Asphalt Overdrive is a spin off from the entertaining racing series that takes the cars and the shininess that exemplify Gameloft's driving opus and then tosses everything else out.
Rather than driving around impressive, twisting raceways in break-neck competition with other super cars, here you're trying to escape from the police in an auto-runner that lets you do spins off ramps.
It's pret...
Solo developer Stefan Pratter is making Wicked Lair, which looks like it will please fans of the original Dungeon Keeper (emphasis on "original").
It involves building out a 2D multi-level dungeon as deep into the ground as you can, spawning horrible monsters, and then sending them out to destroy a town.
There are 20 different dungeon types and over 150 monsters to unlock and send off on a m...
The nights are getting in. The temperature's dropping. It's now far more socially acceptable to sit inside all day playing video games. Yay.
To help you plan out your next month of being a hermit, here are 15 iOS and Android games that will keep you going through the chilly months. Long RPGs, quick fire getaways, and spooky Halloween-flavoured treats.
As always, you should not take these dat...
FIFA 15 Ultimate Team is a game about numbers. From the skill ratings of the players you add to your side, to the cost of the packs of cards you buy, it's a considered and intelligent game of balancing the books.
But there's football to be played as well, and as you might expect it's polished and entertaining.
There's a vast range of balls to kick and tactics to employ, and the mechanics of ...
Square Enix has released two new Final Fantasy games in Japan for iOS, and one of them is also on Android.
The first is the one we're already familiar with, Final Fantasy: Record Keeper, for iOS and Android (as you can see here and here, respectively).
In Record Keeper, you play as Apprentice and jump into paintings that transport you to scenes from previous games in the Final Fantasy series...
I feel sick. It's sort of a good sick though. It's a sick tinged with excitement.
The bile in my guts might be confused about how the world is moving and we're not, but my brain juices are wishing that I didn't feel queasy so I could keep playing Omega Agent, Fireproof's Gear VR-powered jet-pack sim.
Except it's not actually Gear VR powered. It's running through an Occulus Rift because Firep...
Run Sackboy! Run! has been soft-launched in New Zealand. And it's actually pretty good, so long as you don't passionately hate endless runners or cuteness. Then you should avoid it.
As you can probably work out from the title, the game is all about sackboy running. The endearing little bag of cloth jogs automatically. You need to tap the screen to jump over obstacles, grab bubbles, and smas...
Herocraft's card-based tactical take on Games Workshop's dystopian future Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf has been soft launched for iPad in South Africa.
The game is a free to play deck building action game. You play a Space Marine from the Space Wolves chapter who's stomping through a Chaos-held world, trying to kill everything that can spell Tzeentch.
You've got a set of cards at your di...
This week's news-bag contained all kinds of treats, and, with most of the UK games industry down in London for EGX, variety was the name of the game.
DeNA's management director Kenji Kobayashi perhaps gave some of the best advice of the week, when he explained why western practices simply don't work in Asia.
Despite reported software issues, iOS 8 adoption continued to rise, with 30 percent ...
Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
This week, Angry Birds Transformers went into soft launch in New Zealand, so we got to have a go with this madcap auto-runner, physics-puzzler mashup.
We also discovered the best pause screen on mobile.
Do you like puzzle games? Silly question. Everyone likes puzzle games....
At EGX 2014, Detective Grimoire developer SFB Games revealed that one of its earlier games, Haunt the House: Terrortown, will be coming to iOS and Android later this year.
If you missed it on PlayStation Mobile (we don't blame you), the game is about clearing out an entire cartoon house by scaring away all of its inhabitants.
As you're an invisible ghost, you do this by hopping into obje...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
Blackwell Trilogy
By Wadjet Eye Games - buy on Humble (pay above average)
Android gamers might know Wadjet Eye Games from the defiantly retro point and click adventures Gemini Rue and The Shivah. But the tiny New York studio's real claim to fame is the Blackwell series.
This five part s...
It's surprising how few moving parts you need to make a successful board game. Go has been popular for over two thousand years, and has barely any rules at all.
Starbase Annex isn't going to claim that crown anytime soon, but it's a game in the same paradigm. Easy to learn, hard to master.
Unfortunately it's also one of those titles that's far easier to learn than to describe. A deck of card...
Fan of snare rushes and twitchy rhythm-dodging? Cosmophony might be up your street, then.
It's a colourful rhythm shooter that only has one type of music: drum 'n' bass. In fact, it's all by one artist, and that is DJ Salaryman of RAM Records.
