''TouchArcade'' is a mobile video game website that launched in 2008. Arnold Kim of ''
MacRumors
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'' worked on the site
and its editor-in-chief was Eli Hodapp from 2009 to 2019.
''TouchArcade'' has been recognized as one of the best mobile game news websites.
Games journalists also described ''TouchArcade''s Hodapp as influential within the mobile game community.
History
The site unveiled a dedicated iOS app in 2012. 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. ''TouchArcade'' launched a crowdfunding campaign in June 2015.
Content
''TouchArcade'' publishes news stories and reviews Monday through Friday about
iOS
iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware. It is the operating system that powers many of the company's mobile devices, including the iPhone; the term also include ...
and
Android video games. A daily ''SwitchArcade'' feature covers releases and sales for the
Nintendo Switch console. The site also produces a weekly
podcast
A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. For example, an episodic series of digital audio or video files that a user can download to a personal device to listen to at a time of their choosin ...
entitled ''The TouchArcade Show'' in which Jared Nelson and former editor-in-chief Eli Hodapp discuss top news stories of the week. Registered users receive a monthly email newsletter of the best game releases of the past month, and the site has traditionally rolled up a "best of" feature for the end of the year. In 2022, TouchArcade began covering other portable platforms such as
Steam Deck
The Steam Deck is a handheld gaming computer developed by Valve Corporation. Released on February 25, 2022, the Steam Deck can be played as a handheld or connected to a monitor in the same manner as the Nintendo Switch. It is an x86-64-v3 de ...
and
Playdate.
References
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Video game news websites
American gaming websites
Internet properties established in 2008
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