As you might have noticed, Pocket Gamer was in Helsinki this week hosting the Pocket Gamer Connects mobile gaming conference.
It's pretty rare for the PG Podcast hosts to be in the same postcode, let alone the same building, so we decided it would be the perfect time to record an extended podcast special.
In attendance are familiar voices, long forgotten hosts, Pocket Gamer editors, and some...
It was one of the tech world's worst kept secrets, but Amazon dutifully put on the razzle dazzle to announce its Fire Phone on Wednesday night.
The online shopping giant has been diversifying at a staggering rate in recent years, with the company's entry to the smartphone market trailing its assault on the tablet world by only two-and-a-half years.
Following the lead of the Amazon Kindle Fir...
After playing some 50-odd games in a gruelling 4-hour marathon for our Very Big Indie Pitch at Pocket Gamer Connects, I think I'd quite happily never play or look at a video game again.
But, after the pitch, I had to hit up Jussi Pullinen of Tree Men Games to have another quick play with his ultra-addictive car chase game (and VBIP second place finisher) Pako.
It's a very simple game: yo...
Wayne Rooney is spinning forlornly on the spot. The clock has stopped. The ball hovers a few pixels above the ground. Is this a metaphor? Some visual exploration of the ineffectual nature of the England striker in recent major tournaments?
No. Official England Football is just broken. This is a messy arcade kick around that's often so bad you can't help but laugh out loud.
I've seen players ...
The Official England Football game is available right now on the App Store and the Windows Phone Store.
It's all about doing hard kicks, not being entirely sure where to play Wayne Rooney, and refusing to admit that Raheem Sterling shot didn't go in.
It's actually a 3D kick about that looks a bit like a FIFA game. The commentary is provided by John Motson, which is quite nice.
You can...
This week, James cuts his finger and bleed over the microphone while Harry looks on, unimpressed.
We also cover the most exciting stories to emerge from E3, including Final Fantasy Agito news and the unveiling of Hitman: Sniper.
Finally, we take a look at the latest iOS releases, including Tim Schafer's Kickstarter success Broken Age, and Terry Cavanagh's retro masterpiece VVVVVV.
Downloa...
After about 30 seconds of playing Fluid SE you realise it's not what you thought it was. At first glance it's another neon-hued arcade game that's all about staying alive for as long as possible.
But after that half a minute you realise that it's actually a cruel racer. This is the sort of game that taunts you with fractions of a second.
It pushes you to cut corners, forces you to take chanc...
Updated on June 12th at 09:56: Fluid SE is now out on the Google Play Store [buy] and the Windows Phone Store [buy].
Original story follows...
Fluid SE is what PacMan might look like if it had been invented at a rave in the late-90's. All neon colours, blobs that bite back, and throbbing lights.
The game has just hit the New Zealand App Store, which means it should be hitting the UK...
Fluid SE is what PacMan might look like if it had been invented at a rave in the late-90's. All neon colours, blobs that bite back, and throbbing lights.
The game has just hit the New Zealand App Store, which means it should be hitting the UK at around midnight tonight.
You control a ship and need to race around tight little levels snaffling all the glowing balls of energy. Orbs you've e...
How much do you like Rube Goldberg machines?
If it's quite a lot, then you'll want to check out a new physics-based puzzler called The Ingenious Machine.
It tasks you with the construction of ridiculous machines out of as many silly parts as possible in order to perform simple tasks. Just like any Rube Goldberg machine should, then.
Cogs, weights, pivots, levers, ropes, boots, guns, fans...
This week, Peter and James investigate the next iOS Hitman game, do some free-to-play jousting, and play some teeny-tiny football with teeny-tiny footballers.
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In a handful of hours, a lonely and rather empty part of Los Angeles will play host to thousands of industry attendees - and tens of millions of industry dollars - as E3 once again rolls into town.
