As technologically advanced as our smartphones and tablets are, they also offer some tantalising glimpses into the dim history of videogaming.
And that's precisely what Dragon Quest II is. It's a scratchy, retro throwback that gives you look at the building blocks of one of the most famous JRPG franchises.
It's interesting to see how the series moved on from the original Dragon Quest, and as...
Like Space Invaders gone 3D, Jet Run: City Defender puts you in control of a fighter jet trying to fend off waves of blocky aliens from destroying the city.
It's free to play for both iOS and Android.
Jet Run is an autorunner with different missions to complete.
You can swipe left, right, up, or down to change lanes, but you'll always remain on a fixed path. Forks in the road will let you...
It's a shame that virtual pet games never quite took off past the Tamagotchi era, especially given how common it is, now, to own some kind of mobile device that you carry around with you everywhere.
Despite this, there's still the occasional Tamagotchi-like that pops up here and there.
Hatchi was one of them, a 69p / 99c app for iOS and Android that embraces the old-school look of its predec...
Underworld: Drug Lords is a 2008 resource management game that was rejected from the App Store by Apple. Now, it's returned as Underworld: Sweet Wars.
Yes, that means the weed and cocaine has been replaced with bon-bons and chocolate.
It's known that some drug dealers drive around in ice cream trucks to deliver their illegal goods without being detected by the cops.
But this is not w...
Peter Liepa and Chris Gray have released a freemium remake of their classic arcade dirt-puncher Boulder Dash for its 30th anniversary.
Aptly named Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary, this iOS and Android game is a cuter, less Atari-crunchy iteration of the arcade game's original formula. As you'd expect, really.
The dirt is still brown, the boulders still fall from overhead to crush whatever li...
Trying to figure out everything in Captain Strike is a bit like being asked for a secret password to get into a special club. The promise of something enjoyable is within reach, apparently, but only to those in the know.
A free-to-play online-only third-person shooter that allows iOS and Android players to shoot one another, Captain Strike is, as you'd rightly imagine, all about running, gunnin...
The mountains shift, the wind blows, the weeks pass, and like clockwork, Kemco releases yet another of its RPGs for iOS and Android.
This time it's called RPG Asdivine Hearts, but the important detail is that the game stars a cat. Yes, a furry feline, and a chubby one at that.
This cat tells Zack and Stella that it's the Light of Deity and will lead them to save the world from the powers of...
Nostalgic throw-back Angry Birds Transformers is now available to download on Android, after a brief spell of iOS exclusivity.
This isn't your typical Angry Birds puzzler in Transformers grab. Instead it's a whole new game that mixes up endless running with physics destruction, and it's surprisingly good fun. Until the monetisation kicks in.
After trying the iOS version, Peter called it ...
Disney and DeNA's tower defence game Star Wars: Galactic Defense is now available to download worldwide on iOS and Android, for free.
It's a pretty typical TD game where you deploy and upgrade a corridor of turrets to fend off waves of incoming baddies. Only, this time, the baddies are Stormtroopers and, I dunno, Jawas? Is that a thing?
Much like in Clash of Clans-alike Star Wars: Comman...
Detective Grimoire creator SFB Games just dropped its old PlayStation Mobile game, Haunt the House: Terrortown, on iOS and Android. Just in time for Halloween.
You play as a ghost and you get to possess objects and make them move, to scare a group of people out of a house. Or a museum. Or a hospital, a theatre, or a cruise ship. For the most part there's no single answer: you just have to p...
The release date for the Silver Award-winning Gunslug's upcoming sequel, Gunslugs 2, has been pushed back to January.
According to a recent IndieDB post by Gunslugs developer OrangePixel, the delay is a "business related move," but one that will be "worth it in the end."
Gunslugs 2 was originally slated for launch this October, so the news may come to some fans as a disappointment.
The ne...
Obslashin' gets instant win points from me as you play as a feisty cat with a swordfish as a weapon.
It gets extra points for being a pretty satisfying tap-based. straight up hack 'n' slasher with a lite RPG upgrade system.
All you do is move through top-down dungeon stages killing all the enemies that appear on screen by slashing through them with your swordfish.
You just have to tap on ...
It's spooky season and that means playing horror games is on the agenda.
While mobile gaming isn't usually known for its scares and frights, we have managed to come up with a list of 13 horror games to play this Halloween across iOS and Android.
The number 13 was a coincidence, or was it? Perhaps a menacing force greater than ourselves engineered the universe so this would happen - an omen, ...
Telltale's choice-laden episodic adventure game series The Wolf Among Us is finally available to purchase through the Google Play Store.
