Chillingo recently released a Greek mythology-inspired platformer called NyxQuest onto the App Store. The game has been ported from the Nintendo WiiWare version and offers gorgeous visuals along with great platforming action.
Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim, a port of a classic PC game, has recently hit the App Store as a universal app. This is a fantasy-RPG, real-time strategy, and sim hybrid with gameplay that offers indirect control of units. You have to influence your people, instead of directly ordering them where to go or what to do.
Anomaly Warzone Earth is already available on the NZ App Store and should hit your store within 24 hours. The game has great visuals and is being ported from the Mac and PC. It also gained critical success due to the mix of offensive weapons you can use to attack enemy structures.
A classic Amiga game is hitting the iDevices as a universal app on Thursday. The game is called Defender of the Crown and is based on medieval England. You will be controlling the Saxons and fighting it out with rival factions.
Ravenous Games have made their retro platformer, League of Evil, free of charge for 24 hours. Grab it while its hot because it comes highly recommended for platforming fans.
A popular Facebook game, with organized crime elements, is being ported to the iPhone. The game is called Crime City and should be arriving on the App Store sometime this month.
A recently launched app and service allows you to put loyalty cards on your iPhone and use them with various retailers. The app is called Stampt and is available for free on the App Store. The big draw is the ability to have all these cards in one app without having to carry them around in your purse or wallet.
Do you enjoy iPhone platformers with a retro feel? If you do, check out Meganoid. The game received its most massive update yet; adding new levels, gameplay elements, and a fresh character to play as.
Check out EA's latest racing game to hit the App Store. Shift 2 Unleashed is a sequel to EA's Need for Speed Shift that offered realistic and sim-oriented gameplay. The new game expands on this formula with new cars, tracks and features.
Jeff Minter from Llamasoft has some footage of what to expect from his next iOS game. The video shows a psychedelic goat jumping around a level and eating grass for a high score.
If you enjoy real-time strategy or tower defense games, check out Bio Defense. The game has recently been updated with a set of new features and various optimizations.
Bizango Blast is a new game to hit iOS and has been created with the Unreal engine. The game's visuals consist of a cartoon art-style that gives it its own personality. Other features include five different worlds and a total of 50 levels to play through.
Check out Requiem on the App Sore. The game offers a 3D take on the endless runner genre, but with a twist. You can use tilt controls to run and move around the levels.
A classic board game that has won numerous awards, is now available on the iPad. Puerto Rico HD is a board game set in the times of colonial Spain and puts you in the role of a governor in charge of one of the islands of the Spanish colony; Puerto Rico.
Do you enjoy testing your problem-solving skills and logical thinking by playing 3D puzzle games? If so, check out Hope's Quest for the iPad. The game is inspired by a Playstation 1 classic, called Intelligence Qube.
An open world racing game will be hitting iOS soon, it's called Forever Drive. It will have a mode for user creation of tracks as well as the ability to share them over a Wi-Fi connection. The visual style appears to be heavily influenced by Tron.
If you enjoy multiplayer-based, first-person shooters, check out the trailer for Emotional Robots' upcoming game, Warm Gun. Warm Gun is set in the wild wild west, but also mixes in some sci-fi-based elements and special effects from another era. The art style is also very steampunk-like. Look for it sometime this month.
A new website and teaser have been created for the upcoming iOS horror FPS game, The Dark Meadow. The game is powered by the Unreal Engine and will offer stunning graphics. Look for the release sometime this month.
Gameloft has been doing quite well as of late. In fact, the iOS gaming company's app sales have gone up by 15 percent during the first half of 2011 and they don't look like they will be slowing down anytime soon.
A follow-up to Foursaken Media's Bug Heroes is now available as a universal app. Bug Heroes Quest is a story-based adventure rather than just a arcade-style action game.
Anomaly: Warzone Earth is finally hitting the App Store. The game has been enthusiastically anticipated and should be available within two weeks.
Halfbrick Studios has released a new trailer showing some of the gameplay of their upcoming endless runner called, Machine Gun Jetpack. The game should be available sometime this August.
A new retro-inspired RPG has hit the iPhone called, Guardian Saga. The game offers turn-based battles from a first person perspective along with 8-bit style visuals.