Whether or not E3 is a "mobile" show in your opinion or whether you view it as a playground for the console boys, it's still an amazing time to get swept up in the enthusiasm for games which brought ma...
Radiangames is continuing to churn out mobile game releases this year with the launch of Fluid SE next week.
Fluid SE is an arcade time trial racer that has you racing around simple tracks as a wriggling fish-like creature.
Like in Pac-Man, you'll need to eat a series of dots to complete each level here. However, your main enemy in this game is the tick-tocking of the clock.
Framed
Upo...
Twilight Struggle is a big ol' boardgame about the cold war. There are loads of cards and pieces and bits and sometimes you lose them down the sofa or the dog eats them and then you can't play any more.
But Playdek and GMT Games have started a Kickstarter funding campaign to create a digital version of the game and banish all of that to the past. It's already smashed its funding goals as well.
...
We're happy to inform you that Peter's back this week to join James for the Pocket Gamer Podcast this week. Did you miss him? Then why not come over to our Twitch channel and tell him live!
There have been plenty of great updates, releases, and reviews this week, so expect the down-low on all sorts - from deferred scuba dives to jousting madness.
We'll be playing trailers and our own hands-o...
There's a barbarian hiding somewhere in this block-covered desert, and I could do with his help. My rogue is battered and beaten, my mage can't take another hit, and my knight is just a gravestone.
I tap a block to clear it out, but there's nothing underneath. I tap another at random. There's a bulbous eye staring back at me, a tomb watcher, the sort of monster that would wipe out my party in i...
Sometimes, as the old cliché goes, the stories write themselves.
Take today's column, for example. Normally there's a good discussion over what three stories make it into the headline, but there was no need to dig much deeper than three studio-level decisions made in the US, Korea, and Europe this week.
On the happy side, chat app Kakao merged with Daum to create a titan that could corner the ma...
With Peter out of the office, I invite Pocket Gamer reviews editor Harry and social media wizard Danny to help me wade through the weekly flood of mobile gaming news.
First off, we discuss the upcoming Ratchet Clank HD Trilogy, and wonder where developer Insomniac gets the inspiration for the games' filthy subtitles.
We also investigate the newly announced Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, and...
When we were told Godzilla was heading to cinemas across the UK on May 15th, we weren't prepared to take it so... literally.
You see, there are rumours that the King of the Monsters has surfaced in the UK. There's only one thing we, as Pocket Gamer, can do to track down his location.
We're calling on you, dear readers, to use your gaming prowess to seek out the radioactive crash site in ...
Rovio has announced on Facebook that there's some new stuff out right now for the iOS version of Angry Birds Star Wars II, and it's all set on your favourite planets of Kamino and Coruscant.
There are forty new levels to toss your Star Wars-themed birds through, twenty for the light side and twenty for the dark side. Plus some secret ones.
The new planets feature new obstacle elements fo...
As you might have noticed, Pocket Gamer was in Helsinki this week hosting the Pocket Gamer Connects mobile gaming conference.
It's pretty rare for the PG Podcast hosts to be in the same postcode, let alone the same building, so we decided it would be the perfect time to record an extended podcast special.
In attendance are familiar voices, long forgotten hosts, Pocket Gamer editors, and some...
It was one of the tech world's worst kept secrets, but Amazon dutifully put on the razzle dazzle to announce its Fire Phone on Wednesday night.
The online shopping giant has been diversifying at a staggering rate in recent years, with the company's entry to the smartphone market trailing its assault on the tablet world by only two-and-a-half years.
Following the lead of the Amazon Kindle Fir...
After playing some 50-odd games in a gruelling 4-hour marathon for our Very Big Indie Pitch at Pocket Gamer Connects, I think I'd quite happily never play or look at a video game again.
But, after the pitch, I had to hit up Jussi Pullinen of Tree Men Games to have another quick play with his ultra-addictive car chase game (and VBIP second place finisher) Pako.
It's a very simple game: yo...
