Splot is a simple two-touch platformer from the developer of Trine that's just hit the App Store in New Zealand. By our deep calculations, that means it'll be out in the UK at midnight tonight.
The game sees you bouncing a blob through a series of tricky levels, trying to keep one step ahead of another, meaner blob the whole time.
There are things to collect and a star rating to show you...
Sleep Attack TD - a new iOS gaming coming out at midnight tonight - is a tower defence game with a twist. Literally.
You plop down towers on a large central disc that can be spun around in 360 degrees, to usher incoming enemies down specific paths and make sure the baddies wander past the most deadly turrets.
You'll soon be tackling more complicated stages with multiple discs to spin, so...
Rovio Lvl11's first game, RETRY, is finally out worldwide. It's about flying a plane around, dying a lot, and learning that swearing like an enraged, drunken sailor on public transport isn't a great idea.
That last bit might be tangential though.
You need to steer your aircraft through a series of obstacles using deliberately difficult controls. Hit anything and you get dumped back at th...
Gold Award-winning freight-based puzzler RGB Express has had its price slashed down to the painfully tempting nothing at all. So if you've been on the fence about this one, now's the perfect time to give it a bash.
The game sees you drawing lines around road networks to send your trucks out to collect and drop off deliveries. The lines can't cross, and you need to make sure the right colour...
Blizzard has revealed that the Android tablet version of its Gold Award-winning free to play digital CCG Hearthstone should be hitting the Play Store before the year is out.
In a post on the battle.net blog, the dev said "We're taking things one step at a time and we've got our sights set on a release for Android tablets, our next new platform, before the end of the year; we've just got a f...
Cel-shaded, graffiti-tagging, J-pop-rocking, Dreamcast classic Jet Set Radio has vanished from the App Store on iOS, and it will disappear from the Android's Google Play shop soon.
A SEGA spokesperson said that the game "showed some minor compatibility problems" with iOS 8. "Ensuring that all of our fans have a quality game experience is paramount to us, therefore we've decided to take the ...
Adrenaline Rush Miami Drive subscribes more to the Asphalt Overdrive school of arcade racing than Asphalt 8: Airborne.
That is, it's not really an arcade racer at all. It's an endless runner with cars.
Unfortunately, while it plays perfectly well, it's just as limited as Gameloft's recent diversion.
Welcome to Miami
Unlike Asphalt Overdrive, Adrenaline Rush Miami Drive is played in lan...
Action, endless running, and a dark, neon tinged cyberpunk backdrop merge together in Vektor: The Courier, free on iOS next week.
In Vektor, you play "The Courier," on a mission to deliver incriminating data on the corrupt government.
That means mounting your motorbike and zooming through highway traffic, weaving through cars, enemy mercenaries, and fighting bosses on the way.
The gam...
Almost 30 years after the publication of its original paperback, Caverns of the Snow Witch - Fighting Fantasy's seventh digital gamebook by Tin Man Games - heads to iOS devices.
You'll be able to purchase the app on the US and UK App Store for £3.99 / $5.99 at midnight. It is already available on Google Play.
Fighting Fantasy's series of digital gamebooks have done well, receiving several Go...
My relationship with Strung Out has been about as fragile as the very strings holding up the game's puppet.
And really, are those strings made out of wet noodles or something? Jeez they break easy!
Loose wires
I started off with a pretty positive outlook. The game seems interesting, and I dig the wonky puppet thing. It's sort of like a mix of Daddy Long Legs and Octodad in how intentional...
Announced today, Train Conductor 3 certainly seems to be the best-looking entry in the choo-choo action-strategy series so far.
Yep, the improvements over Train Conductor 2: USA are easy to spot in Train Conductor 3, as you'd hope considering the four year gap between the two.
This is the result of developer The Voxel Agents building the game from the ground up. It has dynamic lighting, HD t...
Cute, casual turn-based adventure Swap Heroes is out on iOS right now.
I told you about this little game last week after developer Chris Savory got in touch to tell us about it, if you remember.
It involves fighting through hordes of enemies using a party of four characters.
To take a turn, you have to swap the position of two of your characters. Upon doing so, the three characters at...
As you may have heard, Warhammer 40,000-based card battler Space Wolf soft-launched in Sweden and South Africa last month.
Maybe you haven't set up a Swedish or South African iTunes account to gain access, or maybe you've already been battling away for weeks.
In either case, developer Herocraft have very kindly provided our sister site, AppSpy, with a nifty code that'll net you a lovely boos...
