Wearables are all the rage right now. We've got Google goggles that let you read text messages with your eyes without moving your head, and smartwatches that mean you can find out if you've got an email before you even look at your phone.
These are truly amazing developments, and they mean that gaming is set to change. You might be able to press a button on a watch to make a bird do a jump on y...
Gaming is serious business on smartphones these days. Sure, we all like to play a bit of Angry Birds when we're waiting for the bus to arrive, but mobile games offer so much more than simple 2D experiences.
We're beginning to see complex 3D adventures on our phones which rival those witnessed on dedicated home consoles. As a result, a handset's aptitude for gaming is a key consideration when bu...
For its continued "making of" series, PocketGamer.biz sat down with Gameloft's product manager, Valeriu Ispir, to speak about Modern Combat 5: Blackout.
It's an insightful interview that discusses how the Modern Combat series has been so heavily compared to the ever-popular Call of Duty series.
Ispir also spoke about how first-person shooter controls are a "riddle" that needs to be cracked o...
Angry Birds Stella is out right now on the App Store. And the Google Play Store. It doesn't seem to be out on any of the Windows platforms it's supposed to be coming out on though, so that's a bit of a shame.
The game is basically Angry Birds, but with a few tweaks here and there and a shiny coat of polish lavished atop it. The birds do different things, there's some free to play trappings,...
Angry Birds Stella is Angry Birds, but the birds are lady birds. Not ladybirds, or lady 'birds', but lady birds. They're strong and empowered and one of them lives in a house that has a ponytail.
It's all a bit gross, and it feels like a cynical ploy to sell lumps of plastic to kids. This is the Angry Birds designed to entice little girls into the web of T-shirts and bath toys and go-karts and ...
Age of Empires is coming to Windows Phone and Windows 8.1 in the shape of Age of Empires: Castle Siege.
And if you're good and make sure you defrag all of your hard drives properly it'll almost certainly come out next month.
The game is free to play, because old franchises don't die, they just gouge.
A cynic might suggest that, from the trailer above, the game looks like a Clash of Cl...
Rovio has announced that Angry Birds Stella will be released on September 4th.
It'll be the tenth game in the series and features a bunch of new characters for you to get familiar with.
In terms of how it plays, Stella doesn't really divert from the typical Angry Birds formula at all. You're still be flinging cute little birds at structures to beat up those bad piggies.
It does, at le...
Press Play has released gorgeous action platformer Tentacles: Enter the Mind as a free to play title on Windows Phone.
It's the sequel to Tentacles: Enter the Dolphin and is just as barmy. Once again, you move microscopic tentacled blob Lemmy through the bizarre mind of Dr. Phluff.
Your pick Lemmy's tentacles up one at a time to move him. Your mission is to take out the creatures that infest...
Eight months after the Bronze Award-winning Assassin's Creed Pirates was initially released on mobile, Ubisoft has brought it to Windows Phone.
Presumably, the Windows Phone version got snagged on a rock, attacked by a giant squid, and then the crew nearly starved to death before being saved by a freak tide.
Whatever happened, it's here now, so let's not be too sour about it.
All you...
The thing I like most about GrimWar is that the sounds of you beating up ninjas, skeletons, and spiders is visualised.
As in comic books, your taps are turned into "POW!", "BAM!", and "THUMP!". Maybe I'm just easily pleased?
The rest of the game looks alright, too. You're a warrior tasked with cleaning out a wizard's rather large tower. There's an assortment of vicious enemies and traps to d...
This week, members of the Pocket Gamer and AppSpy crew are at Gamescom in Cologne. Between eating our collective body weight sausages, we'll be bringing you quick-fire impressions of our favourite games on show.
Out There: Omega Edition isn't going to be a huge, game-changing update to the original space-faring adventure game, Out There.
Sure, the update will add 50 teractive stor...
The games industry transfer market was full of movement this week, as some big signings were made on a variety of fronts.
GREE made the most unexpected move by convincing Kabam's president of worldwide studios, Andrew Sheppard, to jump ship. Tapjoy also struck up a deal with Korean analytics firm 5Rock, while Game Insight appointed a new CEO in the form of industry veteran, Anatoly Ropotov.
