Galak-Z is coming to mobile devices next year, developer 17-bit announced today. How does a twitchy action game work with a touch screen? We’ll have to wait and see, but Galak-Z: Variant Mobile will apparently be heavily modified to work without a controller. Read more

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Activision announces Skylanders Battlecast, a card battler for iOS and Android—basically mobile Skylanders with collectible cards instead of figurines, and Pokémon-style battles, either offline or online. There’s a trailer above, and the game itself should be out next year.

Hitman GO was one of last year’s most surprising games—who thought a mobile Hitman game would be so interesting, so elegant? It’s why I’m excited for Lara Croft GO, which Square Enix just announced will arrive on iOS and Android on August 27. Read more

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