‘Chaos Rings’– Square Enix’s iPhone Exclusive RPG
Last month news broke that video game giant Square Enix was bringing a brand new RPG exclusively to the iPhone, and that it was being developed by a team whose combined resumé consisted of work in both...
View ArticleE3 2010: Square Enix to Also Bring ‘Secret of Mana’ to iPhone
Details are sketchy on this one, but besides Final Fantasy Tactics, it appears Square Enix is also delivering Secret of Mana to the iPhone. The above/right photo by @rpgfancom. Secret of Mana is an...
View Article‘The War of Eustrath’ Review – Tactical RPG for iPhone and iPad
There are a lot of options for turn-based and real-time strategy games on the App Store, and plenty of quality role-playing games too. But if you're looking for a combination of the two, your choices...
View Article‘Chaos Rings for iPad’ Now Available Plus All Square Enix Titles On Sale
As we reported a few months ago, Square Enix's phenomenal iPhone exclusive RPG Chaos Rings was heading to the iPad. Game producer Takehiro Ando already had the game up and running on an iPad just days...
View ArticlePrice Drop Alert – ‘Final Fantasy’ and ‘Final Fantasy II’ On Sale for One Week
One of the great things about the App Store is the many retro titles that have either been ported or remade for iOS devices. In terms of role-playing games, they don't get much more classic than Final...
View ArticleFirst Screens of Upcoming RPG ‘The Shadow Sun’ Look Incredible
At the end of August this year, developer Ossian Studios announced that they were creating a new 3D Western-style RPG for the iOS platform called The Shadow Sun. At the time, there was no indication of...
View Article‘Journey of Fortune: Dragon’s Fire’ for iPad — A Unique RPG, $.99 Today Only
Czech development studio Cinemax has recently released a rather unique sort of role-playing game for the iPad. Designed to feel like an oldschool video game machine, Journey of Fortune: Dragon's Fire...
View Article‘Final Fantasy IV’ Review – An Excellent Port of a Remake of a Classic
I credit Square Enix’s Final Fantasy IV as being the first game to really make me see the wonders of the role-playing genre. Just as FF4 ushered in the golden age of 16-bit RPGs on the SNES, it also...
View Article‘Beastie Bay’ Review – Kairosoft’s take on Tropico-meets-Pokémon
There’s a great story — perhaps apocryphal — about Will Wright designing SimCity to reflect his political beliefs. Specifically, the thinking is that Wright designed the trains and buses in that game...
View ArticleFreebie Alert: ‘Knights of Pen & Paper’ Goes Free, Actual Pen and Paper Still...
Heads up pen and paper role-playing enthusiasts or just anyone looking for a quirky new adventure: you’re going to want to check out Knights of Pen & Paper [Free] which is currently free for the...
View ArticleGDC 2013: Crescent Moon’s ‘Exiles’ Brings a Science Fiction Spin to their...
Crescent Moon Games put out a ton of different styles of games, but they are most widely associated with expansive role-playing games like Aralon [$4.99] and Ravensword Shadowlands [$6.99]. They’re...
View ArticleNew Details on ‘Trism 2′ Emerge, Potentially Coming This Summer
Steve Demeter’s Trism [$2.99] could easily be credited as one of the most influential apps/games when it came to raising awareness of the brave new world of the App Store “gold rush” when it was...
View ArticleNewsletter Hints that ‘Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic’ is Coming to iPad
According to some accidentally revealed evidence spotted by IGN, it looks like BioWare and LucasArts’ classic Star Wars role-playing game Knights of the Old Republic is getting set for release on the...
View Article‘Warhammer Quest’ Strategy Guide: These Tips Will Have Orcs Saying "Wah!"...
So Warhammer Quest [$4.99] finally hit the App Store last week. At least, I think it was last week, based on my glimpses of the outside world when I’ve been able to tear myself away from my iPhone...
View Article‘Merchant to the Stars’ Review – An Item Shop Sim Trampled by Timers
Role-playing games are almost universally about becoming the big damn hero, playing the one central character or party that changes the whole world. No one wants to play the innkeeper, shopkeeper, or...
View Article‘9th Dawn’ Review – On A Quest to Remember Classic RPGs
I remember when role-playing games emphasized discovery, and exploration, as much as the stories it was telling. You were instantly dropped into a world with nothing but your instincts to guide your...
View Article‘Maximus’ Review – Arcade Hack ‘n Slash Action with More than a Few Nods to...
Hack’n slash beat’em ups aren’t exactly a new thing on any platform, and since the arrival (and success) of Castle Crashers many have tried and many have failed to recapture the essence of the genre....
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