Remember League of Evil [$1.99]? It came out early last year, and the best way to describe it is the title of our review: "The closest thing to Super Meat Boy on iOS." League of Evil controlled great, making difficult Super Meat Boy-style platforming surprisingly fun. They even eventually added iCade and Joypad [Free] support, giving two more awesome control options. Check out the recently released trailer for the sequel: I'm digging the new art style. February 15th can't come quick enough.   #3   Today, 01:57 PM Senior Member iPod Touch (4th Gen), iOS 4.x Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Indiana, USA Posts: 6,369 friggin AWESOME!!! Can't believe I missed this one... thank you for making it free... the game looks pretty different (graphically) from Lyst Ignition... =oD Picked it up and played it through a quick game. I like the premise of it and can see that there is Read More

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

Welcome to our weekly installment of Picks of the Week at iSource where we provide our expanded coverage of Apple accessories and applications Here we will promote our favorite iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac and Apple TV related items, as well as bring you occasional tips and tricks. Hopefully many of our favorite items will also be of interest to you. Please feel free to comment on our selections, and suggest picks of your own. Check out this week’s picks after the break. League of Evil (v1.5) League of Evil is yet another cute platform game that has that familiar 16-bit style. You play as a character simply named “Agent” and you are tasked with destroying mad scientists that belong to the “League of Evil”. What this game lacks in narrative it makes up with gameplay. The controls are very responsive, and are the closest thing I’ve found to an old Super Read More

League of Evil es un juego arcade de plataformas de los de toda la vida, disponible desde hace tiempo para iPhone y iPad. Ahora sus creadores han mostrado las primeras imágenes de lo que será su segunda parte. Como vemos, han pasado del estilo pixel art que tenía el original a unos dibujos hechos a mano, con un estilo más adulto, aunque sin dejar de ser cartoon. Habrá que verlo en movimiento para juzgar estos nuevos gráficos (y es que ya sabéis que soy fan absoluto del pixel art), pero tampoco tienen mala pinta . Además de los enemigos ya vistos en la primera parte, habrá 6 nuevos, alrededor de 100 pantallas y 5 ecenarios diferentes. Aquí podéis ver algunas imágenes de como luce el juego. Para quien tenga el iCade, decir que League of Evil es uno de los juegos más viciantes que podéis probar en el accesorio . Read More

Easily one of my favorite platforming games (and just plain favorite games period, really) is this past February's League of Evil [$1.99/Lite] from Ravenous Games and WoblyWare. The game featured bite-sized levels of increasingly difficult platforming challenges in a similar vein to Super Meat Boy, with a great 3 star rating system for each level that begged you to replay over and over until you've perfected every one. League of Evil became known as one of the top examples of tight virtual controls on iOS as well, and during the past year numerous content updates have added tons of new levels for more than 160 total along with new features like ghost replays and iCade support. In short, League of Evil owns, and is one of the best platforming games on the App Store. With the positive reception and success of League of Evil, it's no surprise that a sequel would Read More

I'm not totally sure what the occasion is, but there sure does seem to be a ton of sales going on this week. Perhaps it's some pre-Halloween celebrating, or maybe developers have seen the number of new iPhones sold this month and want to capitalize on all of the potential new iOS gamers. Whatever the reason though, I don't think anyone will argue with getting some great deals on some new games. Without further ado, here's a list of some recent price drops and freebies from the past 24 hours: A couple of things about the list above. First of all, all the versions of the original Puzzle Quest games have been updated with iOS 5 support and visual enhancements (including Retina Display support), as well as have been tuned up in the way of bug fixes. Second, Tactical Soldier: Undead Rising is due to get a humongous update with a Read More

At first glance, Candy Boy [99c / HD] by Colorbox looks like a regular one-screen platform game - and to some extent it is. You control Casper, who runs, jumps and long-jumps around the level, climbing over blocks, collecting three coins and trying not to fall into water or holes. And in later levels there's enemies to avoid. Yup, that certainly sounds like a platform game. But, at its core, Candy Boy is actually a puzzle game, based on completing match-3 puzzles . There's no standard rectangular match-3 game-board though, as the blocks are often distributed around the platform level. Here's how it works:  Casper walks around carrying a colored block of candy above his head, which he can drop anywhere on the level. If he places the candy next to two other candy blocks of the same color, they disappear. In many match-3 games the goal is to achieve a Read More

