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Family Guy, Futurama, and American Dad in a card battler?!
That's right! Family Guy, Futurama, American Dad, King of the Hill, and Bob's Burgers have joined forces to make this brand new card battler, Animation Throwdown. Check out Oscar's hands-on video to find out more!…
There's a new Wizard of Oz game?!
For some reason, there's a new Wizard of Oz game out. Oscar checks it out.…
What's with all the GO games?
What is with all the GO games recently? Let's find out...…
The 5 best memes that got turned into ridiculous games
There's something about memes that are so… young. And I don't mean that they've only existed for a few years. I mean they represent exactly what it means to be a young person in the year 2016: they're fleeting, not funny, and often involve exhibiting one's… delicates. Or drugs. Those too. Memes also, on occasion, get transformed into another medium. Since playing video games are the second most millennial activity - after creating memes themselves, of course - we thought we'd run down five memes that got turned into great games. Ish. 5. Bud Farm: Grass Roots You can already tell what this is, can't you? Yes, it's a weed farming sim. What a world we live in. You can bake…
EVERY Telltale game, ranked
Good news everyone! Batman - The Telltale Series is finally out on iOS! Our sister site Pocket Gamer has got a lovely review of the first episode up right now, but what of Telltale's other mobile efforts? The Californian developer has, well, developed a knack and reputation for making episodic, story driven 'interactive experiences'. But which of them are hot, and which are not? The Walking Dead, or dead man walking? Minecraft: Story Mode, or Minecraft: Story NOPE? Game of Thrones or Game of NO? I'll stop now. Here are the seven Telltale games on the App Store, listed from worst to best (not including the old ones like Jurassic Park and Sam & Max, because, like, they're well rubbish m…
Master the Spitfire in Gunship Battle: Second War
South Korean publisher Joycity has followed on from its successful mobile action game Gunship Battle: Helicopter 3D with a sequel sure to please flight simulator fans. Gunship Battle: Second War puts you in the cockpit of 20 faithfully recreated World War 2 gunships including the Spitfire, Warhawk and Saetta. It’s up to you to take to the skies and rain down hell on the enemy, becoming an ace pilot in the post-war 50s. As with the first Gunship Battle, the controls are gyroscopic, freeing your thumbs up to control the camera and the weaponry. As you complete each of the 30 missions, you win gold to add to your war chest, allowing you to upgrade your favourite flying machine. Once yo…
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Primordia iPad Review
By Harry Slater Right, let's get this out of the way as early as possible. Primordia is gorgeous. It's a beautiful mix of design and chunky pixels and it fills my heart with the sort of joy that's usually reserved for a nice sandwich. But the game has the chops to back up its aesthetic swagger. It's a point-and-click adventure with a solid logical heart, a rich stream of humour running through it, and a story that pushes you to find out what happens next. And despite its deep future…
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The 5 best AR games on mobile
Before a certain collect 'em up launched this summer, augmented reality had kind of died a death. Sure, the 3DS came with those little cards, and you played with them for 10 minutes when you first opened the box, but they soon got confined to that drawer in your bedroom with the football pump and the Action Man your auntie got you for your 15th birthday. 15, mind. What was she thinking? Since then, you've barely even given AR a thought. You scoffed at Microsoft's futile attempt to revive the technology when it revealed the Hololens. Then Pokemon GO came along. Pokemon GO showed the world what AR could do. If used correctly, AR can be one amazing gaming tool. So let's take a look at the fi…
Episodic sci-fi adventure, The Uncertain, comes to life on NVIDIA SHIELD
The latest addition to NVIDIA SHIELD’s gaming collection is Episode 1 of The Uncertain, a brand new 3D adventure from ComonGames, a Moscow-based development studio out to prove that indies can deliver high-end AAA gaming experiences. The Uncertain is set in a world where humans have actually done it: they've wiped themselves out with one war too many, and now the planet is ruled by the robots that used to serve them. It is, it seems, a perfect world—one that's governed by logic, not emotion, and where concepts like morality and common sense are a thing of the past. You just know that there's going to be something rotten beneath the surface, right? In this first episode, The L…
