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Granny Smith: Your elder and better

by Will Porter on Sep 3, 2012 • No Comments

You can't help but think the makers of Granny Smith could've jazzed up their game name a little. Grannies? Grannies aren't cool, while my memories of the popularity of various members of the Munch Bunch suggest that apples aren't down with the kids (in 1987) either.

Android / iOS / Must Plays

Doodle Jump: Still taking us higher

by Will Porter on Aug 29, 2012 • No Comments

Retro gaming has changed. Once upon a time it was all about dusting off machines secreted in the attic, or fiddling with emulators. Now it’s sitting on a train, bored, and suddenly noticing you still have Doodle Jump installed. All of a sudden you’re transported back to the heady days of 2009.

Times were better. “P-P-P-P-oker face!”: Remember that one? Ah, memories.

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Have we short-changed games by comparing them to movies?

by Keith Stuart on Aug 28, 2012 • 3 Comments

Games are always being compared to films – but is this doing most of them an enormous disservice? Do films really have anything to say about Drop7 or Tetris? And if they don't, what does? Does poetry have the answer

Android / Features / PSN

PlayStation Mobile – the mystery is solved!

by Keith Stuart on Aug 24, 2012 • 2 Comments

Earlier this week I admitted that I didn't really understand the PlayStation Mobile proposition. Enter heroic PlayStation and mobile developer Ricky Haggett from Honeyslug, who kindly talked me through the whole thing. Here's what he had to say...

Android / Features / iOS

Football sims and the fallacy of realism

by Keith Stuart on Aug 22, 2012 • 5 Comments

Is Fifa 13 really more 'realistic' than New Star Soccer and Fluid Football or have we got the whole concept of football simulation fundamentally wrong? Here's what I sort of think.

Android / News

So what exactly is PlayStation Mobile?

by Keith Stuart on Aug 20, 2012 • No Comments

I'm not being funny, but everyone got excited by Sony's PlayStation Mobile announcement at Gamescom last week – I just want to understand why, and what it all means.

Android / iOS

NSS and the Update of Addiction Doom

by Will Porter on Aug 17, 2012 • No Comments

I used to read a lot of books. I used to stare out of train windows, my index finger turned to my lips, and make intelligent noises at the countryside rolling past. “Hmm!” I’d say, as I contemplated Jack Reacher throwing a man out of a window because he’d threatened to cut off a man’s balls. “Fascinating!”.

That hasn’t happened in months, and for a while it looked like it wouldn’t for months to come. Why? New Star Soccer, and its recent update.

Android / iOS / News / PC / Web / XBLA

OpenGameCity – be a part of it!

by Keith Stuart on Aug 13, 2012 • 1 Comment

Got a new indie project to show off? Want to perform an interpretive dance based on Metal Gear Solid 4? Think you can do a twenty minute stand-up on Activision's best business decisions? OpenGameCity is waiting for you!

Android / iOS / Must Plays

Clumsy Pirates almost set my house on fire

by Christian Donlan on Jul 24, 2012 • 1 Comment

Clumsy Pirates is so good it made me burn my nachos - and sadly, reader, that's not a turn of phrase. Thumbstar's latest puzzler may look simple, but it exerts a surprisingly powerful grip, and although I only loaded it up for a quick look before dinner, it drew me in and led to my cheese-splattered downfall.

Android / News

Piracy forces Dead Trigger to go free-to-play on Android

by Simon Parkin on Jul 24, 2012 • 1 Comment

Android continues to go from strength to strength, with a reported 1 million new Android-based devices being activated every single day.

Despite this success, many game developers remain cool about the platform - not least because of the alleged high levels of piracy.

Hookshot Inc. takes a look at how the problem has impacted Dead Trigger.

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Eight things all indie developers should do when they talk to the press

by Keith Stuart on Jul 18, 2012 • 3 Comments

How should indie studios talk to publications like Eurogamer, Edge and Touch Arcade? What are the secrets of getting your game covered? Here's everything I've been telling young studios for the past few years. Hopefully, this will help...

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New Star Soccer: SIMON READ I LOVE YOU

by Will Porter on Jul 18, 2012 • 3 Comments

I'm biased, it's just a thing I do, but my favourite session at last week's Develop was organised by some two-bit operation called Hookshot Inc.

Called 'My First iPhone Game', the most unassuming hero of the three man line-up was a chap called Simon Read: known in hushed tones before and after the talk as 'the New Star Soccer' guy

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