The Carter Crater

This is quite the bittersweet day, as my time at TouchArcade is coming to an end. It was a tough …

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Apple does a lot of baffling things in the way they run the App Store. It’s easy to just sit …

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The gaming world was abuzz recently with the news that Steam would be killing its controversial Greenlight program in favor …

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Notice something missing from Super Mario Run (Free)? It’s ReplayKit. You probably didn’t, which is a shame because Super Mario …

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Among the mobile gaming enthusiast community here at TouchArcade, it seems like ads are a hot topic recently. Flappy Golf …

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Apple removing the headphone jack from the iPhone 7 has me unhappy, but the misconceptions around it have me angrier. …

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Foolishly, I believed in the power of Apple TV gaming. Whoops! The number of 4th generation Apple TVs that have …

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One of the great quirks of mobile gaming is the way that so many games can come as surprise releases …

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