45 best Android games

The best Android games for your phone or tablet

1. Star Wars: Uprising

Free
With Star Wars all the rage the Galaxy needs a new hero in the fight against the Empire. Take part in Sector Battles, create your own character, and play real-time co-op.

2. Despicable Me

Free
If you love those little yellow things you’ll love Minion Rush. Jump, roll, dodge and scramble to collect bananas in this cute runner game.

3. Crossy Road

Free
Why did the chicken cross the road? Never mind that, why didn’t you? We love this hopper game, and so will you.

4. Fallout Shelter

Free
Fallout fans will love Shelter, a mobile game that gives you complete control over your very own Vault, and the citizens that reside in it. Can you keep your Dwellers happy, fed and protected from the dangers of the outside world in this post-apocalyptic adventure?

5. WordBrain

Free
“Even the smartest word game enthusiasts will have a real challenge to complete this game. In fact: only very few have!” That’s all the encouragement we need: the challenge is on to become a word master in this headscratchingly difficult hiddenword
game.

6. Minecraft

Pocket Edition
?4.99
Construction sim with endless possibilities. This infinite box of Legos has the very real potential to eat your life before your eyes.

7. Alphabear

Free
Oh now this is supercute. You spell out words and bears appear. Longer words equal bigger bears and even more cuteness.

8. Spider-Man

Unlimited
Free
Recruit an army of heroes in the Spider-Verse and take on the Sinister Six. This action-packed arcade game will keep you entertained for hours.

9. Clash of Clans

Free
Form the ultimate Clan with your own army of Barbarians, Archers, Hog Riders, Wizards and more, then defend your village and take down the Goblin King.

10. Lego Ninjago

Tournament
Free
Ninjas, it’s time to enter Master Chen’s Tournament of Elements. You must use your training to take on Elemental Masters, and the more you win the stronger you become.

11. Monopoly

?1.49
Who doesn’t love Monopoly? If you answered “me”, go directly to jail. YOU WILL NOT COLLECT ?200.

12. Table Tennis Touch

79p
It’s not a freebie, but stunning graphics make Table Tennis Touch worth the download. Even more so if you like Ping Pong.

13. Sim City Build It

Free
A realistic city-builder that lets you create an environment in which your citizens will thrive, and trade resources with friends online. Just when you think life is going good, real-life challenges will keep you on your toes.

14. Plants vs Zombies 2

Free
Plants vs Zombies is the tower defence game loved by all, and the sequel is much more of the same zombie- and super-plant goodness.

15. First Touch Soccer 2015

Free
There are loads of football games for Android, but if you don’t want to pay a penny First Touch Soccer is a great choice.

16. Walking Dead: Road to Survival
Free
TellTale’s Walking Dead series is not to be missed, but this alternative is a turnbased RPG that focuses on the original comic books over the TV series, and in which your decisions will determine who lives and who dies. Kicking off at Woodbury, can you take on The Governor?

17. The Room Two
?1.99
Physical puzzles in a beautifully-realised 3D world make this somewhat unsettling sequel a joy to play.

18. Lara Croft Go
?3.99
Explore the ruins of an ancient civilisation and face deadly challenges in this turn-based adventure game. More than 75 puzzles are split into five chapters.

19. Bad Piggies
Free
From the makers of Angry Birds, Bad Piggies is an addictive and challenging puzzle game, with some action thrown in to add to the fun.

20. Temple Run 2
Free
A hugely popular runner game for Android, Temple Run 2 sees you navigate perilous terrain as you attempt to escape with the cursed idol. However far you can get, it won’t be far enough.

21. Monument Valley
?2.99
Supremely calming puzzler with innovative perspective-based gameplay. More soothing than an opiate-spiked Horlicks.

22. Jetpack Joyride
Free
Mission-driven progression and a range of crazy gadgets, jetpacks, vehicles, achievements and character customisation add replay value to the simple controls and repetitive nature of Barry Steakfries’ endless journey in Jetpack Joyride.

23. Angry Birds
Free
Just because it’s old doesn’t make it bad: this list would never be complete without this mobile gaming classic.

24. Ridiculous Fishing
?1.99
“A handcrafted game about fishing with guns, chainsaws & toasters.” SOLD.

25. Super Hexagon
?1.99
Frantic shape-based avoidance game. Punishing difficulty set to a rather wonderful electronic score.

26. Threes!
Free
Potently addictive, simple yet full of strategic depth, Threes is based on a set of numbered tiles that you manipulate around a four-by-four board. There are blue ones, and pinky twos, and you jam these into each other to make white threes. Everything else is a multiple of three created by joining two matching white tiles. Two plus one equals three. Three plus three equals six. Six plus six equals 12. You get the picture.

27. Flow Free
Free
Addictive colour matching fun that is equal parts frustration and satisfaction. Attempt to reach the goal in as few moves as possible.

28. Sonic Dash
Free
The lovable blue spikey-haired hedgehog returns in this endless runner game for Android. Dash, jump and spin through levels collecting rings, dodging spikes and ultimately climbing the leader boards.

29. Dumb Ways
To Die 2
Free
Warioware-style mini games abound in this free gigglefest. Fun, quickfire action, with entertaining deaths aplenty.

30. Words With
Friends
Free
Words With Friends is in essence Scrabble, played with friends at your own pace. And you get to show them how much more intelligent you are than them. A no-brainer.

31. Call Of Duty: Heroes
Free
This 3D combat strategy game has you customise your base and train elite forces to wipe out enemies in fierce battle. Plus: create deadly alliances with your friends, competing for in-game rewards.

32. Riptide GP2
?1.59
Rocket-powered hydro jets and futuristic race tracks make Riptide GP2 a fast, fun, and visually stunning racing experience.

33. Cut The Rope: Time Travel
Free
Cut the Rope: Time Travel is a new adventure filled with time-travelling, candycrunching, physicsbased action. Help Om Nom feed his ancestors as you play through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, a Pirate Ship, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Stone Age, Disco Era, Wild West, Asian Dynasty, Industrial Revolution and the Future. Great for kids, too.

