Peggle now available for iPhone

Mike Schramm - you're a gutless wimp for not being man enough to respond.

Deafening sound of tumbleweed round here!

Mike? Want to break the silence?

LOL @ all the nerd rage in this thread. If you don't like it, just skip it and go to the next post, stop reading TUAW all together, or post something constructive, like your own review, or links to other reviews.

It's annoying reading QQ that has nothing to do with the topic, and offers no alternatives. Issuing 'challenges'? Really?

In fact, Mike Shramm... why aren't you responding? Don't tell us that bloggers don't read the comments on their own posts! Defend yourself! Too ashamed to have been caught with your pants down?

Here's a challenge, Mike: tell us with a straight face that this posting did NOT recycle text derived from the game's producers or their agents. No, I'm not asking you to certify that you do actually like the game, just like those cute kids on the telly ads so adore their breakfast cereals. I'm challenging you to state unequivocally, on honour of your future credibility, that this piece wasn't just a lazy rewrite of text produced by someone with a vested interest. Did you, or did you not, write every word from scratch, based solely on your own original ideas and forms of expression?

Have the guts man. Chicken?

We're listening Mike....

No THJ, the general outrage at this insulting blog posting isnt at the blog writer's opinions. It's at his lack of them.

It's such a naked piece of unadulterated PR spin, as an earlier commenter said, almost certainly just cut-and-pasted from a press release without even troubling to edit it. I'm a journalist myself, and I recognise puff pieces like this instantly.

This isn't blogging. It's PR. Personally I'd be surprised if it wasn't paid for, since it has all the worst hallmarks. Personally I feel there should be a duty of disclosure. But of course it's true that blogging doesn't have to adhere to the same ethical practices as print journalism.

So instead all we can do is express our disgust at Mike and TUAW in general. If they had a shred of conscience they'd be issuing an abject apology for the insult.

Oh, and incidentally, even if this IS a good game, this sort of thing leaves such a bad taste in my mouth that I'm damned if I'll download the thing.

Ha! just bought and played the first round, this is fun.

Sidenote: complaining about opinions of blog writers is like complaining that the Pope only represents Catholics.

Never played Peggle before, so I downloaded the free trial. Doesn't work. After being warned I only have 1 hour of free play time left, clicking "Play" results in "FATAL ERROR Failed to load image: images/sunglow"

Sorry, not impressed. (And one HOUR of free play? Talk about gracious.)

I'm a huge fan of Peggle and thought they could have done a better job on the graphics. It looks like a shotty port (even though that's what I was expecting)

It's irrelevant whether the app is good or not. And it's not even about whether there are backhanders going on or not. This is just disgracefully poor reporting. Yes, it's their blog and they can write what they like. But shame on them nonetheless.

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