Whether you're looking forward to Memorial Day or a UK Bank Holiday on Monday, chances are pretty good that you've got a three-day weekend ahead of you.
That means you've also got time for lots of mobile gaming, which is convenient as Silver Award-winning tower defense title Castle Doombad's dropped its price from $2.99 / £1.99 to 99c / 69p from May 23 to May 26.
This is pretty much the same...
I wouldn't want to be Qub from upcoming puzzler Twisty Planets.
This television-shaped alien is stuck on a bunch of tiny planets, fated to collect three stars on each one... forever. Well, until the 60 levels have been completed, at least.
Twisty Planets is inspired by games like Qbert and toys like the Rubik's Cube. Each planet is a cluster of cubes that you can spin and rotate with swipes....
This week's podcast is sponsored by rage. The kind of rage that arises from seeing a universally beloved game like Peggle supplanted by a god-awful free-to-play imposter.
Though this new version of PopCap's pachinko masterpiece has only been launched on the New Zealand App Store (and is reportedly just an experiment on behalf of EA and co.), seeing the classic game defaced in such a sloppy fash...
Despite the controls for its Bronze Award-winning Glorkian Warrior being just fine, Pixeljam has just released an update with another control option for players to try out.
Now, you can use tilt controls to move Glork about to dodge the shots of the aliens and return fire. It works pretty well in this platformer-cum-shooter, to be fair.
Those just looking for a reason to return to Glorkian W...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
Heroes and Castles
By Foursaken Media - buy on Android (£1.49 / $1.99)
Foursaken Media has a habit of making games that are kind of ugly and terrifically complicated. But that unwelcoming exterior often hides some smart, addictive, and deep strategy gameplay.
Take Heroes and Castles, fo...
For our fourth stream of the week, James and Peter will be live over on our Twitch channel today for the Pocket Gamer Podcast.
Expect all the latest news from the week thus far as well as a rundown of this week's games. We'll also find out just what the chaps are playing at the moment (a bit of the old Weed Firm, no doubt).
Peter's just back from a trip to Barcelona, where he visited King f...
Tappy Chicken is a Flappy Bird clone created by Gears of War developer and Infinity Blade publisher Epic Games.
Now, you may be thinking that of all studios, Epic Games certainly doesn't need to cash in on the Flappy Bird phenomenon.
You'd be right. According to the game's description, Tappy Chicken was created by a single artist at Epic Games in order to showcase the flexibility of Unreal E...
Last week, the Bronze Award-winning Trials: Frontier came to Android for the first time. However, it was only available if you were in Finland or India.
This week sees the rest of the global Android population being served, at last. So, no matter where you reside, you should now be able to pick up Trials: Frontier on Google Play.
In our review of the iOS version of the game, we said it's...
Cateia Games fancies making a follow-up to its Bronze Award-winning point-and-click adventure Kaptain Brawe. But it needs your cash to do so.
The Croatian team is looking for $150,000 to make Kaptain Brawe 2: A Space Travesty (and to pay Broken Sword writer Steve Ince to pen the story for the sequel).
If funded, this one will see Brawe continue his mission to stop Ursula Unsula from com...
If you're a smartphone- or tablet-owning gamebook lover, you'll probably already be aware that the App Store and Google Play are chock-full of digital recreations of classic Fighting Fantasy novels and other Choose Your Own Adventure books.
There are several companies working on these digital recreations for mobile platforms, including Tin Man Games and Cubus Games - the latter of which has jus...
A glance through the pages of history will reveal that most human conflicts have a familiar pattern to them.
Most are made up of the same motives, the same tactical principles, and the same critical mistakes.
Overkill Mafia might represent a radical shift in setting from the gritty near-future dystopia of Overkill 2 to a comic book gangster-noir America (think Sin City).
But it still push...
Procedurally-generated dungeon crawlers aren't really all that new on the App Store, but there's something about Fallen Lords that helps it stand out.
Maybe it's the retro board game presentation - which evokes tile-based games like HeroQuest - or maybe it's the interesting textures of the hand-drawn artwork.
Or, heck, maybe it's the fact that you get to roll dice to resolve combat.
Yeah,...
You may wonder what card battling could possibly bring to an arcade fighting game. I know I did.
But developer DESTINYbit saw the potential and ran with it. The result is Within, which is currently on Kickstarter.
It's a 1-on-1 fighting game as you know it: four buttons, combos, and special attacks. However, you can collect and trade cards that allow you to customise your fighter.
T...
Smiling Bag's upcoming mobile game iON Bond is practically the opposite of its previous game I Am Level.
