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Did you find yourself salivating at the massive list of EA sales only to discover that the balance of your iTunes account is 32¢ short of actually being able to buy anything? Well, the weekend is saved thanks to three generous developers! geoDefense, Free - I have absolutely nothing but good things to say about the geoDefense series of games. If you even are vaguely interested in tower defense games, you need to download this one right away. If you like it, make sure to also snag geoDefense Swarm [$1.99 / Lite] Gravity Hook HD, Free - From the makers of Canabalt [$2.99], here's a game that asks you to climb high instead of run far. You can also play the free Flash version online, but I'm not sure why you'd bother when this is also free! Zentomino, Free - Little White Bear Studios is a puzzler with gameplay that's simple Read More

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For the last panel of GDC 2010 day two, David Whatley of Critical Thought took the stage to talk about the App Store success he found with his games geoDefense and geoDefense Swarm, and almost dared other iPhone developers to follow his "guaranteed plan" to go from "zero to Time Magazine." He's got quite a background in the trenches of coding and game development, having designed and run online mulitplayer games for over a decade with his "day job" at a company called Simutronics, but he decided to take to the iPhone in his spare time both to learn the platform and see what he could do with it. First things first, he said, to make an iPhone game, you've got to figure out your goals as a business. He talked about the potential on the iPhone in terms of millions of dollars, but of course, since "99.9% of businesses on Read More

Scouring the App Store for the best games is a full time job. Luckily, it's a job held by the guys over at Touch Arcade. Here are their picks for the best games—and only games—available on the iPhone. While the App Store had clearly been a huge success in 2008, the continued growth and explosion of iPhone game releases in 2009 was beyond everyone's expectations. The number of apps in the App Store soared past 100,000 with hundreds of new games being released every day. We sat down trying to figure out the best iPhone games of 2009 and found the task of narrowing down the list to a select few to be near impossible. Instead, we've organized our year in review into categories with what we feel is an excellent cross section of games from 2009. If you just got an iPhone or iPod Touch for Christmas, this list is Read More

Published: December 31, 2009 Comment         Welcome to the TouchGen Awards, where we honour the best games that the AppStore offered up to us in 2009. Around this time it’s common for game sites such as ours, to look back through the past year and highlight the best of the best games we’ve played. We have narrowed them down to the following categories and highlighted five of the best in each, and from that picked a winner and runner-up… So without further ado, here are our picks of 2009. If you wish to checkout the game on iTunes, simply click on it’s icon Galaxy on fire Terminator Salvation Gangstar DOOM Resurrection NOVA A close contest here between the godfathers of first person action ‘id’ with DOOM Resurrection, FISHLABS and their epic space battles of Galaxy on fire, and Gameloft with a tri-offering of sandbox running and gunning with Gangstar, solid Read More

While the App Store had clearly been a huge success in 2008, the continued growth and explosion of iPhone game releases in 2009 was beyond everyone's expectations. The number of apps in the App Store soared past 100,000 with hundreds of new games being released every day. We sat down trying to figure out the best iPhone games of 2009 and found the task of narrowing down the list to a select few to be near impossible. Instead, we've organized our year in review into categories with what we feel is an excellent cross section of games from 2009. If you just got an iPhone or iPod Touch for Christmas, this list is an excellent starting place to catch you up. Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor - We choose Tiger Style Games' Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor for our 2009 Game of the Year first and foremost because it's Read More

With the year coming to a close, I feel confident in saying with as much authority as I can muster that 2009 has been an amazing year. Soon we will be posting the results of weeks of deliberation on what we feel were the best games, a holiday buyer's guide for people who opened an iPod touch or iPhone this Christmas, and other year-end stories highlighting the various games we feel are the "must-haves" of 2009-- But it hardly seems right to summarize the year in a few simple lists of game titles, brief synopses and links to reviews when so many remarkable games were created and events transpired that were still highly noteworthy or influential but fall outside of the rigid boundaries of "best of" listings. When the App Store first launched on July 10th, 2008, very few people, myself included, realized the full potential of a reasonably open platform Read More

