lanes to collect coins and avoid obstacles. Where Shred Session changes things up is its trick system. Ramps and rails in your path allow you to perform all manner of grinds and jumps to earn more cash, and generally look cool. The game will feature two game modes: Shred Sessions and Survival. Shred Ses…
See the first screenshots for the third episode of The Walking Dead: Season 2
Telltale has released new info and screenshots of the forthcoming third episode of The Walking Dead: Season 2. Among other things, the images show that Clementine remains genetically predisposed to danger, and that William Carver - he with the moustache and gummed-up walkie-talkie - is to be voiced by series-newcomer Michael Madsen. The episode, titled In Harm's Way, uses the same moral choice system that won the series so many awards. Nothing Telltale has released suggests that this is going to be changed in any radical way, so expect the same split-second decision-making that will haunt you for days afterwards. In terms of storyline, perhaps most interesting is the appearance of cha…
