Veteran British designer Peter Molyneux has always faced criticism and backlash for his work. He brings it on himself, most of the time, by promising ambitious features and then failing to fully deliver on them.
But with Kickstarted god game Godus - which recently launched on iOS as a free to play game - Molyneux has faced some of the most vehement detractors yet.
I chatted to the man behind...
Greed is one of the seven deadly sins. It's for this reason that Foodie, the gluttonous green slime in Happymagenta's Foodie Yama, is punished.
While sitting atop his food mountain, some seismic activity opens up a large chasm right beneath him. Tragically, all of his food topples into this hole.
Your task, then, is to help Foodie navigate this dangerous pit and eat as much of his food as po...
Fans of Syberia will be pleased. Microids has announced that Syberia 3 is now underway and should be coming to mobile in 2015.
Once again, we'll be following corporate lawyer turned detective Kate Walker. She's investigating the mysterious island of Syberia once again in this third entry to the adventure game series.
While we don't have many details yet, Microids has released some screensho...
The second part of Gold Award-winning point-and-click adventure The Journey Down is set to hit the App Store next Monday, which is good news.
The first part of the game saw you taking control of a pair of mechanic brothers, fixing a plane, finding a book, and getting involved in the beginnings of a lot of interesting and potentially absorbing plot points.
We called it "a well constructed...
It appears this summer is the season of the iOS skating game. We've already seen Transworld Endless Skater, Epic Skater, and a soft-launched Tony Hawk's game in the past few months, and now it's the turn of Skater.
The game looks like it's going to follow the True Skate / Touchgrind Skate formula rather than the more arcadey entrants to the genre we've been treated to recently. Screenshots ...
GravityLine might look soft and welcoming at first glance, but once you've played it a few times it becomes obvious that it's anything but.
This is cruel, confusing game that demands you pay the highest attention at all times. A single lapse, a single miss-pressed button, and the bacterial blob you're controlling will plummet to its death.
There's not a great deal of content here, but what G...
Last week, members of the Pocket Gamer and AppSpy crew were at Gamescom in Cologne. After eating our collective body weight in sausages, we're bringing you hands-on impressions of our favourite games from the show.
Most indie point and click adventures try to ape the classics. Games like Fester Mudd and Gemini Rue are so defiantly low-fi, you'd think they were real relics of the early 90s.
...
At the end of last month, developer AimToG released a gorgeous-looking Unreal Engine 4-powered strategic shooter called Angels In The Sky.
In this action-packed title, you take on the role of a fighter pilot and attempt to master futuristic artillery as you take on waves and waves of airborne alien opponents that can move at blistering speeds and are capable of taking you down in seconds.
Lu...
Elysian Shadows is an intriguing looking 2D RPG that's currently looking for funding through a Kickstarter campaign. With 13 days to go it's already sucked up $100,000, but it needs another $50,000 to pass its funding goal.
The game is looking to push the retro RPG genre into the future, adding particles, dynamic lighting, and other shiny things to take the pixel art up to the next level. ...
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 t...
Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
This week has been a strange one. Half of us have been in Germany, hob-nobbing with the gaming elite at GDC and Gamescom.
The rest of us have been manning the news coal-face, hacking down some choice fact-nuggets with our journalism pick axes.
It was a pretty poor week for...
With Gamescom 2014 still in full swing, it's not surprising that most of this week's big hitters come from Cologne.
Industry speakers were once again on fine form, with Vlambeer's Rami Ismail serving up some advice on how to attract the press, players, and platform holders, while Adriel Wallick - a.k.a. Ms Minotaur - told us what she learned from making 38 games in 38 weeks.
Outside of Germa...
Stone Blade Entertainment and Playdek have teamed up to bring Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer to Android.
Ascension is a free, Bronze Award-winning deck building game that our original review called "clever and tactical."
To celebrate its new Android launch, and the advent of Gen Con Indy 2014 (which began August 14th), Playdek is running a sale for Ascension's expansions. See the list...
"Hello? You'd like me to valiantly battle endless hordes of zombies on tiny rotating worlds? Sounds great! I'll, for some reason, just dig out the least effective weapon possible, which is so puny I'd be better off throwing sand at undead faces instead!"
