The UK has a history of making side-splitting comical adventure games - think Simon the Sorcerer and Discworld. And it's nice to see that legacy continue on iOS with games such as Hector: Badge of Carnage and Detective Grimoire.
Newcomer Bertram Fiddle isn't quite as funny, and it isn't as sharply made as those modern-day classics. But it's still a charming game, with a wonderfully offbeat worl...
Liverpool-based studio Starship has revealed its upcoming crafting and action-based adventure game Playworld Superheroes.
This is to be the first in the Playworld series, which is clearly a child of Minecraft's popularity in as much as it aims to inspire creativity through crafting and adventure.
This first superhero-themed game is due to be released on mobile in January 2015.
The series ...
Ultra addictive endless runner Crossy Road recently received an update, that added a pair of new characters.
There's the Festive Chicken, which is currently available for free and can be yours from the start. But the other - a secret character called Gifty - is hidden away. How on earth do you get this guy?
Well, it takes patience. While playing as the Festive Chicken, you may randomly s...
Did you know that ghosts get cold? Nor did I before finding out about the latest level that's just been released for Haunt the House: Terrortown.
In this free level, you play as a new ghost that comes into the North Pole Department Store to warm up a little.
That's all fine and all, but being a ghost there is plenty of other mischief to be enacted that will warm you up even more.
As thi...
Silver Award-winning Zelda-inspired adventure Oceanhorn has had a massive visual overhaul to make it gleam even brighter on the newest iPhones and iPads.
Apparently it now features four times as many polygons, and runs at a silky smooth 60fps. I'm sure that's important if you love numbers. The update also smooths things a little for any device running iOS 8, so that's nice.
We called Oce...
Today marks Angry Birds's fifth birthday, and to celebrate Rovio has release a bunch of new levels based on fan art submissions.
You might remember we told you about the competition a few months back. It tasked fans with creating some art based on a number of different themes, with the winners getting their scrawlings turned into a level of the bird-flinging, pig-antagonising smash hit.
...
Cutesy free to play Animal Crossing-style adventure Seabeard is out worldwide on the App Store, so if you want to give it a bash you can.
The game sees you wandering around a series of lush islands, performing quests and trying to rebuild an old pirate village.
There are sea-faring mini games that involve dodging and shooting, and plenty of inanely grinning characters for you to meet alo...
Sneaky Sneaky isn't just a mobile stealth action game done well, it's a brilliant example of the genre as a whole. From its gorgeous cartoon stylings to its clever, single-screen puzzles, everything about it screams quality.
But there's ingenuity here too, and it's all held together by simple touch controls that never feel inadequate for the task at hand.
There are shades of Zelda here as we...
Ever wondered who'd win in a fight between Wolverine and The Hulk? Well wonder no more, because Marvel Contest of Champions is out right now on the App Store, and holds the answers to this, and many more dreadfully important questions.
The game is a free to play brawler of sorts that sees you trolling through a variety of hands-on scraps with a team of super heroes.
It's no Marvel vs Cap...
Victorian explorator Bertram Fiddle needs your help to catch a murderer.
As he wanders through a surreal, crooked take on Victorian London, he'll stumble across vicious plants, nasty rats, talking parrots, and decapitated bonces. So you'll have to use your wit and your endless pockets to get through.
If you get stuck, just use our exhaustive walkthrough to solve every puzzle. But before that...
If you're a fan of Telltale Games, then the past two weeks have been a bit of a jamboree for you. First there was Game of Thrones, and now Tales from the Borderlands has hit the App Store.
The game is set in the universe of Gearbox's first person RPG hybrid, and sees you playing two different characters who are trying to steal an obscene amount of money.
Events take place after the end o...
In the run up to Christmas, Pocket Gamer has teamed up with the developers behind some of this year's best games to give you ten award-winning iOS games for free. Come back every day for the next two weeks to get your games.
The fourth entry into our app-vent calendar is Lucky Frame's wonderful puzzly roguelike The Nightmare Cooperative. You can grab it right now from the App Store for nothing ...
It seems there's no limit to how games can be made more and more minimal on smartphones, hiding their austere gameplay behind beautifully stylish visuals.
It feels like something we should complain about. Like 'dumbing down,' only instead it's more akin to 'excessive minimalising.'
A bit like chocolate bars going 'bite sized'. Yeah, we should complain, but the truth is we're kinda enjoying t...
Updated at 16:58 on December 10th: Robotube Games has pulled Destructamundo from the App Store after releasing it earlier.
