It seems like it's been a while since we had a big holiday weekend full of app sales, but the wait is over: Memorial Day is coming up in just a few days, and app developers are bringing down prices all over the store to celebrate! Man oh man that's a lot of great, really cheap games. Especially that Because We May sale -- seriously, go look at it, both for iOS and Steam. Read More

Subatomic Studios, the makers of one of the iPhone's biggest early titles, Fieldrunners, have announced that a sequel is headed our way as soon as next month. The popular tower defense title is being updated with twenty new hand-painted levels, twenty towers (including a Link tower, which seems to be two towers with a deadly attack between them, as well as both a Nuke and a Railgun tower, for AoE or sniper damage, respectively). And there are two new game modes, to go along with the standard survival and time trial maps, there are now puzzle and sudden death maps to play as well. It sounds like a great title -- if you've been playing iPhone games since the beginning, you'll probably have fond memories of Fieldrunners. Fieldrunners 2 will arrive on the iPhone at the end of June, with an iPad version coming soon after. Read More

Frequent updates to Fieldrunners [$2.99 / HD] over the past few years has kept the tower defense title feeling fresh despite its age, but its upcoming sequel looks like the kind of continuation we've been dying for. Dozens new towers, new skills, new maps, new modes and new enemies are all part of Fieldrunners 2, which is due out on iPhone later this June and iPad "shortly after" this initial release. The original Fieldrunners was an excellent tower defense game that managed to stick out because of some really sharp twists. From what we've seen so far, Fieldrunners 2 is going to push that bar even further, and that's really exciting. Here's some screens:   #3   Today, 10:33 AM Senior Member iPhone 4S, iOS 5.x Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 157 This looks really good to me, too. And I have a 4S so I can play it. I just Read More

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When I think about possible themes for tower defense games, a tale about space pirates attacking a futuristic Earth in search of highly sought after ‘Spice’ is probably the last thing I’d think of. Yet, that’s exactly the premise of Spice Invaders [Free], a new freemium title from Chillingo. While the game itself is a nice take on tower defense, the bulk of the conversation unfortunately turns to its freemium elements which distract greatly from the actual game. As a tower defense game, Spice Invaders plays similarly to Fieldrunners [$2.99 / HD]. Players are charged with defending one (or more) bases in open-field maps. Enemies come in waves from a variety of different entrances, forcing you to build towers in such a way as to prevent them from taking out your base. Since the maps are open (with some featuring random barriers littered throughout the map), you can do this by Read More

There is no way to beat around the bush, so let's just get this out of the way from the start: Com2uS trademarking "tower defense," for Tower Defense: Lost Earth [$2.99 / HD] is a little bonkers, like if Call of Duty was granted a trademark and changed its name to First Person Shooter. Not only does it peeve off a bunch of developers caught in the legal crossfire, it also gives players incredibly lofty expectations for the final product when it's branded as the "officially trademarked" game of tower defense. Thankfully, it delivers, albeit through a kitchen sink approach more than an innovative one. This is in fact a tower defense game and you'll get every single tower defense trope you've ever run into. The core campaign takes the preset route approach, where you'll set up your units on a grid and the enemies will take a predestined path. There are, however, seven Read More

Pardon the messiness with this one. Earlier, Subatomic Games sent us word that it pushed a new update for both versions of Fieldrunners [$2.99 / HD] to Apple. We're still not sure what's in the iPhone / iPod update, but we do know the contents of the iPad update, which is live and has been, apparently, for more than 24 hours. So what's in it? As the headline so boldly states, new maps, new towers, and a new same-screen multiplayer component have been added. Specifically, the update adds a total of five maps, three of which are single-player only. The other two maps (which are takes on the added maps) support versus and cooperative, same-screen multiplayer. Each of the single-player maps adds a new tower to the mix. Subatomic shot us a list of all of these: Plasma Tower -- creates combo attacks when used with other plasma towers! Shotgun Tower -- fires Read More

