Frogger is one of those games that I just didn't appreciate when I was growing up. It was too difficult for little uncoordinated ol' me, so I just avoided it. Some years later I tried it again and actually found it to be pretty fun.
And then Crossy Road comes along and turns my enjoyment into something bordering on obsession.
Why did the chicken...
Crossy Road is Frogger, but it's not. It...
A new expansion has been added to Talisman: Digital Edition, the mobile version of the classic board game of the same name.
The Dungeon expansion adds several new cards to the game: 128 Dungeon cards, 20 Spell cards, 10 Treasure cards, and 10 Adventure cards.
It costs £2.99 / $4.99 as an in-app purchase.
The update also comes with a new section for the game board, full of extra paths to v...
The Humble Crescent Moon Mobile Bundle has just launched for all you Android folk. It offers a bunch of great games from Crescent Moon Games, with more still to come, too.
You can pay-what-you-want ($1 minimum) for the following:
Space Chicks
2-Bit Cowboy
Neon Shadow
Ravensword: Shadowlands
If you pay above the average, then you also get:
Topia World Builder
Shadow Blade
...
It's a common tactic in football punditry to look back at last season's teams, stats, and bold pronouncements, and to use them as a means to measure progress in the here and now.
Let's try it with Football Manager Handheld 2015. In last year's Football Manager Handheld 2014 review, I concluded:
"Football Manager Handheld 2014 remains the best football management game on iOS, but it’s a big f...
Javelin through the face. Running with scissors. Falling into an icy lake.
These are just a few of the ways you can die in Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games.
It's the sequel to the viral hit Dumb Ways to Die. And, as such, is a series of WarioWare-like safety-focused mini-games.
You pick a location on the map to send your train to, and once you arrive, you try to survive a number of hazard-f...
Chances are, if you own an iPhone, you’ve played a mobile creature collector, city builder, or fighting game. The chances of you playing a game that combines all three, however, are very slim indeed, and that’s exactly what Game Cognition has achieved with its latest iPhone game, Island of Mu.
Island of Mu aims to do much more than simply cram three successful genres into one game though. It's ...
Bandai Namco is holding a limited-time sale on the classic fighting game and Bronze Award-winning Soul Calibur on Android.
From November 21st to December 4th, you can purchase Soul Calibur for £2.49 / $3.92 rather than £9.99 / $13.99.
When we reviewed the iOS version of Soul Calibur back in 2012, we called it a " fantastic fighting game," but added that it is "harder to recommend than it sh...
Atlus has teamed up with Chunsoft to create a crossover game called Etrian Odyssey and Mystery Dungeon.
As with the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series, the idea of this crossover is to bring a roguelike adventure format to JRPG series Etrian Odyssey.
Etrian Odyssey and Mystery Dungeon is due for release on the 3DS in Japan on March 5th 2015.
There's not many details about it outside of wh...
Google has removed a game called Ass Hunter from its Play store after a slew of complaints in the app review section due to its homophobic content.
Ass Hunter is a shooter in which you hunt naked gay men before they can run up to you and molest you. "Play and do not be gay!" read the game's description on Google Play before it was removed.
Ass Hunter has been available to play online in vari...
MOGA made the very first MFi controller. But that debut device, the MOGA Ace Power, was a bit of a shambles. It broke down a lot, the buttons were unresponsive, the thumb sticks were weird, and it's already outdated as it can't hold the iPhone 6.
Now MOGA is back for a second try with the all new MOGA Rebel and it's a completely different story.
For starters, this one works over Bluetooth in...
Spider-Man's nemesis the Venom Symbiote is getting its own table in all Zen Pinball, and all its variations (including Marvel Pinball, obviously).
Zen Studios tells us that this new table will arrive on the week starting December 8th, which is two weeks today. So you'll be able to grab it on Vita, iOS, and Android around that time.
The Venom table features Eddie Brock in his Symbiote-empower...
As you fly through asteroid fields and blast tentacled aliens in 2D arcade space-shooter Star Troll it's recommended that you sing Star Trekkin'.
You'll have to replace "Star Trekkin' across the universe" with "Star Trollin' across the universe," but other than that you're good to go.
This is because the sci-fi of Star Troll has that retro appeal to it. It has none of the crew management of...
Monument Valley's pointy-hatted princess Ida has got to go through one more trek across, under, and inside-out brain-boggling architectural wonders.
This final chapter - which is part of Apple's Project (RED) charity campaign - is perhaps her most difficult journey yet and you'll likely need a helping hand as you clear these challenges.
Watch out video below and follow our every move and you...
Future Factory is a roguelike twin stick shooter that's headed to mobile devices sometime later in the year. It's set in a robot-infested future, and it looks pretty swish.