It turns out that it was all a mistake. Although the game's final version was released, it wasn't meant to be, not yet. Hopefully it'll be soon.
However, if you picked it up earlier then, well, you've got the game before it's been released properly. The rest of us ha...
DeNA and Hasbro have announced Transformers: Battle Tactics today. It'll be free to play and is coming to iOS and Android in 2015.
As the title suggests, Battle Tactics is a fast-paced, turn-based combat game.
It has a cartoon-look to it, which you may recognize as being based upon the Transformers Generations Combiner Wars comic books.
Central to constructing winning tactics is building ...
ShakePop appears to be both a game title and a description.
This jolly-looking party game has you playing with one of six characters as they instruct you to dance around with your phone.
Instructions such as "Tap Me" and "Wave Me In The Air" appear on the screen to guide your physical performance.
If you make a mistake then the game is over. At which point, you'll be told your score, and ...
You might have read our review of the Mad Catz C.T.R.L.i controller. Well, much of the same can be said about this tiny travel-sized version.
This super small edition, which measures in at about 13cm wide and 9cm tall, is actually quite a nice size. It's more portable and practical than the full-sized pad, but still quite comfortable to hold.
It could be especially good for young children wi...
Westeros is a dangerous place.
If you're looking to have your head chopped off, or your skull crushed, or your guts stabbed, or your mouth ruptured, or your eyes pulped, or your legs slashed, or your nose severed, or your torso cleaved, or your teeth cracked, or your spine knackered, George RR Martin's pseudo historical fantasy is where you need to be.
Game of Thrones the game has alread...
If you're a gamer, you're probably aware of MadCatz. It's the firm that puts out third-party controllers for PlayStation and the like, as a budget alternative to the real deal.
So with a few decades practice making joypads, it should be well placed to make a killer iOS gaming controller. Right?
The MadCatz C.T.R.L.i (henceforth referred to as the CTRLi to save my full stop key) looks almost ...
Updated at 12:58 on December 10th: Eagle eyed commenter PoloBaquerizoH has spotted that Destructamundo is out right now. So you can grab it from the App Store for £1.49 / $1.99 [buy]
Original story follows...
Destructamundo is a game about chaining together stylised catastrophic explosions. It's just hit New Zealand, which means it should be out at midnight tonight in the UK.
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The UK has a history of making side-splitting comical adventure games - think Simon the Sorcerer and Discworld. And it's nice to see that legacy continue on iOS with games such as Hector: Badge of Carnage and Detective Grimoire.
Newcomer Bertram Fiddle isn't quite as funny, and it isn't as sharply made as those modern-day classics. But it's still a charming game, with a wonderfully offbeat worl...
Liverpool-based studio Starship has revealed its upcoming crafting and action-based adventure game Playworld Superheroes.
This is to be the first in the Playworld series, which is clearly a child of Minecraft's popularity in as much as it aims to inspire creativity through crafting and adventure.
This first superhero-themed game is due to be released on mobile in January 2015.
The series ...
Ultra addictive endless runner Crossy Road recently received an update, that added a pair of new characters.
There's the Festive Chicken, which is currently available for free and can be yours from the start. But the other - a secret character called Gifty - is hidden away. How on earth do you get this guy?
Well, it takes patience. While playing as the Festive Chicken, you may randomly s...
Did you know that ghosts get cold? Nor did I before finding out about the latest level that's just been released for Haunt the House: Terrortown.
In this free level, you play as a new ghost that comes into the North Pole Department Store to warm up a little.
That's all fine and all, but being a ghost there is plenty of other mischief to be enacted that will warm you up even more.
As thi...
Silver Award-winning Zelda-inspired adventure Oceanhorn has had a massive visual overhaul to make it gleam even brighter on the newest iPhones and iPads.
Apparently it now features four times as many polygons, and runs at a silky smooth 60fps. I'm sure that's important if you love numbers. The update also smooths things a little for any device running iOS 8, so that's nice.
We called Oce...
Today marks Angry Birds's fifth birthday, and to celebrate Rovio has release a bunch of new levels based on fan art submissions.
You might remember we told you about the competition a few months back. It tasked fans with creating some art based on a number of different themes, with the winners getting their scrawlings turned into a level of the bird-flinging, pig-antagonising smash hit.
...
Cutesy free to play Animal Crossing-style adventure Seabeard is out worldwide on the App Store, so if you want to give it a bash you can.
