Grey Cubes is Breakout with real-time physics, a smattering of 3D, and a visual language designed by someone with a penchant for stark utilitarianism.
Your bat lurks at the foot of the screen, and you move it left or right by dragging a finger. The aim is to keep the ball in play and use it to blow up all of the blocks by smashing it into them.
The twist is that the blocks in Grey Cubes aren...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new iPhone and iPad games.
Monument Valley: Forgotten Shores
By ustwo - buy on iPhone and iPad (£1.49 / $1.99 if you have the original game)
What the hell is wrong with you?
(Not YOU. YOU'RE brilliant. I'm talking to everybody else.)
Given that you've already paid £2.49 for ustwo's sublime Apple Desig...
Oi, all you wannabe Canadian gods out there, DeNA has soft-launched GodFinger 2 in your App Store.
This is the sequel to the just-above-average 2010 god game GodFinger, obviously. It seems to be more of the same world-creating, follower-obtaining, planet defending stuff.
You choose your elemental affinity - maybe ice or fire - and then watch your planet grow accordingly. Next you'll need to ...
Gaijin Games's Bronze Award-winning Bit.Trip Run! is now completely free for a limited time on iOS.
Yep, rather than the £2.49 / $3.99 price tag, it's just a download away - no cash needed. Lovely.
Bit.Trip Run! is a challenging rhythm-based auto-runner in which you help Commander Video jump, slide, and kick his way through a vibrant and weird world.
In our review, we called it an "im...
If you were paying attention earlier this week you would know that Nitrome has been releasing short teaser trailers for its next big game.
Today, Nitrome released the third and final of those teasers, and you can watch it above.
After a little message from soft beverage company Brickcola, the teaser turns into an advert for an event called "Mega Monsterbrick Rumble Mania."
This is, pr...
Yeah, it missed Halloween, but the lo-fi point-and-click game The Last Door: Collector's Edition is now out on Android.
It should also be available on iOS but it seems that it's not, at least at the time of writing it isn't.
Anyway, the game is set in a spooky Victorian world inspired by the creepy tales of H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe.
You follow Jeremiah Devitt as he pursues ...
The first trailer has arrived for TellTale's upcoming point-and-click adventure Tales from the Borderlands. You can see it up there. Go on, have a gander then come back down here and we'll talk details.
It certainly looks like it's full of the series's trademark humour, more-so even than the RPG / FPS hybrids that have inspired it.
The game is set after Borderlands 2, and there are two p...
We've all been there. Lying in bed, anxious about waking up in time for an important event.
Finally drifting off to sleep… only to have a tiny version of yourself emerge from your head, step into your alarm clock and launch into outer space to complete increasingly tricky challenges. Right?
No? Well, good thing I'm not alone, as Bart Bonte has gone and made a game simulating this bizarre con...
Yesterday we held one of our Big Indie Pitch events at Apps World in London. For those who aren't in the know, these are essentially speed-dating events for developers and journalists.
Devs get three minutes to pitch their game to a table of journos or other industry figures, then someone honks a horn and they shift around to the next table and make the pitch again.
Once all the pitches have...
A game about building versions of model kits is, you'd think, the sort of project that might be birthed by the hipster hive mind of Shoreditch.
However Monzo is not the work of espresso-addled developers who flunked their art foundation and are now coding to fund their moustache wax habit; it's made by Madfinger.
For the uninitiated, this is the studio that gave us Dead Trigger - a game full...
How quick are your counting skills?
Android users were able to put that question to the test in August with the release of Sumico, a free math-based puzzle game from Ludomotion.
Sumico has now launched on the App Store as well, so iOS users can finally have a go.
The iOS version of Sumico comes with an extra 12 levels, adding up to 84 total on iOS only.
The goal of the game is to comb...
First thing's first: my expectations have been somewhat shattered.
I'm not a fan of bitcoins, nor am I a fan of games that only want you to tap on a screen for no other reason than to earn money so you can spend money to earn more money while you tap.
And yet here I am, trying as hard as I can to focus on writing about Bitcoin Billionaire while at the same time desperately wanting to jump ba...
Abstract, minimalist puzzler Zengrams is prefaced on the App Store with a very bold claim, and one that's probably a big fat lie.
"WARNING: Zengrams is the most challenging puzzle game on iOS," it reads.
This is the doing of publisher Gameblyr, who previously published the cracking abstract boardgame Pathogen, and the pretty good top-down crime caper Third Eye Crime.
Gameblyr has decide...
