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Royal Trouble: Hidden Adventures - iOS Review

TheBoy@allabouttheiphone.net — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:59:44 +0100

One finds oneself in a right royal predicament

When the latest press release from G5 Entertainment dropped into my inbox and declared the imminent arrival of their latest hidden object game, I have to admit, a small part of me died inside. It’s not that I don’t enjoy hidden object games, but there have been rather a lot of them released recently and they can be quite samey.

However! When I began to play Royal Trouble: Hidden Adventures I was delighted to discover that the hidden object description was doing the title a great disservice: It’s actually a nice blend of the room escape and point and click genres.

Royal Trouble begins when Princess Loreen and Prince Nathaniel find themselves locked in a dungeon without any idea of how they got there. One could suggest something about the general intelligence levels of royals, but we won’t go there... Despite an instant dislike for one another, the pair must work out how to escape and discover just what the heck is going on.
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Niko - iOS Review

TheBoy@allabouttheiphone.net — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:17:25 +0100

Super Angry Sonic Birds?

What do you get if you combine Sonic and Angry Birds? Sulake, the parent company of Habbo Hotel, the world's largest social game and online community for teenagers with 10 million monthly unique users, hope the answer is Niko, their latest game to hit the App Store.

Niko, a silver monkey-like creature finds himself stranded in a strange land with some of his buddies kidnapped by a mechanical worm and in need of rescue. Using simple left and right arrows in the lower left hand side of the screen and a slingshot jump button in the lower right, controls are blissfully simple. All that Angry Birds catapult training comes in handy as the principle in Niko is very similar: drag the cursor in the opposite direction and release to sling Niko through the air. Niko can also grab onto walls, walk underneath ceilings and up/down curved earth areas.

The similarities to the Sonic series come with the clever level designs that feature bright, colourful graphics. There are...

A ch-ch-chilly Chillingo Thursday with Space Pirates and MahJong

peej@allabouttheiphone.net — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:05:08 +0100

We're with Indigo Pearl on this one, it's flippin' FREEZING out there and if it wasn't for the fact that I have my Mac Mini tucked down the front of my trousers, I'd be looking for a welder about now.
Warm the cockles of your heart with this week's Chillingo Thursday round-up with a couple of new games for iOS.
Spice Invaders is the first of the new releases, a piratical Tower Defense game with an absolute truckload of units for you to stick down on your scurvy pirate map. You're in charge of the invading army of space-faring buccaneers so it's up to y...

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Pinball FX2 Epic Quest Looks Epic

evilashchris@allabouttheiphone.net — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:41:55 +0100

Zen Studios, pinball wizards extroadinaire, today announced Epic Quest, a brand new, original pinball experience for Pinball FX2 on Xbox LIVE Arcade and Zen Pinball on PlayStation Network, Android Marketplace and the Apple App Store. The table will be available for download sometime in February 2012.
In this table you will play Max a knight whose enthusiasm for combat is surpassed only by his love of rare and valuable loot. You will join Max as he battles the hordes of evil (or just evil-looking) monsters, rescues a wealthy princess, and accumulate...

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Reckless Racing 2 screeches onto iTunes

peej@allabouttheiphone.net — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:16:22 +0100

Reckless Racing 2, from developers PolarBit, has hit the iTunes store for the perfectly reasonable sum of £2.99.
Featuring more vehicles, mini tracks and top-down tyre-screeching action than the original game, Reckless Racing 2 has a brace of control options and some very peachy visuals.
You'll need a fairly new iOS device to have a go at it though (boo hiss!) but it does look rather sexy. Check out the footage below:
Reckless Racing 2 on iTunes (3GS or b...

Minecraft in malicious racist slur scandal

HairyArse@allabouttheiphone.net — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:37:58 +0100

Minecraft is a staggering cultural phenomenon and has made its developer Mojang vast sums of money since it became the darling of PC gaming for pretty much the entirety of 2010 and 2011.
And so it came as a huge surprise to hear that the developer out-sourced the translation of its in-game text from English to Afrikaans to the game's community. And as a result, with the internet being, well, the internet, the news that a malicious user submitted the phrase "YOU ARE A NIGGER" as a translation for the word Singleplayer should come as no surprise.
The ne...