It has been available on Android since July 2014, but only through the Amazon App Store, and not through the more popular Google Play Store.
So, if you've been waiting for comic book violence of The Wolf Among Us to arrive on Google Play, you can eagerly do...
Madow - Sheep Happens is a game about how moronic sheep are. They'll follow each other off cliffs and into ditches, don't you know? Absurd animals.
This is what makes them a good fit for a Lemmings-like game. Yep, in Madow, you're a shepherd, and have to ensure your sheep get down a dangerous mountain safely.
Now, while Madow does compare to Lemmings, it sacrifices puzzle complexity for a fa...
Another year, another sports game - and another comment about "another year." But still, here we find ourselves with a new NHL 2K, and I imagine you want to know if it's any good before you spend your cash on it.
Know first that I haven't played much of the earlier NHL games (from any company) on mobile, so I'm not the person to ask for a comparison. However, I will say that there's some intere...
Danish developer Kiloo is about to follow up its monster hit Subway Surfers (175 million downloads and counting), with a pseudo-fighting game about foxes, gorillas, and tigers.
Smash Champs - out now in New Zealand, and going global at midnight tonight - has you training your beast in a Fruit Ninja-style mini game before sending them off into a fight.
But if you're expecting Street F...
Mind-bogglingly complex RPG King of Dragon Pass has had a hefty price cut on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, to celebrate the game's 15th anniversary.
If you haven't played it, the game's a mix of Civilization-like empire-builder and character-driven gamebook, with seemingly infinite narrative possibilities. Back in 2011 we deemed it "a wholly unique adventure that has no equal on the iPho...
I should probably boycott developer Robomondo for all eternity after it subjected me to the hot garbage that was Tony Hawk: Ride. But I'll make an exception for its cute Halloween freebie, Monster Flash.
The game plops you in the centre of the screen, and then bombards you with waves of monsters, bats, vampires, and ghosts. Your only defence is to spin around in circles and zap the beasts w...
Updated on October 29th, at 7:51: We've updated the list with some fresh bargains on games like Limbo, Skullduggery!, Walking Dead : Season 2, Organ Trail: Director's Cut, The Room 2, and Hellraid: The Escape.
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A bunch of games featuring scary themes like zombies, disease, dungeons, and Benedict Cumberbatch have gone on sale across iOS and Android to celebrate Nation...
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As technologically advanced as our smartphones and tablets are, they also offer some tantalising glimpses into the dim history of videogaming.
And that's precisely what Dragon Quest II is. It's a scratchy, retro throwback that gives you look at the building blocks of one of the most famous JRPG franchises.
It's interesting to see how the series moved on from the original Dragon Quest, and as...
Like Space Invaders gone 3D, Jet Run: City Defender puts you in control of a fighter jet trying to fend off waves of blocky aliens from destroying the city.
It's free to play for both iOS and Android.
Jet Run is an autorunner with different missions to complete.
You can swipe left, right, up, or down to change lanes, but you'll always remain on a fixed path. Forks in the road will let you...
It's a shame that virtual pet games never quite took off past the Tamagotchi era, especially given how common it is, now, to own some kind of mobile device that you carry around with you everywhere.
Despite this, there's still the occasional Tamagotchi-like that pops up here and there.
Hatchi was one of them, a 69p / 99c app for iOS and Android that embraces the old-school look of its predec...
Underworld: Drug Lords is a 2008 resource management game that was rejected from the App Store by Apple. Now, it's returned as Underworld: Sweet Wars.
Yes, that means the weed and cocaine has been replaced with bon-bons and chocolate.
It's known that some drug dealers drive around in ice cream trucks to deliver their illegal goods without being detected by the cops.
But this is not w...
Peter Liepa and Chris Gray have released a freemium remake of their classic arcade dirt-puncher Boulder Dash for its 30th anniversary.
Aptly named Boulder Dash - 30th Anniversary, this iOS and Android game is a cuter, less Atari-crunchy iteration of the arcade game's original formula. As you'd expect, really.
The dirt is still brown, the boulders still fall from overhead to crush whatever li...
Trying to figure out everything in Captain Strike is a bit like being asked for a secret password to get into a special club. The promise of something enjoyable is within reach, apparently, but only to those in the know.
A free-to-play online-only third-person shooter that allows iOS and Android players to shoot one another, Captain Strike is, as you'd rightly imagine, all about running, gunnin...
The mountains shift, the wind blows, the weeks pass, and like clockwork, Kemco releases yet another of its RPGs for iOS and Android.
This time it's called RPG Asdivine Hearts, but the important detail is that the game stars a cat. Yes, a furry feline, and a chubby one at that.
