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Found footage mobile game Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins launches in March
Maze Theory and BBC Studios are releasing a new Doctor Who game in March, taking on the form of a found footage mobile game called Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins. It’s coming to iOS and Android on 19th March. The game is about finding a lost phone where your character has found a phone with various chat logs and apps to search for clues surrounding the mystery of what is happening. It features the Weeping Angels, iconic villains from the revival of Doctor Who which take on the form of gargoyle statues which can only move when you’re not looking at them. "Don't blink. Blink and you're dead!" Watch the trailer for '#DoctorWho: The Lonely Assassins', the new handheld and mobil…
Sword Master Story gets a new character in latest update
SuperPlanet’s Sword Master Story has received a new update to celebrate the game hitting one million downloads in the time since its release last October. The hack and slash RPG has now introduced a new character called Kana. She’s a five star Fire Element Archer who defeats her enemies with attacks that deal massive physical damage. She’s an incredibly powerful warrior, one that you definitely want on your side, but the lore surrounding her is still covered in complete mystery. As well as that, SuperPlanet has introduced a new featured called The Ideal Stone, which allows you to make your party of characters even more powerful. Your heroes can now receive additional stat…
Make a Square is a new elegant puzzler out now for iOS and Android
Sandwich Generation has released Make a Square, a new unique puzzler that looks both stylish and relaxing to play, on iOS and Android devices via their respective stores. According to the developer, it’s a game that is “easy to learn but hard to master” with a simple objective: you select groups of scattered blocks and rearrange them to form a square in as few moves as possible. This involves you dragging to select the blocks you want and then moving them to fit together. Here’s a trailer to show you a bit more about how it plays. Make a Square’s main campaign has 144 hand-crafted levels that get progressively harder, allowing you to train your brain to find…
Magic: The Gathering Arena Mobile launches in Android Early Access
Wizards of the Coast has brought the highly popular card game Magic: The Gathering to mobile in the form of Magic: The Gathering Arena, which originally launched on PC in 2019, and it’s out now as an early access title on Google Play. Full versions for iOS and Android will be available later this year. In Magic: The Gathering Arena, you collect decks of cards which generate five separate colours of mana, and then play them to cast spells, summon creatures and activate special abilities. You then battle your opponent using your selected deck, with the goal of reducing their life-total to zero while they’re trying to do the same to you. The mobile version of Magic: The Gathering…
Slay the Spire is coming out on Android next week
Humble Games has announced its roguelike deckbuilder Slay the Spire is coming to Android next week on 3rd February. This comes about six months after it was released on iOS in 2020. Developed by MegaCrit, Slay the Spire has you crafting a unique deck made up of hundreds of potential cards you can play during battle. It’s wise to select cards that work well together, as you’ll need a force strong enough the climb the spire efficiently with as little pushback as you can manage. Additionally there are these items called Relics in-game which enhance your deck through powerful interactions. Whenever you journey up the spire, the layout changes and enemy placements become randomised.…
Text adventure RPG Serania – Path of the Scion releases next week
FableTree Productions is releasing Serania – Path of the Scion on iOS and Android next week on 4th February. Serania is a text adventure RPG, which is also fast-paced and choice-based, set in a Nordic medieval fantasy world. You play as a simple villager who finds themselves on the run from the King’s feared Blackblades who are suddenly hunting you for an unknown reason. You must escape and uncover your family’s ancestral history in order to get to the bottom of this. As a text adventure game, there’s obviously going to be a lot of reading involved. If that seems overwhelming, fortunately FableTree has paced the narrative in such a way that you will never have to re…
Cat Colony Crisis is a feline management sim coming to mobile in February
Cat Colony Crisis from Devil’s Cider Games is coming to iOS and Android next month, and it looks to be the game of your dreams if you’re a cat lover. The game places you in control of a large space shuttle populated by cats who begin showing signs of a strange illness spreading throughout the vessel. It’s up to you to enact the right measures to prevent the entire colony from being infected. You must keep an eye on the cats, and correctly control the spread by quarantining those who show symptoms of the disease. The game was created for a game jam run by IndieCade, Seattle Indies and LabX as a collaborative event called Jamming the Curve, which intended to inspire people…
Reset Earth, an educational platformer about climate change, is out on mobile next month
