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...
Checkpoint Champion is a hateful thing. A cruel, endlessly unforgiving arcade time trial that laughs at your pitiful efforts to try and conquer it.
From the second you pick up the game it's being unkind. Its controls are woefully inadequate, and designed to ensure the line between glorious success and catastrophic failure is so thin it's barely even visible.
And then it wraps that hate and f...
"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.
...
Knituma is a game about helping a bear knit the world's longest scarf in preparation for the winter.
If that short description isn't enough to want to make you play Knituma then I'm at a loss for words.
Only kidding. I haven't even mentioned what the cat does, or the fact that there are wig-wearing ducks playing trumpets.
Developer Paprika Games calls Knituma the "crazy knitting game," a...
Nordcurrent has released an update to its hit iOS time-management game Cooking Fever, which features the highly-anticipated new location the Breakfast Café, as well as new features and those all-important bug fixes.
Cooking Fever is an iOS time-management game in which you cook mouth-watering meals and desserts from a variety of exotic cultures.
There are 100 different ingredients, which yo...
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...
Oh, look, a procedurally-generated racing game set in some sort of vaguely sci-fi world made up of, what else, gems.
It's the kind of description that makes my eyebrow involuntarily lift and inevitably leads to further inquiry.
Unfortunately, Gem Racers just doesn't do a whole lot with the concept.
Random is racing
The race tracks in Gem Racers are generated in segments. You're given a...
Valiant Hearts, Ubisoft's strange and elegiac ode to The Great War, is currently on sale for iPhone and iPad.
The game sees you playing as a handful of characters caught up in the events of the first world war. There's very little combat involved – instead, you spend most of the story scrambling around on the periphery of the conflict, solving puzzles and trying to stay out of trouble.
Dotte...
Vivid Games's God of War-alike Godfire: Rise of Prometheus has had another update.
According to Vivid, the Reforged update, "sees each level and feature of the title meticulously revisited by the team and improved upon, not the least of which is enemy AI, to provide players more variety, challenge and reward."
That means there are no new modes or stages or anything like that, and it's unlike...
I'll admit I'm not the biggest fan of the tower defence genre. I actively try to avoid them if I'm to be truly honest.
That's not to say I hate these games, and I've played a couple that I‘ve legitimately enjoyed, but on average they don't usually interest me.
With that admission out of the way, I'd like to say that I've been having quite a bit of fun with Crystal Siege HD.
Towers of powe...
Your ship's destroyed and you're left floating around in the void of space with your other doomed crewmembers.
What other choice do you have but to fly into the sun... together?
That's the lesson of Sunburn, apparently, a strangely cute physics puzzler on iOS now for £1.99 / $2.99.
Your mission in Sunburn is to float around space, tethering yourself to your stranded astronaut buddies whil...
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...
Infinite golf games are a funny old thing. You wait for ages for one to turn up, and then within the space of a couple of weeks two of the blighters hit the App Store.
Golfinity is the newest of the duo, and it doesn't quite manage to capture the compulsive, lo-fi beat of Desert Golfing.
It's simple enough to pick up and play, and the earlier holes offer just enough challenge to keep you swi...
Smash Jungle wants you to be cruel. To keep the sentient stone head that you control alive you need the blood of cute animals.
It starts with you holding your finger on the screen to hoist the head above the jungle floor.
Then, when you see a raccoon, frog, or bird passing by underneath, you let go and the stone head slams to the ground.
You keep doing this as at the top of the screen you...
Scott Cawthorn has released Five Nights At Freddy's 2 on iOS.
It's the sequel to the Gold Award-winning Five Nights At Freddy's. As such, you'll be trying to survive five nights as a nighttime security guard in Freddy Fazbear's Pizza restaurant once again.
But there are no security doors this time around, and there are a bunch of new animatronic animals that want to dismember you, too.
Wh...
Full Fat wants you to prove that you're a "flicking legend" once again by playing its newly released Flick Soccer 15.
It's just like the Gold Award-winning Flick Soccer! except that it's been updated for the 2015 season.
But not only that, this is the first game from Full Fat that has full HD support for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.
So if you've got one of those newfangled big screen s...
There are few games that have caught me off-guard as effortlessly as Space Age: A Cosmic Adventure.
Its expertly-judged nostalgia sees game ideas and aesthetics of the past blended masterfully within a fun, genuinely witty story, all enveloped by a killer soundtrack.
You play as 'Private' who, like an intergalactic spin on Guybrush Threepwood, has dreamt all his life of being a spaceman, des...
The Silver Award-winning Blek is one of those games that could only work well on a touchscreen. Which is why you should buy it when it goes cheap.
That's a hint, if you didn't catch on there.
Yep, Blek is currently on sale on iOS at 69p / 99c, down from its full price of £1.99 / $2.99.
It's a puzzle game in which you have to collect coloured circles in a 2D white space by drawing a l...
The Silver Award-winning organism gobbler Osmos is on sale once again on iOS.
Instead of spending £1.99 / $2.99 for the game on the App Store [buy], you can snatch it up for just 69p / 99c right now.
Oh, and if you want the iPad version of Osmos then that'll also cost you 69p / 99c on the App Store [buy] instead of £2.99 / $4.99. An even better deal.
Back in 2010, Apple announced Osmos as...
