Reloaded Productions and Blazing Griffin have announced their upcoming game for iOS, APB Retribution, a top-down shooter set in the same universe its predecessor APB Reloaded. APB Retribution is mainly designed to companion the APB Reloaded MMO by exploring a different style of action-based gameplay. The game takes players from the main streets of San Paro and puts them into the the city’s backstreets. In the pursuit of vengeance, players must make use of Retribution’s top-down combat where players are forced to make fast decisions to live. With the announcement of APB Retribution, the duo have released the first trailer as well which you can see below.

Features:

• Play as a member of San Paro’s Fallen — the dangerous and disposed living on the backstreets of San Paro.
• Complete a single player story as you seek retribution against ‘Old Harry’ — the Horca leader who left you for dead in an attempted gangland killing.
• Battle Horca clan members, bosses, and other characters in tough-to-clear urban locations.
• Use a variety of weaponry and equipment to deal with your enemies.
• Become skilled in fluid, top-down, tactical combat with an intuitive touch interface.

Right now we don’t have word on the official release date, however, APB Retribution is set to release sometime this month.

Mountain Sheep, the developer of Minigore, Ice Rage and Bike Baron, have announced that their newest iOS game KingHunt is now available on the App Store. In a first for the genre, KingHunt features a campaign where you play as the hero and must regain the lands of the Heart Isle as the Evil Kingmaker who claimed control over it.  With his henchmen kings placed throughout the once peaceful lands and as the hero, your goal is to defeat his army and restore balance. KingHunt features twelve different lands to explore, an epic soundtrack as well as Mountain Sheep‘s signature “HD block” graphics style. In addition, there are over 200 different enemies, 110 challenges with 76 achievements and 100 magical trinkets to collect.

Features:

• Great powers at your fingertips: freeze time, chain explosives and summon meteor showers.
• 200 different enemies: jumping, flying, swimming, and roping down at you.
• 12 fantastic worlds: to discover and claim back from Kingmaker’s dominion.
• 100 magical trinkets: collect them to help you become the greatest KingHunter on Game Center.
• 110 challenges and 76 achievements: to beat and to brag about to your Game Center friends.
• DST (Dynamic Slicing Technology): infinite slice variants through four degrees of freedom.

“We felt it was time to introduce some new ideas into a genre that is largely known for only one game,” said Mountain Sheep COO Teppo Soininen. “We’ve injected a sense of depth and fantastic locales, with complex lighting models and a ton of particles and polygons on screen. KingHunt is a natural evolution.”

Interested? You can download KingHunt on the App Store for $0.99 by clicking here.

Ubisoft has finally announced that the next game in the Assassin’s Creed franchise, Assassin’s Creed Pirates, is now available for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch on the App Store for $4.99. In the game the year is 1716, the dawn of the Golden Age of piracy in the Caribbean. So, players take on the role of Alonzo Batilla, a young Captain who is embarking on an quest to find La Buse’s legendary treasure. Along the way Alonzo crosses paths with famous pirates like Blackbeard, Bellamy and Hornigold only to find himself caught in the middle of the fight between the Assassins and Templars. In Assassin’s Creed Pirates, players must manage their crew, upgrade their ship, recruit new members and fight in real-time naval battles. The latest addition to the franchise also includes more then 50 missions, changing weather conditions and 50 pirating techniques. Ubisoft has an excellent track record when it

Features:

• Recruit the finest crew members and learn more than 50 new pirating techniques to become a better captain and the true master of naval combat.
• Upgrade your vessel using the massive bounty plundered from your encounters.
• Fight in real-time naval battles all over the Caribbean Sea.
• Changing weather conditions directly impact the gameplay and redefine every landscape.
• Enjoy more than 50 story and side missions, search for nearly one hundred treasures and lost parchments and compete with your friends for the highest bounty.

Interested? You can download Assassin’s Creed Pirates on the App Store for $4.99 by clicking here.

