App Trailers

Once you’re all caught up on what President Obama had to say in the State of the Union, it’s time to get back to business and examine the State of the App Store. This week’s theme appears to be pretty casual, as we’ve got a platformer, an auto-runner, a baseball sim, and some real-time

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Little introduction is required when talking about the Grand Theft Auto franchise from Rockstar Games. Chances are, you’ve played through the whole thing on Playstation 2—or you’ve at least heard people complaining about its glorification of violence and crime… While we don’t expect this iPhone/iPad port to re-spark those annoying debates, it won’t be for

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Holy Touch Controls, Batman! It’s a Batman game for iOS!

Out of nowhere last week, Batman: Arkham City Lockdown appeared in the App Store. And it turned out to be a very pleasant surprise. Built with the Unreal Engine — the graphically gorgeous engine that’s given us such games as Infinity Blade, Dark Meadow, and

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 When EA dropped a new version of Tetris to the App Store recently, it caught me a little bit by surprise. I am a huge Tetris fan from way back — we’re talking original GameBoy here — but I’d never gotten around to downloading the old version. So I leaped at the chance to review

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Recent entries into the well-mined tower defense genre — like the lamentably named Tower Defense: Lost Earth — have really made it seem that TD games have reached their nadir. Thankfully, sometimes a game like Jelly Defense, from Infinite Dreams, comes along and tries something new. In the case of Jelly Defense , the “new”

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Halloween is coming! If you’re in the mood to celebrate with something spooky, you’ve got to check out The Dark Meadow , a creepy new mystery/survival horror game from Phosphor Games. While the game can get a little grind-y at times, its top-notch production values and its reliance on the Unreal game engine make it

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The endless runner genre has really blossomed on iOS, and we’ve been treated to a lot of good ones (and a lot of not so good ones). But I think that Halfbrick Studios — the makers of Fruit Ninja — have trumped them all with their latest take on the endless runner: Jetpack Joyride .

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