34. Beach Buggy Blitz
Free
A fun driving game in which you collect power-ups and performance-boosting upgrades, unlock new vehicles and collect new characters. Awesome fun and great graphics make Beach Buggy Blitz an easy download.

35. Machinarium
?3.99
Josef the robot is on a mission to save girlfriend Berta from the Blackcap Brotherhood in this award-winning adventure game.

36. Hitman GO
?3.99
Agent 47’s latest outing is a quasi-board game that plays like the leadup to a game of Cluedo. Initially odd, but ultimately rewarding.

37. Marvel Contest of Champions
Free
If you love your superheroes and fighting games then you’ll love Contest of Champions. Level up characters and build your own team of champions in this graphically stunning fighter game.

38. Thomas Was Alone
?3.99
Satisfying special gameplay takes second place to the compelling writing and characterization. You’ll never care more about a bunch of squares.

39. Badland
Free
Gorgeous sidescrolling, jump-based platformer, and winner of three awards. Worth downloading for the stunning visuals alone.

40. Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
?3.99
Rockstar has retooled its genre-defining franchise for Android, and you can pick up GTA III, Vice City and San Andreas for criminally good gaming wherever you go.

41. Criminal Case
Free
Are you ready to test your detective skills? This is a hidden object game with an actual storyline: investigate crime scenes for clues and help the Police of Grimsborough crack murder cases.

42. Modern Combat 5 Blackout
Free
Gameloft’s answer to Call of Duty on the PC or consoles, Modern Combat 5: Blackout is a meaty game which includes both singleand multiplayer modes.

43. Goat Simulator
?3.99
What started out as an Internet joke has now landed on Android. Play as a goat and wreck as much stuff as possible in this fantastic mess of a game.

44. Crazy Taxi City Rush
Free
Crazy Taxi City Rush rewards you for insane driving as you race around doing whatever it takes to get your passengers to their destination on time.

45. You Must Build A Boat
?1.99
Sequel to 10000000, this builds on the original tile-matching puzzle meets running game with a boat. You have to build it, assemble a crew, and explore whatever dungeons you pass as you float down river.

Best new Android games of 2016

Lewis Painter showcases the best upcoming games of 2016

Rush Rally 2
Rush Rally 2 is an upcoming racing game for not only Android, but iOS and Apple TV too –  and it boasts some impressive features. First of all, the developers claim that the game will run at 60 frames per second and will feature over 72 tracks across a number of game modes including Rally cross and Rally Championship. There are eight cars available at launch with a plan to add more over time, all featuring realistic physics gathered from “real car telemetry data”. The iOS/Apple TV variants even feature MFi controller support, allowing you to use a gaming controller to play.

The good news is that the developers claim the game is completed, and it’s just a matter of deciding on a launch date. The developers hope that’ll be some time in May, but nothing is confirmed just yet.

Hackers
Hackers, as you’ve probably guessed already, is a game about hacking – don’t worry, you won’t get into trouble with the NSA for this kind of hacking, though. The idea is that you build up your hacking network and then hack your friends and other online players. Though details about gameplay are scarce, the idea is that you have a network, and you have to build up your defences and resources in such a way that you make the core of your network impenetrable to hackers. The game is currently in beta testing, which you can sign up for at tinyurl.com/h85vaac, with a plan to release for Android in the coming months.

The Elder Scrolls: Legends
The Elder Scrolls: Legends was first announced at E3 2015, and while there still isn’t a solid release date in sight, it looks promising. It’s a collectable card game, with gamers collecting cards with stats including agility and strength to be used in battles, although there isn’t much else to go on as Bethesda is being tight?lipped about the whole situation.

Bethesda has recently announced a beta test which should be starting soon, and those interested can sign up at tinyurl.com/hcynze8. The game is set to be available for both PC and Mobile and while we assume this means both iOS and Android, there is no platform confirmation so far. The release date is still unknown, but with E3 2016 fast approaching, we imagine it’ll get some kind of mention then.

Leap of Fate
Leap of Fate is an interesting game already available for PC, but is due to be released on mobile ‘soon’. The game is best known for being hardcore. It may have something to do with the fact that you have one life to survive a journey across a futuristic, slightly cyberpunk looking New York. There’s no health regeneration either, so you’ll probably die quickly and have to start all over again. You can play as one of four characters, all technomages (using science to create the illusion of magic), and there are over one hundred upgrades available over four categories: Mobility, Passive, Attack Skills and Equippable Glyphs. You can find out more about Leap of Fate on its official website at tinyurl.com/j8ghja4. There’s no word on the release date for the mobile companion just yet, but we’ll update this when we know more.

Samurai Rising
Square Enix recently posted a teaser for something called Project: Rising with promises that we’d hear more soon. Well, it turns out that the “more” it was referring to was yet another trailer, although this one included a few more details – the only issue is that it’s in Japanese. A Japanese?speaking writer over at Touch Arcade translated the trailer, and gave us the following insight: “…it’s another free to play social action RPG from the same artist responsible for Bravely Default. The game centralizes around four player co?op, with players taking the role of various Final Fantasy?ish classes.” The video specifically mentions the Dragoon, White Mage and Black Mage classes, so it’s safe to assume that other Final Fantasy?esque jobs will make an appearance in the full game. Samurai Rising looks to be a Japan exclusive game at launch, but we’re holding our breath that it’ll come to UK shores sooner rather than later.

Fallout 4 The Commonwealth needs you

It has been one of the biggest hype-trains in recent history; when Fallout 4 was announced just before E3 2015, people went nuts. And publishers Bethesda played on that, allowing their own promotion engine to be fuelled by the enthusiasm of fans the world over. So when Fallout 4 finally arrived, it is little wonder that a number of people were disappointed by what they got.

Even after all this time, when people should be well aware of how hype often gets out of hand, and when they should know that no game is perfect, they still managed to make themselves believe that Fallout 4 would, somehow, be a game that offered no problems. But by its very nature, Fallout 4 was almost guaranteed to be imperfect; any game as ambitious as this one is bound to have issues to some degree, and Fallout 4 is no different.