Naps Team is bringing its cult brawler series Gekido to the "touch generation".
The team reckons it could be with us as soon as early 2015, but that's not confirmed yet.
All that we do know is it'll have us playing as Travis and, seemingly, fighting zombies (among other enemies, presumably).
As you can see in the single screenshot that Naps has released (below), this Gekido game has a han...
It's fair to say we're pretty excited about Crashlands here at Pocket Gamer's marshy hideout.
It's from Butterscotch Shenanigans, it's an epic randomly generated survive-'em-up, and you can check out the first trailer above.
It shows off a lot of the mechanics that have us so intrigued. Crafting, scrapping, wandering around a barren wasteland trying to make the most of things while every...
Miner Man Golden Edition is definitely not what I was expecting.
I'm not entirely sure what I was expecting, really, but it wasn't a mining game with the same frantic pace and easy-to-get-flustered nature as titles like Flappy Bird. But that's pretty much what it it. And it's not bad.
You're going down
There are two key differences between Miner Man and this edition. First, this one has n...
The latest update to iOS, 8.1, is out today. There's not much new if you're only interested in gaming, but we thought we'd fill you in on some of the big changes anyway. Just in case, like.
Probably the biggest of the new additions is Apple Pay, which lets you use the NFC capabilities of your iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus to pay for things.
You can store credit card details on your device, t...
Puzzle to the Center of the Earth is an intriguing mix of a match-three puzzler and a simple platformer that's set to hit the App Store this Thursday.
The game sees you playing an intrepid explorer delving into the depths of the earth.
Strangely enough, the rocks under his feet are actually brightly coloured blocks, and you can get rid of them by connecting them in groups of three.
You cl...
Pocket Gamer is looking for interns for three months' experience working on the production of leading games and technology websites and magazines.
This is an unpaid role that would suit a university graduate looking to gain valuable experience in the media industry.
Successful candidates will be able to work alongside and learn from a team with over 50 years of combined experience at the top...
Time is limited. Apps are plentiful.
How can you make sense of the ever-increasing number of new games in the App Store? Well, by reading Pocket Gamer, of course. But we can't possibly cover everything, and there are some games that just don't fit in our wheelhouse.
Thankfully, our friends over at 148Apps are here to save the day. Take a look at some of the casual games that have caught the ...
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Splot is a simple two-touch platformer from the developer of Trine that's just hit the App Store in New Zealand. By our deep calculations, that means it'll be out in the UK at midnight tonight.
The game sees you bouncing a blob through a series of tricky levels, trying to keep one step ahead of another, meaner blob the whole time.
There are things to collect and a star rating to show you...
Sleep Attack TD - a new iOS gaming coming out at midnight tonight - is a tower defence game with a twist. Literally.
You plop down towers on a large central disc that can be spun around in 360 degrees, to usher incoming enemies down specific paths and make sure the baddies wander past the most deadly turrets.
You'll soon be tackling more complicated stages with multiple discs to spin, so...
Rovio Lvl11's first game, RETRY, is finally out worldwide. It's about flying a plane around, dying a lot, and learning that swearing like an enraged, drunken sailor on public transport isn't a great idea.
That last bit might be tangential though.
You need to steer your aircraft through a series of obstacles using deliberately difficult controls. Hit anything and you get dumped back at th...
Gold Award-winning freight-based puzzler RGB Express has had its price slashed down to the painfully tempting nothing at all. So if you've been on the fence about this one, now's the perfect time to give it a bash.
The game sees you drawing lines around road networks to send your trucks out to collect and drop off deliveries. The lines can't cross, and you need to make sure the right colour...
Blizzard has revealed that the Android tablet version of its Gold Award-winning free to play digital CCG Hearthstone should be hitting the Play Store before the year is out.
In a post on the battle.net blog, the dev said "We're taking things one step at a time and we've got our sights set on a release for Android tablets, our next new platform, before the end of the year; we've just got a f...
Cel-shaded, graffiti-tagging, J-pop-rocking, Dreamcast classic Jet Set Radio has vanished from the App Store on iOS, and it will disappear from the Android's Google Play shop soon.
A SEGA spokesperson said that the game "showed some minor compatibility problems" with iOS 8. "Ensuring that all of our fans have a quality game experience is paramount to us, therefore we've decided to take the ...
Adrenaline Rush Miami Drive subscribes more to the Asphalt Overdrive school of arcade racing than Asphalt 8: Airborne.
That is, it's not really an arcade racer at all. It's an endless runner with cars.
Unfortunately, while it plays perfectly well, it's just as limited as Gameloft's recent diversion.
