Spellsword by Everplay Games ($0.99) [Universal]

Everplay Games and FireFruitForge have teamed up to bring us an adrenaline fueled game with interesting mechanics that will keep you coming back for more. Summary: Basically your goal in either of the game modes is to survive and either complete the mission available in the main career mode or get a new high score in the endless mode.  At your disposal is your trusty...

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FDG's Clear Vision surpasses 1 million downloads! Plus Cover Orange and Mahjong Elements get iPad Retina Updates!

It's not too often an AppStore game hits the 1 million downloads mark, especially for a paid app. But today, FDG, developer of Blueprint 3D, Tentacle Wars, Cover Orange, Blosics, Bobby Carrot, Beyond Ynth, Across Age and more has just announced that their paid app, Clear Vision (17+) has just surpassed that 1 million downloads mark. Along with the 1 million downloads,...

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Blocks Hurt! (Luca Giusti) - $1.99

With the insane amount of games released every week in the AppStore, it’s not too surprising that a few great ones get overlooked every now and again. December of last year was a crazy time for the AppStore, with the onslaught of sales along with all the developers trying to get their apps in before the week off that the AppStore would take, not allowing any updates or...

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MacGuffin's Curse $1.99 Launching Sale!

Brawsome's unique Universal puzzle game, MacGuffin's Curse, published by Ayopa, launched this Thursday. If you haven't decided wether or not to pick it up, head on over to our review, and get a better idea of what the game is about and how it plays. You can also check out the Ayopa and Brawsome sites to get even more info. If you're a puzzle fan, you really should check...

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Tentacle Wars HD (FDG Entertainment) - $2.99

Strategy titles have found a new home, it seems, on the touch screen of the iDevice. More and more real time, turn based, and 4X strategy titles, along with board games are finding their way into the AppStore, taking full advantage of the multitouch screen. FDG has brought Tentacle Wars, the Flash game available from Lumarama, to the iPad, and it feels like the game...

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Madfinger Games is holding a Shadowgun T-Shirt contest

The Madfinger Games team is inviting fans of their game Shadowgun to influence future events of it's storyline. In order to do this you have to enter in their Facebook contest which you can win by making up a new arch enemy of John Slade. The authors of the three best ideas will win the original Shadowgun T-Shirt.Here are the steps required to enter the contest as described...

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MacGuffin's Curse (Ayopa) - $4.99

Ayopa Games is definitely one of our favorite publishers here at TAS. Not only do they have fantastic customer service and release high-quality games, but they’re very interested in listening to the gaming community, and so are the games developers; always trying to make their games better by tweaking controls, squashing bugs, fixing issues, and just listening to the general...

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Crow (Sunside Inc.) - $4.99

The amount of developers the AppStore has opened it’s arms to is pretty much unfathomable. With hundreds of releases every week, it’s really hard to wrap your head around how many apps the AppStore really has. This is both good and bad, as there’s loads of games that you might have to sift through before finding one that you’ll enjoy enough to play through til the end, but...

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New Ayopa release - MacGuffin's Curse‏ - TBR April 19th

Ayopa Games has quickly become one of our favorite publishers here at The App Shack. Their first release, W.E.L.D.E.R. was a huge hit, getting named Apple's Game Of The Week, along with loads of attention from iOS sites and gamers all over the world. Though this first release isn't really what got our attention. Also released the same day as W.E.L.D.E.R. was Chicken Rescue,...

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