Howdy everybody, and welcome to the week! It’s time as soon as once more for our look again on the noteworthy updates of the final seven days. Valentine’s Day is that this week, and the Lunar New Yr was two days in the past. Mainly, all aboard that’s coming aboard for updates associated to those two in style holidays. Lots of as we speak’s updates are wrapped up in that enterprise, however there are a couple of others which might be doing their very own factor too. In fact, you’ll be able to hold a watch out for updates your self by collaborating within the TouchArcade boards. This weekly abstract is simply right here to fill you in on the belongings you might need missed. Let’s go for it!
Howdy Kitty Island Journey,
One other replace for the superb Howdy Kitty Island Journey has arrived, albeit one not fairly as stuffed stuffed with issues as the previous few. This one primarily brings in a brand new seasonal occasion, the Hugs & Hearts Pageant, which duties gamers with trying to find lovebugs which might be roaming across the islands. You’ll get rewards for catching sure quantities of them, however be fast about it as a result of they gained’t be round for very lengthy. Looks as if a enjoyable distraction, if nothing else.
Disney Heroes: Battle Mode, Free
Each of the principle Disney video games I control up to date this week, and since I wish to get dwelling whereas my dinner is scorching, I’m together with each of them. First up is Disney Heroes: Battle Mode, which provides yet one more new hero to its roster. Luz Noceda from The Owl Home is able to battle, and he or she’s introduced a bunch of bug fixes and recreation enhancements together with her. Will Amity be far behind her? I suppose we’ll have to attend and see.
Disney Magic Kingdoms, Free
Over to Disney Magic Kingdoms, and this one is a bit more holiday-themed. Mulan is again within the highlight, with new characters Yao, Ling, and Chien-Po accessible. The Tung-Shao Toboggans attraction is again, and the Lunar New Yr Costumes make their return from earlier years. Mickey, Minnie, Donald, and Daisy can all costume as much as rejoice the Yr of the Dragon.
MARVEL SNAP, Free
The Black Order season arrives in Marvel Snap with this newest replace. Members of Thanos’ elite squad are becoming a member of the sport with some highly effective new skills. This new season additionally brings in some spiffy Variant playing cards and different treats, plus some steadiness updates and a bevy of bug fixes and enhancements. However not even one Spider-Man, so no coveted award for you, Marvel Snap! It needs to be really easy!
Jetpack Joyride, Free
It was actually only a matter of which vacation Jetpack Joyride would choose, wasn’t it? And it has opted for the Lunar New Yr, which is useful as a result of it has all these items round from final time. Acquire crimson envelopes to unlock some Lunar New Yr rewards, together with issues just like the Taoist Grasp, the Crimson Lantern Jetpack, and the Revenue Dragon. Certain, it’s a factor to do. You might need already gotten your arms on quite a lot of these goodies in earlier years, although.
Royal Match, Free
Compulsory free-to-play matching puzzle recreation replace time, of us. To be sincere, as new places to throw King Robert into go, a baseball subject looks as if a comparatively secure one. I’m positive he’ll discover a option to get himself murdered anyway. 100 new ranges to play, as is the same old model with this one. That’s rather a lot! Sufficient to maintain one busy for 2 to 4 weeks, certainly. And that’s all they actually need to do, when it comes proper right down to it.
Honkai: Star Rail, Free
Oh, right here’s a reasonably large one. Not holiday-related, both. The replace known as If One Desires At Midnight, and it provides the sport a giant two-point-oh model quantity. There are a number of new and returning characters, some new Mild Cones, a bunch of recent maps, some new tales and occasions, a handful of recent enemies to battle, and extra. It truly is a major bag of recent goodies to play with, one massive sufficient that I feel I’ll give it the coveted UMMSotW award for this week. Nicely, that’s off my shoulders now. Let’s head to the subsequent one.
Retro Bowl, Free
Word that this replace applies to each the usual model of the sport linked right here and its Apple Arcade + counterpart. With that stated, on to the replace. There’s a brand new Interrupt SIM characteristic that permits you to take over throughout a SIM recreation or activate SIM mode throughout an ongoing recreation. The default staff strengths have been up to date for brand new careers and exhibition mode, and the bug involving benched gamers one way or the other getting injured has been mounted. Okay, it’s principally leaning on that first bit, however not a nasty replace throughout.
Prune, $4.99
Within the 9 years since this recreation launched, it has by no means gotten any vital content material updates. Heck, its final common replace was six years in the past. So it’s fairly a shock to see this recreation (and its Apple Arcade + counterpart) get up to date right here in 2024 with twelve model new ranges to play. You’ll have to finish the principle recreation first, however I’m positive many people did that a very long time in the past. Wow, how about that? New Prune ranges! Go! Take pleasure in!
Marvel Contest of Champions, Free
A few new Champions is at all times trigger for some celebration, they usually’re fairly cool ones this time. Mud and Ironheart are the brand new fighters, they usually each supply their very own distinctive kinds and strikes. There are a bunch of recent occasions, as you’ll count on, they usually tie in to those new Champions. Certainly one of them even sneaks in a Valentine’s Day tie-in. However no Spider-Mans! So no coveted award for you both, Contest of Champions!
That about wraps it up for final week’s vital updates. I’m positive I’ve missed some, although, so please be happy to remark under and let everybody know if you happen to suppose one thing needs to be talked about. As typical, main updates will possible get their very own information tales all through this week, and I’ll be again subsequent Monday to summarize and fill within the blanks. Have an excellent week!