There's RPG-style levelling, and plenty of upgrades as well. You stomp through procedurally generated levels blasting robots who've taken over the factory they're made in.
The game features simple pick-up-and-play con...
Ah, another retro platform game. And what's that? Blocks floating in the air that dispense coins when you headbutt them from beneath? This seems somewhat familiar…
All of which makes Super Bunny World something of a pleasant surprise once you get into it.
Yes, there's a strong sense of 8 and 16-bit homage here, to the point of being a subtle rip-off of the first-party titles that populated y...
Hordemaster is an interesting looking RPG-infused third-person shooter that's coming to mobile devices in the not-too-distant future.
It's fair to say that the game owes a debt to Borderlands. It's all cel-shaded desert battles, character development, and flashy bullets.
There's Clash of Clans-style base building as well, and it's all set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
The game is d...
Wearable tech is proving a difficult thing to pigeonhole, but perhaps that's because we're over thinking it. Take the XOO Belt, for example. It's tech, because it's a USB phone charger, and it's wearable, because it holds your trousers up.
So by definition, it's wearable tech. But a smart belt? Hmm...
Strap on a charger
This new device has just taken to IndieGoGo in an effort to crowdfund...
At the start of October we told you about Tales From Deep Space, a co-op adventure set on a space station that was exclusively for Amazon Fire Tablets.
Well, it's out now, so if you've got a Fire Tablet and you fancy a funny puzzle solving adventure set on something called Big Moon, now's your chance.
There are two playable characters, E and CASI. You can swap between them on the fly if ...
Apple has joined up with the charity (RED) and a whole bunch of iOS developers to launch the Apps for (RED) campaign, an initiative to raise money to fight AIDS.
The big news is that Monument Valley has been updated with a new level, which will apparently end the story of the game. It's available for 69p / 99c. It's called Ida's (RED) Dream, and 100% of the purchase price goes to the charity.
...
Other than classic puzzle game EDGE, it's hard to think of many contemporary isometric 3D games that don't also adopt a retro styling, either in terms of graphics or gameplay. Or both.
So right away Blitz Racer stands out. It's hard to put your finger on what's so unusual about it at first, but after a few laps (and there will be a few) you begin to piece together the depth of personality squir...
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Frogger is one of those games that I just didn't appreciate when I was growing up. It was too difficult for little uncoordinated ol' me, so I just avoided it. Some years later I tried it again and actually found it to be pretty fun.
And then Crossy Road comes along and turns my enjoyment into something bordering on obsession.
Why did the chicken...
Crossy Road is Frogger, but it's not. It...
A new expansion has been added to Talisman: Digital Edition, the mobile version of the classic board game of the same name.
The Dungeon expansion adds several new cards to the game: 128 Dungeon cards, 20 Spell cards, 10 Treasure cards, and 10 Adventure cards.
It costs £2.99 / $4.99 as an in-app purchase.
The update also comes with a new section for the game board, full of extra paths to v...
The Humble Crescent Moon Mobile Bundle has just launched for all you Android folk. It offers a bunch of great games from Crescent Moon Games, with more still to come, too.
You can pay-what-you-want ($1 minimum) for the following:
Space Chicks
2-Bit Cowboy
Neon Shadow
Ravensword: Shadowlands
If you pay above the average, then you also get:
Topia World Builder
Shadow Blade
...
It's a common tactic in football punditry to look back at last season's teams, stats, and bold pronouncements, and to use them as a means to measure progress in the here and now.
Let's try it with Football Manager Handheld 2015. In last year's Football Manager Handheld 2014 review, I concluded:
"Football Manager Handheld 2014 remains the best football management game on iOS, but it’s a big f...
Javelin through the face. Running with scissors. Falling into an icy lake.
These are just a few of the ways you can die in Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games.
It's the sequel to the viral hit Dumb Ways to Die. And, as such, is a series of WarioWare-like safety-focused mini-games.
You pick a location on the map to send your train to, and once you arrive, you try to survive a number of hazard-f...![Game Cognition’s most recent creation is an entirely new beast with familiar faces [sponsored]](http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/artwork/thumbs/na-fgqmo_iphone-screenshot-1_jpeg_100.jpg)
Chances are, if you own an iPhone, you’ve played a mobile creature collector, city builder, or fighting game. The chances of you playing a game that combines all three, however, are very slim indeed, and that’s exactly what Game Cognition has achieved with its latest iPhone game, Island of Mu.
Island of Mu aims to do much more than simply cram three successful genres into one game though. It's ...
Bandai Namco is holding a limited-time sale on the classic fighting game and Bronze Award-winning Soul Calibur on Android.
