Star Wars: Commander officially becomes a Star Wars game this week.
By that, I mean Disney has finally decided to add arguably the series' most iconic figures: Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader.
Can you believe that they weren't already part of the game? Sure, Disney now own Star Wars and are doing what they wish with it, but to shun Lucas's most famous characters? Pah.
What's more, they're...
Thousands of years ago, in a strange fantasy world called "1998", the inhabitants had a strange taste in games.
They favoured number-crunching exercises with complex statistics but very primitive story and presentation. These games were known as "are-pee-gees".
The greatest of them all was the fabled Dragon Warrior 3. So great, in fact, that it would not die. After it's initial release, it w...
Gumi Inc. has released Sega's line-defence RPG Chain Chronicle in the UK, US, Canada, and Australia on iOS and Android today.
It was originally released in Japan and hasn't been available anywhere else since, until now. It will be coming to more countries soon.
Chain Chronicle has you in control of five units trying to defend a base behind them against a wave of Black Army enemies. The base ...
Apple released its Best Of 2014 lists today. On top as the best iPad game is Monument Valley, while Threes! takes best iPhone game.
While Pocket Gamer will certainly have its own list, we can't disagree with Apple's pickings. Not when we gave both of them a shiny Gold Award.
As for the runners-up, for iPad it is the Gold Award-winning Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. While on iPhone it is th...
Chinese game publisher Shanda Games has announced Borderlands Online for mobile and PC in China.
It's to be a shooter-RPG that plays just like regular Borderlands titles, except with a focus on the online experience, plus it will be free-to-play.
As expected, Shanda Games is working with 2K and Gearbox on Borderlands Online. In fact, Gearbox has even set-up a new team in Shanghai to support ...
Bear Winter is probably not the best kind of winter. Just a hunch I have.
I'll tell you why: it involves trekking up the Russian mountains where you'll be repeatedly attacked by "ice bears." That is not my idea of a merry old time.
Unless, that is, it's an upcoming iOS match-3 puzzler called Bear Winter. In which case, bring it on.
Yep, Nevercenter's Bear Winter has matching fire to ...
Silver Award-winning action adventure RPG Horn has had its price slashed on the App Store, meaning you can now pick it up for £1.49 / $1.99.
The game sees you trundling through a fantasy world, fighting giant steampunk robots in Infinity Blade-style combat sections. There are shades of Zelda and Shadow of the Colossus here, and that's no bad thing.
At review we called the game "an ambiti...
I hate snowmen. Snowmen with their multi-tired bodies and stovepipe hats. Almost every run I have on Roller Polar is spoiled by their smug carrot-nosed faces.
Or by rocks. Or trees. Or those annoying birds that fly along nonchalantly and hit you in the face at the apex of your jump.
There's a decent case to be made for hating everything in this game. From the ball of snow you're struggling t...
CD Projekt Red has soft launched its Witcher-themed MOBA The Witcher Battle Arena in Sweden, which should mean we're not too far away from a worldwide release.
The game is a free to play online battler that sees you picking a character from the console game series and engaging in ten minute scraps against other players.
You can team up in cooperative fights, and if you don't have a conne...
This is a bit of a weird one, so bear with me. Remember Driver, the sort-of open world crime driving sim that saw you skidding around cities, avoiding the cops, and generally being an irresponsible citizen?
Well Ubisoft has just soft launched a new entry in the series in New Zealand and Australia. Except this time you're not driving a car. You're driving a boat. So more Boater than Driver I gue...
Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
Whoops, we forgot to do a round-up last week. I was in Spain, everyone else was lazy, it was a disaster. Sorry!
But anyway. There was a smattering of new mobile games this week, which we rounded up in our list of the best iOS games of the week, and the must-buy Android games ...
It's the weekend! Are you hungover yet? Have you punched anyone in the Christmas shopping rush? I'm writing this from the past but I bet I've done both of those things.
If the machinations of capitalism have made you violent, why not take out some of your rage with Only One. It is, after all, today's entry into our excellent advent calendar of excellence.
The game sees you battling on to...
Such is the pace of the mobile games' industry, despite the loaming holiday season, there's no let up when it comes to news.
Of course, Pocket Gamer is partly responsible, given our PG Connect London 2015 conference (13-14 January) is mere weeks away.
Sign up here for your still-reduced ticket.
UA remains a key issue for the industry, with Tapdaq's Dom Bracher pointed out that it's just too exp...
Gameloft's upcoming World War II shooter, Brothers in Arms 3, has a new teaser trailer.
