Podgamer -- game reviews and features for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, except not rubbish

About

Podgamer is a site we made because we thought all the existing iPod/iPhone/iPad gaming sites were rubbish. We hope that you like it, or that you die painfully. If for some reason you’d like to talk to us about it (Podgamer, not your painful death), the best place to go is the Podgamer forum.

If you’d like to advertise on the site, or contact us with regard to getting your game covered, you can get in touch privately via our contact page. We also have Twitter and RSS feeds if you can’t bear to wait a single extra second for news of new features, reviews, Hitler cartoons, &c.

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Pod people

We are some people. Specifically these people:

RevStu
A hypnotically old man with an attention span shredded by 30 years of playing videogames, realising far too late that he’d wasted his life. Now bases his reviews entirely on reading the App Store blurb in order to save what little time he may have left, so if your game description features the words “accelerometer”, “rotate”, “multitouch”, “shake”, “addicting” or “stunts”, or if it plays in landscape mode but you’ve done all the screenshots in portrait mode, it’s not going to be your day. Follow RevStu on Twitter.

Craig Grannell
If Craig Grannell had a WWE wrestling name, it would be “Craig Grannell”. Inexplicably likes awful games like Frenzic and Eliss, and hates Fruit Ninja, so his reviews should absolutely not be trusted under any circumstances. Follow Craig on Twitter.

Nathan Grayson
Plucky overseas contributor to roughly everything, Grayson excitedly signed on to Podgamer as the next big thing in electro-mags after being tragically misinformed by a drunk he met by some bins who’d confused us with Bins & Drunks Monthly or something. Grayson’s punishing international schedule means we often don’t hear from him until he suddenly surfaces to file another brilliant feature with all the spelling gone wrong, but we usually just assume he’s been shot again because of living in Texas. Has not yet realised we’ve been calling him Grayson because of the Cholmondley-Warner sketches, so don’t tell him if you read this page. Follow Grayson on Twitter.

J Nash
It’s J Nash. If you attempt to call J Nash a (“Bames bournalist” — Ed) you will be stabbed.

Help! What do numbers mean?

We mark conceivably out of 10 (except RevStu who no longer believes in scores and expects you to infer a mark from his general tone, body language and the number of times he uses the word “morons”). Unlike almost everyone in the world, we believe that when review scores are used they should populate the full range from 1 to 10. Accordingly, and for other reasons which may become clear, you should definitely NOT expect all our reviews to clump around scores of 7 and 8 like everyone else’s do.

If we’ve done our jobs properly, when Podgamer dissolves in hideous acrimony and vows of bloody revenge unto the grave (currently scheduled for three-and-a-half weeks in) we will have marked roughly the same number of games 10/10 as we did 2/10, because otherwise the whole idea of a numerical scale makes NO SENSE AT ALL.