Anomaly Defenders could have been a case of throwing the baby out with the bath water.
In switching the action around, and dropping the tower offence template that has built the series up, 11bit risked losing everything that made the previous three games so special in the first place.
And for the first few levels that feels like a very real possibility. There's a sense that we've seen all of...
Square Enix has released Dragon Quest III - one of the most popular games in the series - on iOS and Android in Japan.
While Square Enix has said that the original Dragon Quest trilogy will be coming to smartphones, we don't have a release date for this one.
All we do know is that it should arrive in Europe and the US at some point in the future. Handy, I know.
But, hey, Dragon Quest I wa...
If there's one thing I like about Hothead Games's Kill Shot, it's its honesty.
With a title like "Kill Shot", at least you know what you're getting, I guess.
It's a first-person shooter that focuses on challenge-based marksmanship. You're presented a number of very short missions to take on that test your shooting accuracy and reaction speeds.
An example would be shooting two enemy soldie...
Barcelona-based studio Cubus Games is rapidly becoming a serious contender in the digital gamebooks arena, having made an impressive debut with The Sinister Fairground, which was quickly followed up with Silver Award-winning Heavy Metal Thunder.
The latter is a significant move for the collective of programmers, artists, and musicians at Cubus, as Heavy Metal Thunder is an adaptation of an exis...
We might be starting to lose count as to how many Asphalt racing titles Gameloft has on iOS and Android, but this latest one is worth revving up.
Asphalt Overdrive offers an unusual take on the popular driving franchise by adapting it into something of an endless runner set in the streets of 1980s California, and coming in at the bargain price of 'nowt.
Endless racer
Rather than playing w...
What is a Hueron? That's easy.
It's a little purple dot, which gets drawn in and paired up with another Hueron whenever your finger is placed in the empty grid space between them. But not diagonally. Unless those Huerons are positioned diagonally themselves. Then you can put your finger...
Hmm, maybe it's not so easy to explain after all.
Rule of thumb
Huerons is an apparently simple l...
Earlier this month, EA unveiled SimCity BuildIt - a new version of the venerable city management sim, designed specifically for mobile.
And that was about it. We got one picture, and confirmation that it will be free to play. So to find out more, we threw some questions at Jason Willig: VP and group general manager for EA Mobile.
We wanted to find out what SimCity BuildIt will be like, and h...
Rovio has been in touch to tell us that a soft launch of the anticipated '80s toy themed Angry Birds Transformers is now underway, with New Zealand and Finland landing the iOS version already.
Australia and Canada are next on the list for some red-hot Autobirds and Deceptihog action for iOS devices.
Autobirds assemble
Rotten luck for those of us without iTunes accounts in the right territ...
Lucasfilm and DeNA have joined forces (see what we did there?) to reveal a brand new Star Wars title for Android and iOS, Star Wars: Galactic Defense.
Judging by the visual style, the game ties in with the forthcoming animated TV show Star Wars Rebels, which takes place five years before the droids crash landed on Tatooine in the original movie. That said, Luke can be seen in the promotional ar...
While the first and second days of Tokyo Game Show are only open to press and distributors, the doors are open to everyone at the weekend.
On these two days, the masses descended upon the site of Tokyo Game Show, Makuhari Messe (peculiarly in neighbouring Chiba prefecture rather than Tokyo) with each influx totalling around 100,000 people on each day.
Indies and mobile took over this...
Another fall season, another dystopian teen movie (and another accompanying mobile game). This year, the hot ticket is The Maze Runner, a movie based on a book of the same name by James Dashner.
The Maze Runner is actually the first book in a series of three, but the movie adaptation - and the mobile game accompanying it - revolves around the first book. And boy oh boy, does the game ever take ...
Nature abhors a vacuum. So, like green shoots breaking up the concrete of an abandoned parking lot, the success of World of Tanks on PC ensured that similar games would arrive for mobile.
Now, of course, Wargaming has provided us with the real deal in the form of World of Tanks: Blitz. That, however, is (currently) iOS only.
Luckily, for Android gamers, that legion of mimics is still out the...
Paramount's movie tie-in game Interstellar is out on iOS at midnight - that's worth a "Hurrah", yes?
While movie tie-in games tend to be less than, err, stellar, Interstellar might actually be worth your time.
It's designed in a way to teach - through play - how space time-travel works in Christopher Nolan's film. This is achieved by allowing you to create a solar system.
The alignment of...
Attention all Android players: there's a new Humble Bundle and it has a fantastic line-up of games going cheap.
Yep, Humble Bundle 11 is a cracker, and I'll prove it to you, I will.
