Glorious Maximus turns gladiatorial combat into fast-paced rounds of cartoon violence.
You recruit a fighter, purchase a weapon, and then test your skills in a 2D arena.
To win, you have to push your opponent to the far side of the screen. How? By stabbing and swiping at them. But you have to manage your stamina.
Each attack drains stamina, you see. You can also block, but that really tak...
In a watershed moment for the Pocket Gamer Podcast, this week's show contains a guest who doesn't have any ties whatsoever to this website OR to any its sister sites.
You even might go so far as to call her a 'proper guest'. There's a first time for everything, I suppose.
The newcomer in question is Alysia Judge, who is a writer for online tech publication ITProPortal and a general gaming en...
Doug dug won me over as soon as the line "Congratulations, you have reached a new low" flashed up on-screen upon my digging down farther than I had before.
That's the sense of humour that runs throughout the game. It's a game that has a lot of character packed into its pixels.
Luckily, it doesn't need to rely on amusing you with quips like that all the time. Doug dug is a solid and fun arcad...
Jujubee Games has just dropped the 69p / 99c asking price for its futuristic arcade racer Flashout 2 to nowt. That's right - it's free for a short time.
Flashout 2 is a single-player and multiplayer racer that'll most likely appeal to fans of WipEout. It's only been out on iOS for a month and a half, so it's not held its price for long.
Mind you, it does have IAPs for money packs. So, Jujube...
Game Oven has confirmed that it's had to delay the release of Bounden on Android. It will still be heading to iOS on May 21st, however.
The reason for the delay on Android is revealed in the Vine below.
What you can see is a variety of Android devices running the same compass app. All of them are supposedly pointing north. 'Supposedly' being the operative word here.
Bounden uses these...
We've already revealed the games that we crowned the winner and runners-up of Krakow's Big Indie Pitch.
But there were a total of 32 games pitched to us last week, and among them were a few other promising titles.
So, it's our duty to share them with you. Now.
Below, then, you'll find descriptions of those nine other games. Some of them are playable right now, by the way.
Napoleonian...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
It's been a particularly great week for Android games, so we wanted to give honourable mentions to Half-Life 2 and Portal on Nvidia Shield, and the recent Android port of Summoner Wars.
Monument Valley
By ustwo - buy on Android (£2.49 / $3.99)
Artful indie adventure Monument Valley is a...
Here you go again, dumped in a dank, dreary land suspiciously full of spiky traps and infested with evil forces, with nothing but steely resolve and a sharp sword to keep you alive.
Dark Lands is a battle-running time, with a typical mix of side-on Canabalt-style leaping about and frantic sword-slashing, all dressed in somewhat still in-vogue silhouette garb.
Two modes are available: Surviva...
Updated on May 16th, at 12:15: Some aspects of this deal are also available on the US Amazon store. Get the photography apps here for $9 worth of Coins, and San Andreas here for $13 profit.
You can now pick up almost £30 worth of paid Android games for nothing, thanks to a free photography app promotion on Amazon, found by Hot UK Deals members.
A handful of premium camera apps have gone fr...
Cutey pixel dice-tossing free-to-play RPG Tiny Dice Dungeon has rolled a 6 and completed its arduous journey to the Google Play Store.
The Silver Award-winning luck-pusher is all about traversing dungeons and rolling dice to attack all manner of impressively retro-looking beasts.
When we reviewed the iOS version we called it "a deep game with a rich and humourous tone," adding that "this...
Silver Award-winning digital card game adaptation Summoner Wars has finally made its way to the Google Play Store.
At review we called the iOS version "a complex, but accessible, card-based strategy game that combines elements of Magic: The Gathering with Risk and Stratego."
It's a deck-building CCG with some strategic elements, a vast range of fantasy foes to scrap against, and pass-and...
Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas are now available from the Amazon Appstore for Kindle Fire devices.
Rockstar's trio of portable crime-sim ports are still impressive feats of sandbox gaming today, and bagged two Gold Awards and a Silver between them at review.
GTA III and Vice City will set you back £2.99 / $4.99 each, while San Andreas...
In the case of the Vrizzmo, the term 'hands-on' is extremely misleading.
As you can see in the video above, this cheap and cheerful answer to Oculus Rift and Project Morpheus allowed me to use my head, my neck, my spine, my feet, my legs, and various other muscles, organs, and bones vital to the operation of standing up and spinning around on the spot.
But not my hands.
Zombieland
...
The twin-stick shooter is a difficult beast to get right. It's easy to stray too close to the Geometry Wars template, creating a neon-bright blaster that pays homage to the greats but little more.
