TouchArcade
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TouchArcade is a mobile game news website that launched in 2008.[1] Arnold Kim of MacRumors worked on the site.[2][3] TouchArcade's editor-in-chief was Eli Hodapp from 2009 to 2019.[4][5] The site unveiled a dedicated iOS app in 2012.[6][7] Early the next year, TouchArcade began a promotion called Free Play, wherein the website promoted a game that was made free to download for the promotion's duration.[8] TouchArcade launched a crowdfunding campaign in June 2015.[9]
TouchArcade has been recognized as one the best mobile game news websites.[10][11][3] Games journalists also described TouchArcade's Hodapp as influential within the mobile game community.[12][13][14]
References
- ^ "TouchArcade Needs Your Help, Please Support Our Patreon". TouchArcade.
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/technology/21blogger.html?_r=0
- ^ a b "Review: TouchArcade for iPhone". macstories.net.
- ^ Eli Hodapp (5 March 2019). "We're losing the history of the App Store". gamesindustry.biz. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ "Eli Hodapp on Twitter: March 8 will be my last full-time day at TouchArcade". 22 February 2019. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ "TouchArcade App Now Available". 148apps.com.
- ^ Marianne Schultz. "AppShopper.com Official TouchArcade iPhone App Available Now". AppShopper.
- ^ "Results of Polymer's Free Promotion - Gamezebo". Gamezebo.
- ^ "Touch Arcade Turns to Patreon for Funding - Slide to Play". Slide to Play.
- ^ "Top ten gaming blogs". CNET. CBS Interactive.
- ^ "Touch Arcade - The 50 Best Websites of 2011 - TIME". TIME.com. 16 August 2011.
- ^ "The RPS Bargain Bucket: Convention Season - Rock, Paper, Shotgun". rockpapershotgun.com.
- ^ "Gamers win free early copies of iOS game, respond by leaking it". Ars Technica.
- ^ "Exciting Things Ahead for Mobile Gaming - Slide to Play". Slide to Play.