On this week’s episode of The TouchArcade Show, we kinda didn’t talk about iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch games. Instead, we celebrate another year of our podcast in the best way possible: by talking about Warhammer, kittens, Magic: The Gathering, and Apple TV. This is probably our most off-topic podcast ever, so buckle up if you haven’t hear us go off the rails before.
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GAMES
NOT-FRONT PAGE
- Horus Rising, the book
- 2012’s Biggest iPhone, iPad, and iPod Leaks and Rumors [MacRumors]
- Hulu
- Sam Goody
- Cats [Wikipedia]
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Don't feel bad Eli, "Legends of Chima" is apparently a brand new LEGO set made just for the video game tie-ins.
Maybe Hundreds, I need to look more into it. Besides that, nothing else really does anything for me.
inb4 "It's 2013 where is Infinity Blade Dungeons"
Normally I'd be all over a game like Repulze, but so many of these futuristic racers on iOS are just terrible. I haven't found one yet that I like. I'll just have to wait and see if Repulze is 'the one' I've been waiting for.
new chaotic box game coming tonight! "Free Panic" .. wondering if f2p version of match panic?? who knows!
So here's a wacky notion, can we maybe get a moratorium on the whining *about* the price whining? It seems like you guys can't go a single podcast or day's worth of posts without bringing it up . . .
Umm.. One kind of leads to the other. If everyone would stop moaning about prices and actually support the debs and community, there wouldn't be near as much discussion about it. Cause and effect?
AMEN TreeHouse!
I'll assume you meant "developers" rather than "debutantes," but this site is primarily a commercial, critical discussion not a community-building exercise. The fact of the matter is that the iOS gamespace is dominated by (relatively) high quality 99 cent games, and the fairly direct line from producer to consumer allows prices to be fiddled with by creators a lot more often and more quickly than in just about any other retail market. Those facts cause customer reactions, and "price whining" seems to be a relatively consistent reaction ...
I'm just suggesting that the guys who run this site need to get used to it, ignore it, and move past it. Their constant sighing and lamenting about it is annoying to many of us who *don't* engage in whining, and it also discourages legitimate discussions and complaints about pricing, which actually do exist.
Just bought Swing the Bat because Swing King link was wrong!
Enjoy your three cents TA :(
So I just got repulse n really like it although I already have a game like it called wipeout for my vita it's a really nice change from asphalt and need for speed to racing games on my iPod I can't seem to stop playing :)
"We haven't seen a good Wipeout-like racer on the App Store"
I'm not a fan of Wipeout games so I can't remember the title but I could have sworn there was a well rated (by TA) Wipeout clone that came out pretty darn early, like back in the iPhone 3g days.
Flashout 3D. And it's better and far prettier than Repulze as well. There's a free version too. Maybe you should pick it up, TA?
I just want to warn you guys on Repulze : everything is clean and nice, really. But the soundtrack is just from another century (behind us).
For me it makes this game unplayable. I gave them my 0,89 euros for support, but wont play this too long... cheers !