Future Factory is a roguelike twin stick shooter that's headed to mobile devices sometime later in the year. It's set in a robot-infested future, and it looks pretty swish.
There's RPG-style levelling, and plenty of upgrades as well. You stomp through procedurally generated levels blasting robots who've taken over the factory they're made in.
The game features simple pick-up-and-play con...
Ah, another retro platform game. And what's that? Blocks floating in the air that dispense coins when you headbutt them from beneath? This seems somewhat familiar…
All of which makes Super Bunny World something of a pleasant surprise once you get into it.
Yes, there's a strong sense of 8 and 16-bit homage here, to the point of being a subtle rip-off of the first-party titles that populated y...
Hordemaster is an interesting looking RPG-infused third-person shooter that's coming to mobile devices in the not-too-distant future.
It's fair to say that the game owes a debt to Borderlands. It's all cel-shaded desert battles, character development, and flashy bullets.
There's Clash of Clans-style base building as well, and it's all set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
The game is d...
At the start of October we told you about Tales From Deep Space, a co-op adventure set on a space station that was exclusively for Amazon Fire Tablets.
Well, it's out now, so if you've got a Fire Tablet and you fancy a funny puzzle solving adventure set on something called Big Moon, now's your chance.
There are two playable characters, E and CASI. You can swap between them on the fly if ...
Other than classic puzzle game EDGE, it's hard to think of many contemporary isometric 3D games that don't also adopt a retro styling, either in terms of graphics or gameplay. Or both.
So right away Blitz Racer stands out. It's hard to put your finger on what's so unusual about it at first, but after a few laps (and there will be a few) you begin to piece together the depth of personality squir...
As anyone who's been working in gaming for longer than a week knows all too well, our industry can't go more than seven days without cooking up another controversy.
This week it was developer ustwo, and its beautiful Escher inspired puzzler Monument Valley, at the eye of the storm.
After the studio chose to charge for an update containing eight new levels, a small band of consumers made it t...
Nitrome, developers of the Gold Award-winning Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage, have been releasing a series of video teasers for their upcoming game.
Now, that game has finally come to light.
It's called Gunbrick, an action-packed puzzle platformer set in a world where instead of cars, people operate giant gunbricks.
A gunbrick is, apparently, just a giant block equipped with a gun on one end...
"Review Five Nights at Freddy's," they said. "It'll be fun," they said.
Two months later, my therapist insists we're making progress. I no longer stand by light switches, for example, flicking them on and off in time to my hyperventilating chest.
I can eat pizza without turning the dough soggy with my tears, and my inexplicable habit of answering the phone with a scream of "WHAT DO YOU WANT ...
If you thought that NinJump Rooftops could have done with more competition then NinJump Dash might appeal to you.
It is, essentially, NinJump Rooftops with a focus on multiplayer races against real people - your Facebook friends and randoms.
Each race is comprised of four competitors, or I should say, four ninjas. The action is in real-time, so the outcome of each race will depend on your f...
Kabam has taken the Pokémon formula of catching creatures, training them, and then forcing them to battle to a new fantasy in Creature Academy.
It is not, however, much like a Pokémon RPG to play. It's actually a real-time 3D arena battler. So you need to control your creatures directly, rather than issuing commands.
There are over 200 creatures in the game, including ninja frogs, orcs, grif...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
The Banner Saga
By Stoic Studio - buy on Android (£6.99 / $9.99)
I never asked for this. I'm watching as my giant, horned viking-men known as Varls are swinging their hefty blades at the Dredge, almost pointlessly. I know they're going to die. I think they do, too - they're after that cove...
"Have you ever wondered which of your friends could protect you with their eyes closed?"
That's the question that the "band" of game creators calling themselves Glitchnap asks with its game Sentree. It's a two-player (or more) defensive shooter.
One person is blindfolded and plays the role of Hero. While the other person is their Spotter and must shout them instructions of where to shoot.
...
If you're anything like me, you'll view mobile gaming as vast wasted opportunity to bring back some of the real classics of yesteryear. The hardware is up to the job and you have it all day long, so it seems tailor made for the challenge.
The problem is, most of those golden oldies have complex control systems designed for keyboard, mouse, or gamepad. It's hard translating that to touchscreen.
...
Last week, developer ustwo had the temerity to suggest that Monument Valley fans ought to pay £1.49 / $1.99 for the new Forgotten Shores levels.
