Kicking off this week in iOS gaming was an appearance I made on the Australian games podcast, GameHugs. It`s an industry-centric podcast that explores the backstory of web sites and studios in the world of video games (and often mobile games). On the most recent episode, I get into what goes on behind the scenes running a site like TouchArcade, as well as the odd chain of events that led me to TouchArcade - including, but not limited to, getting banned from the MacRumors forums. It`s a fun story, but if that`s not your cup of tea, as usual there are always tons of other things going on in the world of iOS games.
I`ve mentioned it in previous roundups, but things are starting to get real when it comes to the impending release of iOS 11 and with it, what we`ve been calling the 32-bit app-pocalypse. We started casually compiling a list of our favorite games that have yet to be updated, which grew into this gargantuan article filled with some amazing titles that likely aren`t going to work in the future. It`s worth skimming through, as if you`ve been buying iOS games for a few years now I`d be really surprised if you didn`t own at least one of the games on the list. It might be worth one last play through before iOS 11 steamrolls everything next month.
Hi Shaun, this week´s release will feature an updated emulator core with new features. This will be rolled out to other releases soon.— SEGA Forever (@SEGAForever) August 7, 2017
We`ve been giving Sega a pretty hard time surrounding the launch of the `Sega Forever` lineup of free with one-time unlock classic emulated games, as most of the re-released titles perform worse than the first time they hit the App Store, back in 2009. This week, they released Ristar, which as mentioned in the tweet above includes a new emulation engine. This new engine is loads better than the one used in the rest of the Sega Forever lineup, making Ristar a game worth checking out just to experience the difference ...
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