Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
Magazine Mogul
By Kairosoft - buy on Android (£2.99 / $4.99)
Japanese sim studio Kairosoft has let us run a football team, a stable, a luxury cruise ship, a sushi restraurants, an apartment block, and a tropical island filled with monsters.
Its latest game puts you in charge of a local ...
Android Police is reporting that it received a green crowbar in the mail yesterday.
Now, I often get threatening letters and objects posted through my door, but it turns out this is actually some PR tat for an upcoming Nvidia Shield game.
An upcoming Nvidia Shield game called Half-Life 2.
The verdant crow bar is emblazoned with the words 'What would Gordon do?', alongside the logos fo...
Kairosoft has just released yet another retro-style sim game on the Google Play Store. It'll be challenging Kemco in the 'how does it make so many games' stakes soon.
This new one is called Magazine Mogul, and sees you running a magazine business. You also get to help with town planning, figure out story angles, and win awards for stellar journalism.
It looks pretty much exactly like wha...
In the '90s and early aughts, the Japanese RPG (JRPG) dominated video game sales charts thanks to monster hits developed by Squaresoft.
The genre has since lost some of its selling power, but there is still quite a devoted JRPG fanbase that still can't get enough of turn-based battles and character drama.
Fortuna Magus by Kemco Games should make fans of traditional JRPGs quite happy. However...
Those busy bodies (or rather, that busy body) at Radiangames have announced the launch of a new game next week, but it isn't the kind of stylised puzzler we've come to expect from the developer.
Rather, JoyJoy is a super-slick twin-stick shooter - the kind that used to be ten-a-penny earlier in the decade, but which aren't quite so common any more.
Of course, that's probably because JoyJoy o...
After the success of our first live podcast featuring Mr Harry Slater, we're pleased to announce his return this evening. The news and reviews guru will be joining stalwarts James and Peter to... well... go over the week's news and reviews of course!
As this is a much more visual version of the podcast expect plenty of video footage of the games we discuss, as well as glimpses into what James, ...
CastleStorm made quite an impression when it was launched over the walls of PG towers and onto our PS Vitas last year.
Now developer Zen Studios has targeted our iPhones, iPads, and Android devices as well.
We're not particularly minded to put up much resistance to this relentless assault, to be honest. We loved the game on PS Vita to the tune of a Silver Award, and having had a quick bash w...
1849, the gold-digging, town-building, frontier-times simulator is out right now for iPad and Android, so you can get your wooden teeth into some pretty hardcore shack making and brandy trading.
We went hands-on with the game earlier in the year, and we liked what we saw. It's a complex, in-depth city builder that will have strategy fans leaping up and down with whatever passes for joy nowa...
Here's that bit of news that we've all been waiting for. Portal is finally set to hit the Nvidia Shield on May 12th.
What do you mean you have no idea what the Nvidia Shield is? It's that foldy Android-powered handheld that you can play PC games on if you're close enough to your PC to establish a wireless connection.
And now a game that came out in 2007 is set to be released for it. Gran...
Shortly after announcing a $229 million operating loss, Nintendo slid a pair of interesting tidbits into its investor presentation this week.
Namely that it's taking on Disney Infinity / Skylanders with a line of NFC figures and that it's rolling out a Mario Kart 8 smartphone service.
First things first, the toys.
Because Nintendo likes to do things its own way, the toys in question are r...
The Major League Baseball season is well underway and - surprisingly - the Mets aren't at the absolute bottom of their division (yet).
Equally surprising is the fact that Gamevil's officially licensed baseball sim MLB Perfect Inning sneaked its way onto Google Play and the App Store a few days ahead of schedule.
Featuring all 30 MLB teams and a roster of 215 "distinctly modeled" players, you...
Terrific Gold Award-winning physics puzzler Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage is finally available on Android gadgets, and you can get it right now on Google Play.
The game tasks you with rescuing members of your Viking clan who have been stranded throughout the land and are trapped in ice, and surrounded by explosives, traps, and troll bogies.
You rescue your pals over the course of 140-odd level...
Bridge Constructor Medieval is a physics-based puzzler that tasks you with building bridges over big chasms or choppy rivers.
Your bridges will have to be strong and stable enough to withstand soldiers and horse-drawn carriages, and fend off cannonball fire.
Plus, these chapters will see you making intentionally flawed bridges to send enemy troops to their death.
This guide will show you ...
There are some new cold-themed levels available for disappointing kart racer Angry Birds Go!
