This week on The TouchArcade Show, we battle through a conversation about how cool the supposed gold iPhone is in order to bring you the latest, greatest, and best in iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. At the top of the podcast, we discuss Blizzard’s CCG Hearthstone. A little later, we celebrate the creativeness of Asphalt 8 and the ups-and-downs of an exceptional racer Smash Bandits.

Of course, we also get to some news and user questions and feedback. If you’d like to listen, go ahead and hit one of the links below. Additionally, you could subscribe to the show on iTunes or Xbox Music. This is the easiest way to get us, we think.

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Oh! And we also talk about the fact that this is my last episode and day at TouchArcade. It’s been a wild, wild ride and I can’t thank you guys enough. Keep being awesome. Also, here are your show notes:

GAMES
Asphalt 8 – (Free)
Smash Bandits – (Free)
Hearthstone

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