People the world over started identifying things that they didn’t like: graphics that were a bit poorer than ere expected, bugs that occasionally lead to hooking up on geometry or seeing odd things like models in strange places, that kind of thing. But it would serve one well, when approaching a game like Fallout 4, that (in the first instance) some truly great games have also had bugs and, most importantly, highlighting individual elements that may leave something to be desired in only truly relevant if these elements ruin the entire experience.

And, quite honestly, in the case of Fallout 4, they do not. You can bitch all you like about the little things that annoy you, but when the game is considered macroscopically (as it should be) there are very few things that might hamper the overall experience, and certainly none that will ruin it. The game begins with the player’s chosen character (created with a robust set of character editing tools) being rushed to Vault 111 in the face of total atomic annihilation. We’re not going into detail here, because spoilers suck… suffice to say that when the character awakens, you find yourself in a very different world, a long time after the bombs fell. After a few short “mandatory” missions that get you into the swing of things, Fallout 4 sort of stands back and says “It’s a great, big world out there… have fun with it”. And so the player begins a massive journey of discovery, in which the central plot plays only a small part. Fallout 4 isn’t about getting from A to B in a narrative; it is about living in a post-apocalyptic world.

To this end, Fallout 4 gives the player every tool it can muster in making the experience as engrossing and complete as possible. From the basic stuff, like character modification through skills and visual elements, and gear modification and improvement, right through to the establishment of settlements, Fallout 4 offers the player an absolute ton of things to do. I found myself spending long sessions tweaking my guns and armour, or fasttravelling between my settlements to make sure that they were properly defended and offered the growing number of residents what they required. I would spend hours constructing buildings in the game’s settlement editor, or hunting through random piles of scrap to find the elusive materials I needed for a particular weapon part. And then I would spend other long sessions exploring the Commonwealth (once called the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the vast setting for this game) and completing missions. Between crafting, tweaking and combat, Fallout 4 has consumed many hours for me, and I still have a ton that I want to get to.

It’s the kind of game that you can spend a good long time playing, with short sessions great for tweaking and crafting, and longer sessions ideal for finding new places, trading and, of course, shooting stuff. And, thanks to the fully open nature of the world, you’ll be spending some of that time running away from enemies you cannot handle just yet, licking your wounds and levelling up before going back to exact a bit of revenge.

While Fallout 4 does give you every tool you need to survive in this world, it doesn’t hold your hand. It doesn’t guide you in any particular direction (the quests feel more like suggestions that compulsions) and it simply lets you get on with doing your thing within the game world.

And that world is massive. While fast-travelling is an option, this place has been created to be explored on foot, either solo or with a trusty companion (although the dog, for example, becomes more of an annoyance before long, so companions are only suggested for the most patient of players). It is a world that is full of surprises and oddity that you’ll never find if you bounce between fast-travel points, and this convenient method of traversing the map is only suggested for completing tedious tasks, like hauling junk back to your base of operations. There are amazing uncharted places and experiences here, and missing out on them would be a crime. Besides, walking is good for you.

None of it ever really seems overwhelming, either. Junk is automatically stripped down to needed parts by settlement workshops, for example. Traders are relatively plentiful (although you won’t find them fast travelling) and can even be set up in your settlements. The skill tree is simple yet expansive, but the lack of level cap means that you’ll more than likely never have to worry about getting to any particular ability at the expense of others. Combat can be daunting at times, but the game gets you feeling like a bad-ass pretty quickly, complete with customisable power armour and a massive arsenal of weapons that you can trim to suit your play style. It feels like the developers made a world for you to live in, on your own terms, rather than giving you a controlled experience. In truth, the only thing that is really overwhelming in Fallout 4 is the sheer scope of what you can do with it… and that’s a good kind of intimidation.

So, yes, the graphics may not be the best we’ve ever seen. The world may have bugs that aren’t mutated mosquitoes, flies and roaches. The companion AI does leave a lot to be desired. But the truth is that these things can be avoided or, at worst, ignored. And when everything is put together, all of these issues, whether in isolation or combined, do very little to hamper an excellent gaming experience. You may find yourself getting annoyed, even to a high degree, at times, but you will keep coming back. Like with Skyrim, Bethesda have managed to create an experience that is so wonderfully immersive with Fallout 4 that you’ll constantly keep coming back to it, bugs and all. It’s single-player only, which may make some people wonder about the longevity of the game, but with the amount that it offers to do, you’ll probably still be playing it long after you’ve set aside the latest cut-and-paste multiplayer FPS title. It’s not a massive step forward for the franchise, but it doesn’t need to be. 

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes: Universe in Peril

Loosely based on the 2013 PC/console game, the Android version drops the open world aspect and splits the levels into shorter stages to suit the mobile form. It’s still a huge download though, mainly due to the large number of cut-scenes featuring trademark LEGO humour. While the character roster isn’t as colossal as the original, you still get to play as over 91 characters.

Ranging from fan-favourite superheroes to minor characters, these are unlocked during play or earlier via IAP bundles. Naturally, they all bring their unique powers to the table and while the main character for each stage is preset, you get to choose a tag partner. During play you can switch characters at any point, or hit the tag button to use both Starting off with Iron Man and The Hulk, we soon got used to the touch controls, although there’s an option for on screen buttons as well. You simply drag your finger around to move, tap on enemies to attack, swipe to dodge and flick up with two fingers to fly. You can also throw heavy objects and once the super meter is charged, unleash a mega attack on your opposition.

Each of the 45 missions features ten special challenges, such as beating a time limit, collecting enough studs and defeating all enemies. There’s plenty of replay value here, particularly as some feats can only be achieved using certain characters, so you’ll need to return to stages later once they have been unlocked. Red bricks can also be found, or bought, to increase your powers and enable cheat modes during your gameplay.

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes is well presented, fun to play, features nice boss battles and offers plenty of content to keep you returning.