For the dollar minimum, you can get these games:
Thomas Was Alone
Bridge Constructor Playground
Cubemen
Cubemen 2
Where things really get enticing is when you pay over the average. If you do (it'...
Updated on September 24th at 13:15: It turns out that Anomaly Defenders will be out at midnight for iOS, too.
So, yes, don't fret iOS players, Android folks can get the game right now on Google Play [buy], you just have to wait a little longer.
It'll appear on the UK and US App Stores [buy] for £2.99 / $4.99 at midnight.
Original story follows...
The last chapter in the Anomaly...
The last chapter in the Anomaly series, Anomaly Defenders, has just landed on the Google Play Store.
That means Android gamers are getting to play the reversed reverse tower deence game a whole day before their iOS cousins. Someone should make a note of that.
Whereas the rest of the Anomaly games saw you playing as human sci-fi tanks in a game of tower offence (move down a pre-determined pat...
The Jetsons offered a glimpse at a wildly optimistic possible future of flying cars, model families, and benign capitalism.
Galaxy Dash has a similarly vibrant cartoon-sci-fi setting to the Hanna-Barbera classic, and offers a bright glimpse at a potential future where endless runners aren't boring, repetitive, cynical IAP-harvesting machines.
It's not an entirely clear vision, but we appreci...
Hey, you there. What are you, on your 2,000th hole in Desert Golfing now?
Why not take a breather for another free, minimalist game of frustrating physics?
99 Problems is a plain, but pleasing action game of blocky evasion. You navigate upwards, through a corridor of square obstacles, tapping to jump in mid-air and letting go to let yourself drop.
Fly, fall, and wall-jump up and down thro...
Nostalgia is a blunt weapon, and it has two ends. One will bludgeon you with dewy-eyed memories about old games often being amazing. The other will stun you with reminders that you used to pay for that fun in time and frustration.
Tactics Maiden is an old school SRPRG of weaponised nostalgia, which will hit you hard with both ends of the stick at once.
It starts raining down those blows righ...
Minecraft developer Mojang has reduced the price of its collectible card game Scrolls ahead of its forthcoming release on tablets.
The Scrolls beta has been available on Windows and Mac since June 2013 for anyone who pays the £13 / $21 asking price.
That price has now been dropped to just $5 (£2.99) so that it suits the typical price range for tablet games.
"Our current price of $21 isn’t...
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Anomaly Defenders could have been a case of throwing the baby out with the bath water.
In switching the action around, and dropping the tower offence template that has built the series up, 11bit risked losing everything that made the previous three games so special in the first place.
And for the first few levels that feels like a very real possibility. There's a sense that we've seen all of...
Square Enix has released Dragon Quest III - one of the most popular games in the series - on iOS and Android in Japan.
While Square Enix has said that the original Dragon Quest trilogy will be coming to smartphones, we don't have a release date for this one.
All we do know is that it should arrive in Europe and the US at some point in the future. Handy, I know.
But, hey, Dragon Quest I wa...
If there's one thing I like about Hothead Games's Kill Shot, it's its honesty.
With a title like "Kill Shot", at least you know what you're getting, I guess.
It's a first-person shooter that focuses on challenge-based marksmanship. You're presented a number of very short missions to take on that test your shooting accuracy and reaction speeds.
An example would be shooting two enemy soldie...
Barcelona-based studio Cubus Games is rapidly becoming a serious contender in the digital gamebooks arena, having made an impressive debut with The Sinister Fairground, which was quickly followed up with Silver Award-winning Heavy Metal Thunder.
The latter is a significant move for the collective of programmers, artists, and musicians at Cubus, as Heavy Metal Thunder is an adaptation of an exis...
We might be starting to lose count as to how many Asphalt racing titles Gameloft has on iOS and Android, but this latest one is worth revving up.
Asphalt Overdrive offers an unusual take on the popular driving franchise by adapting it into something of an endless runner set in the streets of 1980s California, and coming in at the bargain price of 'nowt.
Endless racer
Rather than playing w...
What is a Hueron? That's easy.
It's a little purple dot, which gets drawn in and paired up with another Hueron whenever your finger is placed in the empty grid space between them. But not diagonally. Unless those Huerons are positioned diagonally themselves. Then you can put your finger...
Hmm, maybe it's not so easy to explain after all.
Rule of thumb
Huerons is an apparently simple l...
Earlier this month, EA unveiled SimCity BuildIt - a new version of the venerable city management sim, designed specifically for mobile.
And that was about it. We got one picture, and confirmation that it will be free to play. So to find out more, we threw some questions at Jason Willig: VP and group general manager for EA Mobile.
