Warhammer 40,000: Carnage has been updated with a Space Wolf. Not a wolf from space, mind, but a new Space Marine from the Space Wolves chapter. He's a mean lookin' fella and no mistake.
The update adds a whole new chunk of the map that you can play through as the angry hairy man. He's upset because all of the rest of his squadron are dead. Cue hideous acts of rage-fuelled Ork murder.
As wel...
If the internet is to be believed – and I have no reason to doubt it – ninjas and pirates are the fiercest of enemies.
That's the idea behind Ninja Raft, which has just hit the New Zealand App Store. That means it should be out in the UK at midnight tonight.
The game is a twist on the tower defence template. You're building a raft, adding coins, traps, and lumps of wood to make your base...
Selfie Slam is an odd selection of mini-games that's out in soft launch in Canada, Finland, and Sweden. It's from Rovio's Lvl 11 studio, it's free-to-play, and it's very, very silly.
You build your own avatar, taking a photo of your face - the selfie of the title - and then adding limbs and other attachments to make something cute, endearing, and creepy. Probably more creepy than the other two ...
The Spider-Man Unlimited canon consists of a short-lived but critically well-received set of comics, and an animated series.
It's an unusual universe to want to adapt into a video game for mobile telephones and tablet computers, but it shows a definite willingness to take risks on niche(ish) IP from Marvel.
Having already gone hands-on with the game for a video here on Pocket Gamer and AppSp...
The hard rock band Avenged Sevenfold is coming out with their own game, called Hail to the King: Deathbat.
The game is a fantasy action adventure with plenty of sword-fighting, spell-casting combat, set to tracks from the band both new and old.
It features seven levels, and eight new songs from Avenged Sevenfold.
You'll be able to play Hail to the King: Deathbat for yourself on iOS or And...
The pantheon of ancient Greek gods is notable for its petty squabbling, as well as for treating human trials and tribulations as nothing more than simple games for their amusement.
It's really not that much of a leap, then, for MUJO to suggest that these towering mythical creatures might wage war through the medium of a colourful match-three puzzle game.
Getting your MUJO back
The ancient...
Backspace is about logging online to find that you're sucked into a super network and can't escape.
That might sound like a horror story, but it's not. Backspace is actually a sci-fi action arcade game set on spherical worlds.
You drive around these spheres to get inside of them using Pods to break through walls, and Teleports to travel between their layers.
Along the way, you'll be blowi...
One of the few dismal things about video gaming is the dreary, interminable platform wars.
PC versus console. Console versus... other consoles. When there are so many wonderful shared things we could be glorying in, fighting over unqualified opinions seems pointless, at best.
Mobile gaming has been on the receiving end of some of the sharpest abuse in these endless wars.
As the platform g...
Fermenter Games is taking us on a fast-paced trip around space with its next action arcade game Baseless.
The one-man studio earned itself a Silver Award from us earlier this year for David., a minimalist action game with a lot of character.
Baseless sees the studio playing to its strengths, then.
You play a little space cowboy with a distinctly long scarf who jumps around a cluster of sm...
Developer Ustwo has shared the first screenshot of its promised update for Monument Valley, over on Twitter.
Executive producer Dan Gray says the level pack - which will be available as an in-app purchase inside the game - will include almost as much content as Monument Valley itself.
But the studio elected to launch the pack as an update rather than a full-blown sequel because it's new ...
Dreamgate Studios has released its light-bending casual puzzler Light in the Dark for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone today.
I took a look at Light in the Dark just last week and, you know what, I'm really quite into it.
You could remark that, yes, it's just another casual puzzle game with cute characters. But this is the comfort food of mobile gaming and it's a ripe example of it.
Your g...
At first glance, when the oddly-titled Partyrs was booting up (pronounced 'partiers,' in reference to the party-goers that populate the game), we expected some manner of time management game, along the lines of Diner Dash. Which, in fact, we were quite looking forward to.
A moment or two into the game's strange world, it revealed itself to be something quite unexpected. Partyrs is, in fact, the...
Microsoft has purchased Minecraft developer Mojang for $2.5 billion.
Good for them. But the question we had on our lips was what this meant for iOS and Android game Minecraft - Pocket Edition, and the upcoming PlayStation Vita version.
Luckily, it seems there won't be any noticeable changes.
According to Eurogamer, Microsoft's Phil Spencer said that the company will "continue to make Mine...
Tundra Games has released Rapture - World Conquest for iOS today so it's time to give your fingers a work out, I reckon.
Rapture is a fast-paced strategy game in which you play a god and lead a civilisation on a global conquest in order to escape the apocalypse.
