We really liked Darklings. We called it a "fun and clever action game," that "shows how much can be accomplished with a touchscreen control system", before slapping a shiny Silver Award on its lapel.
So we're suitably excited for Darklings Season 2 which is coming out soonish. And Peter's had a hands-on play with the sequel, as you can see in the video above.
As before the game is about ...
2K's card battling NBA 2K15 companion app has arrived on iOS and Android so that you can, er, battle with basketball players, I guess.
MY NBA 2K15 seems to be what we get this year instead of, say, an actual basketball game like last year's NBA 2K14. Whether we'll get NBA 2K15 on mobile is something we'll have to wait and see.
In the meantime, we have over 1000 player cards to form into team...
Helix is Michael Brough's next game after 868-HACK and it's coming out on iOS this Thursday, October 16th.
As I've written before, Helix is an action arcade game that you play with just one finger.
With your fleshy appendage, you guide the Eye of Brog around an arena the size of the screen. It follows every little movement you make very accurately.
From the sides of the arena enemies arr...
Croteam and Devolver Digital have just released a free mini-game prelude to The Talos Principle called Sigils of Elohim on iOS and Android.
In it, you are tasked with solving dozens of sigil puzzles. This involves rotating several tetrominoes so that they all fit perfectly into a single shape. There can be no overlaps of gaps.
As you do this, you are - apparently - watched over by Elohim, ak...
Jagex, the developer behind the highly succesful MMO Runescape, has announced that it's working on a digital collectable card game called Chronicle: Runescape Legends.
Although that's just a working title, so it might end up being called something else. We don't have that much info about the game at the moment, other than the bits of info Jagex has released in a press release.
Apparently...
If you've ever played a JRPG, you've likely heard the name Hironobu Sakaguchi. He's been a motive force in the Final Fantasy series and other smash hits like Chrono Trigger.
For this, his latest title, he's embraced free to play on mobile. Immediately, that makes him either a creative trailblazer or the devil incarnate, depending on your view of free games.
Yet for all the polarised opinion ...
Motorsport Manager is a brilliant tilt-shifted simulator that sees you leading a racing team through the ranks, tweaking every aspect of the company in order to win as many races as you can. And it's cheap right now.
Normally the game would cost £2.99 / $4.99, but if you're swift you can grab it today for £1.49 / $1.99. It was a weekend sale though, so you'd best be sharpish before the pric...
Brianna Wu - head of development at Revolution 60 studio Giant Spacekat - was forced to leave her home over the weekend after receiving death and rape threats on Twitter.
Her personal information - such as her and her husband's home address - were also posted online. You can read the threats here, but be warned they're super NSFW.
Wu is an outspoken critic of 'GamerGate' - a movement tha...
Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
It was another huge week for brand new mobile games.
There was the manic Pixel Boat Rush, the exacting Skater, the explosive iBomber 3, the puzzling Machineers, the serene Castaway Paradise, and the expensive Skylanders: Trap Team.
Plus, the retro Dragon Quest II, the bois...
Sometimes the week passes by so quickly that I find it hard to believe it's time to sit down and write another Week That Was.
It's easy to let things slip under your rader, which is why we're on hand to make sure you don't miss a beat.
This week saw Nintendo dish out some good news, with the Japanese Godfather of gaming revealing that the 3DS version of Super Smash Bros. has sold over 2.8 mi...
I can see how it might be easy to want to compare Card Dungeon to the ever-popular Card Hunter, but, aside from the aesthetics, the two games are hardly alike. I just wanted to get that bit out of the way early.
Card Dungeon isn't a collect-a-thon with multiple characters on a grand adventure, it's a roguelike. A roguelike with a nifty board game style that uses cards in place of character skil...
Soulfill picked up the Interaction Award at IndieCade 2014 last night. The jury picked it out as the winner for "forcing us to interact in ways we normally wouldn't."
What form of interaction are we talking about here? Staring at strangers on public transport or while you're waiting around.
Soulfill is an audio-only game as you only have to follow the instructions of a narrator in your ears ...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new iPhone and iPad games.
Skullduggery!
By ClutchPlay Games - buy on iPhone and iPad (£2.99 / $4.99)
It's surprising that it's taken this long for a game like Skullduggery! to come along.
After an initial experimental phase immediately after the arrival of the App Store, developers have been strangely re...
Electronic Super Joy: Groove City has long been on our list of games to look out for. So it's quite the surprise to us that we missed it coming out on iOS yesterday.