Pixelbite Games's Silver Award-winning Reckless Racing 3 has had its first price drop despite having been released only a month ago.
Rather than £2.99 / $4.99, it's currently £1.99 / $2.99 on iOS and Android.
If you're a fan of the Reckless Racing series then you've probably already bought it. But if you haven't, this limited-time discount is begging you to.
For those not familiar with ...
Ustwo released the Forgotten Shores expansion for its Gold Award-winning, perception-bending iOS puzzler Monument Valley yesterday.
We loved Monument Valley, and were excited to play the eight new chapters, as were many others.
But it seems that were also plenty of people who were more upset than joyful about the expansion. This was due to it costing £1.49 / $1.99, rather than being free.
...
There's a brilliant bounce to Super Secret Service. From its chunky pixellated graphics to the ridiculous objects you're trying to stop, everything feels like it was put together with a smile.
And that smile neatly masks the painfully addictive highscore chaser you're getting yourself into from the first time you boot up the game.
This is two-tap arcade action at its most delightful, as irre...
Framed has a very clever concept.
On each screen you are presented with a comic book page where your hero gets captured or killed by the cops. It's your job to rearrange the panels to create a new sequence of events where you escape the law and make it out alive.
It can be a tricky game, so to help you along we've put together solutions for the first two chapters. As ever, only use these as ...
Space Age features a weird mixed up soup of genres. It has point and click adventure style puzzles, it controls like a real-time strategy game, and it has both stealth and combat sections.
It's also quite tricky, so you're probably going to need a helping hand when navigating this weird alien landscape. That's why we've put together a guide that will help you finish every level and unlock all t...
XCOM: Enemy Within is an expansion pack for XCOM: Enemy Unknown - not a sequel or a spin-off, despite arriving as a separate, full-price app.
So it's still the same taut strategy game about fighting turn-based battles against aliens before returning to base to research new weapons, launch satellites, build labourites, and sort out the world's ET problem.
And it has the same story, same missi...
Advanced Warfare isn't the only Call of Duty game out this month. Activision's free to play battler Call of Duty: Heroes has just left soft launch and deployed into countries around the world.
This is yet another Clash of Clans inspired game but now dressed up in military garb and featuring iconic characters from the COD series like the man with the moustache and that guy in the hat.
As ...
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Grey Cubes is Breakout with real-time physics, a smattering of 3D, and a visual language designed by someone with a penchant for stark utilitarianism.
Your bat lurks at the foot of the screen, and you move it left or right by dragging a finger. The aim is to keep the ball in play and use it to blow up all of the blocks by smashing it into them.
The twist is that the blocks in Grey Cubes aren...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new iPhone and iPad games.
Monument Valley: Forgotten Shores
By ustwo - buy on iPhone and iPad (£1.49 / $1.99 if you have the original game)
What the hell is wrong with you?
(Not YOU. YOU'RE brilliant. I'm talking to everybody else.)
Given that you've already paid £2.49 for ustwo's sublime Apple Desig...
Oi, all you wannabe Canadian gods out there, DeNA has soft-launched GodFinger 2 in your App Store.
This is the sequel to the just-above-average 2010 god game GodFinger, obviously. It seems to be more of the same world-creating, follower-obtaining, planet defending stuff.
You choose your elemental affinity - maybe ice or fire - and then watch your planet grow accordingly. Next you'll need to ...
Gaijin Games's Bronze Award-winning Bit.Trip Run! is now completely free for a limited time on iOS.
Yep, rather than the £2.49 / $3.99 price tag, it's just a download away - no cash needed. Lovely.
Bit.Trip Run! is a challenging rhythm-based auto-runner in which you help Commander Video jump, slide, and kick his way through a vibrant and weird world.
In our review, we called it an "im...
If you were paying attention earlier this week you would know that Nitrome has been releasing short teaser trailers for its next big game.
Today, Nitrome released the third and final of those teasers, and you can watch it above.
After a little message from soft beverage company Brickcola, the teaser turns into an advert for an event called "Mega Monsterbrick Rumble Mania."
This is, pr...
Yeah, it missed Halloween, but the lo-fi point-and-click game The Last Door: Collector's Edition is now out on Android.
It should also be available on iOS but it seems that it's not, at least at the time of writing it isn't.
Anyway, the game is set in a spooky Victorian world inspired by the creepy tales of H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe.
You follow Jeremiah Devitt as he pursues ...
The first trailer has arrived for TellTale's upcoming point-and-click adventure Tales from the Borderlands. You can see it up there. Go on, have a gander then come back down here and we'll talk details.
