Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
This week, the headlines were dominated by Apple and it's pair of new blowers: the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.
To get you up to scratch, check out this guide on everything you need to know about the phones. And if you're more of an Android fan, see how it stacks up against the Galax...
The Week That Was isn't a competition, but if it was, this week's winner would be Apple.
The Cupertino giant stole the show with a flurry of announcments, lifing the lid on the iPhone 6, 6 Plus, and the Apple Watch: pieces of tech Apple described as "the biggest advancements in iPhone history".
EA also revealed it has already started to work on "prototype wearable experiences", namely for th...
Somewhere beyond the rows of white picket fences and pristine cul-de-sacs of suburban America, a civil defense siren wails. The BBQ is ruined. This is not a drill.
The upcoming Cold War-inspired comedy game 60 Seconds will place you in the role of Ted, an average, hard working family man caught in the middle of a nuclear war.
Toss that "duck and cover" nonsense out the window. When that alar...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
Goblin Sword
By Eleftherios Christodoulatos - buy on iPhone and iPad (69p / 99c)
If Goblin Sword had come out on Commodore Amiga, it would have easily supplanted Zool and Superfrog as the game that proved it was possible to have a great arcade platformer without buying a SNES or a Mega Dri...
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...
Doppler is a game that asks, "How long can you hold on?" For me, the answer is a desperate croak. "Not very long," I cry.
It's an infinite twitch game played with two fingers. Perhaps it's best described as a mix of Pivvot and a wire loop game - you know, the ones that buzz when you screw up.
You hold two of your fingers on either side of the central line, and then everything starts to scrol...
Light in the Dark is a casual puzzle about helping peculiar light-based creatures called totems to find their babies. It should be coming to Android, iOS, and Windows Phone this month.
It's a casual puzzler and the first game from Dreamgate Studios which, it turns out, consists of people who worked on XCOM, BioShock, and Fallout.
I've spent a little bit of time with Light in the Dark and enj...
I went hands-on with Etherlords back when it was still in soft-launch, and I was really impressed. The game felt like it could be the next step forward for the card battler, a genre which is in desperate need of a shake up.
Now Etherlords has been launched globally, and I've got an opportunity to see how the game is changing as it finds a wider audience.
Are the improvements to the Rage of B...
Vivid Games has announced new Survival Challenge competitions for the Bronze Award-winning Godfire: Rise of Prometheus.
To celebrate this fact, the game is now on sale at its lowest price yet. That is: 69p / 99c, down from the previous price of £1.99 / $2.99.
The Survival Challenges ask you to display skill by taking on hordes of enemies in Godfire's Survival Mode. There will be two separate...
This week, Apple went big. It said, and I'm paraphrasing here, "oh, so you Android jerks like big phones? Well here's a big phone. A bloody big phone. It's absolutely massive. Go on and buy it. I dare you".
The monster iPhone 6 Plus makes most phablets look like a smartphone for ants. And the iPhone 6 is no slouch either, dwarfing its teeny iPhone 5S predecessor.
So how do these phones stack...
Slide to Finish would be overbearingly cute if it weren't for two things.
First, it's damned weird. You're a scarf-wearing bear with a magic pen, sketching out paths and jumps to guide your toboggan to the level exit. If you can grab some carrots for your two hare buddies along the way, more's the better.
I don't know whether to say "ahh" or "ehh?"
Hare's breadth
But the second and mos...
If you like management games that see you taking control of racing teams then you're being spoiled at the moment. First we had Motorsport Manager, a tilt-shifted hands-off sim that won a Gold Award a few weeks ago.
And now there's Race Team Manager. It's a slightly different beast, offering a less indirect form of management. You get to do some overtaking, change the wheels on your car, and wea...
Robotic horror story Five Nights at Freddy's has skittered onto the App Store, meaning iOS gamers can scare themselves silly for just £1.99 / $2.99. Which isn't that much.
The game involves staying alive in a restaurant that's populated by murderous little robots. The only tools at your disposal are some doors, some lights, and some security cameras.
We've already reviewed the Android ve...
Sword King is almost everything that's wrong with mobile gaming.
It's insultingly basic.
It's completely lacking in any need for gaming skill.