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By Rob LeFebvre on August 18th, 2010 Helping you sort through the mountain of Tower Defense games with four of our favorites. Hello there! It’s time once again for our Favorite Four, handpicked from the iTunes App Store just for you. This week, we’re looking at Tower Defense games. The genre is well worn across all gaming consoles, but perhaps no where as much as on the iOS itself (two full icon pages of iPhone game apps alone – try a search on ‘tower defense’). The concept is simple, yet addictive: place towers across a fixed or grid-defined path to keep bad guys, or creeps, from getting to your base or tower. The upside of so many these kinds of games is that you can find the ones that most appeal to YOU. Here are four of the ones that work for me. Zombie Attack This is one of the original Read More

If you're one of the lucky ones you managed to secure themselves an iPhone 4 today (or even the past two days if you're really lucky) you've no doubt marveled at how thin it is, how crisp the Retina Display is, and maybe you've even found someone else to do a FaceTime call with... but what about loading it up with some games? Since we haven't gotten our own iPhone 4's yet, we haven't really been able to put together a "games that are really awesome on the iPhone 4" listing, but I figured we'd start out by compiling a list of some of our favorite games in the App Store. If you think this looks a lot like our 2009 Buyer's Guide, that's because it does. However, we've updated the list with some of our recent favorites and kept some of the old ones. In the interest of space, we Read More

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I don’t have too much info on Super Turbo Action Pig, but I like the number of adjectives used in the name, and the above video is pretty sexy, too. If the art style looks a little familiar, that’s because it’s by the same artist behind the recent hit, Trenches, and the website for the “older” iPhone TD game, Fieldrunners. Super Turbo Action Pig doesn’t look to be anywhere near as complex as those games, but it does seem to feature some fluid animations, based on the way that pig wriggles and reacts to the thrusters on his super turbo jetpack (I can’t believe I just wrote that). I’m actually rather excited to see how this game turns out, as some of my favourite iPhone games (Canabalt, Tilt to Live) feature very simple premises and gameplay, but stay engaging because of the excellent sense of atmosphere and the great animations. So Read More

Posted 02/04/2010 at 2:53pm | by Andrew Hayward Apple's iPad announcement event didn't put an especially large focus on the gaming possibilities of the new device, but what was shown demonstrated how easily developers can modify current iPhone and iPod touch apps with just a brief time investment. We've already seen how updated versions of N.O.V.A. and Need for Speed: Shift will take advantage of the iPad, but it got us thinking -- how might some of the other best-selling or beloved iPhone games use the iPad's updated features to enhance the existing experience? Here's our list of 25 games we'd love to see enhanced for the iPad, but if you have your own dream app upgrade in mind, be sure to let us know in the comments! We love swapping Bejeweled 2's shimmering gems on our Macs, but we also dig the tactile feeling of actually flipping the gems in Read More

January 19th, 2010 James Isabel UPDATED: See contest rules and clarifications after the jump. We celebrated our first year anniversary yesterday with giveaways, and what better way to open our second year than a contest revolving one of the AppStore’s biggest games!?! Exactly which game? Ummm Fieldrunners Gold no less! We’ve teamed with OpenFeint and Subatomic Studios to run a week-long High Score contest for you, complete with daily prizes and a grand prize winner. Wanna know what you’re REALLY playing for? A brand new iPod Touch 8GB and iTunes Giftcards! Find out HOW to WIN this and a LOT MORE prizes after the jump! How To Join: Contest Notes: Good luck and if we see A LOT of site participation, we’ll run more of these contests soon with even BIGGER prizes! UPDATE: Full contest rules have been updated here. OpenFeint announcement here. Regarding any further registration besides the steps provided Read More

January 18th, 2010 James Isabel We hope you’re enjoying our countdown to the BEST game of 2009 for our People’s App Choice Awards (any guesses as to which games make up 1-3?). I’m sure however you’re enjoying our massive giveaway and contest better huh? Well here’s more for Fieldrunners! Descend into the world of FIELDRUNNERS, the most anticipated and visually stunning game in mobile TOWER DEFENSE history! It is the Tetris and Bejeweled of the Tower Defense genre! We said this is Facebook and YouTube only contest but the full contest details are up next! Instructions: You should comment your username below. We know that you may have joined the other contests on other posts but we still want you to specify your usernames again for better organization. I repeat YOU MUST DO THE FOLLOWING STEPS to be considered for this giveaway. There’s a lot of people asking for Fieldrunners on Read More

