It's a good time to be a word game fan. Every few weeks a new genre standout arrives, ready to tide you over until the next big hit. Now App Store superstar Zach Gage (Unify [$1.99/Free], Bit Pilot [99¢], Halcyon [$1.99]) has thrown his hat into the word game ring with SpellTower [$1.99] . Those of us who fit in the Venn diagram intersection of iPad owners and word game fans benefit -- SpellTower is elegant, clever and fun. Not that it's entirely unique. We've all played any number of games that make use of SpellTower's main mechanic. Presented with a grid of letters, you spot a word and trace a path through its letters to select it. You can trace in any direction, loop diagonally back on your path, and make words of any length past two. And if that were all there was to it, this would be a Read More

Just a quick weekend heads-up on a title that will be arriving in 10 days that I've been eagerly waiting four long months for. Back in July we previewed the cave-flyer / gravity game from Polygon Play. At the time, I called it a "charming" title, which is an odd descriptor and one I use rarely -- but it fits. So much is right about the early version that I played through, featuring just 13 test levels, that I came out smiling and wanting much more. It's just an awesome member of the genre. Polygon Play has just let us know that Hero Lander has been approved by Apple and will be available for download on November 30th (iPad only, at least initially), at which time we will post a review to go along with it. This is a very interesting number/logic puzzle game. It's a bit like playing Sudoku, in that Read More

On this week's TouchArcade Show, we spend a good chunk of the introductory phase of the show talking about the latest and hottest ... in console games. But immediately after my Skyrim outburst and our shared Modern Warfare 3 discussion, we DO dig into iOS. Jurassic Park: The Game leads the foray. Games like Minecraft: Pocket Edition and Space Tripper, as well as news stories including Apple's decision to pull Texas Hold'Em round out the rest of one of our rocking-est podcasts yet. If you'd like to give us a listen (and you should) hit one of the links below to stream or direct download. If you'd like to subscribe, definitely do so via iTunes or, hey, even Zune. Options, you have them! Show notes just below, and please, if you have the time, throw us a question! We're open to whatever. The e-mail is podcast@toucharcade.com GAMES JARED'S KITTY KORNER FRONT Read More