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Earlier this July, League of Evil [Free] creator Ravenous Games bumped the price of League of Evil back to its normal-ish tag of $1.99. The studio has once again fiddled with the price, though I’d imagine the new one won’t be the cause of too many e-groans. For the next 24 hours the game is $0. Free, guys! Free! For those of you not in the know, League of Evil is the App Store’s rough equivalent of Team Meat’s imaginative, but sadistic action platform game Super Meat Boy. Boasting tons of levels, an fantastic lo-fi presentation, and a lot of challenge, League of Evil was an easy recommendation for us to make. At this price, it’s sorta a steal. We contacted Ravenous on the Twitters to hear exactly why it decided to cut the cost of the game. I mean, who knows? Ravenous could be celebrating a staffers’ birthday over there Read More

One thing that I love about the App Store is that there's a lot about it that is highly reminiscent of the old 8-bit and 16-bit era of console gaming. Specifically, I'm talking about how seemingly everyone was just dying to make a character that could turn into a potential franchise, or better yet, a mascot for whatever console it might have been exclusively released on (for instance, Plok). There's a ton of these seemingly B-grade character driven games on the App Store, and Bean of Bean's Quest [$2.99] seems like a modern day in that the protagonist has all the character it needs, however, will we ever be clamoring for another Bean game? I know I didn't really care about Bubsy's platforming career, that's for sure. But, I digress. Bean's Quest is a strange beast. It's one of the shortest iOS games I can think of that I've played recently. Read More

EAs inflationäre Preisentwicklung Verwendung von Preissenkungen im App Store trägt auch dieses Wochenende, pünktlich zum amerikanischen Independence Day, seine Früchte. Dabei reduziert der Publisher radikal alle Titel (außer Rock Band und Tee Shot Live) seines Sortiments auf 79 Cent (App Store-Link). Das muss man (als frühzeitiger Käufer) nicht gut finden, darf aber trotzdem mitkaufen. Ähnliches ‘Spiel’ im Hause Gameloft (NOVA 2, Starfront Collision, Dungeon Hunter 2) und Adult Swim (Amateur Surgeon, Robot Unicorn Attack). Als Einzeltitel, die sicherlich in den nächsten Stunden noch ‘Verstärkung’ bekommen, stehen derzeit vergünstig ‘‘, , und , , und zum Kauf*. * Affiliate-Links, für dessen Verwendung der Betreiber dieses Blogs sich recht herzlich bedankt! Read More

Con motivo del próximo 4 de julio, día de la independencia de los EEUU, muchas desarrolladoras han decidido, como cada año, rebajar sus juegos en la App Store. Los descuentos valen la pena, así que os dejamos un listado de varios de ellos. Iremos añadiendo más conforme vayamos encontrando. Gameloft Adult Swim Electronic Arts Otros Read More

There have been plenty of excellent retro platformers released for iOS over the years, and the upcoming 1-Bit Ninja is one that has really caught my attention. Developer Ben Hopkins and his studio Kode80 wanted to create a platforming game that was an homage to the Game & Watch and Game Boy platformers of his youth, and it’s immediately apparent that 1-Bit Ninja is just that. It features monochrome-style graphics and simple 1 pixel animations, but it’s also hiding a high tech secret under the hood. Anytime during play, you can touch and drag the upper portion of the screen to reveal the world in 3D and get a new perspective on things. If you follow console gaming at all, the effect is somewhat similar to the upcoming title Fez (I highly suggest watching the gameplay video for that game) or even the Paper Mario series. Changing the perspective is not Read More

Last month we checked out the video for Mos Speedrun [$1.99], a new platformer from developer Physmos. Mos Speedrun looked unique with its emphasis on completing levels as quickly as possible, and for its use of the ghosts from previous failed attempts running along with you in the background. Today Mos Speedrun is finally available, and it’s every bit as much fun as we’d hoped it would be. Mos Speedrun contains 20 levels, each with 4 distinct goals to attain. There’s simply completing the level, completing the level within the specified time goal, collecting every coin in the level, and searching out and collecting a hidden skull. The different goals are a great design decision, and give reason to play each level multiple times. You can leisurely explore a level collecting coins and looking for the hidden skull, but this also gives you a chance to familiarize yourself with its layout. Read More