What's even more surprising is that, on the App Store page for the game, it says you get a Steam key if you purchase it on iOS.
Not a bad deal at all - you'll be able to redeem that key for playing on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
...
Pixel Boat Rush is a little more than you might expect. At first glance it looks like a simple one-touch racer, something to pass the time without really being challenged.
But scratch the surface and you'll find a surprisingly intricate system of pattern recognition and reaction timing. It's more like a don't-touch racer, with guns and super explosions.
Of course the flip side of that comple...
Skater was originally released just over two weeks ago on iOS. Then it got pulled due to some nasty bugs. But it's back now forever, hopefully.
This is one of those super detailed skateboarding games that can be quite hard to pick up. You need to tap and swipe the right parts of the skateboard to perform tricks.
Just doing an kickflip can be hard. You start out by tapping the back end of...
Synonymy is a game for word lovers and puzzle game enthusiasts.
It tasks you to find a path through random words by connecting them through their synonyms.
So, you're given a target word - let's say "morbid" - and then have to make your way to it from your starting word, which could be, well, anything - clown, enthusiastic, parachute... you get the idea.
This is all done by swiping throug...
Square Enix has saw fit to update the Silver Award-winning JRPG Final Fantasy VI on iOS and Android with controller support.
The iOS App Store description specifies that it's the Logitech PowerShell Controller that is now supported.
However, Touch Arcade reports that the Steel Series Stratus also works with the game, and possibly other controllers.
On Google Play, however, it just says "G...
Normally when a big shiny Unreal powered game plops into our inbox here at Pocket Gamer we raise a collective eyebrow, say "that looks nice", and then write a news story about how the proof of the App Store pudding is always in the playing.
But Epic of Kings is from Dead Mage. And Dead Mage made the really bloody good gory action platformer Shadow Blade. So we're going to do pretty much the sam...
In the first sequel, whether it's a film, book or game, we want and need something new. It's too soon to rehash what the original material delivered, so a sequel has it's work cut out in order to develop a franchise while staying true to its lineage.
A second sequel, as we have in Cobra Mobile's iBomber 3, has a different objective. It has a strong fan base to please, it has newcomers to seduce...
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We really liked Darklings. We called it a "fun and clever action game," that "shows how much can be accomplished with a touchscreen control system", before slapping a shiny Silver Award on its lapel.
So we're suitably excited for Darklings Season 2 which is coming out soonish. And Peter's had a hands-on play with the sequel, as you can see in the video above.
As before the game is about ...
2K's card battling NBA 2K15 companion app has arrived on iOS and Android so that you can, er, battle with basketball players, I guess.
MY NBA 2K15 seems to be what we get this year instead of, say, an actual basketball game like last year's NBA 2K14. Whether we'll get NBA 2K15 on mobile is something we'll have to wait and see.
In the meantime, we have over 1000 player cards to form into team...
Helix is Michael Brough's next game after 868-HACK and it's coming out on iOS this Thursday, October 16th.
As I've written before, Helix is an action arcade game that you play with just one finger.
With your fleshy appendage, you guide the Eye of Brog around an arena the size of the screen. It follows every little movement you make very accurately.
From the sides of the arena enemies arr...
Croteam and Devolver Digital have just released a free mini-game prelude to The Talos Principle called Sigils of Elohim on iOS and Android.
In it, you are tasked with solving dozens of sigil puzzles. This involves rotating several tetrominoes so that they all fit perfectly into a single shape. There can be no overlaps of gaps.
As you do this, you are - apparently - watched over by Elohim, ak...
Jagex, the developer behind the highly succesful MMO Runescape, has announced that it's working on a digital collectable card game called Chronicle: Runescape Legends.
Although that's just a working title, so it might end up being called something else. We don't have that much info about the game at the moment, other than the bits of info Jagex has released in a press release.
Apparently...
If you've ever played a JRPG, you've likely heard the name Hironobu Sakaguchi. He's been a motive force in the Final Fantasy series and other smash hits like Chrono Trigger.
For this, his latest title, he's embraced free to play on mobile. Immediately, that makes him either a creative trailblazer or the devil incarnate, depending on your view of free games.
Yet for all the polarised opinion ...
Motorsport Manager is a brilliant tilt-shifted simulator that sees you leading a racing team through the ranks, tweaking every aspect of the company in order to win as many races as you can. And it's cheap right now.
