One of the few dismal things about video gaming is the dreary, interminable platform wars.
PC versus console. Console versus... other consoles. When there are so many wonderful shared things we could be glorying in, fighting over unqualified opinions seems pointless, at best.
Mobile gaming has been on the receiving end of some of the sharpest abuse in these endless wars.
As the platform g...
Fermenter Games is taking us on a fast-paced trip around space with its next action arcade game Baseless.
The one-man studio earned itself a Silver Award from us earlier this year for David., a minimalist action game with a lot of character.
Baseless sees the studio playing to its strengths, then.
You play a little space cowboy with a distinctly long scarf who jumps around a cluster of sm...
Developer Ustwo has shared the first screenshot of its promised update for Monument Valley, over on Twitter.
Executive producer Dan Gray says the level pack - which will be available as an in-app purchase inside the game - will include almost as much content as Monument Valley itself.
But the studio elected to launch the pack as an update rather than a full-blown sequel because it's new ...
Dreamgate Studios has released its light-bending casual puzzler Light in the Dark for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone today.
I took a look at Light in the Dark just last week and, you know what, I'm really quite into it.
You could remark that, yes, it's just another casual puzzle game with cute characters. But this is the comfort food of mobile gaming and it's a ripe example of it.
Your g...
Microsoft has purchased Minecraft developer Mojang for $2.5 billion.
Good for them. But the question we had on our lips was what this meant for iOS and Android game Minecraft - Pocket Edition, and the upcoming PlayStation Vita version.
Luckily, it seems there won't be any noticeable changes.
According to Eurogamer, Microsoft's Phil Spencer said that the company will "continue to make Mine...
Set Snail has released Daddy Long Legs on Android today.
Imagine QWOP, except you're a harvestmen and your two legs are five times longer than you're body.
Walking as far as you can is a challenge to the tune of splats as your body hits the floor over and over.
Daddy Long Legs is played entirely with taps. You tap the screen to extend one leg forward and hold your finger on the screen to ...
There are two reasons I want to write about Mini Metro.
Firstly, it hasn't yet graced the online pages of PG before. Secondly, I wanted to type the name of the company making it...Dinosaur Polo Club.
That's better.
Mini Metro is a minimalistic subway management game. That may not sound very exciting but, trust me, this is a slick little game worth keeping a beady eye on.
You're constan...
For the first ten minutes of Terra Battle I have no idea what's going on. The game flashes instructions at me and I tap where I'm told.
There's a feeling of dread in my gut. This smacks of a card battler. Tap here, now tap here, now recruit some other hat-wearing-goon to help you in your quest.
And then I'm left to my own devices. Allowed to poke my archer and my knight around the screen as ...
The Forever Lost series is an engaging, often creepy point-and-click adventure set in an abandoned asylum. It's grim, witty, and we really enjoyed the first two episodes here at Pocket Gamer.
The third canonical episode is now on the horizon, so I took some time to talk to Graham Ranson and Simon Pearce from Glitch Games about making the last chunk of the trilogy, how the weight of two critical...
Bronze Award-winning physics platformer Unmechanical has almost made its way across the great divide, and should be available on Android on September 22nd. Which is a week today.
The game is all about puzzling your way through a subterranean environment, using your robotic tractor beam to flip switches, open hatches, and drag items around. Each screen is a mini-puzzle that you need to solve...
Most modern RPG makers take their inspiration from a handful of games. Maybe it's the nostalgic retro joy of Dragon Warrior, the sprawling adventure of Skyrim, or the cyberpunk technobabble of Final Fantasy VII.
But few have a combat system inspired by the Mega Man Battle Network series on Game Boy Advance.
That's exactly what Foursaken did for Phantom Rift, though. It drops stat-swapping tu...
Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
This week, the headlines were dominated by Apple and it's pair of new blowers: the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.
To get you up to scratch, check out this guide on everything you need to know about the phones. And if you're more of an Android fan, see how it stacks up against the Galax...
The Week That Was isn't a competition, but if it was, this week's winner would be Apple.
The Cupertino giant stole the show with a flurry of announcments, lifing the lid on the iPhone 6, 6 Plus, and the Apple Watch: pieces of tech Apple described as "the biggest advancements in iPhone history".
EA also revealed it has already started to work on "prototype wearable experiences", namely for th...