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An interesting trailer just passed through our inbox for an upcoming platforming game called Mos Speedrun. The game is being developed by Physmo, who have previously released Seaglass [99¢/HD] in the App Store, and it caught our attention with its focus on completing levels as fast as possible. It appears that just one hit will kill the character known as Mos, and the ghosts from your previous attempts will be running alongside you in the background to give you a means of measuring how well you’re doing in your current run (though this feature can be turned off if you choose). Physmo promises a simple to use two button control scheme for working your way through the initial 20 levels, with additional level packs already planned for updates. Each level will have multiple goals to shoot for too, like strictly finishing as fast as possible, collecting every coin and item, or Read More

By Leanna Lofte, Monday, Feb 28, 2011 | Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you! Jenga: Now with Gyroscope support! [$0.99 - iTunes link] LastStandStan: Take control of Stan (STatic Alien Neutraliser) to defend the last Po’Trubian world from the evil Sleevils! [$0.99 - iTunes link] SolidState: Control the music on one iOS device with another iOS device or from your Mac. [$0.99 - iTunes link] League of Evil: This fantastic little platformer received a huge update that includes story chapters and “impossible missions”. [$1.99 - iTunes link] Any other big apps or game releases or updates today? If you pick any of these up, let us know what you think! Read More

Posted 02/16/2011 at 10:13am | by Andrew Groen Last month an indie platformer called The Blocks Cometh was submitted to Apple for approval and was released on the App Store shortly thereafter. It was even given the spotlight in the App Store's new and notable section.  But here's the kicker: the game's developer had no idea it had ever been submitted. Pirates had stolen the source code and submitted the game themselves. Since then, Apple has taken down the pirated copy of the game, and now the official copy is set to be released tomorrow with a little love from the fantastic platformer League of Evil. The Blocks Cometh is a really interesting take on the platformer genre. To understand what it's like to play, imagine you've been shrunk down and placed inside an ongoing game of Tetris. You must run and jump for as long as possible in a desperate Read More

Back in January, one of the unfortunate aspects of developing for the App Store reared its ugly head. Developer Halfbot’s popular Flash title The Blocks Cometh was stolen nearly pixel for pixel and released in the App Store by a different developer. This sort of thing has certainly happened before, but what made it even worse is that Halfbot didn’t even find out about this injustice until they saw the counterfeit version of their game in the App Store’s New & Noteworthy section. So not only did their game get released under their noses while they were in the midst of porting it to iOS themselves, but Apple even featured it. Halfbot quickly took action and informed Apple of the situation, the wheels of justice cranked ever so slowly, and eventually the unauthorized version of The Blocks Cometh was pulled from the App Store. Since then, Halfbot has finished up the Read More

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Since 1993: Boomshakalaka! Apple untersagt einen (nicht begonnenen) Verkauf von iPad-Schneidebrettern?! Eine Story, die nach kompletten Nonsens riecht und wahrscheinlich auch genau jener ist. Und warum darf dann myBrett eigentlich weitermachen…? Samsungs Galaxy Tab, die derzeit einzige lebendige iPad-Konkurrenz mit mehr oder weniger 2 Millionen verkauften ausgelieferten Einheiten, bekommt kein Honeycomb-Update. Weil es nur ein Single-Core-Prozessor hat und damit (anscheinend) nicht die Minimalanforderungen für Android 3.0 erfüllt. Argumente, die der gewöhnliche Kunde ganz bestimmt versteht… Die Instapaper-Konkurrenz ‘Read it Later‘ wertet 100 Millionen, über ihre Plattform (“all major web and mobile platforms”) abgespeicherten Artikel aus, und stellt eine Zeitverschiebung in den Lesegewohnheiten zwischen iPad- und Computer-Nutzern fest. Insgesamt tauchen keine weltumwerfenden Erkenntnisse auf, dafür ist die Datengrundlage jedoch extrem spannend. The Closest Thing to ‘Super Meat Boy‘ League of Evil (0.79 €; App Store-Link) – sowas muss ich kaufen! Read More

League of Evil is a brand new action platformer made for the iOS-powered devices. The twist is in the use of retro pixel-art graphic which make the game look old-school-ish, bringing back nostalgia in some of us (ok that’s just me). In addition to graphics, there’s also the same/similar kind of in-game music to make for a complete experience. The plot is simple – evil scientists around the world have teamed up to mesh their malicious brains into a single villainous League of Evil. Your job is to stop them from destroying everything that’s good in this world by leaping, flipping and jumping through 60 stages that include urban environments as well as locations near pyramids. Of course, social element is also built-in, so you can unlock achievements through both OpenFeint and Game Center. Aside from the full game that costs 99 cents, there’s also a free, lite version which is Read More