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Welcome to a shorter than usual Steam Deck Weekly for the week. If you’ve not kept up with the recent happenings on the site in the world of Steam Deck, read my 5/5 Steam Deck review of Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth and Tekken 8 in progress review covering the Steam Deck version. This week sees some notable new releases, release date announcements, trailers, and also a decent amount of Verified games. For some reason, this month and the first week of February are both very crowded specifically for games I was looking forward to playing in 2024. Let’s get into the news first. News The highlights of this week are both Tekken 8 and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth having launched together today. It is funny looking back at the announcements of both games because I feel like both were revealed in the same month properly, and they are out on the same day. I love both games and already put over a 100 hours into Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and still have at least 50 hours worth of st...

Ahead of next week’s new games , a few notable games on the service have gotten major updates this week with some getting themed events live now. Stitch. has gotten its Lunar New Year content update with new hoops this week and February 4th featuring the Dragon Year Weekly Hoop. A new Tiny Dinos category has also been added. Finity has brought in a new cozy winter tempo track, rebalanced classic mode, new ranks, and more today. Taiko no Tatsujin: Pop Tap Beat has added in 6 new songs this week including Rydeen, Cirno’s Perfect Math Class, GeGeGe no Kitaro, and more. Cooking Mama: Cuisine! has begun its Valentine’s Day event early from now until February 14th featuring a new ingredient for the event and daily login bonuses. Dear Reader has gotten a huge update this week taking it to version 3.0.0 after its last update half a year ago. This update brings in six new books, a revised Rare Books section, new Asters to be earned, and more. Pac-Man Party Royale brings in the new ghos...

HoYoverse just detailed the upcoming Honkai Star Rail version 2.0 update today in a new livestream. The update will bring in three new characters including Black Swan, the beginning of Penacony’s Trailblaze Missions which will continue across 2.2 and 2.3, reruns, and more. The new Penacony realm is no doubt the highlight of the update which launches on February 6th, but I know many including myself will be trying to get Black Swan in Honkai Star Rail Version 2.0 ‘If One Dreams at Midnight’. As usual, pre-installation will go live a few days before the update hits on mobile and PC. This is also the update that will bring in new features as revealed before . Watch the Honkai Star Rail version 2.0 update trailer below: Check out a screenshot from Honkai Star Rail 2.0 below: Hopefully we see more iPhone 15 Pro optimization with version 2.0. If you’ve not gotten Honkai Star Rail yet, you can download it on the App Store for iOS here , on Google Play for Android here , and here o...

Originally announced back in the middle of 2021 , Arknights developer Hypergryph’s premium RPG Ex Astris () has finally gotten a global release date. Ex Astris was interesting because of its monetization. Until I saw the App Store page earlier today with the price, I didn’t believe this would actually release, but it looks great and is out in just a month. The premium 3D semi real-time and turn-based action RPG set on a tidally locked planet has you playing as someone from earth investigating the planet while befriending travelers and more. Watch the Ex Astris gameplay and release date trailer below: Ex Astris launches on February 27th as a premium game priced at $9.99. The official Twitter account has confirmed that the game will feature cross platform saves with the in-game account, but you will need to buy the game on both platforms obviously. If you’d like to play Ex Astris at launch, you can pre-order it on the App Store for iOS here and pre-register for it on Google...

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for January 25th, 2024. It’s Thursday today, and as promised yesterday, it’s a big fellow. A couple of dozen new games hit the eShop today, and there are some very good ones, some very bad ones, and a lot sitting in that awkward in-between zone. Our pal Mikhail has a bit of news for us before we head into those new release summaries, and we cap things off with the lists of new and expiring sales for the day. Let’s get to the games! News Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes Season One DLC Characters and Roadmap Revealed Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes launches today (and Shaun covers that below) and Arc System Works America and developer French Bread have announced the first season of DLC to coincide with the game’s launch on Switch, PC, and PlayStation. Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes is a new game in the series, and it is going to get DLC from now until at least August 2025 going by the roadmap above. This Season One ...

Today Apple announced some massive changes coming to the iOS operating system, with the most significant stuff applying only to those in the EU in order to comply with regulations there, but also some interesting things coming to iOS users worldwide. Most significant to our interests here at TouchArcade, being that we’re based in the US and focused on mobile gaming, is that Apple has finally decided to allow game streaming apps into the App Store across the globe. You may recall that back in 2018 Microsoft announced their intentions to bring a portion of the Game Pass catalog to users basically anywhere via a new cloud streaming service, called Project xCloud at the time. Later it was revealed that Apple would not allow Microsoft to release a standalone app with access to a library of streaming games like that, as it violated App Store guidelines. So instead Android users got to benefit from the Project xCloud service for a long time first, until around the spring of 2021 when Micro...

Rockstar Games finally brought the remake/remaster of its classic trilogy to iOS and Android through Netflix Games and as standalone releases for $19.99 each. We featured Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition as our game(s) of the week when they arrived and I’ve reviewed Vice City from this trilogy on iOS which you can read here. Netflix has publicly revealed (Via The GameDiscoverCo newsletter ) in its fourth quarterly earnings letter to shareholders that this release was Netflix’s most successful launch till date for installs and engagement in gaming. The more important bit is that some people are signing up just to play these games on Netflix. As I said in my review , I thought Netflix finally had its killer app for the gaming side on mobile, and that seems to be true. I’m curious to see how these games do on mobile long term. I still have reviews planned for San Andreas and III. If you’d like to play Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition a...

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!   Abyssrium Match (Free) iTunes Description 60M downloads AbyssRium is back! Enjoy AbyssRium Match with do...