Wicked Lair is a pretty impressive mash-up of tower defence, RPG, and dungeon-building that sees you creating a terrifying labyrinth filled with monsters to try and stop some heroes stealing your loot.
You're not just on the defensive though, and you'll spawn creatures to stomp out of your subterranean lair to grab loot and burn the city that spawns the meddlesome adventurers.
You can ad...
At the end of last month we reported that The Longest Journey had been remastered for iOS devices. It came out in Australia and New Zealand, but the rest of us had to wait a little longer to get our paws on the game.
Well, that waiting is over and done with. The game is live right now on the App Store, meaning you can play a touch-enabled version of the classic point-and-click-adventure to ...
Frogger is one of those games that I just didn't appreciate when I was growing up. It was too difficult for little uncoordinated ol' me, so I just avoided it. Some years later I tried it again and actually found it to be pretty fun.
And then Crossy Road comes along and turns my enjoyment into something bordering on obsession.
Why did the chicken...
Crossy Road is Frogger, but it's not. It...
A new expansion has been added to Talisman: Digital Edition, the mobile version of the classic board game of the same name.
The Dungeon expansion adds several new cards to the game: 128 Dungeon cards, 20 Spell cards, 10 Treasure cards, and 10 Adventure cards.
It costs £2.99 / $4.99 as an in-app purchase.
The update also comes with a new section for the game board, full of extra paths to v...
It's a common tactic in football punditry to look back at last season's teams, stats, and bold pronouncements, and to use them as a means to measure progress in the here and now.
Let's try it with Football Manager Handheld 2015. In last year's Football Manager Handheld 2014 review, I concluded:
"Football Manager Handheld 2014 remains the best football management game on iOS, but it’s a big f...
Javelin through the face. Running with scissors. Falling into an icy lake.
These are just a few of the ways you can die in Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games.
It's the sequel to the viral hit Dumb Ways to Die. And, as such, is a series of WarioWare-like safety-focused mini-games.
You pick a location on the map to send your train to, and once you arrive, you try to survive a number of hazard-f...
Chances are, if you own an iPhone, you’ve played a mobile creature collector, city builder, or fighting game. The chances of you playing a game that combines all three, however, are very slim indeed, and that’s exactly what Game Cognition has achieved with its latest iPhone game, Island of Mu.
Island of Mu aims to do much more than simply cram three successful genres into one game though. It's ...
MOGA made the very first MFi controller. But that debut device, the MOGA Ace Power, was a bit of a shambles. It broke down a lot, the buttons were unresponsive, the thumb sticks were weird, and it's already outdated as it can't hold the iPhone 6.
Now MOGA is back for a second try with the all new MOGA Rebel and it's a completely different story.
For starters, this one works over Bluetooth in...
Spider-Man's nemesis the Venom Symbiote is getting its own table in all Zen Pinball, and all its variations (including Marvel Pinball, obviously).
Zen Studios tells us that this new table will arrive on the week starting December 8th, which is two weeks today. So you'll be able to grab it on Vita, iOS, and Android around that time.
The Venom table features Eddie Brock in his Symbiote-empower...
As you fly through asteroid fields and blast tentacled aliens in 2D arcade space-shooter Star Troll it's recommended that you sing Star Trekkin'.
You'll have to replace "Star Trekkin' across the universe" with "Star Trollin' across the universe," but other than that you're good to go.
This is because the sci-fi of Star Troll has that retro appeal to it. It has none of the crew management of...
Monument Valley's pointy-hatted princess Ida has got to go through one more trek across, under, and inside-out brain-boggling architectural wonders.
This final chapter - which is part of Apple's Project (RED) charity campaign - is perhaps her most difficult journey yet and you'll likely need a helping hand as you clear these challenges.
Watch out video below and follow our every move and you...
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...
Apple has joined up with the charity (RED) and a whole bunch of iOS developers to launch the Apps for (RED) campaign, an initiative to raise money to fight AIDS.
The big news is that Monument Valley has been updated with a new level, which will apparently end the story of the game. It's available for 69p / 99c. It's called Ida's (RED) Dream, and 100% of the purchase price goes to the charity.
...
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...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new iPhone and iPad games.
Kingdom Rush Origins
By Ironhide Game Studio - buy on iPhone and iPad (£2.99 / $4.99)
It often feels as though tower defence is all played out. Since Fieldrunners first marched triumphantly onto the App Store we've been assailed by wave upon wave of copycat efforts, most of which a...
"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...
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Wicked Lair is a pretty impressive mash-up of tower defence, RPG, and dungeon-building that sees you creating a terrifying labyrinth filled with monsters to try and stop some heroes stealing your loot.
