To celebrate the upcoming launch of Modern Combat 5: Blackout, Gameloft is running a special Time Limited Event in its Gold Award-winnning arcade racer Asphalt 8: Airborne.
The race takes place on an MC5-modified Venice track, which now features explosions, collapsing buildings, and lots and lots of helicopters.
There's also a prize. You can win a free copy of Modern Combat 5: Blackout i...
Google has said that it's going to stop labelling the free to play games on its Play Store as free. It's in response to a European Commission report on standards in free to play gaming.
Google will, from September, be instigating a number of changes to comply with the ruling.
Free to play games will be delineated from free games, new measures will be put in place to stop IAP-filled games...
There are two battles to wage once you enter Rush Rally's start screen.
One is between you and the track - a battle measured in ever-faster lap times and thumb-bashing desperation, fought with tweaked toe-in angles as you try to unlock every one of the game’s 36 routes.
The second is against that stupid, stupid ghost car.
OK, it's not stupid. I'm being petulant. It's an excellent feature ...
Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
After last week's avalanche of apps, we were happy to see a slightly more sedate line-up of games this week. But mobile never sleeps, and we still got a handful of interesting new games.
Like card-battler Magic 2015 and Worms-like naval combat game Battle Fleet 2 on both iOS ...
There's no such thing as a quiet week in the games industry, and the news, much like a great monsoon, is relentless.
It can be difficult to soak up every drop, which is exactly why we're on hand every friday to break down the week's news into easy to digest, and rather delectable, bite-sized portions.
As you can imagine, there was something of a lull in sweeping statements post-Develop, though,...
There's no denying the likeness between Behold Studios' Chroma Squad and the popular Power Rangers franchise, but does the similarity border on copyright infringement? Saban, the LA-based company who own the rights to Power Rangers in the West, think so.
Chroma Squad is a management game about customizing your own team of sentai heroes, and sending them into tactical, turn-based, televised ba...
With a playerbase spread several millions wide across PC, Mac, and iOS, ROBLOX is one of the leading game creation platforms on the internet, aimed primarily at a younger audience.
Now, gamers and aspiring game developers alike can enjoy the massively multiplayer online sandbox game for free on Android, with the launch of ROBLOX Mobile on the Google Play Store.
ROBLOX gives players the p...
Glu's previous hunting games, like the Deer Hunter series, may have been a little too much for those of a delicate disposition.
Indeed, hunting is a controversial topic. So what's the best way to distance a hunting game from the real-life 'sport'? That's right - dinosaurs.
What we have here is a first-person gallery shooter of sorts. You're dropped into a level with a goal like "kill two you...
Updated on July 18th at 16:53: The Android version of daWindci Deluxe will not be coming out today.
We were told it was originally. However, we have since been informed that the game will not appear on Android until later this summer.
The Windows Phone version has come out today, though. In fact, you can grab it right here. As covered previously, the iOS version is also available right now....
Square Enix and DeNA have announced Final Fantasy: Record Keeper for iOS and Android.
Record Keeper will have you play as a hero named Apprentice. He loves history and is Dr. Mog's best pupil, apparently.
As detailed by AnimeNetwork, his hero's journey is an unusual one, especially for the Final Fantasy series. Using Dr. Mog's magic, he jumps into paintings in order to retrieve the memories ...
Everything's been tallied up and we're ready to announce the results for the very first Best App Ever awards to be given out for Android apps.
There are well over 30 categories, each with deserving winners, but we're going to keep things simple by sticking to the game-related ones for this article. There's a link to the full list of winners at the bottom of this very article.
The Best Ar...
This week, Peter, Harry, and I bake slowly over the course of an hour as we discuss the week's mobile gaming news in the midst of a heatwave.
Inbetween the panting and passing out, we manage to cover location-based sci-fi app Ingress, and Inkle's upcoming digital adventure book 80 Days.
The second chapter of Broken Sword - The Serpent's Curse kicks off the new releases section, alongside the...
Guardians of the Galaxy: The Universal Weapon is a strange game. It feels like it should be free to play. It's got multiple currencies, layered challenges, and a system that encourages grind.
But it's a premium title. There are no IAPs whatsoever here. Everything you need is doled out in little dollops when you finish a level.
It makes for a strange experience. It's not without its entertain...
The European Commission has criticised Apple for not making any "concrete and immediate" plans to stop people being misled by free to play games on its App Store.
