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Shoot ‘em up ChocoHunters out now on mobile

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 4 months ago
Shoot ‘em up ChocoHunters out now on mobile

Indie game developer Orhan Keskin has released their shoot ‘em up ChocoHunters as a premium title for iOS and Android devices. It’s set in a world where pirates rule the sea, but chocolate is a commodity more valuable than gold. You play as three heroes who decide to become the greatest pirate legends of all time by hunting and collecting a lot of treasure, thus becoming the eponymous ChocoHunters as they loot and pillage their way towards high chocolate prestige. As with all adventures, there are hurdles to overcome. Enemies will try to spoil your treasure hunting by attacking you or trying to steal your loot for themselves. Keskin describes ChocoHunters as a defensive shoot &…

Mythical adventure game The Pathless now available on Apple Arcade

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 4 months ago
Mythical adventure game The Pathless now available on Apple Arcade

Giant Squid’s The Pathless is now available for Apple Arcade alongside its PC and consoles release. It’s a mythical adventure game where you play as a hunter who’s travelling to a mystical island to rid the world of a curse that threatens everyone. Along the way you’ll forge a connection with an eagle who assists you in hunting corrupt spirits. Your journey will take you through misty forests and ancient ruins as you solve puzzles, hunt for secrets and take part in battles. Here’s a trailer so you can see more about what the game entails. In discussing The Pathless, creative director Matt Nava said: “The Pathless is an open-world game that features uni…

Call of Duty Mobile Season 12 adds night maps and new battle pass

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 4 months ago
Call of Duty Mobile Season 12 adds night maps and new battle pass

Call of Duty Mobile has a new season after recently celebrating its one-year anniversary, and brings with it a bunch of new content for fans to fire up. Season 12 is named Going Dark, and for apt reasons as it introduces maps set at night. This will dynamically change the gameplay as you’re forced to use night vision goggles to find opponents. This is available on Crash, Summit, and a new map that makes a return from 2019’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare; Hackney Yard, a small three-lane stage that features a mix of close and mid-range combat. This one can be played in both day and night variants. Of course, with the arrival of the night modes comes the opportunity to create some…

Ferocious runner Shinobi Run Endless available now on iOS

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 4 months ago
Ferocious runner Shinobi Run Endless available now on iOS

There’s a new contender on the endless runner market this week, and it comes from indie developer Quadrilateral Games. Shinobi Run Endless brings a more mature approach to the genre, adding in blood and gore to the typical endless lane running gameplay loop. It’s currently available on iOS but only in the United States, and more regions should be rolled out soon. Shinobi Run Endless puts you on a path of vengeance as you embark on a bloodthirsty journey to confront an enemy clan about the death of your family. Cursed with immortality, your character has to run this horrific gauntlet an infinite amount of times, but never being able to ever reach their goal. During play you can…

Cutesy platformer Double Pug Switch out on mobile

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 4 months ago
Cutesy platformer Double Pug Switch out on mobile

The Polygon Loft has released Double Pug Switch, a dimension shifting casual platformer featuring cute animals, on iOS and Android devices. As an adorable pug, you jump, hop and dimension shift your way through various levels. The controls are simple in their presentation, but they also present a tough challenge that will make you want to practice hard at each stage in order to perfect your runs. You must make sure your timing is just right, because otherwise you’ll meet a grisly end. It’s not just about typical platforming though, because dimension swapping is a key component of Double Pug Switch’s gameplay. This ability can be used to jump between platforms that are in…

Studio Ghibli-like adventure game Embracelet coming to iOS

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 4 months ago
Studio Ghibli-like adventure game Embracelet coming to iOS

Indie developer Machineboy is releasing its narrative adventure game Embracelet onto iOS later this year. Set in Norway, the game is a narrative adventure game about a young adolescent who inherits his grandfather’s magical bracelet, which grants special telekinetic powers. You must use these powers to solve puzzles and explore the island to discover these mysterious powers and return it to its true owner. It’s a magic realism tale, utilising elements of the fantasy to tell a deeply personal story that deals with the challenges of growing up and the difficulties that small communities face. Machineboy uses the story to deliver an uplifting, emotional adventure with plenty of tw…

Mystery visual novel Far Away comes to mobile next year

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 4 months ago
Mystery visual novel Far Away comes to mobile next year

XD Network has announced Far Away, an upcoming mystery visual novel for iOS and Android devices that’s releasing some time next year. You play as Krosa Nonet, an employed bay worker in the fictional town of Bedjan who becomes entrapped within the city’s seedy underworld. As you continue playing, the story has the possibility of going in different directions depending on the decisions you make, impacting both the fates of Krosa and the city itself. You will mainly be tasked with finding clues and exploring different character perspectives to piece together the mysteries that Bedjan holds. Altogether there are eight main storylines, with over 500,000 words of text, and also featu…

Mario Kart Tour introduces the Sunset Tour, adds new skins, and more

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 4 months ago
Mario Kart Tour introduces the Sunset Tour, adds new skins, and more

Mario Kart Tour has introduced the Sunset Tour, its latest content-filled season that adds new races, racers, and more. The Sunset Tour adds new races to complete so you can collect Grand Stars. These include Sunset Wilds, Neo Bowser City R, Mario Circuit R, and Neo Bowser City T. There are also karts, gliders and new racers up for grabs as Tour Gifts to collect during the season. You can earn Baby Rosalina as a new racer alongside a new kart and glider just by logging into the game, with no additional spending required. Meanwhile, if you’re a Gold Pass subscriber you can obtain the Jumping Mario Hanafuda as a Tour Gift, alongside the new kart and racer. There’s also another…

