Mobile Games

Fist of Awesome – Review

Fist of Awesome has been one huge charm offensive: from the early animated GIF screenshots, through the doubling-its-target Kickstarter, to designer Nicoll Hunt’s beard. It’s been either: (a) a cleverly orchestrated PR campaign; (b) a demonstration of the benefits as an indie developer of being a bit different;...

Giant Boulder of Death – Review

Does a game about a giant boulder bounding its way down a mountainside need a plot? Probably not, but it has one regardless. To wit: a precariously placed boulder on top of a mountain wishes to be reunited with its partner – another boulder which is presently being...

Plants vs Zombies 2: It’s About Time – Review

It’s About Time… that a developer put some thought into their game’s subtitle, rather than randomly picking a word like ‘Revelations’ or ‘Requiem’ from a dictionary. What pleases us so much about Plants vs Zombies 2’s subheading is that it works on three different levels. The curiously likeable...

Hit me with your Quizzlestick

If you’ve worked in an office over the last decade or so, you’ve probably been hit at some point by the deluge of Excel quizzes. They were fun! Sort of. Little screen caps from films or scraps of sweet wrapper or whatever, and you have to guess what...

Garfield’s Wild Ride – Review

You know when you’ve been playing a game of an evening, and you can still see it in your mind’s eye when you go to sleep? Match-three puzzlers have a habit of doing it to me. Well, Garfield isn’t an obvious choice for an endless runner, so Namco-Bandai...

Scurvy Scallywags – Review

I bloody love a match-three puzzler, and the tile-swapping variety is that rarest of things: a game mechanic born on a controller that actually benefits from a touch screen. Certainly that’s one reason there are so many on iOS. And very nice they are too. Increasingly though games...

Shelter – Review

As long as developers are willing to explore beyond the boundaries of the usual third and first person shooters, we can live with the fact that zombie games aren’t going anywhere any time soon. just as much about defending and planning as it is about attacking Luck would...

Dumb Ways to Die – Review

You’d have to be either very dumb or incredibly naive to deny that Dumb Ways to Die is a blatant clone of Nintendo’s Wario Ware. Unlike many of the App Store’s copycats though, it’s very easy to look past the plagiarism on the account that it has clearly...

Robot Unicorn Attack 2 – Review

Is this the endless runner to end all endless runners? Of course it isn’t. If such a thing existed then a rip in the space-time continuum would occur, causing earth’s seas to boil and the ground to crumble beneath our very feet. one of the few mobile games...

Injustice: Gods Among Us – iOS review

This superhero brawler has a shorter tutorial than most. How short you ask? It lasts all of twenty seconds, give or take. Tapping anywhere on the screen performs attacks, while holding both fingers down blocks. After enough damage has been dealt a special attack can be pulled off...
The Great Brain Experiment

Donate your brain to scientific research – the easy way

They might have peaked in about 2009, but there’s still a healthy market for games with the word ‘brain’ in the title – certainly on mobile. But rather than playing another clone of Nintendo and Dr Kawashima’s 2006 effort, why not contribute to medical science? Well, there’s an...