Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
It has been a bumper week for new mobile games.
There was card-based roguelike Card Dungeon (iOS) the sadly disappointing Beatbuddy HD (iOS), twin-stick maze game Inferno 2 (iOS), and board game Galaxy Trucker (iPad).
And there was Kickstarted Viking adventure The Banner S...
Funding news dominated the headlines this week, with Stolen Couch Games, adtech startup Remerge, and Danish outfit Hugo Games receiving $315,000, $1 million, and $4 million respectively.
Over in the east, a localisation expert from Spellgun explained why Chinese gamers are demanding more pay-to-win games, while Japanese social mobile gaming network DeNA dropped the Mobage brand from its platfor...
Undefeated, the massive, 30 plus hour RPG Maker game from Aldorlea Games, is available to purchase now on Google Play for £2.99 / $4.99, with an iOS release on the way.
Created in RPG Maker VX Ace, the most recent version of Entertain's popular game development software, Undefeated is said to be the first official mobile port of an RPG Maker project.
It's an impressive port, too, featuring a...
Disney has removed Tiny Death Star and Star Wars Assault Team from both the App Store and Google Play, after the free to play games were available for just 11 and five months, respectively.
A source close to the subject has told Pocket Gamer that the games have been removed permanently so that Disney and Lucasfilm can focus on other, higher priority titles (like the recently launched Clash ...
Auro is a game based around exactly the type of behaviour I would not normally condone - pushing people in puddles.
It was a simple playground pastime that, my stern-faced teacher later told me, was not a suitable form of recreation. Well how wrong you were Mrs Mellet, because I've just played an entire game based around it. And it's brilliant.
All bump, no grind
Auro is a tactical bumpin...
I'll be honest: I don't think ADAM - Artifical Defense Automation Module is a very good title for this game.
I thought it was going to be another 360-degree shooter in which you play a military robot shooting anything that moves.
Turns out, it's not - it's about a cute robot that's just trying to dodge hazards to get through life. It's almost adorable, actually.
You play as ADAM and move...
If you were wondering what the best-reviewed iOS and Android games on the web last month were, here are the iPhone Quality Index, iPad Quality Index, and Android Quality Index round-ups for September to fill you in.
The iPhone, iPad, and Android Quality Indexes boast over 650,000 reviews (in total) from websites like 148Apps, Pocket Gamer, and IGN, and use a unique metric to create a single def...
How do you fancy a deathly dance? Yes - well, Featherweight Games has announced that Enterchained is coming out on October 7th.
As I told you back in July, Enterchained has you controlling two gladiators fighting for their lives in a coliseum's arena.
They've been tied together with a chain, which should make things more difficult for them, but you'll be using it to your advantage.
You co...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
Ironclad Tactics
By Zachtronics - download free on Android
Imagine a version of Plants vs Zombies, where both sides were the undead. And now imagine that instead of cartoon corpses, it's Civil War soldiers and clunky steam-powered automatons.
Congrats, you are now picturing Ironclad Tac...
Hunted Cow's latest grand strategy game is Russian Front - a game that we haven't heard anything about since December 2013.
It's unusual for Hunted Cow to take as long to develop a game as it has with Russian Front. The reason might have something to do with it apparently being the studio's "most ambitious strategy game yet."
This is down to Hunted Cow wanting to give the pivotal battle for ...
Student team Pixel Opus has released Entwined Challenge on iOS and Android.
It's essentially the same dual-stick action game that was released on PS4 and Vita back in July. The different is that it has a new version of the Challenge Mode.
This includes a new scoring system and new unlockables (concept art, behind-the-scenes sketches).
If you're not familiar, Entwined Challenge tests your ...
Gameloft's Silver Award-winning shooter Modern Combat 5: Blackout is on sale for the first time since it was released back in July.
Yep, on both iOS and Android (but now Windows Phone), you can grab the game for £2.49 / $3.99 right now. That's down from its full price of £4.99 / $6.99.
Even if you don't know what Modern Combat 5 is all about, it's easy to get a rough idea.
Picture a first...
Are you playing Super Smash Bros. while you read this? No?
Maybe it's you haven't picked up the Gold Award-winning Super Smash Bros. yet. Or perhaps you are in dire need of a 3DS.
Well, you can solve all your problems by entering our competition for the extravagant Super Smash Bros. Limited Edition 3DS XL bundle!
This very swish bundle comes with the gorgeous red 3DS XL below with all you...
Silver Award-winning particle bouncer Atomic+ has slipped loose the surly bonds of the App Store's gravity and landed on the Google Play Store. Or, to put it less jauntily, it's out on Android.
