Globe-trotting war sim Modern Combat 5 finally has a release date. The long-awaited first-person shooter is out in two weeks, on July 24th.
If you read our hands-on preview you'll know that the game will have story missions with cutscenes and action set-pieces, alongside shorter Spec Ops missions that you can complete on the bus.
And if you read this story, you'll know the multiplayer sectio...
After seeing success on iOS, Barking Mouse Studio's award-winning debut game Lost Toys has carried its melancholy 3D puzzles onto Android.
Lost Toys has players exploring the shapes and textures of a childhood long gone, using touch controls to rotate and manipulate charred artifacts, like a wooden truck or a dog figurine.
Our review praised the game's "gorgeous music" and gloomy aesthetic, ...
Throw on your trapper hat and slip into some sturdy flannel - it's time to chop some wood.
Timberman is a recently released arcade-style reflex game that will have you utterly obliterating what has to be the world's tallest tree, dodging its descending branches in the process.
This is done by tapping at the left or right of the screen, to switch the direction from which your little woodsman ...
Bedtime Digital Games is bringing its surreal somnambulist puzzler Back to Bed to iOS and Android in August.
Fans of Monument Valley's impossible architecture should really dig Back to Bed. It's puzzles are of a similar design, although the game is certainly much stranger.
It's about a narcoleptic called Bob whom you have to guide back to his bed as he sleep walks across the Dali-esque level...
Violent endless runner Joan Mad Run looked ready to ship several months ago. Which is why it's slightly surprising to see it up on Kickstarter now.
Developer Happymagenta says that the reason for taking the game to crowdfunding is a desire to "bring Joan Mad Run up to a finished game quality."
After getting feedback from beta testers and interested players, the team has doubled the amou...
Deck-building games are similar to collectible card games, but you build your deck on the fly as part of the progress of play. And they've proven a gloriously tight fit for translation to mobile.
Ascension was a test case that proved how good tabletop games could be on a touchscreen, with Nightfall and Penny Arcade following in its pioneering wake.
The latest title in the genre to hit mobile...
Sonic Jump Fever is Sega's free-to-play "adaptation" of Sonic Jump and it's coming to iOS and Android on July 10th.
Fever is a vertical platformer just as Sonic Jump is. It even looks like the same game bar a couple of interface changes.
The main difference (other than it being free-to-play) is that the focus is on "score-attack and direct competition with friends and other players' scores....
The Professor Layton-esque puzzle adventure Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery is coming to Android on July 23rd.
Lucid Games stated that both the free prologue and the premium first episode will be available on Google Play later this month.
Just in time for the school summer holidays, then. Which is convenient considering that Jacob Jones is set over the course of a summer holiday at Camp ...
Manic local-multiplayer game collection Mucho Party is now available on Android.
This is a collection of fun minigames that you can play with a pal, with you both using the same device. It works on almost everything, but you'll have the most fun on tablets and the bigger phablets.
These 20 games might ask you to pick up ringing phones, paint the screen with an ink-spewing car, knock over eac...
Gold Award-winning free-to-play driving sim Real Racing 3 has just received a pair of fancy new Ferrari supercars on iOS and Android.
You've got the Ferrari F40, which was made to celebrate Ferrari’s 40th anniversary and was the last car personally approved by Enzo Ferrari. And there's 1995's Ferrari F50.
There's also a new 'Classic Ferrari Showdown Series' where the F40 and F50 go head ...
Sumptuous box-opening puzzler The Room 2 is currently on sale for just 69p / 99c on iOS and Android. So go grab your credit card and download the game.
Your credit card, if you've forgotten, is in your bedside drawer. But, darn, it's locked. The key, you seem to recall, is inside the wall safe. But you've forgotten the combination. You wrote it down. But where?
You scan the walls of your roo...
We've been to the jungle. We've trekked to the arctic. We've even gone back in time. But in the most recent update to Disco Zoo, we're going to straight to the moon.
But you can't get there from the helipad. Instead you need to unlock the launchpad, earn a few space coins, and head into orbit via rocket. How? Like this:
First, you need to unlock the launchpad and spacepen. To get these y...
It seems that you can add the phrase "turn-based tactics" to nearly any game pitch and it would turn out to be a good idea.
Mighty Tactical Shooter is the result of applying that logic to a space-based shoot-'em-up. It's not the first to have done it but Sock Thuggery looks like it's putting together the best attempt so far.
We introduced you to Mighty Tactical Shooter last year as we w...
