The problem with trying to tell people about Spry Fox's Alphabear is stopping playing long enough to do so -- at least in any form besides random tweets. Normally I am not a big fan of mobile games that encourage users to post Twitter or Facebook updates, but every now and then there are exceptions.

My latest iPad purchase seemed pretty dubious -- $US2.99 based on a couple of strange screenshots and an app icon featuring a business shirt covered in bloody pawprints. As it turns out, my investment in The Executive was smart money.

If Erica Page can't battle her way through a haunted mansion filled with horrific beasts and break an ancient curse before sunrise her life is forfeit, her soul trapped for all eternity. Doesn't that sound like fun?

If you've never played a serious survival horror game before, Human Head Studios' Lost Within with frighten you. If you have, at least you're on familiar ground.

Cartoon Network's Steven Universe has been quite a source of surprises lately, from a moving musical number about relationships to a premium mobile RPG that channels the spirit of Paper Mario.

Years of iteration and mainstream popularity have taken their toll on the endless runner genre, rendering it tired and worn despite its young age. Endless snowboarder Alto's Adventure defies that notion, stripping away layers of gaudy mobile paint to rediscover the genre's elegant core.

I'm sitting at my desk with my iPhone in one hand, rapidly stroking the screen with the other. This is how my celebrity avatar builds her fan base in Lindsay Lohan's The Price Of Fame -- simulated masturbation on a grand scale.

Every time a new free-to-play game clamors for coin, gamers bemoan the lack of more traditional mobile fare -- quality premium titles packed with compelling content at a fair fixed price. That's exactly Tales From Deep Space. You just have to own a Kindle Fire to enjoy it.

Poor Juggernaut. All he wants to do is roar his triumph to the heavens, yet his mouth remains closed. It's a fitting allegory for the frustration I feel over Marvel Contest of Champions, a game that could have been so much more than what it is.

I want to enjoy a MOBA. I've tried every popular multiplayer battle arena game -- DOTA 2, League of Legends, Heroes Of The Storm, Infinite Crisis. Each has its charms, but I've never quite felt at home in any of them. My enthusiasm for Super Evil Megacorp's Vainglory suggests I may have been looking on the wrong platform.

As the credits rolled for Revolution 60, Giant Spacekat's science fiction spy adventure for iOS, I felt the familiar pang of loss I feel whenever a great game ends.

It's nice to see companies investing lots of money on extravagant virtual reality hardware, but all I really need is a pair of wire-frame hands and a vector track to wave them on. Fotonica gives me just that.

On the one hand, Spider-Man Unlimited is a free-to-play mobile game from Gameloft. On the other, it's a game with fourteen different versions of Spider-Man to collect at launch. "Free-to-play mobile game from Gameloft" versus "fourteen different versions of Spider-Man." I am so conflicted.

Feature mostly female feathered heroes and released alongside a line of pink-centric toys, one wouldn't be blamed for assuming Angry Birds Stella is a game for "girls." It's a game for any fan of the series who wants to see how far it's come -- and the unfortunate direction its going in.

Matching gems to cast elemental spells, buying more powerful weapons and armour, equipping runes that unlock powerful skills and spells -- Backflip Studios' Spellfall is everything I've ever wanted in a puzzle RPG, plus agressive microtransactions.

Looking out of the window of an abandoned farmhouse in rural Missori, it's easy to imagine young cartoonist Carson Hughs doing the same, wondering why society and his family can't accept that his best friend is a young black girl.

If you're craving innovation, the latest game in a series created as Gameloft's answer to Call of Duty is the wrong place to look, but its lack of ambition doesn't preclude Modern Combat 5: Blackout from being one of the best mobile first-person shooters going.

While the latest live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film is drawing hate from fans for straying from the original concept, Nickelodeon's movie-based mobile game succeeds by sticking with what's worked so well in the past.

Brilliant in concept and nearly flawless in execution, Sword & Poker and Sword & Poker 2 were two of the best reasons to own an iPhone. With the release of the free-to-play Sword & Poker Adventures, the whole thing has gone to shit.