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TouchArcade Game of the Week: ‘High Rise – A Puzzle Cityscape’

TouchArcade Rating:The idea behind the TouchArcade Game of the Week is that every Friday afternoon we post the one game that came out this week that we think is worth giving a special nod to. Now, before anyone goes over-thinking this, it doesn’t necessarily mean our Game of the Week pick is the highest scoring game in a review, the game with the best graphics, or really any other quantifiable “best" thing. Instead, it’s more just us picking out the single game out of the week’s releases that we think

SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted’, ‘Monstrum’, and Today’s Other New Releases, Plus the Latest Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for May 22nd, 2020. With it being Friday, we’ve got a lot of new releases to check out today. That includes surprise release Journey to the Savage Planet and the latest release in the Five Nights at Freddy’s series among many others. We’ve also got a ton of new sales to dig into. Let’s have a look and see what’s what! New Releases Journey to the Savage Planet ($29.99) SwitchArcade Highlight! This humorous exploration game hit other platforms a few months

Minecraft Dungeons has charm and potential, but needs lot more time in the furnace

  Minecraft is one of the most popular games on the planet, so it’s natural that Microsoft, after buying creator Mojang some years back, would attempt to apply the genre’s playful, blocky aesthetic to other genres. After modest success with the Story Mode adventure game and Pokémon GO-like Minecraft Earth, they’ve tried their hand at a light action-RPG à la Diablo — and unfortunately come up rather short. For now, that is. Minecraft Dungeons is a sort of my-first-dungeon-crawler type game, a friendly, streamlined version of the genre Diablo created

‘SINoALICE’ Pre-Orders Are Now Live on the App Store Ahead of Its Release This July

We’ve been covering SINoALICE for a while with the original Japanese release and the various announcements for the upcoming English version. While SINoALICE was originally scheduled to launch through Nexon, it was delayed indefinitely and it will finally launch in July from Pokelabo. Pre-registrations for SINoALICE already went live on Google Play and the game has gotten 1,500,000 pre-registrations so far on Android. The global version has two NieR collaborations coming as well. Watch the trailer for the global version of SINoALICE below: The official planned release date for the

‘Towers of Everland’ from Cobra Mobile Is This Week’s New Apple Arcade Release

TouchArcade Rating: Last week, Apple brought another game to the service in the form of Winding Worlds () from KO_OP. Today, we get a new release from Cobra Mobile in the form of Towers of Everland () which is a grid based first person dungeon crawler with a nice aesthetic. Your aim in Towers of Everland is to rebuilt “Great City" ass you slay multiple enemies, find better gear, unlock guilds, and more. It looks like Apple is back to one new release each week with a few game updates.

Kardiachain Sets Sight on the $2 Billion Vietnamese Esports Market

KardiaChain on May 21, 2020, announced its plans of expanding into the lucrative, multi-billion dollar Vietnamese eSports market. Consequently, they have launched the KardiaChain eSports Incentive Platform which is a prediction game for Garena’s Arena of Valor (Liên Quân) tournament on the Vietnamese mobile phone MOBA game. Garena is the largest game portal in South East Asia. Fans will now be allowed to punt on match outcomes using KardiaChain’s KAI tokens.  KardiaChain and Their Mission The decision was borne out of necessity. Because of COVID-19-related disruptions, the blockchain project, in a blog post,

Wonderful Turn-Based Puzzler ‘Swim Out’ is Updated and Currently On Sale for a Buck

TouchArcade Rating:Just shy of three years ago developer Lozange Lab, aka husband and wife duo Mat and Ava, released a game called Swim Out ($0.99) into the App Store. It was a puzzle game that had you guiding your swimmer across a busy pool and to the exit without interfering with any of the other pool-goers. The whole thing was turn-based, with various rules for how and where you could move to, and while each of the game’s more than 100 levels weren’t scared to give your brain a major

SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Arrest of a Stone Buddha’, ‘What The Golf?’, and Today’s Other New Releases, the Latest Sales, and More

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for May 21st, 2020. As we approach the end of the month, we’re seeing more releases arriving. There are a lot of new games to check out today, and that’s how we’ll be spending most of our time here. There are also the usual lists of sales information, and that’s about the lot. Let’s check it out! New Releases Arrest of a Stone Buddha ($14.99) SwitchArcade Highlight! One of the coolest surprises of last year was The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa

Virtually reality: why isn’t VR more popular?

VR is impressive to watch — but it is less impressive to purchaseMany people probably have experience of VR second-hand, rather than from the comfort of their own home. A casual demo in a gaming convention here, or a half hour spent on someone else’s setup there — the interest exists, but the demand does not.The titles already coming out for it are getting better and better, and have already contributed to a branch of Youtubers focusing on VR content. VRChat, Beat Saber and Half Life: Alyx have been raising