Every day dozens of new games are released for mobile phones and tablets — but every now and again you don’t want a new game. What you want is to relive a truly great classic game that you first played on a Playstation or computer. Recently two of those classic games found their way to iOS and Android. The first is Sonic CD, a Sonic the… Read more »

Chrono Trigger has arrived for the iPhone and iPod Touch, bringing one of the most popular epic role playing games to iOS. The game was originally released for the Super Nintendo in 1995. The iOS version features optimized graphics for the Retina display and touch controls. For example, in a battle, you can employ a the “slide and tap” control cut through enemies and select your… Read more »

OnLive is a service that lets you play video games by streaming them over the internet. We’re not talking about dinky Flash-based games here though. We’re talking about console-quality games that you’d normally need a Playstation 3 or Xbox 360 to play. The company offers a box that you can connect to your TV to turn it into a game console, as well as a… Read more »

Microsoft has released a new app that lets you access your Xbox Live account on an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. The free app is called My Xbox Live, and it offers many of the features that you can find in the company’s Windows Phone 7 app. You can view your achievements, send messages to your friends, read news about apps and games, and change… Read more »

Update: It looks like Apple doesn’t actually support subscription-based game content yet. The company has pulled Big Fish’s new app from the App Store.  You can subscribe to magazines, newspapers, music or video services in the App Store on an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. And now you can also subscribe to some gaming content. Bloomberg reports that the first company to extend Apple’s subscription… Read more »

Rockstar Games has announced plans to launch Grand Theft Auto III for Android and iOS. It’s been 10 years since the crazy popular video game hit the scene, but it still offers more depth than an awful lot of games available for mobile platforms today. It should be interesting to see how Rockster revamps the classic to work on mobile devices with touchscreen displays. The… Read more »

Glider, a classic game that long-time Mac users will recognize, is now available for iOS. You can download it from the App Store for 99 cents. The game and its various forms (Glider Classic, Glider Pro, Glider Arcade…) originally launched in 1988, but stopped development just three years later. The simplicity of the game is what made it so addictive: navigate a paper airplane and… Read more »

Perhaps the most disenfranchised Sonic the Hedgehog game, Sonic CD, will be the first to hit the Android and Windows Phone operating systems. Sonic CD, the ‘CD’ standing for the add-on device (Mega-CD) of the Mega Drive console that originally hosted the game, is a curious first choice from Sega. It was considered one of the best Sonic games ever made by critics at the… Read more »

Rage is one of the best looking video games available for iOS. The first person shooter launched last year for $1.99, but this week you can pick it up from the App Store for free. The developers at id Software are celebrating the fact that they now have over 100,000 fans for the Rage fan page on Facebook. The game isn’t for everyone. It’s kind… Read more »

Sure, the weather looks great this weekend and it would be nice to spend some time outside. But some mobile game developers have other plans. There are some great deals on iPhone and iPad games in the App Store this weekend. Epic Games is selling the popular (and graphically impressive) Infinity Blade role-playing title for $2.99, which is about half price. And EA Mobile is… Read more »