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Pocket Gamer

Pocket Gamer
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The March 2009 issue of Your guide to... mobile games by Pocket Gamer
Categories Video games
Publisher Vodafone, T-Mobile, O2
Company Steel Media
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Website pocketgamer.co.uk

Pocket Gamer is a video game website that focuses on handheld video games. The site launched in 2005 and is published by Steel Media. The publication covers all major portable and mobile gaming formats, including iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone, PlayStation Vita and the various versions of the Nintendo DS, and was one of the first to actively cover the iPhone and iPod Touch gaming markets. As well as the website, the publication hands out awards for handheld games to recognize them in several categories. The British newspaper The Guardian periodically syndicates a list of recommended mobile video games from Pocket Gamer in their own newspaper, especially the list of recommended games for each month.

Launched in April 2005 with the sub-title 'play as you go', Pocket Gamer set out to provide professional editorial coverage of mobile and handheld gaming formats which they saw as the future of gaming. At launch the site focused on mobile phones (java and brew), the Nokia N-Gage, Nintendo's Game Boy series as well as the then newly launched Nintendo DS. They also mentioned PDAs and handheld console pretenders such as Gizmondo and the Tapwave Zodiac. The Sony PSP was added to the site soon after and as traffic grew Pocket Gamer became a barometer for the portable games industry, tracing the rise and fall of various platforms until the arrival of the iPhone in June 2007 which, thanks to the subsequent launches of the iPod Touch in September 2007 and the App Store in July 2008, grew to increasingly dominate the editorial agenda. More recently, the site has added Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Vita, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, MeeGo and Palm to the roster of covered formats.


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