Category: IOS

Creatorverse On PC, Second Life gave players a chance to build their own avatars and create virtual homes, but now it’s mostly remembered as a freakish red-light district. Developer Linden Labs is now turning its attention to iOS with Creatorverse, a sandbox-style set of tools that lets you build simple physics toys. You can then…

Final Fantasy VI is a classic for a reason. It has everything: lovable characters, a twisting story, tons of gameplay variety, and loads of player customization. It helped create and popularize many game mechanics that you still find in games today. The iOS port doesn’t make any drastic changes to the gameplay or story, but…

The Fighting Fantasy gamebook series has been a staple of many tabletop gamers’ lives for decades. It started in the early ’80s as a collaboration between Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, and over the years it became a beloved choose-your-own-adventure series of books. Almost every page could take you in any number of directions, and…

While Thor pumps his Nordic deity-grade testosterone into the multiplex, you can get a jolt of it on your iOS device just by buying Thor: Son of Asgard from the App Store. This game is a universal app that delivers plenty of gorgeous graphics and beat-’em-up gameplay, but little in the way of variety. The…

Often, games are sold by being the newest and the best. They have the best graphics or the most sophisticated characters and the most options. Swordigo doesn’t pretend to be the prettiest. Your character can’t be one of 12 classes and evolve in one of 100 ways. Instead, Swordigo goes back to the basics and…

The Real Racing franchise has been a tentpole fixture on iOS since the platform’s inception. With a bounty of licensed cars shredding up the most realistic tracks and vistas, we have always come away extremely satisfied with the end product. Real Racing 3 is the latest edition, and it’s published by Electronic Arts for the…

Freemium games have evolved quickly in the last few years, ever since games like Farmville and We Rule showed that giving away the store was a viable business model. Like in those games, everything in Tiny Tower is free to unlock, as long as you’ve got the patience to check in every few minutes or…

In 2009, we dipped and soared with the Glyder series of games from Glu Mobile. At the time, we raved about how the iPhone’s tilt controls and 3D graphics made for a sublime flying experience, but Glyder 1 and 2 are no longer available on the App Store. Fortunately, Chillingo and N-Fusion’s Air Mail fills…

Playing a good Sonic game is like riding a roller coaster designed by a psychopath. The levels send you hurtling ahead at breakneck speeds, only plow you into an enemy or skewer you on a wall of spikes with little warning. But that’s okay because health is plentiful. Better yet, when you’re stopped you can…

One of our favorite action games from the tail end of last year, BlastPoints, has just received a massive update. The biggest complaint we had with the game was that it can get rather repetitive. Well, Checkbox Studios have gone a long way toward fixing that. There are four new huge, colorful maps to fly…

“What’s this? A new iPhone game being released by Mistwalker Corporation and Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of such titles as Final Fantasy and The Last Story? Surely it must be some sort of epic quest, full of danger and dragons, sorcery, and swordplay, right?” “Well, no. It’s a actually game about surfing.” “Oh, I see……

When Terraria was first released, it was hard to think of it as anything but another Minecraft clone. Sure, it was two-dimensional, which compared to Minecraft’s blocky aesthetic could be considered an improvement, but aside from the visuals, it didn’t really seem like there was anything that was different about Terraria. You create a player,…

Ridiculous Fishing might seem like just another iOS game, but it’s actually a whole lot more. Every aspect of the game, from the rewarding upgrade system to the unique graphics, displays an intricate craftsmanship we rarely see on the App Store. This game is something special. In concept, Ridiculous Fishing is as simple as they…