The game is all bout swinging around a series of concentric circles, dodging enemies and snaffling up boxes. Fail, start again, and chase your high score until it's something to be proud of.
When ...
Angry Birds Star Wars II has been updated with a bunch of new content that ties in with the new Star Wars: Rebels animated series.
There are 24 new levels set around the current episode, as well as 12 new characters from the series. You can hunt down Jedi, or join the burgeoning rebellion and be cool like Han Solo. Or something.
You also get 16 new 'Master your Destiny" levels, which let...
Ironclad Tactics, the formerly Steam-exclusive Civil War card battler, is available now on Google Play.
By SpaceChem developer Zachtronics, Ironclad Tactics reimagines an alternate history Civil War, complete with a steampunky arsenal of military robots.
In between card battles, Ironclad Tactics tells the story of engineers Maxwell Prosser and Joseph Ashdown, in an interactive graphic novel ...
Terra Battle has a release date now that it has been in soft-launch for about a month.
According to Touch Arcade, it will be exiting soft-launch on October 9th as that's when it will be officially released.
We've been "cautiously optimistic" about Terra Battle. Not just because it's the latest game from Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, but because we've been playing it.
It's an R...
The air is your enemy in Pixel Boat Rush. I found this out the hard way: by exploding.
This arcade combat racer is the next game from XperimentalZ Games. That's the studio behind the Silver Award-winning endless platformer Platforms United.
Everything that we said in our review of Platforms United applies to Pixel Boat Rush. So, yes, it has "deft controls", and is one of the "freshest" racin...
Perhaps the cutest goods you could grab for playing a game at TGS were from the Space Pirate Popet stand, in the shape of little shiba inu cube plushes. I am a bit of a fiend for goodies, so I wandered over.
Assaulted by colours and animal cries, I saw what I thought to be a frantic match-3 puzzler. I was wrong though - this is much more than that.
In Space Pirate Popet you can match animals...
Remember that Fruit Ninja update we told you about? You know, the one that apparently rebuilds the game from scratch? Well, it's out now.
First off, the game's blades and dojos now have unique effects on the fruit-slicing action.
There are bonus powers, extra time, and other "fresh surprises" to discover and combine in order to get as high a score as possible.
An example of one of these ...
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Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
It has been a bumper week for new mobile games.
There was card-based roguelike Card Dungeon (iOS) the sadly disappointing Beatbuddy HD (iOS), twin-stick maze game Inferno 2 (iOS), and board game Galaxy Trucker (iPad).
And there was Kickstarted Viking adventure The Banner S...
Funding news dominated the headlines this week, with Stolen Couch Games, adtech startup Remerge, and Danish outfit Hugo Games receiving $315,000, $1 million, and $4 million respectively.
Over in the east, a localisation expert from Spellgun explained why Chinese gamers are demanding more pay-to-win games, while Japanese social mobile gaming network DeNA dropped the Mobage brand from its platfor...
Undefeated, the massive, 30 plus hour RPG Maker game from Aldorlea Games, is available to purchase now on Google Play for £2.99 / $4.99, with an iOS release on the way.
Created in RPG Maker VX Ace, the most recent version of Entertain's popular game development software, Undefeated is said to be the first official mobile port of an RPG Maker project.
It's an impressive port, too, featuring a...
Disney has removed Tiny Death Star and Star Wars Assault Team from both the App Store and Google Play, after the free to play games were available for just 11 and five months, respectively.
A source close to the subject has told Pocket Gamer that the games have been removed permanently so that Disney and Lucasfilm can focus on other, higher priority titles (like the recently launched Clash ...
Auro is a game based around exactly the type of behaviour I would not normally condone - pushing people in puddles.
It was a simple playground pastime that, my stern-faced teacher later told me, was not a suitable form of recreation. Well how wrong you were Mrs Mellet, because I've just played an entire game based around it. And it's brilliant.
All bump, no grind
Auro is a tactical bumpin...
I'll be honest: I don't think ADAM - Artifical Defense Automation Module is a very good title for this game.
I thought it was going to be another 360-degree shooter in which you play a military robot shooting anything that moves.
Turns out, it's not - it's about a cute robot that's just trying to dodge hazards to get through life. It's almost adorable, actually.
You play as ADAM and move...
If you were wondering what the best-reviewed iOS and Android games on the web last month were, here are the iPhone Quality Index, iPad Quality Index, and Android Quality Index round-ups for September to fill you in.
