Being a detective in Noir Syndrome is pretty hard.
Sometimes, you accidentally try and steal from the Mob and get shot in the spine before you get a chance to explain.
Other times, you forget to eat and get really, really hungry.
Then, there's the brutal murderer wandering around your city stabbing people in gruesome ways. And you've only got 13 days in which to stop him.
Unlucky for s...
The next chapter in the Joe Dever's Lone Wolf gamebook / RPG mash-up series will go live on the App Store and Google Play on April 3rd.
So, yep, you've got just over a week to brush up on your Kai skills.
The forthcoming Lone Wolf - The Forest Hunt is the follow-up, then, to Lone Wolf - Blood on the Snow, the first instalment of Forge Reply's highly polished mix of page-turning and tappy vio...
Hey, Mr. or Mrs. Pocket Gamer - do you own an Nvidia Shield?
If you answered "yes", you'll be GLaDOS that you do because Valve's announced that the original powerhouse puzzler Portal will come to the Shield "soon".
The announcement came at the GPU Technology Conference, where Valve's Doug Lombardi called the Android-powered Shield "a very powerful and unique device" before noting that "Our c...
What's on your 'to-do' list today? Shopping? Cleaning? Bear slaying??
Those are all important chores, sure, but try and make time for 'play some word games with a purple octopus that's proficient in Yiddish.'
Word Puttz is a crossword / golf hybrid game from Jackbox Games, the studio behind You Don't Know Jack.
Word Puttz's light-hearted sense of humour and marriage of genres make it a co...
HTC has finally taken the wraps off its new HTC One (M8) flagship smartphone at a launch event in New York.
To look at HTC's new blower, you probably won't immediately see the improvements HTC has made over last year's Gold Award-winning HTC One. It still has the brushed metal look, for one.
But look closer and you'll see the screen on this new HTC One is a little larger than its predecessor...
Star Wars Pinball is finally paying tribute to the best Star Wars characters this spring with a new table pack called Heroes Within.
This forthcoming pack will contain four tables, three of which will be dedicated to a respective Star Wars character.
They are C-3PO, R2-D2, and Han Solo. These tables feature memorable one-liners, and are designed to reflect that character's personality.
Yo...
Nitrome has just released a trailer for the next update for its Gold Award-winning ice-slicing Norse escapade Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage.
It looks like this imminent level pack is going to contain fashion-conscious crabs and the mighty sea creature known as the Kraken. Which all sounds super-exciting.
The Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage update should go live in April on the App Store. Accor...
Grumpyface Studios's Silver Award-winning iOS side-on tower defence title Castle Doombad has sneaked through a series of secret passages and emerged on the Google Play Store, ready to weave its special brand of magic on Android gamers.
This game is all about defending your home (read: castle) from rampaging do-gooders determined to end your reign of terror.
You build spooky traps and pla...
In upcoming iOS and Android game Wake the Dreamer you create a character who lives inside an apartment, itself inside your phone or tablet.
It would be nothing more than a Tamagotchi if that's all it was.
You can play Wake the Dreamer like a simulation: get a job, decorate the apartment, and explore the sidescrolling city outside.
But when you tell your character to nap or sleep, well, th...
Do you still dig it? The Silver Award-winning I Dig It, that is.
I hope you do, because we've found out that semi-sequel I Dig It: Journey to the Core is coming out in mid-April, thanks to developer InMotion Software and publisher Team Chaos.
So you'll be drilling into the Earth to navigate underground mazes and collect treasure as always. But what makes Journey to the Core different is its...
Just when I was thinking to myself, "boy, I haven't played a town builder in a good long while", along comes Tiny City from Chillingo.
I've been craving one of these for a good few weeks actually, and it's nice to get a chance to review one that looks, from its App Store and Google Play product page at least, like a fairly middle-of-the-road kind of builder.
Even Chillingo's own description ...
Last year, Jason Bond and Colin Sanders attempted to raise funding for their cutesy real-time gardening sim Hey Shu! on Kickstarter. But they failed.
Undeterred, the pair decided to finish a small part of what they had planned for Hey Shu! and have put it out on iOS and Android as Shu's Garden.
I've been playing it and, my word, there is just so much fun to be had here.
Without goals or ...
Here, take this. It's a crash helmet. You'll need it on April 10th as that's when Trials: Frontier is coming to iOS.
This is the first time that the popular sidescrolling stunt bike series will appear on mobiles, so we're eager to see how well developer RedLynx has handled the port.
As we detailed in our hands-on preview with Trials: Frontier, this is a freemium title with plenty of optional...