?Price ?3.30/$4.99 + IAPs
?Designed for Phone and tablet
?Requires Android 4.0.3

3 games review Wonderbook: Book Of Spells Zone Of The Enders F1 Race Stars
Wonderbook: Book Of Spells
Wand Direction

Before we go any further, it has to be said that Wonderbook: Book Of Spells is not software designed for 30–year-old videogame reviewers with scruffy facial hair and fading hairlines. It’s a rather lovingly put together EyeToy and PlayStation Move combo that promises to bring the magic of Hogwarts to your PS3 just in time for Christmas, featuring words by JK Rowling herself, and tech by the splendid Sony London. So, being said 30 year old, it made sense to let the child of the house have a go. Unfortunately, he’s only 16 months old, so he trampled across the blue Wonderbook accessory, tried to eat the glowing part of the Move controller, laughed at his own face on the TV for about five minutes, then ran into the kitchen, grabbed a bag of dried pasta and emptied it all over the hall while hooting maniacally. Not a great help.

Thankfully, his mum is a diehard Potter aficionado, and we managed to combine our powers of technical knowledge and Hogwarts wizardry to spellbinding effect. The tech is actually really nice; your Move is transformed into a gnarled, wooden wand which can be used to levitate objects or shoot
jets of water across the place in a pretty magical fashion. There are four chapters in Book Of Spells, each comprising multiple incantations, and every one is lavished with detail, artful storytelling and almost faultless tech. Levitating eyeballs and toads, warding off nasty roots, chanting weird spell names… it’s all in here.

The production is fantastic, frankly. This is software designed for young Potter fanatics, probably around eight years old, and it brings a sense of spirit and warmth that’s entirely in keeping with the Rowling universe. It’s easy to sneer at stuff like this, so-called ‘non-games’, but it’s better to think of Wonderbook as a Christmas toy rather than a videogame franchise in and of itself.

Quite where the tech goes after Book Of Spells has been exhausted is anyone’s guess, really. It does feel like a one-off of sorts, a great seasonal product that doesn’t really need any further add-ons despite the promise of next year’s Diggs Nightcrawler, but should Sony choose to, there’s potential for Wonderbook to turn into a nifty little platform of its own. If nothing else, too, it confirms that Move is by far the best motion control device on the market, capable of some real wizardry of its
own. Lovely.
Jon Denton

Zone Of The Enders HD Collection
Jehuty calls for Konami’s remastering department

There’s something deliciously poetic about Konami bundling a new Metal Gear demo with an HD transfer of a videogame that was originally used as a vessel through which to sell a Metal Gear demo. Back in the day, Kojima’s name wasn’t widely enough known for a new IP to be sold off the back of that alone, but the chance to shove Snake around a tanker made the unknown quantity that was Zone Of The Enders that much more appealing.

But with this package bringing together both the glorified tech demo that is the original videogame and its glorious yet underappreciated sequel – both with a fancy new lick of polygonal paint, no less – we can only hope it’s not the demo doing the selling this time around. The slick new anime intro tells you everything you need to know about the videogame, and as much as you’re ever likely to understand about the story too, for that matter. Mech combat is the order of the day, though it’s a fluid and graceful strain that doesn’t really exist outside of anime even to this day.

Whether jetting around the sky spewing laser death at other extremely expensive robotic things or engaging in choreographed melee showdowns with rival Frames, Jehuty’s antics are stylish in extreme. That said, it’s all fairly subdued in the original, with only a couple of mechs on screen at once – it was an early PS2 game, let’s not forget – but the sequel ramps up the intensity within minutes, even if it’s at the expense of frame-rate issues that apparently still haven’t quite been ironed out.

While the original holds up better as a way of establishing the universe than it does on a gameplay level, the second game flips that on its head – it’s a peerless action videogame in its field, though we’d wager there isn’t a single person on the planet who actually know what is going on on a narrative level. But you simply won’t care. The original has done its job of creating a world in which giant robots can fight scores of other giant robots and that’s more than enough for the sequel to survive on its gameplay merits alone.

ZOE may feel like a proof of concept, spliced with Eighties mech anime pulled off an old VHS. But the second videogame both feels and now looks like it could have come out in the last few years. Whether you still harbour fond memories of the franchise or never played it back in the day, Zone Of The Enders is definitely worth another look, and the HD remaster team have done a sterling job. Oh,
and did we mention the Revengeance demo? You’ll want that too.
Luke Albig?s

F1 Race Stars
Mario (Andretti) Kart

You know the old adage: you wait ages for a karting game and then three come along at once. Or something like that, anyway. This year LittleBigPlanet Karting had pole position, Sonic & Sega Racing Transformed is the underdog bringing up the rear and then there’s F1 Race Stars sitting slap-bang in mediocre mid-table.

It’s about as mild a game as they come – even for a karting game – which is a shame when the initial promise of it really does make it quite interesting. Take the new ‘innovative’ features in slipstreaming and KERS boosting, for example. The former – though not unheard of in racing games – is pretty new for karting games and boosts your speed when behind another driver. It’s a form of rubberbanding, sure, but one that you can benefit from too.

KERS, as race fans will likely know, is a fancy doohickey that goes inside a Formula One car for improving acceleration after sharp braking. With that in mind, its inclusion in F1 Race Stars does make a little more sense, as highlighted areas around certain bends enable you to charge up an additional boost of up to three tiers when carefully controlling acceleration.

Then there’s the power-ups themselves, some of which are your usual red shell/green shell guff and others that are a little more… respectful of the subject matter. Like the Safety Car pickup, a blue shell-style power-up that forces the player in first place to a crawl behind the pace car. Or the rain cloud that, as you might expect, covers the tarmac in slick pools of water.

It’s unfortunate that such a reverence of Formula One should be F1 Race Stars downfall, then. The biggest problem is the handling, an element that should be of primary importance in any karting game. Where most let you hop and drift around sharper bends, F1 Race Stars has none of it: if you want to tackle some of the game’s wackier tracks then you’ll either have to ricochet off walls and hope you aren’t slowed too much, or brake yourself and recuperate afterwards. It’s a huge detriment
to the game as a whole, turning what could be an entertaining spin on F1 racing into a frustrating slog.

