The Californian gold rush of the mid-19th century was a precarious time.
Intrepid pioneers of that time rode a fine line between triumph and disaster, with the potential for massive profit on one side and death or financial ruin on the other.
It's a line 1849 walks in a similar fashion, with similarly binary results.
Virgin territory
The most refreshing thing about 1849 is that it isn'...
If you're a child of the 80s, or a member of the Richard Dean Anderson fan club, we've got some great news for you.
There's a MacGyver-themed puzzle game coming to the App Store and Google Play on May 21.
Dubbed MacGyver: Deadly Descent, our first thoughts are that it doesn't look terribly MacGyver-y, so you can forget about hotwiring a hovercraft using a paper clip and a wad of chewing gum....
Brace yourselves, Android players: the Gold Award-winning Monument Valley has just surfaced on Google Play. Get in!
Finally, ustwo's smart and stylish puzzle game about manipulating impossible isometric architecture is available from the Google Play Store.
In this one, you play a silent princess who travels across the beautiful structures, avoiding crows and picking up a memorable friend...
Frogmind Games certainly knows how to keep on giving. It's now updated its physics-based action-adventure Badland with co-op multiplayer. It's time to grab a mate.
So, rather than beating each other up in Badland's multiplayer deathmatch mode, you help each other out.
If one of you dies, then you can pick up the clone power-ups to bring her back, you see. This is handy knowledge, as Badland'...
The correct reaction to Hyper Square upon playing it for the first time is "Aghhhh". Yup, it lives up to its name.
The game starts with minimal instruction and gets you right into the fumbling.
Your task here is simple: put the squares into the hollow ones before the time runs out.
The first level involves dragging or flicking the squares into the holes. You'll have eight phases, each mad...
You might have spotted today that Games Workshop is working on a Warhammer 40,000 version of chess. It's chess, but with enormous guns and more grim futuristic Gothic-ness. Woo.
That got our simple brains whirring. What other beloved game franchises could GW crowbar its Space Marines into?
So here's a list of the best suggestions we could come up with. I'm available for freelance Photoshop w...
You know the rules by now: in R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu lies dreaming.
Except in this case, Canadian wizard Noodlecake Studios - it of Super Stickman Golf and Zombie Road Trip fame - has seen fit to upend the established order and mesh an ancient horror with a very modern one.
After being available on iOS for a few months, FlapThulu: Flappy Madness is now live on Android. In it, you guide an Anci...
Companion apps! Second screen experiences! Doing anything other than actually paying any attention to what you're doing!
These things are all the rage nowadays on mobile, and Nintendo looks set to finally get in on the action with a Mario Kart 8 app.
It's called Mario Kart TV and it's part of a mobile and PC service that lets you keep track of your stats, watch video replays, and generally...
Warhammer 40,000: Chess - Regicide is the latest in the ever-increasing slew of games bearing the Games Workshop brand.
This time round it's chess, but not as we know it. Because there are Space Marines and Orks instead of chess pieces, I guess.
The game is being built by Hammerfall Publishing, and features single player and mutiplayer modes, as well as a Blood Angels-fronted campaign th...
Looking forward to the forthcoming Transformers: Age of Extinction movie? Oh, well.
Anyway, DeNA has just confirmed that a tie-in mobile game for Michael Bay's latest magnum opus is also on its way.
This will be the second Transformers game to surface as part of the 3-year agreement between Hasbro and DeNA. Last year, we were 'treated' to the less-than-stellar card battler Transformers Legen...
We were blown away by the performance of the cheap-as-chips Moto G last year. Today, though, Motorola unveiled the even-cheaper Moto E, a phone that might just take over the world.
At £89, this dual-core Android smartphone is the second attempt by Motorola to prove that cheap doesn't have to mean, well, cheap.
Packed inside this blower is a Snapdragon 200 CPU, clocked at 1.2GHz. It's backed ...
Kingdom is described by Dutch developer Thomas van den Berg as a "minimalist atmospheric exploration / strategy game".
While true, it doesn't really do justice to the elegance of Kingdom. The only way to truly understand that is to play it yourself. So, if you can, please play the original game in your browser.
If you can't do that, then check out the Kickstarter video above for the seq...
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.
Below, then, you'll find our selection of those nine other games. Some of them are playable right now, too.
Napoleonian
By Nowa Hu...
If you listen to the Pocket Gamer Podcast (or, indeed, if you watch it), then you'll know that I have one big question before I start playing Metal Slug Defense: who the hell asked for a Metal Slug-themed tower defence game?
