The best deals of the week in handheld and mobile - August 14
Cheap games? Yes please!
Welcome to our weekly round-up of the best deals in pocket gaming. As ever, we've got some bargain picks for you that will be difficult to resist.
It works like this: each week we bring the best deals in handheld gaming, predominantly covering the latest discounts for iOS and Android gamers.
We also cover a few deals on smartphones themselves, as well as a selection of handheld offers. Basically if it's portable and cheap, we're looking out for it.
iOS gamesThere are lots of half-forgotten or even overlooked gems in our iOS deal round-up this week. Now's a perfect time to catch up.
- Colorcube for free (was 99p) - download
- Speedball 2 Evolution for 99p (was £1.99) - buy
- Lost Portal for £1.99 (was £2.99) - buy
- Costume Quest for 99p (was £2.99) - buy
- Impossible Road for £1.99 (was £2.99) - buy
- Super Nano Jumpers for 99p (was £1.99) - buy
Our Android selection includes some big hitters you'll almost certainly have heard of - plus some stylish indie gems you may not have.
- Retsnom for 79p (was £2.39) - buy
- DuckTales: Remastered for £1.79 (was £4.59) - buy
- Linia for free (was £1.69) - download
- Minecraft: Pocket Edition for 99p (was £2.99) - buy
- Plants vs. Zombies for 10p (was 79p) - buy
- Epic Little War Game for £1.19 (was £4.99) - buy
The Moto E4 Plus is another of Motorola's / Lenovo's highly affordable, tidily put together smartphones. But perhaps its stand-out component is a whopping 5000mAh battery, which enables it to last for a full two days in between charges.
- Motorola Moto E4 Plus for £125 (£35 off) - buy from Vodafone
We've got a couple of exciting pre-orders for you this week. Rayman Legend is a simply brilliant 2D platformer that's positively brimming with energy and glorious hand-drawn graphics. This is a good pre-order price for the forthcoming Switch edition, which could well be the perfect platform for the game.
Elsewhere we've got a charming-looking spinoff to the Monster Hunter series on 3DS - again available for an attractive pre-order price.
- Rayman Legend Definitive Edition on Nintendo Switch for £25 (£30 elsewhere) - pre-order from Base.com
- Monster Hunter Stories on Nintendo 3DS for £28 (£40 elsewhere) - pre-order from Tesco