We like a lot of what F1 Race Stars does – honestly, we do – but if Codemasters wants to keep this interesting idea going it really needs to find out exactly what it wants the game to be. In the end, though, a karting game that is a pain to control is no karting game at all.
Adam Barnes

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How To play games in Facebook Messenger

Facebook Messenger now has a proper gaming feature called Instant Games. Chris Martin shows how to use it

Following on from the success of its hidden games inside Facebook Messenger such as football keep ups and basketball, the firm has launched a fully-fl edged gaming feature called Instant Games to its chat service. The firm describes it as a new ‘gaming tab’ inside the app that allows you to challenge your friends and family at a number of games. It’s simple enough to play if you follow the steps below, making sure you’ve updated to the latest version in your app store first.

Play games on
• Open or start a conversation (groups included)
• Tap on the game controller icon
• Choose the game you want to play

Games list
With over 1.2bn games of the basketball game played, launching Instant Games is the next logical step. The feature is rolling out in 30 countries on Android 5 or later. Features include score leader boards in-context chat, and group thread conversations. Read: How to send a Facebook message without Facebook Messenger.

If you’re looking for a Facebook Messenger games list, then check out the image below which shows the 17 launch titles from partners such as King, Konami and Bandai Namco. Highlights on the games list include the likes Space Invaders, Puzzle Bobble, Words with Friends: Frenzy and Pac-Man.

Mirror’s Edge Catalyst

It’s shaping up to be the sequel I always wanted

I ’m at a presentation of a Catalyst mission and I’ve lost count of how many times the word ‘fluid’ has been used. The movement? Fluid. The combat? Fluid. The mission structure? Fluid. The way the engine can seamlessly transition from the outside world into a building’s interior? Also fluid. It’s subtle hints like this that convey DICE’s intent for its game.

I sympathize with the repetition, because Mirror’s Edge Catalyst isn’t dramatically different from its predecessor. Yes, there’s an open world now, but the basic tenets of what made Mirror’s Edge so good are all present in the demo. It looks gorgeous, just as Mirror’s Edge did. Its freerunning seems responsive and satisfying, just as Mirror’s Edge’s was. When Catalyst was announced, DICE claimed it wasn’t a sequel. Here it looks like the most typical of sequels, improving the first game’s best features and tweaking its worst. In short, it’s Mirror’s Edge but more fluid. It’s pretty much exactly as I was hoping for. Opening the map screen, Faith places a marker to the mission’s starting point.

This activates Runner Vision, which in Mirror’s Edge showed players the optimum route. In Catalyst, it does the same thing, but is applied on-the-fly based on where your waypoint is  set. As in the first game, it’s also optional.

Approaching the looming building of Elysium, Faith passes a ‘Gridleak’—just one of a number of collectibles that will be hidden around the city. Generally, I’m not a fan of hunting down trinkets through a large open world. But Mirror’s Edge is a series about the joy of movement. Done well and the collectibles could be fun mini-challenges that break up the more involved missions and sidequests. Faith reaches the marker, triggering a cutscene. Yes, there are still cutscenes— but now they’re in-engine. It introduces a new character: a swaggering jerk whose impotent, macho smack-talk accompanies Faith throughout the mission. Catalyst is a reboot of Faith’s origin. Once again, it’s about the figures on the edge of a dystopian society—the ‘runners’ who deliver secretive documents and the sense of competition between them. You’ll see much more of life as a runner in Catalyst, where Faith will operate as a cat burglar, data courier or spy.

Moving on up
Infiltrating the building, Faith shows off her new and improved moveset. With enough momentum, she can again chain between wallrunning, sliding and clambering around with ease. Additional skills are part of an upgrade system that lives in Faith’s glove. In the demo, she has a Mag Rope. It’s basically a grappling hook-style device that lets her swing between large gaps. For Catalyst, the combat has also been incorporated into the flow of movement so that it’s less stop-and-start. A UI element shows the location of any surrounding enemies that might block your way. It’s a matter of finding the gaps in their positioning and taking out anybody who gets too close.

In the demo, this is all performed flawlessly. It will no doubt be more clumsy in the hands of someone less skilled but DICE has tweaked the difficulty to remove some of the frustrations of a poor performance. “I wouldn’t say it’s easier, because it’s not easy,” says senior producer Sara Jansson after the demo. “It’s still a skill-based game. But we’ve worked on different systems that help you if you’re slightly off timing. If you jump a little bit too early into a wall run or jump you’ll get help to still make it, depending on how much momentum you have.” Get it right, and you’ll keep more of your momentum. “If you’re a skilled player, you’ll just be a lot more fluid.”

Phil Savage

TOP 10 VIDEO GAMES OF ALL TIME

This is it, the list you thought we’d never dare to do. Today we’re concluding our series of the best video games per generation to bring you our picks for the top ten video games of all time. If you’ve been following our video games per generation series, you’ll know that fifty games were selected as some of the best.

But only ten can make this list. In order for a game to qualify for best of all time, it needs to have made at least rank four or higher in its respective generation list to get on here. So if your favorite didn’t make it onto this list, that’s why. Personal bias has no room here, get ready for the mother of all video game lists as we show off the industry’s finest accomplishments.

10. Goldeneye 007 (1997)

Just scraping into the opening slot is the movie tie-in game that brought FPS multiplayer to the living room. Yet despite only having one analog stick and no online play it still holds out better than a lot of shooters that have come out since. With a strong single player campaign that’ll keep you coming back as you try to unlock the prestigious 007 mode, and a multiplayer section which was amazingly added as an afterthought, Goldeneye is that one cartridge that you’ll never give away.

9. Resident Evil 4  (2005)

OK, so it’s actually the sixth game in the main series, but the beauty about this game is that you don’t need to have played the previous entries to know what’s going on. In fact, not knowing what’s going on is pretty much par for the course for a Japanese game. Resident Evil 4 was a thrilling yet terrifying experience, from dealing with the psychotic infected villagers to the creepy Regenerators. Fans like to hate on this game because of the sequels that followed, but for what it is by itself, there’s no denying how masterful it was put together.

8. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)

If there was one word we’d use to describe Skyrim, it would be “massive”. This game goes out of its way to make sure everything is vast, from its open world, to its diverse skill tree, loads of quests, and plenty of customization options for your character. Plus, there are dragons. Big ones. Be careful not to get lost in this game, cause it's really easy to go wandering and end up in a cave full of giant spiders or mummified Draugers.