Upon meeting strangers I sometimes describe my job as "conjuring up words for evil". It's for this reason that Dylan Loney's Words for Evil speaks to me.
Loney works for big game development studios designing games like Little Big Planet Karting and Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare. But in his spare time he creates games by himself.
Words for Evil is his first solo project, and it's a might...
Kickstarter is awash with weak pitches for mobile and tabletop games.
But Star Realms caught my eye. Firstly, because it was a physical card game, with a mobile version to follow. And secondly, because of the pedigree of its designers.
Darwin Kastle is a Magic: the Gathering champion and Rob Dougherty is the brains behind previous tabletop to mobile crossover hit Ascension.
The card versi...
June was another strong month for Android games.
But then, you know the saying: when the going gets hot, the Android gamers take their phones and sit outside in the park and play games.
I think that's how it goes, anyway.
The month of June saw more classic conversions and more cross-platform delights. We could get used to this.
Keep it up, Android developers.
The World Ends With You...
Kitten Challenge is an intriguing mix of auto-runner, platformer, and twitchy reaction timer that's out right now for Android.
You play a cat that's stood on a moving platform. The platform follows a path through the level, sliding past a variety of obstacles that you need to avoid.
The controls are simple. You tap the left of the screen to jump, and the right to flip around to the other sid...
Nitrome has announced that its next mobile game will be 8bit Doves. The action tapper, which was a product of the #nitromejam game jam, is set to hit iOS and Android in the not-too-distant future.
The game is already playable on the Nitrome website if you like your entertainment browser based. You play a drowsy man who's flying about an enclosed level collecting doves.
It's simple to play, w...
Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
July 2nd marked the middle point of the year. So, all week, we've been looking back at some of Pocket Gamer's top-rated games from 2014 on iOS, Android, Vita, and 3DS. Some systems have had a great six months, others are the Nintendo 3DS.
But with the retrospection out of the...
Another week has been and gone, and as always, it brought a fresh truckload of news with it.
We saw Supernauts hit 1 million downloads in a mere 6 days, EA get called out by the ASA for daring to suggest that Dungeon Keeper is a free-to-play game, and Kim Kardashian storm the UK App Store charts - and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
We here at PocketGamer.biz also brought in our fair shar...
For safety purposes, You are advised
not to give out any Personal Information (i.e. Address, Phone Number, etc.)
while on IRC. Because IRC is a Live Chat, The #1
Teen Chat Place can not take responsibility for any content
seen by minors. If you feel offended by any content in the channel, please
request Operator assistance for help with the matter. And don't forget to
Bookmark this page so you can come back later.
Globe-trotting war sim Modern Combat 5 finally has a release date. The long-awaited first-person shooter is out in two weeks, on July 24th.
If you read our hands-on preview you'll know that the game will have story missions with cutscenes and action set-pieces, alongside shorter Spec Ops missions that you can complete on the bus.
And if you read this story, you'll know the multiplayer sectio...
After seeing success on iOS, Barking Mouse Studio's award-winning debut game Lost Toys has carried its melancholy 3D puzzles onto Android.
Lost Toys has players exploring the shapes and textures of a childhood long gone, using touch controls to rotate and manipulate charred artifacts, like a wooden truck or a dog figurine.
Our review praised the game's "gorgeous music" and gloomy aesthetic, ...
Throw on your trapper hat and slip into some sturdy flannel - it's time to chop some wood.
Timberman is a recently released arcade-style reflex game that will have you utterly obliterating what has to be the world's tallest tree, dodging its descending branches in the process.
This is done by tapping at the left or right of the screen, to switch the direction from which your little woodsman ...
Bedtime Digital Games is bringing its surreal somnambulist puzzler Back to Bed to iOS and Android in August.
Fans of Monument Valley's impossible architecture should really dig Back to Bed. It's puzzles are of a similar design, although the game is certainly much stranger.
It's about a narcoleptic called Bob whom you have to guide back to his bed as he sleep walks across the Dali-esque level...
Violent endless runner Joan Mad Run looked ready to ship several months ago. Which is why it's slightly surprising to see it up on Kickstarter now.
Developer Happymagenta says that the reason for taking the game to crowdfunding is a desire to "bring Joan Mad Run up to a finished game quality."
After getting feedback from beta testers and interested players, the team has doubled the amou...
Deck-building games are similar to collectible card games, but you build your deck on the fly as part of the progress of play. And they've proven a gloriously tight fit for translation to mobile.
