Keeping tabs with Bandai Namco, they’ve recently announced that PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX has landed on the Apply TV for players to enjoy on the big screen. PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX for Apple TV will include the same features and gameplay as on mobile devices, however, players will use the Siri remote instead of their fingers. Throughout the game players venture through 132 intense mazes, collecting dots and power pellets in order to destroy the ghosts. There are a total of 10 zones and three different game modes, and players must try to keep up their momentum by successfully navigating the levels and avoiding ghosts to climb the leaderboards.

Interested? PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX is available on the App Store for $4.99 and there are no in-app purchases. Continue reading this post ->

Emoji Party by Tiny Hearts Limited is a charades game designed to be played anywhere on your iPhone or Apple TV. The game combines both charades and emojis to make a fun, innovative and yet tricky game which can be played with friends and family.

The game has a tutorial when you first start it showing the ins and outs of the application. To play Emoji Party you first pick from multiple categories such as Emotions, Animals, Entertainment and People. Other options such as Sports and Phrases can be purchased through an in app purchase.

Once you have picked a category one player must place the phone to their head. Once the game begins the other players must act out the emojis on the screen for the player who had the phone to guess. If they get it correct they flip the phone down, to pass the charade they flip it up.

They have ninety seconds to get as many right as possible. Others can then try to beat that time.

The games controls are simple and easy for everyone to learn. Although flipping the phone can be difficult, especially for the person with the phone to their head, it’s made easier by a sound prompt which alerts the user when they successfully flip the phone.

The use of emojis for charades is a great idea and is enjoyable whilst playing with friends. It does bring problems with some emojis very difficult to act out and it feels that on occasions some rounds have much harder charades than others. I would also have liked the addition of a counter which monitors the players score both in the corner of the screen (so others can keep track) and by saying your score after each flip of the phone.

Despite some slight adjustments needed Emoji Party is still a fun and innovative game that manages to use the iPhone’s display and gyroscope to its advantage to create an enjoyable experience for families and friends to enjoy.

Emoji Party – The Ultimate Party Game is available for $1.99 on the App Store. Continue reading this post ->

With Christmas just around the corner, it’s that time of the year where developers all across the App Store are updating their games with new content in relation to Christmas and winter. So kicking things off, we got word that Harmonix and Tilting Point recently released a special holiday update for their music game Beat Sports. This latest update brings nine original, single-player levels to the galaxy, three for each mini-game, and each of these stages features its own new song. Taking it a step further, there’s a bonus playable song for the multiplayer mini-game Buddy Ball. Players can also unlock special seasonal outfits, like the ski suit and winter hat, as well as new bats.

Beat Sports is available on the App Store for the Apple TV, however, if you only have one Siri remote you can get the official remote app for free. All in all though, be sure to grab the update if you already have the game downloaded and be sure to look out for more holiday updates coming throughout the month. Continue reading this post ->

As confirmed by Crescent Moon Games, we just received word that their upcoming retro arcade game NeoArcade is set to land on Apple TV next Thursday. Revealed a couple weeks ago, the game’s trailer showed off a good deal of gameplay footage and gave us a look into what we can expect. Developed by Claymore Games, NeoArcade features four gameplay modes — NeoFire, NeoSmash, NeoTanks, and NeoCycles — and will eventually make its way onto iOS as well. Right now we’re not aware of the pricing model, however, we’ll just have to wait and see. Apart from that though, NeoArcade will feature one/two player modes, Game Center leaderboards, achievements, as well as support for the Apple TV remote.

Here are the four gameplay modes in detail:

• NeoFire – Frantic arcade action, unleash a bullet storm against your opponent and send the puck into their goal using speed and accuracy.
• NeoSmash – Smash through 100+ levels of classic brick breaker action brought bang up to date using an arsenal of awesome power ups.
• NeoTanks – Take on the AI in wave after wave of enemies or challenge friends over 100 arenas in a fight to the death.
• NeoCycles – Multiple single player modes, battle opponents, battle time or battle space. Destroy your friends in intense 2P versus mode!

This is all that we’ve got for now, but we’ll definitely keep you up to date if anything changes. Continue reading this post ->

MacPaw, a long time favorite Mac app developer of ours, has officially launched MacPaw Labs as well as three new tvOS apps that are apart of the project. Based off of the company’s announcement, MacPaw Labs is a side-project that has been initiated to support innovations and enhance creativity within the entire company. MacPaw team members were given additional time and resources to work on their side projects, which has brought to life three new tvOS apps:

• Open the World: countries and capitals quiz to compete with friends.
• Opti: a tvOS app with exercises for eyes relaxing and training.
• GIFtv: addictive and endless gif reel with background music from iTunes’ popular charts.

Even though the Apple TV’s App Store is still slowly growing, it’s nice to see developers take a different perspective on things. Sure playing games on a large living room TV is fun, however, seeing some variety like this is awesome nonetheless. Continue reading this post ->

Germany-based mobile games studio Deep Silver Fishlabs has announced the release of their space action shooter Galaxy on Fire – Manticore Rising on the App Store on the new Apple TV. This new game, which serves as a prequel to the upcoming mobile game Galaxy on Fire 3 –- Manticore, is not a port of a pre-existing iOS game. But instead, it’s a exclusively available for the Apple TV featuring action-packed gameplay and controls built just for the new Siri Remote.

The story of Galaxy on Fire – Manticore Rising circles around the rookie pilot, Hayley “Manticore” Snocom’s, and her attempts to save her friends and crew from a supremacy of space pirates in a distant world called the Neox Sector. Following the storyline of Galaxy on Fire, these events directly lead up to the conflict of the mobile game Galaxy on Fire 3 –- Manticore, which is set to be released on mobile devices next year.

Interested? Galaxy on Fire – Manticore Rising is available to download on the App Store for the Apple TV for $5.99. Continue reading this post ->

Frogmind, well known Finnish-based game developers, have that their hit mobile title Badland is now available to download for the new Apple TV at a price of $4.99. The side-scrolling action-adventure title, named Apple’s 2013 iPad Game of the Year, has been rebuilt to offer a new experience on the TV.

For those that have already purchased Badland for iOS, it’s available for free on the Apple TV. Thanks to the gaming being an universal app, buying it for iPhone or iPad grants access to the Apple TV version, and vice versa. Additionally the Apple TV version features all the content released for the other iOS versions over the last two years, including the recently added “Level World” with all 20,000+ levels. Badland is playable with the Siri Remote as well as other MFi controllers and offers three-player multiplayer (co-op and versus) with up to two additional Bluetooth controllers.

“Many fans of BADLAND for iOS have yet to experience the game’s multiplayer options, nor seen it on the big screen. It is a totally fresh experience, and we hope the many millions of people that have downloaded the game over the last couple of years give it a spin on Apple TV!” said Teemu Maki Patola, COO of Frogmind. “Apple TV is a fantastic game platform, and we look forward to releasing more titles for it.”

Those interested can pickup the game on the App Store for $4.99 by clicking here. Continue reading this post ->