There’s just something about dogfighting in space that lends itself to video games. From the earliest days, piloting a space ship and blasting down aliens, or asteroids, or other enemy ships has been a common theme for video games, and the genre really reached a new level when 3D gaming started to take hold. Imagine a first-person perspective right from the cockpit of your very own cool spaceship as you fly through space battling against all manor of cool enemies. These dreams were realized with games like X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter which put you right in the cockpit of iconic ships from the Star Wars universe. That game also served as inspiration for a new space fighting game called Interloper ($5.99) from Anchorite Games, which arrived in the App Store this week. Sweet cockpit view in a bad ass spaceship" Check. Tons of cool weaponry to blast bad guys with" Check. Huge space stations" Massive explosions and particle effects galore" Check to all that. Interloper delivers an action-packed space shooting experience that’s incredibly easy on the eyes and filled with jaw-dropping moments, and it does all this in a package that has been expertly crafted for mobile. The game can be played in portrait or landscape orientations, switching on the fly, and you can easily play one-handed with just your thumb. It’s a perfect candidate for when you feel like pulling out your iPhone and killing just a few minutes of free time.

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