Ascension was a test case that proved how good tabletop games could be on a touchscreen, with Nightfall and Penny Arcade following in its pioneering wake.
The latest title in the genre to hit mobile...
Sonic Jump Fever is Sega's free-to-play "adaptation" of Sonic Jump and it's coming to iOS and Android on July 10th.
Fever is a vertical platformer just as Sonic Jump is. It even looks like the same game bar a couple of interface changes.
The main difference (other than it being free-to-play) is that the focus is on "score-attack and direct competition with friends and other players' scores....
The Professor Layton-esque puzzle adventure Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery is coming to Android on July 23rd.
Lucid Games stated that both the free prologue and the premium first episode will be available on Google Play later this month.
Just in time for the school summer holidays, then. Which is convenient considering that Jacob Jones is set over the course of a summer holiday at Camp ...
Manic local-multiplayer game collection Mucho Party is now available on Android.
This is a collection of fun minigames that you can play with a pal, with you both using the same device. It works on almost everything, but you'll have the most fun on tablets and the bigger phablets.
These 20 games might ask you to pick up ringing phones, paint the screen with an ink-spewing car, knock over eac...
Gold Award-winning free-to-play driving sim Real Racing 3 has just received a pair of fancy new Ferrari supercars on iOS and Android.
You've got the Ferrari F40, which was made to celebrate Ferrari’s 40th anniversary and was the last car personally approved by Enzo Ferrari. And there's 1995's Ferrari F50.
There's also a new 'Classic Ferrari Showdown Series' where the F40 and F50 go head ...
Sumptuous box-opening puzzler The Room 2 is currently on sale for just 69p / 99c on iOS and Android. So go grab your credit card and download the game.
Your credit card, if you've forgotten, is in your bedside drawer. But, darn, it's locked. The key, you seem to recall, is inside the wall safe. But you've forgotten the combination. You wrote it down. But where?
You scan the walls of your roo...
We've been to the jungle. We've trekked to the arctic. We've even gone back in time. But in the most recent update to Disco Zoo, we're going to straight to the moon.
But you can't get there from the helipad. Instead you need to unlock the launchpad, earn a few space coins, and head into orbit via rocket. How? Like this:
First, you need to unlock the launchpad and spacepen. To get these y...
It seems that you can add the phrase "turn-based tactics" to nearly any game pitch and it would turn out to be a good idea.
Mighty Tactical Shooter is the result of applying that logic to a space-based shoot-'em-up. It's not the first to have done it but Sock Thuggery looks like it's putting together the best attempt so far.
We introduced you to Mighty Tactical Shooter last year as we w...
Upon meeting strangers I sometimes describe my job as "conjuring up words for evil". It's for this reason that Dylan Loney's Words for Evil speaks to me.
Loney works for big game development studios designing games like Little Big Planet Karting and Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare. But in his spare time he creates games by himself.
Words for Evil is his first solo project, and it's a might...
June was another strong month for Android games.
But then, you know the saying: when the going gets hot, the Android gamers take their phones and sit outside in the park and play games.
I think that's how it goes, anyway.
The month of June saw more classic conversions and more cross-platform delights. We could get used to this.
Keep it up, Android developers.
The World Ends With You...
Kitten Challenge is an intriguing mix of auto-runner, platformer, and twitchy reaction timer that's out right now for Android.
You play a cat that's stood on a moving platform. The platform follows a path through the level, sliding past a variety of obstacles that you need to avoid.
The controls are simple. You tap the left of the screen to jump, and the right to flip around to the other sid...
Nitrome has announced that its next mobile game will be 8bit Doves. The action tapper, which was a product of the #nitromejam game jam, is set to hit iOS and Android in the not-too-distant future.
The game is already playable on the Nitrome website if you like your entertainment browser based. You play a drowsy man who's flying about an enclosed level collecting doves.
It's simple to play, w...
Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
July 2nd marked the middle point of the year. So, all week, we've been looking back at some of Pocket Gamer's top-rated games from 2014 on iOS, Android, Vita, and 3DS. Some systems have had a great six months, others are the Nintendo 3DS.
But with the retrospection out of the...
Another week has been and gone, and as always, it brought a fresh truckload of news with it.
We saw Supernauts hit 1 million downloads in a mere 6 days, EA get called out by the ASA for daring to suggest that Dungeon Keeper is a free-to-play game, and Kim Kardashian storm the UK App Store charts - and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
We here at PocketGamer.biz also brought in our fair shar...