The United Nations Ozone Secretariat is releasing a new mobile game next month called Reset Earth, which is being created to teach children and adolescents about the important role the ozone layer plays in protecting the planet. Reset Earth is a singleplayer platform game combining retro graphics with hand-drawn art in which you switch between multiple characters and utilise their unique abilities in four levels that explore the effects of climate change and significance of the ozone layer. Through unlocking puzzles and beating levels, you will learn about ecological history and the science behind how we protect the planet. The Reset Earth platform isn’t just a game, however. It&rsqu…
Turn-based RPG Skylanders: Ring of Heroes gets two new characters in latest update
Com2uS is adding two new characters to its turn-based RPG Skylanders: Ring of Heroes after a string of updates since the game’s revamp last year. Details on the new characters are light, but they’re supposed to be particularly distinct from each other and they also come with Legendary and Heroic grades that possess high attack and defence abilities. The first character to be revealed a mole-like creature called Smash, who holds a giant iron mace that attacks within a wide area. Smash is a powerful leader with skills than can help with survivability in battle. The second new character added to Skylanders: Ring of Heroes is Scratch. They are a cat who has sharp attack skills t…
3D platformer SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated out now on iOS and Android
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated has been ported to mobile devices by HandyGames and Purple Lamp Studios, coming about half a year after its release on PC and home consoles. It’s based on the popular children’s cartoon that has aired on Nickelodeon for the past two decades. The game lets you play as SpongeBob, Sandy and Patrick as they go on an adventure to stop the evil Plankton from taking over Bikini Bottom using an army of robots. It released last year on PC, PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, and is a remake of the original Battle for Bikini Bottom that launched on PS2, Xbox and GameCube. The game features many iconic locations from the cartoon,…
Card battler Dreaming Dimension: Deck Heroes is out now on Android
Longcheer Game has launched Dreaming Dimension: Deck Heroes, a card battling roguelike on Google Play for Android devices. The developer was previously responsible for Hero Summer and Wizard Legend: Fighting Masters, both of which were launched in Android early access much like Dreaming Dimension has. The story involves the main character being trapped inside a dream, where they must journey to become a powerful warrior by defeating a grand army of powerful enemies and bosses, while simultaneously seeking a way out of the dream. How’s that for a Lynchian nightmare? Dreaming Dimension: Deck Heroes is divided into two halves, each one offering a different slice of gameplay. The first…
Flipon is a match-3 action puzzler out now on mobile
Plug In Digital and indie developer Damien Mayance has released Flipon, a block-busting puzzler on iOS and Android devices after its earlier release on PC and Nintendo Switch last year. It’s a puzzle game which combines the mechanics of match-3 games with a working gravity system where you need to clear a board of blocks which constantly fall from the top. Using special powers, you can clear the board and complete the levels in quick succession, but be warned that devious obstacles and other complications also gradually get added into the mix which shakes things up dramatically to make the fast-paced gameplay even more chaotic. In Flipon, you play as Kat and her crew of space miners…
Quirky sequel Dadish 2 out now on iOS and Android
Thomas Young, developer of the quirky food platformer Dadish, has released Dadish 2 today on iOS and Android devices. It’s a platformer featuring the return of the eponymous Dadish, who’s both a dad AND a radish, as he takes his children to work and promptly loses them. After that goes topsy-turvy, Dadish sets out to find his missing kids and make sure they’re safe again. There are 50 levels in Dadish 2, each one having you wade through murky swamps, ride rockets, climb a big tree, and even visit outer space as you search for his unruly children. There are hazards to dodge, blocks to push and locked doors that need unlocking in your pursuit of these little monsters. Here…
Angry Birds Journey now available on iOS and Android in select regions
Rovio has released a new entry in its popular tower-attack series in the form of Angry Birds Journey, and it’s soft launched now on iOS and Android in select regions: United States, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Canada and Poland. Angry Birds Journey offers a fresh accessible take on the all-too familiar series with a more laid-back approach to the gameplay over its predecessors. The main aim of the game is to reunite fireflies with their soulmates, but of course the pigs from past Angry Birds titles are also here to make that difficult for you. The game also features the usual tower toppling gameplay that the series grew famous for, while also bringing in dynamic puzzles and other treats…
Gordon Ramsay: Chef Blast is a new culinary puzzle game out now for iOS and Android
Outplay Entertainment, in collaboration with Gordon Ramsay himself, has released Gordon Ramsay: Chef Blast on iOS and Android devices. It looks to be similar to those Candy Crush-type games that crop up from time to time, where your goal is to tap matching cubes to blow them up and cook up a storm. You master your cube-crushing skills to impress Ramsay and become a top chef. Try not to become an idiot sandwich in the process. The Kitchen Nightmares star himself features in the game where you can learn different techniques from him to help you master the levels, finding the smartest ways to solve them, and crack the high scores. Additionally, there’s a recipe book available in-game wh…
