The PlayStation era was the heyday of extreme sports games. Titles like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and Cool Boarders set a template that's remained largely unchanged for more than a decade.
And it's a template that Snowboard Party adheres to slavishly. The buttons might be onscreen, but you're still mashing together combinations to perform extravagant flips, spins, and grabs.
There's the obligat...
iOS is absolutely crammed with free-to-play RTSs such as Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, and Game of War – Fire Age. So just how do you stand out in a crowd of fine competitors such as these?
That's an issue that independent mobile developers Dawn Patrol Games are trying to solve with Nitropia: War Commanders.
We spoke to Studio Head, Prithvi Virasinghe about the new title and how he believes th...
It's been a miserably rainy day here, and so I'm glad to be writing about the sunny and superb Pixel Boat Rush, as it's now available on Android.
It's a competitive 2D speedboat racer about reducing air time to increase speed, and shooting your opponents until they blow up.
Pretty vicious, you might think, exploding boats with people inside of them. But hey, it's all in the name of crossing ...
Over the past few years, Lucky Frame has proven to be one of our favourite studios making games for iOS.
Those include Bad Hotel, Wave Trip, Gentlemen!, and The Nightmare Cooperative, which is currently free for our Advent Calendar (go get it!).
Now, unfortunately, the Edinburgh-based studio has disbanded and will be making no more games in the foreseeable future.
This is due to a number ...
Updated on December 11th, at 15:10: We've updated the list once again, this time adding Tomb Raider II, Skylanders Trap Team, Valiant Hearts: The Great War, Wayward Souls, Turbo Dismount, Warhammer 40,000: Carnage, Worms 3, Dead Trigger, BioShock, and Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath.
Plus, Mikey Boots, Bean Dreams, Joe Danger Infinity. Ridge Racer Slipstream, Rush Horizon, Table Top Racing, Inferno ...
The UK has a history of making side-splitting comical adventure games - think Simon the Sorcerer and Discworld. And it's nice to see that legacy continue on iOS with games such as Hector: Badge of Carnage and Detective Grimoire.
Newcomer Bertram Fiddle isn't quite as funny, and it isn't as sharply made as those modern-day classics. But it's still a charming game, with a wonderfully offbeat worl...
As was promised last week, Mojang has released its tactical turn-based battler Scrolls for Android tablets.
It combines what Mojang consider to be the best bits of collectible card games and tactical wargames.
It's played by two players who aim to destroy three of their opponent's six idols.
To this end, you collect scrolls (cards, basically) that you "sacrifice" to the hex-based map.
...
Liverpool-based studio Starship has revealed its upcoming crafting and action-based adventure game Playworld Superheroes.
This is to be the first in the Playworld series, which is clearly a child of Minecraft's popularity in as much as it aims to inspire creativity through crafting and adventure.
This first superhero-themed game is due to be released on mobile in January 2015.
The series ...
Ultra addictive endless runner Crossy Road recently received an update, that added a pair of new characters.
There's the Festive Chicken, which is currently available for free and can be yours from the start. But the other - a secret character called Gifty - is hidden away. How on earth do you get this guy?
Well, it takes patience. While playing as the Festive Chicken, you may randomly s...
Did you know that ghosts get cold? Nor did I before finding out about the latest level that's just been released for Haunt the House: Terrortown.
In this free level, you play as a new ghost that comes into the North Pole Department Store to warm up a little.
That's all fine and all, but being a ghost there is plenty of other mischief to be enacted that will warm you up even more.
As thi...
Silver Award-winning Zelda-inspired adventure Oceanhorn has had a massive visual overhaul to make it gleam even brighter on the newest iPhones and iPads.
Apparently it now features four times as many polygons, and runs at a silky smooth 60fps. I'm sure that's important if you love numbers. The update also smooths things a little for any device running iOS 8, so that's nice.
We called Oce...
Minecraft- Pocket Edition is now available on Windows Phone. By my count that brings the number of games you might want to play on the platform up to three. Way to go Windows Phone.
Of course it shouldn’t come as a surprise, since Microsoft bought Minecraft developer Mojang earlier in the year.
If you haven’t heard of Minecraft before, well, I just don’t know what to do with you. The gam...
Today marks Angry Birds's fifth birthday, and to celebrate Rovio has release a bunch of new levels based on fan art submissions.
You might remember we told you about the competition a few months back. It tasked fans with creating some art based on a number of different themes, with the winners getting their scrawlings turned into a level of the bird-flinging, pig-antagonising smash hit.
...
Cutesy free to play Animal Crossing-style adventure Seabeard is out worldwide on the App Store, so if you want to give it a bash you can.