7. Mass Effect 2 (2010)

The sci-fi epic that became the apex of what western RPGs should accomplish, The Mass Effect series drew inspiration from all the right places, with enough lore to rival Star Wars and Trek. The second game used a concept first seen in Seven Samurai, where as Commander Shepard you travel various parts of the galaxy to recruit an team of memorable characters to save the galaxy in one of the greatest final missions ever created. Shepard’s story may be over, but we’ll never forget the incredible journey.

6. Portal 2 (2011)

First of all: “Cake” … now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, we can say that no other game of the last generation brought more creative innovation than the Portal series. Portal 2 has everything a great sequel should be by giving us the well written humorous dialogue of Wheatly and GLaDOS, while also giving us well-crafted puzzle rooms to take on solo, or share the thinking challenge with a friend. It’s also a game that we can safely predict will age very well.

5. Chrono Trigger (1995)

Square are indeed the JRPG kings with their Final Fantasy series, but their best work came with this time-traveling epic. A master class of storytelling, the game is still as emotionally hard-hitting as ever, and just like Mass Effect, it too contains an iconic cast of memorable party members. Not to mention the game also comes with thirteen endings, each of them as vastly different from one another. Some say Chrono Trigger is one of the best RPGs of all time, and we're inclined to agree.

4. Super Mario World (1991)

Mario had a lot of games in contention for best of all time, with Super Mario Brothers 3 and Galaxy 2 also eligible. But as the apex of 2D Platforming, Super Mario World knows no equal. The 16-bit sprites still look amazing today, and with the inclusion of multiple routes, secrets galore to discover, and ninety-six different exits to find, there’s plenty more to come back to once you’ve defeated Bowser and saved the Princess.

3. Half Life 2 (2004)

There are few games in history that still feel brand new a decade after they’ve been released. Yet Half Life 2’s revolutionary emphasis on physics based combat and puzzles still puts it leaps and bounds across most FPSs today. Valve’s second game on this list really shows how the company has become true pioneers for gaming, while still giving us amazing experiences, and yes we can see the irony of putting this series at number three.

2. Tetris (1984)

The game that’s over thirty years old yet is as addicting and challenging to play today as it was when it came out. There have been many variations throughout the years, but its core gameplay remains the same as this Russian classic is still played by hundreds of thousands today. In fact it’s now the best selling video game of all time, thanks to being so accessible that it can be played on almost any device with a screen and a few microchips. Tetris games is a true timeless classic.

1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)

Before we get to the most iconic spot of all, let's have a look at some honorable mentions. We know this game is at the top of almost every other all time list out there - feel free to search for yourself. And believe me, we tried hard to find a successor, but when comparing precise gameplay, revolutionary mechanics, well paced storylines, replay ability, fantastic level design, combat variety, and capturing the scope of an epic adventure, no game has even come close to matching what Ocarina of Time has achieved. Whether you have your old N64 cartridge, digital version on the Virtual Console, or you're taking it on the go with the 3DS remaster, this Nintendo masterpiece is our pick for the greatest game of all time.
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WORLD OF WARCRAFT WARLORDS OF DRAENOR

The MMO juggernaut rolls on, without changing direction.

World of Warcraft is nine years old. If you want to take a moment to let that sink in, that’s perfectly understandable. It has remained the biggest subscription-based MMO in the world throughout that period: it’s still huge, even if the prevailing narrative surrounding it is of an empire in gradual decline. 7.6 million players doesn’t really feel like decline: more like erosion, in the sense that a mountain erodes. Warlords of Draenor is the first of a new kind of expansion for World of Warcraft. It’s leaner, in some senses, than the expansions that have come before. It adds a new continent – the orc homeworld of Draenor, predestruction – and new features, plus tweaks to raids, the UI, and the game engine, but no new classes or races.

On the surface, it appears more considered and modest than Cataclysm or Wrath of the Lich King – and, in returning the focus to the orcs, it’s less of a tonal departure than Mists of Pandaria. Blizzard are gearing up production on World of Warcraft with a view to putting out boxed expansions every year – rather than every 18 months-ish as it was before. They talk about having plans for the WoW expansion after this one, and the one after that, and the one after that: a salvo of erosion-slaying magic bullets loaded in a revolver, with Warlords of Draenor sitting ready in the first chamber.

At least, that’s how Warcraft boss Chris Metzen put it, announcing the expansion at Blizzcon. I asked WoW producer John Lagrave about it later – how possible is it, in reality, to plan for the needs of a gaming community that far in advance?

“Let me continue the analogy,” he says. “First we have to build the bullet – and we’re building a bullet for a gun we don’t know the calibre of yet, so there’s a lot of give and take. We have a plan for Warlords of Draenor – that’s in the chamber and is being fired. For the next expansion, we’re in talks about it. We focus, initially, on the story we’re going to tell. Once we’ve got that, we try to figure out a sentence or two about what the ‘vibe’ is. What’s going to be engaging? What’s going to be fun? What is interesting about it?”

Warlords of Draenor is intended to recapture the feel of orcs-and-humans-era Warcraft, and to reintroduce the characters and conflicts that fans have followed for decades but that recent WoW acolytes might have missed among the panda warriors and world-consuming dragons. It’s a time-travel story, and the Draenor it features is one that has been referenced but never actually presented in a Warcraft game. It’s the same place as The Burning Crusade’s Outland, but this isn’t a Cataclysm-style overhaul: it’s a full alternative take on the planet with entirely new zones to explore.

As players, our dimension-skipping adventure will be prompted by the escape of rogue horde warchief Garrosh Hellscream following his arrest at the conclusion of the ‘Siege of Orgrimmar’ update. Chasing his dream of an all-orc horde to a new extreme, he binds himself to a mysterious time-travelling ally and journeys to Draenor before the orcs became corrupted and invaded Azeroth. There, he stops the orcs from drinking demonic blood and, in its place, gives them loads of technology from the future and sets about building his own portal to Azeroth. So give a little, take a little, then.