From November 21st to December 4th, you can purchase Soul Calibur for £2.49 / $3.92 rather than £9.99 / $13.99.
When we reviewed the iOS version of Soul Calibur back in 2012, we called it a " fantastic fighting game," but added that it is "harder to recommend than it sh...
Atlus has teamed up with Chunsoft to create a crossover game called Etrian Odyssey and Mystery Dungeon.
As with the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series, the idea of this crossover is to bring a roguelike adventure format to JRPG series Etrian Odyssey.
Etrian Odyssey and Mystery Dungeon is due for release on the 3DS in Japan on March 5th 2015.
There's not many details about it outside of wh...
Google has removed a game called Ass Hunter from its Play store after a slew of complaints in the app review section due to its homophobic content.
Ass Hunter is a shooter in which you hunt naked gay men before they can run up to you and molest you. "Play and do not be gay!" read the game's description on Google Play before it was removed.
Ass Hunter has been available to play online in vari...
MOGA made the very first MFi controller. But that debut device, the MOGA Ace Power, was a bit of a shambles. It broke down a lot, the buttons were unresponsive, the thumb sticks were weird, and it's already outdated as it can't hold the iPhone 6.
Now MOGA is back for a second try with the all new MOGA Rebel and it's a completely different story.
For starters, this one works over Bluetooth in...
Spider-Man's nemesis the Venom Symbiote is getting its own table in all Zen Pinball, and all its variations (including Marvel Pinball, obviously).
Zen Studios tells us that this new table will arrive on the week starting December 8th, which is two weeks today. So you'll be able to grab it on Vita, iOS, and Android around that time.
The Venom table features Eddie Brock in his Symbiote-empower...
As you fly through asteroid fields and blast tentacled aliens in 2D arcade space-shooter Star Troll it's recommended that you sing Star Trekkin'.
You'll have to replace "Star Trekkin' across the universe" with "Star Trollin' across the universe," but other than that you're good to go.
This is because the sci-fi of Star Troll has that retro appeal to it. It has none of the crew management of...
Monument Valley's pointy-hatted princess Ida has got to go through one more trek across, under, and inside-out brain-boggling architectural wonders.
This final chapter - which is part of Apple's Project (RED) charity campaign - is perhaps her most difficult journey yet and you'll likely need a helping hand as you clear these challenges.
Watch out video below and follow our every move and you...
Future Factory is a roguelike twin stick shooter that's headed to mobile devices sometime later in the year. It's set in a robot-infested future, and it looks pretty swish.
There's RPG-style levelling, and plenty of upgrades as well. You stomp through procedurally generated levels blasting robots who've taken over the factory they're made in.
The game features simple pick-up-and-play con...
Ah, another retro platform game. And what's that? Blocks floating in the air that dispense coins when you headbutt them from beneath? This seems somewhat familiar…
All of which makes Super Bunny World something of a pleasant surprise once you get into it.
Yes, there's a strong sense of 8 and 16-bit homage here, to the point of being a subtle rip-off of the first-party titles that populated y...
Hordemaster is an interesting looking RPG-infused third-person shooter that's coming to mobile devices in the not-too-distant future.
It's fair to say that the game owes a debt to Borderlands. It's all cel-shaded desert battles, character development, and flashy bullets.
There's Clash of Clans-style base building as well, and it's all set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
The game is d...
Wearable tech is proving a difficult thing to pigeonhole, but perhaps that's because we're over thinking it. Take the XOO Belt, for example. It's tech, because it's a USB phone charger, and it's wearable, because it holds your trousers up.
So by definition, it's wearable tech. But a smart belt? Hmm...
Strap on a charger
This new device has just taken to IndieGoGo in an effort to crowdfund...
At the start of October we told you about Tales From Deep Space, a co-op adventure set on a space station that was exclusively for Amazon Fire Tablets.
Well, it's out now, so if you've got a Fire Tablet and you fancy a funny puzzle solving adventure set on something called Big Moon, now's your chance.
There are two playable characters, E and CASI. You can swap between them on the fly if ...
Apple has joined up with the charity (RED) and a whole bunch of iOS developers to launch the Apps for (RED) campaign, an initiative to raise money to fight AIDS.
The big news is that Monument Valley has been updated with a new level, which will apparently end the story of the game. It's available for 69p / 99c. It's called Ida's (RED) Dream, and 100% of the purchase price goes to the charity.
...
Other than classic puzzle game EDGE, it's hard to think of many contemporary isometric 3D games that don't also adopt a retro styling, either in terms of graphics or gameplay. Or both.
So right away Blitz Racer stands out. It's hard to put your finger on what's so unusual about it at first, but after a few laps (and there will be a few) you begin to piece together the depth of personality squir...