Welcome to Miami
Unlike Asphalt Overdrive, Adrenaline Rush Miami Drive is played in lan...
Action, endless running, and a dark, neon tinged cyberpunk backdrop merge together in Vektor: The Courier, free on iOS next week.
In Vektor, you play "The Courier," on a mission to deliver incriminating data on the corrupt government.
That means mounting your motorbike and zooming through highway traffic, weaving through cars, enemy mercenaries, and fighting bosses on the way.
The gam...
Almost 30 years after the publication of its original paperback, Caverns of the Snow Witch - Fighting Fantasy's seventh digital gamebook by Tin Man Games - heads to iOS devices.
You'll be able to purchase the app on the US and UK App Store for £3.99 / $5.99 at midnight. It is already available on Google Play.
Fighting Fantasy's series of digital gamebooks have done well, receiving several Go...
My relationship with Strung Out has been about as fragile as the very strings holding up the game's puppet.
And really, are those strings made out of wet noodles or something? Jeez they break easy!
Loose wires
I started off with a pretty positive outlook. The game seems interesting, and I dig the wonky puppet thing. It's sort of like a mix of Daddy Long Legs and Octodad in how intentional...
Announced today, Train Conductor 3 certainly seems to be the best-looking entry in the choo-choo action-strategy series so far.
Yep, the improvements over Train Conductor 2: USA are easy to spot in Train Conductor 3, as you'd hope considering the four year gap between the two.
This is the result of developer The Voxel Agents building the game from the ground up. It has dynamic lighting, HD t...
Cute, casual turn-based adventure Swap Heroes is out on iOS right now.
I told you about this little game last week after developer Chris Savory got in touch to tell us about it, if you remember.
It involves fighting through hordes of enemies using a party of four characters.
To take a turn, you have to swap the position of two of your characters. Upon doing so, the three characters at...
As you may have heard, Warhammer 40,000-based card battler Space Wolf soft-launched in Sweden and South Africa last month.
Maybe you haven't set up a Swedish or South African iTunes account to gain access, or maybe you've already been battling away for weeks.
In either case, developer Herocraft have very kindly provided our sister site, AppSpy, with a nifty code that'll net you a lovely boos...
Naps Team is bringing its cult brawler series Gekido to the "touch generation".
The team reckons it could be with us as soon as early 2015, but that's not confirmed yet.
All that we do know is it'll have us playing as Travis and, seemingly, fighting zombies (among other enemies, presumably).
As you can see in the single screenshot that Naps has released (below), this Gekido game has a han...
It's fair to say we're pretty excited about Crashlands here at Pocket Gamer's marshy hideout.
It's from Butterscotch Shenanigans, it's an epic randomly generated survive-'em-up, and you can check out the first trailer above.
It shows off a lot of the mechanics that have us so intrigued. Crafting, scrapping, wandering around a barren wasteland trying to make the most of things while every...
Miner Man Golden Edition is definitely not what I was expecting.
I'm not entirely sure what I was expecting, really, but it wasn't a mining game with the same frantic pace and easy-to-get-flustered nature as titles like Flappy Bird. But that's pretty much what it it. And it's not bad.
You're going down
There are two key differences between Miner Man and this edition. First, this one has n...
The latest update to iOS, 8.1, is out today. There's not much new if you're only interested in gaming, but we thought we'd fill you in on some of the big changes anyway. Just in case, like.
Probably the biggest of the new additions is Apple Pay, which lets you use the NFC capabilities of your iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus to pay for things.
You can store credit card details on your device, t...
Puzzle to the Center of the Earth is an intriguing mix of a match-three puzzler and a simple platformer that's set to hit the App Store this Thursday.
The game sees you playing an intrepid explorer delving into the depths of the earth.
Strangely enough, the rocks under his feet are actually brightly coloured blocks, and you can get rid of them by connecting them in groups of three.
You cl...
Pocket Gamer is looking for interns for three months' experience working on the production of leading games and technology websites and magazines.
This is an unpaid role that would suit a university graduate looking to gain valuable experience in the media industry.
Successful candidates will be able to work alongside and learn from a team with over 50 years of combined experience at the top...
Time is limited. Apps are plentiful.
How can you make sense of the ever-increasing number of new games in the App Store? Well, by reading Pocket Gamer, of course. But we can't possibly cover everything, and there are some games that just don't fit in our wheelhouse.
Thankfully, our friends over at 148Apps are here to save the day. Take a look at some of the casual games that have caught the ...
