Partly for nostalgia, but definitely on its own merits,The Hacker is my favourite mobile game, so far, of 2012. The first rejected password on that green monochrome screen took me back more than 25 years to Activision’s Hacker on the Commodore 64, a game that had no real instruction manual, just that opening screen. LOGON. More »
Let’s get that first niggling thought out of the way: this Mass Effect iOS game isn’t going to feel like that Dead Space iOS game. While they’re both spin-offs of successful multi-platform franchises, they extend the core experience in different ways, with Dead Space mobile focusing recreating the series’ scares. More »
I’d like to recommend a game I am bad at. I think you’d be better at it than I am. Plus it’s pretty and, did I mention that on Android it’s free? The game is called Wind-Up Knight, and I’m having trouble timing my wind-up knight’s jumps. More »
Anyone who’s been watching EA knows that the publisher’s going to be tethering portable spin-offs to its big releases. Last year’s Dead Space game for iOS and Android proved such games could be great and yesterday we saw the debut of Mass Effect Infiltrator. This sector’s a big deal for EA. More »
Having reviewed the likes of Matt Hazzard: Blood, Bath and Beyond, I was prepared to dislike One Epic Game, a platformer set in, let’s see here, yes, “an alien invasion right in the middle of a zombie outbreak in a fantasy kingdom somewhere in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.” That’s from a cutscene. “With World War II also involved somehow.” More »
One of the first stories of infatuation that I head about the iPad game Kingdom Rush involved a man and a woman who were in love with each other and in love with Kingdom Rush. More »
Every three months, game publisher EA tells the public that one of its upcoming games, Mass Effect 3 will be coming out for consoles (of course!), PC (expected) and “handheld/mobile” (huh?). More »
I’m not normally one to get that excited over iOS games, especially ones in development, but then Oceanhorn isn’t like most other iOS games, because most iOS games aren’t like The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. More »
The most clever twist of FlipShip didn’t reveal itself to me until, about a half-dozen rounds into this top-down shooter, I finished a game with a score of exactly zero. Then I realised that this game wasn’t predicated on twitch skills but knowing, in an arcade sense, when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em. Or, in this case, when to flip ‘em. More »
For Westerners, the conditions are shocking. Workers slave away for hours on end, pulling overtime, until their legs swell or they suffer from crippling disabilities. More »
