And I said some stuff back to them.

Because by any rational process of objective appraisal this is a terrible game, and reviewing it honestly you'd have to give it about 40% tops.

So why have I just played Slingo Supreme for about 11 hours straight? To be honest I can barely explain it, and in fact I'm not even going to try.

I'll just say that while the app's normal price of £2.99 is indefensible to the point of being laughable, the current 59p sale somehow makes it the kind of thing I feel able – nay, obliged in the name of integrity – to recommend, even while acknowledging that it's total rubbish. Make sense of that.

Slightly startlingly, GamesTM magazine reaches its 100th issue this month. It would seem we all really ARE that old.

As you'd expect, the 100th issue indulges in some retrospective pondering over the state of the games industry during the mag's existence, but it was an unremarked inclusion in the nostalgia trip that I found really striking.

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WoSblog speaks, and within 30 days the games industry obeys.

THIS IS ACCEPTABLE.

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New Arcade aficionados will already know that one of my favourite games of the last couple of years has been the splendid Pixeljunk Racers on PS3. Well, now it's on the iPod, except this time it's about furry prehistoric elephants, and it's free for the next month.

Wooly Racers [sic] is perfect 60-second highscore-challenge fodder, ideally suited to the format, and ad-free, so deciding whether to download it or not shouldn't be the hardest of "tusks" (tasks)!!! Go and do it while I shoot myself.

I tuned in to BBC3 last night hoping to watch some hot rock'n'roll action from the Reading Festival, but even though there was nothing in the Sky EPG about a programme change, the coverage seemed to have been replaced by a live set from fat middle-aged Canadian comedian Glenn Wool.

OR HAD IT? I just can't tell.

(Left: Glenn Wool. Right: Guns'n'Roses.)

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Whenever we've previously examined the contentious issue of App Store pricing, people have always tried to find excuses to dispute what seems to be a pretty inescapable conclusion from the evidence – namely the simple fact that selling apps dirt-cheap almost always generates far more money than charging higher prices.

I'd love to see anyone try to make the argument after today.

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Looks much more like this:

You can visit this magical land via the WoSblog Free App O'The Day, which is the excellent Crazy Test. It's the closest Wario Ware clone yet seen on the iPod and it's top fun even before you get to the bagpipe-playing minigame.

Absolutely no actual Scottish people were harmed during the making of this game, as far as I know.

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I should be annoyed about this – because I had the idea about six months ago and hadn't got round to doing anything about it – but I'm too pleased to care. Because the screenshot below will look very familiar to fans of Stu's Excellent World Of Pocketeers.

And the reason it does is that, fantastically, someone else already appears to be converting all the Pocketeers to iPod games.

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Unfathomably, not everyone always agrees with WoSblog's informed and thoughtful assessments and analyses of the economics of the App Store.

In the interests of scrupulous balance and fairness, then, let's give some of those with opposing (trans: wrong) views a platform for a change.

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We soon will be.

(While pondering the intriguing semantics of the lyrics, natch.)

(Via John X.)

And the victim is the good character of the Scottish people, at the brutal hands of the second-most offensive game I've ever seen on the App Store.

I SHALL NOW ENNUMERATE THE WAYS IN WHICH THIS GAME OUTRAGES ME.

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These are really quite something.

Posted mainly as an excuse to link to Newsnet Scotland, which is vital ongoing reading for anyone with any interest in events in North Britain generally, in the case of the "Lockerbie bomber", or simply in the BBC's increasingly open disregard of the impartiality laws which are supposed to govern its conduct.

Alert viewer "Xeethra" uncovers this terrific minigame gem:

Morplee is a brilliant multitasking take on Wario Ware, in which you have to battle through about 30 microgames in 60 seconds while also defending the Earth from invaders. Three games are visible at any one time and all are "live", so you can pick whichever one – or part of one – is to your best advantage. (You'll figure out what that means when you play.)

Current WoSblog highscore: 3020. Go!

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