iCanSee is both a useful and functional application that allows you to magnify any image or text you would like to see larger. By using the iPhone’s built-in camera, you can enlarge images up to four times. It’s a great application for those who have a hard time seeing things up close, but is only […]
Bryan Mitchell’s Geared is an excellent puzzle game that revolves around a very simple gameplay mechanic: Arranging gears on screen to make a working set of gears that connects from the yellow gear to the blue gear(s). Geared starts simple and quickly progresses to levels that require pixel perfect accuracy to complete. We greatly enjoyed […]
Rake in Grass recently released their latest iPhone game Undercroft, an old-school styled turn based RPG. The game has been receiving only positive comments in the release thread. The developer describes the game: Undercroft is a dazzling, epic adventure set in a fantasy world full of magic and monsters. It combines the atmosphere of classic […]
Gameloft recently released this new gameplay video for their upcoming racer Asphalt 5 – Check it out below
Rhythm games have been a part of gamer culture since Bemani popularized them outside of Japan with Dance Dance Revolution in the late 90’s. Since then, the core game concept of DDR has varied widely from things as obscure as shaking maracas in Samba de Amigo on the Dreamcast to emulating a full band in […]
This week we speak to the three strong team at Big Pixel Studios about their first outing on the iPhone in the form of the retro pixel puzzle ‘Piyo Block’. Having created games for Disney and Jetix and with a plethora of Flash titles under their belt there have now turned their attention to the […]
Piyo Block is a fun, stylish ‘match 3’ game with a pixel style look and feel which differentiates it from its competitors. The premise of the game is simple; swap adjacent blocks, which in this case are little chirping bird blocks, to match three or more of the same color blocks to make them disappear. […]
Last weekend we took a look at a preview release of React Games‘ Archon Conquest and, as fans of the 25 year old EA original, we liked what we saw. The game has since gone live in the App Store [link] and we’ve spent a bit more time with this variation on the studio’s remake […]
This week, 2XL Games‘ highly anticipated off-road racing game 2XL ATV Offroad hit the App Store. The game is a follow-up to the studio’s 2XL Supercross, a technically impressive dirt-track racing title that, physics and visuals aside, felt a little shallow from an overall gameplay perspective. We’re happy to report that this latest from 2XL […]
Music games are big business these days, with brands like Guitar Hero and Rock Band turning mild-mannered individuals into head-banging lunatics that think nothing of standing in their clammy living rooms brandishing tiny plastic replicas of musical instruments whilst their puzzled friends and family look on, aghast. While these titles are as pleasing to the […]
Pocket God is one of the most influential apps to appear on the iPhone,and has proven very tricky for us to quantify here at Pocket Gamer. Strictly, it’s not a game, but the episodic life of those poor pygmies has provided more entertainment than many of the more traditional games out there. And now is […]
When I first found out about Hook Champ, I knew I had to immediately put it on my “to buy” list. It reminded me of old VGA PC classics like Dangerous Dave and Commander Keen, but with the addition of a single gameplay element I could never get enough of: a grappling hook. See, I’ve […]
As is the case with all fairy stories, there are various versions of Little Red Riding Hood. Sometimes granny hides in the cupboard, sometimes the woodsman has to slice open the wolf pull out granny’s corpse. There’s probably even some exotic versions in which the wolf and Red Riding Hood live happily ever after by […]
Slingers is brand new game from Banshee Soft. You play the part of a soldier tasked with protecting your base by trying to destroy your enemies Nuclear Reactors before they do the same to you. You start by building your base. You can build walls to protect and hide your nuclear reactors before battle commences. Once […]
There are few things finer than a spot of stupid heaped atop cartoon violence. That said, for all the gloriously gratuitous shuriken-in-the-face moments that pepper Cartoon Wars, the game is not as brainless as its puerile presentation would have you believe. The 2D play area features a tower at both ends, black and white units […]
Tap Fu offers a fun casual fighting game that can be played in short spurts or in more prolonged sessions when you’re looking for a little more action. While it isn’t a particularly deep game, Tap Fu provides an enjoyable enough gameplay experience that makes it worth considering. The game has 4 modes: Story, Survival, […]
News that Apple will now let free iPhone apps use in-app payments has been broadly welcomed by games firms. “This announcement changes the landscape of the App Store as we know it,” said Colin Smith of Freeverse. SGN boss Shervin Pishevar said “This is one of the most important announcements to come out of Apple […]
The news Apple is allowing developers to charge for in-game items and downloadable content in free apps – the so-called free-plus-paid model – has shaken up the way many studios are thinking about the future. Yet there’s also some confusion about how this will change the way the App Store operates in terms of the […]
We’d only just announced that iPhone newcomer Riptide Games was ready to submit its debut App Store title to Apple when more Gravity Sling information started circling our news planet. Riptide managed to slam the brakes on just moments before submitting the game, when it heard that Apple was now allowing micro-transactions and in-app purchases […]
Developer Realtech VR has been in touch to announce Iron Fist Boxing 3rd Strike is now available on the App Store. And at first glance it appears to be a real contender for the iPhone heavyweight boxing title. The game, developed for iPod touch and iPhone, has been described by Realtech VR as, “the original […]