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Battle Riders Review
Racing sims can be a bit clinical. You'll often get endless menus filled with gear ratio sliders and engine tuning options, when all you really want to do is slam your figurative foot to the floor and burn some rubber. Battle Riders is an antidote to the serious-headed racers of the world, so much so that the Deathrace 3000-inspired vehicles you drive also have massive guns slapped on the side of them. Question is, does it deliver the high octane, armour plated goods? Watch the…
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Surviving in Minecraft: Pocket Edition, Episode 4 - Shining Light
In the latest episode of my journeys through the lands of Minecraft: PE, I begin fortifying my home from attacks by exploding cactus things, simply by using torches. There's also a moment when I try to tickle a wolf with a feather in order to make it like me, and I begin journeying even further into the newly-discovered underground cave. Plus: physics?…
MinecraftHands-on with Spider-Man Unlimited, in which Spidey turns his hand to auto-running
Peter Parker is a beloved Marvel character, and he and his alter ego Spider-Man, are a source of inspiration to many people, young and old. They certainly are to me. So it's with a little sadness I have to report that my small amount of time with Spider-Man Unlimited has found it to be a fairly by-the-numbers auto-runner with combat elements. It's got some neat stuff packed away in there though, which I'll show you in my hands-on video below.…
Genre Busters: best futuristic racers on iOS
This is an important list to James and myself, as we were raised on eye-bleedingly fast racing games like WipEout, F-Zero, and Extreme G. Over the course of an hour we discuss futuristic racers new and old, reminisce over fallen franchises, and generally get all nostalgic. It's fun, you'll like it, so click play on the video below. No worries if you're not ready for a full hour of awesome, just click the links below to instantly jump to the content you want to see. 1. FlashOut 22. Repulze3. AG Drive4. Battle Riders…
Awesome! There's a new illo - Birth of the Cool trailer
illo - Birth of the Cool is shaping up to be... well... pretty cool. It's a non-violent adventure game with action and puzzle elements from Raylight Games, where you'll be controlling the eponymous hero using touch, tilt, and microphone inputs, to navigate them through beguilingly stark worlds in a strange and unique narrative that's told completely without words. As you'll see in the trailer, there's a rewind mechanic in there just in case you make a mistake, the puzzles look left-field and off-kilter, and the visuals are stripped right back to the (still gorgeous) fundamentals. We're keen to see how illo - Birth of the Cool turns out when it comes to iOS and Android (and PSN, XBLA, Wi…
Hands-on with Kapsula, where racing puzzlers solve you
Kapsula is set on a futuristic Russian communist planet, populated by clones who are all controlled by The Master. If that wasn't quite enough of an odd setup, the gameplay is somewhere between a cross of a racer, endless runner, and puzzler. Bizarre, but cool. Here's our video explaining why.…
Learn how to play Monster Hunter Freedom Unite with AppSpy - Part 7
While the cat's away the... something... something... Basically James was away for this episode so Harry and I run amok. A couple of members of the AppSpy / Pocket Gamer community join us in our ongoing Monster Hunter Freedom Unite quest, and show us their awesome armour sets while they lead us to easy victory after easy victory. Plus there's a lot of talk about pants. I think James might get mad when he gets around to watching the video below. Did you forget to watch the last episode? Rectify that.…
What is the Apple Watch? This five minute video explains all
Time is precious: there's a finite amount of it that we all have before the party's over, and using it wisely is the most important thing you can do. That's why people need watches, and why Apple thinks you need an Apple Watch. But since time is so precious, you probably didn't watch the entire Apple keynote the other day, as it was 90 minutes of tech chat and marketing buzzwords. What you need is a 5 minute video containing all the info you need. And you need it now. And here it is.…
Hands-on with Kitty Powers' Matchmaker, ooh err!
I adore Kitty Powers' Matchmaker. A dating game fronted by the gorgeous Kitty Powers, Matchmaker has a cheeky (and very British) sense of humour, and combines its sense of sexy silliness with unmistakably solid gameplay ideas. Helping young lovers find their “special someone” is a great deal of fun, and even if finding the perfect partner is tough, trying to do so never fails to paint a big grin across your face.…
Genre Busters: top 5 best Dreamcast games on iOS
The Dreamcast was originally release in America 9/9/99, so to celebrate Danny and myself decided to take a look at the greatest Dreamcast releases available on iOS. In this video, which we recorded from our live Twitch stream, we made some crazy money, drove remote controlled cars about a supermarket, launched mice in rocket ships, spray-painted all the walls, and went rocket jumping. Schedule too hectic for the full hour of hijinks? Here are the links to check out the various games we streamed. 1. Crazy Taxi2. Re-Volt Classic3. ChuChu Rocket4. Jet Set Radio5. Beben III…
Want your butt to fall off? No? Then don't watch these unbelieveable Terraria videos because your butt will fall off
Terraria's an amazing game, we said as much in our video review. But it can get weird sometimes.No more is this evident than in the fan-made videos you'll find on Everyplay. The following are the best videos that demonstrate this wonderful weirdness, curated just for you, courtesy of your pals at AppSpy. When you wish upon a star... Beating Skeletron Prime? Tough. Beating Ocram? Also tough. Beating both at the same time...? Nice one Yoshi. This kid is not impressed at all with what he gets for defeating The Wall of Flesh. Do you kiss your momma with that mouth? "Come on Jumpy. That's your name. Your name is Jumpy. Because you jump so much" Got a cooler video for Terraria?…
Hands-on with On The Run, the explosive arcade-y endless-driver
The really tough part of On The Run is knowing when to slipstream behind an upcoming car, and when to simply concentrate on not smashing your vehicle to pieces. Nip behind another driver for just a moment, and you'll be rewarded with a burst of speed that puts you that little bit closer to the next checkpoint, but drive up the back of them and you'll lose all momentum, killing your run. Did I mention On The Run also lets you transform into a tank and destroy everything around you for no good reason? It's pretty cool.…
Hands-on with The Sleeping Prince, the super fun snooze-a-thon
In The Sleeping Prince, a princess has been kidnapped by an evil villain. It's up to you, the prince of the land, to stop him and “get the girl”. Shame you're in the deepest sleep of your life, eh? Click play on the video below for sleepytime shenanigans in this physics-based platformer.…
Hands-on with Galaxy Falcon, the free-to-play space shoot-em-up
After creating the rather lovely utility app Morning Kit, Yooii Studios is back on the App Store with a new game: Galaxy Falcon. It's a shmup, it's freemium, and it's unfortunately a little bit dull, lacking the spark of the great shooters already available on iOS. Galaxy Falcon is out now globally, but here's my quick hands-on to walk you through the basics.…
iPhone 6: good news for games?
Now that the dust has settled on Apple's keynote, it's time to take stock. We've all heard the impressive GPU stats on the iPhone 6, and gazed longingly at the massive 1920 x 1080 screen on the iPhone 6 Plus - perfect for playing the next wave of A8-powered games. But are there any downsides to Apple's decision to keep fragmenting its hardware releases? Have developers started to lose faith in the platform? Check out the video above to see AppSpy's take on the matter. …
