We took a look at Guns 'n' Glory Heroes from German developer HandyGames back in January, when it nabbed a very worthy Bronze Award for its fantasy-based tower defence antics.
But HandyGames has been back in touch to tell us about its new miniaturised edition, which just went live over on Google Play. The studio, which is well known as an early adopter of new platforms and tech, has shoehorned ...
When you see a retro-themed game, your first reaction is to begin figuring out its source of inspiration.
Comparing retro games to their aged counterparts is an important aspect of discovering their identity, and deciding whether they rip off, evolve, or pay homage to a concept.
From there we know if the game is achieving its own purpose.
Interestingly, Woah Dave! falls into all three of ...
48h Studio has announced that its Bronze Award-winning psychedelic dodger Avoid: Sensory Overload has returned to iOS and Android.
It was removed from the App Store and Google Play before due to problems with publisher Nuoxygen, apparently. As such, 48h Studio has self-published the game this time around.
Not all of the creases have been ironed out, mind.
"All the people who bought the ga...
November is set to be a huge month for mobile games. From Simogo's new game, to massive PC ports, to unsung indie entries, there's something for everyone.
There's also another huge iOS game on the way, but the developer has sworn us to secrecy. Let's just say, November is going to be big and here are 18 very convincing reasons.
As ever, these dates are as accurate as possible at the time of ...
If you're getting withdrawal symptoms from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, why not try to scratch the itch a little with the Call of Duty Advanced Warfare Companion app on iOS, Windows Phone, and Android.
The app does pretty much what you'd expect a companion app to do. Which is not really that much. There's something called Clan Wars which is all about winning positions on a map and gettin...
Is it fair to go into a game with certain expectations, and find yourself disappointed when they're not met?
Or is it only fair to approach each and every game as a clean slate, and work on the merits it reveals as you play?
If we're talking about fair and unfair, the latter is probably the more reasonable approach. But you don't buy games without looking for certain aspects that you believe...
Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
It has not been a banner week for team PG, it must be said. Staffers were sick, out of office, and swanning about in Paris. And despite all this, game developers worldwide still chose to release loads of games. You heartless monsters.
What came out? Well, Surgeon Simulator is...
At the start of another financial report season, we prepare our calculator for another round of heavyduty action.
The early signs appear to be good, at least from US publishers EA Mobile and Glu Mobile, which both experienced increased sales; Glu Mobile sharply so.
However, the stock market can be a cruel mistress, and year-on-year growth of 199 percent wasn't enough to stop Glu's share price dr...
Fixpoint Productions, the studio behind the Silver Award-winning games Pivvot and Polyer, has just announced its third project.
The game is called Piloteer, and all we know about it so far is from this one image.
It's someone strapped into a steampunk jetpack, from the looks of it, which is quite the visual deviation from developer Whitaker Trebella's previous work.
Picture the globby...
Concrete Jungle combines all the complexity of a city management sim with the accessibility of a tabletop deck-building game.
Structures come in the form of cards, which you place on a grid to build up your city.
The city itself is presented in detailed, isometric blocks, in the style of classic management sims.
It isn't a matter of just laying down blocks, though. A point sysem and...
In celebration of PAX Australia this weekend, the Melbourne-based indie studio MiniMega has slashed the pricetag on their crossword puzzler, Bonza.
For a week, you'll be able to download Bonza for free on your iOS or Android device. It is usually 69p / 99c.
Bonza is an interesting take on the word puzzle genre, incorporating "mechanics" from crosswords to create something part puzzle and par...
Glu Mobile is releasing Contract Killer: Sniper on iOS and Android next week.
As with previous games in the Contract Killer series, you'll be playing a master assassin with lots of guns, a shaved head, and a passion for running between cover.
Yep, it's a cover-to-cover shooter that switches to first-person when you need to shoot your enemies. You can fire from the hip, but most of the time...
Planet Nam Nam is a planet inhabited by nefarious birds. They flew to Earth to steal our monuments (Eiffel Tower, Stature of Liberty, etc), for whatever purpose, and now you've got to get them back.
How do you do this? It involves a gun, some bullets, and... well, that's it, actually. This is a first-person shooter.
The Nam Nam birds fly across the screen like clay pigeons, trying to drop eg...
Sometimes adventure gamebooks aren't quite paced right for mobile play. It's pretty easy to wander through some of them without feeling like you've made any choices that actually matter.