If games that challenge your speed and perception intrigue you, then you might want to check out the free Android puzzler 123 Memory: The Numbers Game.
One level at a time, 123 Memory introduces a series of numbered buttons, teaching you the basics with just two at first, before moving on to three, four, five, and so on.
In each level - timed simply by a translucent layer crossing over the s...
Somewhere beyond the rows of white picket fences and pristine cul-de-sacs of suburban America, a civil defense siren wails. The BBQ is ruined. This is not a drill.
The upcoming Cold War-inspired comedy game 60 Seconds will place you in the role of Ted, an average, hard working family man caught in the middle of a nuclear war.
Toss that "duck and cover" nonsense out the window. When that alar...
The Spider-Man Unlimited canon consists of a short-lived but critically well-received set of comics, and an animated series.
It's an unusual universe to want to adapt into a video game for mobile telephones and tablet computers, but it shows a definite willingness to take risks on niche(ish) IP from Marvel.
Having already gone hands-on with the game for a video here on Pocket Gamer and AppSp...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
Hyper Trip
By Bulkypix - download on Android (Free)
Okay, so you're done with rock-hard, twitchy arcade games with neon-dipped visuals, nauseating cameras, and punchy electronic soundtracks. I understand. You are excused.
But for everyone else, try Hyper Trip. This one, a sort of mix be...
Doppler is a game that asks, "How long can you hold on?" For me, the answer is a desperate croak. "Not very long," I cry.
It's an infinite twitch game played with two fingers. Perhaps it's best described as a mix of Pivvot and a wire loop game - you know, the ones that buzz when you screw up.
You hold two of your fingers on either side of the central line, and then everything starts to scrol...
Light in the Dark is a casual puzzle about helping peculiar light-based creatures called totems to find their babies. It should be coming to Android, iOS, and Windows Phone this month.
It's a casual puzzler and the first game from Dreamgate Studios which, it turns out, consists of people who worked on XCOM, BioShock, and Fallout.
I've spent a little bit of time with Light in the Dark and enj...
Tin Man Games has released another digital gamebook adaptation on the Google Play Store. This one's called The Sagas of Fire*Wolf. I don't know why there's an asterisk in the title, but there is, so there.
The game runs using the same Gamebook Engine that powers a lot of Tin Man's other games, and features not one, not six, but four individual books for you to work your way through. That's ...
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One of the few dismal things about video gaming is the dreary, interminable platform wars.
PC versus console. Console versus... other consoles. When there are so many wonderful shared things we could be glorying in, fighting over unqualified opinions seems pointless, at best.
Mobile gaming has been on the receiving end of some of the sharpest abuse in these endless wars.
As the platform g...
Fermenter Games is taking us on a fast-paced trip around space with its next action arcade game Baseless.
The one-man studio earned itself a Silver Award from us earlier this year for David., a minimalist action game with a lot of character.
Baseless sees the studio playing to its strengths, then.
You play a little space cowboy with a distinctly long scarf who jumps around a cluster of sm...
Developer Ustwo has shared the first screenshot of its promised update for Monument Valley, over on Twitter.
Executive producer Dan Gray says the level pack - which will be available as an in-app purchase inside the game - will include almost as much content as Monument Valley itself.
But the studio elected to launch the pack as an update rather than a full-blown sequel because it's new ...
Dreamgate Studios has released its light-bending casual puzzler Light in the Dark for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone today.
I took a look at Light in the Dark just last week and, you know what, I'm really quite into it.
You could remark that, yes, it's just another casual puzzle game with cute characters. But this is the comfort food of mobile gaming and it's a ripe example of it.
Your g...
Microsoft has purchased Minecraft developer Mojang for $2.5 billion.
Good for them. But the question we had on our lips was what this meant for iOS and Android game Minecraft - Pocket Edition, and the upcoming PlayStation Vita version.
Luckily, it seems there won't be any noticeable changes.
According to Eurogamer, Microsoft's Phil Spencer said that the company will "continue to make Mine...
Set Snail has released Daddy Long Legs on Android today.
Imagine QWOP, except you're a harvestmen and your two legs are five times longer than you're body.
Walking as far as you can is a challenge to the tune of splats as your body hits the floor over and over.
Daddy Long Legs is played entirely with taps. You tap the screen to extend one leg forward and hold your finger on the screen to ...
