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Pick of the Week - MacBreak Weekly #297

Press cutting added by Ste Pickford on Tue, 8 May 2012

Through the magic of twitter we were alerted to the MacBreak Weekly netcast video blog, where Jason Snell, editor of Macworld, was kind enough to name Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint as his pick of the week. The whole netcast is a great watch, but if you ...

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Guardian article about the ZX Spectrum

Press cutting added by Ste Pickford on Mon, 23 Apr 2012

I was interviewed briefly over the phone for this article in the Technology Blog of UK newspaper / website The Guardian, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the release of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It should have been John doing the interview really, as...

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Prototype on Retro Remakes

Press cutting added by Ste Pickford on Fri, 6 Apr 2012

The nice people over on RetroRemakes.com have picked up on the new prototype of I Sent My Monkey To The Moon, contained within version 2.0 of Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint on iOS. Our touch-screen play control demo reminds them of our mid-1980s 8-bit Ma...

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Prorotypes in Edge

Press cutting added by Ste Pickford on Fri, 6 Apr 2012

Our announcement about the new Prototypes included in version 2.0 of Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint for iOS is picked up as a news story by Edge Online.

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Prototypes on Pocket Gamer

Press cutting added by Ste Pickford on Fri, 6 Apr 2012

Pocket Gamer pick up on our news story about the Prototypes included in version 2.0 of Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint for iOS.

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App of the Day - Eurogamer

Press cutting added by Ste Pickford on Sat, 31 Mar 2012

A lovely write up on the Eurogamer website, about version 2.0 of Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint for iOS, where we're named App of the Day because "the Pickfords have released a wonderfully generous update". Eurogamer points out that "This smart and unusu...

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Modern Classic?

Press cutting added by Ste Pickford on Wed, 28 Mar 2012

A lovely write up about Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint from the guys over at Hookshot Inc, a smashing new blog site in the mould of Rock Paper Shotgun, but for downloadable games, which rather flatteringly describes our game as a 'modern classic'. I li...

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BAFTA fallout

Press cutting added by Ste Pickford on Wed, 28 Mar 2012

We had a great night at the BAFTAs, where Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint was nominated in the Mobile & Handheld category. We didn't expect to win, but as we got to the awards being announced, we had that tingling feeling that we just might... We did...

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Design student discusses Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint

Press cutting added by Ste Pickford on Wed, 28 Mar 2012

Here's a nice little write up of Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint, by a game design student, talking about the way we used the physical shape of the iOS device to inspire some of the game mechanics in Magnetic Billiards. He's talking about the iPad specifi...

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5/5 review - iPhoneTiny

Press cutting added by Ste Pickford on Thu, 1 Mar 2012

Another ace review for Magnetic Billiards, this time from fantastic twitter-based micro review site iPhoneTiny. The review is less than 140 characters, so I won't waffle on about it.

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