You're not just on the defensive though, and you'll spawn creatures to stomp out of your subterranean lair to grab loot and burn the city that spawns the meddlesome adventurers.
You can ad...
At the end of last month we reported that The Longest Journey had been remastered for iOS devices. It came out in Australia and New Zealand, but the rest of us had to wait a little longer to get our paws on the game.
Well, that waiting is over and done with. The game is live right now on the App Store, meaning you can play a touch-enabled version of the classic point-and-click-adventure to ...
Frogger is one of those games that I just didn't appreciate when I was growing up. It was too difficult for little uncoordinated ol' me, so I just avoided it. Some years later I tried it again and actually found it to be pretty fun.
And then Crossy Road comes along and turns my enjoyment into something bordering on obsession.
Why did the chicken...
Crossy Road is Frogger, but it's not. It...
A new expansion has been added to Talisman: Digital Edition, the mobile version of the classic board game of the same name.
The Dungeon expansion adds several new cards to the game: 128 Dungeon cards, 20 Spell cards, 10 Treasure cards, and 10 Adventure cards.
It costs £2.99 / $4.99 as an in-app purchase.
The update also comes with a new section for the game board, full of extra paths to v...
It's a common tactic in football punditry to look back at last season's teams, stats, and bold pronouncements, and to use them as a means to measure progress in the here and now.
Let's try it with Football Manager Handheld 2015. In last year's Football Manager Handheld 2014 review, I concluded:
"Football Manager Handheld 2014 remains the best football management game on iOS, but it’s a big f...
Javelin through the face. Running with scissors. Falling into an icy lake.
These are just a few of the ways you can die in Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games.
It's the sequel to the viral hit Dumb Ways to Die. And, as such, is a series of WarioWare-like safety-focused mini-games.
You pick a location on the map to send your train to, and once you arrive, you try to survive a number of hazard-f...![Game Cognition’s most recent creation is an entirely new beast with familiar faces [sponsored]](http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/artwork/thumbs/na-fgqmo_iphone-screenshot-1_jpeg_100.jpg)
Chances are, if you own an iPhone, you’ve played a mobile creature collector, city builder, or fighting game. The chances of you playing a game that combines all three, however, are very slim indeed, and that’s exactly what Game Cognition has achieved with its latest iPhone game, Island of Mu.
Island of Mu aims to do much more than simply cram three successful genres into one game though. It's ...
MOGA made the very first MFi controller. But that debut device, the MOGA Ace Power, was a bit of a shambles. It broke down a lot, the buttons were unresponsive, the thumb sticks were weird, and it's already outdated as it can't hold the iPhone 6.
Now MOGA is back for a second try with the all new MOGA Rebel and it's a completely different story.
For starters, this one works over Bluetooth in...
Spider-Man's nemesis the Venom Symbiote is getting its own table in all Zen Pinball, and all its variations (including Marvel Pinball, obviously).
Zen Studios tells us that this new table will arrive on the week starting December 8th, which is two weeks today. So you'll be able to grab it on Vita, iOS, and Android around that time.
The Venom table features Eddie Brock in his Symbiote-empower...
As you fly through asteroid fields and blast tentacled aliens in 2D arcade space-shooter Star Troll it's recommended that you sing Star Trekkin'.
You'll have to replace "Star Trekkin' across the universe" with "Star Trollin' across the universe," but other than that you're good to go.
This is because the sci-fi of Star Troll has that retro appeal to it. It has none of the crew management of...
Monument Valley's pointy-hatted princess Ida has got to go through one more trek across, under, and inside-out brain-boggling architectural wonders.
This final chapter - which is part of Apple's Project (RED) charity campaign - is perhaps her most difficult journey yet and you'll likely need a helping hand as you clear these challenges.
Watch out video below and follow our every move and you...
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...
Apple has joined up with the charity (RED) and a whole bunch of iOS developers to launch the Apps for (RED) campaign, an initiative to raise money to fight AIDS.
The big news is that Monument Valley has been updated with a new level, which will apparently end the story of the game. It's available for 69p / 99c. It's called Ida's (RED) Dream, and 100% of the purchase price goes to the charity.
...
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...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new iPhone and iPad games.
Kingdom Rush Origins
By Ironhide Game Studio - buy on iPhone and iPad (£2.99 / $4.99)
It often feels as though tower defence is all played out. Since Fieldrunners first marched triumphantly onto the App Store we've been assailed by wave upon wave of copycat efforts, most of which a...
"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...