Independent developer, Hourblast, has announced the launch of their latest game Mech Conquest, a unique 3D action-strategy game for iOS. The goal in the game is to rule the galaxy, so players must choose a side and build up their fleet with an an army of customizable 3D battle Mechs. Then, players recruit pilots to command their robot warriors to fight in online battles against other players, capture enemy planets and take over the galaxy for their chosen side. As gamers win battles, they are rewarded with in-game currency which can be used to buy extra packs of Mech parts. These parts vary in scarcity and can be combined to create powerful weapons or other components to boost the Mech’s abilities. In addition to building and upgrading, players also control spaceships that mine and gather resources, research new weapons and discover new technologies to build up their army. The developers will also be adding new content to the game in the upcoming months as well.

Features:

• Build your Mechs, then watch them fight it out in epic 3D battles across multiple  exotic locations.
• Create the ultimate battle Mech from thousands of possible combinations.
• Recruit the hottest pilots with their special bonus abilities to give you the valuable edge in battle.
• Expand your mothership and your fleet to transport your armored warriors to the front line and dominate the galactic war — from mining ships and research facilities to crew quarters, hangar bays and more.
• Win battles to earn currency to collect rare and ultra-rare parts that will give you an edge against your opponents.
• Battle online against real opponents and advance the cause of your chosen Faction.
• Receive in-game tokens for every friend you invite, or ask them for help when you’re out of fuel.

Interested? You can download Mech Conquest on the App Store for free by clicking here, however, there are in-app purchases.

Game Insight has announced the launch of their much anticipated tank combat MMO game, Tank Domination, for iPad which is available at no cost to download. Tank Domination lets virtual tank commanders go to war across 20-player battles in a variety of environments. The game features advanced military vehicles, ranging from conventional mobile armor to experimental prototypes. Players can choose from a selection of 30 Russian, American, and Chinese tanks to go to battle in. In addition, Tank Domination also features a variety of customization options and in-game social features that allows players to get assistance from their friends. Tank Domination also offers in-depth team tactics and multiplayer that lets up to 20 players battle in real-time synchronous matches.

Features:

• Real-time armored vehicle combat and detailed 3D graphics.
• Unique maps in three different regions of the world and realistic physics.
• Destructible environment: knock down walls and buildings.
• 10 on 10 team PvP.
• 30 different vehicles, including the devastating SPGs: modern models as well as hi-tech prototypes.
• 700+ ammo types and 900+ modifications.
• 30+ special items: First Aid Kits, Repair Kits, Reactive Armor, Mines, Compensators, Mufflers, Camouflage Nets, and more.
• Quick-message system: coordinate actions with your teammates.
• Intuitive controls: double tap to select a target and tap again to fire.

Interested? You can download Tank Domination on the App Store for free by clicking here, however, there are in-app purchases.

Ubisoft‘s popular online card game for iOS, Might & Magic Duel of Champions, has recently received an update that includes the much anticipated Five Towers expansion. The recent expansion features a lot of new content, but most notably there’s 80 new cards ranging from buildings, spells, creatures and more. In addition players can now use cards in multiple decks, however, the maximum number of decks allowed is 30. In Might & Magic Duel of Champions, the Five Towers of Shantiri are controlled by Gazal, the Herald of the Void and her four generals. These towers are important to Gazal’s plan to cut off the existence for all living beings. But Legendary Wizards of the Seven Cities have called allies and resources to end to her reign.

Here’s the full list of new features and changes:

• 80 new cards, including creatures, spells, fortunes, events, and buildings.
• New card type: Buildings
  • Add them to your deck as you would creatures, spells, and fortunes.
  • Play buildings from your hand onto any battleground position you control.
  • Deploy or move creatures onto buildings to give them new abilities and buffs.
  • 11 building cards introduced with Five Towers.
• New card type: Melee-Shooter
  • Melee Shooter creatures can be deployed onto any battleground position you control, like flyer creatures.
  • They are affected by any ability that affects any melee or shooter creature.
• Ability to use cards in multiple decks: Players will now be able to use any card they own in every deck they create.
  • You will now be able to use any card you own in every deck you create.
  • If you have 1 Dark Assassin then you can use 1 Dark Assassin in every deck. If you have 4 Dark Assassins then you can use 4 Dark Assassins in every deck.
  • For server stability reasons, you will be limited to owning 30 decks at a time, however, any additional decks you have already created before this release will not be deleted.

