The Pocket Players

It’s being hotly debated on the forums that the Game Boy Advance (especially the GBA SP) is possibly the best portable console crafted by mortals. So, I decided to spend this Throwback Thursday reviewing an original action RPG that perfectly shows off the system’s capabilities – Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2. [...]

Sony announced the third PlayStation Mobile game that’s going free for a week, and it’s Cubixx, a modern spin on a puzzle/action game you’re probably familiar with. [...]

Every so often a game that just screams “Japan” appears on our radar, grabbing our attention like a foreign animal at the zoo. Sometimes, games like these come stateside and we wonder why we are drawn to them in the first place. Such is the case with the eShop exclusive puzzle game, Tokyo Crash Mobs for the 3DS. [...]

We now officially have a forums section that you can find on the toolbar at the top of the page. I hope this will be the start of really building a Pocket Player community here. Being so brand-spanking-new, we’re going to need everyone to start posting, start making threads, and start having some fun with it!

Download the legendary Pokemon in this month’s Kaldeo event as a Wi-Fi Mystery Gift on Pokemon Black 2 / Pokemon White 2 between now and February 12, 2013. [...]

WakeUp Club is kind of an oddball app for the PS Vita, but I think it deserves a look merely for trying something I’ve never seen before. However, I can’t just review it like I would a game; I mean, you only get to use it for about a minute each day. So instead, I plan to report on my experience with this app over the course of a few weeks and see if there’s anything of interest slumbering inside this alarmingly simple free app. [...]

As a frontline soldier of Nintendo throughout the Console Wars, I never allowed myself to own a SEGA Genesis, but I always knew great pleasures lay just behind enemy lines. Shining Force was one of the most tempting titles for me at the time, but thanks to iOS (the Switzerland of the Console Wars) and Game Boy Advance, I have a chance to experience this classic strategy/RPG. [...]

Last week, Sony launched a big promotion for PlayStation Mobile offering six free games over six weeks. Well, today marks week two of the promotion, and Beats Slider is this week’s free game. [...]