Welcome to PocketGamer.biz's weekly rundown of the past 168 hours in the gaming industry.
A lot can happen in a given week, and it's natural for some stories to slip past the most eagle-eyed among us. Luckily for you, we’re here - as ever - to present the stories that we feel made the biggest impact over the past seven days.
If you’re looking for a quick snapshot of the major trends and news in ...
After months of waiting and 'never fun' legal issues, Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition has finally made the epic trek over to Google Play and is now available to download for $9.99 / £6.99.
Easily one of the most iconic western RPGs of the late 90's, Baldur's Gate offers a rare glimpse back at time when games came on five CD-ROMs and required a bit of patience and imagination to fully appreciate...
There are signs in the air that summer's almost upon us - the weather's warmer, the birds are singing, and there's a new Spider-Man movie in theaters.
To celebrate the occasion - if not the season - Gameloft's released another movie tie-in games based on the blockbuster The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Out now for iOS and Android, this beefy 689MB web-slinger features an original story that expand...
For the second week in a row, Pocket Gamer reviewer Harry Slater joins me behind the mic to talk about all things mobile.
With Silent Hill: Origins and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories coming to Vita, we delve into the history of everyone's least favourite holiday destination.
Hitman GO and Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft are at the top of the new releases pile, supported by endless-roller Un...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
Polymer
By Noodlecake Games - buy on Android (54p / 99c)
Polymer is a weird puzzle game from Pivvot man Whitaker Trebella. It's all about sliding columns and rows to form bizarre gelatinous blobs that, when tapped, give you points.
In his Silver Award review of this one, Harry said that...
No, Here Be Dragons isn't the spin-off to the slightly disappointing Here Be Monsters HD. It seems much more promising than that.
Here's the concept: You're exploring terra incognita like a regular Columbus, but these lands are dangerous, and fraught with monsters.
To survive and continue your journey, you'll need to enter the "worst" taverns to find the baddest warriors. After hiring them,...
It's that time of year again, where the weather gets ever so slightly warmer and we eat so much chocolate that we make ourselves sick.
Why not avoid that outcome this year by checking out the generous Easter updates in your favourite mobile games, instead.
After all, we've done the hard work by including a nice little list below.
The Simpsons: Tapped Out (iPhone, iPad, Android)
Eas...
Last year, Disney took its ultra popular Where's My Water franchise to China, with a new version starring cartoon sheep and Chinese TV favourite, XiYangYang.
Now, the game is available worldwide in the form of Where's My Water? Featuring XYY.
The game uses the exact same formula as all the Where's My games, so you can expect to dig through dirt and solve puzzles to re-route water to XiYangYa...
Oh look, another Threes!-a-like. Very original.
What's that? It's by Radiangames, the developer of Crush! and Slydris, two of the slickest arcade puzzlers on the App Store?
Well, we'd better take a closer look, then.
Puzzle stew
Radiangames has made a bit of a name for itself, taking established puzzler mechanics, whizzing them up in a food blender with a couple of additional tangy ing...
Remember those huge fireballs that you could unleash in the Silver Award-winning Tilt to Live 2: Redonkulous? They were fun. The new DLC for the game is based entirely around them.
The Brimstone Pinball DLC is out now, costs 69p / 99c as an in-app purchase.
One of the large, indestructible fireballs is launched into the arena with you. It's your only weapon, so you have to bounce it around t...
HyperBees's Voxel Rush: 3D Racer was crowned the Big Indie Pitch winner back in October 2013.
After some delay, it's finally popped up on iOS so you can see what the fuss was about. It has been on Android as well since February, just so you know.
Voxel Rush is played in first-person and is entirely tilt-based. You attempt to race through an abstract horizontal plane populated with voxel pill...
Headup Games has told us that Bridge Constructor Medieval will be coming to iOS and Android on May 1st.
Headup also delved into what we can expect from Medieval, aside from the usual silly physics and collapsing bridges.
"In the brand new siege levels, your bridge will be attacked by enemy catapults. So it's up to you to build particularly strong bridges to avoid getting them ripped apart.
...
I swipe a finger across the screen and make a chunk of earth disappear.
The puddle it was suspending turns into a blob of water and drops down onto a pile of sand. That sand turns into mud, and with another flick of my digit I make it disappear.
Hilomi is clever in a sweet, good-natured way. It never rubs its brain smarts in your face, but its puzzles are sharp enough to offer a decent chall...
Machinarium maker Amanita Design has confirmed that its surreal organic adventure game Botanicula should be available on iPad in early May. An Android edition of the game is also in the works.
