Occasionally it's nice to go into a game not knowing much about what it is you're about to play.
Agents of Storm is definitely one of those games. It's kind of snuck under my radar, and that means there are only three things I know about it.
First, it's by Remedy, the team behind the legendary Max Payne, underrated Alan Wake, cult classic Death Rally, and the upcoming Quantum Break.
Secon...
David Hasselhoff is the star of a new game called Hoff Zombie Beach. Yep, really.
It sees him playing three of his most famous roles in one as he defends the sandcastles on his beach from a zombie invasion.
"I drive up in the Knight Rider car and say 'surf's up brain dead' and shoot them with a nerf gun," Hasselhoff explained to Wired.
"I have a secret weapon where I can actually sing, a...
Rubicon has decided give away all of its iOS games this weekend for free. It's also put them on sale on Android for 69p / 99c each.
Some of the games included in the offer are the Silver Award-winning strategy game Great Little War Game and its sequel Great Little War Game 2.
The offer started at midday today, and will be available until 9am BST on Monday, October 27th.
You can see the f...
Hand Circus and Backflip Studios have soft-launched Seabeard in the Canadian App Store.
Seabeard? Yes, Seabeard. It's a big seafaring adventure with a bit of an Animal Crossing vibe coating it with a pleasant cartoon glean.
PG editor Mark had a good rummage around inside Seabeard back in April, and he hasn't stopped smiling since.
"It's huge, so any description of what you actually do he...
There is so much that I like about Castle Scout.
It combines a retrotastic arcade shooter with match-3 puzzle action.
You catch the ghosts floating above you, and then shoot them upwards towards the monsters that slowly descend the castle's floors towards you.
The ghosts will only kill the monsters if they match their colour. If they don't, the monster will leap down to your level and e...
"COME ON YA WINGED BASTARD!"
"GET UP THERE YOU PLANEY F**K!"
"That's IT... I give up."
"Okay one more gHOW DID I HIT THAT? HOW did I hit THAT?"
The above is just a small selection of phrases to spew forth from my mouth over the course of my time with RETRY - the nasty, vindictive, brilliant debut effort from Rovio LVL 11.
Again
RETRY looks like the best NES game never made, but b...
QbQbQb comes with a risky pitch: "Rymdkapsel aesthetics, Gyro controls, Tetris gameplay."
That's a mix of quality puzzle games that might get our hopes up a little too much. But, Polish developer Rezoner is confident for a good reason. QbQbQb is a lot of fun.
With your finger, you spin a planet around in order to match coloured blocks upon its surface. It's like Tetris on a 2D circle, basica...
If you've ever hid under your duvet from a monster in your bedroom then Go To Bed: Survive the Night will be a familiar experience.
It's a new "bedroom defence" game out now on iOS that involves tapping away shadowy creeps while you quiver yourself to sleep.
Each level is an hour (condensed into seconds) of the night after your mother has sent you to bed.
Your task in each of them is to t...
Grave Matters is sort of like Minesweeper. Albeit Minesweeper with terrifying robotic zombie monsters instead of mines, and evil grinning skulls instead of numbers.
You play a recently reanimated grave digger called Harey Burke, who along with his faithful dog sidekick, needs to shovel up energy cores from an assortment of graves.
Unfortunately you don't know which of the graves contain the ...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new iPhone and iPad games.
RETRY
By Rovio - download on iPhone and iPad (free)
There's something poignant about the name RETRY. Nobody could say that Rovio is languishing, and its latest Angry Birds spin off Angry Birds Transformers is actually pretty decent, but RETRY suggests a trace of longing to get back...
Submerged is an Unreal-powered adventure from Uppercut Games, and you can check out the ridiculously good-looking trailer just above this paragraph. Go on, do that.
The game sees you exploring the soggy ruins of an ancient city, clambering through collapsed buildings to try and find supplies for you and your dying brother.
It's fair to say it looks absolutely stunning. Submerged is set t...
There's a sale on mobile Grand Theft Auto games going on right now. So there's never been a better time to stuff your pockets full of violent, car-jacking action.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has had its price cut for the first time. You can grab it for £2.49 / $3.99 from the App Store [buy] and the Google Play Store [buy] right now.
You can also pick up Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for ...
Remedy and flaregames's Agents of Storm is out right now on the App Store. So if you fancy some mid-core, boat-based strategy, you should head on over and pick it up right now.
The game sees you building bases in the sea, training up boat-men, and swooshing through the sea to invade other territories. You could call it Splash of Clans, if you enjoyed engaging in word play.
We've already ...