The previous Brothers in Arms 2: Global Front received a Bronze Award from us all the way back in 2010.
Our review called it a not-so-subtle or intelligent FPS that's still "big on set-piece thrills and satisfying action."
Brothers in Arms 3 is different from its predecessors. This time around, it's di...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new iPhone and iPad games.
Bean Dreams
By Kumobius - buy on iPhone and iPad (£1.99 / $2.99)
This year I've played a game containing a graphic torture sequence, a game about avenging a dead child in a surveillance state, and two games in which a little girl endures a zombie apocalypse. Just this week I review...
It's not an enviable task, reviewing the re-release of a console classic on a smartphone.
It's not just a case of a round peg and a square hole. This is a collectible, rare imperial measurement peg in a brand new system that now uses a type of complex valve and mesh system that's made holes entirely obsolete.
Tomb Raider II is the most precise demonstration of such a conundrum that we've see...
The rather brilliant, Gold Award-winning digital boardgame Carcassonne is getting a Winter Edition expansion on December 17th.
We're not sure of the price of this expansion yet but we do know what it will contain.
First up is a new character (a gingerbread man, it seems) which, we presume, is tied in with the new game mechanic that developer TheCodingMonkeys is teasing.
It will also b...
Ever wondered why the App Store isn't deluged in free, fan-made games without in-app purchases? Because it costs 99 bucks a per year to distribute games on iOS. That's why.
It's one thing to use your time to make a game for the love of it. Quite another to stump up a substantial chunk of hard-earned cash for the right to let others play it.
As a result, there are almost no quality free games...
We first heard of Polyganic when it won our Big Indie Pitch at Apps World last month.
Now we've found out that it's coming to iOS, Android, and Windows Phone next week. Time for a briefing, then, so grab a seat and listen up.
Polyganic is an arcade endless runner that's probably best understood as a twist on Flappy Bird.
Instead of controlling the bird - in this case a simple polygon - y...
Bean Dreams is a bright and seemingly breezy platformer, but under that shiny exterior lies a surprisingly challenging arcade experience.
It follows closely in the footsteps of its predecessor, Bean's Quest, but adds enough new ideas that its simple bouncing levels don't feel overly familiar.
While it follows many of the standard tropes and trappings of similarly attired platformers, there's...
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Star Wars: Commander officially becomes a Star Wars game this week.
By that, I mean Disney has finally decided to add arguably the series' most iconic figures: Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader.
Can you believe that they weren't already part of the game? Sure, Disney now own Star Wars and are doing what they wish with it, but to shun Lucas's most famous characters? Pah.
What's more, they're...
Thousands of years ago, in a strange fantasy world called "1998", the inhabitants had a strange taste in games.
They favoured number-crunching exercises with complex statistics but very primitive story and presentation. These games were known as "are-pee-gees".
The greatest of them all was the fabled Dragon Warrior 3. So great, in fact, that it would not die. After it's initial release, it w...
Gumi Inc. has released Sega's line-defence RPG Chain Chronicle in the UK, US, Canada, and Australia on iOS and Android today.
It was originally released in Japan and hasn't been available anywhere else since, until now. It will be coming to more countries soon.
Chain Chronicle has you in control of five units trying to defend a base behind them against a wave of Black Army enemies. The base ...
Apple released its Best Of 2014 lists today. On top as the best iPad game is Monument Valley, while Threes! takes best iPhone game.
While Pocket Gamer will certainly have its own list, we can't disagree with Apple's pickings. Not when we gave both of them a shiny Gold Award.
As for the runners-up, for iPad it is the Gold Award-winning Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. While on iPhone it is th...
Chinese game publisher Shanda Games has announced Borderlands Online for mobile and PC in China.
It's to be a shooter-RPG that plays just like regular Borderlands titles, except with a focus on the online experience, plus it will be free-to-play.
As expected, Shanda Games is working with 2K and Gearbox on Borderlands Online. In fact, Gearbox has even set-up a new team in Shanghai to support ...
Bear Winter is probably not the best kind of winter. Just a hunch I have.
I'll tell you why: it involves trekking up the Russian mountains where you'll be repeatedly attacked by "ice bears." That is not my idea of a merry old time.
Unless, that is, it's an upcoming iOS match-3 puzzler called Bear Winter. In which case, bring it on.
Yep, Nevercenter's Bear Winter has matching fire to ...
Silver Award-winning action adventure RPG Horn has had its price slashed on the App Store, meaning you can now pick it up for £1.49 / $1.99.
