Uniqueness is damn hard to come by these days. Not because game makers have run out of ideas, or because they keep making the same game over and over again (well, the latter one is certainly part of the problem, but less so among indies), but because there are simply so many games out there.
This isn't something that Smarter Than You has to worry about. We can say, without ego or agenda, that S...
Fancy spending the weekend in a dark room, surrounded by nightmarish ghouls and the distinct smell of death? Then you better get yourself down to EGX.
But if you missed getting a ticket, the recently discounted Hellraid: The Escape might have to make do.
It's a puzzle game, set inside some horrible dank catacombs. There are torture chambers and roving monsters. And also a piano, chess se...
It's the little touches that help make your game feel like a treat for fans, rather than a crass money-grubbing exercise in corporate brand synergy.
The jury's still out on Angry Birds Transformers, of course, but things like this pause screen go a long way to warm our cold, cynical, black husk of a heart.
If you were born after the year 2000 and think that all videos come on DVDs or Net...
You probably haven't heard of The Battle Cats - an incredibly popular character-raising game that's racked up 10 million downloads in Japan and an impressive two million downloads in the first month of its release in Korea.
The Battle Cats is now available to download in the US, UK, and other English-speaking countries for iPhone and iPad, as well as Android-powered devices.
As it's name sug...
For the longest time, we didn't actually know what type of game Angry Birds Transformers would be.
Would it be like Angry Birds Star Wars: a typical physics destruction game but with all the birds and pigs in cute cosplay? Or maybe like Angry Birds Go, and have you racing the Transformers's vehicles.
Turns out: neither.
Yes, you're still attacking flimsy wooden structures in order to ...
2K is slashing prices like Jason Voorhees up in here. After yesterday's BioShock sale, you can now get the £4.99 / $6.99 2K Drive for free.
The game itself - which comes from ex-Project Gotham Racing developers at Lucid Games - is great. But it has always felt like it should be a free game.
As Peter said in his review, "you can purchase almost everything in the game with currency. There'...
The popular rhythm game, Just Dance, can now be played on your iOS or Android device with Just Dance Now, released worldwide today by Ubisoft.
With Just Dance Now, all you need is a phone and a screen.
You install the app, head over to JustDanceNow.com, and link your device remotely.
No need for additional hardware like sensor bars. Your phone acts will act as a controller as you try to p...
Fist of Fury is a wonderful slice of swipey violence. A hideous compulsion loop wrapped up in Kung-fu trappings that's almost impossible to put down once you've picked it up.
It shows how simple, well implemented gameplay can be combined with touchscreen controls to great effect.
And while it doesn't have too many surprises up its sleeve, the crack of its incessant rhythm means that you'll j...
The latest game from Rovio's publishing program is a pirate-flavoured Clash of Clans-alike called Plunder Pirates.
In the game you must build a mighty pirate village for your crew, and defend it against attacks from marauders (aka, other players). Plus, you can hire grog-swilling pirates and go wreck rival towns.
To help you on your way, we wanted to put together some handy advice for the ga...
Big Indie Pitch-winning Voxel Wars: 3D Racer is to be the location of a battle between iOS and Android players starting on September 26th.
Yep, it's a proper platform war. Anyone can be part of the competition by simply playing Voxel Wars between September 26th to September 28th on the competition map.
The winning team will be the one with the best skill. That will be determined by taking th...
Anomaly Defenders could have been a case of throwing the baby out with the bath water.
In switching the action around, and dropping the tower offence template that has built the series up, 11bit risked losing everything that made the previous three games so special in the first place.
And for the first few levels that feels like a very real possibility. There's a sense that we've seen all of...
Backflip Studios claims that Epic Island is the most epic game ever. "Epic heroes on an epic quest to defeat epic beasts and score insanely epic loot," the studio says.
Of course, it's all in jest, capturing the lighthearted approach to the fantasy RPG that Epic Island has.
It's a casual, free to play party-based RPG in which you assemble a bunch of heroes, including: the Dashing Male, Darin...
Square Enix has released Dragon Quest III - one of the most popular games in the series - on iOS and Android in Japan.
While Square Enix has said that the original Dragon Quest trilogy will be coming to smartphones, we don't have a release date for this one.
All we do know is that it should arrive in Europe and the US at some point in the future. Handy, I know.
But, hey, Dragon Quest I wa...
If there's one thing I like about Hothead Games's Kill Shot, it's its honesty.
With a title like "Kill Shot", at least you know what you're getting, I guess.
