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 ...
If there were a melee equivalent of "spray and pray," it might look something like the chaotic technique used in Cloud Knights.
Cloud Knights is a strange, physics-based action game where combat and movement stem from the same action - relentless, haphazard swinging.
Whether it's an axe, a longsword, or a scimitar, swinging your weapon 'round and 'round like a steel windmill is the only way ...
Rovio has announced that an official Angry Birds movie will be coming out in the summer of 2016.
The reveal came after one billion birds were flung by you lot in the game over the past 48 hours.
Doing this unlocked the announcement, including the details of the voice cast, as well as a sneak peek at the characters that will star in the film.
As you can see in the image above, the bird...
Bandai Namco Games America has teamed up with the National Breast Cancer Foundation (otherwise know as NBCF) in the fight against the second leading cause of cancer deaths among women in the US.
Throughout the month of October, Bandai Namco Games America will be running a Ms. Pac-Man Pink Ribbon campaign across its range of smartphone and tablet titles in order to raise funds that will allow th...
Hidden away at a little stall, slap-bang in the centre of the Tokyo Game Show 2014 floor, was this little gem, standing out to the coin-dropping arcade enthusiast in me.
From Chinese developer HippieGame, this is the mighty slick gothic beat-'em-up Never Gone.
Initially titled Requiem, the team have been working on the game for a year and a half, and it really shows.
Never Gone is a title...
Kawaii Killer was previously released on the App Store but was pulled down five days later after Apple admitted it made a mistake.
This was back in July, and Apple said that the reason for pulling Kawaii Killer was due its gory animal killing "not [being] appropriate for the App Store".
Since then, developer Tabemasu Games has been working on Kawaii Killer Plushy Edition. Yes, you guessed it...
Like early relationships and films you haven't seen for years, we tend to only remember the good things about old games.
Weren't they original? Weren't they addictive?
Yes they were, occasionally. They were also frustrating, repetitive, and clunky.
The developer of Air Supply - SOS evidently remembers both the good and bad bits of early video games, and this twenty-twenty vision has resul...
The old proverb teaches us that we should keep our friends close, and our enemies closer.
Absorption is a game that agrees with that notion, providing you don't let your enemies get too close.
It's an arcade survival game played with just one finger. Your survive and amount points by absorbing life from your enemies.
To do this, you need to get close enough to the hostile shapes that your...
Canadian developer Other Ocean Interactive surfaced at Tokyo Game Show and Eurogamer Expo to showcase its latest ride: RAD Boarding.
In RAD Boarding you play Rod Geiger, the '90s celebrity who's long overdue for a comeback. His goal is to ride out the volcanic apocalypse in style.
To do so, you'll be traversing up mountain peaks, down mountain troughs, and pulling off sick tricks, all while ...
Bulkypix is publishing I am a brave knight for iOS at midnight. It's described as an "emotional story about life." Intrigued?
Unfortunately, there aren't many details about how I am a brave knight plays in its App Store description.
It focuses on how it might teach you something about yourself, and how it follows the life of a single man, instead.
However, it turns out that I am a brave k...
Astro Party is a free to download same-device multiplayer space blaster that's basically a Universal version of Astro Duel. It's just landed in New Zealand, so it should be out in the UK at midnight.
Two players can play on an iPhone, or four on an iPad. You control a retro-tastic spaceship that can only turn right. You've got two buttons and you need to kill your opponents. That's about it...
Spirits of Spring from Papa Yo developer Minority Media has just hit the App Store in New Zealand, which means it should be landing in the UK at midnight tonight.
The game tells the story of a native boy who finds himself stranded in the lands of permanent winter. Which sound pretty darn bad.
You're given a 3D world to explore, and there are crows to get rid of. You need to use the pow...
Adventure Xpress is a match-three puzzle game from Adult Swim and PikPok. It's just hit the App Store in New Zealand, which means it should be out in the UK at midnight tonight.
Rather than your usual story of adventurers and exploration, here you're playing an intrepid delivery person, making sure a cartoon-y fantasy kingdom gets its mail delivered on time.
Obviously villains try and stop y...
I often try to convince people that movie games aren't all inherently bad, and there are indeed a few examples that stand out.
In the case of Interstellar, I didn't actually realise it was a tie-in until after I'd started playing and saw the various movie plugs and links to trailers.
