The craze for smartphone-compatible controllers shows no signs of flagging, and iOS 7's recent support for such interfaces has only increased the level of interest.
However, Android leads the way in this regard. Bluetooth pads of all shapes and sizes have been able to connect with Google's OS for quite a while, and the PhoneJoy is the latest member of this ever-growing club.
Kickstarted last...
The hotly anticipated Clan Wars update for strategic juggernaut Clash of Clans has just gone live on iOS.
This huge feature bump lets entire clans go toe-to-toe in large scale battles for bonus loot. Battles will take place over two days - one for preparation and one for battle - and you do battle with special 'war bases', rather than in your own village.
As such, you can participate in clan...
There's an animation in Polar Bowler where it sort of looks like the titular Polar Bear is wiggling his fingers in the 'call me' motion.
It's unsettling - especially after you've just flung the massive white bear from a slingshot with little more than a patched up tyre inner tube between his endangered behind and the frozen wastes of the north.
Still, it's one of the quirks of a strangely ba...
Curious as to how recent iOS and Android hit Threes! went from concept to creation?
Well, the guys over at our sister site PocketGamer.biz were, too, so they decided to have a chat with the developers responsible for this tile-sliding puzzler, Asher Vollmer and Greg Wohlwend.
The interview is certainly eye-opening, particularly in regard to cloning, a.k.a. one of the biggest hot potatoes in ...
Roadhouse Interactive's Warhammer 40,000: Carnage is the 743rd game to be based on the Warhammer licence (give or take).
More seriously, Warhammer 40,000: Carnage will go live on iOS and Android in May.
While most Warhammer tie-ins have had a strategic backbone, Carnage is a full-on action game, about a Space Marine super-soldier ripping his way through a horde of Ork uglies.
You'll be us...
Cartoon Network will publish the forthcoming sweet and sickly retro-inspired iOS and Android adventure game Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake.
The game stars a young boy named Niko who goes on an epic sugar-high romp across Gogapoe Island after some nefarious monster types make off with his birthday cake.
As you seek confectionery-based vengeance, you'll have to solve a bunch of spatial...
If a Hall of Fame is ever founded for Windows games that eat away hours of workers' time, Minesweeper would probably clock in just after Solitaire (and all its variations).
The hunt-and-click guessing game is simple to learn and boasts even simpler graphics, but offers an element of danger that compels you to keep playing.
Cavesweeper by Quikding is a variation on Minesweeper. It successfull...
Last week we told you about a Humble Bundle with a massive wodge of ace Android games. Well, that wodge has now get even more massive with the addition of three more titles to the pack.
If you pay over the average price, which currently sits at $3.89, you'll now bag Bronze Award-winning lift-based fantasy blaster Savant - Ascent, Gold Award-winning rabbinical murder mystery The Shivah, and ...
While the rest of the world is enjoying the second season of Telltale Games's remarkable point and click adventure series The Walking Dead, Android users are going to have to make do with the news that they can now get their hands on the first season.
It's out right now on the Google Play Store, and you can grab the first episode for free.
The other 4, and special episode 400 Days, can ...
Instantion is a game about clones.
Not Flappy Bird knock-offs and Threes! adaptations, mind you. No, we're talking about the sci-fi doppelgänger type.
When your wireframe protagonist shoots seeds out of her bosom, they turn into exact replicas of your hero. The members of your tiny clone clan then all move and jump in exact unison with you.
This enables you to solve all manner of tric...
A while back Talisman: Prologue came out.
It was okay, we gave it a Bronze Award, but we bemoaned the lack of multiplayer, and a strange emptiness that seemed to permeate the reimagining of the classic Games Workshop boardgame as a single player experience.
But, as the name suggests, it was the first chapter of a larger whole, and Nomad Games has just revealed over on the Touch Arcade forums...
Updated on April 9th at 09:13: Groundskeeper2 is now out on iOS for £1.49 / $1.99 [buy], and on Android for £1.63 / $1.99 [buy]. There's a free version for Android with adverts as well [download].
Original story follows...
Groundskeeper2 is a fast-paced retro-infused pixel art blaster that's set to hit the App Store and the Google Play Store sometime tomorrow.
It takes some of its cues ...
15 Coins is basically Snake. That's not a bad thing, and it adds enough of its own ideas into the mix that you're unlikely to begrudge it the close ties to its inspiration.
Especially when the additions it makes are drawn from the monochrome twitchy dodgers that have lit up the App Store in recent months.
This combination of new and old links together pretty well, and while there's a slight ...
My dad is an angler, but I've never quite seen the appeal of the sport. For him it must be a chance to compose his thoughts and clear his head in a serene environment. For me, it's a fiddly exercise in inefficient hunting, which entails getting up at 4AM to murder animals.
