So anyway, back to videogames. A gold spotter's badge goes out to WoS-approved Antipodean correspondent Gabe McGrath for picking up on this little gem, which is going free (normally $16) until Monday 26th July. And it's not even an iPod game!

It's called Totally Tiny Arcade, it's for the PC, and it's an extremely cute minigame compendium reliving the 1980s glory days of the video arcade. You take the role of Joystick Johnny, a character so authentically 80s he wears his baseball cap the right way round while he's listening to his Walkman.

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Regular viewers of WoSblog will know that there are dozens of temporary promotions every day on the App Store in which games which normally cost money temporarily go free. But we're not going to talk about those today.

Because there are also thousands of games which are always free. We're NOT talking about Lite versions or limited demos, but full complete games which, for one reason or another, their developers have decided to make free – WITHOUT stuffing them full of irritating AdMob adverts. (Unless specifically mentioned, all these games are totally ad-free.)

Here, then, in no particular order, are 50 of the best. If you've just bought an iPod Touch or an iPhone or an iPad, start here.

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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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