Pocket Gamer is looking for interns for three months' experience working on the production of leading games and technology websites and magazines.
This is an unpaid role that would suit a university candidate looking to gain valuable experience in the media industry.
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Everybody loves a good comeback story.
There’s something about cheering for a down-and-out sports figure, celebrity, or developer who’s quest for redemption brings them instant vindication and validation.
...or $19 billion dollars, as was the case for WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton who was passed over by both Twitter and Facebook in 2009. Rather than turn despondent, Acton kept "looking for...
It's awards season again.
This means lots of AAA console game devs in expensive frocks are about to congratulate one another on making that game where a man shoots a gun and another man falls over.
To celebrate the diversity of mobile gaming, however, Peter, Keith, and I decided to discuss the mobile games that have been highlighted by the IMGA and BAFTA panels during this week's podcast.
...
How's your Friday been so far?
Well, it could get a whole lot better if you spare us a minute or two of your time to answer seven simple questions for the Steel Media Reader Survey 2014.
After you click the link above, you'll be transported to a survey. Here, you're very politely asked a little bit about yourself. In return for this info, you stand a chance of winning your very own iPad ...
Do you have a Windows Phone? Wow! Really?!
Well, the number of decent games on it just went up by one to - what - about three now, I guess. That's because Rayman Fiesta Run has just raced onto the Windows Phone Store.
When we reviewed the iOS version of the game, we gave it a Gold Award. We said: "Rayman Fiesta Run is another giddy and breathless mix of memory and reflexes. It's not much...
We loved The Lords of Midnight here at Pocket Gamer, handing a Gold Award to this iOS remake of the Spectrum-era classic.
So, you can imagine how excited we were when we found out that the game's sequel, Doomdark's Revenge, was also heading to iOS, Android, and BlackBerry on February 17th.
Well, that's today. Lo and behold, this intriguing adventure - set in a fantasy kingdom and after the o...
Alas, poor Flappy Bird - we hardly knew ye.
After nearly upending everything we thought we knew about discovery and how the App Store worked, you strut and fret your hour upon the stage and then went silent.
While many are now looking for ways to recapture your sound and fury, others are convinced that you ultimately signified nothing.
In either case, you certainly made the beginning of 2...
Yes, yes - we missed last week's episode. It couldn't be helped.
So, here Peter and I are, two weeks later, trying to summarise one of the rowdiest fortnights in recent mobile gaming memory in the space of a single hour.
Do we succeed? You betcha by golly, wow, we do.
Dungeon Keeper. Flappy Bird. Angry Birds Stella. Final Fantasy VI. If it hit the headlines, then there's chat about it emb...
Angry Birds Stella is the name of that new thing Rovio teased us with yesterday.
What sort of a 'thing' is it? Well, by the sounds of the press release for Angry Birds Stella, it is ALL sorts of things.
Stella-r stuff
Here's what Rovio CEO Mikael Hed had to say about this new Angry Birds game:
"Angry Birds Stella is breaking the mold by introducing strong, passionate characters who rea...
Now that Flappy Bird has flopped off into the mists of our memories, it's time to turn our attention back to the original birds that took mobile by storm.
Rovio - the reigning king of bird-based app entertainment - has announced that it's got a new Angry Birds game in the works.
... and unfortunately, that's really all Rovio that announced.
Big adventure with new birds coming soon! #New...
Some background: Doomdark's Revenge is the 1985 fantasy-RPG sequel to the Gold Award-winning The Lords of Midnight.
On its blog, Chili Hugger Software confirmed that its remake of this follow-up to Mike Singleton's seminal game will go live on iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and PC on February 17th.
Chili Hugger will also release Windows Phone 8 versions of The Lords of Midnight and Doomdark's Rev...
"Ooooooh, love to love you, baby," a naughty Donna Summer sang back in 1975, brilliantly encapsulating the modern world's continuing affection for awards.
Admittedly, she may have had other things on her mind.
Nevertheless, Summer's lyric embodies the attitude with which we encourage you to approach our Pocket Gamer Awards 2014.
Five alive
With these awards - now in their fifth year - ...
This past week's headlines are the sort of fodder that give mobile a bad name to those in the console space.
While there was plenty of merit underneath the furore, most eyes were firmly fixed on the disruptive - and perhaps questionable - success of two unknown games, Flappy Bird and Red Bouncing Ball Spikes.
Then, there was the outcry against the monetisation strategies EA employed in Dunge...
Disney Mobile Studios has updated Silver Award-winning weapon-of-mass-destruction creation sim Star Wars: Tiny Death Star with a chunk of new content designed to further the advancement of the Imperial cause.
Thanks to a new Imperial Assignments system, you are given more than 100 new missions to try and complete. Handsome rewards abound. Possibly smugglers frozen in carbonite.
There are...
Biff! Bang! Clonk! Exposition! Twist! More biffing!
That's basically what happens in superhero movies nowadays. They also all seem to have tie-in mobile games, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier is no exception.
Almost inevitably, this Marvel-based game is being developed by Gameloft. Just as inevitably, looks like this new one will 'boast' the same dungeon-crawling action-RPG mechanics...
Having the gift of perfect hindsight is a mixed blessing.
Months ago, our own Jon Jordan opined that EA should have skipped over PopCap and bought NaturalMotion or MachineZone instead.
"...the benefit of hindsight suggests that EA should have been looking for upcoming - and then relatively cheap - F2P developers such as NaturalMotion or Machine Zone, both of which have demonstrated very stro...
