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The Pocket Gamer Report: Waiting For Cupertino

The App Store approvals process has been a source of controversy since it first came into being. In the last year Apple has ...

By Pocket Gamer Legacy AuthorAugust 28, 2009

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The Pocket Gamer Report: It?s the SRP, Stupid

A few years ago I started to learn German, partly to demonstrate to myself (unsuccessfully) that I was as clever as my girlfriend, ...

By Pocket Gamer Legacy AuthorAugust 22, 2009

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The Pocket Gamer Report: How Sony Stole Christmas 2010

By Autumn 2009, most who took an interest had written off Sony as a competitor in the handheld gaming race. The device had ...

By Pocket Gamer Legacy AuthorAugust 15, 2009

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The Pocket Gamer Report: In Defense of Apple

Last week, I argued in the Pocket Gamer Report that Apple’s dominance in the market has led to the company behaving in imperious ...

By Pocket Gamer Legacy AuthorAugust 8, 2009

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The Pocket Gamer Report: iPhone Pirates Ahoy!

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Frankly, Lord Acton’s famous phrase has enjoyed far more popularity than it deserves. Despite being neither elegant ...

By Pocket Gamer Legacy AuthorAugust 1, 2009

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The Pocket Gamer Report: How Mobile Gets it Backwards

Thursday was a good day. I woke up to discover that The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition was suddenly available on the ...

By Pocket Gamer Legacy AuthorJuly 25, 2009

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There Are no Sequels

I have a confession to make. Although I work for Pocket Gamer, until I visited a video game exhibition at some hip new ...

By Pocket Gamer Legacy AuthorJuly 18, 2009

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How Sony Lost the Game

Sony’s PlayStation brand dominated the video game world for a decade. It started as a joint venture with Nintendo, but when Nintendo’s Howard ...

By Pocket Gamer Legacy AuthorJuly 11, 2009

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A Brief History of the Elusive PSPhone

Before 2008 and the iPhone App Store, mobile gaming was always a bottle of champagne waiting for the cork to pop. Several manufacturers ...

By Pocket Gamer Legacy AuthorJuly 4, 2009

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3.0 and 3GS: Apple’s Two-Pronged Offensive

Every week when the time comes to write this column, the Pocket Gamer team goes through the same thought process: 1. What’s Apple ...

By Pocket Gamer Legacy AuthorJune 27, 2009

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Anarchy and the App Store

From chaos springs order. As instances like Conway’s Game of Life, the complex geopolitics of EVE Online, and indeed every living organism and ...

By Pocket Gamer Legacy AuthorJune 20, 2009

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Ring Ring, or Bling Bling?

No one ever asks if your new mobile phone is quad band, or if its reception is any good, or whether it actually ...

By Pocket Gamer Legacy AuthorJune 13, 2009

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