Both factions have an interest in stopping Garrosh’s ‘Iron Horde’, and that leads them to Draenor. An initial ‘suicide mission’ tutorial experience will take the Alliance and the Horde to Tanaan Jungle – formerly Hellfire Peninsula. After that, the Alliance will help defend a Draenei temple in Shadowmoon Valley, a temperate zone of rolling hills trapped in perpetual night. The Horde head to Frostfire Ridge – roughly where the Blade’s Edge Mountains will eventually be – to help the Frostwolf Clan defeat some local ogres.

The Frostwolf Clan in this case is led by Thrall’s dad, Durotan, and the sequence I played through involved helping both of them lay siege to an ogre fortress – at which point, through Pandaria-style phasing, it transitioned into being the Horde base of operations on Draenor.

Blizzard have had a lot of experience bending and twisting the WoW engine into new shapes, and their work here displays the same inventiveness and attention to detail that marked out the best bits of Wrath of the Lich King. Post-conquest, the player is asked to free some orc scouts from a nearby ogre village. The path takes you back out of the ogre fortress, pushing through a crowd of Warcraft-style peons carrying stones and lumber back up the hill. It’s a nice little nod to the past, and it made me smile.

You’ll have to take the long way around, by the way: flying mounts are disabled in Draenor until some point post-launch. The journey to the new level cap of 100 will be made on foot.

In addition to seven new PvE zones, Warlords of Draenor will add seven dungeons – three at max level – as well as two raids with sixteen bosses between them. Blizzard are also taking a pass at Upper Blackrock Spire as part of their programme of classic dungeon reboots, and there’ll be a new set of world bosses too. There will also be a full PvP zone on Draenor, called Ashran. It’s intended to recapture the old days of World of Warcraft battlegrounds – the skirmishes over Alterac Valley that took days to resolve. Combatants will be drawn in from multiple servers using the cross-realm technology also used to fill out parties in the dungeon finder.

The current structure of WoW PvP is being revised. Blizzard regard the current system as too deterministic, leading players towards fixed rewards through a long grind – they want to shake it up, and they’re approaching the problem from multiple angles. PvP matches will now grant random rewards on completion, from bind-on-equip items to rare PvP equipment and bonus Honor. The idea is to surprise players with rewards they weren’t expecting, to lead people towards upgrade paths they might not have considered by adding a degree of chance. The other approach to freshening Player vs Player is the exact opposite. Warlords of Draenor will introduce Trials of the Gladiator, new arena combat events where players use standard, balanced gear – creating a competition that is entirely about skill.

On the PvE side, raid sizes are being reworked – again – to create a more accessible experience. Raids will be available in Raid Finder, Normal and Heroic difficulties for any number of players between 10 and 25, their encounters scaling on the fly to match the number of friends you bring. If someone drops out, you won’t need to wait for a replacement. The best rewards, however, will be available to guilds who crack raid encounters on ‘Mythic’ difficulty, which will be balanced for – and require – 20 players. It seems like a smart compromise between the needs of the hardcore set and weekend warriors who just want a chance to see dungeons they’d previously been locked out of.

Blizzard walk a thin line between giving their community what they want and telling them what they need – but they seem to walk it confidently, at least in Warlords of Draenor’s case.

“We want you to stay engaged in the game and not become dispassionate about it,” says John Lagrave. “We have our own internal testing sessions, and I’ll tell you – the session for our Blizzcon build was brutal. We’re very critical, and there’s lots of things that we will be doing and changing from our own criticism – plus what we get from the community. It’s a constant process.”

Some of the biggest cheers I heard at Blizzcon were for Warlords of Draenor features that seem innocuous from the outside. WoW’s inventory is being updated, so that you’ll be able to easily set filters for your bags and sort them quickly.

Collectible items such as heirlooms, toys and tabards are becoming part of the collections system – as opposed to taking up bank space – and quest items will no longer go into your inventory at all. You’ll be able to craft using materials that are in your bank, Guild Wars 2-style. These quality-of-life improvements will likely shave off millions of hours busywork across the breadth of WoW’s audience.

No one feature received an outpouring of approval quite like the update to character models, however. Vanilla WoW’s original races are all getting upgraded with more detailed models, high-res textures, and new animations that include facial expressions for emotes. Blizzard are recording new voice work, too, so expect to hear a bunch of new variations on “ungh!” and “I can’t cast that now!” The Burning Crusade races are set to be updated shortly after the expansion launches.

World of Warcraft is also, at long last, getting a form of player housing. You’ll be able to create and manage a garrison on Draenor that works a little bit like a base in the original strategy games. You’ll pick from plots of land, and build and upgrade structures that provide game-widebenefits. You might build crafting buildings that give you limited access to professions that you don’t otherwise have, or buffs that you take with you into the wider world.

Garrisons will also act as the basis for a new kind of daily quest. Through your town’s inn  you’ll build up a party of NPC adventurers who can be sent on adventures that take hours of real time to complete.

They’ll have their own traits and levelling paths, and sending the right people on the right jobs will yield rewards such as exclusive items, mounts and randomised chests. It’s a substantial extension of the Tillers’ farm system from Mists of Pandaria, with much further-reaching implications for your daily life within the game – and for your free time. It’s also equivalent to Pet Battling, in that it’s an addition to an expansion that looks a bit like a nonsequitur on the surface, but which will probably end up being the most strikingly new-feeling addition for players who have had almost a decade to get used to the game it’s attached to.

Your garrison will be a part of the open world, separated from those of other players using – again – seamless phasing. If you want to invite a friend over, that’ll be possible – but it’s unclear at this stage whether or not it’ll be possible to discover other people’s towns or followers in a more informal manner.

Every purchase of Warlords of Draenor will, additionally, give you an accountbound token that lets you boost any character you like to level 90. It’s a measure that Blizzard are taking to give new or returning players a chance to skip straight to the new stuff, but it’s likely to be possible with veterans too. Haven’t finished a full set of max-level alts yet? You just got one for free. These insta-90s will start with a set of equipment and some consumables appropriate to their level.

