Apps

Familiar characters and locales are charming, but there's little depth to this affair.

Another GTA is going mobile: today Rockstar is launching Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories on iPhone and iPad for $6.99. The revamped mobile release will be largely the same as the original game — which first launched on Sony's PSP handheld in 2005 — but with new features including both touch controls and gamepad support, improved visuals, cloud saves, and what Rockstar describes as "shorter, streamlined missions designed with mobile gameplay in mind." It'll even let you listen to a custom...

Globally, the biggest search spikes were for breaking news and entertainment. But nerds like us searched for gadgets, gadgets, and more gadgets.

Prepare yourself for the pain of failure: the creator of Flappy Bird has a new ultra-hard mobile game out today in time to test your patience before the holidays. Swing Copters 2, a free-to-play sequel to the mobile title developer DotGears Studios released last year, is much like its predecessor. Users are asked to maneuver a pixelated retro sprite wearing a propeller hat through a tiny sliver of space between two swinging hammers for as long as possible. Like the studio’s previous games, the only...

Rebooted series brings the plastic guitar to iPhone and iPad, but you can play without, too.

There's little to it, but as a free time-waster, it's absolutely pleasing.

This whimsical PC game delights on the small screen thanks to its Tim Burton-esque artwork and challenging gameplay.

Apple really doesn't want its latest iPhones to double as weird, makeshift scales. The pressure-sensitive 3D Touch technology built into the displays of new iPhones technically makes this possible, but Apple has already refused to let apps into the App Store for trying to cash in on this unconventional idea. Now, the developer of a just-launched game called Steady Square has managed to sneak the same functionality into his title....

A look at our favorite iPhone games of all time, based on our list of the best 100 iPhone apps of all time.

Apple on Wednesday published its annual Best of 2015 feature for the App Store, highlighting the company's own picks as well as overall bestsellers.

Taking top honors was Periscope, an app Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, called "truly revolutionary."

Slick street racing provides solid free entertainment, albeit with familiar free-to-play restrictions.

One of the best-loved RPGs of all time is now on the App Store, and it's plenty weird—but still pretty wonderful.

Of all the ways to chill while commuting, Monument Valley is one of the most chill — and now it's one of the cheapest, too. Ustwo's Escher-inspired puzzle-adventure has just gone free on iPhone and iPad for the first time, so even more people can get sucked into its beautiful, mind-bending world....

This week's list includes a social news app, an app to take 3D selfies and an app to browse travel videos.

In preaching the virtues of its 3D Touch technology, incorporated into its latest iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, Apple has emphasized its practical applications for opening menus, switching tasks, and navigating your phone. But 3D Touch, which can recognize how hard you're pushing on the screen, has another application — video games. Warhammer 40,000: Freeblade is one of the first games to utilize the tech, allowing iPhone 6S owners who download the free  iOS-exclusive shooter to switch between weapons by...

I behaved a little salty last week over Drizzy Tearz, a new free iOS game that asks you to tap the tears falling from an emotional Drake’s floating 8-bit head. You can imagine my surprise when I was offered a chance to speak to the creative force behind the game, Ashten "Whoopi" Winger. It’s one thing to dismiss a game’s central idea and call it "crapware"; it’s another to talk to the person behind said idea about all of the work and planning that went into said crapware....

This week's list includes Vevo's redesign, an app to help you take better selfies in the dark and a GIF keyboard app.

One day after launching its extra large iPad Pro, Apple is throwing a spotlight on apps that take advantage of the tablet's massive 12.9-inch Retina display, titles compatible with Apple Pencil, "desktop-class" software, games and more.

Including an app to help you unsubscribe from annoying email newsletters, a new SoundCloud app and more.

Don't let your excitement for Spectre turn you towards this terrible tie-in.

Even some proven touch games ported from iOS aren't a comfortable fit for the Siri Remote.

This week's list includes an app to meet people on Snapchat, a GIF-making app and an app to make visualizations out of your running stats.

Possess objects and scare unsuspecting townspeople in this ghostly game.

This week's list includes an intelligent shopping assistant, a new social trivia game and a major update to Waze's navigation app.