This cat tells Zack and Stella that it's the Light of Deity and will lead them to save the world from the powers of...
Nostalgic throw-back Angry Birds Transformers is now available to download on Android, after a brief spell of iOS exclusivity.
This isn't your typical Angry Birds puzzler in Transformers grab. Instead it's a whole new game that mixes up endless running with physics destruction, and it's surprisingly good fun. Until the monetisation kicks in.
After trying the iOS version, Peter called it ...
Disney and DeNA's tower defence game Star Wars: Galactic Defense is now available to download worldwide on iOS and Android, for free.
It's a pretty typical TD game where you deploy and upgrade a corridor of turrets to fend off waves of incoming baddies. Only, this time, the baddies are Stormtroopers and, I dunno, Jawas? Is that a thing?
Much like in Clash of Clans-alike Star Wars: Comman...
Detective Grimoire creator SFB Games just dropped its old PlayStation Mobile game, Haunt the House: Terrortown, on iOS and Android. Just in time for Halloween.
You play as a ghost and you get to possess objects and make them move, to scare a group of people out of a house. Or a museum. Or a hospital, a theatre, or a cruise ship. For the most part there's no single answer: you just have to p...
The release date for the Silver Award-winning Gunslug's upcoming sequel, Gunslugs 2, has been pushed back to January.
According to a recent IndieDB post by Gunslugs developer OrangePixel, the delay is a "business related move," but one that will be "worth it in the end."
Gunslugs 2 was originally slated for launch this October, so the news may come to some fans as a disappointment.
The ne...
Obslashin' gets instant win points from me as you play as a feisty cat with a swordfish as a weapon.
It gets extra points for being a pretty satisfying tap-based. straight up hack 'n' slasher with a lite RPG upgrade system.
All you do is move through top-down dungeon stages killing all the enemies that appear on screen by slashing through them with your swordfish.
You just have to tap on ...
It's spooky season and that means playing horror games is on the agenda.
While mobile gaming isn't usually known for its scares and frights, we have managed to come up with a list of 13 horror games to play this Halloween across iOS and Android.
The number 13 was a coincidence, or was it? Perhaps a menacing force greater than ourselves engineered the universe so this would happen - an omen, ...
Telltale's choice-laden episodic adventure game series The Wolf Among Us is finally available to purchase through the Google Play Store.
It has been available on Android since July 2014, but only through the Amazon App Store, and not through the more popular Google Play Store.
So, if you've been waiting for comic book violence of The Wolf Among Us to arrive on Google Play, you can eagerly do...
Madow - Sheep Happens is a game about how moronic sheep are. They'll follow each other off cliffs and into ditches, don't you know? Absurd animals.
This is what makes them a good fit for a Lemmings-like game. Yep, in Madow, you're a shepherd, and have to ensure your sheep get down a dangerous mountain safely.
Now, while Madow does compare to Lemmings, it sacrifices puzzle complexity for a fa...
Another year, another sports game - and another comment about "another year." But still, here we find ourselves with a new NHL 2K, and I imagine you want to know if it's any good before you spend your cash on it.
Know first that I haven't played much of the earlier NHL games (from any company) on mobile, so I'm not the person to ask for a comparison. However, I will say that there's some intere...
Danish developer Kiloo is about to follow up its monster hit Subway Surfers (175 million downloads and counting), with a pseudo-fighting game about foxes, gorillas, and tigers.
Smash Champs - out now in New Zealand, and going global at midnight tonight - has you training your beast in a Fruit Ninja-style mini game before sending them off into a fight.
But if you're expecting Street F...
Mind-bogglingly complex RPG King of Dragon Pass has had a hefty price cut on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, to celebrate the game's 15th anniversary.
If you haven't played it, the game's a mix of Civilization-like empire-builder and character-driven gamebook, with seemingly infinite narrative possibilities. Back in 2011 we deemed it "a wholly unique adventure that has no equal on the iPho...
I should probably boycott developer Robomondo for all eternity after it subjected me to the hot garbage that was Tony Hawk: Ride. But I'll make an exception for its cute Halloween freebie, Monster Flash.
The game plops you in the centre of the screen, and then bombards you with waves of monsters, bats, vampires, and ghosts. Your only defence is to spin around in circles and zap the beasts w...
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Updated on October 29th, at 7:51: We've updated the list with some fresh bargains on games like Limbo, Skullduggery!, Walking Dead : Season 2, Organ Trail: Director's Cut, The Room 2, and Hellraid: The Escape.
Original story follows…
A bunch of games featuring scary themes like zombies, disease, dungeons, and Benedict Cumberbatch have gone on sale across iOS and Android to celebrate Nation...