It's a first-person shooter that focuses on challenge-based marksmanship. You're presented a number of very short missions to take on that test your shooting accuracy and reaction speeds.
An example would be shooting two enemy soldie...
The nutcases over at SquareTrade have been pitting the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus against a barrage of breakability tests to see how the new Apple handsets fare in the hands of a clumsy consumer.
And it seems that these Apples can fall from the tree without getting bruised.
Breakability testing
SquareTrade has a dedicated scale that quantifies how tough hardware and handsets are, which is...
Barcelona-based studio Cubus Games is rapidly becoming a serious contender in the digital gamebooks arena, having made an impressive debut with The Sinister Fairground, which was quickly followed up with Silver Award-winning Heavy Metal Thunder.
The latter is a significant move for the collective of programmers, artists, and musicians at Cubus, as Heavy Metal Thunder is an adaptation of an exis...
We might be starting to lose count as to how many Asphalt racing titles Gameloft has on iOS and Android, but this latest one is worth revving up.
Asphalt Overdrive offers an unusual take on the popular driving franchise by adapting it into something of an endless runner set in the streets of 1980s California, and coming in at the bargain price of 'nowt.
Endless racer
Rather than playing w...
Godfire: Rise of Prometheus developer Vivid Games has dropped us a line to announce the results of its Clash One challenge, and to reveal the details of Clash Two, which kicks off on Friday, 26th September.
The first Godfire Survival Challenge saw an epic 12,000 combatants get in on the hack 'n' slash action, recording their battles via Everyplay and duking it out for one of three Titan Edition...
What is a Hueron? That's easy.
It's a little purple dot, which gets drawn in and paired up with another Hueron whenever your finger is placed in the empty grid space between them. But not diagonally. Unless those Huerons are positioned diagonally themselves. Then you can put your finger...
Hmm, maybe it's not so easy to explain after all.
Rule of thumb
Huerons is an apparently simple l...
Earlier this month, EA unveiled SimCity BuildIt - a new version of the venerable city management sim, designed specifically for mobile.
And that was about it. We got one picture, and confirmation that it will be free to play. So to find out more, we threw some questions at Jason Willig: VP and group general manager for EA Mobile.
We wanted to find out what SimCity BuildIt will be like, and h...
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Uniqueness is damn hard to come by these days. Not because game makers have run out of ideas, or because they keep making the same game over and over again (well, the latter one is certainly part of the problem, but less so among indies), but because there are simply so many games out there.
This isn't something that Smarter Than You has to worry about. We can say, without ego or agenda, that S...
Fancy spending the weekend in a dark room, surrounded by nightmarish ghouls and the distinct smell of death? Then you better get yourself down to EGX.
But if you missed getting a ticket, the recently discounted Hellraid: The Escape might have to make do.
It's a puzzle game, set inside some horrible dank catacombs. There are torture chambers and roving monsters. And also a piano, chess se...
It's the little touches that help make your game feel like a treat for fans, rather than a crass money-grubbing exercise in corporate brand synergy.
The jury's still out on Angry Birds Transformers, of course, but things like this pause screen go a long way to warm our cold, cynical, black husk of a heart.
If you were born after the year 2000 and think that all videos come on DVDs or Net...
You probably haven't heard of The Battle Cats - an incredibly popular character-raising game that's racked up 10 million downloads in Japan and an impressive two million downloads in the first month of its release in Korea.
The Battle Cats is now available to download in the US, UK, and other English-speaking countries for iPhone and iPad, as well as Android-powered devices.
As it's name sug...
For the longest time, we didn't actually know what type of game Angry Birds Transformers would be.
Would it be like Angry Birds Star Wars: a typical physics destruction game but with all the birds and pigs in cute cosplay? Or maybe like Angry Birds Go, and have you racing the Transformers's vehicles.
Turns out: neither.
Yes, you're still attacking flimsy wooden structures in order to ...
2K is slashing prices like Jason Voorhees up in here. After yesterday's BioShock sale, you can now get the £4.99 / $6.99 2K Drive for free.
The game itself - which comes from ex-Project Gotham Racing developers at Lucid Games - is great. But it has always felt like it should be a free game.
As Peter said in his review, "you can purchase almost everything in the game with currency. There'...
The popular rhythm game, Just Dance, can now be played on your iOS or Android device with Just Dance Now, released worldwide today by Ubisoft.
With Just Dance Now, all you need is a phone and a screen.
You install the app, head over to JustDanceNow.com, and link your device remotely.
