Joan Mad Run is, for all intents and purposes, a three-lane auto runner. But — and this is a big but — it’s also an awful lot more than that. It’s a gorgeous pixel art platformer with a gory heart and …
After making its way to pretty much every other modern platform imaginable, Retro City Rampage DX is finally getting its turn on mobile. Does it hold up well on touch screens? Will it be able to sway those who (somehow) …
What is Pink Heaven? Though its name sounds like something you’d find on the box of an ’80s adult film, Pink Heaven is actually a very short and very cute shooting game by Daisuke “Pixel” Amaya, the developer behind Cave …
One of my fondest memories from childhood is playing JVC’s classic Super Nintendo release, Super Star Wars. I can’t count how many times I jumped up that sandcrawler, dodging droids and Jawas, only to miss a jump near the top …
Indie mobile developers love to re-capture the glory days of the 16-bit era with their games. There are innumerable sprite-based 2D platformers, strategy games, and RPGs up for grabs. Interestingly, this nostalgic deluge contains very few entries in one notable …
Doesn’t it seem a shame for Apple, Samsung, and all those other manufacturers who’ve spent millions of dollars developing ultra-high resolution LCD screens, when you see a game like Combo Queen? Big chunky pixels just look so much better than …
I’ve been reviewing mobile games for a long time. Since back before the days of the iPhone, if such a time ever really existed (it did, though it’s hard to imagine these days). Cell phone games were a novelty then, …
Yes Virginia, there really is a Santa Claus. Don’t let anyone ever tell you that dreams don’t come true. Back in May, I took to Twitter to lament about the total lack of Q*Bert in my life: https://twitter.com/jimmycanuck/status/461918672202649600 And now, …