People have been clamoring for Nintendo games on mobile devices for years now, and seeing as the Big N hasn't obliged, it's no surprise to see others taking it into their own hands.
Hence Castaway Paradise, a game that's Animal Crossing without actually being Animal Crossing.
I was a bit sceptical (okay, a lot sceptical) at first, but I have to say the formula fits the platform extremely wel...
NomNomNom! is a game about two things, really: eating food, and pug farts.
The two combine together in this free, endless eat 'em up. Your mission is to guide a pug from starvation by helping it eat a stream of food heading towards its doggy chops.
You do that by instructing the pug to open its mouth with a tap on the touchscreen. But it's not that easy as you also need to look out the sharp...
Rovio's most recent corporate mash-up is now available to download, everywhere. iOS gamers can get Angry Birds Transformers off the App Store, for free, here.
Android gamers will need to wait until October 30th for their chance to sully their nostalgic memories. It will also hit Amazon devices on November 4th.
The game is not, we were pleased to learn, yet another Angry Birds game but in...
Stop what you're doing. Put it down. Hell, throw it away. There's a Street Fighter match-three puzzler coming to iOS and Android in Japan.
It's called Street Fighter Puzzle Spirits and it looks awesome. Take a moment and watch the video above. How great does tiny Ryu look? Look at his little hadoukens. Why can't I play this game now?
There's an aura of Puzzle Fighter about proceedings. A...
Team 17's sheep herding sort-of puzzler Hay Ewe was supposed to come out last week, but then it didn't. It's out in New Zealand now though, which means it should be hitting the UK tonight.
The game sees you controlling a sheep. You need to nab your lambs, then lead them to the level's exit. There are obviously obstacles. From milk-spouting cows to angry bulls and sneaky foxes.
It's not t...
With frantic races involving cute little vehicles zooming around larger-than-life circuits, utilising boost pads and weapon pick-ups, there's more than a hint of Mario Kart about Tail Drift.
However, it also brings to mind a pair of iOS games that perhaps provide a better indication of how it plays.
Tracks comprise dizzying rollercoaster-like tubes in the sky that you hover over and spin rou...
Avenged Sevenfold has released a game. It's about hitting things. It's called Hail to the King: Death Bat. Wow.
It just came out in New Zealand, which means it should be landing in the UK at midnight tonight.
The game sees you stomping around gothic locations, mashing a couple of buttons to kill demons and minions and all manner of other creatures. All in a day's work if you're in a band...
Minecraft is silly. In the best possible way. It's an expression of the creative possibility of gaming, of what people can do given some tools and the time to play.
Need proof? A German man has made a working iPhone in the game.
Okay, it doesn't work 'properly', but you can unlock it, play with some apps, and even use its music player. See, silly. Brilliantly, delightfully silly.
You ...
As someone who's just recently moved house, I know a thing or two about decorating. And Crimsonland HD, an overhaul of a 10-year-old decorating simulator, gets it all wrong.
Its method of splashing red stuff around by blasting away at waves of monsters with a variety of firearms is highly inefficient, particularly as it usually results in the decorator's death.
Of course, if you choose to lo...
The Bronze Award-winning Type:Rider is on sale on the App Store for 69p / 99c.
As its name suggests, Type:Rider's theme revolves around typography and print.
You navigate two connected black dots through a landscape based on different eras in the history of the printed word.
Our review of Type:Rider from last year called it "a solid platforming package with a neat educational bent."
Ty...
The App Store is swamped with thousands upon thousands of titles. At any given point you must have a wishlist of at least a dozen or two that you're waiting to go on sale or, better yet, free.
But what if something infinitely worse happens? What if the game you've been holding out for is removed, without warning? Well, you're just plain out of luck.
Games are removed from the App Store for a...
Skater is a serious skateboarding game for serious skateboarding fans.
It's an attempt at a realistic depiction of the act of flipping wood, complete with accurate recreations of the locations said wood is flipped, and a solid rendition of the culture and clothing and attitude that goes along with the sport of timber turning.
It's largely successful, but a number of cut corners in its design...
In the same way that public game companies announce their financial sales numbers every three months, the Quality Index (Qi) publishes its own quarterly figures.
But instead of assaulting your ears and eyes with talk of operating profit, ROI, and monetisation (brrrr), this here Quality Index quarterly round-up ranks the top 20 best-reviewed iOS and Android games that were released during the pe...
It's been almost a decade since Diner Dash first made its appearance (and made a sizable splash) in the video game world. And here we are, going on ten years later, with a new iteration for mobile devices.
