Super Meat Boy creators Team Meat have been critics of iOS devices as well as the App Store itself for quite some time now. If you want to get up to speed, the best place to start would be the Team Meat Blog where Tommy Refenes goes over his GDC rant session, including the Zits n’ Giggles pricing drama, and more. Tommy also mentioned, “I have no intentions on doing anything for iPhone or iPad ever…I hate the platforms and I hate the stores.” Well, per a recent interview with IndieGames.com, Team Meat has changed their tune to “The next game will probably be iPhone. Probably.”
…And that’s all we know about it currently. I really just hope that whatever their next title happens to be is actually a game and not another App Store troll like Zits n’ Giggles. There’s some serious talent at work in Team Meat, and I’m really excited to see what they can do with iOS devices.
Oh, and if you haven’t yet, consider this your official reminder to download Super Meat Boy. It’s available on the Mac, PC, and the digital download area of home consoles. Here’s the trailer:
Sometimes paying to download a game isn’t enough… Has this ever happened to you? You’re excited about the release of a new iOS game, and have been following news before it’s release. Finally, the release day is upon you, and you rush to the App Store to download it. You start playing the game, and [...]
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Let’s wind the clocks back to Tuesday when news hit that Zynga was relentlessly ripping off NimbleBit’s Tiny Tower [Free] with their Canadian pre-release “beta” of Dream Heights [Free]. Dream Heights is basically identical to Tiny Tower in every way, except for the lack of the Bitbook and a different art style. News of this spread like wildfire, and it wasn’t long before even the mainstream media was reporting on it. (These are crazy times we live in, I tell you.) Well, Zynga has been silent on the matter as far as we can tell, which you’d think would result in a dead story.
Not so fast though, as Glu also seem to be anxious to hop on the relentlessly ripping off Tiny Tower bandwagon with a similar Canadian release of Small Street [Free]. Small Street is arguably an even bigger knockoff than Dream Heights with the only changes being the tower laid vertically into a street and the elevator car replaced with a taxi.
Fans of Tiny Tower will find these screenshots curiously similar:
I guess when it rains it pours in regards to cloning NimbleBit games. The only question left, is which company is going to release their own Tiny Tower knockoff next?
The Cyclops II from Trident is far from the case I would design if I had the chance. There are so many things that are wrong with it. It bulges in all the wrong places. The lines are all wrong, and at times unnecessary. At first I really disliked the case, but after a day [...]
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On this week’s episode of The TouchArcade Show, we push through discussions about feral dogs, the Mindfreak, and accents in order to bring you the latest, hottest, and best-est in iOS game news and chit-chat. At the top, we dig into unreleased titles like Adventure Bar Story before we dive into more known quantities, like say, Triple Town. Post-break, we weigh in on heavy stuff like the Zynga vs. NimbleBit, uh, issue, and of course, get to a few of your listener questions.
Oh! We also had a special guest this week: Joseph Leray. If you’d like to give us a listen, go ahead and do so via the links below. Additionally, you could subscribe to our feeds at iTunes and Zune. All the cool kids do the latter.
Namco has brought the arcade fun of the 1980s to iPhone and iPad for free, but there’s a nasty little catch. There are currently only four titles available, including Xevious, The Tower of Druaga Motos and Phozon. However, you must choose one game to play once per day. If you’re hungry for some more arcade action, you’ll have to fetch [...]
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First there was the fantasy themed ‘Pocket Legends’… Then the space themed Star Legends… and now, for those Team Edward fans, here’s Dark Legends. That’s right, Space Time Studios are taking us into the spooky world of Vampires, where you’ll embrace the secret societies of vampires and challenge the hordes of undead, werewolves, demons and [...]
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Man, these digital platform companions apps come out of nowhere. Today, Valve, the creators of Half-Life and everyone’s favorite PC download platform, Steam, announced Steam Mobile [Free]. It’s what you think it is, which is to say, it’s a companion-y type of experience that’ll let you chat with Steam friends, view Steam groups and profiles, check out video game screenshots, and just about anything else Steam-related, including sales.
Best part? It’s available right now across iOS and Android. Worst part? This particular version is still in “closed beta.” To get in, you’ll need to sign into Steam through the mobile app as a way to “express interest in the beta.” Users will be rolled into the beta eventually.
Steam sales are deadly for our collective wallets under normal circumstances when we’re sitting at our computers. I’m not sure I’m ready to live in a horrible future where I’ll be able to impulse-buy $ 2.99 PC games from the toilet.
Super Meat Boy creators Team Meat have been critics of iOS devices as well as the App Store itself for quite some time now. If you want to get up to speed, the best place to start would be the Team Meat Blog where Tommy Refenes goes over his GDC rant session, including the Zits n’ Giggles pricing drama, and more. Tommy also mentioned, “I have no intentions on doing anything for iPhone or iPad ever…I hate the platforms and I hate the stores.” Well, per a recent interview with IndieGames.com, Team Meat has changed their tune to “The next game will probably be iPhone. Probably.”
On this week’s episode of The TouchArcade Show, we push through discussions about feral dogs, the Mindfreak, and accents in order to bring you the latest, hottest, and best-est in iOS game news and chit-chat. At the top, we dig into unreleased titles like Adventure Bar Story before we dive into more known quantities, like say, Triple Town. Post-break, we weigh in on heavy stuff like the Zynga vs. NimbleBit, uh, issue, and of course, get to a few of your listener questions.