The game sees you wandering around a series of lush islands, performing quests and trying to rebuild an old pirate village.
There are sea-faring mini games that involve dodging and shooting, and plenty of inanely grinning characters for you to meet alo...
Sneaky Sneaky isn't just a mobile stealth action game done well, it's a brilliant example of the genre as a whole. From its gorgeous cartoon stylings to its clever, single-screen puzzles, everything about it screams quality.
But there's ingenuity here too, and it's all held together by simple touch controls that never feel inadequate for the task at hand.
There are shades of Zelda here as we...
Ever wondered who'd win in a fight between Wolverine and The Hulk? Well wonder no more, because Marvel Contest of Champions is out right now on the App Store, and holds the answers to this, and many more dreadfully important questions.
The game is a free to play brawler of sorts that sees you trolling through a variety of hands-on scraps with a team of super heroes.
It's no Marvel vs Cap...
Victorian explorator Bertram Fiddle needs your help to catch a murderer.
As he wanders through a surreal, crooked take on Victorian London, he'll stumble across vicious plants, nasty rats, talking parrots, and decapitated bonces. So you'll have to use your wit and your endless pockets to get through.
If you get stuck, just use our exhaustive walkthrough to solve every puzzle. But before that...
If you're a fan of Telltale Games, then the past two weeks have been a bit of a jamboree for you. First there was Game of Thrones, and now Tales from the Borderlands has hit the App Store.
The game is set in the universe of Gearbox's first person RPG hybrid, and sees you playing two different characters who are trying to steal an obscene amount of money.
Events take place after the end o...
Brilliantly grim border control sim Papers, Please is set to hit the App Store tomorrow. It would have arrived earlier, but Apple rejected the first submission because of "pornographic material".
This apparently referred to the security scanner option that let you set the scan to full nudity. We’ll be having none of that on the App Store thank you very much. But scantily clad fantasy characters...
In the run up to Christmas, Pocket Gamer has teamed up with the developers behind some of this year's best games to give you ten award-winning iOS games for free. Come back every day for the next two weeks to get your games.
The fourth entry into our app-vent calendar is Lucky Frame's wonderful puzzly roguelike The Nightmare Cooperative. You can grab it right now from the App Store for nothing ...
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The PlayStation era was the heyday of extreme sports games. Titles like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and Cool Boarders set a template that's remained largely unchanged for more than a decade.
And it's a template that Snowboard Party adheres to slavishly. The buttons might be onscreen, but you're still mashing together combinations to perform extravagant flips, spins, and grabs.
There's the obligat...![Nitropia: War Commanders offers a lot of bang for a small amount of buck [Sponsored]](http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/artwork/stock_shots/.jpg)
iOS is absolutely crammed with free-to-play RTSs such as Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, and Game of War – Fire Age. So just how do you stand out in a crowd of fine competitors such as these?
That's an issue that independent mobile developers Dawn Patrol Games are trying to solve with Nitropia: War Commanders.
We spoke to Studio Head, Prithvi Virasinghe about the new title and how he believes th...
It's been a miserably rainy day here, and so I'm glad to be writing about the sunny and superb Pixel Boat Rush, as it's now available on Android.
It's a competitive 2D speedboat racer about reducing air time to increase speed, and shooting your opponents until they blow up.
Pretty vicious, you might think, exploding boats with people inside of them. But hey, it's all in the name of crossing ...
Over the past few years, Lucky Frame has proven to be one of our favourite studios making games for iOS.
Those include Bad Hotel, Wave Trip, Gentlemen!, and The Nightmare Cooperative, which is currently free for our Advent Calendar (go get it!).
Now, unfortunately, the Edinburgh-based studio has disbanded and will be making no more games in the foreseeable future.
This is due to a number ...![[Update] The best iPhone and iPad games with iOS 7 / MFi controller support](http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/artwork/thumbs/na-henyt_mogaacepower2_jpg_100.jpg)
Updated on December 11th, at 15:10: We've updated the list once again, this time adding Tomb Raider II, Skylanders Trap Team, Valiant Hearts: The Great War, Wayward Souls, Turbo Dismount, Warhammer 40,000: Carnage, Worms 3, Dead Trigger, BioShock, and Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath.
Plus, Mikey Boots, Bean Dreams, Joe Danger Infinity. Ridge Racer Slipstream, Rush Horizon, Table Top Racing, Inferno ...
The UK has a history of making side-splitting comical adventure games - think Simon the Sorcerer and Discworld. And it's nice to see that legacy continue on iOS with games such as Hector: Badge of Carnage and Detective Grimoire.
Newcomer Bertram Fiddle isn't quite as funny, and it isn't as sharply made as those modern-day classics. But it's still a charming game, with a wonderfully offbeat worl...