Not me, that's for sure. I wanted another frantic and gorgeous side-scrolling shooter. It doesn't look like SNK Playmore has cast me as the lead character either. Did they ...
We've mentioned Skyhill before, but now its developer is seeking funding on Indiegogo so it can continue creating the game.
We think it's a promising-looking title and reckon it might be worth the $7 minimum pledge for a full copy of the game on PC.
So, for the sake of those not familiar with Skyhill, let's fill you in now...
Skyfall
How bad is it when you're on the top floor of a skys...
If you haven't played Machinarium, Amanita Design's steampunky robotic point-and-tap adventure yet, you should head on over to the Google Play Store or the App Store and grab it for cheap.
You can bag the endearing tale of robotic insurrection for just a couple of quid, which is a ridiculously low price to be paying for a Gold Award-winning game.
At review we said "Machinarium is irresis...
Trials: Frontier, the Bronze Award-winning free-to-play motocross balancer, is available right now from the Google Play Store. Or, it is if you live in Finland and India.
RedLynx and Ubisoft have decided to soft launch the Google-powered version of their slightly controversial engine-based physics platformer, testing the water before a global release.
We called the iOS version "a nice ga...
Tribal Wars boasts tens of millions of players. And if you're one of them, you're probably aware that a sequel is on the way.
But what can you expect from Tribal Wars 2?
A more user-friendly experience? Check. Massively improved visuals? Definitely. A more streamlined experience to get newer players to the good stuff faster? Assuredly.
For info on all of this - and more - check out the vi...
Rising Generals is the new tactical jam from InnoGames, maker of the massively popular F2P strategy titles Grepolis, Forge of Empires, and Tribal Wars.
Producer Christoph Schmidt took time out of his schedule to demonstrate the game to me when I visited the company in Hamburg.
It sets out, as Schmidt explains, to make this genre quicker, more exciting to play, and more dramatic than other si...
Not many games offer you the chance to play as the supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, but Glorious Leader! does.
It's an over-the-top, 16-bit run-and-gun shooter that has you playing as Kim Jong Un. But it didn't start out that way. Jeff Miller of developer Moneyhorse Games revealed to us how Kim Jong Un became the main character.
"Well, the original idea was to hav...
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The Californian gold rush of the mid-19th century was a precarious time.
Intrepid pioneers of that time rode a fine line between triumph and disaster, with the potential for massive profit on one side and death or financial ruin on the other.
It's a line 1849 walks in a similar fashion, with similarly binary results.
Virgin territory
The most refreshing thing about 1849 is that it isn'...
If you're a child of the 80s, or a member of the Richard Dean Anderson fan club, we've got some great news for you.
There's a MacGyver-themed puzzle game coming to the App Store and Google Play on May 21.
Dubbed MacGyver: Deadly Descent, our first thoughts are that it doesn't look terribly MacGyver-y, so you can forget about hotwiring a hovercraft using a paper clip and a wad of chewing gum....
Brace yourselves, Android players: the Gold Award-winning Monument Valley has just surfaced on Google Play. Get in!
Finally, ustwo's smart and stylish puzzle game about manipulating impossible isometric architecture is available from the Google Play Store.
In this one, you play a silent princess who travels across the beautiful structures, avoiding crows and picking up a memorable friend...
Frogmind Games certainly knows how to keep on giving. It's now updated its physics-based action-adventure Badland with co-op multiplayer. It's time to grab a mate.
So, rather than beating each other up in Badland's multiplayer deathmatch mode, you help each other out.
If one of you dies, then you can pick up the clone power-ups to bring her back, you see. This is handy knowledge, as Badland'...
The correct reaction to Hyper Square upon playing it for the first time is "Aghhhh". Yup, it lives up to its name.
The game starts with minimal instruction and gets you right into the fumbling.
Your task here is simple: put the squares into the hollow ones before the time runs out.
The first level involves dragging or flicking the squares into the holes. You'll have eight phases, each mad...
You might have spotted today that Games Workshop is working on a Warhammer 40,000 version of chess. It's chess, but with enormous guns and more grim futuristic Gothic-ness. Woo.
That got our simple brains whirring. What other beloved game franchises could GW crowbar its Space Marines into?
So here's a list of the best suggestions we could come up with. I'm available for freelance Photoshop w...
You know the rules by now: in R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu lies dreaming.
Except in this case, Canadian wizard Noodlecake Studios - it of Super Stickman Golf and Zombie Road Trip fame - has seen fit to upend the established order and mesh an ancient horror with a very modern one.
