iPhone Games

Call out sick and cancel your holiday plans because Five Nights at Freddy's 2 and Kingdom Rush Origins are both available on the App Store starting today. These are two of the most anticipated mobile game sequels of the year and they're already burning up the Apple app charts. Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is already the number 2 game behind its predecessor on the Top Paid iPhone chart, while Kingdom Rush Origins has just cracked the top 10 at number 9.

In Five Nights at Freddy's 2, players must return to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza as the night watchman to babysit the old animatronic characters such as Freddy Fazbear and his new friends who are equipped with the latest in facial recognition technology. This time management has supplied you with your own Freddy Fazbear head, instead of security doors, to trick the animatronic characters and keep you safe.

At first glance Relevant Games' new "reverse" tower defense title looks like something that would offend PETA and animal lovers around the world, but upon closer inspection it seems like the game is against factory farms and the poor treatment of animals. In Fat Chicken, players must guide various animals to the slaughterhouse while trying to keep "as much marketable meat on their bones as possible". The game features a variety of tasteless towers and upgrades that aid players in fending off obstacles like hunger, dehydration and alien invasions.

If you visit the official Relevant Games blog you will notice posts about the various towers featured in the game. Each post explains how the individual tower is used , gives tips about the tower and offers a tidbit on what happens "on actual factory farms". For example, Security Guards are described as people who "run off animal rights activists, threaten physical violence, monitor movement of inspectors, and have even been caught participating in animal abuse." Other towers in the game include the Growth Hormone Tower and Meatlet Cleanup Crew, who cleanup "meatsplosions" if you get too hormone happy.

The prequel to Ironhide Game Studio's popular tower defense game, Kingdom Rush, is set to land on the Apple App Store tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern and on the Amazon app store and Google Play on November 20th. Kingdom Rush Origins takes place before the events of the original Kingdom Rush and its sequel Kingdom Rush Frontiers. Ironhide has released three YouTube videos showcasing the game's new heroes:

- Eridan is a super powerful elf archer
- Catha is a pixie who heals her allies and puts her enemies to sleep
- Arivan is a powerful elementalist who controls all nature elements to burn, ice and explode you into pieces

Ironhide Game Studio announced today that Kingdom Rush Origins will be released to the Apple App Store, Amazon App Store and Google Play on November 20, 2014. No Steam or flash browser versions were mentioned in the official trailer or Facebook post announcing the game.

The game's official description reads: "Submerge into the world of Kingdom Rush and experience an epic saga as you unveil the story that started it all! Lead your elven army to defend mystical lands from sea serpents, gnoll tribes, enchanted creatures and twilight elves. Command an arsenal of unique towers, epic heroes and mighty powers that will help you crush your foes and save the world once again!"

There are a lot of iOS features that can majorly mess things up when you are playing games on your iPhone or iPad. For example, receiving a text message can be annoying, and accidentally opening Control Center when swiping up can easily screw up an important jump. Thankfully you can disable most of these features when you just want to kickback and enjoy some games. Here's how to disable the most annoying iOS features when using an app.

Thanks to iOS 8 you can quickly respond to any message without leaving an app. Just swipe down on the text notification, like shown above, to open the reply box and keyboard. You can then type your reply without leaving your game and without opening the Messages app.