Apple and Google were both approached by the European Commission to make it very clear to players what the "true cost" of free to play games are.
This is in wake of the US Federal Trade Commission having Apple refund £19.9m ($32.5m...
Otjam Games has had Bulb Boy up on Kickstarter for the better part of a month now, and it's struggling to reach its funding goal.
This makes me sad as Bulb Boy is an endearing little thing. Sure, it's a 2D point-and-click horror game about a boy with a glowing head, but I love that.
The light source-based lore of the game fascinates me, too. Bulb Boy lives in the Electric Forest with h...
With it's cut-down card selection and extensive tutorials, the 2015 iteration of Magic: Duels of the Planeswalkers is very clearly aimed at people new to the grand-daddy of collectible card games.
But for a neophyte it can still feel like being thrown hard against a wall. A wall made of cards, mind, but they're edge on and made of sturdy cardboard and we all know how much paper cuts can smart.
...
Magic 2015 is now available from the Google Play Store, so Android players can have a go at throwing some digital cards on a digital table in an attempt to murder a digital person.
The iOS version of the game has been out for just over a week, and adds a few tweaks to the template that previous instalments have thrown down. It's not the best of the bunch, but it's still a lot of fun.
At ...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
Lionheart Tactics
By Kongregate - download on Android (Free)
Strategy RPGs like Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy Tactics can be utterly fantastic (which is why both those games got 10/10), but they're not the most approachable games.
They're deep, complicated, often steeped in lore, and so...
I'll bet that every last one of you has played a game, like Worms, where you have to guess the distance to a target and try and calculate the right range and shot power to hit it.
It's old hat. But what if this mechanic wasn't part of some goofy invertebrate slaughtering game? What if it was used in a setting where it actually made sense? Like the Pacific naval battles of World War 2.
What i...
Atari has announced Pridefest for iOS and Android today, which it describes as a "new social-sim game for the LGBT community."
Pridefest will have you building your own pride festival in and around a modern city. Your goal is to make the people in the city happy with your colourful parade and its many activities.
To this end, you'll be able to customise parade flotillas, build attractions, ...
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To celebrate the upcoming launch of Modern Combat 5: Blackout, Gameloft is running a special Time Limited Event in its Gold Award-winnning arcade racer Asphalt 8: Airborne.
The race takes place on an MC5-modified Venice track, which now features explosions, collapsing buildings, and lots and lots of helicopters.
There's also a prize. You can win a free copy of Modern Combat 5: Blackout i...
Google has said that it's going to stop labelling the free to play games on its Play Store as free. It's in response to a European Commission report on standards in free to play gaming.
Google will, from September, be instigating a number of changes to comply with the ruling.
Free to play games will be delineated from free games, new measures will be put in place to stop IAP-filled games...
There are two battles to wage once you enter Rush Rally's start screen.
One is between you and the track - a battle measured in ever-faster lap times and thumb-bashing desperation, fought with tweaked toe-in angles as you try to unlock every one of the game’s 36 routes.
The second is against that stupid, stupid ghost car.
OK, it's not stupid. I'm being petulant. It's an excellent feature ...
Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
After last week's avalanche of apps, we were happy to see a slightly more sedate line-up of games this week. But mobile never sleeps, and we still got a handful of interesting new games.
Like card-battler Magic 2015 and Worms-like naval combat game Battle Fleet 2 on both iOS ...
There's no such thing as a quiet week in the games industry, and the news, much like a great monsoon, is relentless.
It can be difficult to soak up every drop, which is exactly why we're on hand every friday to break down the week's news into easy to digest, and rather delectable, bite-sized portions.
As you can imagine, there was something of a lull in sweeping statements post-Develop, though,...
There's no denying the likeness between Behold Studios' Chroma Squad and the popular Power Rangers franchise, but does the similarity border on copyright infringement? Saban, the LA-based company who own the rights to Power Rangers in the West, think so.
Chroma Squad is a management game about customizing your own team of sentai heroes, and sending them into tactical, turn-based, televised ba...
With a playerbase spread several millions wide across PC, Mac, and iOS, ROBLOX is one of the leading game creation platforms on the internet, aimed primarily at a younger audience.
Now, gamers and aspiring game developers alike can enjoy the massively multiplayer online sandbox game for free on Android, with the launch of ROBLOX Mobile on the Google Play Store.
ROBLOX gives players the p...