After being available on iOS for a few months, FlapThulu: Flappy Madness is now live on Android. In it, you guide an Anci...
Companion apps! Second screen experiences! Doing anything other than actually paying any attention to what you're doing!
These things are all the rage nowadays on mobile, and Nintendo looks set to finally get in on the action with a Mario Kart 8 app.
It's called Mario Kart TV and it's part of a mobile and PC service that lets you keep track of your stats, watch video replays, and generally...
Warhammer 40,000: Chess - Regicide is the latest in the ever-increasing slew of games bearing the Games Workshop brand.
This time round it's chess, but not as we know it. Because there are Space Marines and Orks instead of chess pieces, I guess.
The game is being built by Hammerfall Publishing, and features single player and mutiplayer modes, as well as a Blood Angels-fronted campaign th...
Looking forward to the forthcoming Transformers: Age of Extinction movie? Oh, well.
Anyway, DeNA has just confirmed that a tie-in mobile game for Michael Bay's latest magnum opus is also on its way.
This will be the second Transformers game to surface as part of the 3-year agreement between Hasbro and DeNA. Last year, we were 'treated' to the less-than-stellar card battler Transformers Legen...
We were blown away by the performance of the cheap-as-chips Moto G last year. Today, though, Motorola unveiled the even-cheaper Moto E, a phone that might just take over the world.
At £89, this dual-core Android smartphone is the second attempt by Motorola to prove that cheap doesn't have to mean, well, cheap.
Packed inside this blower is a Snapdragon 200 CPU, clocked at 1.2GHz. It's backed ...
Kingdom is described by Dutch developer Thomas van den Berg as a "minimalist atmospheric exploration / strategy game".
While true, it doesn't really do justice to the elegance of Kingdom. The only way to truly understand that is to play it yourself. So, if you can, please play the original game in your browser.
If you can't do that, then check out the Kickstarter video above for the seq...
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.
Below, then, you'll find our selection of those nine other games. Some of them are playable right now, too.
Napoleonian
By Nowa Hu...
If you listen to the Pocket Gamer Podcast (or, indeed, if you watch it), then you'll know that I have one big question before I start playing Metal Slug Defense: who the hell asked for a Metal Slug-themed tower defence game?
Not me, that's for sure. I wanted another frantic and gorgeous side-scrolling shooter. It doesn't look like SNK Playmore has cast me as the lead character either. Did they ...
We've mentioned Skyhill before, but now its developer is seeking funding on Indiegogo so it can continue creating the game.
We think it's a promising-looking title and reckon it might be worth the $7 minimum pledge for a full copy of the game on PC.
So, for the sake of those not familiar with Skyhill, let's fill you in now...
Skyfall
How bad is it when you're on the top floor of a skys...
If you haven't played Machinarium, Amanita Design's steampunky robotic point-and-tap adventure yet, you should head on over to the Google Play Store or the App Store and grab it for cheap.
You can bag the endearing tale of robotic insurrection for just a couple of quid, which is a ridiculously low price to be paying for a Gold Award-winning game.
At review we said "Machinarium is irresis...
Trials: Frontier, the Bronze Award-winning free-to-play motocross balancer, is available right now from the Google Play Store. Or, it is if you live in Finland and India.
RedLynx and Ubisoft have decided to soft launch the Google-powered version of their slightly controversial engine-based physics platformer, testing the water before a global release.
We called the iOS version "a nice ga...
Tribal Wars boasts tens of millions of players. And if you're one of them, you're probably aware that a sequel is on the way.
But what can you expect from Tribal Wars 2?
A more user-friendly experience? Check. Massively improved visuals? Definitely. A more streamlined experience to get newer players to the good stuff faster? Assuredly.
For info on all of this - and more - check out the vi...
Rising Generals is the new tactical jam from InnoGames, maker of the massively popular F2P strategy titles Grepolis, Forge of Empires, and Tribal Wars.
Producer Christoph Schmidt took time out of his schedule to demonstrate the game to me when I visited the company in Hamburg.
It sets out, as Schmidt explains, to make this genre quicker, more exciting to play, and more dramatic than other si...
Not many games offer you the chance to play as the supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, but Glorious Leader! does.
It's an over-the-top, 16-bit run-and-gun shooter that has you playing as Kim Jong Un. But it didn't start out that way. Jeff Miller of developer Moneyhorse Games revealed to us how Kim Jong Un became the main character.
"Well, the original idea was to hav...
