You can tell developers are getting ready for their summer holidays.
Perhaps mindful of their forthcoming sunny breaks, or of an imminent productivity-sapping World Cup in Brazil, the number of firm mobile game release dates we're receiving has plummeted.
It's all "coming this summer" this and "out soon" that, with a general implication of "oh, you know, whenever it's ready. Stop hassling me...
Tormentum's world is one of darkness and depression. I'm utterly fascinated at the prospect of clicking around it as part of a surreal adventure game.
But that can only happen if the game is funded over on IndieGoGo. If you're into macabre fantasy worlds and adventure games, it seems worthy of a few pennies.
Developer OhNoo Studios says that Tormentum will have us wondering through a place b...
ZutGames isn't hanging about. Having shared with us its fresh take on Tetris called GlowGrid just two weeks ago, the studio has launched the game on iOS and Android today.
As we mentioned previously, GlowGrid has you matching tiles of the same colour in a grid to score points and clear spaces.
The main difference between it and Tetris is that you place tiles where ever you want - they d...
I want to start this preview of Gameloft's next globe-trotting murder sim, Modern Combat 5, by telling you that the game will have an upfront fee, and carry no in-app purchases.
As a firm that makes some 80 percent of its revenue by selling virtual hats, potions, and extra lives, Gameloft's appeal to the hardcore crowd goes some way towards warming my cold, cynical husk of a heart.
Plus,...
Tap Happy Sabotage, Alistair Aitcheson's massive multiplayer touchscreen card game is set to be released on Windows 8 on June 19th.
The game, which shared the grand prize at the Big Indie Pitch at our Pocket Gamer Connects event, is all about crowding as many people as you can around the biggest touchscreen you can find and tapping your way through a series of mini-games.
As the title su...
Cie Games's Racing Rivals is a multiplayer racing game with a difference.
In most online racing games, you see, you compete against opponents from around the globe for fame and a handful of cash.
In Racing Rivals, however, you compete against other budding racers for fame, fortune, and their most prized possession. Yep, their car.
Top speed
Racing Rivals is packed with vehicles from so...
Sometimes, as the old cliché goes, the stories write themselves.
Take today's column, for example. Normally there's a good discussion over what three stories make it into the headline, but there was no need to dig much deeper than three studio-level decisions made in the US, Korea, and Europe this week.
On the happy side, chat app Kakao merged with Daum to create a titan that could corner the ma...
Push Panic is clever for its combination of physics and match-3 mechanics, creating a fresh and fun experience.
We said as much when giving it a Silver Award when it arrived on iPhone back in 2010.
Now, four years later, it's finally appeared on Google Play for all you patient Android players.
Like most match-3 puzzlers, Push Panic has you matching blocks of the same colour, which causes...
Welcome to our video walkthroughs for Angry Birds Star Wars 2. Watch the pros in action, and mimic their movements, and you'll unlock those all-important stars in no time at all.
This chapter is probably based on the second Star Wars movie, Attack of the Clones, but I wouldn't know because I haven't seen it. I'm sure it's awesome.
These vids should help you get three star scores on every lev...
Not enough games are made out of bits-and-bobs you find lying around the house. Clamber is, and it has a unique style and is adorable because of it.
What can be cuter than a fluffy little bug with googly eyes trying to wrap its stretchy woolen legs around branches made of card? Not many things, I reckon.
This endless climber has you using your fingers to guide your customisable bug as high u...
All I want to do is destroy the world. Which would explain why I've been relentlessly playing Magnetoid despite being quite terrible at it.
This frantic endless vertical runner is a devious little delight.
You aid in bringing about the end of the world by guiding a robot up an endless shaft. As you rise, humanity and its cities can be seen writhing in chaos in the background.
That's not t...
Dragon Quest VIII is an exercise in the finest nostalgia. This is a bubbly adventure through green fields and brown dungeons that effortlessly bounces to a simpler JRPG rhythm than most of Square Enix's recent output.
But at the same time it's a port that takes chances. It's portrait rather than landscape, so technically you can play with a single hand. It doesn't pull its punches either, punis...
With Peter out of the office, I invite Pocket Gamer reviews editor Harry and social media wizard Danny to help me wade through the weekly flood of mobile gaming news.
First off, we discuss the upcoming Ratchet Clank HD Trilogy, and wonder where developer Insomniac gets the inspiration for the games' filthy subtitles.
We also investigate the newly announced Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, and...
Due to the films of Tim Burton, I now associate pinstripe suits with macabre characters like Betelgeuse and Jack Skellington.
