Best new mobile games on iOS and Android August 2024 round-up [Video]

A battle between official and unofficial Olympics game has a clear winner in this month’s batch of new smartphone gaming apps.

While console and PC gamers soldier their way through the traditional summer games drought, on mobile the schedule’s as busy as ever. From the face-off between the official Olympics™ Go! Paris 2024 and Netflix’s rival Sports Sports to the baffling re-emergence of Godus, and the arrival of retro-fest Antstream Arcade on Apple devices, it’s another big month for touchscreen gaming.

iOS & Android, Free (nWay)After kicking Sega’s licence into touch, nixing future instalments of the console war-defusing Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series, what we get instead is the officially licensed Olympics™ Go! Paris 2024.

Starting with a small and distinctly offbeat set of events, you gradually unlock more sports as you compete in its uniformly dull, screen tapping fixtures, set against blandly competent backdrops.

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