Wayne Rooney is spinning forlornly on the spot. The clock has stopped. The ball hovers a few pixels above the ground. Is this a metaphor? Some visual exploration of the ineffectual nature of the England striker in recent major tournaments?
No. Official England Football is just broken. This is a messy arcade kick around that's often so bad you can't help but laugh out loud.
I've seen players ...
The Official England Football game is available right now on the App Store and the Windows Phone Store.
It's all about doing hard kicks, not being entirely sure where to play Wayne Rooney, and refusing to admit that Raheem Sterling shot didn't go in.
It's actually a 3D kick about that looks a bit like a FIFA game. The commentary is provided by John Motson, which is quite nice.
You can...
After about 30 seconds of playing Fluid SE you realise it's not what you thought it was. At first glance it's another neon-hued arcade game that's all about staying alive for as long as possible.
But after that half a minute you realise that it's actually a cruel racer. This is the sort of game that taunts you with fractions of a second.
It pushes you to cut corners, forces you to take chanc...
![[Update] Out now: Fluid SE is a super-fast dot-gobbler for iPhone and iPad](http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/artwork/thumbs/na-vpykh_screen3_jpg_100.jpg)
Updated on June 12th at 09:56: Fluid SE is now out on the Google Play Store [buy] and the Windows Phone Store [buy].
Original story follows...
Fluid SE is what PacMan might look like if it had been invented at a rave in the late-90's. All neon colours, blobs that bite back, and throbbing lights.
The game has just hit the New Zealand App Store, which means it should be hitting the UK...
How much do you like Rube Goldberg machines?
If it's quite a lot, then you'll want to check out a new physics-based puzzler called The Ingenious Machine.
It tasks you with the construction of ridiculous machines out of as many silly parts as possible in order to perform simple tasks. Just like any Rube Goldberg machine should, then.
Cogs, weights, pivots, levers, ropes, boots, guns, fans...
In a handful of hours, a lonely and rather empty part of Los Angeles will play host to thousands of industry attendees - and tens of millions of industry dollars - as E3 once again rolls into town.
Whether or not E3 is a "mobile" show in your opinion or whether you view it as a playground for the console boys, it's still an amazing time to get swept up in the enthusiasm for games which brought ma...
Twilight Struggle is a big ol' boardgame about the cold war. There are loads of cards and pieces and bits and sometimes you lose them down the sofa or the dog eats them and then you can't play any more.
But Playdek and GMT Games have started a Kickstarter funding campaign to create a digital version of the game and banish all of that to the past. It's already smashed its funding goals as well.
...
We're happy to inform you that Peter's back this week to join James for the Pocket Gamer Podcast this week. Did you miss him? Then why not come over to our Twitch channel and tell him live!
There have been plenty of great updates, releases, and reviews this week, so expect the down-low on all sorts - from deferred scuba dives to jousting madness.
We'll be playing trailers and our own hands-o...
There's a barbarian hiding somewhere in this block-covered desert, and I could do with his help. My rogue is battered and beaten, my mage can't take another hit, and my knight is just a gravestone.
I tap a block to clear it out, but there's nothing underneath. I tap another at random. There's a bulbous eye staring back at me, a tomb watcher, the sort of monster that would wipe out my party in i...
When we were told Godzilla was heading to cinemas across the UK on May 15th, we weren't prepared to take it so... literally.
You see, there are rumours that the King of the Monsters has surfaced in the UK. There's only one thing we, as Pocket Gamer, can do to track down his location.
We're calling on you, dear readers, to use your gaming prowess to seek out the radioactive crash site in ...
Rovio has announced on Facebook that there's some new stuff out right now for the iOS version of Angry Birds Star Wars II, and it's all set on your favourite planets of Kamino and Coruscant.
There are forty new levels to toss your Star Wars-themed birds through, twenty for the light side and twenty for the dark side. Plus some secret ones.
The new planets feature new obstacle elements fo...