Many believed, having paid for the original, that they should get the update for free. And they set up such an outcry that you'd be forgiven for thinking ustwo asked for a pound and a half of flesh, rather than just of Sterling.
Here at Pocket Gamer...
Solitaire is a classic cure for boredom and a proven time killer.
Pair Solitaire, a newly released iOS game, puts a twist on the classic card game by focusing it on matching pairs.
You can download it for free on the App Store.
"But don't let the simplicity deceive you," says the game's description. "Hiding underneath is a deep strategy to explore."
In addition to the main game, Pair S...
Whatever happened to Gameloft's Brothers in Arms 3: Sons of War? Is it lost or Missing In Action?
Last time it was publicly playable was E3 2013, when the third person perspective WWII-themed game experience was an on-rails cover shooter.
Since then little has been heard about the game. But that's about to change.
Game Development Director Arnaud Bonnard tells Pocket Gamer that it was pla...
The Gold Award-winning Forgotten Shores expansion for Monument Valley has arrived on Android today, but only on the Amazon App Store.
It's available as a £1.49 / $1.99 IAP inside Monument Valley.
Forgotten Shores will be available on Google Play on November 24th - that's this coming Monday.
It's worth noting that the Amazon App Store version of the game is not compatible with the Google P...
They say that there's nothing new under the sun, and that certainly applies to games. All of the basic game genres were established long ago, and anything new is a hybrid of some of those archetypes.
One of the most successful of these new gene-spliced genres in recent times has been the MOBA. If you’re not a dedicated PC gamer, though, there's a chance you may not have heard of the genre.
O...
Updated on November 20th 2014 at 13:40: Ironhide Studios has also released Kingdom Rush Origins on Android today.
You can buy it for £1.88 / $2.99 on Google Play [buy]. It is also supported by IAPs.
It might also be worth checking out our review of the iOS version before you do. You know, just to see if it's worth your time.
Original story follows...
Ironhide Studios is going ba...
There was a time when 8-bit graphics were the smooth runners of the video games industry.
While Madonna's hypnotic hips had defined the previous decade, games like Dragon Quest and Super Mario Bros. were defining an entire gaming generation and destroying sleep cycle patterns the world over.
It's this halcyon era that Endless Doves, Nitrome's successor to 8-bit Doves, evokes.
If you playe...
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Future Factory is a roguelike twin stick shooter that's headed to mobile devices sometime later in the year. It's set in a robot-infested future, and it looks pretty swish.
There's RPG-style levelling, and plenty of upgrades as well. You stomp through procedurally generated levels blasting robots who've taken over the factory they're made in.
The game features simple pick-up-and-play con...
Ah, another retro platform game. And what's that? Blocks floating in the air that dispense coins when you headbutt them from beneath? This seems somewhat familiar…
All of which makes Super Bunny World something of a pleasant surprise once you get into it.
Yes, there's a strong sense of 8 and 16-bit homage here, to the point of being a subtle rip-off of the first-party titles that populated y...
Hordemaster is an interesting looking RPG-infused third-person shooter that's coming to mobile devices in the not-too-distant future.
It's fair to say that the game owes a debt to Borderlands. It's all cel-shaded desert battles, character development, and flashy bullets.
There's Clash of Clans-style base building as well, and it's all set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
The game is d...
At the start of October we told you about Tales From Deep Space, a co-op adventure set on a space station that was exclusively for Amazon Fire Tablets.
Well, it's out now, so if you've got a Fire Tablet and you fancy a funny puzzle solving adventure set on something called Big Moon, now's your chance.
There are two playable characters, E and CASI. You can swap between them on the fly if ...
Other than classic puzzle game EDGE, it's hard to think of many contemporary isometric 3D games that don't also adopt a retro styling, either in terms of graphics or gameplay. Or both.
So right away Blitz Racer stands out. It's hard to put your finger on what's so unusual about it at first, but after a few laps (and there will be a few) you begin to piece together the depth of personality squir...
As anyone who's been working in gaming for longer than a week knows all too well, our industry can't go more than seven days without cooking up another controversy.
This week it was developer ustwo, and its beautiful Escher inspired puzzler Monument Valley, at the eye of the storm.
After the studio chose to charge for an update containing eight new levels, a small band of consumers made it t...
Nitrome, developers of the Gold Award-winning Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage, have been releasing a series of video teasers for their upcoming game.
Now, that game has finally come to light.
It's called Gunbrick, an action-packed puzzle platformer set in a world where instead of cars, people operate giant gunbricks.
