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After a very long wait, Terry Cavanagh’s dungeon crawling roguelite deckbuiler hybrid experience Dicey Dungeons is coming to mobile platforms next week alongside a huge free DLC pack on all platforms. This DLC will be included in the mobile version from the start. If you’re not familiar with Terry and play on mobile (how is that possible?), he is responsible for the brilliant Super Hexagon and VVVVVV . Following the original Dicey Dungeons announcement , it launched on multiple platforms including Switch, Steam , and even Xbox. Shaun loved it on Switch. Read his review of it here . Dicey Dungeons is another game that felt like it would be perfect on mobile, and having owned it and played a bit across Switch and Steam, I definitely am excited to see hit come to iPad next week. Watch the trailer for the Switch version below: While Dicey Dungeons hitting mobile is a huge deal for us, the other platforms will get the new content as free DLC in the form the Reunion DLC that includes...

If you’ve been following Danganronp over the last few years, Spike Chunsoft celebrated its anniversary by bringing the series to mobile in the form of anniversary editions. After the first two released, there was a long delay for V3, but it finally arrived in the form of Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony Anniversary Edition ($15.99) . Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc ($15.99) and Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair ($15.99) on iOS and Android remain the best way to play and experience these stories despite some issues with the ports. For Nintendo Switch, Spike Chunsoft also included a bonus game titled Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp . Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp is a spinoff based on a mini-game from Danganronpa V3 that released for $19.99 on the eShop with its own optional microtransactions. That is now coming to PS4, Steam, iOS, and Android on July 21st at the same price point. Watch a trailer for the Switch version below: Read Shaun’s review of the Switch collectio...

Each and every day new mobile games are hitting the App Store, and so each week we put together a big old list of all the best new releases of the past seven days. Back in the day the App Store would showcase the same games for a week, and then refresh those features each Thursday. Because of that developers got into the habit of releasing their games throughout Wednesday or very early Thursday in order to hopefully get one of those coveted features spots. Nowadays the App Store refreshes constantly, so the need for everyone to release all on the same day has diminished. Still, we’ve kept our weekly Wednesday night format as for years that’s the time people knew to check TouchArcade for the list of new games. And so without further ado please check out the full list of this week’s new games below, and let us know in the comments section which games you’ll be picking up!   Badass Remake (Free) iTunes Description Two-Minute Hero! Huh?! You can’t keep your hands off my games?!...

This past January a contingent of developers made up of Archosaur Games, Tencent, Lightstorm Entertainment, and Disney announced a new mobile game set in James Cameron’s Avatar universe titled Avatar: Reckoning . With Avatar: The Way of Water, the long, LONG, more-than-a-decade-in-the-making sequel to the original 2009 Avatar film seemingly set to arrive in theaters sometime this year, as well as 3 more sequels planned by the end of the 2020s, it’s no surprise that there would be some sort of mobile game tie-in to stir up some hype with the fanbase. That this was described as an “MMO RPG Shooter" though made it feel like maybe there were bigger plans for Avatar: Reckoning than your average licensed idle game or hero collector. Well this week the first trailer for Avatar: Reckoning has been released, and while it doesn’t show off a ton, it definitely looks impressive so far. This is billed as a teaser trailer, and while plenty of it is obviously pre-rendered cutscenes, it loo...

Apple just revealed July’s upcoming Apple Arcade releases in a new App Store Story. If you’ve not been subscribed to the service in a while or not followed it, Apple moved over from “surprise" releases to announcing the month’s lineup at the end of the previous month. July sees 2 Apple Arcade Originals and three older games hit the service beginning July 1st. Subway Surfers Tag and Heroes Fate are the new games on the service while Samorost 3+ , Kingdom Rush Vengeance+ , and My Bowling 3D+ join as + versions of older games. There will also be updates each week as usual. Subway Surfers Tag is the first spin-off game in the series that has you using a jetpack, spinning, grinding combos, and more. Subway Surfers Tag hits the service on July 15th. Check it out here on Apple Arcade. Heroes Fate is an action game where you play as one of six heroes summoning troops and more to destroy enemy towers in a castle defense game. It features 1v1 or 2v2 competitive matches as well with...

