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[Update] The PG Readers' iOS and Android Game of the Week - your vote needed

Hooks, Pinball, or Worms? (And the winner is...)

[Update] The PG Readers' iOS and Android Game of the Week - your vote needed
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Updated on August 12th, at 11:15: The votes have been tallied up and this week's winner is Mikey Hooks.

The game is a cheerful bite-sized platformer in which you lead the titular hero over a series of spikes, robots, and bottomless pits. All the while, you're trying to shave a precious few seconds off your time.

Simple controls and gorgeous pixel-art graphics disguise a fiendishly addictive high score chaser that's all about getting to the end of the level faster than you did last time.

The game is out right now on the App Store as a Universal app, priced £1.49 / $1.99 [buy]. It comes with an official Pocket Gamer seal of approval.

We gave it a Silver Award at review, you see, and described it as a "brilliant mix of precision and fun".

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Every week, thousands of new games hit the iOS App Store and Google Play on Android. Trying to find the diamonds in the rough is no easy task, let us assure you.

We like to think we do a pretty good job with our news articles, mid-week round-ups, expert reviews, and comprehensive features, mind.

But, now we want to know what YOU think.

Today, we're going to ask you to pick the best game that was released on iOS and Android from the past week (from the nominations below), and then we'll announce the winner in a glamorous article next Monday.

There are two places to vote. You can leave a comment at the bottom of this article. Or you can write a piece of Pocket Gamer Game of the Week fan-fiction featuring your choice and post it on a forum for all to see.

The nominations
Mikey Hooks (iPad, iPhone) Super-fast platforming sequel that's as much about beating your own times as it is about getting to the end of the level.
Worms 3 (iPad, iPhone) Turn based side-on blaster starring everyone's favourite invertebrates. A class system and game-changing playing cards keep things fresh.
Sine Mora (Android; previously on iPad, iPhone) Super-fast bullet-hell shooter that picked up a Silver Award on iOS. Now available on Android, with some extra tweaks to the troublesome controls.
Momonga Pinball Adventures (Android; previously on iPad, iPhone) A Gold Award-winning mixture of pinball and adventure that's finally available on the Google Play Store.
Harry Slater
Harry Slater
Harry used to be really good at Snake on the Nokia 5110. Apparently though, digital snake wrangling isn't a proper job, so now he writes words about games instead.