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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

by on 24. Nov, 2011 in We compiled a few lists from our sister site Inspired Mag, from themacURL & TouchArcade so you don’t have to roam the web for the best Black Friday coupons, codes and discounts. Check out the mega-roundup and leave us more suggestions in the comments and we’ll update the post. Name Mail (will not be published) (Required) Website Read More

Here are even more Thanksgiving/Black Friday app sales popping up on the App Store: And I think that's all ... for today (isn't that enough?!). There's really no need to fight store lines for video games when you can get all these great titles for pennies each on the App Store. Be sure to keep an eye on our Deals category for even more deals all weekend and holiday season long! Read More

Oh, hey, Kairosoft is getting into sales during the holidays! Starting now, and for a "limited time," two of the studio's lesser known but-still-as-awesome-as-ever simulation games are available on the App Store on the cheap. Both Pocket Academy and Hot Springs Story are seeing a drop from $3.99 to an agreeable $1.99. Money saved! Exclamation marks! Before you take the plunge, you probably want to read our respective reviews for the titles in question. While they combine the same charm and spirit of Game Dev Story, they both have angles and mechanics that may or may not appeal to you. Hot Springs Story, by the way, looks like awesome prep for the next game the studio has coming down the pipe: . Description Money, power, and respect. Welcome to the streets of GaW. Rise above your competitors by forming crime families and taking over your city. ONLINE Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing Game Read More

Kairosoft, the masters of all things simulation, have unleashed another game onto the Android Marketplace. For quite some time now the company has had a fairly predictable release cycle of things appearing on Android, then slowly making their way to the App Store. We saw it happen with Grand Prix Story [99¢], and many of their other games. World Cruise Story seems to be on deck for an iOS release, and as the title hints, puts you in charge of managing a cruise ship. Players will be able to customize the actual ships themselves, with new amenities for your guests including rooms to stay in, restaurants, to eat at, and all the other things you'd expect on a typical ship. The size of your ship can be upgraded as well, and unlocking new destinations to sail to involves courting royalty. It sounds like a crazy cross between Mega Mall Story [$1.99] Read More

Construir parques de atracciones o ciudades ya está muy visto, lo que se lleva ahora es la gestion de centros comerciales, academias o hasta de unos fabulosos baños termales. Si ya probasteis Game Dev Story, un juego super-adictivo en el que desarrollábamos nuestros videojuegos, estos títulos que os recomendamos seguro los disfrutaréis, ya que mantienen toda la esencia de los juegos retro o de principios de los 90, además del toque distintivo de Kairosoft. Tenéis un video de cada uno tras el salto. Estas joyas para iPod o iPhone están disponibles en el AppStore a diferentes precios y a diferencia de su predecesor, éstos se pueden poner en apaisado, haciéndolos mucho más cómodos de jugar en el iPad a pantalla completa. Read More

Posted 08/09/2011 at 10:27am | by Andrew Groen As we reported last week, Kairosoft, the makers of some of the most deviously addictive simulation games on iOS, have released their latest epic. It's called Mega Mall Story, and we can't wait to get our hands on it. We've been more than a little bit smitten by Kairosoft's releases over the past year or so. They have a very unique brand of video game that has kept us captivated over several different iterations. The first to win us over was Game Dev Story, and it continued through Pocket Academy and Hot Springs Story. The idea that runs through all of their games is that you're building a company from the ground up. You have customers who will come in to your business and want to be catered to, and so you must provide for them. It's an extremely addicting formula that becomes Read More

Als je, net als wij, nog steeds bezig bent met Tiny Tower en onze vorige Game van de Week over het runnen van een middelbare school een warm hart toedraagt, dan heb je eigenlijk al je handen vol aan het volgende: de micromanagementspellen Game Dev Story en Hot Springs Story zijn tijdelijk te downloaden voor slechts 79 eurocent. De ontdekkers, de blokjesstapelaars, de puzzelende familie’s en de nieuwsgierigen naar de Game van de Week worden van harte uitgenodigd om verder te klikken. Dream:scape, een van de technisch meest geavanceerde spellen op de iPhone en iPod touch, heeft een gratis te proberen broertje gekregen. Dream:scape Lite geeft een voorproefje op het mysterieuze ontdekkingsspel en laat je al even rondlopen door het grote open platteland. In het volledige spel graaf je door de dromen van de hoofdpersoon en kom je oog in oog te staan met nachtmerries en raadsels. In de gratis versie… Read More

Kairosoft’s Game Dev Story [$.99 / Lite] is now even cheaper than it was a week ago when the studio put it on sale. The simulation game that puts you in the shoes of a game creator, designer, administrator, and event planner is now $.99 instead of $1.99 or its standard $3.99. That’s a total of two dollars worth of savings in celebration of the release of Pocket Academy [$3.99 / Lite]! Exclamation marks! Hot Springs Story [$.99 / Lite], the simulation game that has you designing the perfect bathhouse with cutesy buildings and services, has joined the sale as well. It’s now $.99 cents as well instead of its usual $3.99. It’s a totally different game than its predecessor, but you’ll see flashes of the same carrot-on-the-stick design, as well as other holdovers, including art and the upgrade systems. We’ve written about both games at length in their respective reviews, Read More

