Added: 06.10.2014 17:00 | 8 views | 0 comments


Free to play continues to be a divisive issue in the world of mobile gaming. It's either the saviour of the industry, or the death-knell of gaming itself. The business model of greedy money-grubbers, or the best way to open your game to a wide audience. At Pocket Gamer we proudly sit on the fence. Many free to play games grind our gears, but we've found plenty that we enjoy whole-heartedly l...

Added: 05.10.2014 0:00 | 12 views | 0 comments


Every week, Pocket Gamer provides a weekly digest of the most important and popular stories from these digital pages. It has been a bumper week for new mobile games. There was card-based roguelike Card Dungeon (iOS) the sadly disappointing Beatbuddy HD (iOS), twin-stick maze game Inferno 2 (iOS), and board game Galaxy Trucker (iPad). And there was Kickstarted Viking adventure The Banner S...

Added: 03.10.2014 20:23 | 15 views | 0 comments


Disney has removed Tiny Death Star and Star Wars Assault Team from both the App Store and Google Play, after the free to play games were available for just 11 and five months, respectively. A source close to the subject has told Pocket Gamer that the games have been removed permanently so that Disney and Lucasfilm can focus on other, higher priority titles (like the recently launched Clash ...

Added: 03.10.2014 18:50 | 12 views | 0 comments


Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new iPhone and iPad games. Galaxy Trucker By Czech Games Edition - buy on iPad (£2.99 / $ 4.99) Galaxy Trucker is a sort of multiplayer boardgame version of FTL. First you have to race your opponent to assemble a ship from the same stack of face-down cards, trying to work out which bits should go where and d...

Added: 03.10.2014 18:50 | 9 views | 0 comments


Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new iPhone and iPad games. Galaxy Trucker By Czech Games Edition - buy on iPad (£2.99 / $ 4.99) Galaxy Trucker is a sort of multiplayer boardgame version of FTL. First you have to race your opponent to assemble a ship from the same stack of face-down cards, trying to work out which bits should go where and d...