It's pay-to-win.
It's a totally vapid experience devoid of all meaning.
Tap
To play, you tap the screen anywhere, which "attacks" an enemy you never see. This diminishes your energy levels but gives you coins to spend on upgrading your swo...
Transformers: Age of Extinction – The Official Mobile Game is a free to play “combat runner” based on the film franchise by Michael Bay.
It has just received its first, free update since its release in June.
The update adds new levels, bosses, and a new feature called the Special Events Series. Part one of the Special Events series is the Hunted Survival Missions.
These are limited, skill...
Game Oven, the folks behind two-player mobile dancing game Bounden, have just announced a new game called Jelly Reef for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone.
In Jelly Reef, you’ll use the touchscreen to manipulate the oceanic elements, taking control of sea currents to guide a swarm of jellyfish around several lively, subaquatic levels.
Based on the lovely handdrawn artwork and cross-sectioned o...
Goblin Sword is a retro platformer through and through. From its chunky sprites to its upgradeable swords, the whole thing wouldn't look out of place on a SNES.
It's got that retro edge as well. It's not super tough, but when it wants to it can be cruel, throwing combinations of enemies and platforms at you that require quick thinking and nimble fingers.
And while its levels can be finished ...
Hardlight Studio has updated Crazy Taxi: City Rush with a bunch of new stuff for you to rev your engine over.
Firstly, there's a new district to frighten you passengers within as you take them to their destination. It's called "Hills", and it has a film lot, golf course, and an observatory for you to crash into.
If you head over to the Hills section of the show room, you'll also find five ne...
You haven't heard? Apple announced the iPhone 6 on Tuesday. It's a pretty big deal.
In fact, 'big' is the operative word here, given that the new iPhone sports a notably bigger display than before. We're talking 4.7-inches of pure ion-strengthened glass.
Of course, this has served to get the Android fanboys riled up with cries of "Copycats!" and "We've had big phones for ages!" and "Applesux...
Spacewrights has a kind of FTL: Faster Than Light appeal to it at first.
You may find yourself glancing at its spaceship customisation and thinking, "yeah, I would enjoy this." But wait, it's more than what you're thinking it is.
Spacewrights is actually a 4X strategy and spaceship simulation game. What this means is that you'll be exploring space, building a ship, and creating a galactic em...
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Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
This week, the headlines were dominated by Apple and it's pair of new blowers: the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.
To get you up to scratch, check out this guide on everything you need to know about the phones. And if you're more of an Android fan, see how it stacks up against the Galax...
The Week That Was isn't a competition, but if it was, this week's winner would be Apple.
The Cupertino giant stole the show with a flurry of announcments, lifing the lid on the iPhone 6, 6 Plus, and the Apple Watch: pieces of tech Apple described as "the biggest advancements in iPhone history".
EA also revealed it has already started to work on "prototype wearable experiences", namely for th...
Somewhere beyond the rows of white picket fences and pristine cul-de-sacs of suburban America, a civil defense siren wails. The BBQ is ruined. This is not a drill.
The upcoming Cold War-inspired comedy game 60 Seconds will place you in the role of Ted, an average, hard working family man caught in the middle of a nuclear war.
Toss that "duck and cover" nonsense out the window. When that alar...
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
Goblin Sword
By Eleftherios Christodoulatos - buy on iPhone and iPad (69p / 99c)
If Goblin Sword had come out on Commodore Amiga, it would have easily supplanted Zool and Superfrog as the game that proved it was possible to have a great arcade platformer without buying a SNES or a Mega Dri...
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...
Doppler is a game that asks, "How long can you hold on?" For me, the answer is a desperate croak. "Not very long," I cry.
It's an infinite twitch game played with two fingers. Perhaps it's best described as a mix of Pivvot and a wire loop game - you know, the ones that buzz when you screw up.
You hold two of your fingers on either side of the central line, and then everything starts to scrol...
Light in the Dark is a casual puzzle about helping peculiar light-based creatures called totems to find their babies. It should be coming to Android, iOS, and Windows Phone this month.
It's a casual puzzler and the first game from Dreamgate Studios which, it turns out, consists of people who worked on XCOM, BioShock, and Fallout.
