In a slice of news that we all saw coming, the Wall Street Journal has revealed that Apple and Google are scrapping it out over exclusive games. The two companies are apparently offering to heavily promote titles in exchange for a period of exclusivity.

True Skate developer True Axis continues to make good on the promise they made back in December of four new skateparks coming to their awesome skateboard simulation game. The first new park, the Schoolyard, hit back in February, and offered a more street-style environment to skate around in. Then just last month the second new park called The Warehouse was released, and it offered a more skatepark-style level with plenty of space and different objects to hit. This week, the third park will be arriving.

I talked fairly recently about my unexpected obsession with Injustice: Gods Among Us on mobile, and the game has proven incredibly popular ever since its launch just over a year ago. NetherRealm Studios has been wonderful about updating Injustice with new features and characters, but ever since its release fans have been clamoring for one major new feature: multiplayer.

Supersolid has announced the launch of its latest game, ‘Pororo Penguin Run’, which features the hit cartoon character Pororo, and his adorable friends. Pororo Penguin Run is Supersolid’s third title, which follows their highly successful games ‘Super Penguins’ and ‘Adventure Town’.

Final Fantasy Agito, Square Enix’s latest iOS title just got a new trailer ahead of its Japanese release in May. Directed by Hajime Tabata, Agito is a 3D RPG featuring real-time combat and stunning CGI cinematics. Set in the same universe as Final Fantasy Type-0, Agito has a new storyline broken down in chapters that are played out in real time and that change based on the decisions you’ll make.

The latest title from DragonVale developer Backflip Studios, Dwarven Den, is scheduled to launch worldwide on iOS on May 1st, the studio announced today. Dwarven Den stars dwarves with hearty beards who must navigate through maze-like levels by mining through various types of blocks and figuring out environmental puzzles, all while collecting loot and avoiding hazards and monsters. Check out the official trailer.

This story just popped up on our radar, and it's pretty rad to see Blizzard trying to shift Hearthstone [Free (HD)] from a game you play in your basement wearing your pajamas to a game that you go somewhere to play with other people. (Optionally still wearing your pajamas, if Magic events are any indication.) Blizzard is calling them a "Fireside Gathering" and the first big one will be held next Saturday, April 26th. They've got a directory of venues up on their site, which is a little limited right now, but considering they only just announced this, I expect there will be many more in short order.

When this week's new releases came and went without a sign from Gameloft's latest Spider-Man movie tie-in game, people were confused. After all, the company had previously announced the game would be out April 17th. Well, they almost made it, as not too long after the clock changed to midnight and the calendar rolled over to the 18th here in the US The Amazing Spider-Man 2 finally did arrive in the App Store.

Candy Crush Saga publisher King Digital Entertainment is bringing the sugary sensation to China this summer with the help of Chinese internet and media firm Tencent, King announced today.

The web version, which launched in 2012, was designed with the mouse cursor in mind. It played like a simulation and real-time strategy game. There may not have been enemies or beasts to slay, but there were things to move on a game board, crops to plant and items to craft.

It's hard to believe that EA's The Simpsons: Tapped Out [Free] has been on the App Store for more than two years, but as of this past March 1st, that is indeed the case. During that time the game has consistently been in the top charts, especially the top grossing chart. While there isn't a whole lot of "game" to The Simpsons: Tapped Out, it's undoubtedly dripping with excellent Simpsons fan service, which is a large part as to why it's done so well. EA has also been great about updating Tapped Out, adding new features and special events to the game that coincide with pretty much every major holiday. This Sunday is Easter, and again Tapped Out has received a new update to celebrate the occasion.

Mobage has been experimenting in shooters for quite a while now. It started with The Drowning [Free] where they tried to mix a brand new control scheme with bite-sized gameplay that was meant to encompass the casual nature of our devices. Then came Lawless [Free], a take on Time Crisis that was quite well done and fun. Their last attempt at defining mobile shooters is called Isolani [Free] and after a soft-launch in a few select countries it is now available worldwide for free.

Appxplore today released Caveboy Escape new update, introduce a new haunted Arctic zone with additional 200 new challenging levels, free to play today. Arctic zone is haunted and protected by Spirits!

