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Given how great Apple’s support for older devices is, I usually hold on to my iPhone and iPad for a few years at least before looking to upgrade as long as they work fine. While I definitely regret buying the iPad 3rd generation with how underpowered it ended up being, the iPad Air 2 was a fantastic device not just for gaming but also for work. It slowly started to become sluggish with newer games and some games I wanted to play on touch didn’t support it. Upgrading to the iPad Pro 2020 has been great with how well almost everything I play runs on it but one specific game announcement pushed me more towards upgrading. That was the original WWDC reveal for Divinity: Original Sin 2 ($24.99) from Larian Studios. After that announcement, a lot of people including myself were skeptical of how Divinity: Original Sin 2 would look and run on an actual iPad. I say this because I’ve played it on every platform now and both knowing how it runs on PS4/Xbox and how it looks and feels on Nint...

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for May 31st, 2021. In today’s article, we’ve got reviews of three recent releases: Maneater , Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World , and Missing Feature: 2D . There are a handful of new releases to check out, but don’t get too excited. They’re not exactly the most thrilling of affairs. We round things out with the usual incoming and outgoing sales, as always. Let’s check everything out! Reviews & Mini-Views Maneater ($39.99) Maneater is at its best in its beginning hours. You’re controlling a shark whose general purpose is to avenge its mother after she’s killed by a reality TV host. For his part, he’s trying to kill you for chomping off his arm the last time you met. You swim through the seas, gobbling up anything smaller than you and tail-thwacking anything that isn’t until it fits in your mouth. The first time you find yourself flopping up on a beach, chomping down on swimmers and sun-bathers as you propel yoursel...

Ever since it was announced, the Minecraft ($6.99) Caves and Cliffs update has had new information slowly revealed including why it was split into two parts and more recently, the various blocks included. Today, Mojang officially announced the release date for Minecraft’s Caves and Cliffs Part I update for iOS, Android, PS4, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and PC platforms. Ahead of the update’s release, watch the video below to get a glimpse of the new accessibility features and blocks in Minecraft Caves and Cliffs Part I update: As revealed before, Minecraft Caves and Cliffs (both parts) will see big changes arriving for the Overworld. This includes world generation affecting caves, mountains, build height, and more and also a wealth of new content. Minecraft Caves and Cliffs update Part 1 releases on June 8th worldwide on all platforms. As a nice addition, this update will also bring the Minecraft Earth -exclusive glow squid mob. You can read a detailed FAQ article for the upda...

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. Wow, there are lots of neat updates in the list today. Some Apple Arcade games got huge updates, some free-to-play titles have neat events going, and we’ve got a couple of the usual suspects to go with those. Of course, you can keep an eye out for updates yourself 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! Jetpack Joyride , Free When something unusual is occurring in your local area, which person are you going to telephone? Ha, fantastic song, I remember the lyrics perfectly . Jetpack Joyride ‘s latest collaboration is with the classic franchise Ghostbusters , mostly drawing from the first film. It features what the description calls “iconic characters". They include Zuul (the Gatekeeper dog-thing that Dana Barrett becomes), Vinz (the Keymaster ...

Easy Trigger Games originally announced their cyberpunk bounty hunter action platform shooter Huntdown back in 2016 when it was squarely aimed at iOS and Android devices. And man, it looked good . Everything about it pushed all the right buttons for me, and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it when it launched later that year. Except… it didn’t launch later that year. Instead, because it garnered such a positive reception, Easy Trigger partnered up with publisher Coffee Stain Studios with the intention to put Huntdown out on consoles and PC. That didn’t mean the mobile version was outright cancelled, but it was definitely back burnered. Huntdown finally did release on consoles and PC a little over a year ago, and hoo-boy did those extra years in development make a difference. That original 2016 trailer looked great, but Huntdown in its final form looked downright phenomenal. It was as if video games following the 16-bit era kept progressing but never entered the 3D era and every...

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for May 28th, 2021. In spite of the fact that more than twenty-five new games hit the eShop yesterday, today has a huge number of releases all on its own. The obvious highlights include Wonder Boy Asha in Monster World and World’s End Club , but there are plenty of other interesting games to check out. And some really bad ones, too. That’s the business! We’ve also got a rather large list of new sales to look at, and a rather small list of outgoing sales to consider. Let’s have a look at everything and see what’s what! New Releases Wonder Boy Asha in Monster World ($34.99) SwitchArcade Highlight! What a roller coaster ride this one has been. The initial announcement of some of the old Westone people doing a new project related to Monster World IV was very exciting! Finding out it was going to be a polygonal remake of the original was a bit worrying! In the end, this is neither heaven nor hell. It makes a few changes t...