The game sees you trundling through a fantasy world, fighting giant steampunk robots in Infinity Blade-style combat sections. There are shades of Zelda and Shadow of the Colossus here, and that's no bad thing.
At review we called the game "an ambiti...
I hate snowmen. Snowmen with their multi-tired bodies and stovepipe hats. Almost every run I have on Roller Polar is spoiled by their smug carrot-nosed faces.
Or by rocks. Or trees. Or those annoying birds that fly along nonchalantly and hit you in the face at the apex of your jump.
There's a decent case to be made for hating everything in this game. From the ball of snow you're struggling t...
CD Projekt Red has soft launched its Witcher-themed MOBA The Witcher Battle Arena in Sweden, which should mean we're not too far away from a worldwide release.
The game is a free to play online battler that sees you picking a character from the console game series and engaging in ten minute scraps against other players.
You can team up in cooperative fights, and if you don't have a conne...
This is a bit of a weird one, so bear with me. Remember Driver, the sort-of open world crime driving sim that saw you skidding around cities, avoiding the cops, and generally being an irresponsible citizen?
Well Ubisoft has just soft launched a new entry in the series in New Zealand and Australia. Except this time you're not driving a car. You're driving a boat. So more Boater than Driver I gue...
Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
Whoops, we forgot to do a round-up last week. I was in Spain, everyone else was lazy, it was a disaster. Sorry!
But anyway. There was a smattering of new mobile games this week, which we rounded up in our list of the best iOS games of the week, and the must-buy Android games ...
It's the weekend! Are you hungover yet? Have you punched anyone in the Christmas shopping rush? I'm writing this from the past but I bet I've done both of those things.
If the machinations of capitalism have made you violent, why not take out some of your rage with Only One. It is, after all, today's entry into our excellent advent calendar of excellence.
The game sees you battling on to...
Such is the pace of the mobile games' industry, despite the loaming holiday season, there's no let up when it comes to news.
Of course, Pocket Gamer is partly responsible, given our PG Connect London 2015 conference (13-14 January) is mere weeks away.
Sign up here for your still-reduced ticket.
UA remains a key issue for the industry, with Tapdaq's Dom Bracher pointed out that it's just too exp...
Gameloft's upcoming World War II shooter, Brothers in Arms 3, has a new teaser trailer.
The previous Brothers in Arms 2: Global Front received a Bronze Award from us all the way back in 2010.
Our review called it a not-so-subtle or intelligent FPS that's still "big on set-piece thrills and satisfying action."
Brothers in Arms 3 is different from its predecessors. This time around, it's di...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new iPhone and iPad games.
Bean Dreams
By Kumobius - buy on iPhone and iPad (£1.99 / $2.99)
This year I've played a game containing a graphic torture sequence, a game about avenging a dead child in a surveillance state, and two games in which a little girl endures a zombie apocalypse. Just this week I review...
It's not an enviable task, reviewing the re-release of a console classic on a smartphone.
It's not just a case of a round peg and a square hole. This is a collectible, rare imperial measurement peg in a brand new system that now uses a type of complex valve and mesh system that's made holes entirely obsolete.
Tomb Raider II is the most precise demonstration of such a conundrum that we've see...
The rather brilliant, Gold Award-winning digital boardgame Carcassonne is getting a Winter Edition expansion on December 17th.
We're not sure of the price of this expansion yet but we do know what it will contain.
First up is a new character (a gingerbread man, it seems) which, we presume, is tied in with the new game mechanic that developer TheCodingMonkeys is teasing.
It will also b...
Ever wondered why the App Store isn't deluged in free, fan-made games without in-app purchases? Because it costs 99 bucks a per year to distribute games on iOS. That's why.
It's one thing to use your time to make a game for the love of it. Quite another to stump up a substantial chunk of hard-earned cash for the right to let others play it.
As a result, there are almost no quality free games...
We first heard of Polyganic when it won our Big Indie Pitch at Apps World last month.
Now we've found out that it's coming to iOS, Android, and Windows Phone next week. Time for a briefing, then, so grab a seat and listen up.
Polyganic is an arcade endless runner that's probably best understood as a twist on Flappy Bird.
Instead of controlling the bird - in this case a simple polygon - y...
Bean Dreams is a bright and seemingly breezy platformer, but under that shiny exterior lies a surprisingly challenging arcade experience.
It follows closely in the footsteps of its predecessor, Bean's Quest, but adds enough new ideas that its simple bouncing levels don't feel overly familiar.
While it follows many of the standard tropes and trappings of similarly attired platformers, there's...
