Reviews

When developing their hit title Pocket Planes, NimbleBit was originally going to make the game Pocket Trains, but instead opted to embrace the power of flight instead of traveling across the countryside via boxcar.

Gameloft and I have had our disagreements in the past, but I can’t fault the company for leading the charge when it comes to creating cool multiplayer worlds for mobile gaming fans.

Following the freemium business model, Madden 25 is free to download and play with the option to purchase in-game extras later.

It has been 15 years since I first played FIFA. On my raggedy old Windows desktop, the beautiful game sprang to life.

The “tick tick ticking” of a legion of troops can be heard echoing throughout the town as they march in formation, heading straight into the arms of a defensive garrison.

As someone who knows nothing about game development and has never written a single line of code, I think I’m totally qualified to say that creating a decent mobile game is a lot different than making one for consoles.

As kart races go, there’s one yet to match the brilliance of Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing.

It could be argued that this is the first real mobile game with the burden of a legacy.

The Last Express is a video game from the mid-nineties. The point-and-click adventure takes place in 1914, shortly before the outbreak of World War One in Europe.

Puzzle games are versatile. You can play a quick level to take your mind off something; you can see how far you go while waiting for somebody; or you can play it at length just to test your old noodle.

Terraria, the spiritual successor to the block-bashing game Minecraft, has been out for a little more than a year now on PC and a few months on consoles.

As a person with all the strategic thinking ability of a kumquat, tactical games tend to perplex me.

In the land of mobile gaming roguelikes are quickly becoming one of the more popular genres with tons of them popping up everywhere.

On your way back to the blacksmith’s shop, pockets laden with fresh gold from your recent adventures in slaying a massive swarm of giant hornets, you’re stopped by a panicked pygmy named Gork.

If there’s something that the British truly love, it’s got to be their breakfast time.

It’s been over two years since Temple Run first hit the App Store and everyone went ga-ga over this new style of gameplay.

Once upon a time, there existed a small three-story castle overrun with strange vermin.

The first thing Crescent Moon Games claims on the Play Store page for its new game, Siegecraft Defender, is that this is “the most beautiful 3D mobile tower defense game yet.

A couple of years ago I probably would have enjoyed Zombie Diary: Survival a heck of a lot more than I do now.

Back in its heyday, Contra did everything right on the console: fast-paced co-op gunplay, vibrant environs, explosions, lots of jumping and of course, a killer rock soundtrack.

It’s been a while since Draw Something and Words With Friends first made mobile gaming a bit more social and interactive.

An evil force has taken over the world, destroying life and shrouding everything in gloomy darkness.

It seems that remake and remastered versions of old classic video games are becoming a huge appearance lately on Google Play.

Pik Pok’s latest title isn’t the first attempt at a field goal-based game, nor is the gameplay something new and innovative.

Activision created a successful Skylander franchise when they brought Riptide, Rattle Shake, Wash Buckler and other popular characters into the homes of many a happy kid a few years ago.

Playing as Kong, your entire job in Building the China Wall revolves around telling laborers what needs done to fulfill the emperor’s monumental request.

“There’s something strange/in the neighbourhood/whom you gonna call…”

“He-Man! He-Man!”

Little Galaxy is the epitome of a simple game, featuring one touch gameplay and a fairly straightforward premise but it still holds up and is a amazing game to play.

Gameloft have presented us with well over a dozen quality racing games with their most recent addition to their Asphalt series being number 8: Airborne.

Giant owls have been the bane of squirrel-existence since the dawn of time, so it’s no surprise that Momonga’s hometown just got pwned.

Awhile ago Frima Studios showed us with Nun Attack that nuns are to be feared as they come fully loaded to kick some paranormal butt.

Maniac Manors, a point and click 3D adventure game just released for Android. Apparently, it’s a rip off the popular Maniac Mansion title. But can it live up to the challenge?

Middle Manager of Justice is one of those games that gets by on charisma before you ever even consider the mechanics.

Dots — first released on iOS earlier this year — is a modern take on an addictive puzzle classic, which has a lot of refinement and has obviously seen plenty of care from its makers. It’s hard not to fall in love with this game.

The clunky gameplay, lazy sound effects and barely passable graphics turn PlayFirst Inc’s video game adaptation of the popular adult fantasy novels into something you can miss without a second thought.

Every game that you play contains a certain appeal factor that draws you into its fold.

Asking me to review a free-to-play steampunk title is assigning me to cover a concert featuring Nickelback and Train.

Somewhere in an office of Coca Cola there’s a marketing exec enjoying celebratory sips of Coke Zero while enjoying a hefty cash bonus.

Time to get your sleaze on with the dirty and adult humorous point and click adventure game from Replay Games that also happens to be a HD remake, Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded.

There are two kinds of fun when it comes to multiplayer games: Regular and relationship-ruining. Gentlemen!

If the whole world was at war, how well would you be able to defend your home? And by home, I really mean exactly where you live right now.

Back in 2012 (pre-Mayan apocalypse), a sexy dieselpunk style shooter named Sine Mora plastered itself across the PC, console, and Vita world.

There has been a slight shift, I feel, in the popularity of mobile real time strategy games and now the market is getting flooded with various sub-genres utilizing real time aspects.

ver since the quirky and lovable Muppets hit the TV screens in the mid 90’s, they have enchanted and entertained the young and old alike.

A century in the future, MetalWars3 is set under the guise of a unified planet Earth called the Earth Federation.

Somewhere floating in deep space exists a barren square platform.

There’s no doubt that strategy games, be it turn-based gameplay, real-time strategy, city-building or tower defense, are a fantastic genre that offer many hours of entertainment for fans of the genre.

I have been brought up on a steady diet of Quake 3: Arena, Counter-strike and Unreal, so any shoot-em-all deathmatch arena is a second home to me.