Solo artist and game developer Thomas Brush has decided to exploit this semiotic association by naming his upcoming adventure game, Pinstripe.
It's about death, you see.
It follows a dead man as he journeys across a surreal world looking for his wife. It's played a...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
iON Bond
By Smiling Bag - buy on Android (69p / $1.17)
iON Bond is about charged particles. It might be easier, though, to think of it as a game about magnets. 'Plus' attracts 'minus', but 'plus' repels 'plus' and 'minus' repels 'minus'.
All you have to do is make the coloured particles...
Some more details have emerged about the multiplayer chunk of Gameloft's upcoming army-man blaster Modern Combat 5: Blackout. It's all going to be about making friends.
The new Squad system lets you join together with a group of up to 6 people. They become your locked-in team for all the multiplayer modes.
There's a squad chat feature that lets you babble on exclusively to your squad mates a...
When we were told Godzilla was heading to cinemas across the UK on May 15th, we weren't prepared to take it so... literally.
You see, there are rumours that the King of the Monsters has surfaced in the UK. There's only one thing we, as Pocket Gamer, can do to track down his location.
We're calling on you, dear readers, to use your gaming prowess to seek out the radioactive crash site in ...
Football managers aren't exactly renowned for their expansive vocabularies.
Whether they're indulging in bizarre self help-speak like Brendan Rogers, mixing their metaphors Kevin Keegan-style, or spouting semi-coherent tripe in a Joe Kinnear fashion, looking for enlightenment in post-match interviews is often a fruitless task.
So the title of Goal Football Manager (aka Goal Soccer Manager, a...
If there's one genre that on-the-go gamers are completely spoiled for, it’s match-3 puzzlers.
Whether you like them pure, jiggling, mixed with light RPG elements, retro-inspired, or on your 3DS, you're pretty much spoiled for choice with this genre.
But how many of these games let you take cute characters and throw them into a blender, or distract your opponent with cute cat videos?
None?...
Medication Meditation isn't your average game. It has no end, it's deliberately slow, and is painfully repetitive.
That doesn't sound like a fun time. But it's not about having fun. There's another purpose to this game, you see.
With Medication Meditation, artist Kara Stone has you experience the rituals that she goes through time and again to deal with depression and anxiety.
There are f...
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You can tell developers are getting ready for their summer holidays.
Perhaps mindful of their forthcoming sunny breaks, or of an imminent productivity-sapping World Cup in Brazil, the number of firm mobile game release dates we're receiving has plummeted.
It's all "coming this summer" this and "out soon" that, with a general implication of "oh, you know, whenever it's ready. Stop hassling me...
Tormentum's world is one of darkness and depression. I'm utterly fascinated at the prospect of clicking around it as part of a surreal adventure game.
But that can only happen if the game is funded over on IndieGoGo. If you're into macabre fantasy worlds and adventure games, it seems worthy of a few pennies.
Developer OhNoo Studios says that Tormentum will have us wondering through a place b...
ZutGames isn't hanging about. Having shared with us its fresh take on Tetris called GlowGrid just two weeks ago, the studio has launched the game on iOS and Android today.
As we mentioned previously, GlowGrid has you matching tiles of the same colour in a grid to score points and clear spaces.
The main difference between it and Tetris is that you place tiles where ever you want - they d...
I want to start this preview of Gameloft's next globe-trotting murder sim, Modern Combat 5, by telling you that the game will have an upfront fee, and carry no in-app purchases.
As a firm that makes some 80 percent of its revenue by selling virtual hats, potions, and extra lives, Gameloft's appeal to the hardcore crowd goes some way towards warming my cold, cynical husk of a heart.
Plus,...
Tap Happy Sabotage, Alistair Aitcheson's massive multiplayer touchscreen card game is set to be released on Windows 8 on June 19th.
The game, which shared the grand prize at the Big Indie Pitch at our Pocket Gamer Connects event, is all about crowding as many people as you can around the biggest touchscreen you can find and tapping your way through a series of mini-games.
As the title su...
Cie Games's Racing Rivals is a multiplayer racing game with a difference.
In most online racing games, you see, you compete against opponents from around the globe for fame and a handful of cash.
In Racing Rivals, however, you compete against other budding racers for fame, fortune, and their most prized possession. Yep, their car.
Top speed
Racing Rivals is packed with vehicles from so...
Sometimes, as the old cliché goes, the stories write themselves.
Take today's column, for example. Normally there's a good discussion over what three stories make it into the headline, but there was no need to dig much deeper than three studio-level decisions made in the US, Korea, and Europe this week.
