Every year when new iPhone or iPad hardware rolls out, we like to put together a list of the fanciest and most graphically intensive games that will show off the power of your shiny new devices. However, for several years now that type of list has become harder to put together for a number of reasons. One is that the yearly hardware improvements in terms of graphical performance have become less giant leaps and more incremental jumps. We've had pretty close to console-level graphics for a long time now, and the wow factor has somewhat diminished. Another problem is that, even though our devices are quite capable of pushing really impressive visuals, making games like that takes a lot of time and money, and in a market where most people expect games to be either free or very very cheap that's just not feasible. Finally, fancy graphics are more taxing on the hardware, which in turn kills your battery faster. With mobile devices being such an integral part of everyday life for most people, burning your battery down playing video games just isn't terribly practical in most cases.
All of that said, we're living in a pretty great time in terms of balancing out those issues above. Games may not be matching the visual quality of the latest consoles or high-end PCs, but there are still many very graphically impressive games released each year. With Apple's new iPhone 8 devices, they've included their latest custom chip which they've named the A11 Bionic. The chip has six cores, tw...