...
There's no such thing as a dull week in the games industry, and every seven days a fresh news cycle begins that promises delight and controversy in equal measure.
This week saw BAFTA implore developers to submit their game for an award at the upcoming British Academy Game Awards. Meanwhile, Asian mobile game revenue doubled in Asia thanks to the great Japanese smartphone switch.
Honing in on ...
Radiangames has released Super Crossfighter on the App Store, Google Play Store, and Windows Phone Store. Or more accurately it's re-released the game. But a tweaked version. It's a bit confusing.
Basically Super Crossfire was published a while back by Chillingo. It had to change its name to Super Crossfighter because of a legal claim. Now Radiangames has the rights to the game back and has...
Just when you think the games industry couldn't get teresting, another truckload of news comes along and blows that theory right out of the water.
This week free-to-pay gaming was once again the talk of the town, with some suggesting that the negative attidute towards the model is forcing developers away from mobile, while Apple was forced to defend its free-to-play regulatiions in an att...
The second annual North American Indie Prize Showcase was held at this year's Casual Connect in San Francisco. This time around, the showcase had nearly 50 games of all shapes and sizes on display.
Below is a mere sampling of what the show had to offer in terms of innovative, interesting, and fun mobile game experiences.
For the whole list, including the plethora of PC and console exclusives...
Updated on July 24th, at 12:01: Modern Combat 5: Blackout is all the way out now, so you can get your hands on the grunty shooty action on your device of choice.
You can even grab it on Windows Phone if you want. Imagine that.
If you'd like to find out what we thought about the game, all you have to do is click right here to read our full review.
Want some tips to get you started? We've g...
Gameloft's latest gung-ho shooter, Modern Combat 5: Blackout has just breached the front doors of the App Store and Google Play, and is now shooting everyone in slow motion.
Download this game and, once again, you'll find yourself hopping from country to country, murdering foreign jerks in the face. And then going online to murder more people in the face, but this time they're humans.
To hel...
Gameloft held a competition and the winners got early access to Modern Combat 5. Which sounds like a pretty nice prize, right?
In return one of the winners cracked the game and started distributing it online. The moral of the story? Don't be nice to anyone. Ever.
Gameloft has now said that anyone playing an unregistered early copy of the game will be banned, and has put measures in place to ...
Kicking off the week of Casual Connect in San Francisco, CA was the Big Indie Pitch, an event that gives independent game developers the chance to show off their works in progress to a panel of judges, who then go on to vote on their top three titles.
Hosted by Pocket Gamer and sponsored by Samsung, the event spanned three long hours and over a dozen titles from veterans of the free to play ind...
Wearables are all the rage right now. We've got Google goggles that let you read text messages with your eyes without moving your head, and smartwatches that mean you can find out if you've got an email before you even look at your phone.
These are truly amazing developments, and they mean that gaming is set to change. You might be able to press a button on a watch to make a bird do a jump on y...
Gaming is serious business on smartphones these days. Sure, we all like to play a bit of Angry Birds when we're waiting for the bus to arrive, but mobile games offer so much more than simple 2D experiences.
We're beginning to see complex 3D adventures on our phones which rival those witnessed on dedicated home consoles. As a result, a handset's aptitude for gaming is a key consideration when bu...
For its continued "making of" series, PocketGamer.biz sat down with Gameloft's product manager, Valeriu Ispir, to speak about Modern Combat 5: Blackout.
It's an insightful interview that discusses how the Modern Combat series has been so heavily compared to the ever-popular Call of Duty series.
Ispir also spoke about how first-person shooter controls are a "riddle" that needs to be cracked o...
Angry Birds Stella is out right now on the App Store. And the Google Play Store. It doesn't seem to be out on any of the Windows platforms it's supposed to be coming out on though, so that's a bit of a shame.
The game is basically Angry Birds, but with a few tweaks here and there and a shiny coat of polish lavished atop it. The birds do different things, there's some free to play trappings,...
