Well, that's that, then. The lowest-scoring World Cup of the modern era is won by the lowest-scoring team to ever lift the trophy. Spain's tactic of boring the opposition into submission by spending 80% of their time rolling the ball back and forth along the halfway line paid off and they became champions of the world by scoring a miserable EIGHT goals in seven games.

(By comparison, Brazil's victorious 2002 side managed to find the net 18 times in the same number of matches.)

A grim final featuring a record 13 bookings and – amazingly – only one sending-off for a brutal, ugly Netherlands side put a judge's black cap on the tournament, but it wasn't all bad. Here's my diary.

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…is ULTIMATE POKER TIMER!

If you ever find yourself hosting a poker game, and you've got an iPhone or iPod Touch, why not make your life a lot easier with Ultimate Poker Timer?

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(I don't speak German, okay?)

Especially alert viewers may recall two weeks ago, when WoSblog lavished praise on the rather lovely free time-trial racer You Cruise By Mazda MX-5. Man, those were the days, eh? But imagine my surprise this week when I stumbled into what appeared to be exactly the same game again.

And as it turned out, that was only the start.

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I had a really irritating day yesterday, for personal and wholly trivial reasons that we don't need to go into here.

By fortuitous chance, however, the App Store stepped in with three rather fine anger-themed games, which helped me vent all my BOILING RAGE without murdering very many people, or spending any money.

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And possibly the entire internet. And most assuredly the only time I'll ever say anything like that relating in any way to World Of Warcraft.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10543100.stm

Also: blimey, that's fast service.

…is Meteor Blitz. Normally £1.79, today you can grab it for just 59p. And you should totally do that.

It's basically an unashamed tribute to the wonderful Super Stardust HD on PSN, and plays very similarly, with multiple upgradeable weapon paths and lots and lots of asteroids and space baddies. Control is very well thought-out, and while it could perhaps be a little tougher, even if you only play through it once it's a snip at the price. (And most people like their games a bit easier than I do anyway.) One from the top drawer.

Over recent months, WoSblog has railed on more than one occasion about the sort of idiots who constantly try to force App Store prices higher, because they don't understand the people who buy stuff in the App Store.

But it's always been hard to definitively refute the argument that cheap apps make less money, because there haven't been many opportunities to compare oranges with oranges.

There is now.

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A roundup of 10 quickie iPod mini-reviews.

More to follow, because it turns out there are thousands of these things.

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Four very different kinds of racing game, all free this weekend.

Whatever your preferred method of zooming around on roads, there should be something here for you.

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Come on, Scottish Tim!

Doubtless to commemorate the Wimbledon quarter-final appearance of Britain's Andy Murray from Britain, neo-retro microgamesmiths Poppy have made King Of Tennis free for this week.

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