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Every Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery puzzle solved

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:00:00 GMT

Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery is pretty great. It's a Professor Layton-like adventure for PS Vita, iOS and Android, and if you haven't played it yet, you probably should. Of course, you most likely have played it, and found yourself stuck on a puzzle - which is why you've reached this guide. There's no shame in getting stuck, and fortunately a couple of YouTube users by the funny names...

Battle flame-throwing grunts and screen-high mechs in Gunslugs for PS Vita

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:55:00 GMT

Good news, PS Vita fans: it looks like OrangePixel's Silver Award-winning action-platformer Gunslugs is making its way over to Sony's powerhouse portable. "Just signed an awesome agreement! Small Gunslugs salute to @shahidkamal for making it happen ;)," OrangePixel's Pascal Bestebroer tweeted early this morning. "Gunslugs. You asked," Shahid Kamal Ahmad, SCEE's senior business development ma...

This week on the PS Vita Store - Men's Room Mayhem, Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault, and Passing Time

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:24:00 GMT

There isn't a great deal of new stuff on the PlayStation Store for PS Vita owners this week, to be honest. Although if you're a PS Plus subscriber, you may find something worth picking up. There's a fun little game filled with genuine toilet humour, for instance, while the PlayStation Mobile section is looking reasonably interesting this week. In general, though, it's a relatively poor show,...

[Update] Out now: Men's Room Mayhem is the third-best thing you can do in a toilet

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:17:13 GMT

Updated on May 23rd, at 08:30: Men's Room Mayhem is also now available on Android, where it costs 68p / 99c. It's also on PS Vita. It costs £1.99 / $1.99 (£1 / 98c for PS Plus subscribers), and there's a free trial. Original story follows… Want to play a game about toilets... while sitting on the toilet? Thanks to a new iOS game called Men's Room Mayhem - out tonight, priced 69p / ...

Unity-powered horror puzzler Dying: Sinner Escape will claw its way to iOS this week - Vita release remains a mystery

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:17:00 GMT

Some things in life were just made to go together like chocolate and peanut butter, pizza and beer, and horror puzzle games and creepy abandoned buildings. For fans of the latter, the episodic Dying: Sinner Escape looks like a game in the same tradition of 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors, Saw, and Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward. Sinner Escape's creator, Nekcom, reckons that it was created by ...

PS Vita will get exclusive multiplayer game Freedom Wars in 2014

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:47:00 GMT

Next year, the PS Vita will get an exclusive multiplayer action game. Its name? Freedom Wars. Revealed in a trailer on the Japanese PlayStation Store, this game is set in some dystopian future, and features human security cameras, million-year jail sentences, and complete government control. But it also features groups of gun-toting heroes taking on enormous mechanised monsters, suggesting t...

Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault / QForce finally ready for Vita debut, coming next week

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:32:00 GMT

Whether you call it Full Frontal Assault or QForce, chances are good that you've been waiting for the upcoming Ratchet & Clank if you're a fan of the franchise who owns a Vita. Originally scheduled for a release in January, the Vita version failed to appear on time, although Sony assured us that the team at Tin Giant was working tirelessly on polishing up the Vita port. Now after close to si...

The HD Adventures of Rotating Octopus Character is heading to Vita this summer

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:46:00 GMT

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Gamers are now reportedly spending more dough on smartphone and tablet games than on traditional handheld games

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:32:00 GMT

According to the second edition of the ongoing quarterly AppAnnie & IDC Portable Gaming Report, the amount of money spent on gaming on iOS devices has overtaken the amount spent on traditional portable gaming systems for the very first time. I know. Revenue from gaming-related sales on Android is still just below revenue from dedicated handheld gaming sales, though that's likely to have chan...

Environmental hazards are a warrior's best friend in colourful Atomic Ninjas for PS Vita

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:13:58 GMT

The brains behind the likes of Foosball 2012 and The Impossible Game, Grip Games, have just announced a brand-new PS Vita title, set to debut later this year. Grip's forthcoming game is called Atomic Ninjas, and it's a "colourful and funny" 2.5D multiplayer platformer in which you take control of super-powered ninjas in fast-paced online bouts against other players and bots. As you've probab...