Three episodes in and AppSpy's James has decided to give GEOFF - the Gaming Entertainment Online Fact Finder - a serious test: why are guns being censored on the App Store?

And is looking at a pretend gun that bad?

And why are games being treated differently to other mediums?

AND ISN'T THIS AMERICA?

On Twitter, that is. You can hang up on that call to our psychiatrists.

That's right, the 148Apps community has just hit a new milestone on Twitter, having now amassed a whopping 30,000 followers.

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30,000 is the number of people it takes to completely fill the FAU Stadium (home of the Florida Atlantic Owls football), or St. Andrew's (home of Birmingham City FC).

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So with this in mind, we're celebrating this landmark along with our friends at Pocket Gamer, PocketGamer.biz, AppSpy and beyond, over on the Best App Ever Facebook Page. Our editors and regular contributors will be documenting their five favorite apps and games of the last five years, along with their hopes for the App Store in the future.

We'd love for you to be a part of it too. Share your favorite five games, and your wishes for the store moving forward, over on the Best App Ever Facebook Wall.

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