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Phoenix Wright 1-3 coming to iOS

HairyArse@allabouttheiphone.net — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:59:21 +0100

Capcom has confirmed that it's developing HD versions (no, not that type of HD) of the first three Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney games.
In celebration of the series' 10th year - has it really been that long? - it also confirmed the existence of an as-yet-untitled 5th game but neglected to mention a price, release date or platform.
The observant among you will recall that an episodic version of the first game already exists on iOS devices, but Capcom is promising improved graphics and re-drawn sprites making these the definitive versions. Maybe.
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Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land drops onto iOS

peej@allabouttheiphone.net — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:58:41 +0100

Ever wondered what it'd be like to touch a deep one via the screen of your favourite Apple device? No, me neither but when I hear the word "Cthulhu" I sit up and take notice. So a new Call of Cthulhu game on iOS has my rapt attention at the moment (alright, not rapt, I'm also looking at the world's tastiest Americano which I'm gulping down like a Japanese Hentai mistress gulps down spoof).
So the game? It looks all tactical, squad based, and with some pretty neat looking WW1 era / steampunkerlicious visuals. Character levelling, classes and all the usual RPG-lite good...

Spirit of Wandering: The Legend - iOS Review

TheBoy@allabouttheiphone.net — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:49:07 +0100

That's some treasure chest you've got there.

We’re almost at a point where G5 Entertainment could create a hidden object game using their vast array of titles in the genre as the hidden objects. The latest to join the ever growing list is Spirit of Wandering: The Legend, a game originally developed for PC by Playrix Entertainment.

Spirit of Wandering – The Legend follows the tale of a female pirate captain who loses her crew – including Jack, the love of her life – during an attack by the infamous ghost ship the Flying Dutchman. The crew isn't dead, but imprisoned in the spirit world. The captain must use her compass and Jack's magic orb to get them back.

To do this, you must of course find many objects hidden amongst the scenery. In a slight twist to the norm items are shown in silhouette form as opposed to the traditional text list. Whilst this does add a little more challenge it can be rather frustrating when presented with a blank square or circle. A square could be a pic...

Chillingo Thursday sees stunt hamsters vying with zombies and nazis for your attention

peej@allabouttheiphone.net — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:36:17 +0100

Move over Joe Danger, there's a new stunt sherrif in town with this week's Chillingo Thursday and a couple of neato releases for your iPhone. It will probably help if you read this article in the dulcet tones of Dave Lamb. Or it may not. It's entirely up to you but here goes.
So Stunt Hamsters you say? Step forward Hank Hazard. He's small, dewy eyed, furry and the star of Red Rocket Games' clever little puzzle-come-race game. Swiftly blast through each of the levels in your hamster ball, stopping from time to time to shout "Armageddon!" at the top of your voice. ...

Square Enix brings award winning web game Koozac to Smartphones

peej@allabouttheiphone.net — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:10:05 +0100

The award winning web gaming sensation Koozac is coming to smartphones and iOS courtesy of Square Enix. Notching up an impressive 15 million plays online and snagging a Channel 4 “Best International Interactive Viral” award, Koozac has been described as an addictive cross between Tetris and Sudoku.

Letters from Nowhere - iOS Review

TheBoy@allabouttheiphone.net — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:13:34 +0100

Well, they must have come from somewhere?

Another week and it’s time to get those magnifying glasses and night vision goggles out again as G5 Entertainment are back with their latest hidden object game. Originally developed by Awem Studio for PC, Letters from Nowhere follows the story of Audrey in the search for her missing husband. Worried about his sudden and mysterious disappearance (and seemingly not being one for going out on an all night bender), she immediately races to the police, who are less than helpful. Then she begins to discover mysterious letters that will help her unravel the mystery and the whereabouts of her husband.

The game begins with a nice comic strip style intro with the voice of Audrey narrating. You are then plunged into the first location and the simple controls are explained. As usual, it’s a case of pinching to zoom in and out and tapping the listed items to find them. Also hidden amongst the scenery are three postcards that will add bonus points to your score. Finding ...

Chillingo Thursday Time with a side order of fries and a penguin

peej@allabouttheiphone.net — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:16:52 +0100

If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our newsletter. Or something like that. If you like a lot of iPhone game information on a Thursday, you know where to come.
So to start off our regular Chillingo Thursday Round-up let's fire up the grill, clean the deep fat fryer filters and spread some lardy love with Order Up! To go!, an iOS conversion of the popular Wii game.
Using gesture-based controls to cook up a storm (a flick of the finger beats Delia any day), you'll soon be whipping up some tasty treats courtesy of Supervillain Studios. Think there's...