In many ways it's the same old game of manically trying to keep a bunch of unruly customers happy. In other ways, it's another freemium disappointment.
Dash-happy
Diner Dash is made up ...
There's hardly a thirty-something alive that hasn't played Sega's Ecco the Dolphin.
First released on the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive in 1992, the memorable action game certainly scores points for originality - but looking back on it with eyes no longer blinded by the Sega / Nintendo rivalry, it's not a whole lot of fun to play.
For one thing, Ecco the Dolphin is frustratingly difficult. For a...
Humankind has been gobbling dots in the name of digital entertainment ever since the original Pac-Man.
ORBB takes that dot-gobbling premise into outer space. Which sounds awfully lofty and ambitious, doesn't it?
It's not. It literally involves gobbling up dots in amongst the planets.
Join the dots
In fact, this is a surprisingly tame, unassuming puzzler.
Contrary to my misleading in...
What is an 'escape the room' game, I hear you ask.
Well, they are typically first-person games that stick you in a single room or a very small location. Your job is to get out.
The focus is almost entirely on the puzzles, rather than the story or characters. Which is what sets them apart from point and click adventures.
Got it? Good. Because there are some terrific games in this genre on ...
Kenny's going to get killed by a pinball. There, I called it.
Just so you know what I'm going on about: Zen Studios has announced that two South Park tables are coming to Zen Pinball 2 later this week. Together they're known as South Park Pinball.
They're called South Park: Super-Sweet Pinball, and South Park: Butters' Very Own Pinball Game.
The first one, Super-Sweet Pinball, you'll ...
How do you fancy helping Cancer Research UK out while playing a cute and free puzzle game?
You can do so by playing Channel 4's Reverse The Odds on iOS and Android.
It has over 350 levels for you to play across which you restore the colour to a greying wasteland. Yeah, it's a not-so-subtle metaphor for battling against cancer cells.
The levels involve fighting against an AI opponent to ho...
Reckless Racing 3 is an undeniably slick production. Every tap or tilt of the device feels solid and dependable, and the shiny graphics and neat UI make everything easy to process.
Yes, it's more of the same. A vaguely Skidmarks-inspired, almost top-down racer that sees you hurtling through dirt tracks and concrete roads as fast as you possibly can.
But it's more of the same done well, and i...
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People have been clamoring for Nintendo games on mobile devices for years now, and seeing as the Big N hasn't obliged, it's no surprise to see others taking it into their own hands.
Hence Castaway Paradise, a game that's Animal Crossing without actually being Animal Crossing.
I was a bit sceptical (okay, a lot sceptical) at first, but I have to say the formula fits the platform extremely wel...
NomNomNom! is a game about two things, really: eating food, and pug farts.
The two combine together in this free, endless eat 'em up. Your mission is to guide a pug from starvation by helping it eat a stream of food heading towards its doggy chops.
You do that by instructing the pug to open its mouth with a tap on the touchscreen. But it's not that easy as you also need to look out the sharp...
Rovio's most recent corporate mash-up is now available to download, everywhere. iOS gamers can get Angry Birds Transformers off the App Store, for free, here.
Android gamers will need to wait until October 30th for their chance to sully their nostalgic memories. It will also hit Amazon devices on November 4th.
The game is not, we were pleased to learn, yet another Angry Birds game but in...
Stop what you're doing. Put it down. Hell, throw it away. There's a Street Fighter match-three puzzler coming to iOS and Android in Japan.
It's called Street Fighter Puzzle Spirits and it looks awesome. Take a moment and watch the video above. How great does tiny Ryu look? Look at his little hadoukens. Why can't I play this game now?
There's an aura of Puzzle Fighter about proceedings. A...
Team 17's sheep herding sort-of puzzler Hay Ewe was supposed to come out last week, but then it didn't. It's out in New Zealand now though, which means it should be hitting the UK tonight.
The game sees you controlling a sheep. You need to nab your lambs, then lead them to the level's exit. There are obviously obstacles. From milk-spouting cows to angry bulls and sneaky foxes.
It's not t...
With frantic races involving cute little vehicles zooming around larger-than-life circuits, utilising boost pads and weapon pick-ups, there's more than a hint of Mario Kart about Tail Drift.
However, it also brings to mind a pair of iOS games that perhaps provide a better indication of how it plays.
Tracks comprise dizzying rollercoaster-like tubes in the sky that you hover over and spin rou...
Avenged Sevenfold has released a game. It's about hitting things. It's called Hail to the King: Death Bat. Wow.
It just came out in New Zealand, which means it should be landing in the UK at midnight tonight.