But fishing in video games has always been appealing to me. I've spend hours doing it in Wild World and New Leaf, there was...
A new iOS and Android game from those arcade-puzzle game enthusiasts over at Radiangames will be heading to some app stores near you on April 10th.
Radiangames's forthcoming SideSwype is a mixture of Threes!'s four-way block sliding and a match-three puzzler.
In SideSwype, there's a grid of different coloured blocks. By swiping on the screen, you send those blocks in the direction of your sw...
Glowforth and Creative Mobile will be releasing their chilly father-and-son puzzle-platformer Last Inua on iOS in a couple of weeks.
"Roughly April 23rd," we were told by Glowforth, in fact.
Last Inua first caught our eye back in December. You play a father and his son in the mythical North, running away from a demon called Tonrar.
To do so, you have to climb up icy peaks, enter the bowel...
After the enormous success of our first PG Connects event in London back in January, Steel Media is excited to be hosting its next global mobile games conference in Finland's capital.
Yes, Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki will be held right in the centre of Helsinki on June 16th and 17th, with the focus being on providing all of our attendees with advice, insight, and some fantastic networking op...
For once, free-to-play haters can't pull out the, "I wish they'd just port the original game to iPhone" card.
Because as much as you might turn your nose up at the idea of turning Crazy Taxi into a free-to-play endless-runner with an energy system, the old Crazy Taxi is already on the App Store.
It's got the original Bad Religion and Offspring soundtrack, no in-app purchases or adverts o...
Sometimes in life you'll find yourself surrounded by terrifying skeletons waving massive axes and rusty swords.
No, wait, not in life, in Crusader Elite, a new hacky slashy arcade title for Android.
You play the titular crusader, who's not very good at moving, but makes up for it by being exceptionally proficient at violence.
The gameplay is stark and simple. You can slash in 4 ninety deg...
Here's some good news if you like Swedish digital card games made by the people behind Minecraft. Mojang's Scrolls is definitely coming to tablets at some point in the future.
That might sound a bit vague, but then so does the official announcement, which was part of a post of the Scrolls website about upcoming tweaks to the PC version.
"An iPad/tablet version of Scrolls is in the works!...
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The craze for smartphone-compatible controllers shows no signs of flagging, and iOS 7's recent support for such interfaces has only increased the level of interest.
However, Android leads the way in this regard. Bluetooth pads of all shapes and sizes have been able to connect with Google's OS for quite a while, and the PhoneJoy is the latest member of this ever-growing club.
Kickstarted last...
The hotly anticipated Clan Wars update for strategic juggernaut Clash of Clans has just gone live on iOS.
This huge feature bump lets entire clans go toe-to-toe in large scale battles for bonus loot. Battles will take place over two days - one for preparation and one for battle - and you do battle with special 'war bases', rather than in your own village.
As such, you can participate in clan...
There's an animation in Polar Bowler where it sort of looks like the titular Polar Bear is wiggling his fingers in the 'call me' motion.
It's unsettling - especially after you've just flung the massive white bear from a slingshot with little more than a patched up tyre inner tube between his endangered behind and the frozen wastes of the north.
Still, it's one of the quirks of a strangely ba...
Curious as to how recent iOS and Android hit Threes! went from concept to creation?
Well, the guys over at our sister site PocketGamer.biz were, too, so they decided to have a chat with the developers responsible for this tile-sliding puzzler, Asher Vollmer and Greg Wohlwend.
The interview is certainly eye-opening, particularly in regard to cloning, a.k.a. one of the biggest hot potatoes in ...
Roadhouse Interactive's Warhammer 40,000: Carnage is the 743rd game to be based on the Warhammer licence (give or take).
More seriously, Warhammer 40,000: Carnage will go live on iOS and Android in May.
While most Warhammer tie-ins have had a strategic backbone, Carnage is a full-on action game, about a Space Marine super-soldier ripping his way through a horde of Ork uglies.
You'll be us...
Cartoon Network will publish the forthcoming sweet and sickly retro-inspired iOS and Android adventure game Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake.
The game stars a young boy named Niko who goes on an epic sugar-high romp across Gogapoe Island after some nefarious monster types make off with his birthday cake.
As you seek confectionery-based vengeance, you'll have to solve a bunch of spatial...
If a Hall of Fame is ever founded for Windows games that eat away hours of workers' time, Minesweeper would probably clock in just after Solitaire (and all its variations).
The hunt-and-click guessing game is simple to learn and boasts even simpler graphics, but offers an element of danger that compels you to keep playing.
Cavesweeper by Quikding is a variation on Minesweeper. It successfull...