Glu's previous hunting games, like the Deer Hunter series, may have been a little too much for those of a delicate disposition.
Indeed, hunting is a controversial topic. So what's the best way to distance a hunting game from the real-life 'sport'? That's right - dinosaurs.
What we have here is a first-person gallery shooter of sorts. You're dropped into a level with a goal like "kill two you...
![[Update] DaWindci Deluxe adds hurricanes and lightning to your swipes, more relaxing puzzles to solve](http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/artwork/thumbs/na-eijia_screen520x924__6__jpeg_100.jpg)
Updated on July 18th at 16:53: The Android version of daWindci Deluxe will not be coming out today.
We were told it was originally. However, we have since been informed that the game will not appear on Android until later this summer.
The Windows Phone version has come out today, though. In fact, you can grab it right here. As covered previously, the iOS version is also available right now....
Square Enix and DeNA have announced Final Fantasy: Record Keeper for iOS and Android.
Record Keeper will have you play as a hero named Apprentice. He loves history and is Dr. Mog's best pupil, apparently.
As detailed by AnimeNetwork, his hero's journey is an unusual one, especially for the Final Fantasy series. Using Dr. Mog's magic, he jumps into paintings in order to retrieve the memories ...
Everything's been tallied up and we're ready to announce the results for the very first Best App Ever awards to be given out for Android apps.
There are well over 30 categories, each with deserving winners, but we're going to keep things simple by sticking to the game-related ones for this article. There's a link to the full list of winners at the bottom of this very article.
The Best Ar...
This week, Peter, Harry, and I bake slowly over the course of an hour as we discuss the week's mobile gaming news in the midst of a heatwave.
Inbetween the panting and passing out, we manage to cover location-based sci-fi app Ingress, and Inkle's upcoming digital adventure book 80 Days.
The second chapter of Broken Sword - The Serpent's Curse kicks off the new releases section, alongside the...
Guardians of the Galaxy: The Universal Weapon is a strange game. It feels like it should be free to play. It's got multiple currencies, layered challenges, and a system that encourages grind.
But it's a premium title. There are no IAPs whatsoever here. Everything you need is doled out in little dollops when you finish a level.
It makes for a strange experience. It's not without its entertain...
The European Commission has criticised Apple for not making any "concrete and immediate" plans to stop people being misled by free to play games on its App Store.
Apple and Google were both approached by the European Commission to make it very clear to players what the "true cost" of free to play games are.
This is in wake of the US Federal Trade Commission having Apple refund £19.9m ($32.5m...
Otjam Games has had Bulb Boy up on Kickstarter for the better part of a month now, and it's struggling to reach its funding goal.
This makes me sad as Bulb Boy is an endearing little thing. Sure, it's a 2D point-and-click horror game about a boy with a glowing head, but I love that.
The light source-based lore of the game fascinates me, too. Bulb Boy lives in the Electric Forest with h...
With it's cut-down card selection and extensive tutorials, the 2015 iteration of Magic: Duels of the Planeswalkers is very clearly aimed at people new to the grand-daddy of collectible card games.
But for a neophyte it can still feel like being thrown hard against a wall. A wall made of cards, mind, but they're edge on and made of sturdy cardboard and we all know how much paper cuts can smart.
...
Magic 2015 is now available from the Google Play Store, so Android players can have a go at throwing some digital cards on a digital table in an attempt to murder a digital person.
The iOS version of the game has been out for just over a week, and adds a few tweaks to the template that previous instalments have thrown down. It's not the best of the bunch, but it's still a lot of fun.
At ...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
Lionheart Tactics
By Kongregate - download on Android (Free)
Strategy RPGs like Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy Tactics can be utterly fantastic (which is why both those games got 10/10), but they're not the most approachable games.
They're deep, complicated, often steeped in lore, and so...
I'll bet that every last one of you has played a game, like Worms, where you have to guess the distance to a target and try and calculate the right range and shot power to hit it.
It's old hat. But what if this mechanic wasn't part of some goofy invertebrate slaughtering game? What if it was used in a setting where it actually made sense? Like the Pacific naval battles of World War 2.
What i...
Atari has announced Pridefest for iOS and Android today, which it describes as a "new social-sim game for the LGBT community."
Pridefest will have you building your own pride festival in and around a modern city. Your goal is to make the people in the city happy with your colourful parade and its many activities.
To this end, you'll be able to customise parade flotillas, build attractions, ...