Age of Empires is coming to Windows Phone and Windows 8.1 in the shape of Age of Empires: Castle Siege.
And if you're good and make sure you defrag all of your hard drives properly it'll almost certainly come out next month.
The game is free to play, because old franchises don't die, they just gouge.
A cynic might suggest that, from the trailer above, the game looks like a Clash of Cl...
Rovio has announced that Angry Birds Stella will be released on September 4th.
It'll be the tenth game in the series and features a bunch of new characters for you to get familiar with.
In terms of how it plays, Stella doesn't really divert from the typical Angry Birds formula at all. You're still be flinging cute little birds at structures to beat up those bad piggies.
It does, at le...
Press Play has released gorgeous action platformer Tentacles: Enter the Mind as a free to play title on Windows Phone.
It's the sequel to Tentacles: Enter the Dolphin and is just as barmy. Once again, you move microscopic tentacled blob Lemmy through the bizarre mind of Dr. Phluff.
Your pick Lemmy's tentacles up one at a time to move him. Your mission is to take out the creatures that infest...
Eight months after the Bronze Award-winning Assassin's Creed Pirates was initially released on mobile, Ubisoft has brought it to Windows Phone.
Presumably, the Windows Phone version got snagged on a rock, attacked by a giant squid, and then the crew nearly starved to death before being saved by a freak tide.
Whatever happened, it's here now, so let's not be too sour about it.
All you...
The thing I like most about GrimWar is that the sounds of you beating up ninjas, skeletons, and spiders is visualised.
As in comic books, your taps are turned into "POW!", "BAM!", and "THUMP!". Maybe I'm just easily pleased?
The rest of the game looks alright, too. You're a warrior tasked with cleaning out a wizard's rather large tower. There's an assortment of vicious enemies and traps to d...
This week, members of the Pocket Gamer and AppSpy crew are at Gamescom in Cologne. Between eating our collective body weight sausages, we'll be bringing you quick-fire impressions of our favourite games on show.
Out There: Omega Edition isn't going to be a huge, game-changing update to the original space-faring adventure game, Out There.
Sure, the update will add 50 teractive stor...
The games industry transfer market was full of movement this week, as some big signings were made on a variety of fronts.
GREE made the most unexpected move by convincing Kabam's president of worldwide studios, Andrew Sheppard, to jump ship. Tapjoy also struck up a deal with Korean analytics firm 5Rock, while Game Insight appointed a new CEO in the form of industry veteran, Anatoly Ropotov.
...
Radiangames has released Super Crossfighter on the App Store, Google Play Store, and Windows Phone Store. Or more accurately it's re-released the game. But a tweaked version. It's a bit confusing.
Basically Super Crossfire was published a while back by Chillingo. It had to change its name to Super Crossfighter because of a legal claim. Now Radiangames has the rights to the game back and has...
The second annual North American Indie Prize Showcase was held at this year's Casual Connect in San Francisco. This time around, the showcase had nearly 50 games of all shapes and sizes on display.
Below is a mere sampling of what the show had to offer in terms of innovative, interesting, and fun mobile game experiences.
For the whole list, including the plethora of PC and console exclusives...
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Updated on July 24th, at 12:01: Modern Combat 5: Blackout is all the way out now, so you can get your hands on the grunty shooty action on your device of choice.
You can even grab it on Windows Phone if you want. Imagine that.
If you'd like to find out what we thought about the game, all you have to do is click right here to read our full review.
Want some tips to get you started? We've g...
Gameloft's latest gung-ho shooter, Modern Combat 5: Blackout has just breached the front doors of the App Store and Google Play, and is now shooting everyone in slow motion.
Download this game and, once again, you'll find yourself hopping from country to country, murdering foreign jerks in the face. And then going online to murder more people in the face, but this time they're humans.
To hel...
Kicking off the week of Casual Connect in San Francisco, CA was the Big Indie Pitch, an event that gives independent game developers the chance to show off their works in progress to a panel of judges, who then go on to vote on their top three titles.
Hosted by Pocket Gamer and sponsored by Samsung, the event spanned three long hours and over a dozen titles from veterans of the free to play ind...
