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One of our jobs here at Pocket Gamer is to sieve through the hundreds of apps that hit the App Store and Google Play every single day, and unearth those glittering gems. Lately, though, we've been giving you the chance to have YOUR say, too. Basically, we've been giving you the opportunity to tell us your favourite game from a shortlist of the week's best releases. This week's votes have bee...

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Pocket Gamer - t's high summer in 2013, but I'm going to put down my Pimms and rewind to those icy battles between the Germans and the Russians across the Ukrainian killing fields of 1941. I'm going to do this via the relatively safe medium of HandyGames's freemium strategy game 1941 Frozen Front, which renders the slaughter of the Eastern campaign in turn-based hex-grid fashion. Join me for the next seven days as I assess the situation on the front.

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Pocket Gamer - The DS definitely has more than its fair share of match-three titles, and it finally looks as if they're making the jump across to the 3DS. While they may well be available in droves, only the best examples manage to find the right balance of accessibility and depth. It also helps to mix up the traditional match-three formula, which is exactly what 4 Elements does.

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Pocket Gamer - Getting to grips with Cytus Lambda, the new PlayStation Mobile rhythm-action game from Rayark, reminded me of learning the ropes in an altogether different game. It wasn't Parappa The Rappa, Rhythm Paradise, Elite Beat Agents or any of the other well-known rhythm-action games we've seen over the years. It was squash.

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Pocket Gamer - The reality TV show Big Brother ran on Channel 4 for a decade. It started straightforwardly enough, with nondescript contestants who just sort of mooched around in a house for a while, but over the years its producers felt compelled to keep the format alive with increasingly eccentric housemates and elaborate twists.

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Pocket Gamer - There was a period of about a week when I worked as a waiter, and it was one of the very worst weeks of my life. I'm always in awe of restaurant staff, because serving food quickly and politely to customers that - in my experience - run the gamut from rude to moronic, is a skill I can't possibly hope to learn.

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Pocket Gamer - Maximus is a side-scrolling brawler - a genre that several developers have tried to re-ignite over the years, to no effect. It's not entirely clear why brawlers fell out of favour. It could be that they don't work as well on control pads as they did on big, greasy, thumpable arcade controllers. Or it could be that their limited replayability rendered them unappealing to savvy modern gamers with plenty of choice.

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This week, the App Store turned five years old. What was once a tiny digital marketplace filled with overpriced arcade ports is now a staggering video game superstore. And what better way to celebrate the App Store's quality than the launch of epic console spin-off Deus Ex: The Fall, or charming stealth puzzler Tiny Thief. Join us as we look back on the last seven days of Pocket Gamer, as...

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This week, the App Store turned five years old. What was once a tiny digital marketplace filled with overpriced arcade ports is now a staggering video game superstore. And what better way to celebrate the App Store's quality than the launch of epic console spin-off Deus Ex: The Fall, or charming stealth puzzler Tiny Thief. Join us as we look back on the last seven days of Pocket Gamer, as...