Roguelike deckbuilder Iris and the Giant out now on iOS

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 4 months ago
Roguelike deckbuilder Iris and the Giant out now on iOS

After releasing on Steam earlier this year, roguelike deckbuilder Iris and the Giant is now available on iOS devices alongside its debut in Nintendo Switch, with an Android release coming soon. You play as Iris, a young girl lost in a fairytale world of her own imagination who has to face her fears. As you journey through Iris’ mind, you collect memory fragments which reveal the reasons behind her odyssey into this strange land of mythical creatures. It’s a beautiful, minimal world where she must fight her inner demons away. To battle these monsters, you need to assemble a full deck of cards with abilities and powers on them, which will develop as you progress through the story…

Genshin Impact’s new update adds new quests, characters, and more

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 4 months ago
Genshin Impact’s new update adds new quests, characters, and more

Genshin Impact, the popular gacha RPG from miHoYo, is getting a big new update next week on 11th November. The update, called ‘A New Star Approaches’, introduces a bunch of new quests to complete, as well as a seasonal event and four additional playable characters. While there are many new quests being added to the game, most notably is the addition of the Liyue chapter’s grand finale in the main storyline. This also coincides with the game’s first seasonal event called ‘Unreconciled Stars’. This lasts for two weeks and sees players finishing a series of quests and co-op challenges to earn new rewards. A reputation system is also being added to Genshin…

October update for Crossfire: Warzone adds new game mode

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 4 months ago
October update for Crossfire: Warzone adds new game mode

There has been a new update for Crossfire: Warzone on iOS and Android, and it’s a pretty big one that adds the new Capital Takeover War game mode. Capital Takeover War is an event that occurs in the middle of the field map on each server, as long as it’s at least 90 days or older. Joycity has added this to hopefully increase PvP participation, with the new event taking place fortnightly and sees allies fighting for dominance on their server. The winning team’s leader will then gain a special title that remains for two weeks, and they’re also able to assign this title to six other members of their alliance. It won’t just be a fancy title to display alongside th…

Garena Free Fire adds the Ultrasonic Rave to its Elite Pass

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 4 months ago
Garena Free Fire adds the Ultrasonic Rave to its Elite Pass

Garena Free Fire has had another Elite Pass (EP) added to the popular battle royale, this time called the Ultrasonic Rave, so you can expect a musically themed EP this time around. As the title suggests, the Ultrasonic Rave EP sports a retro inspired hip hop theme, with the new characters sporting oversized jewellery, baggy trousers and a huge puffy jacket to match the aesthetic. As with every Elite Pass before it, Garena Free Fire’s season pass adds some new weight to the game’s lore. With the Ultrasonic Rave, the game is now focusing on a supercity that’s using a new type of music technology to bring its citizens together, and other countries wish to steal this tech to…

Raziel: Dungeon Arena's first major update adds a fire-slinging elf and lets players hire a sidekick

Preferred By AppSpy Staff, 3 years, 4 months ago
Raziel: Dungeon Arena's first major update adds a fire-slinging elf and lets players hire a sidekick

Indra's popular hack and slash title Raziel: Dungeon Arena has received its first major update since launching last month. This adds a host of new content to the action RPG that includes an exciting new character, a mercenary sidekick system and a hard mode for the starting chapters of the campaign. That new character is called Sarah “Pirrosa” Mander, an elven druid who is an invaluable but uneasy ally to the humans in the ongoing struggle against the undead invasion. You'll be able to unlock her by gathering Blazing Mysterious Shards and Almighty Shards. Once unlocked, Mander compliments heavily melee-focused characters such as Bison and Rock very well thanks to her ranged s…

League of Legends: Wild Rift soft launched in Asia, but western regions will have to wait a bit longer

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 4 months ago
League of Legends: Wild Rift soft launched in Asia, but western regions will have to wait a bit longer

League of Legends: Wild Rift, Riot’s mobile version of the popular PC MOBA, is now available on iOS and Android in certain regions. The soft launch includes Japan, The Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, but the rest of the world will have to wait until at least the end of the year to play it. Riot has also released two trailers for League of Legends: Wild Rift to go with this soft launch, which can both be seen below. The first is a cinematic teaser showcasing Blitzcrank, Teemo, Camille and Lux fighting on the Rift. The second trailer shows a segment of gameplay from the final game, showing what to expect from the mobile MOBA. Players in the Sout…

Arcade action game Shooty Quest fires onto mobile

News By Olly Smith, 3 years, 4 months ago
Arcade action game Shooty Quest fires onto mobile

Ogre Pixel has released Shooty Quest on iOS and Android mobile devices. It’s an arcade game where you play as a retired archer named Hall, who is pulled away from his peaceful life after an enemy steals his precious cat, Alfador, and Hall has to go out and rescue it. In each level you’ll square up against groups of enemies in which you have to identify their weaknesses to determine which arrow type you’re going to shoot at them. They’re smart people though and won’t just stand around to wait for you to kill them. You need to be constantly dodging their projectiles while also firing yours back their way. There are potions scattered around the levels that provi…