As was promised last week, Mojang has released its tactical turn-based battler Scrolls for Android tablets.
It combines what Mojang consider to be the best bits of collectible card games and tactical wargames.
It's played by two players who aim to destroy three of their opponent's six idols.
To this end, you collect scrolls (cards, basically) that you "sacrifice" to the hex-based map.
...
Liverpool-based studio Starship has revealed its upcoming crafting and action-based adventure game Playworld Superheroes.
This is to be the first in the Playworld series, which is clearly a child of Minecraft's popularity in as much as it aims to inspire creativity through crafting and adventure.
This first superhero-themed game is due to be released on mobile in January 2015.
The series ...
Ultra addictive endless runner Crossy Road recently received an update, that added a pair of new characters.
There's the Festive Chicken, which is currently available for free and can be yours from the start. But the other - a secret character called Gifty - is hidden away. How on earth do you get this guy?
Well, it takes patience. While playing as the Festive Chicken, you may randomly s...
Did you know that ghosts get cold? Nor did I before finding out about the latest level that's just been released for Haunt the House: Terrortown.
In this free level, you play as a new ghost that comes into the North Pole Department Store to warm up a little.
That's all fine and all, but being a ghost there is plenty of other mischief to be enacted that will warm you up even more.
As thi...
Silver Award-winning Zelda-inspired adventure Oceanhorn has had a massive visual overhaul to make it gleam even brighter on the newest iPhones and iPads.
Apparently it now features four times as many polygons, and runs at a silky smooth 60fps. I'm sure that's important if you love numbers. The update also smooths things a little for any device running iOS 8, so that's nice.
We called Oce...
Minecraft- Pocket Edition is now available on Windows Phone. By my count that brings the number of games you might want to play on the platform up to three. Way to go Windows Phone.
Of course it shouldn’t come as a surprise, since Microsoft bought Minecraft developer Mojang earlier in the year.
If you haven’t heard of Minecraft before, well, I just don’t know what to do with you. The gam...
Today marks Angry Birds's fifth birthday, and to celebrate Rovio has release a bunch of new levels based on fan art submissions.
You might remember we told you about the competition a few months back. It tasked fans with creating some art based on a number of different themes, with the winners getting their scrawlings turned into a level of the bird-flinging, pig-antagonising smash hit.
...
Cutesy free to play Animal Crossing-style adventure Seabeard is out worldwide on the App Store, so if you want to give it a bash you can.
The game sees you wandering around a series of lush islands, performing quests and trying to rebuild an old pirate village.
There are sea-faring mini games that involve dodging and shooting, and plenty of inanely grinning characters for you to meet alo...
Sneaky Sneaky isn't just a mobile stealth action game done well, it's a brilliant example of the genre as a whole. From its gorgeous cartoon stylings to its clever, single-screen puzzles, everything about it screams quality.
But there's ingenuity here too, and it's all held together by simple touch controls that never feel inadequate for the task at hand.
There are shades of Zelda here as we...
Ever wondered who'd win in a fight between Wolverine and The Hulk? Well wonder no more, because Marvel Contest of Champions is out right now on the App Store, and holds the answers to this, and many more dreadfully important questions.
The game is a free to play brawler of sorts that sees you trolling through a variety of hands-on scraps with a team of super heroes.
It's no Marvel vs Cap...
Victorian explorator Bertram Fiddle needs your help to catch a murderer.
As he wanders through a surreal, crooked take on Victorian London, he'll stumble across vicious plants, nasty rats, talking parrots, and decapitated bonces. So you'll have to use your wit and your endless pockets to get through.
If you get stuck, just use our exhaustive walkthrough to solve every puzzle. But before that...
If you're a fan of Telltale Games, then the past two weeks have been a bit of a jamboree for you. First there was Game of Thrones, and now Tales from the Borderlands has hit the App Store.
The game is set in the universe of Gearbox's first person RPG hybrid, and sees you playing two different characters who are trying to steal an obscene amount of money.
Events take place after the end o...
Brilliantly grim border control sim Papers, Please is set to hit the App Store tomorrow. It would have arrived earlier, but Apple rejected the first submission because of "pornographic material".
This apparently referred to the security scanner option that let you set the scan to full nudity. We’ll be having none of that on the App Store thank you very much. But scantily clad fantasy characters...
In the run up to Christmas, Pocket Gamer has teamed up with the developers behind some of this year's best games to give you ten award-winning iOS games for free. Come back every day for the next two weeks to get your games.
The fourth entry into our app-vent calendar is Lucky Frame's wonderful puzzly roguelike The Nightmare Cooperative. You can grab it right now from the App Store for nothing ...