It certainly looks like it's full of the series's trademark humour, more-so even than the RPG / FPS hybrids that have inspired it.
The game is set after Borderlands 2, and there are two p...
We've all been there. Lying in bed, anxious about waking up in time for an important event.
Finally drifting off to sleep… only to have a tiny version of yourself emerge from your head, step into your alarm clock and launch into outer space to complete increasingly tricky challenges. Right?
No? Well, good thing I'm not alone, as Bart Bonte has gone and made a game simulating this bizarre con...
Yesterday we held one of our Big Indie Pitch events at Apps World in London. For those who aren't in the know, these are essentially speed-dating events for developers and journalists.
Devs get three minutes to pitch their game to a table of journos or other industry figures, then someone honks a horn and they shift around to the next table and make the pitch again.
Once all the pitches have...
A game about building versions of model kits is, you'd think, the sort of project that might be birthed by the hipster hive mind of Shoreditch.
However Monzo is not the work of espresso-addled developers who flunked their art foundation and are now coding to fund their moustache wax habit; it's made by Madfinger.
For the uninitiated, this is the studio that gave us Dead Trigger - a game full...
How quick are your counting skills?
Android users were able to put that question to the test in August with the release of Sumico, a free math-based puzzle game from Ludomotion.
Sumico has now launched on the App Store as well, so iOS users can finally have a go.
The iOS version of Sumico comes with an extra 12 levels, adding up to 84 total on iOS only.
The goal of the game is to comb...
First thing's first: my expectations have been somewhat shattered.
I'm not a fan of bitcoins, nor am I a fan of games that only want you to tap on a screen for no other reason than to earn money so you can spend money to earn more money while you tap.
And yet here I am, trying as hard as I can to focus on writing about Bitcoin Billionaire while at the same time desperately wanting to jump ba...
Abstract, minimalist puzzler Zengrams is prefaced on the App Store with a very bold claim, and one that's probably a big fat lie.
"WARNING: Zengrams is the most challenging puzzle game on iOS," it reads.
This is the doing of publisher Gameblyr, who previously published the cracking abstract boardgame Pathogen, and the pretty good top-down crime caper Third Eye Crime.
Gameblyr has decide...
Pixelbite Games's Silver Award-winning Reckless Racing 3 has had its first price drop despite having been released only a month ago.
Rather than £2.99 / $4.99, it's currently £1.99 / $2.99 on iOS and Android.
If you're a fan of the Reckless Racing series then you've probably already bought it. But if you haven't, this limited-time discount is begging you to.
For those not familiar with ...
Ustwo released the Forgotten Shores expansion for its Gold Award-winning, perception-bending iOS puzzler Monument Valley yesterday.
We loved Monument Valley, and were excited to play the eight new chapters, as were many others.
But it seems that were also plenty of people who were more upset than joyful about the expansion. This was due to it costing £1.49 / $1.99, rather than being free.
...
There's a brilliant bounce to Super Secret Service. From its chunky pixellated graphics to the ridiculous objects you're trying to stop, everything feels like it was put together with a smile.
And that smile neatly masks the painfully addictive highscore chaser you're getting yourself into from the first time you boot up the game.
This is two-tap arcade action at its most delightful, as irre...
Framed has a very clever concept.
On each screen you are presented with a comic book page where your hero gets captured or killed by the cops. It's your job to rearrange the panels to create a new sequence of events where you escape the law and make it out alive.
It can be a tricky game, so to help you along we've put together solutions for the first two chapters. As ever, only use these as ...
Space Age features a weird mixed up soup of genres. It has point and click adventure style puzzles, it controls like a real-time strategy game, and it has both stealth and combat sections.
It's also quite tricky, so you're probably going to need a helping hand when navigating this weird alien landscape. That's why we've put together a guide that will help you finish every level and unlock all t...
XCOM: Enemy Within is an expansion pack for XCOM: Enemy Unknown - not a sequel or a spin-off, despite arriving as a separate, full-price app.
So it's still the same taut strategy game about fighting turn-based battles against aliens before returning to base to research new weapons, launch satellites, build labourites, and sort out the world's ET problem.
And it has the same story, same missi...
Advanced Warfare isn't the only Call of Duty game out this month. Activision's free to play battler Call of Duty: Heroes has just left soft launch and deployed into countries around the world.
This is yet another Clash of Clans inspired game but now dressed up in military garb and featuring iconic characters from the COD series like the man with the moustache and that guy in the hat.
As ...