Spiky Tower is the latest in the SpikeDislike series of games. Whereas you were bouncing left to right before, though, you're now bouncing upwards, trying to reach the top of the titular structure.
Avid followers of the series will know that reaching that far-off summit will be nigh on impossible.
As you might have guessed from the game's name, there are lots of spikes to avoid here. T...
TriBlaster is a fever dream of a space shooter. Its retro lines are stark and impressively cool, its neon angles offer an arcade tour through the past's vision of the cosmic future.
But for all this slick trancey frippery, there's still an intriguingly simple, often frustrating blaster to discover.
It doesn't demand as much of you as a typical bullet hell game does, especially in terms of ba...
As well as being one of the largest mobile game markets by revenue, Japan is currently also one of the most dynamic.
It's a good opportunity, then, for PocketGamer.biz to hook up with Indie Navi, a site which is dedicated to the coverage of Japanese mobile and indie development.
Set up by two enthusiastic and experienced translators, you can find out more about the services they offer here ...
We've already revealed the winner of the latest Big Indie Pitch in San Francisco - innovative gyroscope-driven dancing game Bounden - but there were several other outstanding games on display that afternoon.
Here are some of the best, including the games that came second and third.
Bullet Boy (second place)
By Pomelo Games - iOS/Android - by August - price undecided
The first runner-up w...
Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
This has been an exciting week for videos. If you're in sunny San Francisco, that is.
For those of us not at Game Developers Conference 2014, it's been a bit boring.
Not many games, not much news, not much to write about. But that's never stopped us, has it?
Here, then,...
The winners of the 9th annual IMGAs were announced today, with Frogmind's Badland selected as the Grand Prix winner.
If you're wondering, last year's Grand Prix winner was Chair Entertainment's Infinity Blade II.
You can check out the winners in each IMGA category below. You can also check out the full list of nominees for each category in our previous round-up article.
Grand Prix
Bad...
Sumotori Dreams is an often-hilarious sumo wrestling game that's been out on PC for years.
Now, however, it's available on mobile. Get in.
What makes Sumotori Dreams so funny is the combination of the simple controls and the ragdoll physics.
You can can only move your sumo wrestler, push out a single hand, or both. If your shove connects with your opponent, then he'll start to topple.
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Being a detective in Noir Syndrome is pretty hard.
Sometimes, you accidentally try and steal from the Mob and get shot in the spine before you get a chance to explain.
Other times, you forget to eat and get really, really hungry.
Then, there's the brutal murderer wandering around your city stabbing people in gruesome ways. And you've only got 13 days in which to stop him.
Unlucky for s...
The next chapter in the Joe Dever's Lone Wolf gamebook / RPG mash-up series will go live on the App Store and Google Play on April 3rd.
So, yep, you've got just over a week to brush up on your Kai skills.
The forthcoming Lone Wolf - The Forest Hunt is the follow-up, then, to Lone Wolf - Blood on the Snow, the first instalment of Forge Reply's highly polished mix of page-turning and tappy vio...
Hey, Mr. or Mrs. Pocket Gamer - do you own an Nvidia Shield?
If you answered "yes", you'll be GLaDOS that you do because Valve's announced that the original powerhouse puzzler Portal will come to the Shield "soon".
The announcement came at the GPU Technology Conference, where Valve's Doug Lombardi called the Android-powered Shield "a very powerful and unique device" before noting that "Our c...
What's on your 'to-do' list today? Shopping? Cleaning? Bear slaying??
Those are all important chores, sure, but try and make time for 'play some word games with a purple octopus that's proficient in Yiddish.'
Word Puttz is a crossword / golf hybrid game from Jackbox Games, the studio behind You Don't Know Jack.
Word Puttz's light-hearted sense of humour and marriage of genres make it a co...
HTC has finally taken the wraps off its new HTC One (M8) flagship smartphone at a launch event in New York.
To look at HTC's new blower, you probably won't immediately see the improvements HTC has made over last year's Gold Award-winning HTC One. It still has the brushed metal look, for one.
But look closer and you'll see the screen on this new HTC One is a little larger than its predecessor...
Star Wars Pinball is finally paying tribute to the best Star Wars characters this spring with a new table pack called Heroes Within.
This forthcoming pack will contain four tables, three of which will be dedicated to a respective Star Wars character.
They are C-3PO, R2-D2, and Han Solo. These tables feature memorable one-liners, and are designed to reflect that character's personality.
Yo...
Nitrome has just released a trailer for the next update for its Gold Award-winning ice-slicing Norse escapade Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage.
