Almightree is an impressive looking 3D puzzler that sees you controlling a wizard tasked with fixing a collapsing world. It's just hit the New Zealand App Store, which means it should be out in the UK at midnight tonight.
The game takes inspiration from Zelda, but there's less violence and a little more thinking. You can move blocks around to create walkways. These let you escape the crumbl...
Relationship gurus talk about it all the time: how you shouldn't change yourself just to get someone to like you.
It never ends well. Too bad the protagonist of Fallin Love - The Game of Love never got the memo.
This is a story all about how
When a little green blocky-blob-thing loves another little green blocky-blob-thing, it can be beautiful.
Although not when one of the blobs keeps ...
ALONE is a bonkers fast twitchy arcade dodge 'em up from the dev behind PUK. It's just hit the New Zealand App Store, which means it'll be turning up in the UK at midnight tonight.
It's essentially an auto-runner set in space that sees you weaving through collapsing debris and spiked walls.
The aim of the game is to get as far as you can before you explode and die. You've got a bit of a ...
You might be getting sick of roguelikes at this point. Every other game these days seems to have random levels, permadeath, and enemies that wait patiently to attack.
But don't discount The Nightmare Cooperative, from Bad Hotel and Gentlemen! developer Lucky Frame, just yet. By smartly mixing up the formula, this dungeon crawler manages to feel rather fresh.
The idea is that all of your ...
Well, well, well. Oh, no it's not a well, it's a submerged dystopia populated by drug-crazed mutants and giant drill-fisted terrors. I guess Bioshock has just turned up on the New Zealand App Store.
That means the Unreal-powered classic should be making its way to the UK at midnight tonight, so you don't have much longer to wait to get your greasy mitts on it.
It's not going to come chea...
Mikey Boots is the third game in the Mikey series (or at least it is if you ignore Mikey Shorts Halloween, which apparently I am doing) and it's a pretty big departure, dropping the platforming of the first two games in favour of a more tappy approach.
You move forwards automatically. Tapping on the left side of the screen moves you up to the left, and tapping on the right moves you up and ...
Another Dong Nguyen game, another cloning controversy. But this time it's the Flappy Bird creator being accused of plagiarism by the developers of Bog Racer.
Pocket Gamer has received an email from Open Name, claiming that Nguyen heavily borrowed ideas from its one-touch driving game, which hit the App Store at the end of July.
That doesn't seem like much time to "copy" a game, but consideri...
A whole bunch of top-notch iOS games are available for a buck right now - possibly as part of some upcoming Apple promotion.
Highlights include Terry Cavnagh's ultra-tough, gravity-flipping sci-fi adventure VVVVVV; zig-zagging ribbon weaving puzzler Strata; and Nitrome's absurdly creative glacier chopper Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage.
Plus, a handful of twitchy just-one-more-go games are on sa...
One of the games I've played on my PlayStation 4 is Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. It rekindled my love of the franchise to the point that I'm very keen to see the next AC instalment: Assassin's Creed Unity.
And when I learned that a new Assassin's Creed mobile game was being made - entitled Memories - I was really rather excited.
Imagine my disappointment when I discovered this early vers...
Even in the ocean's most abyssal depths, there is light. There isn't much, but it's there.
In upcoming iOS and Android game Seashine, your life will depend on finding it, one source at a time.
We don't know much about this eerily luminescent game yet, just that it boasts "simple and intuitive" controls, relies on constant exploration, and will be available "early" September.
Seashine is d...
If we've learned anything from zombie games, from The Walking Dead to DayZ, staying in groups has its ups and downs.
Chances of survival are better with a team, but it can also be risky. How many of your friends can you actually trust?
Dead Cells, a new zombie survival game from Motion Twin, weaves trust and betrayal into the very fiber of its mechanics.
In a battle to be the last one sta...
Chair has announced that Infinity Blade III: Kingdom Come will be available on September 4th.
Kingdom Come is a free update to the Bronze Award-winning Infinity Blade III. It'll be available to everyone who owns the game.
"The update delivers a stunning new environment, dozens of new items and weapons, and new enemies to defeat, including a fierce new dragon," Chair tells us.
It'll al...
Appointment with F.E.A.R. is the campest thing I've seen in video games for a while. It has supervillains with names like "Tiger Cat" and "Chainsaw Bronski".
It's based on the Steve Jackson gamebook of the same name. Developer Tin Man Games calls its adaptation of it an "interactive graphic novel".
Set in the 1980s, Appointment with F.E.A.R. has you play as a superhero and champion of justi...
The Walking Dead Pinball shouldn't exist. It doesn't make sense.
