In case you've been busy spending the holidays with friends and family, or just cross-country skiing to the North Pole, here's our recap of last week's epic, five-part series on the 50 best iOS games of 2011. How many do you own? #50: Temple Run In 2011, independent developers Imangi Studios had their biggest hit yet: The endless running game Temple Run. A cross between Canabalt and Raiders of the Lost Ark, in Temple Run you have to make split-second decisions and quick button presses to try to survive. The combinations of simple swipes and tilt controls, plus Temple Run's freemium pricing and stylish 3D graphics, made it one of the year's best high-score survival games. Our Bottom Line: Now is your chance to be Indiana Jones. #49: Tapper World Tour After nearly 30 years, the Tapper license awoke from a drunken stupor to revel in the App Store. Tapper World Read More

Another day of the holiday season brings a whole lot of great downloads from the App Store. What we saw yesterday was mostly new releases, but here's a list of free games (and free updates) you might want to check out. Once again, there's more there to play than you'll need all weekend. Things are picking up as this holiday season gets into swing. Stay tuned, because I'm sure we'll see lots more of this over the next few weeks. Read More

Over this past summer, Bungie had everybody guessing as to just what exactly they were up to by trademarking both the "Crimson" and "Bungie Aerospace" monikers. In late August, we learned that Crimson was actually Crimson: Steam Pirates [Free], a new strategy game developed by Harebrained Schemes in conjunction with Bungie. Bungie Aerospace would actually be the name used for publishing the title on the App Store, and we would assume, future titles as well. With that mystery finally solved, Crimson: Steam Pirates launched for the iPad on September 1st. It turned out to be a pretty decent strategy game too, if not a bit too linear in its progression. It came with a very generous 8 levels as part of the free download, with an additional 8 levels in a Chapter 2 expansion available as an in-app purchase. Yesterday, Bungie Aerospace launched Crimson: Steam Pirates for iPhone [99¢], a smaller-sized Read More

iPad Only App FREE! Our Review By Blake Grundman on October 20th, 2011 Rating: :: SMOOTH SAILING Take the high seas in this Caribbean treat! Developer: Price: FREE Version: 1.0.0 App Reviewed on: iPad 2 Graphics / Sound Rating: Game Controls Rating: Gameplay Rating: Replay Value Rating: Overall Rating: When you think of the name Bungie, it is hard not have a certain Chief of the masterful variety come to mind.  After a decade of slaving away in the salt mines of console land, the storied developer has managed to break free of Microsoft’s shackles.  The now independent publisher has been hard at work on their first game not published by their previous overlords, but when it was announced to be a turn-based strategy game, many an eyebrow was cocked.  Are these concerns warranted, or is this just business as usual for one of the best teams out there? Crimson: Steam Read More

By Carter Dotson on September 21st, 2011 On this episode of The Portable Podcast, host Carter Dotson speaks to Jordan Weisman of Harebrained Schemes about their new game Crimson: Steam Pirates, and to Another World developer Eric Chahi about the upcoming iOS port of his game Another World. It’s a whole new world…with pirates! On This Episode: Who We Are: Music: How to Listen: Apps Mentioned in this Episode: FREE! Released: 2011-09-01 :: Category: Games Read More

On this week’s episode of The TouchArcade Show, I do my best to stop nerd-gasming over Relic Entertainment’s Space Marine long enough to discuss the hottest iOS games and App Store news of the week alongside my co-hosts. At the top, we really dig into Grand Prix Story as well as Bungie Aerospace’s and HareBrained Schemes’ Crimson: Steam Pirates. Eventually, we get into other new releases such as King of Dragon Pass and, of course, that Max Payne HD story we ran the other afternoon. We’ve got one heck of a running gag this week courtesy of Eli’s neighbors, so I hope you have as much fun with it as I do. If you’d like to give us a listen, you can do so just below via all these links. Of course, you can also subscribe to us via iTunes and the Zune Marketplace if you want to get each and Read More

Looking for a new app this weekend?  Here are ten great new apps for the iPhone and iPad, released over the past week, you may want to check out! This one doesn’t need much of an introduction!  This new HD version brings updated graphics and a multiplayer ‘racetrack’ theme.  $2.99/£1.99. Bear Grylls – Knots. The latest in a line of similar survival-style apps, adventurer Bear Grylls describes how to tie his favorite knots using diagrams and videos.  $0.99/£0.69. Also available for the iPad, this is the sequel to the popular line-drawing game with a racing twist.  It features considerably improved 3D graphics, Game Center support and an unlockable multi-player mode.  $0.99/£0.69. A new universal game from the makers of Fruit Ninja, this is another fast-reflex arcade title with cool graphics and addictive gameplay.  Watch out for all those in-app purchases though.  $0.99/£0.69. A two-player, universal puzzle game with the option to Read More

This week’s TouchArcade Show is the longest we’ve ever produced. Coincidentally, it has the most Frogger discussion we’ve ever had, too. As bad as it sounds on the surface, don’t let the latter stop you from lending us your earholes this week. We get into a lot of interesting discussion. At the top -- beyond the Frogger junk -- we chat about the bevy of fabulous releases that came down this week. Following the break, we talk up even more new releases until finally moving onto topics such as censorship and awards shows. This is probably our most off-beat shows, but it's also one of our more fun ones. To give us a listen, just download the file directly or stream it via the links below. If you’d like to subscribe to our audio awesomeness, feel free to do so via the iTunes or the Zune Marketplace. Here are your show Read More

...@bungieaerospace: We have liftoff. Crimson: Steam Pirates is up in the iPad App Store and the first eight voyages are on us. Have fun! http://t.co/R... Read More