January 18th, 2010 James Isabel We’ve already revealed the full developers list for our site anniversary giveaway. Now, here’s the massive and I mean MASSIVE list of games we’re giving away for! Check out HOW TO JOIN after the jump and the FULL games list!!! Who knows Math? Calculate the codes above and their prices and multiply to about 5 per game, that’s should be around $1000 already? But wait! There’s more! Ok call us insane but there’s A WHOLE LOT MORE…. In order to win FREE PROMOCODES, please pick FIVE games from the list in order of priority you want to receive them in. The way it’ll work is we’ll randomly draw people and give them the first game they want and so on and so forth. ABSOLUTELY NO DUPLICATES PLEASE. It’s really disrespectful if you TRY and duplicate your entries below. Do you really think we’re that stupid to Read More

Touch Arcade has word that one of 2008's best iPhone games (our 2009 list is coming out this week), [iTunes link, $2.99], has released an update (1.3), in which they've released two new maps available as in-app purchases, and they've included OpenFeint 2.4 functionality, with messaging, chat, and everything else the in-game social network portends. The two new maps are called Skyway and Frostbite. Skyway boasts a metal floor with a few holes in it, which limit where you can place your units in the tower defense classic. Frostbite is a snowfield with a base in the middle to defend from attackers on all sides. Seems like both offer up some interesting twists on the gameplay -- they're 99 cents each (a fact that has the most recent iTunes reviews up in arms), but if you ask us, two bucks for new content is cheap, especially if you're a big Fieldrunners Read More

Remember Fieldrunners?  The game that basically started the tower defense craze in the App Store?  Well, whether you remember it or not, you may be happy to hear that it has finally received an update after sitting dormant in the App Store for the last nine months, but it comes at a small cost. Fieldrunners v1.3 adds OpenFeint 2.4 integration and two new maps.  OpenFeint allows you to challenge yourself and your friends thanks to online leader boards, achievements, and Facebook and Twitter integration.  OpenFeint 2.4 also adds a new chat and forum system, along with a new fan club area that allows you to add games as favorites and follow them and their developers to stay in touch. What should really have Fieldrunners fans excited is the two new maps: Skyway and Frostbite.  Skyway is a unique map in the sense that it has certain parts of the field missing, Read More

29 Dec 2009 alle 13:15 uno dei classici giochi 2D che di solito si trovano su Internet, in cui il nostro scopo è quello di difendere una certa area, impedendo ai nemici di oltrepassare un determinato territorio grazie a diversi macchinari quali Torrette, Lancia Missili, addirittura delle Torrette Fulminanti e molti altri, è stato da poco aggiornato alla versione 1.3.0. Sono state aggiunte due nuove mappe, Frostbite e Skyway, e per ognuna di queste troveremo tre livelli di difficoltà e l’aggiunta di nuove torri, unità nemiche e nuove strategie. Il pack è acquistabile dall’applicazione, al prezzo di 0.79€, tramite In-App Purchase. Con l’update, inoltre, viene aggiornato alla versione 2.4 OpenFeint con una serie di nuove funzionalità tra cui un servizio per la messaggistica istantanea durante il gioco. Fieldrunners è compatibile con iPhone ed iPod Touch, richiede il firmware 2.0 o successivo ed è localizzato in Inglese. Potete leggere la recensione completa di iSpazio cliccando Read More

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At PAX this year we first got word that there was a Fieldrunners [App Store] update in the works with additional maps which was later confirmed along with the announcement of OpenFeint gold. Available now, Fieldrunners 1.3 includes everything we expected with both the latest and greatest of OpenFeint integration, and two new maps available via two 99¢ microtransactions. OpenFeint 2.4 adds even more XBOX Live-style features, and should be available in other OpenFeint-enabled games as developers update them to include it. Among the improvements is an instant messaging service that works across all OpenFeint games similar to the previously implemented chat, a new forum system, and the "fan club" area. In this new section you can add a game as a favorite, read developer announcements, subscribe to newsletters, and even suggest new features. Fieldrunners itself seems to be largely unchanged aside from two new maps: Skyway and Frostbite. Skyway is Read More