Here we have two games on the near-opposite ends of the gaming spectrum: a choice-driven adventure, and a pinball game. They can't just be merged into a single game.
Yet, Zen Studios has proven this line of thinking wrong, apparently.
The Walking Dead Pinball is based on the first season of Telltale's The Walking Dead. So, y...
Everything feels good in Gemini Strike. Best of all are the explosions, which sound like the torrential bass warbles heard in Michael Bay's Transformers films.
Played with a single finger, Gemini Strike seems to throb at your touch, like a machine kicking into action.
Other spaceships try to attack you in formations but are as good as debris. They're the red barrels in first-person shooters;...
Updated on August 26th, at 14:49: It looks like you'll be swooping through the skies as an obese man sooner than you thought. 8bit Doves just hit the New Zealand App Store, meaning it will be live worldwide tonight at midnight.
The game has three level packs - Sweet Dreams, Deep Sleep, and Nightmare - but never more than four colours. And it's got Game Center support for swapping scores.
...
I had a tinker with Star Wars: Commander a little while ago - back when the game soft-launched in Australia, in fact.
It wears its Clash of Clans inspirations on its sleeves, and indeed it's tempting to write the game off immediately as just another clone.
But this is a Star Wars game, seemingly with a significant budget behind it, so there's got to be more to Commander than meets the eye, r...
Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen has updated his latest game Swing Copters so that it's not quite as hard.
Of course, the whole idea behind Nguyen's games is to punish you for even the slightest of failures.
But, obviously, Nguyen decided that Swing Copters was just a little too challenging.
We agreed in our review, comparing it to the strengths of Flappy Bird when saying: "Swing Copters a...
Cubus Games is bringing out its next "gamebook" Heavy Metal Thunder for iOS on September 3rd.
It's about trying to fight back against the technologically advanced and hyper-militaristic alien race that just wiped out the majority of humanity. Yeah, good luck with that.
So, Heavy Metal Thunder is the kind of deathly sci-fi that you'll enjoy if you liked Dead Space or the frightening moments ...
8bit Doves is a wicked two-button arcade maze game from the dev behind Icebreaker that's set to hit the App Store this Thursday.
It's cut into short sharp retro bursts that see you leading a slumbering sprite through a series of tricky obstacles. There are doves to collect as well, if you're in to that sort of thing.
The controls send you floating and twisting through the air. It's not e...
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Almightree is an impressive looking 3D puzzler that sees you controlling a wizard tasked with fixing a collapsing world. It's just hit the New Zealand App Store, which means it should be out in the UK at midnight tonight.
The game takes inspiration from Zelda, but there's less violence and a little more thinking. You can move blocks around to create walkways. These let you escape the crumbl...
Relationship gurus talk about it all the time: how you shouldn't change yourself just to get someone to like you.
It never ends well. Too bad the protagonist of Fallin Love - The Game of Love never got the memo.
This is a story all about how
When a little green blocky-blob-thing loves another little green blocky-blob-thing, it can be beautiful.
Although not when one of the blobs keeps ...
ALONE is a bonkers fast twitchy arcade dodge 'em up from the dev behind PUK. It's just hit the New Zealand App Store, which means it'll be turning up in the UK at midnight tonight.
It's essentially an auto-runner set in space that sees you weaving through collapsing debris and spiked walls.
The aim of the game is to get as far as you can before you explode and die. You've got a bit of a ...
You might be getting sick of roguelikes at this point. Every other game these days seems to have random levels, permadeath, and enemies that wait patiently to attack.
But don't discount The Nightmare Cooperative, from Bad Hotel and Gentlemen! developer Lucky Frame, just yet. By smartly mixing up the formula, this dungeon crawler manages to feel rather fresh.
The idea is that all of your ...
Well, well, well. Oh, no it's not a well, it's a submerged dystopia populated by drug-crazed mutants and giant drill-fisted terrors. I guess Bioshock has just turned up on the New Zealand App Store.
That means the Unreal-powered classic should be making its way to the UK at midnight tonight, so you don't have much longer to wait to get your greasy mitts on it.
It's not going to come chea...
Mikey Boots is the third game in the Mikey series (or at least it is if you ignore Mikey Shorts Halloween, which apparently I am doing) and it's a pretty big departure, dropping the platforming of the first two games in favour of a more tappy approach.
You move forwards automatically. Tapping on the left side of the screen moves you up to the left, and tapping on the right moves you up and ...
Another Dong Nguyen game, another cloning controversy. But this time it's the Flappy Bird creator being accused of plagiarism by the developers of Bog Racer.
