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Morning Star is an upcoming futuristic sci-fi shooter for iOS devices by Alex Seropian, the founder of Bungie. Much like The Drowning, Morning Star is also claiming to re-imagine the shooter genre for touch devices. It's eve...
| Hamza CTZ Aziz |
A few days ago we told you Pudding Monsters, about the newest game from creators of Cut the Rope. Now we have a trailer featuring the first gameplay footage, and its pudding glob "stick-'em-together" gameplay kind of reminds...
| Dale North |
[Destructoid's Director of Communications Hamza Aziz asked Jonathan Holmes to make a show called 'Sup, Holmes?' so that Destructoid could later sell a t-shirt that says 'Sup, Holmes?' on it. This is that show. Subscribe ...
| Jonathan Holmes |
The Drowning is an upcoming first-person shooter for mobile devices by Scattered Entertainment (previously known as ngmoco Sweden.) The often outspoken Ben Cousins is leading the development, and this early look at the game ...
| Hamza CTZ Aziz |
Rayman Jungle Run is what a mobile adaptation of a console platformer ought to be. Instead of a straight port shoehorned onto Apple and Android devices, it's a standalone title that merely complements the original, with touc...
| Tony Ponce |
I know you've been on pins and needles regarding Rockman Xover. The free-to-play iOS title is available in Japan as of today, though the Western localization is still forthcoming. Heat Man of The Mega Man Network has been pu...
| Tony Ponce |
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger is officially back! The mascot nobody wept for has returned from the dead in an all-new adventure ... for iOS, of course. Just like we all predicted. Ty the Tasmanian Tiger: Boomerang Blast is no...
| Jim Sterling |
Rad Dragon, the goofs behind The Moonlighters, are making a shoving simulator for iOS. In Shove Pro, players take on the role of fictional stuntman Lars Speedwagon, who creates fabulous displays of shoving across European ci...
| Allistair Pinsof |
Borderlands goes mobile with Borderlands Legends, a new title now available on the App Store for iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad. This game looks a lot like the console titles, but claims to be more strategic than action-y. Brick...
| Dale North |
The infamous six-part comic event from the Marvel universe is now in playable pinball form thanks to Zen Studios. The new table will let you side with either Iron Man and his Superhuman Registration Act, or with Captain Amer...
| Hamza CTZ Aziz |
Yesterday, the world spun off its axis in sheer amazement after learning of He-Man: The Most Powerful Game in the Universe. It's an iOS brawler based on the old school series, which makes my nostalgic little soul smile. Here's a trailer for it, in which the game quite clearly takes the piss out of itself. I can respect that!
| Jim Sterling |
Whoa. I almost missed BADLAND, an "atmospheric side-scrolling action adventure" that's being designed for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch by ex-RedLynx (Trials Evolution) developers Johannes Vuorinen and Juhana Myllys, but I'm ...
| Jordan Devore |
11 seconds! That's how long this short, sweet trailer for Crazy Taxi will take to watch. Oddly enough, in that amount of time, we're told much of what we need to know about this release. The iOS version of the classic Dreamc...
| Jordan Devore |
Former Nintendo of America spokesman Howard Phillips has been sharing tons of goodies from his personal archives lately, and now he shares a game idea. As the original Nintendo "Gamemaster," he was tasked with knowing the in...
| Tony Ponce |
Jordan Mechner's acclaimed adventure game The Last Express will see a release on iPhone and iPad this Thursday courtesy of DotEmu, the folks who brought us Another World for iOS. The company says it worked for "over a year" ...
| Jordan Devore |
Rovio has announced an actual sequel -- not a spin-off -- to its ludicrously popular Angry Birds series. Bad Piggies reverses the roles and puts players on the side of the green pigs that have served as cannon fodder across ...
| Jim Sterling |
Tengami is one of those games that relies heavily on its art style in capturing players' interest initially and is perhaps better seen than described. Thankfully, a trailer for this adventure game has just been released, so ...
| Jordan Devore |
Rodeo Games is bringing Warhammer to the mobile market with Warhammer Quest, a treasure-hunting dungeon crawler in which players control a party of four. It's currently set for a Spring 2013 release, a far cry from mos...
| Jim Sterling |
Ever since Phosphor Games announced that mobile gaming is replacing console gaming, it's become something of a villain. While its last game, Dark Meadow, was excellent, any talk of the upcoming Horn has been flavored with vi...
| Jim Sterling |
Take a second to clear your mind, and just hit play. Granted I gave it away in the title (SEO!), but had I not revealed it, what platform would you have assumed Real Racing 3 was for? Personally, iOS would have been my last ...
| Hamza CTZ Aziz |
Telltale Games has released a new trailer for the second episode of The Walking Dead and it seems like they're pretty proud of themselves. While showing some of the dramatic situations the survivors will endure in this ...
| Conrad Zimmerman |
Hey guys, where's Torgo? The rule is "No Torgo, no sale". If you forgot Torgo, then I'm going to forget about you, forever. That's because Manos: The Hands of Fate for iOS (and hopefully Android and XBLA) looks like you...
| Jonathan Holmes |
If, like me, you've frequently heard about Hero Academy from friends but never got around to playing it yourself, you might be compelled to join the hive mind with this latest news. The game is headed to Steam on August 8, 2...
| Jordan Devore |
The headline are the developer's words, not mine. Well, they're not even really the developer's words, but they've gotten at least three angry people reading, and that's the point. What Phosphor Games' Chip Sineni did say, h...
| Jim Sterling |
Oh would you look at that, Cave Interactive will be ferrying yet another shooter from the arcades to the pockets of shooter fans everywhere. After releasing Akai Katana on the Xbox 360 last month, the Japanese deve...
