Run as far as you can, collect as many of our chosen objects (in this case bananas), and avoid everything else that gets in the way. Oh, and you have three lanes you can run down, so swipe on the screen to switch between them. It's a well-worn concept of mobile gaming, and there are countless interpretations that are, frankly, a bit of a car-crash. That's not the case with Gameloft's latest release. Minion Rush does everything you would expect of an infinite runner, but it does it with such skill, panache, and branding, that this little movie tie-in game is threatening Temple Run as the definitive version of the genre.
Developed by Nitako, Move has already proven to be a popular albeit frustrating game on Android and iOS following its release in October. Now it's the turn of Windows Phone users to find out just how fun this infuriating 'brain shifting game' can be.
How long does it take a gamer to realise that a freemium game is boring? Developers want this to be as long as possible, but unfortunately Gameloft's latest hack and build RPG title, Kingdoms & Lords, manages to be boring after about four minutes, and never improves. Which is never a good sign, but it gets worse.
In the future, when the world waits for the arrival of Charlton Heston, the apes will gather in arenas across the continents to play devilish games of strategy and skill to the death. Starting as a lowly chimp, will you be able to survive the games and advance in the rankings?
Gameloft's latest title in the Asphalt series, Airborne, arrived on Windows Phone last week, following a release on iOS and Android in August. Can the driving game that is focused on jumps, twists, and stunts in the air alongside driving to win on a road course deliver? It does, after a fashion.
My Talking Tom is a long running series of virtual pet games that have inhabited a number of platforms, including Windows, iOS, and Android. This week has seen the release of the feisty feline for Windows Phone 8. How much fun is this freemium tale? Let's find out...
If 90s animated films have taught us anything, it is not easy being a colony of ants. The peaceful little insects just want to live together in harmony but instead always find themselves tormented by bigger and badder bugs. Another fact that animated children's films have shown is that humans are always the bad guys. These two life lessons have combined to make the premise of Ant Raid; an opening sequence sees an ill-fated attempt at pest control turn the game's other insects from happy bugs to mutant ant-killers.
Taking a new look at an arcade classic, Crumble Zone brings cool graphics, fluid movement, and a little bit of gravity to Windows Phone in this smart and impressive shooter for Microsoft's mobile platform.
"I can feel a great disturbance in the freemium Force", I thought as I opened up the Windows Store last night. And the wallpaper in the app confirmed it. A familiar blocky face, a stylised logo... Nimblebit has finally arrived as a Windows Phone developer, and brought their management apps to the platform. But hold on, Tiny Death Star?
Amazingly, Asphalt 7 has slipped under our collective reviewing radars... until now. Gameloft's second Asphalt game on Windows Phone and the Xbox Live banner (after Asphalt 5 - for some reason Asphalt 6 has been skipped over) is a stunning tour de force of fast graphics, accurate controls, and rather a lot of adrenaline.
