On this week’s episode of The TouchArcade Show, we power through conversations about smart gyms and wearable heart monitors in order to bring the latest, greatest, and the best in iPhone and iPad. At the top of the show, we dive into oral reviews of a bunch of cool games, including Brainsss and King of Fighters 2012. Later, we ponder if the free-to-play market is about to collapse and dig into the realities of development in a market that only wants 99¢ stuff.
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GAMES
- Brainsss [$2.99]
- Flight Control Rocket [99¢]
- The King of Fighters-i 2012
- Tower of Fortune [99¢]
- DreamWorks Dragons: TapDragonDrop [$1.99]
- Junk Jack [$2.99]
JARED’S KITTY KORNER
- Cat Sliding [Free]
FRONT PAGE
- ‘Draw Something’ Is Losing Dudes Like Whoa
- Tiger Style Reveals Lifetime Sales Numbers
- Jason Citron Forming Games Studio
This week’s episode is sponsored by Jim Guthrie’s official soundtrack for Indie Game: The Movie.
The original Soundtrack by Jim Guthrie (of Sword & Sworcery fame) for Indie Game: The Movie is available for pre-order now on Bandcamp and iTunes. The 24-track album featuring music from the award winning documentary chronicling the journeys of independent game developers by filmmakers James Swirsky and Lisa Pajot will be released in full on May 15th. It will also be available on double LP exclusively through Bandcamp. Pick up a pre-order copy of Indie Game: The Movie: The Soundtrack today on Bandcamp and iTunes.
I wish the actual sword and sworcery game was as cool as I look when I play it. Oh well, at least I can fully concentrate on making sure everyone around knows I am playing it and don't have to worry about any kind of tricky "gameplay."
Brad's awkward hooker moment was laugh out-loud classic! Great podcast as usual guys. (Ooops just realized it was the previous podcast... I'm always 1 behind).
It's really great... and I knew of but didn't play the original so not speaking here as a fanboy. Definitely compelling and well worth the price. I'd definitely recommend supporting the dev.
I loved Wings of Fury on my apple IIe, and bought this game earlier tonight- it's great! the touch controls are a little ...touchy... at times, but much easier to use than many other similar games I've played. If you're familiar with the game, you'll pick it up right away. If not, you'll probably need a little practice on the landings. I also wish I had an iPad to view this on a bigger screen, but it's a blast on the iPhone!
looks pretty good! really liking it so far.
If the developer is checking up, I'd love to see some icade support.. this game is tailor-made for it.
Nice another title of my port-wish list!
Huge fan of the original, so have to pick this up.
Looks good - hope that if/when it comes to iPad it could be iCade compatible
It crashes consistently on iPod Touch 4. I did everything: restarted numerous times, used memory doctor, cleaned the memory from other apps, re-installed the game twice, followed the procedure described on the store step-by-step... it still crashes
Cool!
I'd still love to see Graphic Sim's old Hellcats ported to iOS!
Cool! If you like these kinds of games, check out Dogfight for Windows. It's freeware.
Love it very very very much, I was a huge fan of the original! This one is a must have, a bit difficult at first to handle landing and taking off, but pure joy after a few tries