EL33TONLINE: News tag archive: ipodtouch
If you’re sick and tired of waiting around for big-budget JRPGs like Final Fantasy Versus XIII to appear on store shelves, then it might be worth considering some of Square Enix’s more modest titles which are currently available for purchase.
A good example of such a game is Chaos Rings Omega which dropped onto the iTunes Store yesterday. It’s a JRPG for iOS devices with character designs by the great Yusuke Naora - the art director for such classics as Final Fantasy VII, VIII and X.
If you’ve got a portable Apple device with iOS 3.2 or later you’re in luck. Square Enix have just launched a free app on iTunes called ‘Imaginary Range.’ The publishers claim it represents “a new genre of entertainment: a hybrid comic and game experience.”
Imaginary Range was developed by H.A.N.D. - the studio responsible for Final Fantasy: Chocobo Tales on the Nintendo DS. It includes English, French and Japanese text, and is 153 MB to download.
There used to be a trend in gaming during the late 90’s and early noughties where games would get more complicated each year in order to be a good game. Thank goodness that trend quickly faded. We are now in the age of casual gaming. Games like Farmville and Plants vs. Zombies are great examples of how the simplest concept can be turned into an extremely addictive game. The best-selling game on Apple’s iTunes last year was a little title named Angry Birds. You might have heard of it?
Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Angry Birds.
For some time now, El33tonline has been keeping a very interested eye on Infinity Blade, Epic Games and Chair’s Entertainment’s visually astounding iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch game, what with the title’s Unreal Engine 3-powered technology and all.
Now, today, this action RPG is ready and waiting for your purchase.
So, the first thing you need to know about the following gameplay trailer is that this game, Infinity Blade, is releasing for iOS devices, which means it’ll become available to play on Apple’s holy trinity: the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
The second thing you should know is that this game, Infinity Blade, uses a specialised version of Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 – technology that has powered some of the most impressive games we’ve yet seen on consoles, including Epic’s own Gears of War.
The third thing you probably need to know about Infinity Blade? It blows away the competition, at least graphically, as no other iOS device game that I’ve personally seen can touch this… with the exception of id Software’s RAGE on iPhone.
Watch this mind-numbingly impressive debut trailer for Epic and Chair’s Infinity Blade action RPG, running on iPhone, below:
Epic Games and Chair Entertainment have today announced Infinity Blade for iPhone and iOS devices (iPad, iPod Touch), a new action-RPG sword fighting game that will become available this holiday season.
Infinity Blade was first revealed to gamers under the working title ‘Project Sword,’ while over one million people have already experienced a small part of the game with the release of the free iPhone app, ‘Epic Citadel.’
Why is Infinity Blade going to be awesome?
At Apple’s Special Event today, Epic Games president Mike Capps and Chair Entertainment creative director Donald Mustard revealed the next game from the developers’ respective studios, ‘Project Sword,’ for iOS devices such as iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Have you heard about Dragooo? It’s a new iPhone game created by South African game development outfit Tasty Poison Games, where you’re invited to adopt a virtual pet dragon of your very own, and feed, nurture, train and customise it to be the best little dragon it can be!
Once you’ve trained up your little guy and he’s fully grown, you’re able to fly him through the underground caverns of Mount Kahmi using the iPhone’s accelerometer to guide him through challenging courses and best your own time.
As you can see in the screenshots and the in-game footage below, Dragooo looks incredible for an iPhone game, with all kinds of awesome effects and great stylised art direction.
Wonderful!
You can watch Dragooo in action in a gameplay video below, which gives us some looks at the little dude waddling around, getting fed and flying through caverns:
While the action racing game, Split/Second for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, may be releasing into North American stores today, and on May 20th and 21st in Europe and the UK respectively, if you’re jonesing for a bit of high-speed vehicle-based action right this very instant, you could always get the mobile version of Split/Second, now available on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Watch a feature-filled trailer for the mobile version of Split/Second below:
With the launch of Splinter Cell: Conviction for the Xbox 360 in North America today, a debut trailer for the iPhone and iPod Touch version of the game has come to the surface, giving us a brief glimpse of the fully 3D gameplay that will soon be on offer in the diminutive adaptations.
Watch below:
“From the imagination of Linkin Park comes 8-Bit Rebellion, the only iPhone App game that turns Linkin Park’s world into your gaming reality.”
If that sentence made you at all excited, then the upcoming release of the iPhone and iPod Touch (as well as iPad) game, Linkin Park: 8-Bit Rebellion, is going to send you into a spin.
If you just can’t get enough of the adventures and heroics of Ezio Auditore da Firenze in the 15th century in Assassin’s Creed II on Xbox 360 and PS3, then fear not: If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, you’ll be able to continue the story as Ezio travels to Spain in an attempt to rescue his fellow Assassins, only to uncover a plot by the Templars to sail West and discover the New World.
Based on the DS game of the same name, Discovery is looking very smart indeed, especially for an iPhone game, and with what appears to be a new and improved touchscreen control system, gameplay should be nice and easy to get used to.
Some neat features you may be interested in include the following:
A new iPhone game called ‘Flipt’ arrives on the iTunes App Store today, and by the looks of the recently released trailer, it’ll definitely challenge your sense of direction, as well as your puzzle and platforming skills, to the max.
Developed by South African game developer Luma Arcade (Marble Blast Mobile) and published by InstantAction, on the surface Flipt appears to be a regular platformer, as you make your way through various urban-inspired levels and use moving platforms and power-ups to traverse the world, but the game has at least one neat trick up its sleeve.
By physically flipping your iPhone around while playing Flipt, you’ll effectively be helping your in-game persona navigate the levels by flipping the world around and allowing you to access new areas and progress further into the game, taking advantage of Luma Arcade’s proprietary accelerometer code to provide a silky smooth play experience.
Watch the slick trailer for Flipt below to see what I’m on about:
A new DOOM title will be winding its way onto the iPhone and iPod Touch next week in the form of DOOM: Resurrection from id Software and Escalation Studios.
DOOM: Resurrection is an entirely new entry to the DOOM universe, but using lower resolution assets from 2004’s DOOM 3 to create a ‘next-generation,’ fully 3D iPhone game.
The title isn’t a port or a remake, as Wolfenstein on the iPhone was before it, but has been built from the ground-up for Apple’s mobile devices. The game apparently contains eights levels and a promise of five hours of gameplay, as the events that play out run parallel to those in the original DOOM 3.
You can watch an impressive trailer for DOOM: Resurrection below:
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