The game follows a band of botanical creatures - including a twig, a mushroom, and a feather - as they work to save the last seed of their home tree from evil parasitic nasties.
You'll wander inside tr...
Silver Award-winning shape slider Polymer has finally traversed the lonely sea and popped up on the Google Play Store. And it only took just under two years.
If you're not familiar with the game it's all about creating polymers, blobby coloured strings, and then popping them. Imagine a sliding block puzzle with some plastic science dropped in for good measure and you're half way there.
I...
May 4th is Star Wars day apparently. Although it doesn't really work if you use the same dating system as we do at Pocket Gamer.
Never mind though, it's the thought that counts.
To celebrate this most monumental of holiday occasions Zen Studios is releasing some new Star Wars themed tables for its Silver Award-winning ball pinger Zen Pinball.
The pack is called Star Wars: Heroes Within an...
Gold rush set city-building sim 1849 is an interesting looking mash up of ideas that's been on our radar for a while now, and we just found out that it's set to hit the App Store and the Google Play Store on May 8th.
The game is all about building a settlement in the midst of the push-and-shove scramble of the gold rush of the mid 19th century. You can read our hands-on preview with it righ...
It's a thankless job, being an evil villain.
You build up your island fortress and extort the local populous to work in your nerve gas factories only to have some random hero kick in your door and upend the entire operation without paying a thought to all the work you put into it.
The upcoming Notorious Inc aims to give the world a glimpse at the finer points of villainy by placing the job o...
Mi-Clos Studio's Out There is a great space-based roguelike game. It's so great, in fact, that we gave it a Gold Award.
But imagine if it, say, were free-to-play and were plagued with IAPs? Would it still be so great?
Our sister site PocketGamer.biz spoke to Mi-Clos's Michael Peiffert, who said that Out There just wouldn't have worked with IAPs.
"The game would not make much sense if we w...
Watch out! Six to Start has just rolled out the third season of its Bronze Award-winning serialised horror story and fitness game Zombies, Run!
If you've already purchased Zombies, Run! on iOS or Android, then you'll be able to pick this third season up as a free update.
The first mission is available today, and three missions per week (amounting to a total of 60) are on their way.
Zombie...
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Welcome to PocketGamer.biz's weekly rundown of the past 168 hours in the gaming industry.
A lot can happen in a given week, and it's natural for some stories to slip past the most eagle-eyed among us. Luckily for you, we’re here - as ever - to present the stories that we feel made the biggest impact over the past seven days.
If you’re looking for a quick snapshot of the major trends and news in ...
After months of waiting and 'never fun' legal issues, Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition has finally made the epic trek over to Google Play and is now available to download for $9.99 / £6.99.
Easily one of the most iconic western RPGs of the late 90's, Baldur's Gate offers a rare glimpse back at time when games came on five CD-ROMs and required a bit of patience and imagination to fully appreciate...
There are signs in the air that summer's almost upon us - the weather's warmer, the birds are singing, and there's a new Spider-Man movie in theaters.
To celebrate the occasion - if not the season - Gameloft's released another movie tie-in games based on the blockbuster The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Out now for iOS and Android, this beefy 689MB web-slinger features an original story that expand...
For the second week in a row, Pocket Gamer reviewer Harry Slater joins me behind the mic to talk about all things mobile.
With Silent Hill: Origins and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories coming to Vita, we delve into the history of everyone's least favourite holiday destination.
Hitman GO and Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft are at the top of the new releases pile, supported by endless-roller Un...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
Polymer
By Noodlecake Games - buy on Android (54p / 99c)
Polymer is a weird puzzle game from Pivvot man Whitaker Trebella. It's all about sliding columns and rows to form bizarre gelatinous blobs that, when tapped, give you points.
In his Silver Award review of this one, Harry said that...
No, Here Be Dragons isn't the spin-off to the slightly disappointing Here Be Monsters HD. It seems much more promising than that.
Here's the concept: You're exploring terra incognita like a regular Columbus, but these lands are dangerous, and fraught with monsters.
To survive and continue your journey, you'll need to enter the "worst" taverns to find the baddest warriors. After hiring them,...
It's that time of year again, where the weather gets ever so slightly warmer and we eat so much chocolate that we make ourselves sick.
Why not avoid that outcome this year by checking out the generous Easter updates in your favourite mobile games, instead.
After all, we've done the hard work by including a nice little list below.
The Simpsons: Tapped Out (iPhone, iPad, Android)
Eas...
