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Hands on with AiRace Speed for the 3DS

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:29:00 GMT

One of the unexpected gems I happened across during my time at E3 2013 wasn't a huge AAA title or even on offer at Sony or Nintendo's booths. Instead, it was AiRace Speed - the 3DS successor to the Pocket Gamer Gold Award-winning DSi classic, AiRace. Like the original AiRace, the concept behind AiRace Speed is pretty simple: you hop into a futuristic sci-fi jet and careen through a challengi...

Kemco rolls a critical saving throw vs. retail price, drops RPG Alphadia 2 and Dark Gate to 99c / 69p on iOS

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:46:00 GMT

The only thing better than finding a quality JRPG for your iPhone is not having to pay more than a few cents for it. Kemco knows this well, and is hosting another hefty sale for two of its select iOS titles. Beginning Tuesday, June 18, the Pocket Gamer Bronze Award-winners RPG Alphadia 2 and Dark Gate are on sale for 99c / 69p - a full 86 per cent cheaper than their regular asking price of $...

Review: Agricola

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:00:00 GMT

If you've never played the physical version of Agricola then you're going to spend a good while scratching your head during the tutorials for this iOS version. It will talk at you about crops, occupations, livestock, and mating, and it'll feel a lot like sitting an exam you haven't studied for. Bear with it, though, because when things start to click - which they will, slowly but surely - you'l...

Put your wallet away, son: Random Heroes 2 is free for a limited time

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:06:20 GMT

Random Heroes 2 would normally set you back 69p / 99c. Good news! It's now available to download from the App Store completely free of charge. Random Heroes 2 is an action-packed platformer from Ravenous Software, whom you probably know as the creator of the ever-popular League of Evil franchise. Anyway. In this side-scrolling title, you assume the role of a world-saving hero, pick up a weap...

You can now hack other players from around the world in PWN: Combat Hacking

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:11:16 GMT

Back in March, Erik Asmussen's independent publishing company 82 Inc. released a neon-lit iPhone and iPad strategy title called PWN: Combat Hacking. We loved PWN: Combat Hacking here at Pocket Gamer. We loved it so much, in fact, that we handed it one of our shiny Silver Awards. Oh, and we called it a "ferociously intense multiplayer-focused real-time strategy game". We did have a couple ...

Behind the scenes

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:52:50 GMT

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Have a crack at more than 100 puzzles in Where's My Water? follow-up Where's My Mickey?

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:13:00 GMT

If you're a fan of Where's My Water? and Where's My Perry?, you'll probably be pretty pleased to read that Disney will release another new physics-puzzler. Where's My Mickey? is its name, and it's inspired by Disney Television Animation's Mickey Mouse Cartoon Shorts, which Disney Channel will air in the UK for the very first time on July 11th. Disney's latest follow-up features more than 100...

XCOM Week: Top 5 turn-based tactics games on iPhone and iPad

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:00:00 GMT

What is the difference between a strategy game and a tactics game? After some extensive research into the subject (well, a five-minute Google search), we've found that the dividing line is not entirely clear. But I think it comes down to scale. In strategy games, you command nation-sized armies, with turns that can last decades. Tactics games are about intimate squads, and orchestrating t...

Phosphor Games slashes the price of its iOS and Android zombie-eviscerating movie tie-in World War Z

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:54:00 GMT

What is it with zombie games, huh? For every one we take down, another seems to spring up in its place. And another. Oh, well, at least fending off this relentless undead onslaught just got a little cheaper, for Phosphor Games Studios's movie tie-in World War Z is now available for just 69p / 99c on iOS and for just 63p on Android. At review, we gave World War Z a 6/10 and described it as...

'Your phone is your weapon'

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:32:00 GMT

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