A Clockwork Brain for iOS

A smart, beautiful, highly polished collection of mini games that can be expanded via in-app purchases? Why, yes please. And thank you so much oh newly released Clockwork Brain. Your steampunk aesthetics and brain-sharpening games seem to have done the trick. Oh, and I see you've been developed for both the iPhone and the iPad. And are free to grab too! How lovely. 

SpaceCHem Mobile for iPad

SpaceChem is one of those brave indie games that dared to be both incredibly unique and very smart at the same time. Happily, it has gotten itself glowing reviews for both its PC and Mac version; must have been the brilliant design-based gameplay combined with the fighting of monsters in the name of science methinks... 

SpaceChem has also been made available for iPad on the App Store and is apparently currently being heavily discounted. Better hurry and download it. Rumour has it it's on par with the PC version!

DONKEY.BAS on iOS

It's amazing what you can find and pay for these days on the App Store, but DONKEY.BAS is both unexpected and unique. It is after all a post of something truly retro: one of the first, CGA games for MS-DOS and a much-loved BASIC offering.

AWESOME Land is Super

If you were looking for an incredibly well designed and visually stunning parody of Mario Land, well, look no further. AWESOME Land is all you could ask for and more, as it kindly is equal parts homage and equal parts well-meant parody. Also, it plays great and offers 20 whole levels. Grab it over at the App Store for your iPhone and iPad.

The Hacker (iOS)

Uplink, the very best hacking game ever released, would admittedly have been far too complex for gaming on a mobile phone and would definitely not have been ideal for short gaming bursts of 10 or even 5 minutes. Happily though gamers interested in a hacking game with a strong atmosphere can now enjoy The Hacker on their iPhone or iPod Touch. A truly fantastic alternative.

It only costs $0.99, sports some excellent 80s computing inspired graphics and a ton of smart hacking mini-games, and is easily one of the fresher games on the App Store. You should really give it a try methinks, if only to play around with its gloriously retro-esque GUI.

The Sky Is Falling

We knew this would eventually happen and even Asterix feared the moment, but, well, the sky is finally falling and I can't help but feel pretty much excited about it. The Sky Is Falling, you see, is the latest release by indie gaming and retro remaking heroes Ovine by Design. Yes, Ovine, the same group that has already given us such freeware gems as Ultimate Bruce Lee, Rosslyn Chapel and the Dan Dare remake, has gone and released their brand new game for iOS and Android. And at less than $1.00 it's still practically free.

The Sky Is Falling is a beautiful retro-inspired offering that requires reflexes and quick thinking. You can (and should) either grab the iPhone version or the Android version. Oh, and here's the trailer:

Artfully Framed iOS Announced

As I've already mentioned over at Gnome's Lair, I've joined Kyttaro Games, a brand new indie game development group, and am already working on several gaming projects. Chief among them is none other than the iPhone twitch-arcade offering Artfully Framed. Follow the previous link and find out more about it and its unique, inspired by them great modern artists look. Oh, and you can keep up-to-date with all the Artfully Framed news both via facebook and the Kyttaro Games twitter account.

The Humble Bundle for Android

In a brilliant and utterly unexpected move the Humble Indie Bundle decided to give Android gamers a chance at playing some of the best games on their phones for a price that they themselves will choose. Yes, the famous pay-what-you-want bundle lets you grab four excellent games (Anomaly, Osmos, Edge and World of Goo) for any price you'd care to mention. What's more, you'll also get the games for you Mac, PC and/or Linux computer, while simultaneously supporting charity. Go play!

Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land

We are definitely living through strange aeons and the stars are apparently right, so, uhm, what better way to celebrate the rise of the Old Ones than by grabbing the freshly released Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land? It is, after all,  a deeply Lovecraftian WWI turn-based strategy offering with strong RPG elements and amazing graphics that has been developed for both the iPad and the iPhone.  

Ur-Quan Masters Android

Star Control II is, by far, the best sci-fi action strategy hybrid ever released and one of the few games set in space to actually feature an engaging plot and an interesting setting. Now, as most of you might just already know, Star Control II (its 3DO version to be precise) has gotten itself an excellent freeware port to modern machines that went along with a name change; hence it's now generally available as Ur-Quan Masters. What's more and what you may have missed, is that Ur-Quan Masters has gotten itself further ported to Android and can now be grabbed for free from the Android Market.