I Am Level had you constantly being pushed around and repelled by flippers and bumpers. iON Bond, however, is about bringing atoms closer together, you see.
It's a puzzle game about "particles, people, philosophy, and everything in between".
In fact, if I shut my eyes for a second and ...
Casual farming simulators are so two years ago. Which is probably why Clash of Clans developer Supercell has updated Hay Day with a whole new town for you to restore.
Yep, Hay Day's biggest update yet lets you repair the train station at your farm and then ride on the train to your new mountain town.
Once there, you can complete challenges to unlock new buildings and decorations. Then, the f...
If Magazine Mogul looks familiar, that's not a huge surprise. It's built directly upon the foundations of Kairosoft's previous sim/management game Game Dev Story.
This is no bad thing, of course, and fans of that Silver Award-winning title and its many stablemates will be ready for a new episode, even if it sticks very closely to the same format.
Despite the fact that print and paper publish...
You've ridden a horse in Zelda, a pig in Tearaway, and a chocobo in Final Fantasy. But I bet you haven't ridden a yak.
Thought not. Well, you will in Mutant Labs's (of Half-Inch Heist fame) upcoming 2D racer Yak Dash (Horns of Glory).
Inspired by traditional yak racing in Tibet, Yak Dash will have you riding yaks across perilous mountains as quickly as you possibly can.
To do that, you'll...
OTTTD! OTTTD! OTTTD!
For some reason, OTTTD ignites something within me, and I must chant its title in the manner of WWE superstar Daniel "Yes" Bryan.
What's even more peculiar about the effect this game has on me is that I'm experiencing this feeling as a result of a tower defence game. I've played far too many tower defence games to get even remotely excited about them. Or so I thought.
...
Konami has just launched a new version of its famous football series Pro Evolution Soccer on iOS and Android.
But you can stop lacing up your boots and sleeping with your teammate's girlfriends. You see, this is actually a sticker-swapping free-to-play management game, inspired by the Manager Mode in FIFA 14.
PES Manager is all about badges, which feature more than 1,500 real-world players. ...
Released alongside Half-Life 2, Portal is part of Nvidia's push to give its Shield handheld a bit of credibility with seasoned gamers.
This critically lauded and commercially successful first-person action-puzzle title is famous for its ingenious puzzles, humorous dialogue, and cake song.
The good news is that all of the things which made the original so essential remain intact here, but it'...
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Whether you're looking forward to Memorial Day or a UK Bank Holiday on Monday, chances are pretty good that you've got a three-day weekend ahead of you.
That means you've also got time for lots of mobile gaming, which is convenient as Silver Award-winning tower defense title Castle Doombad's dropped its price from $2.99 / £1.99 to 99c / 69p from May 23 to May 26.
This is pretty much the same...
I wouldn't want to be Qub from upcoming puzzler Twisty Planets.
This television-shaped alien is stuck on a bunch of tiny planets, fated to collect three stars on each one... forever. Well, until the 60 levels have been completed, at least.
Twisty Planets is inspired by games like Qbert and toys like the Rubik's Cube. Each planet is a cluster of cubes that you can spin and rotate with swipes....
This week's podcast is sponsored by rage. The kind of rage that arises from seeing a universally beloved game like Peggle supplanted by a god-awful free-to-play imposter.
Though this new version of PopCap's pachinko masterpiece has only been launched on the New Zealand App Store (and is reportedly just an experiment on behalf of EA and co.), seeing the classic game defaced in such a sloppy fash...
Despite the controls for its Bronze Award-winning Glorkian Warrior being just fine, Pixeljam has just released an update with another control option for players to try out.
Now, you can use tilt controls to move Glork about to dodge the shots of the aliens and return fire. It works pretty well in this platformer-cum-shooter, to be fair.
Those just looking for a reason to return to Glorkian W...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
Heroes and Castles
By Foursaken Media - buy on Android (£1.49 / $1.99)
Foursaken Media has a habit of making games that are kind of ugly and terrifically complicated. But that unwelcoming exterior often hides some smart, addictive, and deep strategy gameplay.
Take Heroes and Castles, fo...
For our fourth stream of the week, James and Peter will be live over on our Twitch channel today for the Pocket Gamer Podcast.
Expect all the latest news from the week thus far as well as a rundown of this week's games. We'll also find out just what the chaps are playing at the moment (a bit of the old Weed Firm, no doubt).
Peter's just back from a trip to Barcelona, where he visited King f...
Tappy Chicken is a Flappy Bird clone created by Gears of War developer and Infinity Blade publisher Epic Games.
Now, you may be thinking that of all studios, Epic Games certainly doesn't need to cash in on the Flappy Bird phenomenon.
