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Temple Run: Exit Pursued by Bird-Monkeys

by Will Porter on May 23, 2012 • 1 Comment

Much of gaming is about whisking us away to exotic locales, letting us gaze upon impossible vistas imbued with lens flare and searching out new life, and new civilizations.

Monkey Island meets Warioware in McPixel

by Simon Parkin on May 18, 2012 • No Comments

McPixel, launched June 6 for iOS, Android, PC and Mac (and Commodore 64) is a Polish point and click adventure in which you have just 20 seconds to solve each scene.

Parkin speaks to the game's creator to find out more about this intriguing genre mash-up.

Android / iOS / Web / What You Playing?

What you Playing… Hideo Kojima?

by Simon Parkin on May 14, 2012 • No Comments

Apples! Shuriken! Underwear!

Parkin sits down with the Metal Gear Solid creator to find out what he’s currently playing on his smartphone.

Android / iOS

Epic Astro Story and love for Kairosoft

by Will Porter on May 9, 2012 • 2 Comments

I've played the same game four times now. I've developed various games with erotically charged titles in Game Dev Story. I've led a cartoon race team to victory in Grand Prix Story, and I've even not-quite understood the Japanese cultural significance of Hot Springs Story.

Right now, however, I'm charged with the success of Planet Bum - home to intergalactic space gadabouts like James Turk and Jean Vicard.

Android / iOS / Must Plays

New Star Soccer – a beautiful game

by Simon Parkin on May 4, 2012 • 2 Comments

Parkin takes a look at New Star Soccer, a football game for iOS and Android that balances it's tall ambition with sharp focus, and tuns out to be one of the strongest handheld approximations of the beautiful game yet.

Android / iOS

Quest for a Quizshow: The journey continues in The Crystal Maze

by Will Porter on May 3, 2012 • No Comments

Last week I wrote something of a plaint about the lack of decent quiz show apps, and a nice man called Brig Bother chimed in with his list of suggestions. Sadly must of them are as iffy as expected. Deep within the list, however...

Will you start the fans, please?!

Android / iOS / News

Wall Street Titan: Can Kickstart do the business on mobile?

by Will Porter on May 1, 2012 • No Comments

In terms of coverage in the games media the Kickstart Spring has rapidly turned into a saturation of April Kickstart Showers. There are countless projects with a newfound you-donate-we-develop, and it’s impossible to know which ones could drop the baton. Which games should sites pluck from the morass, when so many are unproven?

Android / iOS

Miyamoto Hot Shot Special: Slice It!

by Simon Parkin on Apr 27, 2012 • 1 Comment

Shigeru Miyamoto recommends his current favourite iOS/ Android title, a “simple but hugely enjoyable” puzzle game that has a little of the Nintendo about it.

Parkin reports.

Android / iOS / Modern Classics / PC / Web / XBLA

Modern Classics: Bejeweled Blitz

by Will Porter on Apr 24, 2012 • No Comments

I recently rocked up at the PopCap stall at an EA press event, and found myself ushered towards a Bejeweled terminal. Panic set in. My knowledge of games that are good when you blow people up was suddenly rendered useless. The nice PR lady looked at me quizzically.

Android / iOS / News / Platforms

Tap deLight – like a moth to a flame

by Keith Stuart on Apr 17, 2012 • No Comments

Puzzle games in which you manipulate the environment rather than the protagonist are all the rage on smartphone. Cut the Rope, Where's My Water, Spider Jack...

So here comes Tap deLight from Polish developer Tequila Mobile – and it does something similar! With moths!

Android / iOS / News

Presidential race becomes endless running game

by Keith Stuart on Apr 16, 2012 • No Comments

It's Barak Obama versus Mitt Romney in the presidential race that never has to end – because it's an endless running game!

Choose your candidate and have YOUR say in the American democratic process!

Android / iOS

Where’s My Water? – Sounds rubbish, but isn’t

by Will Porter on Apr 12, 2012 • No Comments

I’d seen Where’s My Water? bobbing around near the top of the charts for several weeks, but had never committed my valuable time to it because it had such a rubbish name, was made by Disney and starred a crocodile called Swampy.

It sounded that little bit too much like the sort of book you read a toddler – with a crocodile not finding water for the best part of ten pages, then building up to a climax of ‘There’s my water!’ and a reeling infant with a mind that’s just been blown.

Temple Run: Exit Pursued by Bird-Monkeys

Monkey Island meets Warioware in McPixel

What you Playing… Hideo Kojima?

Epic Astro Story and love for Kairosoft

New Star Soccer – a beautiful game

Quest for a Quizshow: The journey continues in The Crystal Maze

Wall Street Titan: Can Kickstart do the business on mobile?

Miyamoto Hot Shot Special: Slice It!

Modern Classics: Bejeweled Blitz

Tap deLight – like a moth to a flame

Presidential race becomes endless running game

Where’s My Water? – Sounds rubbish, but isn’t

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