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Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards will debut in June with a £6.99/$9.99 price tag

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:17:37 GMT

Bad news, folks: Al Lowe's HD remake of Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards won't be - as originally expected - released this month. Unfortunately, it's been delayed by around a month, so won't see the light of day (or the dark and damp of Apple's App Store) until the end of June. "Due to the pure number of bugs found in the PC version alone (the Mac version is being tested ...

Silver Award-winning historical strategy game Battle of the Bulge reduced to £4.99/$6.99

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:30:00 GMT

Only six months ago, Battle of the Bulge on iPad picked up a Silver Award here at Pocket Gamer. Our only real criticism was that the £6.99 / $9.99 RRP might be considered a tad high considering the paucity of missions. Battle of the Bulge developer Shenandoah Studio may have come to the same conclusion, for it's just dropped the price of its well-received strategy game to £4.99. Basing a gam...

Review: Karateka Classic

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:43:00 GMT

Vintage games are almost always disappointing. They look terrible, their controls are crude, and their gameplay is often simplistic and capriciously unfair. They came into being when expectations were minimal and the available technology was so feeble that it wouldn't power a modern-day steam iron. The retro gaming scene runs on delusion. Surely only a masochist would corrupt a precious chil...

Become the Blip-master and conquer all before you

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:32:57 GMT

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Rodeo Games is looking to release Warhammer Quest within 'next couple of weeks'

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:16:00 GMT

If you're a fan of Games Workshop, the Warhammer franchise, or promising turn-based strategy games in general, you'll probably be pretty pleased to read that Rodeo Games has submitted Warhammer Quest to Apple for approval. "Yes, it's in review with Apple," Rodeo Games co-founder Ben Murch responded to a fan who questioned the game's whereabouts on Twitter. Unfortunately, Murch stopped short ...

Review: Era Deluxe

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:26:00 GMT

This is a freemium game review, in which we give our impressions immediately after booting a game up, again after three days, and finally after seven days. Click on the link to jump straight to day three. If you look at most of the truly successful sci-fi stories told - regardless of the medium they're told in - there's always a human element. We wouldn't care about Luke's journey on the way...

Review: Running with Friends

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:48:00 GMT

This is a freemium game review, in which we give our impressions immediately after booting a game up, again after three days, and finally after seven days. Click on the link to go straight to day three. I love the idea of the "... with Friends" series, I really do. I get to enjoy multiplayer sessions with my friends, but we don't have to go through the painful process of coordinating our schedu...

Free-to-play flop Bombcats will put iOS indie studio Radiangames out of business

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:37:00 GMT

Inferno+ and Slydris developer Radiangames (a.k.a. Luke Schneider) has said it will cease to be a full-time game developer, largely on account of free-to-play puzzler Bombcats being a financial failure. In a blog post entitled 'Epic Fail? So Far', Schneider reveals that Bombcats received around 100,000 downloads on its best day since launch, but had fewer than 100 in-app purchases. "I don't ...

Star Command will get away teams, exploding ships, and more in forthcoming updates

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:20:00 GMT

Over on Star Command's Kickstarter page, the game's developer, War Balloon, has outlined some of its plans for upcoming updates for its starship simulator. For one, the game will be more chaotic than ever. Unattended fires will spread, and your ship will actually blow up if it takes too much damage ("we will now have a hull indicator showing how close your ship is to exploding"). That wrecks...

Time to fill your stomach

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:57:00 GMT

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