There are two reasons I want to write about Mini Metro.
Firstly, it hasn't yet graced the online pages of PG before. Secondly, I wanted to type the name of the company making it...Dinosaur Polo Club.
That's better.
Mini Metro is a minimalistic subway management game. That may not sound very exciting but, trust me, this is a slick little game worth keeping a beady eye on.
You're constan...
For the first ten minutes of Terra Battle I have no idea what's going on. The game flashes instructions at me and I tap where I'm told.
There's a feeling of dread in my gut. This smacks of a card battler. Tap here, now tap here, now recruit some other hat-wearing-goon to help you in your quest.
And then I'm left to my own devices. Allowed to poke my archer and my knight around the screen as ...
The Forever Lost series is an engaging, often creepy point-and-click adventure set in an abandoned asylum. It's grim, witty, and we really enjoyed the first two episodes here at Pocket Gamer.
The third canonical episode is now on the horizon, so I took some time to talk to Graham Ranson and Simon Pearce from Glitch Games about making the last chunk of the trilogy, how the weight of two critical...
Bronze Award-winning physics platformer Unmechanical has almost made its way across the great divide, and should be available on Android on September 22nd. Which is a week today.
The game is all about puzzling your way through a subterranean environment, using your robotic tractor beam to flip switches, open hatches, and drag items around. Each screen is a mini-puzzle that you need to solve...
Most modern RPG makers take their inspiration from a handful of games. Maybe it's the nostalgic retro joy of Dragon Warrior, the sprawling adventure of Skyrim, or the cyberpunk technobabble of Final Fantasy VII.
But few have a combat system inspired by the Mega Man Battle Network series on Game Boy Advance.
That's exactly what Foursaken did for Phantom Rift, though. It drops stat-swapping tu...
Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
This week, the headlines were dominated by Apple and it's pair of new blowers: the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.
To get you up to scratch, check out this guide on everything you need to know about the phones. And if you're more of an Android fan, see how it stacks up against the Galax...
The Week That Was isn't a competition, but if it was, this week's winner would be Apple.
The Cupertino giant stole the show with a flurry of announcments, lifing the lid on the iPhone 6, 6 Plus, and the Apple Watch: pieces of tech Apple described as "the biggest advancements in iPhone history".
EA also revealed it has already started to work on "prototype wearable experiences", namely for th...
If games that challenge your speed and perception intrigue you, then you might want to check out the free Android puzzler 123 Memory: The Numbers Game.
One level at a time, 123 Memory introduces a series of numbered buttons, teaching you the basics with just two at first, before moving on to three, four, five, and so on.
In each level - timed simply by a translucent layer crossing over the s...
Somewhere beyond the rows of white picket fences and pristine cul-de-sacs of suburban America, a civil defense siren wails. The BBQ is ruined. This is not a drill.
The upcoming Cold War-inspired comedy game 60 Seconds will place you in the role of Ted, an average, hard working family man caught in the middle of a nuclear war.
Toss that "duck and cover" nonsense out the window. When that alar...
The Spider-Man Unlimited canon consists of a short-lived but critically well-received set of comics, and an animated series.
It's an unusual universe to want to adapt into a video game for mobile telephones and tablet computers, but it shows a definite willingness to take risks on niche(ish) IP from Marvel.
Having already gone hands-on with the game for a video here on Pocket Gamer and AppSp...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
Hyper Trip
By Bulkypix - download on Android (Free)
Okay, so you're done with rock-hard, twitchy arcade games with neon-dipped visuals, nauseating cameras, and punchy electronic soundtracks. I understand. You are excused.
But for everyone else, try Hyper Trip. This one, a sort of mix be...
Doppler is a game that asks, "How long can you hold on?" For me, the answer is a desperate croak. "Not very long," I cry.
It's an infinite twitch game played with two fingers. Perhaps it's best described as a mix of Pivvot and a wire loop game - you know, the ones that buzz when you screw up.
You hold two of your fingers on either side of the central line, and then everything starts to scrol...
Tin Man Games has released another digital gamebook adaptation on the Google Play Store. This one's called The Sagas of Fire*Wolf. I don't know why there's an asterisk in the title, but there is, so there.
The game runs using the same Gamebook Engine that powers a lot of Tin Man's other games, and features not one, not six, but four individual books for you to work your way through. That's ...