On the happy side, chat app Kakao merged with Daum to create a titan that could corner the ma...
Push Panic is clever for its combination of physics and match-3 mechanics, creating a fresh and fun experience.
We said as much when giving it a Silver Award when it arrived on iPhone back in 2010.
Now, four years later, it's finally appeared on Google Play for all you patient Android players.
Like most match-3 puzzlers, Push Panic has you matching blocks of the same colour, which causes...
Welcome to our video walkthroughs for Angry Birds Star Wars 2. Watch the pros in action, and mimic their movements, and you'll unlock those all-important stars in no time at all.
This chapter is probably based on the second Star Wars movie, Attack of the Clones, but I wouldn't know because I haven't seen it. I'm sure it's awesome.
These vids should help you get three star scores on every lev...
Not enough games are made out of bits-and-bobs you find lying around the house. Clamber is, and it has a unique style and is adorable because of it.
What can be cuter than a fluffy little bug with googly eyes trying to wrap its stretchy woolen legs around branches made of card? Not many things, I reckon.
This endless climber has you using your fingers to guide your customisable bug as high u...
All I want to do is destroy the world. Which would explain why I've been relentlessly playing Magnetoid despite being quite terrible at it.
This frantic endless vertical runner is a devious little delight.
You aid in bringing about the end of the world by guiding a robot up an endless shaft. As you rise, humanity and its cities can be seen writhing in chaos in the background.
That's not t...
Dragon Quest VIII is an exercise in the finest nostalgia. This is a bubbly adventure through green fields and brown dungeons that effortlessly bounces to a simpler JRPG rhythm than most of Square Enix's recent output.
But at the same time it's a port that takes chances. It's portrait rather than landscape, so technically you can play with a single hand. It doesn't pull its punches either, punis...
With Peter out of the office, I invite Pocket Gamer reviews editor Harry and social media wizard Danny to help me wade through the weekly flood of mobile gaming news.
First off, we discuss the upcoming Ratchet Clank HD Trilogy, and wonder where developer Insomniac gets the inspiration for the games' filthy subtitles.
We also investigate the newly announced Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, and...
Due to the films of Tim Burton, I now associate pinstripe suits with macabre characters like Betelgeuse and Jack Skellington.
Solo artist and game developer Thomas Brush has decided to exploit this semiotic association by naming his upcoming adventure game, Pinstripe.
It's about death, you see.
It follows a dead man as he journeys across a surreal world looking for his wife. It's played a...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
iON Bond
By Smiling Bag - buy on Android (69p / $1.17)
iON Bond is about charged particles. It might be easier, though, to think of it as a game about magnets. 'Plus' attracts 'minus', but 'plus' repels 'plus' and 'minus' repels 'minus'.
All you have to do is make the coloured particles...
Some more details have emerged about the multiplayer chunk of Gameloft's upcoming army-man blaster Modern Combat 5: Blackout. It's all going to be about making friends.
The new Squad system lets you join together with a group of up to 6 people. They become your locked-in team for all the multiplayer modes.
There's a squad chat feature that lets you babble on exclusively to your squad mates a...
When we were told Godzilla was heading to cinemas across the UK on May 15th, we weren't prepared to take it so... literally.
You see, there are rumours that the King of the Monsters has surfaced in the UK. There's only one thing we, as Pocket Gamer, can do to track down his location.
We're calling on you, dear readers, to use your gaming prowess to seek out the radioactive crash site in ...
Football managers aren't exactly renowned for their expansive vocabularies.
Whether they're indulging in bizarre self help-speak like Brendan Rogers, mixing their metaphors Kevin Keegan-style, or spouting semi-coherent tripe in a Joe Kinnear fashion, looking for enlightenment in post-match interviews is often a fruitless task.
So the title of Goal Football Manager (aka Goal Soccer Manager, a...
If there's one genre that on-the-go gamers are completely spoiled for, it’s match-3 puzzlers.
Whether you like them pure, jiggling, mixed with light RPG elements, retro-inspired, or on your 3DS, you're pretty much spoiled for choice with this genre.
But how many of these games let you take cute characters and throw them into a blender, or distract your opponent with cute cat videos?
None?...
Medication Meditation isn't your average game. It has no end, it's deliberately slow, and is painfully repetitive.
That doesn't sound like a fun time. But it's not about having fun. There's another purpose to this game, you see.
With Medication Meditation, artist Kara Stone has you experience the rituals that she goes through time and again to deal with depression and anxiety.
There are f...