Last year, Disney took its ultra popular Where's My Water franchise to China, with a new version starring cartoon sheep and Chinese TV favourite, XiYangYang.
Now, the game is available worldwide in the form of Where's My Water? Featuring XYY.
The game uses the exact same formula as all the Where's My games, so you can expect to dig through dirt and solve puzzles to re-route water to XiYangYa...
Oh look, another Threes!-a-like. Very original.
What's that? It's by Radiangames, the developer of Crush! and Slydris, two of the slickest arcade puzzlers on the App Store?
Well, we'd better take a closer look, then.
Puzzle stew
Radiangames has made a bit of a name for itself, taking established puzzler mechanics, whizzing them up in a food blender with a couple of additional tangy ing...
Remember those huge fireballs that you could unleash in the Silver Award-winning Tilt to Live 2: Redonkulous? They were fun. The new DLC for the game is based entirely around them.
The Brimstone Pinball DLC is out now, costs 69p / 99c as an in-app purchase.
One of the large, indestructible fireballs is launched into the arena with you. It's your only weapon, so you have to bounce it around t...
HyperBees's Voxel Rush: 3D Racer was crowned the Big Indie Pitch winner back in October 2013.
After some delay, it's finally popped up on iOS so you can see what the fuss was about. It has been on Android as well since February, just so you know.
Voxel Rush is played in first-person and is entirely tilt-based. You attempt to race through an abstract horizontal plane populated with voxel pill...
Headup Games has told us that Bridge Constructor Medieval will be coming to iOS and Android on May 1st.
Headup also delved into what we can expect from Medieval, aside from the usual silly physics and collapsing bridges.
"In the brand new siege levels, your bridge will be attacked by enemy catapults. So it's up to you to build particularly strong bridges to avoid getting them ripped apart.
...
I swipe a finger across the screen and make a chunk of earth disappear.
The puddle it was suspending turns into a blob of water and drops down onto a pile of sand. That sand turns into mud, and with another flick of my digit I make it disappear.
Hilomi is clever in a sweet, good-natured way. It never rubs its brain smarts in your face, but its puzzles are sharp enough to offer a decent chall...
Machinarium maker Amanita Design has confirmed that its surreal organic adventure game Botanicula should be available on iPad in early May. An Android edition of the game is also in the works.
The game follows a band of botanical creatures - including a twig, a mushroom, and a feather - as they work to save the last seed of their home tree from evil parasitic nasties.
You'll wander inside tr...
Silver Award-winning shape slider Polymer has finally traversed the lonely sea and popped up on the Google Play Store. And it only took just under two years.
If you're not familiar with the game it's all about creating polymers, blobby coloured strings, and then popping them. Imagine a sliding block puzzle with some plastic science dropped in for good measure and you're half way there.
I...
May 4th is Star Wars day apparently. Although it doesn't really work if you use the same dating system as we do at Pocket Gamer.
Never mind though, it's the thought that counts.
To celebrate this most monumental of holiday occasions Zen Studios is releasing some new Star Wars themed tables for its Silver Award-winning ball pinger Zen Pinball.
The pack is called Star Wars: Heroes Within an...
Gold rush set city-building sim 1849 is an interesting looking mash up of ideas that's been on our radar for a while now, and we just found out that it's set to hit the App Store and the Google Play Store on May 8th.
The game is all about building a settlement in the midst of the push-and-shove scramble of the gold rush of the mid 19th century. You can read our hands-on preview with it righ...
It's a thankless job, being an evil villain.
You build up your island fortress and extort the local populous to work in your nerve gas factories only to have some random hero kick in your door and upend the entire operation without paying a thought to all the work you put into it.
The upcoming Notorious Inc aims to give the world a glimpse at the finer points of villainy by placing the job o...
Mi-Clos Studio's Out There is a great space-based roguelike game. It's so great, in fact, that we gave it a Gold Award.
But imagine if it, say, were free-to-play and were plagued with IAPs? Would it still be so great?
Our sister site PocketGamer.biz spoke to Mi-Clos's Michael Peiffert, who said that Out There just wouldn't have worked with IAPs.
"The game would not make much sense if we w...
Watch out! Six to Start has just rolled out the third season of its Bronze Award-winning serialised horror story and fitness game Zombies, Run!
If you've already purchased Zombies, Run! on iOS or Android, then you'll be able to pick this third season up as a free update.
The first mission is available today, and three missions per week (amounting to a total of 60) are on their way.
Zombie...