I've spent a little bit of time with Light in the Dark and enj...
I went hands-on with Etherlords back when it was still in soft-launch, and I was really impressed. The game felt like it could be the next step forward for the card battler, a genre which is in desperate need of a shake up.
Now Etherlords has been launched globally, and I've got an opportunity to see how the game is changing as it finds a wider audience.
Are the improvements to the Rage of B...
Vivid Games has announced new Survival Challenge competitions for the Bronze Award-winning Godfire: Rise of Prometheus.
To celebrate this fact, the game is now on sale at its lowest price yet. That is: 69p / 99c, down from the previous price of £1.99 / $2.99.
The Survival Challenges ask you to display skill by taking on hordes of enemies in Godfire's Survival Mode. There will be two separate...
This week, Apple went big. It said, and I'm paraphrasing here, "oh, so you Android jerks like big phones? Well here's a big phone. A bloody big phone. It's absolutely massive. Go on and buy it. I dare you".
The monster iPhone 6 Plus makes most phablets look like a smartphone for ants. And the iPhone 6 is no slouch either, dwarfing its teeny iPhone 5S predecessor.
So how do these phones stack...
Slide to Finish would be overbearingly cute if it weren't for two things.
First, it's damned weird. You're a scarf-wearing bear with a magic pen, sketching out paths and jumps to guide your toboggan to the level exit. If you can grab some carrots for your two hare buddies along the way, more's the better.
I don't know whether to say "ahh" or "ehh?"
Hare's breadth
But the second and mos...
If you like management games that see you taking control of racing teams then you're being spoiled at the moment. First we had Motorsport Manager, a tilt-shifted hands-off sim that won a Gold Award a few weeks ago.
And now there's Race Team Manager. It's a slightly different beast, offering a less indirect form of management. You get to do some overtaking, change the wheels on your car, and wea...
Robotic horror story Five Nights at Freddy's has skittered onto the App Store, meaning iOS gamers can scare themselves silly for just £1.99 / $2.99. Which isn't that much.
The game involves staying alive in a restaurant that's populated by murderous little robots. The only tools at your disposal are some doors, some lights, and some security cameras.
We've already reviewed the Android ve...
Sword King is almost everything that's wrong with mobile gaming.
It's insultingly basic.
It's completely lacking in any need for gaming skill.
It's pay-to-win.
It's a totally vapid experience devoid of all meaning.
Tap
To play, you tap the screen anywhere, which "attacks" an enemy you never see. This diminishes your energy levels but gives you coins to spend on upgrading your swo...
Transformers: Age of Extinction – The Official Mobile Game is a free to play “combat runner” based on the film franchise by Michael Bay.
It has just received its first, free update since its release in June.
The update adds new levels, bosses, and a new feature called the Special Events Series. Part one of the Special Events series is the Hunted Survival Missions.
These are limited, skill...
Game Oven, the folks behind two-player mobile dancing game Bounden, have just announced a new game called Jelly Reef for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone.
In Jelly Reef, you’ll use the touchscreen to manipulate the oceanic elements, taking control of sea currents to guide a swarm of jellyfish around several lively, subaquatic levels.
Based on the lovely handdrawn artwork and cross-sectioned o...
Goblin Sword is a retro platformer through and through. From its chunky sprites to its upgradeable swords, the whole thing wouldn't look out of place on a SNES.
It's got that retro edge as well. It's not super tough, but when it wants to it can be cruel, throwing combinations of enemies and platforms at you that require quick thinking and nimble fingers.
And while its levels can be finished ...
Hardlight Studio has updated Crazy Taxi: City Rush with a bunch of new stuff for you to rev your engine over.
Firstly, there's a new district to frighten you passengers within as you take them to their destination. It's called "Hills", and it has a film lot, golf course, and an observatory for you to crash into.
If you head over to the Hills section of the show room, you'll also find five ne...
Spacewrights has a kind of FTL: Faster Than Light appeal to it at first.
You may find yourself glancing at its spaceship customisation and thinking, "yeah, I would enjoy this." But wait, it's more than what you're thinking it is.
Spacewrights is actually a 4X strategy and spaceship simulation game. What this means is that you'll be exploring space, building a ship, and creating a galactic em...
