There's no such thing as a quiet week in the games industry, and the news, much like a great monsoon, is relentless.
It can be difficult to soak up every drop, which is exactly why we're on hand every friday to break down the week's news into easy to digest, and rather delectable, bite-sized portions.
As you can imagine, there was something of a lull in sweeping statements post-Develop, though,...
Updated on July 18th at 16:53: The Android version of daWindci Deluxe will not be coming out today.
We were told it was originally. However, we have since been informed that the game will not appear on Android until later this summer.
The Windows Phone version has come out today, though. In fact, you can grab it right here. As covered previously, the iOS version is also available right now....
This week, Peter, Harry, and I bake slowly over the course of an hour as we discuss the week's mobile gaming news in the midst of a heatwave.
Inbetween the panting and passing out, we manage to cover location-based sci-fi app Ingress, and Inkle's upcoming digital adventure book 80 Days.
The second chapter of Broken Sword - The Serpent's Curse kicks off the new releases section, alongside the...
Mimimi Productions has released daWindci Deluxe on iOS today. It will be coming to Android and Windows Phone tomorrow.
Deluxe improves upon the Bronze Award-winning DaWindci with new mechanics, puzzles, and more lively art style and particle effects.
The original DaWindci had you swiping to create wind in order to push a hot air balloon around, collecting stars, and navigating small levels.
...
Our strangely trendy hero begins stranded on a plane of grey-scale tiles, floating in a starry void with nothing else but some fanciful piano playing in the background.
The game is Dark Way Down, a puzzler with sliding tile mechanics that rely on light and dark instead of physical obstacles.
Stepping on a tile switches its shade depending on what it was before - dark to light and light to da...
Mi-Clos Studio has announced a new update for Out There. It's called Out There: Omega Edition and it adds a whole bunch of content to the Gold Award-winning mix of space exploration and gamebook.
The update will offer polished graphics, new alien races, new ships, and a brand new ending for the game as well. There'll be new planets and environments to explore too.
On top of that there'll...
Incandescence is an upcoming, touch-based game about tapping on colorful, crystalline objects to create a neon light show.
It hails from the award-winning indie game studio Guerilla Tea, the folks behind Play to Cure: Genes in Space, and is their most experimental project to date.
The developer has described the game as a "visual feast with furious finger tapping," born out of the frustrated...
With Develop in Brighton dominating the week, you shouldn't feel too bad about missing out on some of this week's biggest stories. After all, what normal person wouldn't choose a trip to sunny - okay, slightly overcast - Brighton over a week in the office?
Now you're back home though, it's probably time to catch up on some of the things you might have missed during your week by the sea.
Natural...
The most recent Big Indie Pitch event happened in Brighton. It went quite well. There were tiny burgers and a sea view.
We've already told you about the winner, ThisWayUp Games's PaperLander. But that wasn't the only game that caught the eye of the assembled judges.
In fact choosing a winner out of the crop of titles that were pitched was pretty difficult indeed.
So here are five more gam...
Top-down blaster Halo: Spartan Assault is currently cheap on Windows Phone and Windows 8, as part of Microsoft's weekly Red Stripe Deals promotion.
The game's got 30 missions where you fight against the Covenant as Halo 4's Spartan commander, Sarah Palmer. There are weekly challenges and leaderboards, and you can play it with an Xbox 360 controller.
Harry gave it a Gold Award and said, "brig...
Once upon a time, when mobile games were played on two-inch screens controlled with a number pad, there was a breed of gamer that sought out so-called 'one-thumb games.'
These were the pinnacle of mobile game design, because they weren't hampered by control difficulties and offered fast, addictive gameplay regardless of the woefully underpowered and unsuitable platform.
Controls have changed...
Behaviour Interactive and Microsoft Studios announced Zoo Tycoon Friends for Windows 8 and Windows Phone at Develop in Brighton today.
This is for those of you who have ever wanted to take your virtual zoo around with you in your pocket.
Yes, of course, you've been able to do that before with Zoo Tycoon 2 on DS, and Zoo Tycoon 2 Mobile is almost 10 years old now.