Seeing as I can't work without music that has a tempo below 160bpm pounding in my ears, Cosmophony appeals to me.
The game's plot only increases th...
It's the little touches that help make your game feel like a treat for fans, rather than a crass money-grubbing exercise in corporate brand synergy.
The jury's still out on Angry Birds Transformers, of course, but things like this pause screen go a long way to warm our cold, cynical, black husk of a heart.
If you were born after the year 2000 and think that all videos come on DVDs or Net...
You probably haven't heard of The Battle Cats - an incredibly popular character-raising game that's racked up 10 million downloads in Japan and an impressive two million downloads in the first month of its release in Korea.
The Battle Cats is now available to download in the US, UK, and other English-speaking countries for iPhone and iPad, as well as Android-powered devices.
As it's name sug...
For the longest time, we didn't actually know what type of game Angry Birds Transformers would be.
Would it be like Angry Birds Star Wars: a typical physics destruction game but with all the birds and pigs in cute cosplay? Or maybe like Angry Birds Go, and have you racing the Transformers's vehicles.
Turns out: neither.
Yes, you're still attacking flimsy wooden structures in order to ...
The popular rhythm game, Just Dance, can now be played on your iOS or Android device with Just Dance Now, released worldwide today by Ubisoft.
With Just Dance Now, all you need is a phone and a screen.
You install the app, head over to JustDanceNow.com, and link your device remotely.
No need for additional hardware like sensor bars. Your phone acts will act as a controller as you try to p...
Kongregate has published Randomnine's free to play roguelike Cardinal Quest 2 on Android.
It's a streamlined roguelike that should please fans of the genre.
You start by choosing an adventurer to head into the hostile dungeons with (one even has a dog).
Then it's a case of swinging a sword, or casting spells to take down goblins, bandits, werewolves, and other nasties.
Swapping out equ...
Big Indie Pitch-winning Voxel Wars: 3D Racer is to be the location of a battle between iOS and Android players starting on September 26th.
Yep, it's a proper platform war. Anyone can be part of the competition by simply playing Voxel Wars between September 26th to September 28th on the competition map.
The winning team will be the one with the best skill. That will be determined by taking th...
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Asphalt Overdrive is a spin off from the entertaining racing series that takes the cars and the shininess that exemplify Gameloft's driving opus and then tosses everything else out.
Rather than driving around impressive, twisting raceways in break-neck competition with other super cars, here you're trying to escape from the police in an auto-runner that lets you do spins off ramps.
It's pret...
Solo developer Stefan Pratter is making Wicked Lair, which looks like it will please fans of the original Dungeon Keeper (emphasis on "original").
It involves building out a 2D multi-level dungeon as deep into the ground as you can, spawning horrible monsters, and then sending them out to destroy a town.
There are 20 different dungeon types and over 150 monsters to unlock and send off on a m...
The nights are getting in. The temperature's dropping. It's now far more socially acceptable to sit inside all day playing video games. Yay.
To help you plan out your next month of being a hermit, here are 15 iOS and Android games that will keep you going through the chilly months. Long RPGs, quick fire getaways, and spooky Halloween-flavoured treats.
As always, you should not take these dat...
FIFA 15 Ultimate Team is a game about numbers. From the skill ratings of the players you add to your side, to the cost of the packs of cards you buy, it's a considered and intelligent game of balancing the books.
But there's football to be played as well, and as you might expect it's polished and entertaining.
There's a vast range of balls to kick and tactics to employ, and the mechanics of ...
Square Enix has released two new Final Fantasy games in Japan for iOS, and one of them is also on Android.
The first is the one we're already familiar with, Final Fantasy: Record Keeper, for iOS and Android (as you can see here and here, respectively).
In Record Keeper, you play as Apprentice and jump into paintings that transport you to scenes from previous games in the Final Fantasy series...
I feel sick. It's sort of a good sick though. It's a sick tinged with excitement.
The bile in my guts might be confused about how the world is moving and we're not, but my brain juices are wishing that I didn't feel queasy so I could keep playing Omega Agent, Fireproof's Gear VR-powered jet-pack sim.
Except it's not actually Gear VR powered. It's running through an Occulus Rift because Firep...
Run Sackboy! Run! has been soft-launched in New Zealand. And it's actually pretty good, so long as you don't passionately hate endless runners or cuteness. Then you should avoid it.