It looks like this imminent level pack is going to contain fashion-conscious crabs and the mighty sea creature known as the Kraken. Which all sounds super-exciting.
The Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage update should go live in April on the App Store. Accor...
Grumpyface Studios's Silver Award-winning iOS side-on tower defence title Castle Doombad has sneaked through a series of secret passages and emerged on the Google Play Store, ready to weave its special brand of magic on Android gamers.
This game is all about defending your home (read: castle) from rampaging do-gooders determined to end your reign of terror.
You build spooky traps and pla...
In upcoming iOS and Android game Wake the Dreamer you create a character who lives inside an apartment, itself inside your phone or tablet.
It would be nothing more than a Tamagotchi if that's all it was.
You can play Wake the Dreamer like a simulation: get a job, decorate the apartment, and explore the sidescrolling city outside.
But when you tell your character to nap or sleep, well, th...
Do you still dig it? The Silver Award-winning I Dig It, that is.
I hope you do, because we've found out that semi-sequel I Dig It: Journey to the Core is coming out in mid-April, thanks to developer InMotion Software and publisher Team Chaos.
So you'll be drilling into the Earth to navigate underground mazes and collect treasure as always. But what makes Journey to the Core different is its...
Just when I was thinking to myself, "boy, I haven't played a town builder in a good long while", along comes Tiny City from Chillingo.
I've been craving one of these for a good few weeks actually, and it's nice to get a chance to review one that looks, from its App Store and Google Play product page at least, like a fairly middle-of-the-road kind of builder.
Even Chillingo's own description ...
Last year, Jason Bond and Colin Sanders attempted to raise funding for their cutesy real-time gardening sim Hey Shu! on Kickstarter. But they failed.
Undeterred, the pair decided to finish a small part of what they had planned for Hey Shu! and have put it out on iOS and Android as Shu's Garden.
I've been playing it and, my word, there is just so much fun to be had here.
Without goals or ...
Here, take this. It's a crash helmet. You'll need it on April 10th as that's when Trials: Frontier is coming to iOS.
This is the first time that the popular sidescrolling stunt bike series will appear on mobiles, so we're eager to see how well developer RedLynx has handled the port.
As we detailed in our hands-on preview with Trials: Frontier, this is a freemium title with plenty of optional...
Spiky Tower is the latest in the SpikeDislike series of games. Whereas you were bouncing left to right before, though, you're now bouncing upwards, trying to reach the top of the titular structure.
Avid followers of the series will know that reaching that far-off summit will be nigh on impossible.
As you might have guessed from the game's name, there are lots of spikes to avoid here. T...
TriBlaster is a fever dream of a space shooter. Its retro lines are stark and impressively cool, its neon angles offer an arcade tour through the past's vision of the cosmic future.
But for all this slick trancey frippery, there's still an intriguingly simple, often frustrating blaster to discover.
It doesn't demand as much of you as a typical bullet hell game does, especially in terms of ba...
As well as being one of the largest mobile game markets by revenue, Japan is currently also one of the most dynamic.
It's a good opportunity, then, for PocketGamer.biz to hook up with Indie Navi, a site which is dedicated to the coverage of Japanese mobile and indie development.
Set up by two enthusiastic and experienced translators, you can find out more about the services they offer here ...
We've already revealed the winner of the latest Big Indie Pitch in San Francisco - innovative gyroscope-driven dancing game Bounden - but there were several other outstanding games on display that afternoon.
Here are some of the best, including the games that came second and third.
Bullet Boy (second place)
By Pomelo Games - iOS/Android - by August - price undecided
The first runner-up w...
Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
This has been an exciting week for videos. If you're in sunny San Francisco, that is.
For those of us not at Game Developers Conference 2014, it's been a bit boring.
Not many games, not much news, not much to write about. But that's never stopped us, has it?
Here, then,...
The winners of the 9th annual IMGAs were announced today, with Frogmind's Badland selected as the Grand Prix winner.
If you're wondering, last year's Grand Prix winner was Chair Entertainment's Infinity Blade II.
You can check out the winners in each IMGA category below. You can also check out the full list of nominees for each category in our previous round-up article.
Grand Prix
Bad...
Sumotori Dreams is an often-hilarious sumo wrestling game that's been out on PC for years.
Now, however, it's available on mobile. Get in.
What makes Sumotori Dreams so funny is the combination of the simple controls and the ragdoll physics.
You can can only move your sumo wrestler, push out a single hand, or both. If your shove connects with your opponent, then he'll start to topple.
...
