The nominations for March’s BAFTA Games Awards were announced yesterday, and the portable category makes interesting reading. What was previously referred to as the Handheld award is now Mobile & Handheld, which neatly reflects the shift that seems to have occurred. In 2009 and 2010 it was all PSP and DS. In 2011, one mobile …
A lot of people seem to have taken umbrage at Katamari Amore’s pricing structure. It’s a free download, which gives you access to one level in time attack mode. Essentially, it’s a demo. What’s wrong with that? Honestly, people have been spoiled by the level of freeness on the App Store. What this one level …
The Barcode Battler was rubbish. Sure, it sounded exciting: turn everyday barcodes into exciting warriors, power-ups and so on, then battle them against others. Brilliant! The reality was somewhat different. The barcodes had to be swiped through a narrow reader, so to even find out what a barcode was worth involved first cutting it off …
This can’t have been originally conceived as a James Pond game. I say that not because it bears no resemblance the fondly remembered ’90s platform games, but because one of the three controls puts James Pond into reverse. Now, I realise that some fish can swim backwards. But if you were bringing James Pond back, …
We hope the following news isn’t a red herring – radically retro videogame character James Pond is making a comeback on the App Store later this month. James Pond in the Deathly Shallows has nothing to do with a particular wizard but instead sees the titular fish ridding the ocean of pollution while avoiding an …
Swords & Sworcery was the first iPhone game I had a real expectation of pre-release. Cruel, then, that it was released on iPad first. But hey ho, the anticipation is all part of the enjoyment. And I was happy enough to wait: it looked cool, seemed to have an interesting attiude, and Jim Guthrie was …