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Bethesda has been slowly updating the newly released updated versions of DOOM ($4.99) and DOOM II ($4.99) on the App Store and Google Play with various fixes and new features. The last major update added support for new add-ons, level select, and more features. Today, Bethesda have pushed out updates for DOOM and DOOM II on all platforms including mobile and Nintendo Switch with quality of life features, new add-on support, audio fixes, and more. For audio fixes, DOOM and DOOM II will now be more accurate to the DOS release with adjusted audio levels and ranges. Consecutive audio will now be accurate with interruptions as well. You can now bind quick load and quick save to access them without pausing the game. The No End in Sight add-on with 30 new levels is now available as a free add-on once you link your Bethesda.net account. If you haven’t already, you can get DOOM and DOOM II on the App Store and Google Play right now. It is going to be interesting to see if Bethe...

Anybody who has taken a dog to a dog park knows that it’s like its own alternate universe from the rest of the world. And I’m not talking about the dog owners, although that is an entire sitcom waiting to happen, but the dogs themselves adhere to a strange social structure that only they understand. Everyone wants to pee on all the things, claiming territory as their own only to have it reclaimed by some other dog mere moments later. It’s like a land battle, and probably could make for a really good video game premise. Hey! That’s exactly what Ancient Games are doing with their upcoming title Bark Park . You play as one of several dogs in a dog park with the goal being to drink water from the fountain in order to pee on the trees in the park, hopefully having more trees claimed as your own when the round is over. It’s a cute dog-themed twists on a “territories" style multiplayer mode, as you can see in the following trailer. Of course, since you’re a dog, you have multiple “wea...

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for March 31st, 2020. We’re at the end of another month, and it has felt like the longest month in a long time. Well, at least the games were good. And March isn’t going out quietly, either. There are a lot of new releases today, and a few of them are excellent. We look at all of those, check out a few news bits, and of course run through all of the new sales. Let’s see what’s what! News ‘Grimvalor’ Hits Switch on April 7th About a year and a half ago, the good folks at Direlight delivered an incredible premium action game on iOS called Grimvalor . It’s a solid exploratory action-RPG with nice visuals and snappy combat. And why wouldn’t it be great? It was made by some of the same people that made the excellent Swordigo . Well, if you have the desire to play the game on your Nintendo Switch, Direlight has some great news for you. Grimvalor will launch on the Switch next week, on April 7th, for a price of $12.99. ‘Bu...

Brownmonster’s Rush Rally 3 ($4.99) is a game we like a lot. When it released, we featured it as our Game of the Week . Since the launch on iOS, Rush Rally 3 has also raced onto Nintendo Switch . Over the months since launch on mobile, Rush Rally 3 has been updated with various features like a smart difficulty mode, real-time live events, and more. Today, a major update has released for it bringing a new paid expansion, upgraded graphics for vehicles, and more. Watch the original launch trailer for Rush Rally 3 below: The 1.68 update for Rush Rally 3 on iOS and Android is now live. The content of this update will also be brought to Nintendo Switch soon. The Classic DLC Pack is available for $2.99 . The game itself is available for $4.99 on the App Store. If you’ve not gotten it yet, Rush Rally 3 is fantastic with its great performance across the board and multiplayer options on iOS. Check out our forum thread for the game here. Do you play Rush Rally 3 on iOS or Nintendo S...

Pokemon GO (Free) from The Pokemon Company and Niantic initially exploded before seeming to slow down a bit. The game has continued to be popular ever since and it definitely feels like the developers are doing a good job at keeping players happy. Today, Niantic revealed plans for April and also a look at how the company will let players do more indoors given the global pandemic right now. Adventure Sync will now track house activities and there will be improvements made to have it track indoor movement better. Raid battles in Pokemon GO will be playable indoors soon as well. Niantic is also looking at letting players virtually visit and share memories from various places in the real world. Details for how Pokemon GO Fests will take place will be revealed in the future. For April 2020, Shadow Entei will be available to save from Giovanni. There will not be a new set of Team GO Rocket Special Research next month but you will have until the end of April if you’ve not completed Th...

Back in 2016 developer Joe Richardson submitted a game to Game Jolt’s Adventure Jam called Four Last Things , which took famous Renaissance Era paintings and public domain classical music and repurposed them into a humorous, Monty Python-esque point-and-click adventure game. The game jam submission was fleshed out into a full-fledged release thanks to fan support via a successful Kickstarter campaign, and it was released on Steam in early 2017. About a year later Four Last Things was released for mobile and we enjoyed that version quite a bit in our review from back then. Now after another successful Kickstarter about a year and a half ago, a spiritual successor was put into motion called The Procession to Calvary . If you enjoyed everything about Four Last Things and were craving more of it, that appears to be exactly what this will deliver. Check out the trailer. The Procession to Calvary is described as a spiritual successor instead of a sequel because, while it does take pla...

A little over a month ago developer Tipsworks laid out their 2020 update plans for their excellent Dark Souls -inspired action game Pascal’s Wager ($6.99) . The most immediate update arrived just a couple of days after that announcement and added a new Casual Mode for those who felt that the game’s default difficulty was a bit too extreme and for those who don’t normally play this type of game as a way to ease them into it. The next stop on their update roadmap was for sometime in March, when they’d be adding in a New Game+ mode for those who had already beaten the game and wanted to continue their adventure. Well, that “sometime in March" turned out to be today, and the new update made it just in time before the calendar changes over to April. New Game+ is pretty self-explanatory and will let you play the “New Journey" after you load up your completed save file and talk to the Owl in the carriage. This update is also marking the end of the Heroic Herald Outfit Event wh...