What Zoo Tycoon Friends a...
Another week has been and gone, and as always, it brought a fresh truckload of news with it.
We saw Supernauts hit 1 million downloads in a mere 6 days, EA get called out by the ASA for daring to suggest that Dungeon Keeper is a free-to-play game, and Kim Kardashian storm the UK App Store charts - and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
We here at PocketGamer.biz also brought in our fair shar...
It's quarter finals time. That glorious couple of days when eight teams are whittled down to four by the fickle footballing gods.
But how fickle will they be? And how much actual whittling will happen? That sounds like the sort of thing it'd be easy to predict with a football videogame.
Today I'm predicting whether or not French flair will defeat German industriousness. Whether the galli...
I like Free The Network because it doesn't mess you around.
This endless dodge-'em-up is at its hardest from the very beginning.
It does speed up a little, and the abstract graphics change colour with each new zone. But other than that, the challenge is mainly one of endurance.
All you have to do is tap the left and right parts of the screen to move the ball around the 3D pipe at the midd...
Esteemed hack-and-slash RPG The Witcher is heading to iOS, Android, and various Windows gizmos as a MOBA spin-off, called The Witcher Battle Arena.
The free-to-play fighter will feature characters from The Witcher and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, and will see these heroes duking it out on fantasy battlefields for glory, and for loot.
Up to six players can fight it out online, and the g...
This week, Peter and I prepare to go to war with the Pocket Gamer and AppSpy community.
Don't worry - it's one of those pretend wars where no one gets hurt, and all the ammo is composed of ones and zeros.
You see, World of Tank: Blitz came out this week. And, at the time of recording, we were 24-hours away from standing alongside our community brothers and sisters on the virtual field of ba...
There's no shortage of Clash of Clans clones on iOS or Android.
But there hasn't been an officially licensed Star Wars-based Clash of Clans clone before.
There is now, however, as LucasArts and Disney have teamed up to soft-launch Star Wars: Commander in Australia for iOS.
As you'd expect, this is a free-to-play strategy game that places you in the middle of the Galactic Civil War in the ...
The next game by Bike Baron creator Vladimir "Qwiboo" Roth is a simple planet-hopping platformer called Beyond Gravity.
The game presents you with a series of spinning planets, and you simply tap to bounce your astronaut chappy between lumps of space rock. Everything is randomly generated, so no two sessions are the same.
The game's also got goals, power-ups, score multipliers, and upgrades ...
In case you hadn't noticed, this week was all about our very own conference, PG Connects, which took place in the heart of Helsinki.
While we're sure you were eagerly keeping up to date with all of the news gushing out of Finland, you might have missed a few stories amid the downpour.
Don't worry about that though, because we've hand-picked the biggest stories of the week, giving you the cha...
There's no such thing as a quiet week in the games industry, and the news, much like a great monsoon, is relentless.
It can be difficult to soak up every drop, which is exactly why we're on hand every friday to break down the week's news into easy to digest, and rather delectable, bite-sized portions.
As you can imagine, there was something of a lull in sweeping statements post-Develop, though,...
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Updated on July 18th at 16:53: The Android version of daWindci Deluxe will not be coming out today.
We were told it was originally. However, we have since been informed that the game will not appear on Android until later this summer.
The Windows Phone version has come out today, though. In fact, you can grab it right here. As covered previously, the iOS version is also available right now....
This week, Peter, Harry, and I bake slowly over the course of an hour as we discuss the week's mobile gaming news in the midst of a heatwave.
Inbetween the panting and passing out, we manage to cover location-based sci-fi app Ingress, and Inkle's upcoming digital adventure book 80 Days.
The second chapter of Broken Sword - The Serpent's Curse kicks off the new releases section, alongside the...
Our strangely trendy hero begins stranded on a plane of grey-scale tiles, floating in a starry void with nothing else but some fanciful piano playing in the background.
The game is Dark Way Down, a puzzler with sliding tile mechanics that rely on light and dark instead of physical obstacles.
Stepping on a tile switches its shade depending on what it was before - dark to light and light to da...
