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What Are The Best iOS Games Of All Time? Given the nature of this job, and the fact I make an almost annual pilgrimage to Japan, I’ve been meaning for a while now to get off my butt and learn more of the local language than simply what I need to order a beer.
One of the most popular tower defence games of all time, Fieldrunners has been charming and challenging players on the iPhone, iPad, Android devices, the PSP, PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo DSi since 2008. Subatomic Studios is finally ready to release a sequel, giving fans only a month to get their affairs in order.
We’ve mentioned Namco Bandai’s Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy briefly during the launch of the new iPad, but we never got around to featuring it as a Gaming App of the Day. I don’t know about everyone else, but for me this was because I was too busy playing Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy.
The Xbox 360 was released in 2005. Back then, its three-core PowerPC CPU and ATI R520-based GPU were respectable pieces of hardware. Today, almost 40 per cent of PC gamers have quad-core CPUs and a video card that would disintegrate the Xbox 360′s “Xenos” GPU with a mere glance. But it’s not the PC, or even consoles, that holds the attention of the gaming industry. No, mobile phones are the focus now.
The iPad and the iPhone must be made in China. Ditto for, well, most everything. And it’s not only because of cheap Chinese labour. Or sprawling factories. Or lax regulations. Those are reasons, but there’s another one. And it’s one you might not expect: mud.
The folks behind Brink pull back on the action but throttle up the style with Rad Soldiers, a turn-based multiplayer strategy game for the iPad and iPhone they’re heralding as “guns with friends”. That’s an idea I can get behind.
The people behind Plants Vs. Zombies are adding a ton of new stuff to the iPad version of the game today. That is, it’s “new” if you haven’t played other versions of the game, that is. But, hey, these added modes, all of which have appeared in other, more expensive versions of the game, are mostly pretty good.