No need for additional hardware like sensor bars. Your phone acts will act as a controller as you try to p...
Fist of Fury is a wonderful slice of swipey violence. A hideous compulsion loop wrapped up in Kung-fu trappings that's almost impossible to put down once you've picked it up.
It shows how simple, well implemented gameplay can be combined with touchscreen controls to great effect.
And while it doesn't have too many surprises up its sleeve, the crack of its incessant rhythm means that you'll j...
The latest game from Rovio's publishing program is a pirate-flavoured Clash of Clans-alike called Plunder Pirates.
In the game you must build a mighty pirate village for your crew, and defend it against attacks from marauders (aka, other players). Plus, you can hire grog-swilling pirates and go wreck rival towns.
To help you on your way, we wanted to put together some handy advice for the ga...
Big Indie Pitch-winning Voxel Wars: 3D Racer is to be the location of a battle between iOS and Android players starting on September 26th.
Yep, it's a proper platform war. Anyone can be part of the competition by simply playing Voxel Wars between September 26th to September 28th on the competition map.
The winning team will be the one with the best skill. That will be determined by taking th...
Anomaly Defenders could have been a case of throwing the baby out with the bath water.
In switching the action around, and dropping the tower offence template that has built the series up, 11bit risked losing everything that made the previous three games so special in the first place.
And for the first few levels that feels like a very real possibility. There's a sense that we've seen all of...
Backflip Studios claims that Epic Island is the most epic game ever. "Epic heroes on an epic quest to defeat epic beasts and score insanely epic loot," the studio says.
Of course, it's all in jest, capturing the lighthearted approach to the fantasy RPG that Epic Island has.
It's a casual, free to play party-based RPG in which you assemble a bunch of heroes, including: the Dashing Male, Darin...
Square Enix has released Dragon Quest III - one of the most popular games in the series - on iOS and Android in Japan.
While Square Enix has said that the original Dragon Quest trilogy will be coming to smartphones, we don't have a release date for this one.
All we do know is that it should arrive in Europe and the US at some point in the future. Handy, I know.
But, hey, Dragon Quest I wa...
If there's one thing I like about Hothead Games's Kill Shot, it's its honesty.
With a title like "Kill Shot", at least you know what you're getting, I guess.
It's a first-person shooter that focuses on challenge-based marksmanship. You're presented a number of very short missions to take on that test your shooting accuracy and reaction speeds.
An example would be shooting two enemy soldie...
The nutcases over at SquareTrade have been pitting the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus against a barrage of breakability tests to see how the new Apple handsets fare in the hands of a clumsy consumer.
And it seems that these Apples can fall from the tree without getting bruised.
Breakability testing
SquareTrade has a dedicated scale that quantifies how tough hardware and handsets are, which is...
Barcelona-based studio Cubus Games is rapidly becoming a serious contender in the digital gamebooks arena, having made an impressive debut with The Sinister Fairground, which was quickly followed up with Silver Award-winning Heavy Metal Thunder.
The latter is a significant move for the collective of programmers, artists, and musicians at Cubus, as Heavy Metal Thunder is an adaptation of an exis...
We might be starting to lose count as to how many Asphalt racing titles Gameloft has on iOS and Android, but this latest one is worth revving up.
Asphalt Overdrive offers an unusual take on the popular driving franchise by adapting it into something of an endless runner set in the streets of 1980s California, and coming in at the bargain price of 'nowt.
Endless racer
Rather than playing w...
Godfire: Rise of Prometheus developer Vivid Games has dropped us a line to announce the results of its Clash One challenge, and to reveal the details of Clash Two, which kicks off on Friday, 26th September.
The first Godfire Survival Challenge saw an epic 12,000 combatants get in on the hack 'n' slash action, recording their battles via Everyplay and duking it out for one of three Titan Edition...
What is a Hueron? That's easy.
It's a little purple dot, which gets drawn in and paired up with another Hueron whenever your finger is placed in the empty grid space between them. But not diagonally. Unless those Huerons are positioned diagonally themselves. Then you can put your finger...
Hmm, maybe it's not so easy to explain after all.
Rule of thumb
Huerons is an apparently simple l...
Earlier this month, EA unveiled SimCity BuildIt - a new version of the venerable city management sim, designed specifically for mobile.
And that was about it. We got one picture, and confirmation that it will be free to play. So to find out more, we threw some questions at Jason Willig: VP and group general manager for EA Mobile.
We wanted to find out what SimCity BuildIt will be like, and h...