Mi-Clos Studio has announced a new update for Out There. It's called Out There: Omega Edition and it adds a whole bunch of content to the Gold Award-winning mix of space exploration and gamebook.
The update will offer polished graphics, new alien races, new ships, and a brand new ending for the game as well. There'll be new planets and environments to explore too.
On top of that there'll...
Incandescence is an upcoming, touch-based game about tapping on colorful, crystalline objects to create a neon light show.
It hails from the award-winning indie game studio Guerilla Tea, the folks behind Play to Cure: Genes in Space, and is their most experimental project to date.
The developer has described the game as a "visual feast with furious finger tapping," born out of the frustrated...
With Develop in Brighton dominating the week, you shouldn't feel too bad about missing out on some of this week's biggest stories. After all, what normal person wouldn't choose a trip to sunny - okay, slightly overcast - Brighton over a week in the office?
Now you're back home though, it's probably time to catch up on some of the things you might have missed during your week by the sea.
Natural...
The most recent Big Indie Pitch event happened in Brighton. It went quite well. There were tiny burgers and a sea view.
We've already told you about the winner, ThisWayUp Games's PaperLander. But that wasn't the only game that caught the eye of the assembled judges.
In fact choosing a winner out of the crop of titles that were pitched was pretty difficult indeed.
So here are five more gam...
Top-down blaster Halo: Spartan Assault is currently cheap on Windows Phone and Windows 8, as part of Microsoft's weekly Red Stripe Deals promotion.
The game's got 30 missions where you fight against the Covenant as Halo 4's Spartan commander, Sarah Palmer. There are weekly challenges and leaderboards, and you can play it with an Xbox 360 controller.
Harry gave it a Gold Award and said, "brig...
Once upon a time, when mobile games were played on two-inch screens controlled with a number pad, there was a breed of gamer that sought out so-called 'one-thumb games.'
These were the pinnacle of mobile game design, because they weren't hampered by control difficulties and offered fast, addictive gameplay regardless of the woefully underpowered and unsuitable platform.
Controls have changed...
Behaviour Interactive and Microsoft Studios announced Zoo Tycoon Friends for Windows 8 and Windows Phone at Develop in Brighton today.
This is for those of you who have ever wanted to take your virtual zoo around with you in your pocket.
Yes, of course, you've been able to do that before with Zoo Tycoon 2 on DS, and Zoo Tycoon 2 Mobile is almost 10 years old now.
What Zoo Tycoon Friends a...
It's quarter finals time. That glorious couple of days when eight teams are whittled down to four by the fickle footballing gods.
But how fickle will they be? And how much actual whittling will happen? That sounds like the sort of thing it'd be easy to predict with a football videogame.
Today I'm predicting whether or not French flair will defeat German industriousness. Whether the galli...
I like Free The Network because it doesn't mess you around.
This endless dodge-'em-up is at its hardest from the very beginning.
It does speed up a little, and the abstract graphics change colour with each new zone. But other than that, the challenge is mainly one of endurance.
All you have to do is tap the left and right parts of the screen to move the ball around the 3D pipe at the midd...
Esteemed hack-and-slash RPG The Witcher is heading to iOS, Android, and various Windows gizmos as a MOBA spin-off, called The Witcher Battle Arena.
The free-to-play fighter will feature characters from The Witcher and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, and will see these heroes duking it out on fantasy battlefields for glory, and for loot.
Up to six players can fight it out online, and the g...
There's no shortage of Clash of Clans clones on iOS or Android.
But there hasn't been an officially licensed Star Wars-based Clash of Clans clone before.
There is now, however, as LucasArts and Disney have teamed up to soft-launch Star Wars: Commander in Australia for iOS.
As you'd expect, this is a free-to-play strategy game that places you in the middle of the Galactic Civil War in the ...
The next game by Bike Baron creator Vladimir "Qwiboo" Roth is a simple planet-hopping platformer called Beyond Gravity.
The game presents you with a series of spinning planets, and you simply tap to bounce your astronaut chappy between lumps of space rock. Everything is randomly generated, so no two sessions are the same.
The game's also got goals, power-ups, score multipliers, and upgrades ...