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Bei der Verkündung der aktuellen Quartalszahlen am 19.Oktober sprach Apple von 85.000 verfügbaren App Store-Programmen. Diese Zahl stammt aus einer Pressemitteilung vom 28.September. Die Webseite App Shopper möchte zur Entstehung dieses Artikels 93.000 verfügbare Anwendungen gezählt haben. Schaut man auf die Anzahl der genehmigten Programme nach App Shopper-Angaben (!), ist die Grenze von 100.000 Applikationen bereits durchbrochen. Soweit, so unspektakulär oder hat jemand die letzten 15.000 Anwendungen aktiv bemerkt? Allerlei von diesen ‘Internet-Menschen’ haben sich in letzter Zeit über den App Store Gedanken gemacht und diese veröffentlicht. Der ‘Scobleizer‘ trat eine wahre Link-Flut auf seine Webseite los, als er die ’85.000 Gründe für den anhaltenden iPhone-Erfolg’ aufzählte. Der Artikel fällt jedoch kürzer aus, als man für 85.000 Gründe erwarten würde. Zweifelsfrei angenommen wird dabei die Argumentation, dass bei der gigantischen Anzahl von verfügbaren Anwendungen ‘für jeden etwas dabei’ ist. Auch mir würde es durchaus schwerfallen, Abstriche in Punkto Software (1Password, Tweetie, Read More

Imangi Studios, the creators of Harbor Master, and Critical Thought Games, the creators of geoDefense Swarm, have teamed up to create an all-new electrically charged matching game titled geoSpark. geoSpark already has a lot going for it.  Not only does it have two great development teams behind it, but it also has a very recognizable and comforting feeling going on.  The game looks to be kind of a mash between Geometry Wars-like graphics, something Critical Though Games obviously has down pat, and Aqua Globs-like gameplay. The idea of the game is to match like ‘Sparks’ by tapping and dragging them into each other.  You can drag multiple Sparks into each other to create chains in order to gain large score bonuses.  But you must be quick and nimble when matching Sparks, because if two unlike Sparks run into each other, the game is over. Imangi Studios and Critical Though Games haven’t Read More

Imangi Studios, the creators of Harbor Master, and Critical Thought Games, the creators of geoDefense Swarm, have teamed up to create an all-new electrically charged matching game titled geoSpark. geoSpark already has a lot going for it.  Not only does it have two great development teams behind it, but it also has a very recognizable and comforting feeling going on.  The game looks to be kind of a mash between Geometry Wars-like graphics, something Critical Though Games obviously has down pat, and Aqua Globs-like gameplay. The idea of the game is to match like ‘Sparks’ by tapping and dragging them into each other.  You can drag multiple Sparks into each other to create chains in order to gain large score bonuses.  But you must be quick and nimble when matching Sparks, because if two unlike Sparks run into each other, the game is over. Imangi Studios and Critical Though Games haven’t Read More

After a year and a half, TouchArcade is going to start doing something we've never done before: provide numeric ratings for our game reviews (though with a catch). The absence of a rating system at TouchArcade has been a point of contention amongst some of our readers, but was not a decision that we had made lightly. A great number of issues arise with any rating system, the least of which is consistency over time. Rating scores can also blind readers to otherwise good games if they didn't get a near perfect score. There are many advantages, however, including the ability for readers to find the "best" games at a glance. In an effort to bring the best of both worlds, we have decided to start rating games in bulk on a monthly basis and publishing a monthly "Best iPhone Games" column that recaps the best games from the preceding month. Read More

Earlier this week, various iPhone developers all made their way to the 360iDev conference held in Denver, CO to mingle with other developers, as well as participate in educational sessions that covered things like development tips, the business of the iPhone, graphics/sound design, and many other topics. As these developers returned home, many of them posted their thoughts on the conference on their blogs. I've read a lot of great posts, but David of Critical Thought Games (The makers of geoDefense [$1.99] and geoDefense Swarm [99¢]) summed things up nicely on his blog, not only about 360iDev, but also about the wonderful indie-friendly gaming economy Apple has created: What made 360IDev so great was the people. And I'm not just talking about the friends I made there... though that was especially precious. But I'm talking about everyone as a whole. Because what I saw at 360IDev is something I haven't seen Read More

By Will on September 29th, 2009 Another installment of MMAHQ, but on Tuesday! Proceed with caution! Random musings of the App Store 2 Billion Apps Served Apple announced recently that over 2 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store. Notable is the timing; this announcement comes only six months after the download of the billionth app, which occurred 9 months after the App Store was launched. This indicated exponential growth of the store. Obviously these numbers are a bit inflated from a developer’s perspective because they seem to include free downloads, but the numbers also indicate that among the user base of 50 million, the average number of apps downloaded is 40, a surprisingly high number. In contrast, the average number of times one of 85,000 apps has been downloaded is only about 2350, hardly a safe bet for business prospects when you consider that most apps are $.99 Read More