The idea behind the TouchArcade Game of the Week is that every Friday afternoon we post the one game that came out this week that we think is worth giving a special nod to. Now, before anyone goes over-thinking this, it doesn’t necessarily mean our Game of the Week pick is the highest scoring game in a review, the game with the best graphics, or really any other quantifiable “best" thing. Instead, it’s more just us picking out the single game out of the week’s releases that we think is the most noteworthy, surprising, interesting, or really any other hard to describe quality that makes it worth having if you were just going to pick up one.
These picks might be controversial, and that’s OK. If you disagree with what we’ve chosen, let’s try to use the comments of these articles to have conversations about what game is your game of the week and why. Without further ado?
 
R-Type Dimensions EX
As someone who’s pushing 40, I love classic games. And I love remakes of classic games, granted their done with respect to the original work. My very favorite thing is when a company remakes a game and provides the original in the same package, giving players the best of both worlds. One of the best examples of what I’m talking about is R-Type Dimensions EX ($4.99) from Tozai Games, which surprise-launched on iOS this week. This is a package that contains both R-Type and R-Type II, two groundbreaking horizontal shoot’...