Why you NEED to play Pokemon Sun and Moon
I was going to write something controversial about Pokemon. How another new pair of games, with another new region and more new characters, might be overkill. How ideas are starting to dry up, how the repeating loop and same adventure every time is becoming tired. How Pokemon has lost its edge, how the designs are stupid, and how - after Pokemon GO was such a hit - maybe the mainline games should hang up their Poke Balls for good. The truth, however, is that Game Freak and The Pokemon Company are only just getting started. Pokemon has never been so exciting. Pokemon is improving with every game The DS era was not kind to the series. Pokemon's art style struggled with the transition o…
The 5 best quiz games on mobile if you just can't wait for Trivia Crack X
Good news, trivia fans! Who Wants to be a Millionaire is coming back! Just joking. I wish it was coming back. Well it sort of is. You'll see what I mean. Anyway. If you just can't get enough of pub quizzes, love getting stumped by a sticky wicket, or just want to show off to your mates, mobile general knowledge quizzes are for you. And with Trivia Crack X out this week, we thought it'd be the perfect time to run down some of the best quiz apps on mobile. So here is that lovely little list! Play all these and you'll be winning University Challenge in no time. MovieCat 2 MovieCat 2 is possibly the greatest game of all time. Any app that has a load of kittens dressing up and reenact…
4 reasons why FIFA 17 Mobile will fail
FIFA 17 Mobile has been revealed! Well, sort of. EA just quietly put all the details up on their site without telling anyone, which is helpful. Our sister site Pocket Gamer has all the serious details, but here we're going to tell you exactly why FIFA Mobile (as it's officially known) is going to flop. Because obviously. 4. It's called FIFA Mobile (for real this time) Last year, before the release of FIFA 16 on console, EA told us its mobile companion would be called FIFA 16: Ultimate Team, indicating a move towards pure pack opening and dream teams. The giant publisher then changed its tune, instead informing us that FIFA 16: Ultimate Team would now be called FIFA Mobile - confusing…
The 7 best hacking games on mobile you just NEED to play
Updated 1st December 2021. Original post by Oscar Dayus, updated by Himanshu Cheeta Most of us are already familiar with hacking. As the cyber world around us is increasing at a substantial rate, hacking has also taken its toll on the environment in positive and negative ways. Hacking games are from a completely different genre and have nothing to do with the other types of games we come across, such as platformers, puzzles, and adventure, though it may share some of those elements. You will enter a cyber world where you will have to decipher things to achieve a certain goal fiddling around with in-game software, computers, etc. If you think that hacking games cannot be visually intense,…
Game of Dice meets King of Fighters in brand new event
Buying up land and taxing the assets out of other players has to be one of the simple pleasures of being a fat cat in Monopoly. In Joycity’s Game of Dice, you get to do it whilst playing against the world. You also have an array of skill cards to collect and employ strategically throughout your matches, and some pretty cool manga-style graphics to keep you keen. The newest update from the Game of Dice team is bound to appeal to fans of arcade franchise King of Fighters. For a limited time, you can buy an exclusive KoF card pack from the in-game store, nabbing yourself Kyo Kusanagi or Iori Yagami from King of Fighters ’98 Ultimate Match. They both offer skills to boost your tol…
Why Animation Throwdown (Family Guy, Futurama, American Dad, et al.) is a complete mess
If you didn't already know, Animation Throwdown is a weird mash up of a plethora of adult cartoons (not those ones, you dirty bugger). It smashes together Family Guy, Futurama, American Dad, King of the Hill, and Bob's Burgers (I've never heard of that last one either), and turns the resulting dog's dinner into a card battler. I know, it's bizarre. In the 'worst crossovers ever' debate, this is up there with Batman v Superman (dreadful), Simpsons x Family Guy (can you tell I don't like Family Guy?), and LEGO Minecraft (they're both the same bloody thing!). Let me explain just why I think Animation Throwdown is such a mess. (Content warning: contains hot takes. [Not hot cakes. Though that…