JoyJoy paints its violence in different hues. Calming blues and salmon pinks swill around its tight arenas, the curved edges of its spaceships swooping through a pastel carnage that's easy on the eye ...
Bullet Boy is a fast-paced cannon-blasting platformer that's heading to iOS and Android this July / August.
It finished in second place at the Big Indie Pitch at GDC earlier this year. Developer Pomelo Games has now released a playable trailer of Bullet Boy so you can find out why.
You can play the trailer in your browser right here.
It'll give you a good idea of how Bullet Boy works. You...
Aliens Drive Me Crazy is an infinite-runner, but it takes more than a few levels to figure that out.
This game doesn't reveal its origins casually, and that's no bad thing, as it allows you to get a feel for the gameplay and for its humour before genre awareness kicks in and you start comparing it to other games.
Back seat driver
Another peculiarity of its first impression is that Aliens...
Ubisoft has just updated the Gold Award-winning Rayman Fiesta Run on iOS with 16 new Candy World levels and a fresh boss.
If all that's not enough, you can always play as Raylatine and unlock the three brand-new costumes.
Well, perhaps that's not enough of a challenge for you. If so, then the new Nightmare Mode should keep you busy. Here, you have to try and get through 36 danger-filled ...
As part of our daily Twitch streaming schedule, the Pocket Gamer Podcast will be broadcast live at 5 today (well, in the UK at least).
Our special guest this week is ITProPortal's Alysia Judge, who'll be joining forces with our hosts James and Peter to bring you all the latest handheld news and reviews.
This is your chance to not only hear the podcast a day early, but to also participate in ...
OTTTD is an abbreviation for "Over The Top Tower Defence". And that's exactly what this game delivers.
At its core, OTTTD is the same tower defence game we've played several times over. Place towers around a road, improve them, unlock new ones, and defend your base.
But what this game contains in droves is style. And, well, hyperbole. It's set in the future, for one. And you're employed unde...
Twin Robots is an interesting new platformer for Android that sees you controlling two bobble-headed mechs. One of them starts the level trapped and you need to use the other to find the button that opens the cell door.
There's an interesting energy system that requires you to balance out your movements, share juice between the two 'bots, and make sure you've got enough left at the end of t...
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Glorious Maximus turns gladiatorial combat into fast-paced rounds of cartoon violence.
You recruit a fighter, purchase a weapon, and then test your skills in a 2D arena.
To win, you have to push your opponent to the far side of the screen. How? By stabbing and swiping at them. But you have to manage your stamina.
Each attack drains stamina, you see. You can also block, but that really tak...
In a watershed moment for the Pocket Gamer Podcast, this week's show contains a guest who doesn't have any ties whatsoever to this website OR to any its sister sites.
You even might go so far as to call her a 'proper guest'. There's a first time for everything, I suppose.
The newcomer in question is Alysia Judge, who is a writer for online tech publication ITProPortal and a general gaming en...
Doug dug won me over as soon as the line "Congratulations, you have reached a new low" flashed up on-screen upon my digging down farther than I had before.
That's the sense of humour that runs throughout the game. It's a game that has a lot of character packed into its pixels.
Luckily, it doesn't need to rely on amusing you with quips like that all the time. Doug dug is a solid and fun arcad...
Jujubee Games has just dropped the 69p / 99c asking price for its futuristic arcade racer Flashout 2 to nowt. That's right - it's free for a short time.
Flashout 2 is a single-player and multiplayer racer that'll most likely appeal to fans of WipEout. It's only been out on iOS for a month and a half, so it's not held its price for long.
Mind you, it does have IAPs for money packs. So, Jujube...
Game Oven has confirmed that it's had to delay the release of Bounden on Android. It will still be heading to iOS on May 21st, however.
The reason for the delay on Android is revealed in the Vine below.
What you can see is a variety of Android devices running the same compass app. All of them are supposedly pointing north. 'Supposedly' being the operative word here.
Bounden uses these...
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We've already revealed the games that we crowned the winner and runners-up of Krakow's Big Indie Pitch.
But there were a total of 32 games pitched to us last week, and among them were a few other promising titles.
So, it's our duty to share them with you. Now.
Below, then, you'll find descriptions of those nine other games. Some of them are playable right now, by the way.
Napoleonian...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
It's been a particularly great week for Android games, so we wanted to give honourable mentions to Half-Life 2 and Portal on Nvidia Shield, and the recent Android port of Summoner Wars.
