Anki Drive is basically a modern version of Scalextric (or Hot Wheels, if you prefer) and it's now available on Android.
It uses Bluetooth-enabled cars that connect up with your smartphone or tablet, which gives them AI for you to race against. Obviously, you control your car through your smartphone, too.
This also makes it very easy to bring in friends to play with you, so long as they ...
It's rare that a mobile platform game comes up with an idea that makes you go "ooh," but that's the exact response that Terrible Tower for Android eilicited from me today.
At first glance it's a pretty standard platformer. You stomp around jungle temple-y levels, collecting coins and power-ups and avoiding spikes and other obstacles.
Then you get to a platform you can't reach. And you walk o...
It's been almost a decade since Diner Dash first made its appearance (and made a sizable splash) in the video game world. And here we are, going on ten years later, with a new iteration for mobile devices.
In many ways it's the same old game of manically trying to keep a bunch of unruly customers happy. In other ways, it's another freemium disappointment.
Dash-happy
Diner Dash is made up ...
If you're looking for a massive, intricate game of space-based strategy, Haegemonia: Legions of Iron could be right up your street.
It's a conversion of the successful PC game, and it's out right now on iPad and Android.
The game sees you trying to build a planetary empire, and fighting huge real-time space battles with loads of swooshy zappy lasers and space explosions and all that sort of ...
Silver Award-winning cardboard roguelike Card Dungeon has managed to make the treacherous journey from the App Store to the Google Play Store, meaning Android gamers can get their hands on the clever mash-up of ideas.
The big twist on the formula here are the three card-based skills you can have equipped at once. It adds an extra level of tactics and juggling to the turn-based loot-nabbing ...
Tin Man Games is following its usual release strategy by sneaking Caverns of the Snow Witch onto the Google Play Store a couple of weeks ahead of its release everywhere else.
The game is another Fighting Fantasy adaptation from the heyday of the physical gamebook. It was written by Ian Livingstone, and sees you traversing an icy waste to stop an evil Snow Witch from doing awful things.
T...
Gold Award-winning plant-based point-and-click adventure Botanicula is now available on Android, so you really don't have any excuse not to play it.
The game sees you controlling a pack of insects who are trying to save their tree home from an invasion of ugly black blobby monsters. There's a sedate, ethereal pace to proceedings, with plenty of clever puzzles to solve.
At review we calle...
In Migni you will get chased by a knight riding a giant blue chicken. That's enough of a reason for me to pay attention.
But it goes on giving me more reasons: You play as the last "Flamewalker" who is on a mission to set the world on fire again.
Thing is, you're not a demonic force with hatred in your eyes, you're a cute flame that has to hide and flee to survive. Not your usual pyromaniac...
What is an 'escape the room' game, I hear you ask.
Well, they are typically first-person games that stick you in a single room or a very small location. Your job is to get out.
The focus is almost entirely on the puzzles, rather than the story or characters. Which is what sets them apart from point and click adventures.
Got it? Good. Because there are some terrific games in this genre on ...
Kenny's going to get killed by a pinball. There, I called it.
Just so you know what I'm going on about: Zen Studios has announced that two South Park tables are coming to Zen Pinball 2 later this week. Together they're known as South Park Pinball.
They're called South Park: Super-Sweet Pinball, and South Park: Butters' Very Own Pinball Game.
The first one, Super-Sweet Pinball, you'll ...
How do you fancy helping Cancer Research UK out while playing a cute and free puzzle game?
You can do so by playing Channel 4's Reverse The Odds on iOS and Android.
It has over 350 levels for you to play across which you restore the colour to a greying wasteland. Yeah, it's a not-so-subtle metaphor for battling against cancer cells.
The levels involve fighting against an AI opponent to ho...
We really liked Darklings. We called it a "fun and clever action game," that "shows how much can be accomplished with a touchscreen control system", before slapping a shiny Silver Award on its lapel.
So we're suitably excited for Darklings Season 2 which is coming out soonish. And Peter's had a hands-on play with the sequel, as you can see in the video above.
As before the game is about ...
2K's card battling NBA 2K15 companion app has arrived on iOS and Android so that you can, er, battle with basketball players, I guess.
MY NBA 2K15 seems to be what we get this year instead of, say, an actual basketball game like last year's NBA 2K14. Whether we'll get NBA 2K15 on mobile is something we'll have to wait and see.
In the meantime, we have over 1000 player cards to form into team...