Free-to-play publisher Actoz Soft is pleased to announce the global release of its newest mobile title, One For Eleven, a new brand of football management game, for iOS and Android devices. Unrivaled in its strategic and tactical capabilities, One For Eleven brings football management simulations to a new level.

Hey peeps, here I am, reviewing another mobile game, one that resembles Flappy Bird. I am reviewing this one because some people keep asking for more stuff about Flappy Bird. I am not sure if they really want to know more about the game but sometimes I am under the impression that they simply want me to play Flappy Bird... Because.... Ya, we all know the story behind that game.

It’s no secret that Nintendo's Animal Crossing has been highly successful in its handled form, and the 3DS version was even out of stock for quite some time in Japan. It's curious then that we haven't yet seen a game quite like that on iOS. Stolen Couch Games thought that was strange too and they decided to create their own take on it. Castaway Paradise is everything you’d expect from a game of that genre. It features houses you can customize, a village to rebuild and plenty of activities like fishing, farming and bug-hunting.

After a fairly brief soft-launch period, Blizzard's Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft [Free (HD)] has finally arrived in the US App Store. Hearthstone is a card battling game set in the Warcraft universe. It was announced at PAX East last year, and went through a rather lengthy beta testing period on desktop. That beta test was eventually opened up to include anyone, and last month the beta finally ended and Hearthstone was released on desktop.

With the recent rebirth of Dragon Nest Taiwan under new publisher Gameflier, Eyedentity Games also announced that Dragon Nest Tycoon will be launching first in the country. A Monopoly-style mobile game, Dragon Nest Tycoon will be the 2nd mobile game after Dragon Nest Labyrinth.

Ossian Studios' The Shadow Sun was in development for years before finally landing in the App Store last December, but it turned out to be worth the wait. We really enjoyed the game in our review, and it really is one of the more enjoyable Western-style RPGs on iOS. This week, The Shadow Sun received its second update since release. The first update, released in February, was mostly bug fixes, and this latest update contains some fixes as well. But it also includes a new dog companion which you can recruit to fight by your side and generally just keep you company. Yay a dog!

One of the games we saw at GDC during the Big Indie Pitch was ClutchPlay Games' skull-flinger, Skullduggery!. Well, it's got a new trailer now and it's themed for today's US-centric Tax Day. So, if you've got your taxes done, give it a look:

Mutant Labs, creators of Half-Inch Heist, celebrate the success of their new release I'm Aquarius, a 2D space arcade game set to an exclusive remix of the Metronomy single ‘I’m Aquarius’, available free on Google Play and App Store.

Theme park management sim RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 Mobile is now available on iOS, with a Windows PC version slated to launch this holiday, publisher Atari announced.

In a late-night post on its Facebook page, Rocketcat Games officially announced that Wayward Souls will hit the iOS App Store on April 24th. This isn't entirely unsurprising—the game was submitted to Apple earlier this month, after all—but it's nice to have a firm date after a longer-than-expected development cycle.

Here's something neat I found over the weekend: it's called Miniverse, and it's an action-puzzle game in development from a two-person team calling themselves Coding Cat Games. In Miniverse, your goal is to ferry stranded people through a treacherous area of space by plucking their planets out of orbit in your cosmic claw and moving them elsewhere.

Here, we have managed to gather all of the Cheats & Tips for the Cut The Rope 2 mobile game, available to download in both the iTunes App Store and Google Play Store.

Earlier this morning at PAX East, Blizzard announced a new single player campaign for their breakout free-to-play card battler game, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. The new mode is called “Curse of Naxxramas" and takes place in an ancient necropolis of the same name.

Harmonix is moving into the mobile market, and its first foray when it comes to games is a music-based runner called Record Run, studio head Alex Rigopulos announced during his talk at PAX East 2014 today.

Developer IceFlame Ltd struck an odd but incredibly fun mashup when they combined soccer with rally cars in 2012's Soccer Rally, and they've been working diligently on a sequel ever since. The last time we checked out Soccer Rally 2 it was back during GDC last year, and we really liked what we saw. Soccer Rally 2 takes the core formula of the first game but expands on it in just about every way. We've been waiting patiently for Soccer Rally 2, and today IceFlame has announced that the wait won't be too much longer as the game is set to launch on April 24th.

