Goal Club: 24 hours to go

Posted in football, games on June 10th, 2010 by RevStu

There's just over one day left to get your picks in for Earth's finest World Cup sweepstake game.

Why wait? Click the banner!

iPod freebie: Pinball Dreams!

Posted in free stuff, games, iOS on June 10th, 2010 by RevStu

It's pinball! It's dreamy! It's Pinball Dreams!

And now it's free! (One day only.) Hurry! Hurry quickly!

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The apps they don’t want you to have

Posted in free stuff, games, iOS on June 10th, 2010 by RevStu

Sadly, while Apple have fixed many of the traditional irritating failings of the videogames industry, they still perpetrate the idiocy of region-locking. For no acceptable reason, a significant number of apps are still restricted to certain territories, even when they're free.

The most annoying aspect of the policy is that users of the US App Store alone can take advantage of the promo codes that many developers issue to give away some free copies of their games to alert users via forums and such. Fortunately, it turns out that it's really easy to get round it.

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iPod freebie: :Shift: (slight return)

Posted in free stuff, games, iOS on June 10th, 2010 by RevStu

The stupid punctuation still isn't my fault.

Gratuitous colons aside, though, ("Shift" – Ed) is (still) one of the iPod's finest platform games, and you can get it today (again) for no pounds and no pence, because once more it's gone free for 24 hours.

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