A gunbrick is, apparently, just a giant block equipped with a gun on one end...
"Review Five Nights at Freddy's," they said. "It'll be fun," they said.
Two months later, my therapist insists we're making progress. I no longer stand by light switches, for example, flicking them on and off in time to my hyperventilating chest.
I can eat pizza without turning the dough soggy with my tears, and my inexplicable habit of answering the phone with a scream of "WHAT DO YOU WANT ...
If you thought that NinJump Rooftops could have done with more competition then NinJump Dash might appeal to you.
It is, essentially, NinJump Rooftops with a focus on multiplayer races against real people - your Facebook friends and randoms.
Each race is comprised of four competitors, or I should say, four ninjas. The action is in real-time, so the outcome of each race will depend on your f...
Kabam has taken the Pokémon formula of catching creatures, training them, and then forcing them to battle to a new fantasy in Creature Academy.
It is not, however, much like a Pokémon RPG to play. It's actually a real-time 3D arena battler. So you need to control your creatures directly, rather than issuing commands.
There are over 200 creatures in the game, including ninja frogs, orcs, grif...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
The Banner Saga
By Stoic Studio - buy on Android (£6.99 / $9.99)
I never asked for this. I'm watching as my giant, horned viking-men known as Varls are swinging their hefty blades at the Dredge, almost pointlessly. I know they're going to die. I think they do, too - they're after that cove...
"Have you ever wondered which of your friends could protect you with their eyes closed?"
That's the question that the "band" of game creators calling themselves Glitchnap asks with its game Sentree. It's a two-player (or more) defensive shooter.
One person is blindfolded and plays the role of Hero. While the other person is their Spotter and must shout them instructions of where to shoot.
...
If you're anything like me, you'll view mobile gaming as vast wasted opportunity to bring back some of the real classics of yesteryear. The hardware is up to the job and you have it all day long, so it seems tailor made for the challenge.
The problem is, most of those golden oldies have complex control systems designed for keyboard, mouse, or gamepad. It's hard translating that to touchscreen.
...
Last week, developer ustwo had the temerity to suggest that Monument Valley fans ought to pay £1.49 / $1.99 for the new Forgotten Shores levels.
Many believed, having paid for the original, that they should get the update for free. And they set up such an outcry that you'd be forgiven for thinking ustwo asked for a pound and a half of flesh, rather than just of Sterling.
Here at Pocket Gamer...
Solitaire is a classic cure for boredom and a proven time killer.
Pair Solitaire, a newly released iOS game, puts a twist on the classic card game by focusing it on matching pairs.
You can download it for free on the App Store.
"But don't let the simplicity deceive you," says the game's description. "Hiding underneath is a deep strategy to explore."
In addition to the main game, Pair S...
Whatever happened to Gameloft's Brothers in Arms 3: Sons of War? Is it lost or Missing In Action?
Last time it was publicly playable was E3 2013, when the third person perspective WWII-themed game experience was an on-rails cover shooter.
Since then little has been heard about the game. But that's about to change.
Game Development Director Arnaud Bonnard tells Pocket Gamer that it was pla...
The Gold Award-winning Forgotten Shores expansion for Monument Valley has arrived on Android today, but only on the Amazon App Store.
It's available as a £1.49 / $1.99 IAP inside Monument Valley.
Forgotten Shores will be available on Google Play on November 24th - that's this coming Monday.
It's worth noting that the Amazon App Store version of the game is not compatible with the Google P...
They say that there's nothing new under the sun, and that certainly applies to games. All of the basic game genres were established long ago, and anything new is a hybrid of some of those archetypes.
One of the most successful of these new gene-spliced genres in recent times has been the MOBA. If you’re not a dedicated PC gamer, though, there's a chance you may not have heard of the genre.
O...
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Updated on November 20th 2014 at 13:40: Ironhide Studios has also released Kingdom Rush Origins on Android today.
You can buy it for £1.88 / $2.99 on Google Play [buy]. It is also supported by IAPs.
It might also be worth checking out our review of the iOS version before you do. You know, just to see if it's worth your time.
Original story follows...
Ironhide Studios is going ba...
There was a time when 8-bit graphics were the smooth runners of the video games industry.
While Madonna's hypnotic hips had defined the previous decade, games like Dragon Quest and Super Mario Bros. were defining an entire gaming generation and destroying sleep cycle patterns the world over.
It's this halcyon era that Endless Doves, Nitrome's successor to 8-bit Doves, evokes.
If you playe...