You'd be right. According to the game's description, Tappy Chicken was created by a single artist at Epic Games in order to showcase the flexibility of Unreal E...
Last week, the Bronze Award-winning Trials: Frontier came to Android for the first time. However, it was only available if you were in Finland or India.
This week sees the rest of the global Android population being served, at last. So, no matter where you reside, you should now be able to pick up Trials: Frontier on Google Play.
In our review of the iOS version of the game, we said it's...
Cateia Games fancies making a follow-up to its Bronze Award-winning point-and-click adventure Kaptain Brawe. But it needs your cash to do so.
The Croatian team is looking for $150,000 to make Kaptain Brawe 2: A Space Travesty (and to pay Broken Sword writer Steve Ince to pen the story for the sequel).
If funded, this one will see Brawe continue his mission to stop Ursula Unsula from com...
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If you're a smartphone- or tablet-owning gamebook lover, you'll probably already be aware that the App Store and Google Play are chock-full of digital recreations of classic Fighting Fantasy novels and other Choose Your Own Adventure books.
There are several companies working on these digital recreations for mobile platforms, including Tin Man Games and Cubus Games - the latter of which has jus...
A glance through the pages of history will reveal that most human conflicts have a familiar pattern to them.
Most are made up of the same motives, the same tactical principles, and the same critical mistakes.
Overkill Mafia might represent a radical shift in setting from the gritty near-future dystopia of Overkill 2 to a comic book gangster-noir America (think Sin City).
But it still push...
Procedurally-generated dungeon crawlers aren't really all that new on the App Store, but there's something about Fallen Lords that helps it stand out.
Maybe it's the retro board game presentation - which evokes tile-based games like HeroQuest - or maybe it's the interesting textures of the hand-drawn artwork.
Or, heck, maybe it's the fact that you get to roll dice to resolve combat.
Yeah,...
You may wonder what card battling could possibly bring to an arcade fighting game. I know I did.
But developer DESTINYbit saw the potential and ran with it. The result is Within, which is currently on Kickstarter.
It's a 1-on-1 fighting game as you know it: four buttons, combos, and special attacks. However, you can collect and trade cards that allow you to customise your fighter.
T...
Smiling Bag's upcoming mobile game iON Bond is practically the opposite of its previous game I Am Level.
I Am Level had you constantly being pushed around and repelled by flippers and bumpers. iON Bond, however, is about bringing atoms closer together, you see.
It's a puzzle game about "particles, people, philosophy, and everything in between".
In fact, if I shut my eyes for a second and ...
Casual farming simulators are so two years ago. Which is probably why Clash of Clans developer Supercell has updated Hay Day with a whole new town for you to restore.
Yep, Hay Day's biggest update yet lets you repair the train station at your farm and then ride on the train to your new mountain town.
Once there, you can complete challenges to unlock new buildings and decorations. Then, the f...
If Magazine Mogul looks familiar, that's not a huge surprise. It's built directly upon the foundations of Kairosoft's previous sim/management game Game Dev Story.
This is no bad thing, of course, and fans of that Silver Award-winning title and its many stablemates will be ready for a new episode, even if it sticks very closely to the same format.
Despite the fact that print and paper publish...
You've ridden a horse in Zelda, a pig in Tearaway, and a chocobo in Final Fantasy. But I bet you haven't ridden a yak.
Thought not. Well, you will in Mutant Labs's (of Half-Inch Heist fame) upcoming 2D racer Yak Dash (Horns of Glory).
Inspired by traditional yak racing in Tibet, Yak Dash will have you riding yaks across perilous mountains as quickly as you possibly can.
To do that, you'll...
OTTTD! OTTTD! OTTTD!
For some reason, OTTTD ignites something within me, and I must chant its title in the manner of WWE superstar Daniel "Yes" Bryan.
What's even more peculiar about the effect this game has on me is that I'm experiencing this feeling as a result of a tower defence game. I've played far too many tower defence games to get even remotely excited about them. Or so I thought.
...
Konami has just launched a new version of its famous football series Pro Evolution Soccer on iOS and Android.
But you can stop lacing up your boots and sleeping with your teammate's girlfriends. You see, this is actually a sticker-swapping free-to-play management game, inspired by the Manager Mode in FIFA 14.
PES Manager is all about badges, which feature more than 1,500 real-world players. ...
Released alongside Half-Life 2, Portal is part of Nvidia's push to give its Shield handheld a bit of credibility with seasoned gamers.
This critically lauded and commercially successful first-person action-puzzle title is famous for its ingenious puzzles, humorous dialogue, and cake song.
The good news is that all of the things which made the original so essential remain intact here, but it'...