Last week we told you about a Humble Bundle with a massive wodge of ace Android games. Well, that wodge has now get even more massive with the addition of three more titles to the pack.
If you pay over the average price, which currently sits at $3.89, you'll now bag Bronze Award-winning lift-based fantasy blaster Savant - Ascent, Gold Award-winning rabbinical murder mystery The Shivah, and ...
While the rest of the world is enjoying the second season of Telltale Games's remarkable point and click adventure series The Walking Dead, Android users are going to have to make do with the news that they can now get their hands on the first season.
It's out right now on the Google Play Store, and you can grab the first episode for free.
The other 4, and special episode 400 Days, can ...
Instantion is a game about clones.
Not Flappy Bird knock-offs and Threes! adaptations, mind you. No, we're talking about the sci-fi doppelgänger type.
When your wireframe protagonist shoots seeds out of her bosom, they turn into exact replicas of your hero. The members of your tiny clone clan then all move and jump in exact unison with you.
This enables you to solve all manner of tric...
A while back Talisman: Prologue came out.
It was okay, we gave it a Bronze Award, but we bemoaned the lack of multiplayer, and a strange emptiness that seemed to permeate the reimagining of the classic Games Workshop boardgame as a single player experience.
But, as the name suggests, it was the first chapter of a larger whole, and Nomad Games has just revealed over on the Touch Arcade forums...
![[Updated] OrangePixel's Groundskeeper2 is set to let you smash undead alien robots on iOS and Android from tomorrow](http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/artwork/thumbs/na-kuvo_groundskeeper-2-android-game-1_jpg_100.jpg)
Updated on April 9th at 09:13: Groundskeeper2 is now out on iOS for £1.49 / $1.99 [buy], and on Android for £1.63 / $1.99 [buy]. There's a free version for Android with adverts as well [download].
Original story follows...
Groundskeeper2 is a fast-paced retro-infused pixel art blaster that's set to hit the App Store and the Google Play Store sometime tomorrow.
It takes some of its cues ...
15 Coins is basically Snake. That's not a bad thing, and it adds enough of its own ideas into the mix that you're unlikely to begrudge it the close ties to its inspiration.
Especially when the additions it makes are drawn from the monochrome twitchy dodgers that have lit up the App Store in recent months.
This combination of new and old links together pretty well, and while there's a slight ...
My dad is an angler, but I've never quite seen the appeal of the sport. For him it must be a chance to compose his thoughts and clear his head in a serene environment. For me, it's a fiddly exercise in inefficient hunting, which entails getting up at 4AM to murder animals.
But fishing in video games has always been appealing to me. I've spend hours doing it in Wild World and New Leaf, there was...
A new iOS and Android game from those arcade-puzzle game enthusiasts over at Radiangames will be heading to some app stores near you on April 10th.
Radiangames's forthcoming SideSwype is a mixture of Threes!'s four-way block sliding and a match-three puzzler.
In SideSwype, there's a grid of different coloured blocks. By swiping on the screen, you send those blocks in the direction of your sw...
Glowforth and Creative Mobile will be releasing their chilly father-and-son puzzle-platformer Last Inua on iOS in a couple of weeks.
"Roughly April 23rd," we were told by Glowforth, in fact.
Last Inua first caught our eye back in December. You play a father and his son in the mythical North, running away from a demon called Tonrar.
To do so, you have to climb up icy peaks, enter the bowel...
After the enormous success of our first PG Connects event in London back in January, Steel Media is excited to be hosting its next global mobile games conference in Finland's capital.
Yes, Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki will be held right in the centre of Helsinki on June 16th and 17th, with the focus being on providing all of our attendees with advice, insight, and some fantastic networking op...
For once, free-to-play haters can't pull out the, "I wish they'd just port the original game to iPhone" card.
Because as much as you might turn your nose up at the idea of turning Crazy Taxi into a free-to-play endless-runner with an energy system, the old Crazy Taxi is already on the App Store.
It's got the original Bad Religion and Offspring soundtrack, no in-app purchases or adverts o...
Sometimes in life you'll find yourself surrounded by terrifying skeletons waving massive axes and rusty swords.
No, wait, not in life, in Crusader Elite, a new hacky slashy arcade title for Android.
You play the titular crusader, who's not very good at moving, but makes up for it by being exceptionally proficient at violence.
The gameplay is stark and simple. You can slash in 4 ninety deg...
Here's some good news if you like Swedish digital card games made by the people behind Minecraft. Mojang's Scrolls is definitely coming to tablets at some point in the future.
That might sound a bit vague, but then so does the official announcement, which was part of a post of the Scrolls website about upcoming tweaks to the PC version.
"An iPad/tablet version of Scrolls is in the works!...