It's a strategy game for people who may find the genre a bit slow and dull, really. Each game lasts about five minutes, you see.
...
There are two reasons I want to write about Mini Metro.
Firstly, it hasn't yet graced the online pages of PG before. Secondly, I wanted to type the name of the company making it...Dinosaur Polo Club.
That's better.
Mini Metro is a minimalistic subway management game. That may not sound very exciting but, trust me, this is a slick little game worth keeping a beady eye on.
You're constan...
For the first ten minutes of Terra Battle I have no idea what's going on. The game flashes instructions at me and I tap where I'm told.
There's a feeling of dread in my gut. This smacks of a card battler. Tap here, now tap here, now recruit some other hat-wearing-goon to help you in your quest.
And then I'm left to my own devices. Allowed to poke my archer and my knight around the screen as ...
It might have started life on the PC three years ago, but the second you start it up FOTONICA feels at home on iOS.
It's all razor-sharp leaping gameplay and stark minimalism, like Canabalt's been flipped 90 degrees and zoomed into a first-person view, then filtered through a Rez-like universe.
Immersion is more evident on the touchscreen, and the net result is a frequently exhilarating, dem...
The Forever Lost series is an engaging, often creepy point-and-click adventure set in an abandoned asylum. It's grim, witty, and we really enjoyed the first two episodes here at Pocket Gamer.
The third canonical episode is now on the horizon, so I took some time to talk to Graham Ranson and Simon Pearce from Glitch Games about making the last chunk of the trilogy, how the weight of two critical...
Most modern RPG makers take their inspiration from a handful of games. Maybe it's the nostalgic retro joy of Dragon Warrior, the sprawling adventure of Skyrim, or the cyberpunk technobabble of Final Fantasy VII.
But few have a combat system inspired by the Mega Man Battle Network series on Game Boy Advance.
That's exactly what Foursaken did for Phantom Rift, though. It drops stat-swapping tu...
Popular board game adaptation Talisman: Digital Edition is getting an update soon. In addition to some IAPs, such as the Black Witch and Apprentice Mage characters, the former iPad exclusive will finally be ported to the iPhone.
Better plug that phone in if you're planning on making the switch from the iPad, though. The games, in classic, fantasy RPG style, can run for several hours.
Talisma...
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Warhammer 40,000: Carnage has been updated with a Space Wolf. Not a wolf from space, mind, but a new Space Marine from the Space Wolves chapter. He's a mean lookin' fella and no mistake.
The update adds a whole new chunk of the map that you can play through as the angry hairy man. He's upset because all of the rest of his squadron are dead. Cue hideous acts of rage-fuelled Ork murder.
As wel...
If the internet is to be believed – and I have no reason to doubt it – ninjas and pirates are the fiercest of enemies.
That's the idea behind Ninja Raft, which has just hit the New Zealand App Store. That means it should be out in the UK at midnight tonight.
The game is a twist on the tower defence template. You're building a raft, adding coins, traps, and lumps of wood to make your base...
Selfie Slam is an odd selection of mini-games that's out in soft launch in Canada, Finland, and Sweden. It's from Rovio's Lvl 11 studio, it's free-to-play, and it's very, very silly.
You build your own avatar, taking a photo of your face - the selfie of the title - and then adding limbs and other attachments to make something cute, endearing, and creepy. Probably more creepy than the other two ...
The Spider-Man Unlimited canon consists of a short-lived but critically well-received set of comics, and an animated series.
It's an unusual universe to want to adapt into a video game for mobile telephones and tablet computers, but it shows a definite willingness to take risks on niche(ish) IP from Marvel.
Having already gone hands-on with the game for a video here on Pocket Gamer and AppSp...
The hard rock band Avenged Sevenfold is coming out with their own game, called Hail to the King: Deathbat.
The game is a fantasy action adventure with plenty of sword-fighting, spell-casting combat, set to tracks from the band both new and old.
It features seven levels, and eight new songs from Avenged Sevenfold.
You'll be able to play Hail to the King: Deathbat for yourself on iOS or And...
The pantheon of ancient Greek gods is notable for its petty squabbling, as well as for treating human trials and tribulations as nothing more than simple games for their amusement.
It's really not that much of a leap, then, for MUJO to suggest that these towering mythical creatures might wage war through the medium of a colourful match-three puzzle game.
Getting your MUJO back
The ancient...
Backspace is about logging online to find that you're sucked into a super network and can't escape.
That might sound like a horror story, but it's not. Backspace is actually a sci-fi action arcade game set on spherical worlds.
