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Fools, fools, stupid fools: Unstoppable Gorg is out
If you woke up this morning and wished that there was a tower defence game you could play that came with an old-fashioned sci fi aesthetic, and people in costumes screwing around during cut-scenes,...
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Cave provides a Blissful Death for iPhone owners
Hurray for Cave and Treasure – if it wasn’t for them, most of us would forget about the ‘bullet hell’ genre, a ridiculously frenetic brand of scrolling shooter in which the screen is usually a writhing...
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Autumn Dynasty: The RTS at its prettiest
Autumn Dynasty‘s one of those games I keep forgetting to write about because I’ve been too busy playing it. I’ve had a handful of preview builds of Touch Dimensions’ iPad RTS, and the latest is a...
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Emergency! Save the tiny people!
I’ve still never really forgiven Irem for cancelling the Disaster Report series. Sure, there were rumours the company made its decision for ethical reasons after the Japanese earthquake. But those...
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From Rare to where? How Nyamyam traded Diddy Kong Country for ancient Japan
Everything changed when Microsoft turned up. We sort of all know that. Before september 2002, Rare was one of the bastions of Britsoft, a veteran developer that had transcended the western industry to...
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Lazarus – the twin-stick shooter gets touchy
Of all shoot-em-up sub-genres, the twin-stick shooter seems the most reliant on, you know, sticks. While Cave has managed to port some of its finest ‘bullet hell’ blasters on to iOS and Android...
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Galaxy Ball – Crossfire for the 21st Century
If you read that headline and thought, “Crossfire? What the heck is Crossfire? Is it on iOS?”, you are too young for that cultural reference. Well done. Before you read the rest of this post, you...
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