Japanese lesson for the week: "wan" and "nyan" are the Japanese animal sound equivalents for "woof" and "meow". No, the title's not quite Citizen Kane, but it begins to give you an idea of the scope we're dealing with here.
In this arcade flick-fighter you have to tap and drag your canine and feline protagonists across the screen, creating your line of attack and displaying where each character...
Bronze Award-winning patient murdering sim Bio Inc. - Biomedical Plague has finally made its way to the App Store, so if you fancy infecting a digital human being with awful diseases, now is your chance.
The aim of the game is murder through the application of medical malpractice. You're given a patient and you need to exploit its weaknesses, giving it heart conditions, making it smoke, and...
Square Enix has released the first teaser trailer for its upcoming JRPG threequel Chaos Rings 3. It's all in Japanese, but don't let that put you off. Have a gander and then we'll meet up again at paragraph two.
The game looks gorgeous, and the floating sticks suggest that the footage in the trailer is taken from the smartphone and tablet version rather than the Vita version, which is nice....
Building boxing could be the next big reality TV show, once we've all had our fill of Celebrity Diving, and Dancing With Dogs, and Uzbek Idol, and any other crazy ways that the C-list have discovered to keep the spotlight on themselves a few minutes longer.
If Tower Boxing is any measure of entertainment value, that trite reality show could actually be a lot of fun to watch.
Beat your buildi...
Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
Last week was a bit of a damp squib, when it came to fresh mobile games. It was held up almost entirely with the terrific Motorsport Manager. Which, by the way, we've got some tips for.
But, as if to make up for this injustice, the cosmos has only gone and dumped three Gold A...
Updated on August 30th at 9:06: Edmund McMillen of Team Meat has released a basic FAQ for Super Meat Boy Forever, confirming more details.
It will release for phones, tablets, and PC sometime in 2015.
There will be a full story, six chapters, and double the bosses of Super Meat Boy.
Forever isn't an endless runner, but it will have an endless mode with online high scores and daily runs.
...
Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll know that the biggest news of the week was Amazon's $970 million acquisition of Twitch.
However, even though Amazon's deal, quite rightly, stole the show, the rest of the industty has been doing its best to grab our attention.
HandyGames' CEO Christopher Kassulke and Funky Whale CEO Antonio Rabanera both revealed how they plan to break into the ...
Team Meat revealed one of their newest games on the PAX Prime 2014 show floor today, an endless runner called Super Meat Boy Forever.
The release date has been left at an ambiguous "when it's done," and launch platforms remain unspecified beyond PC and "tablets."
As its name suggests, Super Meat Boy Forever is an autorunner based on Team Meat's notoriously challenging Super Meat Boy from 201...
Did you know that September always begins on the same day of the week as December? Every year? That's because there's 91 days separating the two months, which is a multiple of seven.
It's not a particularly interesting fact, I'll grant you, but when you're struggling to think of an interesting way to start an article about upcoming games in September, beggars can't be choosers.
And that's ex...
Duke Dashington is about a charming pixely platformer about the world's clumsiest adventurer. Well, he probably is.
You see, old Dukey tends to trigger the treasure-filled tombs he intends to raid before he even gets inside. Smart idea, Dukey.
This means that he only has 10 seconds to grab all the treasure before it disappears for good. Being a gutsy, greedy fella, Duke takes the risk.
...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
Appointment with F.E.A.R.
By Tin Man Games - buy on Android (£1.99 / $2.99)
This is not your average Tin Man Games gamebook. It's more than just a digital remake of an old choose-your-own-adventure novel. And there an no dice, either.
It looks more like a comic book, complete with bold ...
There's a lot of Canabalt in ALONE. It's a ridiculously fast paced one-finger auto-runner with gorgeous graphics that's set in a world that's collapsing all around you.
It magnificently captures the desperation of being a tiny speck of life in a giant space that's trying to kill you.
And it's painfully addictive. The bite-sized runs stitch themselves together into hours-long play sessions as...
Playdek is bringing their strategic card battler, Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer, to the PS Vita, as detailed in an announcement on the PlayStation blog.
We reviewed the iOS version of Ascension back in 2011, calling it a "clever and tactical game."
The Bronze Award-winning card battler has received several card updates and expansions since its launch.
According to Playdek, the upc...
The Nvidia Shield joined the likes of the Ouya, GameStick and Mad Catz MOJO at the forefront of the Android micro-console revolution.
But, like its compatriots, it failed to make a lasting commercial impact and certainly did little to trouble the likes of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.
However, it was a fine showcase of Nvidia's Tegra 4 chipset and was clearly viewed by the company as a worth...
