Splice: Tree Of Life [Cipher Prime Studios] - $3.99

It’s a shame that, with the amount of games on the AppStore, there really are very few development companies that can continually surprise and impress gamers with their releases. Granted, this number is starting to grow, and the future does look incredibly bright for iOS gaming, but we all know that that really depends on the market, and who can stick to their guns, deciding...

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Walking Dead: The Game Episode 2 Is Now Available!

You zombie fanatics out there probably already know this, but Telltale's The Walking Dead: The Game has just received Episode 2. That's right, it's not available for purchase via IAP for $4.99. Picking up 3 months after Episode 1 came to it's gripping conclusion, we'll now be able to see how the choices we made in Episode 1 are going to effect the rest of the game. If...

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Dragon Island Blue [NNT Resonant] - $0.99

Over the last year, we’ve seen quite a few ‘Pokemon’ like games hit the AppStore; Mighty Monsters, Pocket Summoner, Minimon, MinoMonsters and more, with even more slated for future release. MinoMonsters was a decent Pokemon-esque experience, but with some recent updates has pretty much gone down the drain, and no one else has really nailed the different aspects of gameplay....

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Final Fantasy Dimension FINALLY Hitting The AppStore Tonight!

If you're a fan of Turn-Based Strategy titles, chances are, you've played a couple Final Fantasy titles in your gaming career. If you've become a fan of these titles over the years, or have been since the beginning, seeing Square Enix take advantage of the AppStore and iOS devices, releasing multiple FF titles for the platform is something of a miracle. If you told...

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Night Flight [Rebel Twins] - $0.99/$1.99

  As I’ve said numerous times, I’m constantly being surprised with games that hit the AppStore, especially from first-time iOS developers. This time, it’s Rebel Twins that’s surprised me, with their first iOS release, Night Flight, a 2.5D Action-Arcade Flight game, telling the story of Teddy, a little stuffed bear trapped in a toy factory with nothing but a flimsy...

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Lonely Few's Casual RTS, Brainsss Gets An Awesome Update!

Lonely Few's first iOS release, Brainsss, has its fair share of issues when it was first released. We highlighted a couple of them in our review back in May; No zooming out and no specific grouping were among the biggest. However, the Lonely Few developers have been hard at work making Brainsss better since its initial release, and late last night, it hit the AppStore...

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Perfect Cell [Mobigame] - $2.99

It’s no secret that The App Shack hasn’t been around for too long. If you’ve been following us recently, you might have noticed that we’re reaching back, reviewing older games that gamers might have missed, or that we weren’t around to review, as well as our new Review Rewind section, re-posting reviews for games that are still on our devices one year later. Well, another...

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FDG's Zelda-like Action RPG, Across Age, Goes Down To $0.99!

Action RPG's can be found all over the AppStore. For a while, it seemed like they were out-releasing physics puzzlers. But now that the insane amount of releases has dropped off, seeing only a couple a month these days, a lot of gamers are back to anticipating the next release for the genre.  For those of you who missed out on this one the first time around,...

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