You drive around these spheres to get inside of them using Pods to break through walls, and Teleports to travel between their layers.
Along the way, you'll be blowi...
One of the few dismal things about video gaming is the dreary, interminable platform wars.
PC versus console. Console versus... other consoles. When there are so many wonderful shared things we could be glorying in, fighting over unqualified opinions seems pointless, at best.
Mobile gaming has been on the receiving end of some of the sharpest abuse in these endless wars.
As the platform g...
Fermenter Games is taking us on a fast-paced trip around space with its next action arcade game Baseless.
The one-man studio earned itself a Silver Award from us earlier this year for David., a minimalist action game with a lot of character.
Baseless sees the studio playing to its strengths, then.
You play a little space cowboy with a distinctly long scarf who jumps around a cluster of sm...
Developer Ustwo has shared the first screenshot of its promised update for Monument Valley, over on Twitter.
Executive producer Dan Gray says the level pack - which will be available as an in-app purchase inside the game - will include almost as much content as Monument Valley itself.
But the studio elected to launch the pack as an update rather than a full-blown sequel because it's new ...
Dreamgate Studios has released its light-bending casual puzzler Light in the Dark for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone today.
I took a look at Light in the Dark just last week and, you know what, I'm really quite into it.
You could remark that, yes, it's just another casual puzzle game with cute characters. But this is the comfort food of mobile gaming and it's a ripe example of it.
Your g...
At first glance, when the oddly-titled Partyrs was booting up (pronounced 'partiers,' in reference to the party-goers that populate the game), we expected some manner of time management game, along the lines of Diner Dash. Which, in fact, we were quite looking forward to.
A moment or two into the game's strange world, it revealed itself to be something quite unexpected. Partyrs is, in fact, the...
Microsoft has purchased Minecraft developer Mojang for $2.5 billion.
Good for them. But the question we had on our lips was what this meant for iOS and Android game Minecraft - Pocket Edition, and the upcoming PlayStation Vita version.
Luckily, it seems there won't be any noticeable changes.
According to Eurogamer, Microsoft's Phil Spencer said that the company will "continue to make Mine...
Tundra Games has released Rapture - World Conquest for iOS today so it's time to give your fingers a work out, I reckon.
Rapture is a fast-paced strategy game in which you play a god and lead a civilisation on a global conquest in order to escape the apocalypse.
It's a strategy game for people who may find the genre a bit slow and dull, really. Each game lasts about five minutes, you see.
...
There are two reasons I want to write about Mini Metro.
Firstly, it hasn't yet graced the online pages of PG before. Secondly, I wanted to type the name of the company making it...Dinosaur Polo Club.
That's better.
Mini Metro is a minimalistic subway management game. That may not sound very exciting but, trust me, this is a slick little game worth keeping a beady eye on.
You're constan...
For the first ten minutes of Terra Battle I have no idea what's going on. The game flashes instructions at me and I tap where I'm told.
There's a feeling of dread in my gut. This smacks of a card battler. Tap here, now tap here, now recruit some other hat-wearing-goon to help you in your quest.
And then I'm left to my own devices. Allowed to poke my archer and my knight around the screen as ...
It might have started life on the PC three years ago, but the second you start it up FOTONICA feels at home on iOS.
It's all razor-sharp leaping gameplay and stark minimalism, like Canabalt's been flipped 90 degrees and zoomed into a first-person view, then filtered through a Rez-like universe.
Immersion is more evident on the touchscreen, and the net result is a frequently exhilarating, dem...
The Forever Lost series is an engaging, often creepy point-and-click adventure set in an abandoned asylum. It's grim, witty, and we really enjoyed the first two episodes here at Pocket Gamer.
The third canonical episode is now on the horizon, so I took some time to talk to Graham Ranson and Simon Pearce from Glitch Games about making the last chunk of the trilogy, how the weight of two critical...
Most modern RPG makers take their inspiration from a handful of games. Maybe it's the nostalgic retro joy of Dragon Warrior, the sprawling adventure of Skyrim, or the cyberpunk technobabble of Final Fantasy VII.
But few have a combat system inspired by the Mega Man Battle Network series on Game Boy Advance.
That's exactly what Foursaken did for Phantom Rift, though. It drops stat-swapping tu...
Popular board game adaptation Talisman: Digital Edition is getting an update soon. In addition to some IAPs, such as the Black Witch and Apprentice Mage characters, the former iPad exclusive will finally be ported to the iPhone.
Better plug that phone in if you're planning on making the switch from the iPad, though. The games, in classic, fantasy RPG style, can run for several hours.
Talisma...