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for March 30th, 2020. In today’s article, we’ve got a full review of Animal Crossing: New Horizons along with Mini-Views of a few other titles including Panzer Dragoon Remake . We look at today’s sole new release, then go into a rather robust list of new sales. The news was a bit light over the weekend, but there’s still plenty to read. Let’s get into it! Reviews Animal Crossing: New Horizons ($59.99) If ever there was a game for the current situation we find ourselves in, Animal Crossing: New Horizons is it. We all need to be somewhere better right now. A nice island filled with friendly animals and nothing but peaceful days sure sounds great. And hey, it is. A lot of the usual things that make Animal Crossing games so good are present and accounted for, a new crafting system has been added, and it all has never looked as good as it does in this game. I get the sense that Nintendo intends to keep on adding to the ga...

Hello everyone, and welcome to the week! It’s time once again for our look back at the noteworthy updates of the last seven days. I’ve tried to include some new faces in the line-up this time around, just for the sake of variety. Granted, the pickings aren’t what they might normally be due to real-world circumstances, but there’s still plenty to see. Of course, you can keep an eye out for updates yourself using AppShopper or by participating in the TouchArcade forums. This weekly summary is just here to fill you in on the things you might have missed. Let’s go for it! SEGA Heroes: RPG Match 3 Games , Free The Yakuza character roll-outs continue in SEGA Heroes , with brand-new Captain rank character Goro Majima joining the ranks. Well, he’s joining the ranks if you’re super-lucky or throw an absolute gob-ton of cash at the game. Otherwise, he’s just sitting there in the character unlock screen forever. This update also makes it so that the game saves your speed and auto-play set...

Feral Interactive’s GRID Autosport ($9.99) is a fantastic conversion of a great racing game. After arriving on iOS devices, Android users had been waiting quite a while for the premium racer to arrive on Google Play. GRID Autosport brought superb console quality racing to mobile and even made its way to Nintendo Switch . Check out our review for the iOS version here . Today, Feral Interactive have started looking for testers on iOS for the multiplayer component for GRID Autosport . Before you sign up, GRID Autosport only supports iPhone 6S and later, iPad models released since 2017, and any iPad Pro. The download size is also pretty large and the multiplayer test is around 4GB as well and it requires iOS 12.1 and later. It is worth noting that it does not replace the current App Store version of the game if you do sign up to help Feral Interactive test the multiplayer. If you’re interested, you can sign up for it on TestFlight here . GRID Autosport is now available on iOS, And...

Yesterday, Square Enix had its 10th anniversary livestream for NieR (originally released on PS3 and Xbox 360). The highlight of the announcements for many people is the updated release of NieR Replicant that is in development for PS4, Xbox One, and PC but Square Enix also announced a brand new NieR project. NieR Re[in]carnation is a new mobile game for iOS and Android in development for Japan. The game is being developed by Applibot with character designs by Cydesignation of Cygames. Watch the teaser trailer below: If you’ve played the original NieR , the outfit of the character showcased in the key art should look familiar to you. NieR Re[in]carnation features various key staff who have been involved with NieR before including music from Keiichi Okabe (music), Yoko Taro as Creative Director, Yosuke Saito as Producer, and more as revealed by Dengeki . As of now, a release window haasn’t been announced for Japan so don’t expect news about a localisation anytime soon. Hopefully ...

We kick things off this week talking about what might be the most absurd Supreme item since the Supreme brick: The Supreme Oreo. I bought a bunch, because something is wrong with my brain. From there we have a bit of a COVID-19 update for both of us, then we dive head-first into the shallow end of the swimming pool talking about all the awesome iOS gaming news of the week. Once that’s over, we crash the bus straight into Tom Nook’s tent with a bit of chat about how we’ve been progressing in Animal Crossing. It’s wilder than Mr. Toad’s ride. Don’t forget to shoot us emails with any questions, feedback, or anything else relevant or irrelevant to podcast@toucharcade.com . We read ’em all, and love decoding messages written entirely in emoji. As always, you can listen to us with the links below… And if you like what you hear, please subscribe and/or drop us a review in iTunes. Much appreciated! As a companion to this audio podcast, we also do a video version of the same show that is exc...

The idea behind the TouchArcade Game of the Week is that every Friday afternoon we post the one game that came out this week that we think is worth giving a special nod to. Now, before anyone goes over-thinking this, it doesn’t necessarily mean our Game of the Week pick is the highest scoring game in a review, the game with the best graphics, or really any other quantifiable “best" thing. Instead, it’s more just us picking out the single game out of the week’s releases that we think is the most noteworthy, surprising, interesting, or really any other hard to describe quality that makes it worth having if you were just going to pick up one . These picks might be controversial, and that’s OK. If you disagree with what we’ve chosen, let’s try to use the comments of these articles to have conversations about what game is your game of the week and why . Without further ado…   Reventure Every once in a while a game comes along that is so low key brilliant you have a hard time com...

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for March 27th, 2020. Well, yesterday sure was neat, wasn’t it? We now have a better picture of what titles we can look forward to in the next few months, and there were even a few surprise releases. Add in the stuff that was on the schedule and we’ve got a rather lengthy list of titles to summarize. We’ve also got some sales to check out. Let’s get to work! News Surprise! There Was a Nintendo Direct Yesterday After a lot of speculation and anticipation, Nintendo kind of dropped a mini Nintendo Direct out of nowhere yesterday. Too late for me to include it in yesterday’s article, but oh well. Lots of good stuff in it, like a release date for Xenoblade Chronicles (May 29th!), the release of a demo for Bravely Default II , the announcement of Bioshock, Borderlands , and XCOM 2 sets from 2K, and much more. If you haven’t already watched it, give it a bit of your time and see what we have to look forward to this summer. ...