Whether you’re into the PC gaming scene or not, chances are that you’ve at least heard the name Vampire Survivors at some point in the last 6 months. Released into Early Access on Steam this past December, Vampire Survivors is a survival game that plays a lot like a top-down shooter, except in this case the shooting happens automatically and your only real task is to avoid the swarms and swarms of enemies heading your way. In that sense it’s probably more like a bullet hell shooter, but with an engrossing progression system that has you hitting the retry button the moment your current run inevitably comes to an end. Anyway, while initially launched with little fanfare, for whatever reason Vampire Survivors began to catch interest throughout January and eventually went viral making it one of the most played games on Steam. It still maintains a huge daily active userbase and, as with anything that becomes that level of popular, there are plenty of developers putting their own spin o...

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for June 28th, 2022. In today’s article, we have to dance around the main topic because the time lag between when I write this and when you read it is just long enough to miss that Nintendo Direct. But I do have a couple of reviews for you to look over, plus summaries of all of the new releases (that I know about) and the latest sales. Let’s get going, and don’t worry about the stuff we’ll go over tomorrow! News How About that Nintendo Direct Mini Partner Showcase, Eh? Yes, it’s the usual thing. By the time you read this, the June 2022 Nintendo Direct Mini Partner Showcase will have already aired. As I am writing this, it is still several hours in the future. So I don’t really know what I can write here except that I’m sure there were probably at least one or two neat surprises in those twenty-five minutes focused on third-party games. We’ll catch up on the big stuff tomorrow. Reviews & Mini-Views Bassmaster Fish...

Seven and a half years ago, the original Hero Emblems ($2.99) was released on the App Store. Just under six years ago, its sequel was formally announced and a trailer was shown. A couple of weeks after that , I played Hero Emblems II ($6.99) for the first time while attending the 2016 Tokyo Game Show. At that time, the folks at Heat Pot Games told me that the game was still a ways off from release, with a late 2017 date at the absolute earliest. Well, they didn’t tell me any fibs. It was indeed a ways off release, and I honestly had tossed it in the Sword of Fargoal , Princess And Knight, and Questlord bucket of games whose sequels had gone out to buy some smokes one day and never came back. So when Heat Pot Games announced a release date for the game and even went so far as to put up a preorder page on the App Store, I was pretty surprised. I’m not even going to try to speculate what took so long. Making games is a complicated business, especially for small teams. But I’m happy...

King’s Choice is celebrating its one year anniversary by rewarding players with a number of special In-game goodies. The game’s publisher, ONEMT, will also be hosting limited-time events , as well as giving players the opportunity to be featured in the special anniversary livestream. All of which takes place from June 28th to July 3rd. If you’re not familiar with the game, King’s Choice is an RPG sim that has players assume the role of high ruler over a medieval kingdom. You will have to deal with court intrigue in the form of conspirators, while commanding your knights to defend their king. There are also beautiful young maidens to be romanced and heirs to sire whilst basking in the opulence of a baroque inspired setting. With its latest version update, King’s Choice has added a few new features, including a Pets System, which allows players to raise and rear their very own cute, cuddly companions (which will be good for extra buffs during ranking events). There is also a brand...

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for June 27th, 2022. We’re in the middle of a brutal heat wave here in Japan, and the temperature outside as I write this is 38 degrees Celsius. Wow! Let’s stay inside and play games, for our safety. I have four reviews for you today, including SEGA’s Sonic Origins , THQ Nordic’s Wreckfest , inkle’s Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! , and Spike Chunsoft’s AI: The Somnium Files – nirvanA Initiative . After that, we check out the new releases that popped up over the weekend. They are not very good. Finally, we have some sales. Apparently a few things weren’t on sale already, and that has now been corrected. Let’s get to it! Reviews & Mini-Views Sonic Origins ($39.99) At last, a way to play Sonic the Hedgehog on Switch! Okay, all joking aside, the reality is that Nintendo Switch owners have a lot of options for playing some of the classic Genesis Sonic games on their console of choice. Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgeh...

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. A nice variety this week, if I do say so myself. And I do, because who else would be saying anything in an article written by me? A little bit of Apple Arcade stuff, a little bit of premium, and a little bit of free-to-play. 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! Minion Rush: Running game , Free Those wacky Minions are still up to their shenanigans. There’s another new movie coming relatively soon, which is wild when you think this game launched alongside, I think, the very first sequel. In this latest update, the Special Mission: Rise of Minions event continues. A new fan-favorite Minion will be joining the playable roster soon, and there are a couple of new costumes to unlock including Air...