And then I had to revise my opinion of movie games.
Rough launch
Interstellar presents an interesting p...
I'm sitting in a train carriage, barreling through the countryside of Victorian England. As I sit there, admiring the view, I think Fireproof might be stretching the definition of the word "room".
But then I enter a tunnel and the screen goes black. For a second, the lights flash on, and a creepy bald man is sitting on the chair opposite me. And then he's gone.
It was a pretty surprising mom...
It's always great when we snag an exclusive here at Pocket Gamer, and boy do we have a scoop for you.
After contacting our friends in 'the movie business', we've managed to nab the first pages of the script for the upcoming Tetris motion picture.
It's a pretty rough draft, but it looks like we're in for romance, Russians, muscular men, and plenty of shape-moving.
I for one cannot wait unt...
A couple of weeks ago we told you that The Sagas of Fire*Wolf, another of Tin Man Games's digital gamebook adaptations, had hit the Google Play Store.
Well, now it's out on iOS as well, so you can grab the collection of four different choose-your-own-adventure books for one price.
The game features a slightly more complex digital dice-rolling system than the rest of Tin Man's output, and...
By day, Sean Noonan works as a level designer at Ubisoft Montreal, and has created environments for massive console games like Watch_Dogs and the upcoming Far Cry 4.
But in the evenings and weekends, he works on tiny indie projects. His first for iOS is Jack B. Nimble: a cute endless runner, presented with chunky pixel art sprites and painted in just four colours like an old Game Boy game.
A...
Epic Island is the type of game that I want to enjoy, but I just can't. Not for very long, anyway.
It shouldn't be so tough, really. There are lots of heroes to level-up and send on adventures, loot of various rarities to hunt for, monsters to slay, Titans to vanquish, and an evil wizard that's getting a bit too big for his britches.
The problem is that most of the cool stuff happens automat...
Gamevil recently released a trailer for its upcoming fantasy RPG, developed by Boolean Games.
The game is called Darkness Reborn, and it's headed to iOS and Android this fall.
There isn't much information making the rounds yet, except that it will be a synchronous online RPG, and see players questing to defeat a two-headed dragon.
Boolean Games has previously worked with Gamevil on Da...
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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 ...
If there were a melee equivalent of "spray and pray," it might look something like the chaotic technique used in Cloud Knights.
Cloud Knights is a strange, physics-based action game where combat and movement stem from the same action - relentless, haphazard swinging.
Whether it's an axe, a longsword, or a scimitar, swinging your weapon 'round and 'round like a steel windmill is the only way ...
Rovio has announced that an official Angry Birds movie will be coming out in the summer of 2016.
The reveal came after one billion birds were flung by you lot in the game over the past 48 hours.
Doing this unlocked the announcement, including the details of the voice cast, as well as a sneak peek at the characters that will star in the film.
As you can see in the image above, the bird...
Bandai Namco Games America has teamed up with the National Breast Cancer Foundation (otherwise know as NBCF) in the fight against the second leading cause of cancer deaths among women in the US.
Throughout the month of October, Bandai Namco Games America will be running a Ms. Pac-Man Pink Ribbon campaign across its range of smartphone and tablet titles in order to raise funds that will allow th...
Hidden away at a little stall, slap-bang in the centre of the Tokyo Game Show 2014 floor, was this little gem, standing out to the coin-dropping arcade enthusiast in me.
From Chinese developer HippieGame, this is the mighty slick gothic beat-'em-up Never Gone.
Initially titled Requiem, the team have been working on the game for a year and a half, and it really shows.
Never Gone is a title...
Kawaii Killer was previously released on the App Store but was pulled down five days later after Apple admitted it made a mistake.
This was back in July, and Apple said that the reason for pulling Kawaii Killer was due its gory animal killing "not [being] appropriate for the App Store".
Since then, developer Tabemasu Games has been working on Kawaii Killer Plushy Edition. Yes, you guessed it...
Like early relationships and films you haven't seen for years, we tend to only remember the good things about old games.
Weren't they original? Weren't they addictive?
Yes they were, occasionally. They were also frustrating, repetitive, and clunky.
The developer of Air Supply - SOS evidently remembers both the good and bad bits of early video games, and this twenty-twenty vision has resul...
The old proverb teaches us that we should keep our friends close, and our enemies closer.
Absorption is a game that agrees with that notion, providing you don't let your enemies get too close.