We ran in to Subatomic Studios back at the Penny Arcade Expo in September, and part of my chat with them included the mention of the new levels in the PSP version of Fieldrunners [App Store] eventually making their way to the App Store. These new maps are coming next month when the game is relaunched as the first member of OpenFeint's gold game program. Fieldrunners: Gold Edition will have an in-game store where these new maps will be sold as downloadable content, as well as being the first game to include OpenFeint 2.4 which will boast a number of new features including an in-game instant messaging service. Note, the "Gold Edition" will be a free update to current owners of Fieldrunners. Similar to our monthly game ratings, the OpenFeint Gold program aims to pick out games which are not only of the highest quality, but also make excellent use of Read More

Recently we looked at the plethora of tower defense games available for the iPhone. For anyone who looked at that list and wondered where they should actually spend your money, today’s article is for you. I’m not going to argue that the following five games are the best tower defense games on the platform, but I will tell you that if you decide to spend money on any (or all) of these games, you probably won’t be disappointed. I also tried to pick from a good range of gameplay types, so you can pick up a couple of these and get relatively different gameplay experiences. Price: 99 cents This is the hands down winner for adorable iPhone tower defense games. The premise is pretty simple, there are monsters trying to get under your bed and you have to stop them by placing your towers along set paths. The graphics are cute, Read More

It's uncanny. When known software gets repackaged for iPhones and iPod Touches and passes through the hallowed gates of the App Store, something happens: Almost invariably, it gets cheaper. Waaay cheaper. Good right? Well, not always. The App Store is a strange new place for developers. Veterans and newcomers engage in bareknuckle combat, driving prices down to levels people wouldn't have imagined charging just a few years ago. Margins drop to razor-thin levels while customers expect apps to get cheaper and cheaper, but with ever increasing quality and depth. For developers, for other software platforms and potentially for the increasingly fickle customers themselves, it's uncharted, and treacherous, territory. But the most bizarre thing of all is—in an effort to keep people in the App Store, and to prevent competitors from getting a toehold in the mobile app business—Apple's charting a course straight into it. "The App Store is a very competitive Read More

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Where to begin? I didn’t always aspire to write about technology, but my complete lack of interest in a real social life got me noticed on a discussion forum about three years ago and led to a job offer. I’ve been slaving over a keyboard ever since. I became a Mac user just before that, purchasing the first generation Intel Macbook. I’ve never looked back, and just recently upgraded to the new 13-inch Macbook Pro (which I love). I also picked up an iPhone when it was first released and have upgraded every year, although I have to admit that I’m not happy with Apple’s app store policies and have strongly considered switching to an Android or S60 device. My favorite Mac programs include 1Password, Fluid and iBank. On the iPhone side I’m partial to Kindle, Fieldrunners and Byline (iTunes links). I have an absolute obsession about to-do applications and have Read More

Some of our precious exclusive iPhone and iPod touch games have already made their way to Sony’s PSP and PSP Go, and now Nintendo wants in. Nintendo recently showed off their holiday lineup and within that lineup were a couple of well-known iPhone and iPod touch games.  The couple of games in question are Subatomic Studios’ Fieldrunners and Gameloft’s Castle of Magic.  Fieldrunners has already made our headlines once before by being ported to the PSP, but Castle of Magic is new on the non-exclusive list. Fieldrunners won’t be available until Q4 of this year, while Gameloft’s Castle of Magic should be hitting DSiWare within the next month.  DSiWare is similar to Sony’s PSN Store or the App Store, where Nintendo DSi users can download a variety of apps and games at low prices or even sometimes for free. Steve Jobs recently stated that the iPod touch is a “game machine” Read More

Wandering around the PAX floor today sniffing out iPhone news I came across Ash from Subatomic Studios showing off Fieldrunners [App Store] while handing out swag to anyone walking by. It's no secret that Fieldrunners is going to be a premiere title for the PSPGo's equivalent to the App Store. The game is obviously getting tweaked for the PSP, but the two new levels not found in the iPhone version of the game will be coming sometime this holiday season via downloadable content (DLC) at 99¢ per map. If you haven't seen the two new maps, check out this trailer for the PSP version. Frostbite is the winter themed one, and Skyway is the air field map. Another interesting point of the discussion may be of interest to other iPhone developers, according to Subatomic Studios, porting the game to the PSP Go was an easier transition than they initially expected. At Read More