Caverns of the Snow Witch isn't one of them though. It's a romp from start to finish. You're dodging avalanches, clashing with yetis, and dealing with mischievous sorcerers pretty much every other page.
And ...
Tanks usually go BOOM, but in Bumper Tank Battle their cannons are only show, so they're limited to BUMP.
Your mission is one of destruction: smash at high-speed into other tanks to turn them into flaming wrecks. The other tanks are trying to do the same, so it's a case of bump or be bumped.
There are two aspects of the game's design that make this simple task a challenging one.
Firstly, ...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
Battleheart Legacy
By Mika Mobile - buy on Android (£3.12 / $4.99)
In some ways, hacky-slashy action-RPG Battleheart Legacy is more straightforward than its predecessor. You only control one character instead of a party, and there's a more familiar control scheme.
But in most aspects, t...
The third episode of Republique picks up right where the second, Metamorphosis, left off. So you're still leading Hope through the grey confines of a totalitarian, apparently subterranean state.
You're still jumping from camera to camera, nudging the heroine around and trying to avoid the attention of the hunch-shouldered Prizrak who patrol the corridors and spaces.
But this time around ther...
Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition has popped up on the Google Play Store. We've been expecting the game for a while, but it's a surprise to see it available on Android before iOS, and no mistake.
It's cheaper than we expected as well. On the Play Store the remastered PC classic, which includes content that was taken out of the original release, costs £6.99 / $9.99. Expect it to cost something s...
Battleheart Legacy is out right now on the Google Play Store, meaning Android players can get their grubby mitts on the Silver Award-winning tactical RPG mash-up.
The game sees you romping through a fantasy kingdom, taking on goblins and other terrors using simple touch controls.
At review we called the iOS version "an exciting, accessible role-playing game that does away with most of th...
It's only taken four years, but JRPG classic Secret of Mana is finally out on the Google Play Store. So that's one less game your iOS owning friends can rib you about.
The game is a port of the SNES classic that sees you romping through a gorgeous 2D world, fighting real-time battles, and trying to save the universe from disaster. As you do.
The game got a Bronze Award when we reviewed i...
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We took a look at Guns 'n' Glory Heroes from German developer HandyGames back in January, when it nabbed a very worthy Bronze Award for its fantasy-based tower defence antics.
But HandyGames has been back in touch to tell us about its new miniaturised edition, which just went live over on Google Play. The studio, which is well known as an early adopter of new platforms and tech, has shoehorned ...
When you see a retro-themed game, your first reaction is to begin figuring out its source of inspiration.
Comparing retro games to their aged counterparts is an important aspect of discovering their identity, and deciding whether they rip off, evolve, or pay homage to a concept.
From there we know if the game is achieving its own purpose.
Interestingly, Woah Dave! falls into all three of ...
48h Studio has announced that its Bronze Award-winning psychedelic dodger Avoid: Sensory Overload has returned to iOS and Android.
It was removed from the App Store and Google Play before due to problems with publisher Nuoxygen, apparently. As such, 48h Studio has self-published the game this time around.
Not all of the creases have been ironed out, mind.
"All the people who bought the ga...
November is set to be a huge month for mobile games. From Simogo's new game, to massive PC ports, to unsung indie entries, there's something for everyone.
There's also another huge iOS game on the way, but the developer has sworn us to secrecy. Let's just say, November is going to be big and here are 18 very convincing reasons.
As ever, these dates are as accurate as possible at the time of ...
If you're getting withdrawal symptoms from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, why not try to scratch the itch a little with the Call of Duty Advanced Warfare Companion app on iOS, Windows Phone, and Android.
The app does pretty much what you'd expect a companion app to do. Which is not really that much. There's something called Clan Wars which is all about winning positions on a map and gettin...
Is it fair to go into a game with certain expectations, and find yourself disappointed when they're not met?
Or is it only fair to approach each and every game as a clean slate, and work on the merits it reveals as you play?
If we're talking about fair and unfair, the latter is probably the more reasonable approach. But you don't buy games without looking for certain aspects that you believe...
Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
It has not been a banner week for team PG, it must be said. Staffers were sick, out of office, and swanning about in Paris. And despite all this, game developers worldwide still chose to release loads of games. You heartless monsters.
What came out? Well, Surgeon Simulator is...