They appear to introduce some sort of snowmobile based transports for the birds and pigs to drive about.
The promotional picture released to coincide with these new levels also suggests a helicopter might be involved. Whether or not you have to 'get' to this 'chopper' remains to be seen.
The ...
It's hard not to get nostalgic about the 'ol tabletop RPG Shadowrun.
As one of the first games to establish cyberpunk as a genre, it ignited the imaginations of roleplayers who were looking for something other than dungeons or dragons.
With this in mind, it's no surprise that the Silver Award-winning Shadowrun Returns absolutely shattered its Kickstarter goal way back in 2012 as thousands of...
In this connected age of computers, tablets, and smartphones, more and more wars are being fought with code, not weapons.
Spy Wars by Hothead Games takes place in a future where the typical solider picks locks, hacks computers, and disarms digital security.
It's an interesting variation of Clash of Clans - although, being a free-to-play game, it contains its share of less than interesting w...
Updated on May 6th, at 14:31: RETRY is now available on the Finnish, Canadian, and Polish App Stores, as a soft launch.
Famously known for its disgruntled avians, Rovio has ditched the birds for its latest project, titled RETRY.
Coming out of the Finnish company's new publishing arm - LVL11 - RETRY couldn't really be much further away from Angry Birds if it tried.
Sure there's a whole l...
Bridge Constructor Medieval is a physics-based puzzler that tasks you with building bridges over big chasms or choppy rivers.
Your bridges will have to be strong and stable enough to withstand soldiers, horses, and carriages filled with hefty stone blocks. Plus, they need to fend off cannonball fire and other devious attacks.
This guide will show you the optimum bridge design for each level....
Spider-Man is back, but he's looking rather less amazing than before.
Where the 2012 film tie-in The Amazing Spider-Man pushed the boundaries of what mobile could do with open-world gaming, its sequel (also a movie tie-in) feels like a backwards step, bringing little new to satiate wannabe superheroes.
Spidey's Manhattan playground has grown, for sure, is it still fun to play there?
Oh,...
Fine, we might be a day late with this round up of new stuff heading your way this week, but all us Brits spent yesterday warming our pallid skin under the weak yellow sun and getting into fights about which of the footballs is the best.
Still, this week you can look forward to swinging some flails around with a pale, angry man, shivering through a frozen Arctic adventure, and travelling back i...
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Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
Magazine Mogul
By Kairosoft - buy on Android (£2.99 / $4.99)
Japanese sim studio Kairosoft has let us run a football team, a stable, a luxury cruise ship, a sushi restraurants, an apartment block, and a tropical island filled with monsters.
Its latest game puts you in charge of a local ...
Android Police is reporting that it received a green crowbar in the mail yesterday.
Now, I often get threatening letters and objects posted through my door, but it turns out this is actually some PR tat for an upcoming Nvidia Shield game.
An upcoming Nvidia Shield game called Half-Life 2.
The verdant crow bar is emblazoned with the words 'What would Gordon do?', alongside the logos fo...
Kairosoft has just released yet another retro-style sim game on the Google Play Store. It'll be challenging Kemco in the 'how does it make so many games' stakes soon.
This new one is called Magazine Mogul, and sees you running a magazine business. You also get to help with town planning, figure out story angles, and win awards for stellar journalism.
It looks pretty much exactly like wha...
In the '90s and early aughts, the Japanese RPG (JRPG) dominated video game sales charts thanks to monster hits developed by Squaresoft.
The genre has since lost some of its selling power, but there is still quite a devoted JRPG fanbase that still can't get enough of turn-based battles and character drama.
Fortuna Magus by Kemco Games should make fans of traditional JRPGs quite happy. However...
Those busy bodies (or rather, that busy body) at Radiangames have announced the launch of a new game next week, but it isn't the kind of stylised puzzler we've come to expect from the developer.
Rather, JoyJoy is a super-slick twin-stick shooter - the kind that used to be ten-a-penny earlier in the decade, but which aren't quite so common any more.
Of course, that's probably because JoyJoy o...
After the success of our first live podcast featuring Mr Harry Slater, we're pleased to announce his return this evening. The news and reviews guru will be joining stalwarts James and Peter to... well... go over the week's news and reviews of course!
As this is a much more visual version of the podcast expect plenty of video footage of the games we discuss, as well as glimpses into what James, ...
CastleStorm made quite an impression when it was launched over the walls of PG towers and onto our PS Vitas last year.
Now developer Zen Studios has targeted our iPhones, iPads, and Android devices as well.