It was back in the middle of 2013 that we first heard about Microsoft’s plan to bring the Age of Empires Franchise to iOS. We originally thought it would be a port of the free to play Age of Empires Online but instead they’re creating an entirely new game in the series.

With the magic of iOS 7, game updates happening in the background is a great way to miss cool new features, content, functionality, and more. Here's some recent updates you might've missed to popular games we've covered in the past:

When your wireframe protagonist shoots seeds out of her bosom, they turn into exact replicas of your hero. The members of your tiny clone clan then all move and jump in exact unison with you.

I think the best news baseball fans have gotten so far this season is that the reworked of the beloved RBI Baseball was going to have a price tag instead of being a free to play game. Well, it's here now, for. If you've been anxiously anticipating RBI Baseball 14, it seems like a good idea to pick it up just to signal to the powers that be that we're willing to pay money for actual video games when this could've so easily just been a freemium grind riding on the coattails of the RBI Baseball brand.

Surprise! There's another Warhammer game in the works. It's officially the one millionth to be announced in the past year. Ok, not really, but it kind of feels that way. This latest is a collaboration between Games Workshop and Roadhouse Interactive, and it's called Warhammer 40K: Carnage.

Independent games developer and publisher ‘Curious Media’ is proud to announce the kickoff of a crowdfunding campaign via KickStarter to complete the development of their innovative multiplatform action-packed puzzler, curiously named ‘Phil The Pill’.

Relevant Games and Hazard Studios are excited to reveal a new gameplay trailer for Scrap Squad, their upcoming action title for Android and iOS. In Scrap Squad, you are an evil genius bent on world domination by making use of...the world's garbage!

A few weeks back, Sega announced a new, mobile-exclusive entry in the beloved Crazy Taxi franchise called Crazy Taxi: City Rush, and today they've soft-launched the title in the Canadian App Store. Crazy Taxi: City Rush was a polarizing announcement for fans of the series, as many worried that a free to play monetization method and simplified "one-touch" gameplay could ruin the Crazy Taxi formula.

Alright so maybe the headline and announcement for Game of Thrones Ascent was a little too negative as I've actually spent some time with it I've started to really appreciate what developer Disruptor Beam did with the IP. The best way to sum it up is it's a kingdom management free to play game, dripping with themes and fan service from the books and TV show. It's still got all the trimmings of a free to play game like timers and crazy currencies, but it's kept me coming back.

What's it like to pilot a powerful starfighter screaming into battle over the surface of hostile alien worlds? Find out in today's new video for Space Noir, the upcoming space-combat PC game from developer N-Fusion and publisher Unity Games.

Gamers are frugal. If you’ve kept up with mobile gaming at all over the past several years, you’re already well aware of the rise of freemium games — they’re free up front, but require a small monetary investment, usually in the form of in-app purchases, for a reasonable rate of progression.

Major League Baseball Advanced Media, MLB's in-house development studio, finally unveiled the first details for the upcoming RBI Baseball franchise reboot last month, and this week they've officially announced that RBI Baseball 14 will be heading to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and iOS on April 9th.

Roguelikes and dungeon crawlers have been a hot thing as of late, and indie developer My Kung Fu Games have their own take on the genre in the works called Rogue Heroes. It's not a traditional top-down dungeon crawl, but a side-scrolling platformer in a similar vein as Ravenous Games' recent (and quite excellent) release Devious Dungeon.

Free-to-play publisher Actoz Soft is pleased to announce its newest mobile title, One For Eleven, a new brand of football management game, coming soon to iOS and Android devices.

Intake, the drug-induced shooter from Auditorium studio Cipher Prime, is on its way to iPad this month. Intake hit Steam for PC and Mac in November, after debuting in the Cipher Prime Humble Weekly Sale.

Last week, Zen Studios announced a new table pack for their popular pinball game Star Wars Pinball [$1.99]. The upcoming table pack will include four new tables, a "Masters of the Force" table featuring both good and evil forces, a "Droids" table featuring C-3PO and R2-D2, an "Episode IV: A New Hope" table, and a table themed around Han Solo and his furry sidekick Chewbacca.

