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You're the best around! No one's ever gonna keep you down!

On This Episode:

Carter and an esteemed panel of regular Portable Podcast guests share their opinions on the best games of 2011, their most underappreciated game, and their favorite pre-2011 game that they're still playing.

Who We Are:

Host: Carter Dotson

Guest: Brett Nolan, AppAddict.net

Guest: Colin Walsh, Celsius Game Studios

Guest: Blake Grundman, 148Apps & Games Are Evil

Music:

"Beatnes7 (Theme to The Portable Podcast)" by The Eternal - Download on iTunes here:

"Nanocarp" by The Eternal

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Apps Mentioned on This Episode:

This week, August 22-26, Starbucks introduced a new promotion that features free app downloads for its ka-jillion coffee drinking-customers, similar to the company's method of distributing free song downloads. 148Apps writer Carter Dotson notes, "What will be interesting to see the effect this has on apps offered in the promotion; Shazam Encore has jumped up to #6 in the App Store recently, which may be due to this feature. This could be due to each redeemed copy going toward the app’s sales, or it could be because the promotion is working exactly how it’s intended; by giving the app away for free, people are talking about it and recommending it, causing other people to pay for it."

Read Carter's full article on 148Apps.com.

Also, we celebrated the at-last launch of Peggle for the iPad. This PopCap gem has been a long-time coming, but writer Lisa Caplan assures it's worth the wait: "This is classic Peggle, and for fans wondering if it’s worth buying the title one more time, the short answer is yes. If, by some chance, this is a first encounter of a Peggle kind, stop reading and start downloading."

Read all of Lisa's review on 148Apps.com.

Meanwhile, the kid-friendly folks at GiggleApps reviewed Sticker Factory, an app that, as writer Amy Solomon says, "is a great choice for grade school and up, and I would not be at all surprised if kids this age do much better at this game than I, as is the case in many speed-based games that I come across."

Read more about Sticker Factory on GiggleApps.

Finally, make sure you stop by and peruse our ever-changing map of apps on our 148Apps Lists page. Whether you're interested in finding out the latest releases, or just keeping your finger on the most-popular charts, it's all accessible through one handy page.

That's it for this week! Until next time, make sure you check in with us on Facebook or via Twitter. There are always giveaways galore going out on both sites.

All we want to do is acquire your brains! It's not unreasonable, I mean no one's gonna merge with your eyes.

On This Episode:

Carter Dotson and guest co-host Blake Grundman discuss the EA acquisition of PopCap, along with new releases King of Fighters, Deathsmiles, and 9mm.

Who We Are:

Host: Carter Dotson

Guest: Blake Grundman, 148Apps

Contact The Show: Email | Twitter

Music:

"Beatnes7 (Theme to The Portable Podcast)" by The Eternal - Download on iTunes here:

"Nanocarp" by The Eternal

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Apps Mentioned in this Episode:

The App Hall of Fame (the original App Hall of Fame, not the Apple knock off) is an independent initiative launched by 148Apps that includes selection committee members from over 40 web and print publications.

Our goal is to archive the very best mobile apps by honoring only 12 applications per month. To be eligible, applications must be available for download from the App Store for at least 6 months. Applications are nominated and voted on monthly by the selection committee with the applications that get the most votes being inducted into the hall of fame.

We want you to join in on the celebration. We'll be giving away copies of the newly inducted applications to subscribers of our mailing list later this week. Subscribe now for a chance to win.

We are very proud to announce the December inductees into the App Hall of Fame:

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Skype from Skype Software S.a.r.l
Words With Friends Newtoy Inc.
Canabalt from Semi Secret Software
Netflix Netflix, Inc.

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Drop 7 from Area/Code
Zen Bound 2 from Secret Exit Ltd.
Space Invaders Infinity Gene from TAITO Corporation
N.O.V.A. from Gameloft

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Jet Car Stunts from True Axis
Boxcar from appremix
Peggle from PopCap Games, Inc.
iBlast Moki from Godzilab

I must break you...and your high score records.

On This Episode:

Carter talks with Brett Nolan of AppAddict about the games they've been playing lately, and some upcoming titles that intrigue them.

Carter talks with Philippe Longère of Moving Player about his company's new Bulkypix-published MMORPG, Yslandia.

Who We Are:

Host: Carter Dotson

Guest: Brett Nolan, AppAddict

Guest: Philippe Longère, Moving Player

Music:

"Beatnes7 (Theme to The Portable Podcast)" by The Eternal - Download on iTunes here:

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Apps Mentioned on This Episode:

Peggle is probably one of the most time consuming games that I've ever played. My first run in with it was during the download period of the Orange Box through Steam on my PC. In anticipation for the games to be unlocked, we were treated to a Valve specific version of the game that honestly kept me so occupied, I think I continued to play it instead of switching over to the other games that I had just plopped $50 down for.