Croteam and Devolver Digital have just released a free mini-game prelude to The Talos Principle called Sigils of Elohim on iOS and Android.
In it, you are tasked with solving dozens of sigil puzzles. This involves rotating several tetrominoes so that they all fit perfectly into a single shape. There can be no overlaps of gaps.
As you do this, you are - apparently - watched over by Elohim, ak...
The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça Pizza Boy is a gorgeous looking point-and-click adventure that's based on a Portugese comic book.
Right now it's looking for funding via everyone's favourite crowd-cash-sourcing behemoth Kickstarter.
An iPad and Android tablet port is on the cards if developer Okam Studio manages to rake in $140,000. The campaign has been running for a few days an...
Jagex, the developer behind the highly succesful MMO Runescape, has announced that it's working on a digital collectable card game called Chronicle: Runescape Legends.
Although that's just a working title, so it might end up being called something else. We don't have that much info about the game at the moment, other than the bits of info Jagex has released in a press release.
Apparently...
If you've ever played a JRPG, you've likely heard the name Hironobu Sakaguchi. He's been a motive force in the Final Fantasy series and other smash hits like Chrono Trigger.
For this, his latest title, he's embraced free to play on mobile. Immediately, that makes him either a creative trailblazer or the devil incarnate, depending on your view of free games.
Yet for all the polarised opinion ...
Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
It was another huge week for brand new mobile games.
There was the manic Pixel Boat Rush, the exacting Skater, the explosive iBomber 3, the puzzling Machineers, the serene Castaway Paradise, and the expensive Skylanders: Trap Team.
Plus, the retro Dragon Quest II, the bois...
Sometimes the week passes by so quickly that I find it hard to believe it's time to sit down and write another Week That Was.
It's easy to let things slip under your rader, which is why we're on hand to make sure you don't miss a beat.
This week saw Nintendo dish out some good news, with the Japanese Godfather of gaming revealing that the 3DS version of Super Smash Bros. has sold over 2.8 mi...
Synonymy is a game for word lovers and puzzle game enthusiasts.
It tasks you to find a path through random words by connecting them through their synonyms.
So, you're given a target word - let's say "morbid" - and then have to make your way to it from your starting word, which could be, well, anything - clown, enthusiastic, parachute... you get the idea.
This is all done by swiping throug...
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Anki Drive is basically a modern version of Scalextric (or Hot Wheels, if you prefer) and it's now available on Android.
It uses Bluetooth-enabled cars that connect up with your smartphone or tablet, which gives them AI for you to race against. Obviously, you control your car through your smartphone, too.
This also makes it very easy to bring in friends to play with you, so long as they ...
It's rare that a mobile platform game comes up with an idea that makes you go "ooh," but that's the exact response that Terrible Tower for Android eilicited from me today.
At first glance it's a pretty standard platformer. You stomp around jungle temple-y levels, collecting coins and power-ups and avoiding spikes and other obstacles.
Then you get to a platform you can't reach. And you walk o...
It's been almost a decade since Diner Dash first made its appearance (and made a sizable splash) in the video game world. And here we are, going on ten years later, with a new iteration for mobile devices.
In many ways it's the same old game of manically trying to keep a bunch of unruly customers happy. In other ways, it's another freemium disappointment.
Dash-happy
Diner Dash is made up ...
If you're looking for a massive, intricate game of space-based strategy, Haegemonia: Legions of Iron could be right up your street.
It's a conversion of the successful PC game, and it's out right now on iPad and Android.
The game sees you trying to build a planetary empire, and fighting huge real-time space battles with loads of swooshy zappy lasers and space explosions and all that sort of ...
Silver Award-winning cardboard roguelike Card Dungeon has managed to make the treacherous journey from the App Store to the Google Play Store, meaning Android gamers can get their hands on the clever mash-up of ideas.
The big twist on the formula here are the three card-based skills you can have equipped at once. It adds an extra level of tactics and juggling to the turn-based loot-nabbing ...
Tin Man Games is following its usual release strategy by sneaking Caverns of the Snow Witch onto the Google Play Store a couple of weeks ahead of its release everywhere else.
The game is another Fighting Fantasy adaptation from the heyday of the physical gamebook. It was written by Ian Livingstone, and sees you traversing an icy waste to stop an evil Snow Witch from doing awful things.
T...
Gold Award-winning plant-based point-and-click adventure Botanicula is now available on Android, so you really don't have any excuse not to play it.
The game sees you controlling a pack of insects who are trying to save their tree home from an invasion of ugly black blobby monsters. There's a sedate, ethereal pace to proceedings, with plenty of clever puzzles to solve.