It's an arcade survival game played with just one finger. Your survive and amount points by absorbing life from your enemies.
To do this, you need to get close enough to the hostile shapes that your...
Canadian developer Other Ocean Interactive surfaced at Tokyo Game Show and Eurogamer Expo to showcase its latest ride: RAD Boarding.
In RAD Boarding you play Rod Geiger, the '90s celebrity who's long overdue for a comeback. His goal is to ride out the volcanic apocalypse in style.
To do so, you'll be traversing up mountain peaks, down mountain troughs, and pulling off sick tricks, all while ...
Bulkypix is publishing I am a brave knight for iOS at midnight. It's described as an "emotional story about life." Intrigued?
Unfortunately, there aren't many details about how I am a brave knight plays in its App Store description.
It focuses on how it might teach you something about yourself, and how it follows the life of a single man, instead.
However, it turns out that I am a brave k...
Astro Party is a free to download same-device multiplayer space blaster that's basically a Universal version of Astro Duel. It's just landed in New Zealand, so it should be out in the UK at midnight.
Two players can play on an iPhone, or four on an iPad. You control a retro-tastic spaceship that can only turn right. You've got two buttons and you need to kill your opponents. That's about it...
Spirits of Spring from Papa Yo developer Minority Media has just hit the App Store in New Zealand, which means it should be landing in the UK at midnight tonight.
The game tells the story of a native boy who finds himself stranded in the lands of permanent winter. Which sound pretty darn bad.
You're given a 3D world to explore, and there are crows to get rid of. You need to use the pow...
Adventure Xpress is a match-three puzzle game from Adult Swim and PikPok. It's just hit the App Store in New Zealand, which means it should be out in the UK at midnight tonight.
Rather than your usual story of adventurers and exploration, here you're playing an intrepid delivery person, making sure a cartoon-y fantasy kingdom gets its mail delivered on time.
Obviously villains try and stop y...
I often try to convince people that movie games aren't all inherently bad, and there are indeed a few examples that stand out.
In the case of Interstellar, I didn't actually realise it was a tie-in until after I'd started playing and saw the various movie plugs and links to trailers.
And then I had to revise my opinion of movie games.
Rough launch
Interstellar presents an interesting p...
I'm sitting in a train carriage, barreling through the countryside of Victorian England. As I sit there, admiring the view, I think Fireproof might be stretching the definition of the word "room".
But then I enter a tunnel and the screen goes black. For a second, the lights flash on, and a creepy bald man is sitting on the chair opposite me. And then he's gone.
It was a pretty surprising mom...
It's always great when we snag an exclusive here at Pocket Gamer, and boy do we have a scoop for you.
After contacting our friends in 'the movie business', we've managed to nab the first pages of the script for the upcoming Tetris motion picture.
It's a pretty rough draft, but it looks like we're in for romance, Russians, muscular men, and plenty of shape-moving.
I for one cannot wait unt...
A couple of weeks ago we told you that The Sagas of Fire*Wolf, another of Tin Man Games's digital gamebook adaptations, had hit the Google Play Store.
Well, now it's out on iOS as well, so you can grab the collection of four different choose-your-own-adventure books for one price.
The game features a slightly more complex digital dice-rolling system than the rest of Tin Man's output, and...
By day, Sean Noonan works as a level designer at Ubisoft Montreal, and has created environments for massive console games like Watch_Dogs and the upcoming Far Cry 4.
But in the evenings and weekends, he works on tiny indie projects. His first for iOS is Jack B. Nimble: a cute endless runner, presented with chunky pixel art sprites and painted in just four colours like an old Game Boy game.
A...
Epic Island is the type of game that I want to enjoy, but I just can't. Not for very long, anyway.
It shouldn't be so tough, really. There are lots of heroes to level-up and send on adventures, loot of various rarities to hunt for, monsters to slay, Titans to vanquish, and an evil wizard that's getting a bit too big for his britches.
The problem is that most of the cool stuff happens automat...
Gamevil recently released a trailer for its upcoming fantasy RPG, developed by Boolean Games.
The game is called Darkness Reborn, and it's headed to iOS and Android this fall.
There isn't much information making the rounds yet, except that it will be a synchronous online RPG, and see players questing to defeat a two-headed dragon.
Boolean Games has previously worked with Gamevil on Da...