The impact of ‘Game of Thrones’ on the world of popular culture is, at this point, undeniable. Thanks to the success of the HBO program, what began as a series of brutal fantasy novels by George R.R. Martin has transformed into a multimedia juggernaut, with the latest entry being the iOS title, Game of Thrones: Ascent.

The newest installment for Gameday’s puzzle escape series, Doors & Rooms 2, has been released today worldwide on both the iOS and Android stores.

Well that didn’t take long! Just after they’ve released a trailer for the third episode of The Wolf Among Us Telltale has announced over Twitter that it will be available on iOS next week. You should look for it around Thursday, I'd imagine. Here’s the (spoilery) trailer in case you missed it:

You may want to kiss your social life goodbye as Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, Blizzard’s highly successful trading card game, has been soft-launched for the iPad in Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Based on Warcraft’s lore, it may look like a re-skin of Magic the Gathering but beneath the surface is a different beast. Sure you’ll open packs, assemble the best deck you can build and beat your opponents with it, but it does away with terrains.

After April Fool's Day, Supercell has made the real update announcement for Clash of Clans: Clan Wars instead of the previous "Clown Wars" update, they are not making CLOWN WARS or level 5 Valkyrie that destroys 40% of the base when it dies. Yesterday was April 1st, April Fool’s Day.

Joining the ranks of classic matching RPGs like 10000000 and Block Legend, today Everplay has soft-launched Horde of Heroes, their own entry into the genre, in the Canadian App Store. Originally announced last week on our forums, Horde of Heroes is created by Cookiebit, the minds behind Miner Problem and 1001 attempts. We enjoyed both those games quite a bit, so we’re pretty stoked about this one.

The proverbial One Ring of Flappy Bird games was submitted to the App Store yesterday, and soon, one flappy game shall rule them all. It's called Hodappy Bird, and it's by Madgarden, the developer of the similarly awesome Flapthulhu [Free]. If you want your brain to melt from being subjected to the best trailer we've ever posted on TouchArcade, hit play:

While Google Maps is not a game per se, it’s been updated with a neat “gaming-like” function. Starting today you’ll be able to catch Pokémons with your iOS or Android device.

Adam Atomic's Flappybalt is a combination of Flappy Bird and his own game Canabalt. Previously a PC-only game, Flappybalt is now available on iOS and Android for free. Flappybalt was originally made during the Flappy Jam, which was held over a month ago and was designed to demonstrate support for Flappy Bird developer Dong Nguyen. Don't Move developer Steve Richey has since ported Flappybalt to mobile.

The App Store is, as a rule, wild about visually-pleasing puzzle games for the iPhone. iPad-only puzzle games? Not so much. After admitting that sales of Shapist [$2.99 (HD)], an iPad-only block-sliding puzzle game, haven't been as strong as hoped, developer Ori Takemeura announced on our forums that he will be re-releasing the game for iPhone "shortly," complete with new levels and difficulty tweaks. "Work is progressing nicely," he writes later in the thread.

World of Tanks has been a hit on PC since its first version in 2010. A free to play MMO tank battler, World of Tanks puts you in the driver seat of a tank, and thanks to its highly strategic gameplay, it has gained a massive following over the past few years. Developer Wargaming has been hard at work on an iOS version since then. Although it does not share the exact same gameplay, World of Tanks: Blitz is based on the experience that players know and love from the PC version but built from the ground up for mobile devices.

Gameloft’s latest game Captain America: The Winter Soldier is now out worldwide. A tie-in for the movie of the same name that is currently showing in theatres, it follows Captain America in an original adventure co-written by Marvel. You’ll punch and slam your shield at your enemies’ face while assembling a team of soldiers to fight alongside you.

If you're still wild about Mines of Mars, chances are you're going to be very excited for the update that was just announced in our forums by Josh from Crescent Moon. The (currently) single player mining game is going to have a "huge" multiplayer update, which also adds new content in the forum of helmets and armor to unlock, as well as "a few different modes." This is coming after a bug fix update which is currently pending approval.