For safety purposes, You are advised
not to give out any Personal Information (i.e. Address, Phone Number, etc.)
while on IRC. Because IRC is a Live Chat, The #1
Teen Chat Place can not take responsibility for any content
seen by minors. If you feel offended by any content in the channel, please
request Operator assistance for help with the matter. And don't forget to
Bookmark this page so you can come back later.
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...
Checkpoint Champion is a hateful thing. A cruel, endlessly unforgiving arcade time trial that laughs at your pitiful efforts to try and conquer it.
From the second you pick up the game it's being unkind. Its controls are woefully inadequate, and designed to ensure the line between glorious success and catastrophic failure is so thin it's barely even visible.
And then it wraps that hate and f...
"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.
...
Knituma is a game about helping a bear knit the world's longest scarf in preparation for the winter.
If that short description isn't enough to want to make you play Knituma then I'm at a loss for words.
Only kidding. I haven't even mentioned what the cat does, or the fact that there are wig-wearing ducks playing trumpets.
Developer Paprika Games calls Knituma the "crazy knitting game," a...
Nordcurrent has released an update to its hit iOS time-management game Cooking Fever, which features the highly-anticipated new location the Breakfast Café, as well as new features and those all-important bug fixes.
Cooking Fever is an iOS time-management game in which you cook mouth-watering meals and desserts from a variety of exotic cultures.
There are 100 different ingredients, which yo...
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...
Oh, look, a procedurally-generated racing game set in some sort of vaguely sci-fi world made up of, what else, gems.
It's the kind of description that makes my eyebrow involuntarily lift and inevitably leads to further inquiry.
Unfortunately, Gem Racers just doesn't do a whole lot with the concept.
Random is racing
The race tracks in Gem Racers are generated in segments. You're given a...
Valiant Hearts, Ubisoft's strange and elegiac ode to The Great War, is currently on sale for iPhone and iPad.
The game sees you playing as a handful of characters caught up in the events of the first world war. There's very little combat involved – instead, you spend most of the story scrambling around on the periphery of the conflict, solving puzzles and trying to stay out of trouble.
Dotte...
Vivid Games's God of War-alike Godfire: Rise of Prometheus has had another update.
According to Vivid, the Reforged update, "sees each level and feature of the title meticulously revisited by the team and improved upon, not the least of which is enemy AI, to provide players more variety, challenge and reward."
That means there are no new modes or stages or anything like that, and it's unlike...
I'll admit I'm not the biggest fan of the tower defence genre. I actively try to avoid them if I'm to be truly honest.
That's not to say I hate these games, and I've played a couple that I‘ve legitimately enjoyed, but on average they don't usually interest me.
With that admission out of the way, I'd like to say that I've been having quite a bit of fun with Crystal Siege HD.
Towers of powe...
Your ship's destroyed and you're left floating around in the void of space with your other doomed crewmembers.
What other choice do you have but to fly into the sun... together?
That's the lesson of Sunburn, apparently, a strangely cute physics puzzler on iOS now for £1.99 / $2.99.
Your mission in Sunburn is to float around space, tethering yourself to your stranded astronaut buddies whil...
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...
Infinite golf games are a funny old thing. You wait for ages for one to turn up, and then within the space of a couple of weeks two of the blighters hit the App Store.
Golfinity is the newest of the duo, and it doesn't quite manage to capture the compulsive, lo-fi beat of Desert Golfing.
It's simple enough to pick up and play, and the earlier holes offer just enough challenge to keep you swi...
Smash Jungle wants you to be cruel. To keep the sentient stone head that you control alive you need the blood of cute animals.
It starts with you holding your finger on the screen to hoist the head above the jungle floor.
Then, when you see a raccoon, frog, or bird passing by underneath, you let go and the stone head slams to the ground.
You keep doing this as at the top of the screen you...
Scott Cawthorn has released Five Nights At Freddy's 2 on iOS.
It's the sequel to the Gold Award-winning Five Nights At Freddy's. As such, you'll be trying to survive five nights as a nighttime security guard in Freddy Fazbear's Pizza restaurant once again.
But there are no security doors this time around, and there are a bunch of new animatronic animals that want to dismember you, too.
Wh...
Full Fat wants you to prove that you're a "flicking legend" once again by playing its newly released Flick Soccer 15.
It's just like the Gold Award-winning Flick Soccer! except that it's been updated for the 2015 season.
But not only that, this is the first game from Full Fat that has full HD support for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.
So if you've got one of those newfangled big screen s...
There are few games that have caught me off-guard as effortlessly as Space Age: A Cosmic Adventure.
Its expertly-judged nostalgia sees game ideas and aesthetics of the past blended masterfully within a fun, genuinely witty story, all enveloped by a killer soundtrack.
You play as 'Private' who, like an intergalactic spin on Guybrush Threepwood, has dreamt all his life of being a spaceman, des...
The Silver Award-winning Blek is one of those games that could only work well on a touchscreen. Which is why you should buy it when it goes cheap.
That's a hint, if you didn't catch on there.
Yep, Blek is currently on sale on iOS at 69p / 99c, down from its full price of £1.99 / $2.99.
It's a puzzle game in which you have to collect coloured circles in a 2D white space by drawing a l...
The Silver Award-winning organism gobbler Osmos is on sale once again on iOS.
Instead of spending £1.99 / $2.99 for the game on the App Store [buy], you can snatch it up for just 69p / 99c right now.
Oh, and if you want the iPad version of Osmos then that'll also cost you 69p / 99c on the App Store [buy] instead of £2.99 / $4.99. An even better deal.
Back in 2010, Apple announced Osmos as...