The game sees you stomping around gothic locations, mashing a couple of buttons to kill demons and minions and all manner of other creatures. All in a day's work if you're in a band...
Minecraft is silly. In the best possible way. It's an expression of the creative possibility of gaming, of what people can do given some tools and the time to play.
Need proof? A German man has made a working iPhone in the game.
Okay, it doesn't work 'properly', but you can unlock it, play with some apps, and even use its music player. See, silly. Brilliantly, delightfully silly.
You ...
As someone who's just recently moved house, I know a thing or two about decorating. And Crimsonland HD, an overhaul of a 10-year-old decorating simulator, gets it all wrong.
Its method of splashing red stuff around by blasting away at waves of monsters with a variety of firearms is highly inefficient, particularly as it usually results in the decorator's death.
Of course, if you choose to lo...
The Bronze Award-winning Type:Rider is on sale on the App Store for 69p / 99c.
As its name suggests, Type:Rider's theme revolves around typography and print.
You navigate two connected black dots through a landscape based on different eras in the history of the printed word.
Our review of Type:Rider from last year called it "a solid platforming package with a neat educational bent."
Ty...
The App Store is swamped with thousands upon thousands of titles. At any given point you must have a wishlist of at least a dozen or two that you're waiting to go on sale or, better yet, free.
But what if something infinitely worse happens? What if the game you've been holding out for is removed, without warning? Well, you're just plain out of luck.
Games are removed from the App Store for a...
Skater is a serious skateboarding game for serious skateboarding fans.
It's an attempt at a realistic depiction of the act of flipping wood, complete with accurate recreations of the locations said wood is flipped, and a solid rendition of the culture and clothing and attitude that goes along with the sport of timber turning.
It's largely successful, but a number of cut corners in its design...
In the same way that public game companies announce their financial sales numbers every three months, the Quality Index (Qi) publishes its own quarterly figures.
But instead of assaulting your ears and eyes with talk of operating profit, ROI, and monetisation (brrrr), this here Quality Index quarterly round-up ranks the top 20 best-reviewed iOS and Android games that were released during the pe...
It's been almost a decade since Diner Dash first made its appearance (and made a sizable splash) in the video game world. And here we are, going on ten years later, with a new iteration for mobile devices.
In many ways it's the same old game of manically trying to keep a bunch of unruly customers happy. In other ways, it's another freemium disappointment.
Dash-happy
Diner Dash is made up ...
There's hardly a thirty-something alive that hasn't played Sega's Ecco the Dolphin.
First released on the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive in 1992, the memorable action game certainly scores points for originality - but looking back on it with eyes no longer blinded by the Sega / Nintendo rivalry, it's not a whole lot of fun to play.
For one thing, Ecco the Dolphin is frustratingly difficult. For a...
Humankind has been gobbling dots in the name of digital entertainment ever since the original Pac-Man.
ORBB takes that dot-gobbling premise into outer space. Which sounds awfully lofty and ambitious, doesn't it?
It's not. It literally involves gobbling up dots in amongst the planets.
Join the dots
In fact, this is a surprisingly tame, unassuming puzzler.
Contrary to my misleading in...
What is an 'escape the room' game, I hear you ask.
Well, they are typically first-person games that stick you in a single room or a very small location. Your job is to get out.
The focus is almost entirely on the puzzles, rather than the story or characters. Which is what sets them apart from point and click adventures.
Got it? Good. Because there are some terrific games in this genre on ...
Kenny's going to get killed by a pinball. There, I called it.
Just so you know what I'm going on about: Zen Studios has announced that two South Park tables are coming to Zen Pinball 2 later this week. Together they're known as South Park Pinball.
They're called South Park: Super-Sweet Pinball, and South Park: Butters' Very Own Pinball Game.
The first one, Super-Sweet Pinball, you'll ...
How do you fancy helping Cancer Research UK out while playing a cute and free puzzle game?
You can do so by playing Channel 4's Reverse The Odds on iOS and Android.
It has over 350 levels for you to play across which you restore the colour to a greying wasteland. Yeah, it's a not-so-subtle metaphor for battling against cancer cells.
The levels involve fighting against an AI opponent to ho...
Reckless Racing 3 is an undeniably slick production. Every tap or tilt of the device feels solid and dependable, and the shiny graphics and neat UI make everything easy to process.
Yes, it's more of the same. A vaguely Skidmarks-inspired, almost top-down racer that sees you hurtling through dirt tracks and concrete roads as fast as you possibly can.
But it's more of the same done well, and i...
