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The world’s best evil minds have banded together to produce a weapon of mass destruction capable of obliterating goodness everywhere. To combat this great threat, the GDF — Global Defense Force — enlists their most cyborginated agent to hunt down the evil scientists and to splatter their faces with his bionic fist of squish-making. The [...]

“Run Like Hell” is a game with a pretty simple premise:  You’re a treasure hunter, stranded on an island and being chased by hungry cannibals.  Your goal, naturally, is to run away from them and end up with some loot rather than in the stew.  It’s a game of roughly the same ilk as “Mirror’s [...]

I think it’s safe to say I missed the boat by a bit on the original Splatterhouse.  To be fair, it came out twenty-two years ago, so it’s not too surprising that it slipped under my radar while some of Namco’s more ubiquitous releases like Pac-Man and Dig-Dug would go on to loot many a [...]

Blimp HD is both a wonderful piece of gaming nostalgia and great new platformer that takes full advantage of the technology at its disposal. It’s both easy to pick up and play for a minute and totally satisfying to play for long stretches at a time. On my first Gameboy, I loved games that put [...]

SEGA has announced that they’ll be releasing Sonic 4 for the App Store on October 7th, earlier than the release date on other devices: October 11th for the Wii, October 12th for the PlayStation Network, and October 13th for Xbox Live Arcade. SEGA has also decided upon accelerometer or d-pad control methods, along with two [...]

Babylonian Twins is an Amiga puzzle platformer that I certainly enjoyed, and the iPhone version has been put on sale for 100% free.  This is definitely one of the best freebies I’ve come across so far, so all of you reading this should definitely take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime price deduction. If you’re not familiar [...]

Plushed, the artful platformer for the iPhone, has been reduced to the price of free for today and today only.  While we thought the game was colorful and unique, it was a bit buggy and uninteresting to keep us hooked for long.  It’s still worth a download for free, so be sure to check it [...]

Well that was a quiet release.  Grokion, the Metroid-inspired platformer, has finally been released on the App Store.  While chances are slim for an official Metroid game to be ported, Grokion looks to be one of the closest things to people dying for that sort of experience. You are LDU-1 – a Lunar Defense Unit [...]

Ozone is a new puzzle platformer from Geardome, who haven’t exactly splashed onto the App Store scene until now.  Of course, they do have some games that people including me haven’t heard of.  But Ozone is something different, and something that should be heard of. In this game, you’re a ball of air.  You slowly [...]

Mecho Wars is arguably one of the best turn-based strategy games on the App Store, with online multiplayer, an extensive campaign mode, and many different units that add a lot of variety to the gameplay.  And after almost… has it been a year?… since announcement, Steam Pirates has finally been released on the App Store. [...]