Pocket Gamer has received an email from Open Name, claiming that Nguyen heavily borrowed ideas from its one-touch driving game, which hit the App Store at the end of July.
That doesn't seem like much time to "copy" a game, but consideri...
A whole bunch of top-notch iOS games are available for a buck right now - possibly as part of some upcoming Apple promotion.
Highlights include Terry Cavnagh's ultra-tough, gravity-flipping sci-fi adventure VVVVVV; zig-zagging ribbon weaving puzzler Strata; and Nitrome's absurdly creative glacier chopper Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage.
Plus, a handful of twitchy just-one-more-go games are on sa...
One of the games I've played on my PlayStation 4 is Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. It rekindled my love of the franchise to the point that I'm very keen to see the next AC instalment: Assassin's Creed Unity.
And when I learned that a new Assassin's Creed mobile game was being made - entitled Memories - I was really rather excited.
Imagine my disappointment when I discovered this early vers...
Even in the ocean's most abyssal depths, there is light. There isn't much, but it's there.
In upcoming iOS and Android game Seashine, your life will depend on finding it, one source at a time.
We don't know much about this eerily luminescent game yet, just that it boasts "simple and intuitive" controls, relies on constant exploration, and will be available "early" September.
Seashine is d...
If we've learned anything from zombie games, from The Walking Dead to DayZ, staying in groups has its ups and downs.
Chances of survival are better with a team, but it can also be risky. How many of your friends can you actually trust?
Dead Cells, a new zombie survival game from Motion Twin, weaves trust and betrayal into the very fiber of its mechanics.
In a battle to be the last one sta...
Chair has announced that Infinity Blade III: Kingdom Come will be available on September 4th.
Kingdom Come is a free update to the Bronze Award-winning Infinity Blade III. It'll be available to everyone who owns the game.
"The update delivers a stunning new environment, dozens of new items and weapons, and new enemies to defeat, including a fierce new dragon," Chair tells us.
It'll al...
Appointment with F.E.A.R. is the campest thing I've seen in video games for a while. It has supervillains with names like "Tiger Cat" and "Chainsaw Bronski".
It's based on the Steve Jackson gamebook of the same name. Developer Tin Man Games calls its adaptation of it an "interactive graphic novel".
Set in the 1980s, Appointment with F.E.A.R. has you play as a superhero and champion of justi...
The Walking Dead Pinball shouldn't exist. It doesn't make sense.
Here we have two games on the near-opposite ends of the gaming spectrum: a choice-driven adventure, and a pinball game. They can't just be merged into a single game.
Yet, Zen Studios has proven this line of thinking wrong, apparently.
The Walking Dead Pinball is based on the first season of Telltale's The Walking Dead. So, y...
Everything feels good in Gemini Strike. Best of all are the explosions, which sound like the torrential bass warbles heard in Michael Bay's Transformers films.
Played with a single finger, Gemini Strike seems to throb at your touch, like a machine kicking into action.
Other spaceships try to attack you in formations but are as good as debris. They're the red barrels in first-person shooters;...![[Update] Out at midnight: 8bit Doves is swooping and crashing its way onto iPad and iPhone](http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/artwork/thumbs/na-mkhyw_8bit-doves-image_jpg_100.jpg)
Updated on August 26th, at 14:49: It looks like you'll be swooping through the skies as an obese man sooner than you thought. 8bit Doves just hit the New Zealand App Store, meaning it will be live worldwide tonight at midnight.
The game has three level packs - Sweet Dreams, Deep Sleep, and Nightmare - but never more than four colours. And it's got Game Center support for swapping scores.
...
I had a tinker with Star Wars: Commander a little while ago - back when the game soft-launched in Australia, in fact.
It wears its Clash of Clans inspirations on its sleeves, and indeed it's tempting to write the game off immediately as just another clone.
But this is a Star Wars game, seemingly with a significant budget behind it, so there's got to be more to Commander than meets the eye, r...
Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen has updated his latest game Swing Copters so that it's not quite as hard.
Of course, the whole idea behind Nguyen's games is to punish you for even the slightest of failures.
But, obviously, Nguyen decided that Swing Copters was just a little too challenging.
We agreed in our review, comparing it to the strengths of Flappy Bird when saying: "Swing Copters a...
Cubus Games is bringing out its next "gamebook" Heavy Metal Thunder for iOS on September 3rd.
It's about trying to fight back against the technologically advanced and hyper-militaristic alien race that just wiped out the majority of humanity. Yeah, good luck with that.
So, Heavy Metal Thunder is the kind of deathly sci-fi that you'll enjoy if you liked Dead Space or the frightening moments ...