| Kyle MacGregor |
So, I've actually just been getting into Magic: The Gathering in the past few days. I picked up Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 over the weekend in the giant Microsoft sale in the Xbox Live Marketplace for just $5. Destructo...
| Brett Zeidler |
On iOS, you've got your auto-scrolling runners, fairly straightforward affairs that require careful tapping to avoid oncoming obstacles. Decent enough in bursts, games in this genre tend to suffer from uniformity. You've als...
| Tony Ponce |
It's the two year anniversary of Halfbrick's Fruit Ninja, a game that has easily propelled the company to become one of the top mobile developers around. To celebrate the festivities, Halfbrick is giving away Fruit Ninja for...
| Hamza CTZ Aziz |
Just as the solar eclipse is peaking in Japan comes news that Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is set to be released in Japan! Superbrothers and Capybara Games will be releasing one my favorite iOS games of all time in...
| Hamza CTZ Aziz |
[Destructoid's Director of Communications Hamza Aziz asked Jonathan Holmes to make a show called 'Sup, Holmes?' so that Destructoid could later sell a t-shirt that says 'Sup, Holmes?' on it. This is that show. Download ...
| Jonathan Holmes |
If you watched this year's That's Adorbale video, then you already know that one of my favorite things about PAX is the people. The other big selling point of the event is the games, but not in the way that you necessarily t...
| Jonathan Holmes |
The main point I got from this interview is that Sonic 4 Episode II is going balls out to make everyone happy. The game works to acknowledge old school fans by bringing back the same brand of lock-on technology fou...
| Jonathan Holmes |
Warballoon's Star Command seems to be shaping up rather nicely. As one of those games that got Kickstarted before it was cool, it missed its initial planned release of late last year, but it is currently planned for a Summer...
| Maurice Tan |
Wandering around the PAX show floor, I discovered a number of games that I would have never heard of otherwise. For instance, here is the iOS title SpellTower, a word-search puzzler infused with the speed and intensity of Pa...
| Tony Ponce |
Twisted Pixel has announced that Ms. Splosion Man is coming to additional platforms with a little help from developer friends Iron Galaxy, Fire Hose Games, and Panic Button. On PC (Games for Windows Live and Steam), you can ...
| Jordan Devore |
"Shoot straight, conserve ammo, and never, ever, deal with a dragon." -- Street proverb Legendary designer Jordan Weisman (under his new company Harebrained Schemes) has launched a Kickstarter campaign to create a new game b...
| Conrad Zimmerman |
16 indie studios. Over 20 games. 1 MEGABOOTH. PAX East 2012 is seeing a Super Friends-like team-up by some of the best indie guys and gals around. Charlie Murder, Airmech, Miegakure, Antichamber, Kairo, Monaco, Go Home Dinos...
| Hamza CTZ Aziz |
When I said, "Take my money Replay, take it now," in response to the announcement that Replay Entertainment had acquired the Leisure Suit Larry property for the purposes of remaking the series, I was being figurative. Replay...
| Conrad Zimmerman |
Before working on games like SkyDrift, Sine Mora, and Black Knight Sword, Digital Reality was best known for their excellent 4X titles. Arguably the best of their space empire strategy games, Imperium Galactica II, is now av...
| Maurice Tan |
Square Enix has revealed that iOS RPG sequel Chaos Rings II is launching worldwide on March 15. It's also got a launch trailer, which you can stare at above. I shall certainly be looking forward to this. I really dug t...
| Jim Sterling |
Role-playing games have had a long and prosperous history in video and tabletop gaming, but haven't quite repeated this success on mobile and tablet devices. From the minds at Ngmoco comes Skyfall, a free-to-play social RPG ...
| Abel Girmay |
Apple's unnamed new iPad was unveiled today in San Francisco at a morning press event. As expected, this new iPad will sport a Retina display with a resolution of 2048 x 1536, coming in at 264ppi, the highest in a mobile dev...
| Dale North |
Watch this Sonic 4: Episode 2 gameplay trailer. And be quick about it. The music is awesome and demands to be heard immediately. Oh yeah, and the footage ain't bad either: get a glimpse of rival and Ep 2 antagonist Metal Son...
| Holly Green |
The words "point and click adventure" always make me take notice of a game, add great art and a unique hook and I'm pretty much sold. So this trailer for Journey Down, a classic adventure game with a central African arts and...
| Fraser Brown |
Heroki, an iOS platformer by indie developer Picomy Games, made it's first appearance a few months ago with the above teaser trailer. At the time there wasn't much information but Picomy has shared a little bit more about th...
| Victoria Medina |
I mentioned that I recently got my first iPhone, right? My absolute favorite game on the device has been Tiny Tower. I can't get enough of it! I whip it out when I'm stopped at a red light so I can restock my stores and shut...
| Tony Ponce |
The sequel to Ash, a turn-based RPG developed by SRRN Games popular among the mobile-RPG crowd, has now been released on iOS devices. Picking up right from the cliffhanger the first game had left players on, Ash II: Sha...
| Harry Monogenis |
Futuremark's Unstoppable Gorg, one of three new games by the company best known for their benchmarking tool 3DMark and Shattered Horizon, will be available for Steam and iPad on January 19. The Steam version is a Steam Play ...
| Maurice Tan |
Ripoff games on iOS are nothing new, with no shortage of developers willing to trade their integrity for a handfull of dollars. Mole Kart is an almost beautiful in its utter, unapologetic, shamelessness. As you can see...
| Jim Sterling |
Ricky Carmichael's Motocross Matchup PRO! might be a game you've heard of before if you're into mobile gaming and motocross, or anything involving motorbikes. Those who have it know that the 2XL Games-developed title can be ...
| Harry Monogenis |
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