The App Store is a labyrinthine place, and it's easy to get lost in it. Many gamers just stick to the top 10 or 25 apps and base their purchases on those, ignoring everything else. To help you out, we've made it our mission to search out the best games available, regardless of whether they're the best selling or not. Here's our list of the top 20 iOS games that launched in the first quarter of 2012. 20. Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy There's a reason Apple invited Namco onstage at this year's iPad event to show off Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy-- it looks great, especially if you play it on the new iPad. But whatever device you play it on, you'll be soaring across the skies and gunning down bogies. The controls are tight as a drum and the missions come in an impressive number of varieties. There's not much here 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.  After a one week hiatus for a much needed vacation, we are back to 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. Clear  [ v 1.0.1 ] My pick this week is the new reminders application from RealMac software called Clear. It has a simple user interface structured around the idea of importance. If an item is at the top of the list, it shows up as a deep red, which indicates the most important task. As you go down Read More

Posted 02/09/2012 at 12:59pm | by Steve Haske GlitchSoft's original side-scroller takes strong cues from hardcore shooter classics, serving up a loving homage to Contra III with similar mechanics, weapons, and music, plus monstrous bosses that take multiple drubbings to defeat. Star Marine makes a couple adjustments to the typically tough formula, letting you use items to escape death or refill your health, but the biggest change comes from one very modern twist: an awful insistence on microtransactions. Unlike its inspiration, kills in Star Marine are tallied by a timed combo meter, with faster enemy death tallies yielding more points; these in turn are used to collect the in-game currency, called gems. Upgrading most skills and weapons is expensive; counterintuitively, this boils down to either having to shell out real cash for a gem pack or face tedious grinding to get new equipment. Other problems persist. Unlocked weapons can be destroyed Read More

Glitchsoft's oddly-titled Star Marine: Infinite Ammo (more on why that's weird in a moment) is both good at bad. First, it's good at heart. Star Marine: Infinite Ammo is a Contra-style run-and-gun title that has you controlling a soldier on a spaceship among other environments. Your job is to fight through hordes of aliens and escape. The action is great and fans of the old Contra game will find a lot to enjoy. However, Star Marine has a few unfortunate issues. First of all, the controls are a little more wonky than they should be. For example, the action often gets fast and furious. When things heated up in Contra, you could duck and jump out of the way reliably. Star Marine's touch controls, by contrast, don't always get you where you need to go. I got hit by several stray bullets and alien flyers because the controls weren't quite as Read More

On this week's episode of The TouchArcade show, we power through conversations about beard slaps, our childhood dreams, special effects, and Terminator 2 in order to bring you the latest, hottest, and best in iOS. At the top, we dig into games like Run Roo Run and Star Marine. Later, we get heavy and dive into the iCade mobile, CAVE's poor earnings announcement, and Imagination's latest tech. I really think this week's episode was one of our best, so you should listen to it. Hit us up via the handy-dandy streaming links below or, hey, subscribe blindly to our iTunes and Zune feed. You'll get our episodes the second that they're live; ADVANTAGE! And here are your show notes: GAMES JARED'S KITTY KORNER FRONT PAGE LET’S FEEL MUSIC’N ART, BEAT’N REBOUND! Check the screenshots and you will see the most AWESOME iOS music game ever! Just PLAY and ENJOY! ❖FEATURES❖ - Read More

...game’s scenario? Man, guns, spaceship, aliens, blah blah blah, this is not about the story, this is about the action! 2D, running and gunning, sh... Read More

One of the greatest video game franchises of all time has got to be Konami’s Contra series. There’s just something so satisfying about making your way through a number of interesting and detailed locales while shooting the snot out of anything that gets in your way. While Konami has yet to create an official port for mobile platforms, that won’t stop developer GlitchSoft from creating a side-scrolling shooter that pays homage to the great Contra. In Star Marine: Infinite Ammo, you play as Arc who has been captured by an alien race in order to become enslaved and do some manly work for them like killing spiders, setting up their home theater system, or even opening a jar of pickles. Fortunately for Arc, he happens to be a trained elite Star Marine and decides to use his years of training in order to free himself from enslavement and make those who Read More

Old-School-2D-Shooter kann es einfach nicht genug geben: Star Marine: Infinite Ammo (1.59 €; App Store-Link) nennt sich der neuste Kandidat, der mein konstantes Verlangen nach neuer Retro-Kost befriedigt. Dem fünfköpfigen Entwicklerteam merkt man ihre Genre-Zuneigung an. Die Pixel-Explosionen wirken ausgereift, durchdacht und nicht einfach nur zusammengeklebt. Das begrenzte Budget ermöglichte bislang keine iPad-(HD-)Version – schade! Dafür lassen sich zusätzliche Gameplay-Modi freischalten und das Waffen-Arsenal aufrüsten, mit dem zehn knackige Bosskämpfe zu bewältigen sind. Das digitale Dual-Stick-8-Way-Joypad ist nicht komplett fehlerfrei, leistet sich aber auch keine gravierenden Aussetzer. In-App-Käufe bleiben optional. Star Marine: Infinite Ammo ist der Abstecher ins Fast-Food-Restaurant, der nicht wirklich satt macht aber zumindest so viele Glückshormone in die Blutbahnen von uns Süchtigen pumpt, dass man sich anschließend gut fühlt. Wenigstens für kurze Zeit. * Alle eigenen iPhoneBlog-Videos gibt’s auch als iTunes-Podcast. Read More