The iPhone, iPad, and Android Quality Indexes boast over 650,000 reviews (in total) from websites like 148Apps, Pocket Gamer, and IGN, and use a unique metric to create a single def...
How do you fancy a deathly dance? Yes - well, Featherweight Games has announced that Enterchained is coming out on October 7th.
As I told you back in July, Enterchained has you controlling two gladiators fighting for their lives in a coliseum's arena.
They've been tied together with a chain, which should make things more difficult for them, but you'll be using it to your advantage.
You co...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
Ironclad Tactics
By Zachtronics - download free on Android
Imagine a version of Plants vs Zombies, where both sides were the undead. And now imagine that instead of cartoon corpses, it's Civil War soldiers and clunky steam-powered automatons.
Congrats, you are now picturing Ironclad Tac...
Hunted Cow's latest grand strategy game is Russian Front - a game that we haven't heard anything about since December 2013.
It's unusual for Hunted Cow to take as long to develop a game as it has with Russian Front. The reason might have something to do with it apparently being the studio's "most ambitious strategy game yet."
This is down to Hunted Cow wanting to give the pivotal battle for ...
Student team Pixel Opus has released Entwined Challenge on iOS and Android.
It's essentially the same dual-stick action game that was released on PS4 and Vita back in July. The different is that it has a new version of the Challenge Mode.
This includes a new scoring system and new unlockables (concept art, behind-the-scenes sketches).
If you're not familiar, Entwined Challenge tests your ...
Gameloft's Silver Award-winning shooter Modern Combat 5: Blackout is on sale for the first time since it was released back in July.
Yep, on both iOS and Android (but now Windows Phone), you can grab the game for £2.49 / $3.99 right now. That's down from its full price of £4.99 / $6.99.
Even if you don't know what Modern Combat 5 is all about, it's easy to get a rough idea.
Picture a first...
Are you playing Super Smash Bros. while you read this? No?
Maybe it's you haven't picked up the Gold Award-winning Super Smash Bros. yet. Or perhaps you are in dire need of a 3DS.
Well, you can solve all your problems by entering our competition for the extravagant Super Smash Bros. Limited Edition 3DS XL bundle!
This very swish bundle comes with the gorgeous red 3DS XL below with all you...
Silver Award-winning particle bouncer Atomic+ has slipped loose the surly bonds of the App Store's gravity and landed on the Google Play Store. Or, to put it less jauntily, it's out on Android.
The game is all bout swinging around a series of concentric circles, dodging enemies and snaffling up boxes. Fail, start again, and chase your high score until it's something to be proud of.
When ...
Angry Birds Star Wars II has been updated with a bunch of new content that ties in with the new Star Wars: Rebels animated series.
There are 24 new levels set around the current episode, as well as 12 new characters from the series. You can hunt down Jedi, or join the burgeoning rebellion and be cool like Han Solo. Or something.
You also get 16 new 'Master your Destiny" levels, which let...
Ironclad Tactics, the formerly Steam-exclusive Civil War card battler, is available now on Google Play.
By SpaceChem developer Zachtronics, Ironclad Tactics reimagines an alternate history Civil War, complete with a steampunky arsenal of military robots.
In between card battles, Ironclad Tactics tells the story of engineers Maxwell Prosser and Joseph Ashdown, in an interactive graphic novel ...
Terra Battle has a release date now that it has been in soft-launch for about a month.
According to Touch Arcade, it will be exiting soft-launch on October 9th as that's when it will be officially released.
We've been "cautiously optimistic" about Terra Battle. Not just because it's the latest game from Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, but because we've been playing it.
It's an R...
The air is your enemy in Pixel Boat Rush. I found this out the hard way: by exploding.
This arcade combat racer is the next game from XperimentalZ Games. That's the studio behind the Silver Award-winning endless platformer Platforms United.
Everything that we said in our review of Platforms United applies to Pixel Boat Rush. So, yes, it has "deft controls", and is one of the "freshest" racin...
Perhaps the cutest goods you could grab for playing a game at TGS were from the Space Pirate Popet stand, in the shape of little shiba inu cube plushes. I am a bit of a fiend for goodies, so I wandered over.
Assaulted by colours and animal cries, I saw what I thought to be a frantic match-3 puzzler. I was wrong though - this is much more than that.
In Space Pirate Popet you can match animals...
Remember that Fruit Ninja update we told you about? You know, the one that apparently rebuilds the game from scratch? Well, it's out now.
First off, the game's blades and dojos now have unique effects on the fruit-slicing action.
There are bonus powers, extra time, and other "fresh surprises" to discover and combine in order to get as high a score as possible.
An example of one of these ...
