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Coming Soon to Xbox Game Pass for PC: Ori and The Will of the Wisps, Pikuniku, and More

If you fired up the new Xbox (beta) app for PC recently, you probably noticed a nice shiny new addition: Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary that has joined Halo: The Master Chief Collection. And if you keep it open, you’ll see the pre-download for Ori and the Will of the Wisps is also available (because you’ll want to play it on day one). Now, keep that Xbox (beta) app open because we have more games coming at you! Coming Soon to Xbox Game Pass for PC The Lord of the Rings:

‘Castlevania: Symphony of the Night’ Is Now Available on iOS and Android as a Premium Port with Controller Support

TouchArcade Rating: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night ($2.99) from Konami just had a surprise release on iOS and Android. The game that debuted on PS1 has been ported to iOS and Android as a premium game with a few additional features. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night includes the full game on mobile with its amazing original soundtrack and visuals. The iOS and Android release includes controller support and has a new continue feature. I see Game Center achievements have been included on iOS. Check out a screenshot from the port

Apple Arcade: ‘No Way Home’ Review – Show Me What You Got!

Mindless shooting in space is always fun. There’s something relaxing about killing alien ships in the middle of nowhere. It takes the fear of being stranded millions of miles away from home off your mind. Enter No Way Home, a fun shoot’em up game brought by SMG Studio, the team behind games like Death Squared and One More Line. In No Way Home, you play as Cho, the former Dutchess Start Captain. After the ship freezes for millions of years and is going to be wrecked by a bunch of

‘Stardew Valley’ iOS vs Nintendo Switch – What Platform Should You Buy it On?

TouchArcade Rating: When Stardew Valley ($7.99) was announced for mobile, I was very excited. I already loved the game and had played it for a while across PS4, PC, and Nintendo Switch with the Switch version getting the maximum playtime of the lot. When it arrived on iOS, it was a fantastic port that has only improved over time. As with most indie games, the Nintendo Switch and mobile versions are on the spectrum for portable gaming fans. I already compared Dead Cells on iOS and Nintendo Switch and decided

‘Company of Heroes’ for iPad Review – Excellent Portable Real Time Strategy

TouchArcade Rating: Originally released on PC back in 2006, Company of Heroes ($13.99) is now on iPad thanks to Feral Interactive. The real time strategy classic has been adapted for touchscreen with two control options and a plethora of enhancements in its newest incarnation on iOS as a premium release. Since this is a Feral Interactive port, expectations are very high given their superlative track record. I’ve been playing Company of Heroes on a first generation iPad Pro (9.7") over the last week and the conversion is mostly everything I

‘Repulsive’ is a Modern Take on ‘720º’ with Hoverboards, Coming March 20th and Available for Pre-Order Now

After releasing their excellent Crossy Road-like dungeon crawler Skeletomb (Free) way back in 2015, developer Punk Labs graced us with two more winners in subsequent years. There was the crazy wavelength matching game Kerflux (Free) in 2016 and the equally crazy if not crazier Raster Prime ($2.99) in 2017. Since then though it’s been crickets city from this promising studio. So I was both surprised and elated to learn today that Punk Labs has a new project coming out really soon, and it looks like those few years of silence

SwitchArcade Round-Up: Reviews of ‘Snack World’, ‘Darksiders Genesis’, and ‘SEGA AGES Sonic 2’, Today’s New Releases and the Latest Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for February 24th, 2020. In today’s article, we’ve got full reviews of three recent releases: Snack World, Darksiders Genesis, and SEGA AGES Sonic the Hedgehog 2. We’ve also got summaries of two new releases, and a surprisingly hefty list of sales to check out. Let’s roll on into it! Reviews Snack World: The Dungeon Crawl – Gold ($49.99) Let me begin this review by saying that I could see some people really getting into Snack World. There’s a lot to do,

The Big ‘Stardew Valley’ 1.4 Update Is Finally Live on iOS Bringing Back PC Save Transfer, Adding Loads of New Content, and More

TouchArcade Rating: The big Stardew Valley ($7.99) 1.4 content update went live on Android recently but iOS users have been told that the update is “coming soon" for quite a while. This is a major update to the game adding a new end game mystery, new events, fish ponds, a new farm map, 60 new items, 14 new music tracks, massive improvements to collections, and a lot more. The full patch notes are here but these include spoilers so avoid them if you have been spoiler free so far. The

‘Dragon Quest of The Stars’ from Square Enix Is Now Available Worldwide with Servers Going Live Tomorrow

TouchArcade Rating: Last year, Square Enix announced plans to bring Dragon Quest of The Stars (Free) worldwide. Dragon Quest of The Stars is a free to play Dragon Quest experience for iOS and Android that launched in Japan back in 2015. The game has a turn based battle system with skill gauges and supports multiplayer with up to four players in total. Square Enix has been saying the game will launch on February 25th but it is available for download now on both iOS and Android. Servers will be going

A New Setup – The TouchArcade Show #435

Ayyyyyyy we’re back again with another normal* episode of The TouchArcade Show. I’ve completed my move to Tennessee, and set up all my recording stuff in a slightly different way so if things sound a little different it’s either because I’m using a slightly different software package to do the podcast or because I just have way more carpet than I did before. Either way, we recap what’s been going on both with my move and with all the iOS gaming happenings (along with a few Switch stories). It’s a