With the iOS conversion of the Final Fantasy IV from the Nintendo DS now out for all and sundry to buy, Square-Enix have decided to release a launch trailer for the game. Besides showing off a game with a framerate that has the lethargy of a Morphine-addled amputee turtle trying to enjoy a brisk stroll across the beach, the video also hints to something more significant. Not only is Final Fantasy V due ‘soon’ [...]
Today marks that day that Final Fantasy IV finally releases on iOS. Of course, because it’s a Square Enix game, it carries with it the Square Enix Tax. The price for an enhanced version of a 20 year old game? $15.99. That comes to £10.99/€14.49 for you Europeans. Yeah. Well to make the ugliness of that price a little easier to swallow, Square Enix has reduced the price of a whole crap [...]
With everyone and his dog seemingly doing an iOS festive sale, it was only a matter of time until EA got in on in the action. Well now the EA Mobile arm of the publisher has just stuck a clutch of their games on sale. The games currently going for cheap are: Fifa 13 69p/$0.99 (iPhone & iPad) Need for speed most wanted 69p/$0.99 (iPhone & iPad) Need for speed shift 2 [...]
Today has been quite the cracker (if you’ll excuse the crappy pun) for iOS festive sales. 2K Games is up next with a sale of their very own. The high points of their offering? Borderlands Legends for 69p/99c, Pirates for 69p/99c and Civilisation Revolution for 69p/99c. Starting now until the end of January 2nd, the following offerings from 2K’s iOS catalogue are on the cheap: Borderlands Legends - 69p/99c (iPhone & iPad) Carnival [...]
Right, probably the first thing you should know is that Telltale Games have slashed the cost of the first episode of their sublimely good The Walking Dead adaptation for iOS down to nothing, so please, stick that on download would you whilst you read the rest of the article. Done that? Swell. To celebrate the Yuletide, famed point and click developer Telltale Games have very kindly decided to put a whole bunch [...]
iOS developer Chillingo is endeavouring to be full of the Christmas cheer this year as they have an absolutely bonkers promotion in which they are giving away some of their best games completely free of charge. What madmen! Topping the list of festive freebies is Orc: Vengeance; a rather competent and slickly produced dungeon crawler that pays significant homage to Diablo and does with credible aplomb. Well, what are you waiting for? The list [...]
Have you got an iPad? Perhaps just a lowly iPod Touch? Either way, guess what. It’s party time. The über entertaining, yet unfortunately named rhythm game from Square Enix is now available for download on the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad units. And get this – it’s free! Squeenix announced today the re-release of it’s musical celebration Theathrythm for all three iDevices, along with some pretty sweet exclusive content. Check out [...]
Fancy playing something similar in scale and execution to the mighty Skyrim on your iThing of choice? Then Crescent Moon Games will have you covered next week on December 20th as they unleash the almost unfeasibly huge RPG Ravensword: Shadowlands on the App Store. An Android version is tipped to arrive sometime early next year. Boasting well over forty hours of gameplay with an absolutely huge variety of quests to undertake, monsters [...]
Space Hulk, the boardgame spin-off of Warhammer 40,000 is due to be revitalised sometime next year as a videogame for PC, Mac and iOS platforms. Developed by Full Control and published by Games Workshop, Space Hulk will be a much more traditional adaptation of the board game and will feature turn-based strategy and tactics rather than the first-person tactical viscera as seen in EA‘s rather decent stab at the license back in 1995 [...]
Yes, those price gougers over at Square Enix are putting a handful of their iOS Final Fantasy titles on sale to prices that are actually somewhat acceptable! Almost. In addition to the sale prices, they have also announced that Final Fantasy IV is finally making the jump to iOS as well, scheduled to be released on December 20th. No word yet on how much that release will cost, but MY [...]