The App Store moves so fast these days that it's hard to keep track of updates, and iOS 7's stealth background downloading of updates sure doesn't help the situation. Here's some recent updates that you should check out, in case you've got these games hiding somewhere in a forgotten folder on your phone:

Disney released Star Wars: Assault Team, a new free card battler that was originally announced earlier this year and that mustn’t be confused with Konami’s not so great Star Wars Force Collection. Assault Team features Player vs Player combat, an original story set between episode IV and V and a ton of cards to collect. Here’s the launch trailer for it:

FTL’s release date has finally been announced, and I couldn’t be more excited. This roguelike space adventure has been really popular on PC and Mac and you’ll be able to get it on your iPad on April 3rd for $9.99 without any kind of IAPs.

Trials Frontier, Redlynx's mobile extension of the famous console series which was announced at E3 last year, will be available on April 10th the company announced this week. Trials Frontier was received with mixed feelings when it soft launched in a few countries last year. Offered for free, you’d use fuel to complete tracks and get parts for your dirt bike.

Back in December, Games Workshop and developer Eutechnyx announced a new game in the Warhammer universe for Steam and mobile devices called Warhammer 40k: Storm of Vengeance. While that initial announcement came with very few details other than it would be a "lane strategy" game, in late February Eutechnyx released a teaser trailer for Storm of Vengeance along with a few extra bits of info, one of which was a planned release date of March 27th.

We've been pretty dedicated with our various game of the weekchoices over the months since we've started the column, but we're doing something a little different this week since 98% of our attention went towards games we saw at GDC. So, here's the Game of GDC. Weirder yet, since most of the games we've seen are either works in progress or prototypes, we've decided what we're shooting for with this nomination is the game that seems the most promising to be really radical when it's finally released.

Substantial Games producer Pin Wang sent across this gameplay footage of the forthcoming tablet-only line-drawing RTS Ember Conflict this week. We first saw this Autumn Dynasty-inspired fantasy strategy game back in January.Wang told me that the game is still on track for a Fall 2014 release, and Substantial have just revealed that they’re planning on supporting certain Android tablets as well as iPads. But you know how that works: only Android tablets running Android 4.5 Lima Bean with Nvidia positronic chips that have been moistened by true tears of Sergei Brin will be compatible. I’ll keep you posted.

With such hits as Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor and Waking Mars, Tiger Style are easily one of my favorite iOS developers. That's why it was such a big deal this past October when they revealed a new project through a cryptic teaser site that alluded to something called Blackbird Estate.

In August of last year, Vivid Games announced a new 3rd-person action adventure game based in Greek Mythology called Godfire: Rise of Prometheus. The screens they released looked great, and the following month Vivid teased us with a brief trailer, which only made us even more eager to get our hands on Godfire.

The arrival of the iPad has revolutionized many classic gaming pastimes. One example would be board games. While not a complete replacement for physically rolling dice and moving pieces across a board, it sure is convenient to be able to take many board games with you wherever you go, all stored neatly in digital form on your iPad. No pieces to worry about losing, no fuss and no muss.

Playdek revealed a couple of days ago that the first expansion to their well-recieved Dungeons & Dragons iOS board game Lords of Waterdeep is en route. The studio’s Facebook post says that this expansion is called Undermountain, and if things line up with the tabletop version of the game, it will add a new quest area to the game board and associated quests. The Undermountain module was half of the Scoundrels of Skullport expansion that was released on cardboard last year.

Another game we saw today at GDC was Leo's Fortune, a super slick looking physics-based platformer featuring a weird green puff named Leopold. You can inflate yourself to float, interact with puzzle elements in game, and more. Additionally, they've made sure that even though some of the platforming elements can be frustrating, you instantly respawn a few seconds back so you never need to replay entire levels:

GameResort is responsible for some of my favorite iOS games, like Biplane and Downhill Bowling, and they're at GDC this week showing off their latest effort Adventure Beaks. It's a runner, which admittedly is a tough sell nowadays, but hear me out as this one is incredibly well done. The level designs are wonderful, and there's a whole bunch of them, as well as an extensive character customization system. Also, adorable penguins. We take a lengthy look at Adventure Beaks in the video below.

You may be familiar with Ensomniac Studios by their iOS game Glint [Free], which was just released to the App Store last week. The one-man studio is here at GDC showing off a new iOS gaming project, tentatively titled Quest. It's a side-scrolling runner heavily inspired by Temple Run, which is the first game that got Ensomniac's Ryan Martin interested in mobile gaming in the first place. Check out the hands-on demo.