At review we calle...
In Migni you will get chased by a knight riding a giant blue chicken. That's enough of a reason for me to pay attention.
But it goes on giving me more reasons: You play as the last "Flamewalker" who is on a mission to set the world on fire again.
Thing is, you're not a demonic force with hatred in your eyes, you're a cute flame that has to hide and flee to survive. Not your usual pyromaniac...
What is an 'escape the room' game, I hear you ask.
Well, they are typically first-person games that stick you in a single room or a very small location. Your job is to get out.
The focus is almost entirely on the puzzles, rather than the story or characters. Which is what sets them apart from point and click adventures.
Got it? Good. Because there are some terrific games in this genre on ...
Kenny's going to get killed by a pinball. There, I called it.
Just so you know what I'm going on about: Zen Studios has announced that two South Park tables are coming to Zen Pinball 2 later this week. Together they're known as South Park Pinball.
They're called South Park: Super-Sweet Pinball, and South Park: Butters' Very Own Pinball Game.
The first one, Super-Sweet Pinball, you'll ...
How do you fancy helping Cancer Research UK out while playing a cute and free puzzle game?
You can do so by playing Channel 4's Reverse The Odds on iOS and Android.
It has over 350 levels for you to play across which you restore the colour to a greying wasteland. Yeah, it's a not-so-subtle metaphor for battling against cancer cells.
The levels involve fighting against an AI opponent to ho...
We really liked Darklings. We called it a "fun and clever action game," that "shows how much can be accomplished with a touchscreen control system", before slapping a shiny Silver Award on its lapel.
So we're suitably excited for Darklings Season 2 which is coming out soonish. And Peter's had a hands-on play with the sequel, as you can see in the video above.
As before the game is about ...
2K's card battling NBA 2K15 companion app has arrived on iOS and Android so that you can, er, battle with basketball players, I guess.
MY NBA 2K15 seems to be what we get this year instead of, say, an actual basketball game like last year's NBA 2K14. Whether we'll get NBA 2K15 on mobile is something we'll have to wait and see.
In the meantime, we have over 1000 player cards to form into team...
Croteam and Devolver Digital have just released a free mini-game prelude to The Talos Principle called Sigils of Elohim on iOS and Android.
In it, you are tasked with solving dozens of sigil puzzles. This involves rotating several tetrominoes so that they all fit perfectly into a single shape. There can be no overlaps of gaps.
As you do this, you are - apparently - watched over by Elohim, ak...
The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça Pizza Boy is a gorgeous looking point-and-click adventure that's based on a Portugese comic book.
Right now it's looking for funding via everyone's favourite crowd-cash-sourcing behemoth Kickstarter.
An iPad and Android tablet port is on the cards if developer Okam Studio manages to rake in $140,000. The campaign has been running for a few days an...
Jagex, the developer behind the highly succesful MMO Runescape, has announced that it's working on a digital collectable card game called Chronicle: Runescape Legends.
Although that's just a working title, so it might end up being called something else. We don't have that much info about the game at the moment, other than the bits of info Jagex has released in a press release.
Apparently...
If you've ever played a JRPG, you've likely heard the name Hironobu Sakaguchi. He's been a motive force in the Final Fantasy series and other smash hits like Chrono Trigger.
For this, his latest title, he's embraced free to play on mobile. Immediately, that makes him either a creative trailblazer or the devil incarnate, depending on your view of free games.
Yet for all the polarised opinion ...
Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
It was another huge week for brand new mobile games.
There was the manic Pixel Boat Rush, the exacting Skater, the explosive iBomber 3, the puzzling Machineers, the serene Castaway Paradise, and the expensive Skylanders: Trap Team.
Plus, the retro Dragon Quest II, the bois...
Sometimes the week passes by so quickly that I find it hard to believe it's time to sit down and write another Week That Was.
It's easy to let things slip under your rader, which is why we're on hand to make sure you don't miss a beat.
This week saw Nintendo dish out some good news, with the Japanese Godfather of gaming revealing that the 3DS version of Super Smash Bros. has sold over 2.8 mi...
Synonymy is a game for word lovers and puzzle game enthusiasts.
It tasks you to find a path through random words by connecting them through their synonyms.
So, you're given a target word - let's say "morbid" - and then have to make your way to it from your starting word, which could be, well, anything - clown, enthusiastic, parachute... you get the idea.
This is all done by swiping throug...