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Kairosoft’s Pocket Academy [$3.99 / Lite] takes the best and worst elements of its prior releases, Game Dev Story [$1.99 / Lite] and Hot Springs Story [$3.99 / Lite], blends them together, and then applies them to a school environment. It’s not remarkable on the surface. It has the same cutesy art direction used in these prior games. It also re-hashes a lot of mechanics, continues to shroud a lot of its crucial foundational and tycoon elements in mystery, and it controls like crap. But it does still deliver in the form of the studio’s should-be patented carrot-on-the-stick design approach and fleshes out a crucial, but oft-forgotten, driver in all simulation games: the people. Provided the gun to my head wasn’t real, I’d argue until the moment the trigger is pulled that Pocket Academy isn’t as much of a school simulation as it is a over-the-top student simulation game because, at Read More

We've been sort of Kairosoft crazy ever since they released their phenomenal game company simulation Game Dev Story [$1.99/Lite] last year. Then, Kairosoft followed up that release here in the States with Hot Springs Story [$3.99/Lite], an even more refined simulation that let you manage and expand your own Japanese spa. Since then, Kairosoft has been releasing tons of differently themed simulations using their trademark character and style, but so far none of them have made it out of the Japanese App Store and into the US. Back in April we took a look at one of those titles, which through our powers of mediocre translation we were calling Pocket School Story 2. It turns out that the game is actually called Pocket Academy [$3.99/Lite], and it has just gone live in the US App Store. Pocket Academy looks extremely similar to Hot Springs Story, except that you are creating a successful Read More

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While I haven't yet been totally sucked in to Hot Springs Story [$3.99 / Free], I've spent entire days of my life playing Game Dev Story [$3.99 / Free]. Now, admittedly, I wasn't totally engrossed in Hot Springs Story because I'm exponentially more interested in video games than I am maintaining a spa, but what if you threw science fiction in to the mix? Then I'd really be in trouble. A few hours ago, the guys from War Balloon Games revealed on Reddit. I'd paraphrase what the game is about, but their succinct description is perfect for getting any simulation fan excited: Throughout the game players can hire and manage their crew. Crew members have a variety of skill sets and each of these comes into play when performing tasks on board like research, tactical, engineering and more. Crew members gain new skills as the game progresses making them more and Read More

iPhone App $4.99 Our Review By Jennifer Allen on March 23rd, 2011 Rating: :: DEEP Hot Springs Story is the hotly anticipated follow up from Game Dev Story's developers Kairosoft. Developer: Price: $3.99 Version Reviewed: 1.1.0 Device Reviewed On: iPhone 4 Graphics / Sound Rating: Game Controls Rating: Gameplay Rating: Replay Value Rating: Overall Rating: How on earth do you follow up a game like Game Dev Story? Game Dev Story was phenomenal and hugely addictive. The first time I played it, I intended to play it for 30 minutes one Saturday morning, 3 hours passed before I knew it. It wasn’t a perfect title but it was oh so compelling. So, how do you follow it? With Hot Springs Story of course. A game all about running your own spa resort. It’s not the most obvious move and admittedly it might not be as compelling for games fans as the Read More

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Posted 03/18/2011 at 9:21am | by Andrew Groen Great scenery adds to the popularity of your attractions. Even given some of the extremely bizarre games that have appeared on the App Store over the past years, Hot Springs Story may be one of the strangest. Rather than appeal to time-honored fantasies like being a sports star or space marine like most games today, Hot Springs Story appeals to those who have a burning desire to manage a Japanese hot springs resort, an obviously infinitesimally small niche on this side of the Pacific. Hot baths get bonuses from having the right surroundings. Thankfully, you don't need to be an hot springs fanatic to enjoy the latest game from Kairosoft, the developer behind the 2010 cult hit, Game Dev Story. You'll begin the game as an upstart hot springs manager struggling to fill just a few rooms in the resort. Soon though, you'll Read More

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Posted 03/16/2011 at 1:40pm | by Nic Vargus If there was a way to subscribe to developers games on iTunes, I would subscribe to these developers without batting my pretty eyelashes. These teams really innovate and entertain on a consistent basis. $1.99Gamevil USA We love Gamevil because: They made that stinking Baseball Superstars 2011 Pro that was amazing, even though all the "R's" were "P's" because of some bizarre translation glitch. Still love 'em because: Kami Retro is incredibly challenging, but it's not equally frustrating. The levels are  bite-size enough to try over and over, even after losing dozens of times. It's an auto-runner, which is a genre I just made up for games where the protagonist runs on their own and you just press a button to make them jump. In Kami Retro's case, it's all about sliding your finger to the proper jump trajectory. When the character (a short Read More

Hello. My name is Daniel and I am a Game Dev Story addict. It’s been 45 days since the last time I played the game on my iPhone where I was creating hit after hit on a number of game systems with my trusty game development studio. I fear that I will fall off the wagon with my addiction now that the game’s developer, Kairosoft, has released a new game called “Hot Springs Story.” The game plays very similarly to Game Dev Story, but instead of running a video game development studio, you run a Japanese Hot Springs where it’s your job to build your hot springs up in order to attract more customers. The game plays nearly identically to Game Dev Story as its menu system and art style borrow heavily from Kairosoft’s original game. One major improvement that I certainly appreciate is being able to play the game in Read More

Game Dev Story was one of my favorite iOS games of last year. It offered a full simulation, lots of polish and some well-done game industry satire all in one tidy package. Unfortunately, a few bigger high profile titles eventually overshadowed Game Dev Story by the end of 2010. But developer Kairosoft is back on the App Store with a new app in North America called Hot Springs Story, and if you missed the fun simulation the first time around, here's your chance to take another look. As you've probably already guessed, the games angle is gone, so you won't be crafting the latest megahit title for the hottest console; instead, you'll be building up a Japanese hot springs-style spa and resort. But the cute graphics and addictive game curve are still there in Hot Springs Story. You build one small thing to make some money, then you re-invest that money Read More