Halfbrick’s Jetpack Joyride certainly impressed me when it was released last August, surpassing 13 million downloads after going completely free in October. Thanks to the mobile gaming community’s continued support of the game, Halfbrick has finally announced what their major content update is. Unfortunately, it doesn’t involve the Fruit Ninja sensei. The next update for Jetpack…
Temple Run for Android receives March 27 release date; 40m downloads on iOS
Temple Run for Android has seemed like a thing of legends, only to be revealed once every millennia when the planets have fully aligned, pigs fly, and unicorns run free all at the same time. Release date windows have come and gone, but now, it looks like the wait will finally be over as Imangi Studios has…
Review: Mass Effect: Infiltrator – Commander Shepard’s favorite game on the citadel
Regardless if you’re big into gaming or not, I’m sure you know either first-hand or by someone you know that today is when Mass Effect will be on the minds and lips of many gamers worldwide. That’s because the final chapter in the Mass Effect saga, Mass Effect 3, has hit retailers and is probably…
Details for iPad 3 smart cover, iPhone 5 design leaked
iLounge scored some small, but juicy details on Apple’s upcoming case for the iPad 3 as well as the design for the sixth-generation iPhone, which is believed to be a departure from the stainless steel and glass build of the iPhone 4 and 4S. According to the aforementioned source, Apple’s official case for the iPad 3…
Rumor: Limbo coming to iOS, Android, WP7
One of the most groundbreaking downloadable titles on XBLA, PSN, PC, and Mac has got to be Playdead’s Limbo as its simplistic gameplay mechanics and graphics delivered an experience that everyone who played it understood and loved from beginning to end. It kept the player guessing what would happen next as it didn’t reveal itself…
EA removes The Simpsons: Tapped Out from App Store amid server issues
If you read my review for The Simpsons: Tapped Out, you should know that I really enjoyed my time with the game before it was officially released to the public last Thursday. It looks like many of you caught wind Tapped Out was actually a good game, thus making the demand much greater than the supply…
Review: The Simpsons: Tapped Out – Free-to-Play with a Simpsons spin
Free-to-play time management games seem like they won’t be going away any time soon. I’m not sure if it’s because developers feel they can make a ton of money charging players to speed up processes, or if players love how easy free-to-play games are to play, or a combination of both. The Simpsons: Tapped Out…
Midway Arcade for iOS includes 10+ arcade classics at the palm of your hand
I know this might seem like quite the stretch, but it just over 20 years ago when arcades ruled as the premier spot to get your gaming on as home consoles and handheld devices didn’t even come close to what was possible at the arcade. With the inevitable advancement of mobile devices, gaming consoles, and…
Android overtakes iPhone market share in the UK
Android has taken over in the United Kingdom as the #1 smartphone operating system in terms of market share. Kantar Worldpanel ComTech measured smartphone usage between January 2011 and January 2012 to find that Android had a 36.9 percent share while Apple’s iPhone had 28.5 percent. In fairness, this should be expected. It technically compares software…
Rumor: Next iPhone to show up in September or October, just like the iPhone 4S
Every iPhone until the iPhone 4S has come out in either June or July. For reasons we may never come to understand, today’s iPhone, the iPhone 4S, came out in October. That thew a lot of people off, and we have numbers to prove that: iPhone sales in Apple’s fiscal Q4 2011 came in at…