Monument Valley
By ustwo - buy on Android (£2.49 / $3.99)
Artful indie adventure Monument Valley is a...
Here you go again, dumped in a dank, dreary land suspiciously full of spiky traps and infested with evil forces, with nothing but steely resolve and a sharp sword to keep you alive.
Dark Lands is a battle-running time, with a typical mix of side-on Canabalt-style leaping about and frantic sword-slashing, all dressed in somewhat still in-vogue silhouette garb.
Two modes are available: Surviva...
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Updated on May 16th, at 12:15: Some aspects of this deal are also available on the US Amazon store. Get the photography apps here for $9 worth of Coins, and San Andreas here for $13 profit.
You can now pick up almost £30 worth of paid Android games for nothing, thanks to a free photography app promotion on Amazon, found by Hot UK Deals members.
A handful of premium camera apps have gone fr...
Cutey pixel dice-tossing free-to-play RPG Tiny Dice Dungeon has rolled a 6 and completed its arduous journey to the Google Play Store.
The Silver Award-winning luck-pusher is all about traversing dungeons and rolling dice to attack all manner of impressively retro-looking beasts.
When we reviewed the iOS version we called it "a deep game with a rich and humourous tone," adding that "this...
Silver Award-winning digital card game adaptation Summoner Wars has finally made its way to the Google Play Store.
At review we called the iOS version "a complex, but accessible, card-based strategy game that combines elements of Magic: The Gathering with Risk and Stratego."
It's a deck-building CCG with some strategic elements, a vast range of fantasy foes to scrap against, and pass-and...
Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas are now available from the Amazon Appstore for Kindle Fire devices.
Rockstar's trio of portable crime-sim ports are still impressive feats of sandbox gaming today, and bagged two Gold Awards and a Silver between them at review.
GTA III and Vice City will set you back £2.99 / $4.99 each, while San Andreas...
In the case of the Vrizzmo, the term 'hands-on' is extremely misleading.
As you can see in the video above, this cheap and cheerful answer to Oculus Rift and Project Morpheus allowed me to use my head, my neck, my spine, my feet, my legs, and various other muscles, organs, and bones vital to the operation of standing up and spinning around on the spot.
But not my hands.
Zombieland
...
The twin-stick shooter is a difficult beast to get right. It's easy to stray too close to the Geometry Wars template, creating a neon-bright blaster that pays homage to the greats but little more.
JoyJoy paints its violence in different hues. Calming blues and salmon pinks swill around its tight arenas, the curved edges of its spaceships swooping through a pastel carnage that's easy on the eye ...
Bullet Boy is a fast-paced cannon-blasting platformer that's heading to iOS and Android this July / August.
It finished in second place at the Big Indie Pitch at GDC earlier this year. Developer Pomelo Games has now released a playable trailer of Bullet Boy so you can find out why.
You can play the trailer in your browser right here.
It'll give you a good idea of how Bullet Boy works. You...
Aliens Drive Me Crazy is an infinite-runner, but it takes more than a few levels to figure that out.
This game doesn't reveal its origins casually, and that's no bad thing, as it allows you to get a feel for the gameplay and for its humour before genre awareness kicks in and you start comparing it to other games.
Back seat driver
Another peculiarity of its first impression is that Aliens...
Ubisoft has just updated the Gold Award-winning Rayman Fiesta Run on iOS with 16 new Candy World levels and a fresh boss.
If all that's not enough, you can always play as Raylatine and unlock the three brand-new costumes.
Well, perhaps that's not enough of a challenge for you. If so, then the new Nightmare Mode should keep you busy. Here, you have to try and get through 36 danger-filled ...
As part of our daily Twitch streaming schedule, the Pocket Gamer Podcast will be broadcast live at 5 today (well, in the UK at least).
Our special guest this week is ITProPortal's Alysia Judge, who'll be joining forces with our hosts James and Peter to bring you all the latest handheld news and reviews.
This is your chance to not only hear the podcast a day early, but to also participate in ...
OTTTD is an abbreviation for "Over The Top Tower Defence". And that's exactly what this game delivers.
At its core, OTTTD is the same tower defence game we've played several times over. Place towers around a road, improve them, unlock new ones, and defend your base.
But what this game contains in droves is style. And, well, hyperbole. It's set in the future, for one. And you're employed unde...
Twin Robots is an interesting new platformer for Android that sees you controlling two bobble-headed mechs. One of them starts the level trapped and you need to use the other to find the button that opens the cell door.
There's an interesting energy system that requires you to balance out your movements, share juice between the two 'bots, and make sure you've got enough left at the end of t...