Geewillickers - the Gold Award-winning Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse is on a 90 percent off sale right now.
Yep, it usually costs £6.99 / $9.99 but right now you can pick it up for just 69p / 99c. Not bad, hey?
In our review, we said that Castle of Illusion "combines old school challenge with impeccable presentation to create a fitting tribute to one of the 16-bit era's finest pla...
505 Games has updated the Bronze Award-winning sandbox-crafter Terraria with its biggest update yet on mobile.
First of all, hard mode has now been added to the game. You know, just in case you thought proceedings were getting a little too easy.
There's plenty of extra content to unlock now, too. However, you'll have to defeat the Wall of Flesh first. If you do, this is what you get:
New...
Updated on August 28th at 13:14: Toast Time has now been updated on iOS and Android.
As said below, it has nine new levels with bespoke accompanying soundtracks.
You can purchase Toast Time for £1.99 / $2.99 on the App Store [buy] and Google Play [buy] and get the free update immediately.
Original story follows...
The chaotic Toast Time by Force of Habit is getting nine new levels n...
Updated on August 28th at 12:40: Appointment with F.E.A.R. is now out on the Google Play Store as well.
It'll set you back £1.99 / £2.99 [buy] to pick it up and give it a go. And you almost certainly should.
Original story follows...
Appointment with F.E.A.R. is the campest thing I've seen in video games for a while. It has supervillains with names like "Tiger Cat" and "Chainsaw Bronski...
Dragon Quest VIII is a bit cheaper than usual on the App Store and the Google Play Store. So if you've yet to discover whether you like playing PS2 era JRPGs in landscape on your phone, now's the perfect time.
We gave the game a Silver Award when we reviewed it, calling it "a port that's both bold and reverential," and adding that "Dragon Quest VIII might not be the perfect fit for mobile d...
Appointment With F.E.A.R. is a pretty huge departure from Tin Man Games's other Fighting Fantasy game book adaptations.
Where the others have stuck pretty closely to the physical books they're based on, Appointment With F.E.A.R. plays around with the template, offering a choose-your-own-adventure comic book that rattles along at a surprisingly brisk pace.
One obvious omission is the lack of ...
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Japanese lesson for the week: "wan" and "nyan" are the Japanese animal sound equivalents for "woof" and "meow". No, the title's not quite Citizen Kane, but it begins to give you an idea of the scope we're dealing with here.
In this arcade flick-fighter you have to tap and drag your canine and feline protagonists across the screen, creating your line of attack and displaying where each character...
Bronze Award-winning patient murdering sim Bio Inc. - Biomedical Plague has finally made its way to the App Store, so if you fancy infecting a digital human being with awful diseases, now is your chance.
The aim of the game is murder through the application of medical malpractice. You're given a patient and you need to exploit its weaknesses, giving it heart conditions, making it smoke, and...
Square Enix has released the first teaser trailer for its upcoming JRPG threequel Chaos Rings 3. It's all in Japanese, but don't let that put you off. Have a gander and then we'll meet up again at paragraph two.
The game looks gorgeous, and the floating sticks suggest that the footage in the trailer is taken from the smartphone and tablet version rather than the Vita version, which is nice....
Building boxing could be the next big reality TV show, once we've all had our fill of Celebrity Diving, and Dancing With Dogs, and Uzbek Idol, and any other crazy ways that the C-list have discovered to keep the spotlight on themselves a few minutes longer.
If Tower Boxing is any measure of entertainment value, that trite reality show could actually be a lot of fun to watch.
Beat your buildi...
Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
Last week was a bit of a damp squib, when it came to fresh mobile games. It was held up almost entirely with the terrific Motorsport Manager. Which, by the way, we've got some tips for.
But, as if to make up for this injustice, the cosmos has only gone and dumped three Gold A...
![[Update] Super Meat Boy Forever is Team Meat's newest project, an endless runner for tablets](http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/artwork/thumbs/na-fbws_tumblr_inline_nb3fmfa84c1rq0wgw_jpg_100.jpg)
Updated on August 30th at 9:06: Edmund McMillen of Team Meat has released a basic FAQ for Super Meat Boy Forever, confirming more details.
It will release for phones, tablets, and PC sometime in 2015.
There will be a full story, six chapters, and double the bosses of Super Meat Boy.
Forever isn't an endless runner, but it will have an endless mode with online high scores and daily runs.
...
Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll know that the biggest news of the week was Amazon's $970 million acquisition of Twitch.
However, even though Amazon's deal, quite rightly, stole the show, the rest of the industty has been doing its best to grab our attention.
HandyGames' CEO Christopher Kassulke and Funky Whale CEO Antonio Rabanera both revealed how they plan to break into the ...