At the start of another financial report season, we prepare our calculator for another round of heavyduty action.
The early signs appear to be good, at least from US publishers EA Mobile and Glu Mobile, which both experienced increased sales; Glu Mobile sharply so.
However, the stock market can be a cruel mistress, and year-on-year growth of 199 percent wasn't enough to stop Glu's share price dr...
Fixpoint Productions, the studio behind the Silver Award-winning games Pivvot and Polyer, has just announced its third project.
The game is called Piloteer, and all we know about it so far is from this one image.
It's someone strapped into a steampunk jetpack, from the looks of it, which is quite the visual deviation from developer Whitaker Trebella's previous work.
Picture the globby...
Concrete Jungle combines all the complexity of a city management sim with the accessibility of a tabletop deck-building game.
Structures come in the form of cards, which you place on a grid to build up your city.
The city itself is presented in detailed, isometric blocks, in the style of classic management sims.
It isn't a matter of just laying down blocks, though. A point sysem and...
In celebration of PAX Australia this weekend, the Melbourne-based indie studio MiniMega has slashed the pricetag on their crossword puzzler, Bonza.
For a week, you'll be able to download Bonza for free on your iOS or Android device. It is usually 69p / 99c.
Bonza is an interesting take on the word puzzle genre, incorporating "mechanics" from crosswords to create something part puzzle and par...
Glu Mobile is releasing Contract Killer: Sniper on iOS and Android next week.
As with previous games in the Contract Killer series, you'll be playing a master assassin with lots of guns, a shaved head, and a passion for running between cover.
Yep, it's a cover-to-cover shooter that switches to first-person when you need to shoot your enemies. You can fire from the hip, but most of the time...
Planet Nam Nam is a planet inhabited by nefarious birds. They flew to Earth to steal our monuments (Eiffel Tower, Stature of Liberty, etc), for whatever purpose, and now you've got to get them back.
How do you do this? It involves a gun, some bullets, and... well, that's it, actually. This is a first-person shooter.
The Nam Nam birds fly across the screen like clay pigeons, trying to drop eg...
Sometimes adventure gamebooks aren't quite paced right for mobile play. It's pretty easy to wander through some of them without feeling like you've made any choices that actually matter.
Caverns of the Snow Witch isn't one of them though. It's a romp from start to finish. You're dodging avalanches, clashing with yetis, and dealing with mischievous sorcerers pretty much every other page.
And ...
Tanks usually go BOOM, but in Bumper Tank Battle their cannons are only show, so they're limited to BUMP.
Your mission is one of destruction: smash at high-speed into other tanks to turn them into flaming wrecks. The other tanks are trying to do the same, so it's a case of bump or be bumped.
There are two aspects of the game's design that make this simple task a challenging one.
Firstly, ...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
Battleheart Legacy
By Mika Mobile - buy on Android (£3.12 / $4.99)
In some ways, hacky-slashy action-RPG Battleheart Legacy is more straightforward than its predecessor. You only control one character instead of a party, and there's a more familiar control scheme.
But in most aspects, t...
The third episode of Republique picks up right where the second, Metamorphosis, left off. So you're still leading Hope through the grey confines of a totalitarian, apparently subterranean state.
You're still jumping from camera to camera, nudging the heroine around and trying to avoid the attention of the hunch-shouldered Prizrak who patrol the corridors and spaces.
But this time around ther...
Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition has popped up on the Google Play Store. We've been expecting the game for a while, but it's a surprise to see it available on Android before iOS, and no mistake.
It's cheaper than we expected as well. On the Play Store the remastered PC classic, which includes content that was taken out of the original release, costs £6.99 / $9.99. Expect it to cost something s...
Battleheart Legacy is out right now on the Google Play Store, meaning Android players can get their grubby mitts on the Silver Award-winning tactical RPG mash-up.
The game sees you romping through a fantasy kingdom, taking on goblins and other terrors using simple touch controls.
At review we called the iOS version "an exciting, accessible role-playing game that does away with most of th...
It's only taken four years, but JRPG classic Secret of Mana is finally out on the Google Play Store. So that's one less game your iOS owning friends can rib you about.
The game is a port of the SNES classic that sees you romping through a gorgeous 2D world, fighting real-time battles, and trying to save the universe from disaster. As you do.
The game got a Bronze Award when we reviewed i...