Foursaken Media has announced that its next game will be Heroes and Castles 2, the sequel to the Bronze Award-winning Heroes and Castles.
If you're new to the series, it's essentially a mash-up of a third-person action game, a castle defence game, and a strategy game.
You're stomping around a medieval world, swinging a sword and getting other people to swing theirs.
The graphics have had ...
I went hands-on with Tiny Realms way back in July, when the game was soft launched.
I definitely thought it was kind of cool, but it also felt very much like a take on Clash of Clans, with the UI being particularly "inspired" by Supercell's mobile strategy classic.
The game has now gone global, so I thought it high time to revisit it and bring you a full review here on Pocket Gamer. Which is...
Newly released from PikPok Games, Rival Star Basketball combines arcade action with the strategy of management sims and card collection.
It's available now as a free download on the App Store and Google Play.
The game is the newest in PikPok's line-up of sports games, which include titles like Flick Kick Football.
Rival Stars Basketball features "intuitive one-swipe" touch controls that l...
Super Glyph Quest, sequel to the Silver Award-winning Glyph Quest that was released earlier this year, is available now on iOS.
You can buy it on the App Store for £1.99 / $2.99.
There are new glyphs added to the mix, making for a combined 70 spells available, plus new quests, abilities, character customization, and more.
Like its predecessor, Super Glyph Quest combines elements from RPGs...
Updated on October 23rd at 19:50: Cubus Games has got in touch to let us know that the release of Necklace of Skulls earlier today was a mistake.
While it was live on the App Store earlier, it has since been removed and is no longer available to purchase and download.
We've asked Cubus when me might expect Necklace of Skulls to be released (again).
Original story follows...
Cubus Gam...
Dear Whaleo,
After spending just a few minutes with Red Riding Hood and the Restless Wolves (which I'll call RRH from here on), it's pretty clear that your game has been made by a team or an individual who genuinely means well but is incredibly early-on in their game-making career.
And, after spending some intensely frustrating hours wrestling with almost every aspect of RRH, I felt compelle...
Cubus Games has released Necklace of Skulls on iOS today, which is its next gamebook after the spine-chilling Silver Award-winning Heavy Metal Thunder.
As we noted before, Necklace of Skulls is a digital adaptation of part of Dave Morris's Virtual Reality series of print-and-paper gamebooks.
In it, you play as a warrior, huntress, wayfarer, or sorceress. Your task is to avenge the death of ...
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Occasionally it's nice to go into a game not knowing much about what it is you're about to play.
Agents of Storm is definitely one of those games. It's kind of snuck under my radar, and that means there are only three things I know about it.
First, it's by Remedy, the team behind the legendary Max Payne, underrated Alan Wake, cult classic Death Rally, and the upcoming Quantum Break.
Secon...
David Hasselhoff is the star of a new game called Hoff Zombie Beach. Yep, really.
It sees him playing three of his most famous roles in one as he defends the sandcastles on his beach from a zombie invasion.
"I drive up in the Knight Rider car and say 'surf's up brain dead' and shoot them with a nerf gun," Hasselhoff explained to Wired.
"I have a secret weapon where I can actually sing, a...
Rubicon has decided give away all of its iOS games this weekend for free. It's also put them on sale on Android for 69p / 99c each.
Some of the games included in the offer are the Silver Award-winning strategy game Great Little War Game and its sequel Great Little War Game 2.
The offer started at midday today, and will be available until 9am BST on Monday, October 27th.
You can see the f...
Hand Circus and Backflip Studios have soft-launched Seabeard in the Canadian App Store.
Seabeard? Yes, Seabeard. It's a big seafaring adventure with a bit of an Animal Crossing vibe coating it with a pleasant cartoon glean.
PG editor Mark had a good rummage around inside Seabeard back in April, and he hasn't stopped smiling since.
"It's huge, so any description of what you actually do he...
There is so much that I like about Castle Scout.
It combines a retrotastic arcade shooter with match-3 puzzle action.
You catch the ghosts floating above you, and then shoot them upwards towards the monsters that slowly descend the castle's floors towards you.
The ghosts will only kill the monsters if they match their colour. If they don't, the monster will leap down to your level and e...
"COME ON YA WINGED BASTARD!"
"GET UP THERE YOU PLANEY F**K!"
"That's IT... I give up."
"Okay one more gHOW DID I HIT THAT? HOW did I hit THAT?"
The above is just a small selection of phrases to spew forth from my mouth over the course of my time with RETRY - the nasty, vindictive, brilliant debut effort from Rovio LVL 11.
Again
RETRY looks like the best NES game never made, but b...
