Penguin to publish physical and digital books based on Plants vs Zombies...
Back in March, UK-based children's book publisher Egmont announced that it's acquired the rights to release a number of Minecraft-themed books outside of the US. More publishers are getting in on the...
View ArticleBuy a refurbished 3DS or DSi XL direct from Nintendo in the US
If you've had your eye on a 3DS or DSi XL handheld for some time but - like a lot of people - you're a little hard up, this news should excite you. Nintendo is now flogging refurbished models in the...
View ArticleClash of Elementalists
At its heart, Clash of Elementalists is an arena-based tank-combat game, with two opponents trying to blast each other to bits in a 3D arena. In many ways it's similar to classics like Battlezone and...
View ArticleZelda fan, eh? Prove it, and win big with Pocket Gamer
I don't think there's a gamer alive today that isn't familiar with the terms 'Link', 'Rupees', 'Hyrule' from Nintendo's much-loved The Legend of Zelda series. We have our suspicions that some of you...
View ArticleRaa Raa the Noisy Lion: Jingly Jangly Jungle Adventures
Can I assume that if you are reading this, you, at the very least, have kids? That you are regularly forced to endure the saccharine nonsense of children's TV, and may even be aware of Raa Raa the...
View ArticleHistory in Handheld: A Donkey Kong retrospective
Yes, Donkey Kong has yet to star in his own adventure on the Nintendo 3DS. No, we won't have to wait too long for Nintendo to address that matter. You see, Mario & Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move...
View ArticleBreak Tactics
Tactical turn-based RPGs usually contain a heady mix of engrossing story and addictive gameplay, but only a handful manage to marry the two as spectacularly as, say,Fire Emblem: Awakening. A good...
View ArticleFancy yourself a top-notch trainer? Take a Pokemon Adventure Tour in the UK...
We suspect that most Pokemon fans have their attention spans trained squarely on October and the release of Pokemon X and Y, but there's plenty of Pokemon fun to be had this summer in the UK. The...
View ArticleEverything's Rosie
Everything's Rosie is a CBeebies show for toddlers about an inquisitive young girl called Rosie and her menagerie of friends. It's twee, saccharine, and should only be watched to sedate crying infants....
View ArticleThe problem with programming: my adventure in BASIC with Petit Computer for DS
Have you ever dreamed of playing your own game? I know I have. But while I've dabbled with a few user-friendly game makers, I've never dug too deep into the coding side of things. In fact, my one stab...
View Article[Update] 21 greatest Pokemon rhymes and references in rap songs
Rap artists often reveal some troubling preoccupations in their lyrics. That might include taking illegal drugs, murdering people, and spending half a mil' on a new hubcap. But these urban poets of the...
View ArticleHistory in Handheld: The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda is arguably Nintendo's best long-running video game franchise. Sure, the Super Mario series is lovely and all, but my little buddy Link could easily take Mario in a fight. And...
View ArticleThe 10 Nintendo DS games that you never got to play
The Nintendo DS has one of the most impressive games catalogues of all time. But, there's also handful of games that you may have missed entirely, because they never came out in certain countries. All...
View ArticleA version of Flappy Bird is now available on 3DS and DSi through Petit Computer
The Chronicles of Flappy Bird will never end. At least, not until it's available on every single platform, it would seem. To that end, it's now available on DSi and 3DS. But how is this possible? ......
View ArticleNintendo will pull the plug on its Wi-Fi Connection service for DS and DSi on...
Nintendo has decided the time is right to turn off a lot of the internet functionality of the DS and Wii, including online play and leaderboards. This also means that a lot of free DLC will be going...
View ArticleAce Attorney Investigations 2 is now playable all the way through in English
If you happen to have a legally acquired digital version of Ace Attorney Investigations 2, then here's some good news. An unofficial patch that translates the game into English has just been released....
View ArticleMy 10 best games of the past 10 years - Matt Diener
As part of the 'PG 10th anniversary' fun this March, we've blackmailed former PG members into giving us a quick rundown of their favourite ten games of the past ten years. (We've also asked them to...
View ArticleMy 10 best games of the past 10 years - David McCarthy
As part of the Pocket Gamer 10th anniversary fun we've blackmailed former PG members into giving us a quick rundown of their favourite ten games of the past ten years. (We've also asked them to relive...
View ArticleMy 10 best games of the past 10 years - Peter Willington
As part of the Pocket Gamer 10th anniversary fun we've blackmailed former PG members into giving us a quick rundown of their favourite ten games of the past ten years. (We've also asked them to relive...
View ArticleMy 10 best games of the past 10 years - Caspar Field
As part of the Pocket Gamer 10th anniversary fun we've blackmailed former PG members into giving us a quick rundown of their favourite ten games of the past ten years. (We've also asked them to relive...
View ArticleMy 10 best games of the past 10 years - Dan Griliopoulos
As part of the Pocket Gamer 10th anniversary fun we've blackmailed former PG members into giving us a quick rundown of their favourite ten games of the past ten years.They've not been asked to rank...
View ArticleMy 10 best games of the past 10 years - Stuart Dredge
As part of the Pocket Gamer 10th anniversary fun we've blackmailed former PG members into giving us a quick rundown of their favourite ten games of the past ten years. (We've also asked them to relive...
View Article7 reasons the SNES Mini is far superior to the NES Mini
In a mere month, all of us will be lucky enough to get the chance to revisit one of the best consoles to ever grace our home's with the release of the SNES Mini. It's a system that represents a high...
View ArticleMario Kart Tour? The series has been on the road for 17 years
Last week we learned that Nintendo's next mobile game will be Mario Kart Tour, and a lot has been said about how this will play and whether or not it's a good idea. Now that the internet has had the...
View ArticleDecade In Review: Nintendo's handheld supremacy
It's fair to say that Nintendo has always been the dominant force when it comes to handheld gaming. Their biggest competitors in the market have always been Sony, and more recently, mobile gaming, but...
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