Is free again today, and is ("Little Racers" – Ed) Pro Rally.

You still don't need me to explain what it's about, right?

Recently we took a look at the theory and practice of videogame review scoring (if you weren't here at the time, it was even MORE exciting than it sounds), and arrived at some sensible and rational conclusions,as usual.

Not long afterwards, alert WoSblog viewer Steve Hogarty – a former editor of recently-deceased and generally well-regarded UK games mag PC Zone – sent me a link to an interesting thing.

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Currently going for free in the App Store: Sensible Soccer Skills.

It's not the worst game in the world or anything, but… y'know.

Guess the surprising outcome!

(Click below for the surprising outcome.)

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Because sometimes even the most grown-up and respectable of publications, such as The Guardian, let completely gormless idiots do them, devaluing the whole concept and embarrassing all concerned in the process.

DoDonPachi Resurrection is in fact one of the finest games ever released on the iPod/iPhone, but subjective opinions on quality aren't the issue here. (Although so far DDPR has an average App Store review rating of 90%, and it's only that low because some tool couldn't run it and gave it 1/5.)

What's more important is the complete ignorance with which someone has been allowed to denigrate a tremendously well-executed game, while implying – entirely inaccurately – that they have some idea what they're talking about.

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This is what Muse would sound like if they weren't such a bunch of weedy Dungeons & Dragons nerds.

("Dirtier than my browsing history" – Someone off the internet.)

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And I said some stuff back to them. Hilarity ensued.

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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