Team Meat revealed one of their newest games on the PAX Prime 2014 show floor today, an endless runner called Super Meat Boy Forever.
The release date has been left at an ambiguous "when it's done," and launch platforms remain unspecified beyond PC and "tablets."
As its name suggests, Super Meat Boy Forever is an autorunner based on Team Meat's notoriously challenging Super Meat Boy from 201...
Did you know that September always begins on the same day of the week as December? Every year? That's because there's 91 days separating the two months, which is a multiple of seven.
It's not a particularly interesting fact, I'll grant you, but when you're struggling to think of an interesting way to start an article about upcoming games in September, beggars can't be choosers.
And that's ex...
Duke Dashington is about a charming pixely platformer about the world's clumsiest adventurer. Well, he probably is.
You see, old Dukey tends to trigger the treasure-filled tombs he intends to raid before he even gets inside. Smart idea, Dukey.
This means that he only has 10 seconds to grab all the treasure before it disappears for good. Being a gutsy, greedy fella, Duke takes the risk.
...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
Appointment with F.E.A.R.
By Tin Man Games - buy on Android (£1.99 / $2.99)
This is not your average Tin Man Games gamebook. It's more than just a digital remake of an old choose-your-own-adventure novel. And there an no dice, either.
It looks more like a comic book, complete with bold ...
There's a lot of Canabalt in ALONE. It's a ridiculously fast paced one-finger auto-runner with gorgeous graphics that's set in a world that's collapsing all around you.
It magnificently captures the desperation of being a tiny speck of life in a giant space that's trying to kill you.
And it's painfully addictive. The bite-sized runs stitch themselves together into hours-long play sessions as...
Playdek is bringing their strategic card battler, Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer, to the PS Vita, as detailed in an announcement on the PlayStation blog.
We reviewed the iOS version of Ascension back in 2011, calling it a "clever and tactical game."
The Bronze Award-winning card battler has received several card updates and expansions since its launch.
According to Playdek, the upc...
The Nvidia Shield joined the likes of the Ouya, GameStick and Mad Catz MOJO at the forefront of the Android micro-console revolution.
But, like its compatriots, it failed to make a lasting commercial impact and certainly did little to trouble the likes of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.
However, it was a fine showcase of Nvidia's Tegra 4 chipset and was clearly viewed by the company as a worth...
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Geewillickers - the Gold Award-winning Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse is on a 90 percent off sale right now.
Yep, it usually costs £6.99 / $9.99 but right now you can pick it up for just 69p / 99c. Not bad, hey?
In our review, we said that Castle of Illusion "combines old school challenge with impeccable presentation to create a fitting tribute to one of the 16-bit era's finest pla...
505 Games has updated the Bronze Award-winning sandbox-crafter Terraria with its biggest update yet on mobile.
First of all, hard mode has now been added to the game. You know, just in case you thought proceedings were getting a little too easy.
There's plenty of extra content to unlock now, too. However, you'll have to defeat the Wall of Flesh first. If you do, this is what you get:
New...
Updated on August 28th at 13:14: Toast Time has now been updated on iOS and Android.
As said below, it has nine new levels with bespoke accompanying soundtracks.
You can purchase Toast Time for £1.99 / $2.99 on the App Store [buy] and Google Play [buy] and get the free update immediately.
Original story follows...
The chaotic Toast Time by Force of Habit is getting nine new levels n...
![[Update] Out at midnight: Appointment with F.E.A.R. brings back the '80s camp of superheroes](http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/artwork/thumbs/na-fpko_screen568x568__4__jpeg_100.jpg)
Updated on August 28th at 12:40: Appointment with F.E.A.R. is now out on the Google Play Store as well.
It'll set you back £1.99 / £2.99 [buy] to pick it up and give it a go. And you almost certainly should.
Original story follows...
Appointment with F.E.A.R. is the campest thing I've seen in video games for a while. It has supervillains with names like "Tiger Cat" and "Chainsaw Bronski...
Dragon Quest VIII is a bit cheaper than usual on the App Store and the Google Play Store. So if you've yet to discover whether you like playing PS2 era JRPGs in landscape on your phone, now's the perfect time.
We gave the game a Silver Award when we reviewed it, calling it "a port that's both bold and reverential," and adding that "Dragon Quest VIII might not be the perfect fit for mobile d...
Appointment With F.E.A.R. is a pretty huge departure from Tin Man Games's other Fighting Fantasy game book adaptations.
Where the others have stuck pretty closely to the physical books they're based on, Appointment With F.E.A.R. plays around with the template, offering a choose-your-own-adventure comic book that rattles along at a surprisingly brisk pace.
One obvious omission is the lack of ...