I imagine that some dedicated players will feel their investment has been cheapened by letting total newbies skip nine years’ worth of content, but it’s a pragmatic move by Blizzard and there’s a good chance it’ll be the last little push required by those of us who are at any point only a few clicks from resubscribing. Blizzard make changes like this from a position of authority: even after all this time, World of Warcraft is the game to beat – and even when a new contender improves on this or that system, its like can be replicated within WoW – and improved upon – in no time at all. This expansion modernises the game across the board.

Warlords of Draenor strikes me as an attempt to level the playing field in anticipation of the future. It’s varied, certainly, but safe in the sense that it in no way reaches deep into the crust of the game to find something new. Even its narrative moves backwards rather than forwards to find something fresh to present to fans. At its most radical, the expansion rethinks systems like raiding without ultimately changing the purpose they’ve always served. Lapsed players and dedicated fans alike might have expected something a little more dramatic, this long into the game’s life – but then again, perhaps it’s not a surprise. Blizzard are still sitting at the top of the mountain, and they’ve got no reason to shake the foundations.
Chris Thursten

top 5 brain boggling puzzles

The Room Two
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Improving on the award winning original, the more expansive sequel soon draws you into its dark, atmospheric world. Fiendish, multilayered puzzles require lots of poking, prodding and lever pulling.

Monument
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Inspired by MC Escher’s famous ‘impossible reality’ art, this isometric 3D puzzler forces you to think laterally as you visually ‘connect’ pathways so that your character can move between them.

Trainyard
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This classic brain boggler sees you placing tracks to guide trains to colour-coded stations, sometimes needing to merge them or blend their colours. The tougher levels may well end up driving you loco!

World of Goo
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A golden oldie to tax your logic and patience, it has you building bridges and other structures from gooey balls – some with special properties – to get enough of them to each level exit.

Tiny Thief
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Rovio’s Robin Hood concept sees the eponymous hero stealing treasure from the rich. You’ll definitely need all your cunning to outsmart enemies, solve fiendish puzzles and unlock all the tasty bonus rewards.

Plunder Pirates

Ahoy there me hearties, here be treasure!

Launched on iOS last year, Midoki’s seafaring strategy MMO has finally landed on Android shores. It plays identically and you can even continue your existing iOS game on Android by entering a special code – a nice touch for those who are juggling devices.

Plunder Pirates offers a well-balanced combination of resource building, maritime exploration and good-oldfashioned plundering of rival bases. The early focus is on building up your island base, unlocking new structures and upgrading your defences and attacking capabilities. Key to all of this action is the production of gold and grog, from mines and distilleries respectively.

The third currency in the Plunder Pirates universe is gems; these are more difficult to source, found occasionally while seafaring or earned via certain achievements. Fortunately, while IAP bundles are available to speed up things such as building, the freemium aspect never becomes overbearing. Indeed, you can play the game perfectly happily without ever needing to shell out any of your real gold.

Merrily sailing around the high seas is the other main part of the game. Your ship’s crew is recruited from the tavern; the pirates come in various types and can be trained up in order to give them special powers for when you are in battle. In addition to attacking all of the AI bases on the map, you can act like a real pirate and plunder those of other players to earn gold and grog. You only get three minutes to mount your attack, with a bonus earned for achieving 100% destruction. Naturally, this means that your own base may be targeted by others, so an essential part of the gameplay is to build some serious defences such as cannons, mines and walls.

A friendlier aspect is the guild system, enabling you to team up with other players to chat, gain bonus perks and battle rival guilds in the newly added rumbles. It adds an extra facet to a fun, compulsive experience with a decent amount of strategy. The only slight, but obviously necessary, downside is the inability to play it offline.

THE MOST RARE AND BEAUTIFUL NATURAL PHENOMENA

Ancient man respected and revered nature as a deity. No wonder, because the primitive brain was often unable to explain some natural phenomena and perceived them as a miracle. Modern people try to find a rational explanation for everything they see, but the most unusual and rare natural phenomena still strike the imagination, delight, or even frighten.

1. Light poles

This is not a northern light, but a completely different phenomenon, which is called "light (or solar) pillars." At low temperatures, in the frosty air, tiny ice crystals float, creating a kind of icy mist above the surface of the earth. Crystals reflect sunlight and, as a result, bright light columns
On the photo: Light pillars above Laramie, Wyoming, USA

2. Lightning above the river Catatumbo

Over the place where the Katatumbo River flows into Lake Maracaibo (Venezuela), lightning flashes almost every night for about ten hours. In total, about 1.2 million bits are produced per year. They are visible for several hundred kilometers, due to what this natural phenomenon is often called the "Maracaibo Lighthouse".

On the photo: Lightning over Katatumbo (Venezuela)

3. Brocken's ghost

The so-called Brocken's ghost is like a giant shadow from a human figure, surrounded by light, and often by iridescent rings. Meteorologists often call this phenomenon a "glory". This stunning phenomenon is observed high in the mountains, during the fog. In fact, the observer most often sees his own distorted shadow.
On the photo: Brocken's ghost on Mount Ontake, Japan

4. Tubular clouds

Tubular (or vymeobraznye) clouds often appear before a strong hurricane.
In the photo: Tubular clouds over the city of Regina, Canada, June 26, 2012

5. Morning glory

No one knows exactly how and why these clouds are formed. They can stretch for a thousand kilometers and hang at an altitude of about one and a half kilometers above the surface of the earth. This phenomenon was observed in different regions of the world, but most often (every spring) it occurs in the vicinity of the Australian city of Burktown. With almost no wind, clouds can travel at a speed of 65 kilometers per hour.

In the photo: view of the morning glory from an airplane near Burktown, Australia

6. The false sun

A false sun, or scientifically pargelium, is a bright spot created by the reflection of sunlight passing through a cloud of small ice crystals.

7. Lenticular clouds

Lenticular clouds (lenticular) form around mountain ridges.
In the photo: lenticular clouds at Mount Khotaka, Japan

8. The Fiery Rainbow

A fiery (or roundly-horizontal) rainbow appears when the sun is high in the sky, and in cirrus clouds there are quite a few flat, horizontally arranged hexagonal ice crystals. In addition, the necessary condition for the emergence of this rare phenomenon is the latitude (the closer to the north, the less chance to see a fiery rainbow) and frosty weather.

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