• Card Balance updates:
  • Mana Storm: Instead of paying 1 extra resource when you play a spell, you pay 1 more resource after playing a spell, and if you cannot then your Hero will receive 1 damage.
  • Week of Taxes: Instead of paying 1 extra resource when you play a fortune, you pay 1 more resource after playing a fortune, and if you cannot then your Hero will receive 1 damage.
  • Crusader Treasurer: Might requirement increased from 3 to 4.
  • Might of Nature: Only affects melee creatures in the front line.
• New Creature abilities:
  • Water Heal: When water damage is dealt to this creature, heal it by the same amount instead.
• Bug fixes.

Interested? You can download Might & Magic Duel of Champions for free on the App Store by clicking here, however, there are in-app purchases.

Well known developer and publisher, Namco Bandai Games, have announced that their latest iOS title Ridge Racer Slipstream is set to land later this month on the App Store. Bringing the series’ popular drifting aspect combined with a new racing engine, Ridge Racer Slipstream raises the yet again bar for the franchise. Featuring a brand new racing engine designed for iOS, Ridge Racer Slipstream also has various gameplay modes, 20 unique tracks (10 tracks driven forward and backward) and 12 different vehicles to customize. In total, there are over 300 different ways to customize the vehicles where players can change the colors, rims, body kits and vinyls. Namco will also release extra content in future updates as well as an multiplayer mode, however, we’re unsure when that will be. We are told that there’s a full-featured Career Mode plus three different race types in Arcade Mode –  Regular, Quick, and Knockout Races. We’ve also uploaded a nice gallery of 13 screenshots that you can see here. Last but certainly not least, you can watch a quick trailer for Ridge Racer Slipstream below.

Like always, we’ll keep you updated if we hear more news from Namco. Enjoy!

Danish development studio, Full Control, has announced that the first Warhammer 40,000 based title Space Hulk is now available to download on the App Store. Priced at $9.99, iOS gamers can now get Space Hulk for the iPad and it even features cross-platform play between iPad, PC and Mac. Three campaigns via in-app purchases are also available — Messenger of Purgatory, Sword of Halcyon and the Defilement of Honour. Set in an ancient ship lost in space, players must lead a small army of fearless Space Marine Terminators to battle for survival against alien Genestealers. Based on the “Sin of Damnation” campaign from the 3rd edition board game, Space Hulk includes 12 levels in the single-player mode. Here’s some extra details on the three DLC packs:

• Messenger of Purgatory ($2.99) — Retrieve the remains of a fallen Blood Angel from amongst a nest of Genestealers.
• Sword of Halcyon ($4.99) — Race against the clock to reclaim the Sword of Halcyon before it is overwhelmed by aliens.
• Defilement of Honour ($4.99) — Hunt aliens through the air duct riddled Defilement of honor.

Features:

• Turn-based tactical strategy game based on the classic game mechanics.
• 12 missions from the classic board game, and 3 brand new prequel missions.
• 3 additional campaigns available as DLC.
• Beautifully dark and labyrinthine 3D environments.
• Singleplayer versus challenging AI.
• Head-to-head multiplayer allows you to recreate the board game experience against a friend.
• Cross platform multiplayer between Windows PC, Mac and iPad. Play asynchronously against friends and foes on multiple platforms.
• Enhanced touch controls designed for iPad.
• High definition graphics for retina displays.

Interested? You can download Space Hulk on the App Store for $9.99 by clicking here, however, there are in-app purchases.