QbQbQb comes with a risky pitch: "Rymdkapsel aesthetics, Gyro controls, Tetris gameplay."
That's a mix of quality puzzle games that might get our hopes up a little too much. But, Polish developer Rezoner is confident for a good reason. QbQbQb is a lot of fun.
With your finger, you spin a planet around in order to match coloured blocks upon its surface. It's like Tetris on a 2D circle, basica...
If you've ever hid under your duvet from a monster in your bedroom then Go To Bed: Survive the Night will be a familiar experience.
It's a new "bedroom defence" game out now on iOS that involves tapping away shadowy creeps while you quiver yourself to sleep.
Each level is an hour (condensed into seconds) of the night after your mother has sent you to bed.
Your task in each of them is to t...
Grave Matters is sort of like Minesweeper. Albeit Minesweeper with terrifying robotic zombie monsters instead of mines, and evil grinning skulls instead of numbers.
You play a recently reanimated grave digger called Harey Burke, who along with his faithful dog sidekick, needs to shovel up energy cores from an assortment of graves.
Unfortunately you don't know which of the graves contain the ...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new iPhone and iPad games.
RETRY
By Rovio - download on iPhone and iPad (free)
There's something poignant about the name RETRY. Nobody could say that Rovio is languishing, and its latest Angry Birds spin off Angry Birds Transformers is actually pretty decent, but RETRY suggests a trace of longing to get back...
Submerged is an Unreal-powered adventure from Uppercut Games, and you can check out the ridiculously good-looking trailer just above this paragraph. Go on, do that.
The game sees you exploring the soggy ruins of an ancient city, clambering through collapsed buildings to try and find supplies for you and your dying brother.
It's fair to say it looks absolutely stunning. Submerged is set t...
There's a sale on mobile Grand Theft Auto games going on right now. So there's never been a better time to stuff your pockets full of violent, car-jacking action.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has had its price cut for the first time. You can grab it for £2.49 / $3.99 from the App Store [buy] and the Google Play Store [buy] right now.
You can also pick up Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for ...
Remedy and flaregames's Agents of Storm is out right now on the App Store. So if you fancy some mid-core, boat-based strategy, you should head on over and pick it up right now.
The game sees you building bases in the sea, training up boat-men, and swooshing through the sea to invade other territories. You could call it Splash of Clans, if you enjoyed engaging in word play.
We've already ...
Foursaken Media has announced that its next game will be Heroes and Castles 2, the sequel to the Bronze Award-winning Heroes and Castles.
If you're new to the series, it's essentially a mash-up of a third-person action game, a castle defence game, and a strategy game.
You're stomping around a medieval world, swinging a sword and getting other people to swing theirs.
The graphics have had ...
I went hands-on with Tiny Realms way back in July, when the game was soft launched.
I definitely thought it was kind of cool, but it also felt very much like a take on Clash of Clans, with the UI being particularly "inspired" by Supercell's mobile strategy classic.
The game has now gone global, so I thought it high time to revisit it and bring you a full review here on Pocket Gamer. Which is...
Newly released from PikPok Games, Rival Star Basketball combines arcade action with the strategy of management sims and card collection.
It's available now as a free download on the App Store and Google Play.
The game is the newest in PikPok's line-up of sports games, which include titles like Flick Kick Football.
Rival Stars Basketball features "intuitive one-swipe" touch controls that l...
Super Glyph Quest, sequel to the Silver Award-winning Glyph Quest that was released earlier this year, is available now on iOS.
You can buy it on the App Store for £1.99 / $2.99.
There are new glyphs added to the mix, making for a combined 70 spells available, plus new quests, abilities, character customization, and more.
Like its predecessor, Super Glyph Quest combines elements from RPGs...![[Update] Heavy Metal Thunder dev takes you through dangerous Mayan myth in Necklace of Skulls](http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/artwork/thumbs/na-xyfups_Necklace-of-Skulls-02_png_100.jpg)
Updated on October 23rd at 19:50: Cubus Games has got in touch to let us know that the release of Necklace of Skulls earlier today was a mistake.
While it was live on the App Store earlier, it has since been removed and is no longer available to purchase and download.
We've asked Cubus when me might expect Necklace of Skulls to be released (again).
Original story follows...
Cubus Gam...
Dear Whaleo,
After spending just a few minutes with Red Riding Hood and the Restless Wolves (which I'll call RRH from here on), it's pretty clear that your game has been made by a team or an individual who genuinely means well but is incredibly early-on in their game-making career.
And, after spending some intensely frustrating hours wrestling with almost every aspect of RRH, I felt compelle...