We're not particularly minded to put up much resistance to this relentless assault, to be honest. We loved the game on PS Vita to the tune of a Silver Award, and having had a quick bash w...
1849, the gold-digging, town-building, frontier-times simulator is out right now for iPad and Android, so you can get your wooden teeth into some pretty hardcore shack making and brandy trading.
We went hands-on with the game earlier in the year, and we liked what we saw. It's a complex, in-depth city builder that will have strategy fans leaping up and down with whatever passes for joy nowa...
Here's that bit of news that we've all been waiting for. Portal is finally set to hit the Nvidia Shield on May 12th.
What do you mean you have no idea what the Nvidia Shield is? It's that foldy Android-powered handheld that you can play PC games on if you're close enough to your PC to establish a wireless connection.
And now a game that came out in 2007 is set to be released for it. Gran...
Shortly after announcing a $229 million operating loss, Nintendo slid a pair of interesting tidbits into its investor presentation this week.
Namely that it's taking on Disney Infinity / Skylanders with a line of NFC figures and that it's rolling out a Mario Kart 8 smartphone service.
First things first, the toys.
Because Nintendo likes to do things its own way, the toys in question are r...
The Major League Baseball season is well underway and - surprisingly - the Mets aren't at the absolute bottom of their division (yet).
Equally surprising is the fact that Gamevil's officially licensed baseball sim MLB Perfect Inning sneaked its way onto Google Play and the App Store a few days ahead of schedule.
Featuring all 30 MLB teams and a roster of 215 "distinctly modeled" players, you...
Terrific Gold Award-winning physics puzzler Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage is finally available on Android gadgets, and you can get it right now on Google Play.
The game tasks you with rescuing members of your Viking clan who have been stranded throughout the land and are trapped in ice, and surrounded by explosives, traps, and troll bogies.
You rescue your pals over the course of 140-odd level...
Bridge Constructor Medieval is a physics-based puzzler that tasks you with building bridges over big chasms or choppy rivers.
Your bridges will have to be strong and stable enough to withstand soldiers and horse-drawn carriages, and fend off cannonball fire.
Plus, these chapters will see you making intentionally flawed bridges to send enemy troops to their death.
This guide will show you ...
There are some new cold-themed levels available for disappointing kart racer Angry Birds Go!
They appear to introduce some sort of snowmobile based transports for the birds and pigs to drive about.
The promotional picture released to coincide with these new levels also suggests a helicopter might be involved. Whether or not you have to 'get' to this 'chopper' remains to be seen.
The ...
It's hard not to get nostalgic about the 'ol tabletop RPG Shadowrun.
As one of the first games to establish cyberpunk as a genre, it ignited the imaginations of roleplayers who were looking for something other than dungeons or dragons.
With this in mind, it's no surprise that the Silver Award-winning Shadowrun Returns absolutely shattered its Kickstarter goal way back in 2012 as thousands of...
In this connected age of computers, tablets, and smartphones, more and more wars are being fought with code, not weapons.
Spy Wars by Hothead Games takes place in a future where the typical solider picks locks, hacks computers, and disarms digital security.
It's an interesting variation of Clash of Clans - although, being a free-to-play game, it contains its share of less than interesting w...
![[Update] Angry Birds maker Rovio will publish RETRY, a hardcore, retro-styled action game](http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/artwork/thumbs/na-pqwq_retry-rovio-level-11-art1_jpg_100.jpg)
Updated on May 6th, at 14:31: RETRY is now available on the Finnish, Canadian, and Polish App Stores, as a soft launch.
Famously known for its disgruntled avians, Rovio has ditched the birds for its latest project, titled RETRY.
Coming out of the Finnish company's new publishing arm - LVL11 - RETRY couldn't really be much further away from Angry Birds if it tried.
Sure there's a whole l...
Spider-Man is back, but he's looking rather less amazing than before.
Where the 2012 film tie-in The Amazing Spider-Man pushed the boundaries of what mobile could do with open-world gaming, its sequel (also a movie tie-in) feels like a backwards step, bringing little new to satiate wannabe superheroes.
Spidey's Manhattan playground has grown, for sure, is it still fun to play there?
Oh,...
Fine, we might be a day late with this round up of new stuff heading your way this week, but all us Brits spent yesterday warming our pallid skin under the weak yellow sun and getting into fights about which of the footballs is the best.
Still, this week you can look forward to swinging some flails around with a pale, angry man, shivering through a frozen Arctic adventure, and travelling back i...
