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Best of iOS News: From GoatUp to My Horse

Gamasutra rounds up the latest news in the world of App Store gaming, featuring standout releases like My Horse, NFL Rivals, My Horse, and Monsters Ate My Condo.

Danny Cowan, Blogger

September 20, 2011

2 Min Read
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[Gamasutra rounds up the latest news in the world of App Store gaming, featuring standout releases like My Horse, NFL Rivals, My Horse and Monsters At My Condo.] - Adult Swim Sends iOS Monsters To Eat Your Condo "The gameplay in Monsters Ate My Condo is simple, in that the goal is to swipe away floors to match three similarly-colored condos. As you throw them to the side, you're feeding them to one of four ravenous beasts: Boat Head, Reginald Starfire, Mr. Shigoto, and Lord Ferocious." - NaturalMotion Launches Backbreaker Football Follow-Up NFL Rivals NFL Rivals is an arcade-styled football game with a unique multiplayer mode, allowing app owners to play through games that sync up to the NFL's schedule. - Minter's GoatUp Out For iOS: Raise, Kiss Goats "Just in case you haven't seen the buzz going around for the self-proclaimed 'best goat-related platform game on iOS', Llamasoft/Jeff Minter's latest game Goat Up is now available on the App Store, and it's spectacular. The concept? Raise a goat family as high as you can!" - My Horse: A Free-To-Play Horse-Raising Sim From NaturalMotion Shortly after releasing NFL Rivals, developer NaturalMotion targets a different App Store demographic with a realistic, microtransaction-supported animal-raising sim. - Who Needs iOS Zelda When There's Zanda: Linked Swords By Top Best Adult Entertainment? "In a Touch Arcade forum thread calling Zanda 'a fraud', a fellow named Squarezero comments, 'We're not saying that this is a bad game; we're saying that it is no game at all, just assets from a GameSalad template..'" - DSiWare Standout Shantae: Risky's Revenge iOS-Bound "While iOS platformers typically suffer from inaccurate controls due to the lack of physical buttons, WayForward promises that it is 'tweaking the design of the original game to cater to iOS.'" - IGF Finalist Globulos Mania Headed For iOS "Globulos Party, a minigame compilation that earned a finalist nomination in last year's Independent Games Festival Mobile, is on its way to iOS platforms this week courtesy of French publisher Bulkypix."

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Danny Cowan

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Danny Cowan is a freelance writer, editor, and columnist for Gamasutra and its subsites. Previously, he has written reviews and feature articles for gaming publications including 1UP.com, GamePro, and Hardcore Gamer Magazine.

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