Pinball Arcade coming to iOS devices soon

HairyArse@allabouttheiphone.net — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:36:47 +0100

We iike a bit of Pinball here at AATG, in fact, we can't get EvilAshChris to stop banging on about Zen Studios' Pinball FX 2. And so that trend looks set to continue as Farsight Studios, the team behind the fantastic Williams and Gottlieb collection announced that it's bringing the wonderful Pinball Arcade to iOS, Android, Mac, PC, 360, PS3, Vita and 3DS.
Launching early 2012 (so anytime now) with 4 tables initially available and 2 new tables each and every month, that's quite a promise to have...

Chillingo Thursday Part 2: Zombies and Illegal Racing getting jiggy with your Apples

peej@allabouttheiphone.net — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:13:51 +0100

Here's the second part of our Chillingo round-up for today.
First up, the sequel to the rather tasty Zombie Wonderland. Zombie Wonderland 2: Outtatime is a cheeky dig into all things undead. Bigger weapons, more crazy characters and zombies, big beautiful brain-eating zombies. Could it possibly be better?
Zombie Wonderland 2: Outtatime (on iTunes, Universal, 69p at launch then moving to £1.99)
Next, let your obsession with Paul Walker (or Vin Diesel if you like 'em chunky) carry you away to ...

Chillingo Thursday Part 1: Give yourself a Woody with Woody Woodpecker

peej@allabouttheiphone.net — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:15:25 +0100

Oh there are so many gags you could make, so many puns you could drop about Woody Woodpecker but we'll keep it clean (we won't even make a mention of Chilly Willy) and drop the news that Chillingo / Universal / Tintash are releasing Woody Woodpecker for iOS.
It's a race against time as Woody speeds his way through various levels of platform-race-style gameplay. Imitating the art style of the classic Walter Lantz cartoons (and featuring other characters from Lantz' back catalogue of slightly subversive and dodgily named heroes) it all looks very slick and smooth. Not afr...

Activision releases new CoD: Elite iOS App

HairyArse@allabouttheiphone.net — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:23:01 +0100

Love it or hate it, Activision's behemoth Call of Duty franchise is here to stay. Now some raised an eyebrow when it first announced its premium subscription package titled Call of Duty:Elite, while many of you jumped feet first and signed on the dotted line at the first opportunity. But Activision, in fairness, has kept to its word and continued to produce outstanding quality in support of its billion dollar franchise, and this week was no exception as it released its Call of Duty:Elite app for free on iOS devices.
"But what is it?" I hear...

Canabalt says "Can I bolt?" on the Commodore 64

peej@allabouttheiphone.net — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:44:22 +0100

You've still got it haven't you? Now and again you still get it out to stroke it and play with it and hark back to better times when it was nice and new and shiny. No not that, you filthy moron, I'm talking about your Commodore 64. It might have taken on the colour of cold hot chocolate mixed with fag ash, and your tape player might've died a death a very very long time ago but here's the good news - you can still buy new games for your C64 and you don't even have to worry about mangled cassettes.
Canabalt, the game that set iOS alight a couple of years back, can now ...

Kairosoft releases Pocket League Story

HairyArse@allabouttheiphone.net — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:11:46 +0100

It's been a few months since Grand Prix Story basically took over my life, and so now seems quite an appropriate time for Japanese developer Kairosoft to release its latest pixel-art-styled strategy title, this time taking on the world of football.
Pocket League Story is £1.99 on the App Store and allows you to put together your own rag-tag band of pixellated football players as you manage your way to the top, or as is usually the case when I play football games, mid-table mediocrity.
Now normally the lack of an official license in a game like thi...

The first Chillingo Thursday of 2012 goes bouncy, bikey and wrestley

peej@allabouttheiphone.net — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:10:14 +0100

You're probably slowly sinking back into the rigmarole of work, and you're wondering when all the online retailers are going to get back to normal after the christmas rush. Fear not, windy weather and useless couriers don't matter when you can leap onto the App Store and grab yourself three new shiny things for your iDevice without any of that faffing around with the Gnome Delivery Network.
So here's the first batch of Chillingo releases of 2012. What's in the bag, Uncle Nick?
First up is a sweet ball-based physics puzzler called Backyard Bounce. Using various ...