As you can probably work out from the title, the game is all about sackboy running. The endearing little bag of cloth jogs automatically. You need to tap the screen to jump over obstacles, grab bubbles, and smas...
Herocraft's card-based tactical take on Games Workshop's dystopian future Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf has been soft launched for iPad in South Africa.
The game is a free to play deck building action game. You play a Space Marine from the Space Wolves chapter who's stomping through a Chaos-held world, trying to kill everything that can spell Tzeentch.
You've got a set of cards at your di...
This week's news-bag contained all kinds of treats, and, with most of the UK games industry down in London for EGX, variety was the name of the game.
DeNA's management director Kenji Kobayashi perhaps gave some of the best advice of the week, when he explained why western practices simply don't work in Asia.
Despite reported software issues, iOS 8 adoption continued to rise, with 30 percent ...
Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
This week, Angry Birds Transformers went into soft launch in New Zealand, so we got to have a go with this madcap auto-runner, physics-puzzler mashup.
We also discovered the best pause screen on mobile.
Do you like puzzle games? Silly question. Everyone likes puzzle games....
At EGX 2014, Detective Grimoire developer SFB Games revealed that one of its earlier games, Haunt the House: Terrortown, will be coming to iOS and Android later this year.
If you missed it on PlayStation Mobile (we don't blame you), the game is about clearing out an entire cartoon house by scaring away all of its inhabitants.
As you're an invisible ghost, you do this by hopping into obje...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
Blackwell Trilogy
By Wadjet Eye Games - buy on Humble (pay above average)
Android gamers might know Wadjet Eye Games from the defiantly retro point and click adventures Gemini Rue and The Shivah. But the tiny New York studio's real claim to fame is the Blackwell series.
This five part s...
It's surprising how few moving parts you need to make a successful board game. Go has been popular for over two thousand years, and has barely any rules at all.
Starbase Annex isn't going to claim that crown anytime soon, but it's a game in the same paradigm. Easy to learn, hard to master.
Unfortunately it's also one of those titles that's far easier to learn than to describe. A deck of card...
Fan of snare rushes and twitchy rhythm-dodging? Cosmophony might be up your street, then.
It's a colourful rhythm shooter that only has one type of music: drum 'n' bass. In fact, it's all by one artist, and that is DJ Salaryman of RAM Records.
Seeing as I can't work without music that has a tempo below 160bpm pounding in my ears, Cosmophony appeals to me.
The game's plot only increases th...
It's the little touches that help make your game feel like a treat for fans, rather than a crass money-grubbing exercise in corporate brand synergy.
The jury's still out on Angry Birds Transformers, of course, but things like this pause screen go a long way to warm our cold, cynical, black husk of a heart.
If you were born after the year 2000 and think that all videos come on DVDs or Net...
You probably haven't heard of The Battle Cats - an incredibly popular character-raising game that's racked up 10 million downloads in Japan and an impressive two million downloads in the first month of its release in Korea.
The Battle Cats is now available to download in the US, UK, and other English-speaking countries for iPhone and iPad, as well as Android-powered devices.
As it's name sug...
For the longest time, we didn't actually know what type of game Angry Birds Transformers would be.
Would it be like Angry Birds Star Wars: a typical physics destruction game but with all the birds and pigs in cute cosplay? Or maybe like Angry Birds Go, and have you racing the Transformers's vehicles.
Turns out: neither.
Yes, you're still attacking flimsy wooden structures in order to ...
The popular rhythm game, Just Dance, can now be played on your iOS or Android device with Just Dance Now, released worldwide today by Ubisoft.
With Just Dance Now, all you need is a phone and a screen.
You install the app, head over to JustDanceNow.com, and link your device remotely.
No need for additional hardware like sensor bars. Your phone acts will act as a controller as you try to p...
Kongregate has published Randomnine's free to play roguelike Cardinal Quest 2 on Android.
It's a streamlined roguelike that should please fans of the genre.
You start by choosing an adventurer to head into the hostile dungeons with (one even has a dog).
Then it's a case of swinging a sword, or casting spells to take down goblins, bandits, werewolves, and other nasties.
Swapping out equ...
Big Indie Pitch-winning Voxel Wars: 3D Racer is to be the location of a battle between iOS and Android players starting on September 26th.
Yep, it's a proper platform war. Anyone can be part of the competition by simply playing Voxel Wars between September 26th to September 28th on the competition map.
The winning team will be the one with the best skill. That will be determined by taking th...