Normally the game would cost £2.99 / $4.99, but if you're swift you can grab it today for £1.49 / $1.99. It was a weekend sale though, so you'd best be sharpish before the pric...
Brianna Wu - head of development at Revolution 60 studio Giant Spacekat - was forced to leave her home over the weekend after receiving death and rape threats on Twitter.
Her personal information - such as her and her husband's home address - were also posted online. You can read the threats here, but be warned they're super NSFW.
Wu is an outspoken critic of 'GamerGate' - a movement tha...
Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
It was another huge week for brand new mobile games.
There was the manic Pixel Boat Rush, the exacting Skater, the explosive iBomber 3, the puzzling Machineers, the serene Castaway Paradise, and the expensive Skylanders: Trap Team.
Plus, the retro Dragon Quest II, the bois...
Sometimes the week passes by so quickly that I find it hard to believe it's time to sit down and write another Week That Was.
It's easy to let things slip under your rader, which is why we're on hand to make sure you don't miss a beat.
This week saw Nintendo dish out some good news, with the Japanese Godfather of gaming revealing that the 3DS version of Super Smash Bros. has sold over 2.8 mi...
I can see how it might be easy to want to compare Card Dungeon to the ever-popular Card Hunter, but, aside from the aesthetics, the two games are hardly alike. I just wanted to get that bit out of the way early.
Card Dungeon isn't a collect-a-thon with multiple characters on a grand adventure, it's a roguelike. A roguelike with a nifty board game style that uses cards in place of character skil...
Soulfill picked up the Interaction Award at IndieCade 2014 last night. The jury picked it out as the winner for "forcing us to interact in ways we normally wouldn't."
What form of interaction are we talking about here? Staring at strangers on public transport or while you're waiting around.
Soulfill is an audio-only game as you only have to follow the instructions of a narrator in your ears ...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new iPhone and iPad games.
Skullduggery!
By ClutchPlay Games - buy on iPhone and iPad (£2.99 / $4.99)
It's surprising that it's taken this long for a game like Skullduggery! to come along.
After an initial experimental phase immediately after the arrival of the App Store, developers have been strangely re...
Electronic Super Joy: Groove City has long been on our list of games to look out for. So it's quite the surprise to us that we missed it coming out on iOS yesterday.
What's even more surprising is that, on the App Store page for the game, it says you get a Steam key if you purchase it on iOS.
Not a bad deal at all - you'll be able to redeem that key for playing on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
...
Pixel Boat Rush is a little more than you might expect. At first glance it looks like a simple one-touch racer, something to pass the time without really being challenged.
But scratch the surface and you'll find a surprisingly intricate system of pattern recognition and reaction timing. It's more like a don't-touch racer, with guns and super explosions.
Of course the flip side of that comple...
Skater was originally released just over two weeks ago on iOS. Then it got pulled due to some nasty bugs. But it's back now forever, hopefully.
This is one of those super detailed skateboarding games that can be quite hard to pick up. You need to tap and swipe the right parts of the skateboard to perform tricks.
Just doing an kickflip can be hard. You start out by tapping the back end of...
Synonymy is a game for word lovers and puzzle game enthusiasts.
It tasks you to find a path through random words by connecting them through their synonyms.
So, you're given a target word - let's say "morbid" - and then have to make your way to it from your starting word, which could be, well, anything - clown, enthusiastic, parachute... you get the idea.
This is all done by swiping throug...
Square Enix has saw fit to update the Silver Award-winning JRPG Final Fantasy VI on iOS and Android with controller support.
The iOS App Store description specifies that it's the Logitech PowerShell Controller that is now supported.
However, Touch Arcade reports that the Steel Series Stratus also works with the game, and possibly other controllers.
On Google Play, however, it just says "G...
Normally when a big shiny Unreal powered game plops into our inbox here at Pocket Gamer we raise a collective eyebrow, say "that looks nice", and then write a news story about how the proof of the App Store pudding is always in the playing.
But Epic of Kings is from Dead Mage. And Dead Mage made the really bloody good gory action platformer Shadow Blade. So we're going to do pretty much the sam...
In the first sequel, whether it's a film, book or game, we want and need something new. It's too soon to rehash what the original material delivered, so a sequel has it's work cut out in order to develop a franchise while staying true to its lineage.
A second sequel, as we have in Cobra Mobile's iBomber 3, has a different objective. It has a strong fan base to please, it has newcomers to seduce...