The game sees you wandering around a series of lush islands, performing quests and trying to rebuild an old pirate village.
There are sea-faring mini games that involve dodging and shooting, and plenty of inanely grinning characters for you to meet alo...
Sneaky Sneaky isn't just a mobile stealth action game done well, it's a brilliant example of the genre as a whole. From its gorgeous cartoon stylings to its clever, single-screen puzzles, everything about it screams quality.
But there's ingenuity here too, and it's all held together by simple touch controls that never feel inadequate for the task at hand.
There are shades of Zelda here as we...
Ever wondered who'd win in a fight between Wolverine and The Hulk? Well wonder no more, because Marvel Contest of Champions is out right now on the App Store, and holds the answers to this, and many more dreadfully important questions.
The game is a free to play brawler of sorts that sees you trolling through a variety of hands-on scraps with a team of super heroes.
It's no Marvel vs Cap...
Victorian explorator Bertram Fiddle needs your help to catch a murderer.
As he wanders through a surreal, crooked take on Victorian London, he'll stumble across vicious plants, nasty rats, talking parrots, and decapitated bonces. So you'll have to use your wit and your endless pockets to get through.
If you get stuck, just use our exhaustive walkthrough to solve every puzzle. But before that...
If you're a fan of Telltale Games, then the past two weeks have been a bit of a jamboree for you. First there was Game of Thrones, and now Tales from the Borderlands has hit the App Store.
The game is set in the universe of Gearbox's first person RPG hybrid, and sees you playing two different characters who are trying to steal an obscene amount of money.
Events take place after the end o...
In the run up to Christmas, Pocket Gamer has teamed up with the developers behind some of this year's best games to give you ten award-winning iOS games for free. Come back every day for the next two weeks to get your games.
The fourth entry into our app-vent calendar is Lucky Frame's wonderful puzzly roguelike The Nightmare Cooperative. You can grab it right now from the App Store for nothing ...
It seems there's no limit to how games can be made more and more minimal on smartphones, hiding their austere gameplay behind beautifully stylish visuals.
It feels like something we should complain about. Like 'dumbing down,' only instead it's more akin to 'excessive minimalising.'
A bit like chocolate bars going 'bite sized'. Yeah, we should complain, but the truth is we're kinda enjoying t...![[Updated] Out now: Destructamundo is a chain reaction puzzler about galactic annihilation for iPhone and iPad](http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/artwork/thumbs/na-kslsc_ddd_jpg_100.jpg)
Updated at 16:58 on December 10th: Robotube Games has pulled Destructamundo from the App Store after releasing it earlier.
It turns out that it was all a mistake. Although the game's final version was released, it wasn't meant to be, not yet. Hopefully it'll be soon.
However, if you picked it up earlier then, well, you've got the game before it's been released properly. The rest of us ha...
DeNA and Hasbro have announced Transformers: Battle Tactics today. It'll be free to play and is coming to iOS and Android in 2015.
As the title suggests, Battle Tactics is a fast-paced, turn-based combat game.
It has a cartoon-look to it, which you may recognize as being based upon the Transformers Generations Combiner Wars comic books.
Central to constructing winning tactics is building ...
ShakePop appears to be both a game title and a description.
This jolly-looking party game has you playing with one of six characters as they instruct you to dance around with your phone.
Instructions such as "Tap Me" and "Wave Me In The Air" appear on the screen to guide your physical performance.
If you make a mistake then the game is over. At which point, you'll be told your score, and ...
You might have read our review of the Mad Catz C.T.R.L.i controller. Well, much of the same can be said about this tiny travel-sized version.
This super small edition, which measures in at about 13cm wide and 9cm tall, is actually quite a nice size. It's more portable and practical than the full-sized pad, but still quite comfortable to hold.
It could be especially good for young children wi...
Westeros is a dangerous place.
If you're looking to have your head chopped off, or your skull crushed, or your guts stabbed, or your mouth ruptured, or your eyes pulped, or your legs slashed, or your nose severed, or your torso cleaved, or your teeth cracked, or your spine knackered, George RR Martin's pseudo historical fantasy is where you need to be.
Game of Thrones the game has alread...
If you're a gamer, you're probably aware of MadCatz. It's the firm that puts out third-party controllers for PlayStation and the like, as a budget alternative to the real deal.
So with a few decades practice making joypads, it should be well placed to make a killer iOS gaming controller. Right?
The MadCatz C.T.R.L.i (henceforth referred to as the CTRLi to save my full stop key) looks almost ...