And so begins the story of 'a badass' having to battle endless waves of ravenous green-skinned, groaning, shuffling semi-corpses for… reasons....
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's best new iPhone and iPad games.
Pako
By Tree Men Games - buy on iPhone and iPad (69p / 99c)
My favourite aspect of the original Driver games on PS1 were how totally reckless the cops were as they pursued you. Pako recaptures that spirit.
It's a car-chase simulator that lasts only seconds at a time. Pure, cruel, and ...
If you need a new musically-charged dodging game then Size DOES Matter should entertain that desire.
Inspired by Super Hexagon, it's a neon punch-up of a game that involves resizing yourself, block-by-block, to fit perfectly through a gauntlet.
It's a fast-paced game with simple controls: one thumb controls position, the other controls size. All it demands is that you keep up with the beat t...
Lego Fusion sets and the corresponding apps are now available in the US.
As the name implies, this is a 'fusion' of real Lego bricks and mobile games.
Across the four different sets, you construct defensive towers, vehicles, and towns. You then scan your creations into your mobile or tablet to use inside the game. This is all detailed in our previous post.
Each Lego Fusion set gives you 2...
Tiny Wings and its HD version have been updated for the first time in quite a while. It's been, what - two years since the last update?
A pleasant surprise for a equally pleasurable game, then. This update adds five new Tuna Island levels to the Flight School portions of the game.
It's not just more belly sliding and big air, mind. Nope, as developer Andreas Illiger tweeted, these island...
Monster Legacy provides us with a scary glimpse into what a free to play Pokémon game would look like. However, it is missing a vital component.
There is no way to have PvP battles - outrageous.
However, Outplay Entertainment has updated the Bronze Award-winning monster collecting game so you can beat other players up now.
In fact, there are whole championships for you to compete in. Vic...
It might be 'games that look a lot like Clash of Clans' day here on Pocket Gamer. It's an event we seem to be celebrating more often as the months roll on.
This time round it's a Tiny Troopers-themed entrant to the genre called Tiny Troopers: Alliance. You can see what it looks like in the video at the top of the article.
You'll build a base, forge alliances with friends, and then go on ...
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Veteran British designer Peter Molyneux has always faced criticism and backlash for his work. He brings it on himself, most of the time, by promising ambitious features and then failing to fully deliver on them.
But with Kickstarted god game Godus - which recently launched on iOS as a free to play game - Molyneux has faced some of the most vehement detractors yet.
I chatted to the man behind...
Greed is one of the seven deadly sins. It's for this reason that Foodie, the gluttonous green slime in Happymagenta's Foodie Yama, is punished.
While sitting atop his food mountain, some seismic activity opens up a large chasm right beneath him. Tragically, all of his food topples into this hole.
Your task, then, is to help Foodie navigate this dangerous pit and eat as much of his food as po...
Fans of Syberia will be pleased. Microids has announced that Syberia 3 is now underway and should be coming to mobile in 2015.
Once again, we'll be following corporate lawyer turned detective Kate Walker. She's investigating the mysterious island of Syberia once again in this third entry to the adventure game series.
While we don't have many details yet, Microids has released some screensho...
The second part of Gold Award-winning point-and-click adventure The Journey Down is set to hit the App Store next Monday, which is good news.
The first part of the game saw you taking control of a pair of mechanic brothers, fixing a plane, finding a book, and getting involved in the beginnings of a lot of interesting and potentially absorbing plot points.
We called it "a well constructed...
It appears this summer is the season of the iOS skating game. We've already seen Transworld Endless Skater, Epic Skater, and a soft-launched Tony Hawk's game in the past few months, and now it's the turn of Skater.
The game looks like it's going to follow the True Skate / Touchgrind Skate formula rather than the more arcadey entrants to the genre we've been treated to recently. Screenshots ...
GravityLine might look soft and welcoming at first glance, but once you've played it a few times it becomes obvious that it's anything but.
This is cruel, confusing game that demands you pay the highest attention at all times. A single lapse, a single miss-pressed button, and the bacterial blob you're controlling will plummet to its death.
There's not a great deal of content here, but what G...
Last week, members of the Pocket Gamer and AppSpy crew were at Gamescom in Cologne. After eating our collective body weight in sausages, we're bringing you hands-on impressions of our favourite games from the show.