This week, Keith, Peter, and I wag our chins in tandem while noises that sound like words relating to mobile games come out of our mouths.
Among the noises emerging from our gobs are the words "PlayStation", "Vita", and "Slim".
Coincidentally, Sony announced that it'll soon be selling a new version of the PlayStation Vita in Europe that just so happens to be a bit slimmer than the old one.
...
Rockstar said it was heading to Windows Phone 8, and now it has arrived.
Yep, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is now available on the Windows Phone Store, just a month after it hit the Google Play Store and the App Store.
At review, we gave the iOS version a Gold Award. We called it an "enormous, funny, varied, and sometimes frustrating PS2 classic that has come to mobile with few compromi...
We painted London a lovely shade of red this week with Pocket Gamer Connects 2014, our first-ever conference that drew in close to 700 of the industry's best and brightest.
The overall theme of the conference was "East meets West", and much discussion was had on how game makers in the west can crack eastern markets while developers from Japan, Korea, and China shared their desire to bring their...
It wasn't meant to be like this.
Having spent two days exploring the very best that the mobile games community had to offer at the Pocket Gamer Connects conference in London, Peter and I stumbled across an empty lecture hall.
Deciding it was the perfect venue for an impromptu podcast, we busted out our mics, pulled up some very ornate wrought iron thrones, and began to chat.
We talked abo...
Pocket Gamer is looking for interns for three months' experience working on the production of leading games and technology websites and magazines.
This is an unpaid role that would suit a university candidate looking to gain valuable experience in the media industry.
Successful candidates will be able to work alongside and learn from a team with over 50 years of combined experience at the to...
Everybody loves a good comeback story.
There’s something about cheering for a down-and-out sports figure, celebrity, or developer who’s quest for redemption brings them instant vindication and validation.
...or $19 billion dollars, as was the case for WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton who was passed over by both Twitter and Facebook in 2009. Rather than turn despondent, Acton kept "looking for...
It's awards season again.
This means lots of AAA console game devs in expensive frocks are about to congratulate one another on making that game where a man shoots a gun and another man falls over.
To celebrate the diversity of mobile gaming, however, Peter, Keith, and I decided to discuss the mobile games that have been highlighted by the IMGA and BAFTA panels during this week's podcast.
...
How's your Friday been so far?
Well, it could get a whole lot better if you spare us a minute or two of your time to answer seven simple questions for the Steel Media Reader Survey 2014.
After you click the link above, you'll be transported to a survey. Here, you're very politely asked a little bit about yourself. In return for this info, you stand a chance of winning your very own iPad ...
Do you have a Windows Phone? Wow! Really?!
Well, the number of decent games on it just went up by one to - what - about three now, I guess. That's because Rayman Fiesta Run has just raced onto the Windows Phone Store.
When we reviewed the iOS version of the game, we gave it a Gold Award. We said: "Rayman Fiesta Run is another giddy and breathless mix of memory and reflexes. It's not much...
We loved The Lords of Midnight here at Pocket Gamer, handing a Gold Award to this iOS remake of the Spectrum-era classic.
So, you can imagine how excited we were when we found out that the game's sequel, Doomdark's Revenge, was also heading to iOS, Android, and BlackBerry on February 17th.
Well, that's today. Lo and behold, this intriguing adventure - set in a fantasy kingdom and after the o...
Angry Birds Stella is the name of that new thing Rovio teased us with yesterday.
What sort of a 'thing' is it? Well, by the sounds of the press release for Angry Birds Stella, it is ALL sorts of things.
Stella-r stuff
Here's what Rovio CEO Mikael Hed had to say about this new Angry Birds game:
"Angry Birds Stella is breaking the mold by introducing strong, passionate characters who rea...
Now that Flappy Bird has flopped off into the mists of our memories, it's time to turn our attention back to the original birds that took mobile by storm.
Rovio - the reigning king of bird-based app entertainment - has announced that it's got a new Angry Birds game in the works.
... and unfortunately, that's really all Rovio that announced.
Big adventure with new birds coming soon! #New...
"Ooooooh, love to love you, baby," a naughty Donna Summer sang back in 1975, brilliantly encapsulating the modern world's continuing affection for awards.
Admittedly, she may have had other things on her mind.
Nevertheless, Summer's lyric embodies the attitude with which we encourage you to approach our Pocket Gamer Awards 2014.
Five alive
With these awards - now in their fifth year - ...
Disney Mobile Studios has updated Silver Award-winning weapon-of-mass-destruction creation sim Star Wars: Tiny Death Star with a chunk of new content designed to further the advancement of the Imperial cause.
Thanks to a new Imperial Assignments system, you are given more than 100 new missions to try and complete. Handsome rewards abound. Possibly smugglers frozen in carbonite.
There are...
Biff! Bang! Clonk! Exposition! Twist! More biffing!
That's basically what happens in superhero movies nowadays. They also all seem to have tie-in mobile games, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier is no exception.
Almost inevitably, this Marvel-based game is being developed by Gameloft. Just as inevitably, looks like this new one will 'boast' the same dungeon-crawling action-RPG mechanics...
Rockstar said it was heading to Windows Phone 8, and now it has arrived.
Yep, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is now available on the Windows Phone Store, just a month after it hit the Google Play Store and the App Store.
At review, we gave the iOS version a Gold Award. We called it an "enormous, funny, varied, and sometimes frustrating PS2 classic that has come to mobile with few compromi...