We wanted to find out what SimCity BuildIt will be like, and h...
Rovio has been in touch to tell us that a soft launch of the anticipated '80s toy themed Angry Birds Transformers is now underway, with New Zealand and Finland landing the iOS version already.
Australia and Canada are next on the list for some red-hot Autobirds and Deceptihog action for iOS devices.
Autobirds assemble
Rotten luck for those of us without iTunes accounts in the right territ...
Lucasfilm and DeNA have joined forces (see what we did there?) to reveal a brand new Star Wars title for Android and iOS, Star Wars: Galactic Defense.
Judging by the visual style, the game ties in with the forthcoming animated TV show Star Wars Rebels, which takes place five years before the droids crash landed on Tatooine in the original movie. That said, Luke can be seen in the promotional ar...
While the first and second days of Tokyo Game Show are only open to press and distributors, the doors are open to everyone at the weekend.
On these two days, the masses descended upon the site of Tokyo Game Show, Makuhari Messe (peculiarly in neighbouring Chiba prefecture rather than Tokyo) with each influx totalling around 100,000 people on each day.
Indies and mobile took over this...
Another fall season, another dystopian teen movie (and another accompanying mobile game). This year, the hot ticket is The Maze Runner, a movie based on a book of the same name by James Dashner.
The Maze Runner is actually the first book in a series of three, but the movie adaptation - and the mobile game accompanying it - revolves around the first book. And boy oh boy, does the game ever take ...
Nature abhors a vacuum. So, like green shoots breaking up the concrete of an abandoned parking lot, the success of World of Tanks on PC ensured that similar games would arrive for mobile.
Now, of course, Wargaming has provided us with the real deal in the form of World of Tanks: Blitz. That, however, is (currently) iOS only.
Luckily, for Android gamers, that legion of mimics is still out the...
Paramount's movie tie-in game Interstellar is out on iOS at midnight - that's worth a "Hurrah", yes?
While movie tie-in games tend to be less than, err, stellar, Interstellar might actually be worth your time.
It's designed in a way to teach - through play - how space time-travel works in Christopher Nolan's film. This is achieved by allowing you to create a solar system.
The alignment of...
Attention all Android players: there's a new Humble Bundle and it has a fantastic line-up of games going cheap.
Yep, Humble Bundle 11 is a cracker, and I'll prove it to you, I will.
For the dollar minimum, you can get these games:
Thomas Was Alone
Bridge Constructor Playground
Cubemen
Cubemen 2
Where things really get enticing is when you pay over the average. If you do (it'...
![[Update] Anomaly Defenders, the flipped back around last chapter in 11bit's sci-fi series, is out on Android right now](http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/artwork/thumbs/na-ecbkfed_ano_jpg_100.jpg)
Updated on September 24th at 13:15: It turns out that Anomaly Defenders will be out at midnight for iOS, too.
So, yes, don't fret iOS players, Android folks can get the game right now on Google Play [buy], you just have to wait a little longer.
It'll appear on the UK and US App Stores [buy] for £2.99 / $4.99 at midnight.
Original story follows...
The last chapter in the Anomaly...
The Jetsons offered a glimpse at a wildly optimistic possible future of flying cars, model families, and benign capitalism.
Galaxy Dash has a similarly vibrant cartoon-sci-fi setting to the Hanna-Barbera classic, and offers a bright glimpse at a potential future where endless runners aren't boring, repetitive, cynical IAP-harvesting machines.
It's not an entirely clear vision, but we appreci...
Hey, you there. What are you, on your 2,000th hole in Desert Golfing now?
Why not take a breather for another free, minimalist game of frustrating physics?
99 Problems is a plain, but pleasing action game of blocky evasion. You navigate upwards, through a corridor of square obstacles, tapping to jump in mid-air and letting go to let yourself drop.
Fly, fall, and wall-jump up and down thro...
Nostalgia is a blunt weapon, and it has two ends. One will bludgeon you with dewy-eyed memories about old games often being amazing. The other will stun you with reminders that you used to pay for that fun in time and frustration.
Tactics Maiden is an old school SRPRG of weaponised nostalgia, which will hit you hard with both ends of the stick at once.
It starts raining down those blows righ...
Minecraft developer Mojang has reduced the price of its collectible card game Scrolls ahead of its forthcoming release on tablets.
The Scrolls beta has been available on Windows and Mac since June 2013 for anyone who pays the £13 / $21 asking price.
That price has now been dropped to just $5 (£2.99) so that it suits the typical price range for tablet games.
"Our current price of $21 isn’t...
