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 are playing with the formula – games …

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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 have it, then, that Survivalist Games are …

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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 had a bit of love and attention …

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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 we turn the volume up especially for …

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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 via an icon at the bottom of …

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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 app for that: The Great Brain Experiment, …

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Ridiculous Fishing

Ridiculous Fishing – Review

There are a lot of ‘angles’ on Ridiculous Fishing: the tortured development; the indie supergroup that eventually finished it; the chart success since last week’s launch, despite having been preceded by a blatant clone; the active eschewing of IAPs in favour of a £1.99 upfront price tag. And 45 degrees: the angle that the graphics …

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Sonic Dash

Sonic Dash – Review

There are two video game characters obviously ripe for an endless running revival. Sonic Dash ticks one off the list, but someone needs to get Naughty Dog to stop wasting their time on PlayStation 4 and give the public what they really want: mobile Crash Bandicoot. And hey, Jason Rubin might have some time on …

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Not a Real Racing 3 review

Freemium gaming has no shortage of critics. It’s understandable, given that such games have earned a reputation for nickle and diming their players. EA have taken the concept further than ever with Real Racing 3, their attempt at combining the freemium model with AAA production values. The result? Possibly the most depressing thing to happen …

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Year Walk

Year Walk – Review

A thread of darkness is part of the appeal – and indeed function – of folklore and fairy tales. Simogo’s Year Walk – based on the Swedish tradition of year walking, a ‘vision quest’ meant to offer a glimpse of the future – puts the darkness firmly front and centre. It’s a puzzle-adventure, where the …

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Domo the Journey – Review

Some know him as that brown thing who’s on T-shirts in the dark corners of HMV that nobody visits. Others know him as Domo-kun, the official mascot of Japan’s NHK television station. We discovered this for ourselves first-hand when visiting NHK in Tokyo around five years ago. What were we doing there? Obviously not becoming …

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Rescue Rush

Rescue Rush – Review

There’s a lot to be said for novelty. This doesn’t sound like a terribly original concept for a mobile game: a cute giant cat roams the streets setting free animals held captive by evil scientists. But when it’s your streets, well, then you’ve got my interest. The level select screen is an OpenStreetMap of your …

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Hundreds

Hundreds – Review

Hundreds is confident: it sees no reason to explain itself, and assumes you’ll figure it out. That’s admirable, but there’s a fine line between confidence and, well, being a prick. Thankfully, Hundreds isn’t a prick – most of the time. And it’s right, you will figure it out. Touching a circle makes it grow, and …

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LEGO Legends of Chima: Speedorz – Review

Legends of Chima is latest toy line from the purveyors of the popular plastic bricks, and this free iOS download is the first of three tie-in games. Although we can understand why there are three games in the pipeline, seeing as they’re all due on different formats, we can’t comprehend why a game which has …

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Microsoft brings Xbox achievements to iOS

It truly is the season of goodwill – Microsoft has bestowed upon us the ability to unlocked Xbox 360 achievements from the comfort of our iPhone. Hallelujah! That’s to say, Microsoft Studios’ free to download Wordament was released yesterday on the App Store and offers 10 Xbox 360 achievements worth 50G. It’s quite a significant …

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