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Top Tweets: The iPhone 3GS comes out fighting...

...as do some angry X2 Football 2009 fans

Top Tweets: The iPhone 3GS comes out fighting...
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Unless you've been living in a locked safe encased in concrete for the last 12 months, then chances are you have a Twitter account. Or, if you don't, you know someone who does. You can add us to that list.

In fact, you can add us to the list of Tweeting pros, as with the passing weeks and months since we joined in with this little social experiment we have become masters of the form, deploying laser-guided shots of pocket gaming info in our own inimitable style.

This week was all about three things: the 3GS release, the iPhone 3.0 software update, and rumours concerning the future of Rockstar's GTA: Chinatown Wars. Read on for the full lowdown...




2:57 PM Jun 15th from web
Rob: Want some statistics? No? What about iPhone gaming statistics? I thought so

2:59 PM Jun 15th from web
Rob: Mecho Wars on iPhone. Did you like Advance Wars, but didn't find it French enough? Then behold

3:55 PM Jun 15th from web
Spanner: Gameloft confirms GTA: Chinatown Wars iPhone is a hoax, but how do you feel about Gangstar iPhone?

6:29 PM Jun 15th from TweetDeck
JonJ: Nintendo's unenthusiastic approach to DSiWare continues with Mario Clock and Calculator 6:59 PM Jun 15th from TweetDeck
jonj: Will Baseball Slugger: Homerun Race 3D be the first micro transactional iPhone game?

3:05 AM Jun 16th from TweetDeck
jonj: com2us confirms that Baseball Slugger will support micro-payments but not from 17th June

3:06 AM Jun 16th from TweetDeck
jonj: iPhone social networking platform fights starts now; ngmoco's Plus+ versus OpenFeint 2.0

3:06 AM Jun 16th from TweetDeck
RT @Firemint: First Real Racing update adds enhancements, fixes bugs and adds "Team Flight Control" sponsored cars 3:07 AM Jun 16th from TweetDeck
RT @ngmoco: Gamasutra talks to our newest ngmofo Simon Jeffrey about our Plus+ publishing network. 3:08 AM Jun 16th from TweetDeck
RT @Fishlabs: Nice one: John Carmack and myself on Cnet about iPhone 3GS beyond PSP

9:28 AM Jun 16th from web
Rob: Monkey on iPhone. Spanner and I both spent parts of our respective childhoods thinking we dreamed it

10:26 AM Jun 16th from TweetDeck
RT @Firemint: We [lack] fans for Facebook vanity URL (hint hint) so we improvised: ALMOST the real thing.

10:39 AM Jun 16th from TweetDeck
jonj: setting the scene for Game Horizon conference next week; surprising number of iPhone chaps going to be around

12:56 PM Jun 16th from web
Rob: Are you sufficiently excited by iPhone 3.0? Here are 10 reasons why you ought to be

4:16 PM Jun 16th from TweetDeck
jonj: Super Yum Yum 3 does the business on mobile 4:16 PM Jun 16th from TweetDeck
jonj: Zeemote already working with iPhone; neat video 4:54 PM Jun 16th from TweetDeck
jonj: beams not yet crossed in Europe but Ghostbusters iPhone out in US

5:04 PM Jun 16th from web
Rob: Should you buy an iPhone 3G S? Should I? Should she? Or he? Or, dare I ask, He?

9:08 AM Jun 17th from TweetDeck
jonj: Chillingo has Rolando-killer in pipe says director; better looking than the gold-plated orchid 9:40 AM Jun 17th from web
iPhone's My Brute lands 8/10 punches in Pocket Gamer review. "A fun and entertaining representation of virtual kung fu" 10:56 AM Jun 17th from TweetDeck
RT @Firemint: Real Racing now has a Facebook app with a personal leaderboard for you and your friends' global ranks

11:16 AM Jun 17th from web Gameloft's Guillemot: 'We're not in the volume business: we're in the experience business'

12:25 PM Jun 17th from TweetDeck
jonj: only 18 DS hands on previews still to go from E3

1:56 PM Jun 17th from web
Fraser: iPhone 3.0 update nears. But will Apple unleash it a few hours early, like it did with the App Store?

6:10 PM Jun 17th from web
Tracy: Real Racing like a refreshing bottle of Coke 6:22 PM Jun 17th from web
iPhone 3.0 software update is now live, and Pocket Gamer has it installed. So awesome

9:49 PM Jun 17th from TweetDeck
jonj: Pocket Gamer's first impressions of the 3.0 OS release 9:52 AM Jun 18th from web
Prey Invasion iPhone review

9:55 AM Jun 18th from web
Rob: Want to know which games already take advantage of iPhone 3.0?
12:20 PM Jun 18th from web
Rob: Vaguely inferred possibility of Monkey Island on iPhone. iBrush Threepwood is a great pun

5:49 PM Jun 18th from web
Rob: Edge is back on the App Store after copyright dispute. I believe I'll copyright the word 'niche'
9:39 AM Jun 19th from TweetDeck
RT @chillingo: Chillingo beats ngmoco, freeverse and gameloft to Game of the year 2009

9:40 AM Jun 19th from TweetDeck
RT @ngmoco: MJ: Rolando 2 website update: Explore the Majestic Shores and watch a video walkthrough. 10:18 AM Jun 19th from web
Rob: PopCap explains its controversial Peggle pricing policy

11:18 AM Jun 19th from web
Spanner: Flight Control lands one million downloads on the iPhone! Read all about it

11:32 AM Jun 19th from TweetDeck
jonj: Bullish Trip Hawkins says DChoc will do 100 award-winning iPhone games 2:05 PM Jun 19th from TweetDeck
jonj: the fans get angry; Pocketgamer is always biased to the big money companies

4:27 PM Jun 19th from web
Rob: RT @beamadelica: You want an iPhone 3G S unboxing? Of course you do!

4:50 PM Jun 19th from web
Spanner: Luc Bernard's Mecho Wars having a 'Peggle sale' this weekend on the iPhone. Get it cheap 10:13 AM Jun 20th from web
Spanner: Officially licensed C64 emulator for the iPhone exclusively revealed at Pocket Gamer