Most indie point and click adventures try to ape the classics. Games like Fester Mudd and Gemini Rue are so defiantly low-fi, you'd think they were real relics of the early 90s.
...
At the end of last month, developer AimToG released a gorgeous-looking Unreal Engine 4-powered strategic shooter called Angels In The Sky.
In this action-packed title, you take on the role of a fighter pilot and attempt to master futuristic artillery as you take on waves and waves of airborne alien opponents that can move at blistering speeds and are capable of taking you down in seconds.
Lu...
Elysian Shadows is an intriguing looking 2D RPG that's currently looking for funding through a Kickstarter campaign. With 13 days to go it's already sucked up $100,000, but it needs another $50,000 to pass its funding goal.
The game is looking to push the retro RPG genre into the future, adding particles, dynamic lighting, and other shiny things to take the pixel art up to the next level. ...
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 t...
Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages.
This week has been a strange one. Half of us have been in Germany, hob-nobbing with the gaming elite at GDC and Gamescom.
The rest of us have been manning the news coal-face, hacking down some choice fact-nuggets with our journalism pick axes.
It was a pretty poor week for...
With Gamescom 2014 still in full swing, it's not surprising that most of this week's big hitters come from Cologne.
Industry speakers were once again on fine form, with Vlambeer's Rami Ismail serving up some advice on how to attract the press, players, and platform holders, while Adriel Wallick - a.k.a. Ms Minotaur - told us what she learned from making 38 games in 38 weeks.
Outside of Germa...
Stone Blade Entertainment and Playdek have teamed up to bring Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer to Android.
Ascension is a free, Bronze Award-winning deck building game that our original review called "clever and tactical."
To celebrate its new Android launch, and the advent of Gen Con Indy 2014 (which began August 14th), Playdek is running a sale for Ascension's expansions. See the list...
"Hello? You'd like me to valiantly battle endless hordes of zombies on tiny rotating worlds? Sounds great! I'll, for some reason, just dig out the least effective weapon possible, which is so puny I'd be better off throwing sand at undead faces instead!"
And so begins the story of 'a badass' having to battle endless waves of ravenous green-skinned, groaning, shuffling semi-corpses for… reasons....
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's best new iPhone and iPad games.
Pako
By Tree Men Games - buy on iPhone and iPad (69p / 99c)
My favourite aspect of the original Driver games on PS1 were how totally reckless the cops were as they pursued you. Pako recaptures that spirit.
It's a car-chase simulator that lasts only seconds at a time. Pure, cruel, and ...
If you need a new musically-charged dodging game then Size DOES Matter should entertain that desire.
Inspired by Super Hexagon, it's a neon punch-up of a game that involves resizing yourself, block-by-block, to fit perfectly through a gauntlet.
It's a fast-paced game with simple controls: one thumb controls position, the other controls size. All it demands is that you keep up with the beat t...
Lego Fusion sets and the corresponding apps are now available in the US.
As the name implies, this is a 'fusion' of real Lego bricks and mobile games.
Across the four different sets, you construct defensive towers, vehicles, and towns. You then scan your creations into your mobile or tablet to use inside the game. This is all detailed in our previous post.
Each Lego Fusion set gives you 2...
Tiny Wings and its HD version have been updated for the first time in quite a while. It's been, what - two years since the last update?
A pleasant surprise for a equally pleasurable game, then. This update adds five new Tuna Island levels to the Flight School portions of the game.
It's not just more belly sliding and big air, mind. Nope, as developer Andreas Illiger tweeted, these island...
Monster Legacy provides us with a scary glimpse into what a free to play Pokémon game would look like. However, it is missing a vital component.
There is no way to have PvP battles - outrageous.
However, Outplay Entertainment has updated the Bronze Award-winning monster collecting game so you can beat other players up now.
In fact, there are whole championships for you to compete in. Vic...
It might be 'games that look a lot like Clash of Clans' day here on Pocket Gamer. It's an event we seem to be celebrating more often as the months roll on.
This time round it's a Tiny Troopers-themed entrant to the genre called Tiny Troopers: Alliance. You can see what it looks like in the video at the top of the article.
You'll build a base, forge alliances with friends, and then go on ...