We're not big into previewing many of these kind of timer-based multi-currency free to play games, but Here Be Monsters seems neat because it includes everything. You like crafting? They got it. Collecting, trapping monsters, fishing, tweaking out your homestead? They got it. They're billing it as a "light MMO" and while it might really not appeal to the gamer-y crowd of TA, it's neat to see how expansive these games are getting.

GDC has officially kicked off for us at TouchArcade, and one of the first games we've seen is Naiad Entertainment's Sneaky Sneaky. It's something of a dungeon crawler with stealth elements, as well as some light puzzle solving and enemy battles. Here's a video where Naiad explains the game by going through a few demo levels they built just for GDC.

Last week we told you that Halfbrick had soft-launched their latest creation Bears vs. Artin the Canadian and Australian App Stores, and today during GDC they've released the first official gameplay trailer for the game. If you haven't been able to check out the soft-launch version and are curious what the game's about, check out the trailer.

There were some other things I was planning on showing you this morning but I’ve bumped them all back since seeing this trailer for forthcoming point-and-click adventure The Frostrune. Put your headphones in and watch this, I promise it’ll be the spookiest thing you see this morning. Unless you work the day shift at an insane asylum.

When Clancy named Chroma Squad as one of Pocket Tactics‘ most anticipated games of 2014, he did so on the strength of the game’s memorably weird set-up (run your own Power Rangers-esque TV production company) and the promise of developer Behold Studios’ first game, Knights of Pen & Paper – because we hadn’t actually seen much gameplay footage of the game since it was revealed last summer.

Last year we first heard that Lucasarts designer Bill Tiller was getting stuck into a new adventure game, almost 20 years after he’d worked on point-and-click classics Full Throttle and Curse of Monkey Island. Judging from the trailer, Perils of Man certainly has that a touch of that Lucasarts aura about it.

Whoever bought the rights to Atari’s intellectual properties last year isn’t wasting any time in getting a return on that investment. If you go to RollerCoasterTycoon.com right now, you’ll see a landing page trumpeting the announcement that an iOS-exclusive RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 is coming soon.

Way back in the nebulous past of 2012 we heard that well-regarded browser-based CCG Card Hunter would be making its way to iPad & Android. The Flash version of Card Hunter, which combines deck-building and tactical combat with a delightful tabletop game-within-a-game art style, won over a lot of fans last year — including Adam Smith at Pocket Tactics spirit guide RPS.

Full Control’s Space Hulk for iOS got off to a pretty rocky start in 2013, but a lot of the bugs and annoyances that fouled the launch edition have been subsequently rooted out. With the game steadied to a degree that satisfies the Emperor, the Danish devs have turned to releasing more content.

Rovio has lifted the lid off of the new Angry Birds game that they began teasing just a few days ago. It's called Angry Birds Epic, and get ready for this: it's a turn-based role-playing game. Seriously.

If you're new to the world of iOS gaming (and by new, I mean "not around in early 2009ish") chances are you've never heard of Hand Circus. Well, they were responsible for what was easily among the very best of the early iOS games, Rolando.

I normally reserve my haughtiest, most majestic scoff for gameplay-free trailers but shall we agree to make an exception for This War of Mine? It’s a game that takes place in a war zone but flips the script by casting you as the leader of a band of civilians trying to survive amidst the chaos.

Is your spider-sense tingling? Well you should probably get that checked out, because you are not Spider-Man. But if you were Spider-Man, that tingling sensation would likely be due to the fact that there's a new The Amazing Spider-Man movie coming out this year, and Gameloft is working on a movie-tie in to launch right alongside it.

I Dig It: Journey to the Core is the next release from Enigmo: Exploremakers Team Chaos, which puts you in the cab of a Dig-Dug/Motherlode-style mining game with a unique twist: fluid dynamics. When you come across pockets of uncrossable lava in the procedurally-generated 2D world, you can drain it out of your path, or divert water into it to cool the lava into rock. Very clever.

Dedicated PTers will recall that I was rather delighted with the preview build of First Strike, a nuclear war RTS from Swiss devs Feinheit/Blindflug. The game is now available worldwide for iPad and it gets a firm handshake and pat on the back from me. Remember, I’m aged and slow and usually hand RTS games off to younger hands like Clancy — but First Strike was the perfect pace for me.

Developer Spike Chunsoft and publisher Aksys Games have announced that the 2009 Nintendo DS adventure game 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors will be coming to mobile in a slightly modified version called 999: The Novel, Polygon reports.

If you're an actual Australian or Canadian (or a "Australian" or "Canadian" with an iTunes account in either of those regions) you can check out Halfbrick's new puzzle game right now. It's called Bears vs. Art, and it's a free puzzler where you roll your bear around through a series of calculated moves to wreak havoc in art galleries. Check out the teaser trailer:

Space Noir? But space is already noir. Maybe “space” is being used as an adjective here. Like the way car companies name colours. Champagne gold. Caribou beige. Get your 2015 Citroën DS in Space noir.

Talking with Republique producer and Camoflaj founder Ryan Payton was one of my favorite interviews of last last year. I mean that on every level: it was a fascinating, fast-moving conversation with a smart, creative developer. I was crushed when it turned out that I didn’t like his game very much.

Back in late January, a trailer caught my eye for a game called Glorkian Warrior: The Trials of Glork, an upcoming iOS project that blended the comic stylings of James Kochalka with the video game chops of Pixeljam Games.

Back at the beginning of February we caught our first glimpse of First Strike, a real-time strategy game about nuclear was that was equal parts beautiful and gut-wrenching. Swiss developers Feinheit (now working as Blindflug Studios) got in touch today to say that the game is done and releasing next Wednesday night for iOS and Android.

I hate to be presumptuous but you have to get Ascension now — Playdek have just made it free. Click right here, open up the App Store, and download it. Your boss isn’t looking, quick. Did you get it? High five.

If you won’t take my word for it that a game about mass-transit system design can be a tense, white-knuckle thriller, go play the free in-browser beta of Mini Metro yourself. You’re the administrator of the city’s subway, and stations (and passengers) are popping up all the time. The city, in its bureaucratic wisdom, allocates you just one upgrade per week: a new line, additional cars for existing lines, under-river tunnels and the like.

The iOS platform has grown at such an incredible pace during its short lifetime, and mobile hardware has advanced to a point where it rivals dedicated gaming consoles. It's remarkable. But it also means it's becoming harder and harder to really bowl people over with fancy visuals.

Last week I heard from Glitchsoft, the makers of that perfectly-styled He-Man mobile game from 2012. The Canadian devs wanted to announce that they were putting the finishing touches on Uncanny X-Men: Days of Future Past for iOS and Android and that it would be available in May. Which very conveniently will land it right alongside the rush of promotion for Marvel’s Tyrion Lannister-starring X-Men film of the same name.

I know that we tend to regard touchscreen action games with the squinty suspicion that greets SyFy Channel original films and Ma Faraday’s Sunday roasts but I’ve had my eye on Crescent Moon’s Mines of Mars for quite a while now. This game combines the 2D mining ofMotherlode with a bit of Metroid-style action and it looks absolutely beautiful.

Owen asked me to have a look at how The Inner World is holding up since the adventure game received a much-needed patch the other day. A good three months after its release, and nearly two since Iweighed in on the bug-ridden iOS port of Studio Fizbin’s acclaimed PC adventure game, and I can now safely say that I’ve completed The Inner World, and that the game seems to be in a state where, well, it’s actually possible to finish it at all. “Most likely” possible, that is.

I’m not going to attempt to out-funny this trailer for The Reaper, because that’s a sucker’s game. But you should definitely watch this trailer for the forthcoming puzzler from Danish devs Kong Orange. It takes a page from Final Destination and has you setting up elaborate Rube Goldberg scenarios to help Death bag the souls he’s after. Death is also quite an enthusiastic dancer, it would appear.

I do know that the keenly-anticipated expansion to last year’s RPG of the Year runner-up is out right now for desktops on Steam. I’ve asked Harebrained Schemes if they had a target date for when the mobile version of Dragonfall would be released and they replied with their usual circumspection that they did not.