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London, UK - 4th October 2011 - Steel Media Ltd
If you were wondering what the best reviewed iPhone games and apps on the web last month were, here's the Quality Index ( Qi) round-up for September to fill you in.
Qualityindex.com boasts over 100,000 scores from the world's best websites, such as 148Apps, Pocket Gamer, and Tapscape, and uses a unique metric to create a single definitive score for each iPhone title.
Here are September 2011's top selections...
Quality Index Top 10 iPhone games September 2011
GAME NAME PUBLISHER Qi
1 Jetpack Joyride Halfbrick Studios 9.1
2 DrawRace 2 Chillingo 9.0
3 Samurai Bloodshow Sega 8.4
4 Muffin Knight Angry Mob Games 8.3
5 Pocket RPG iPhone Edition Crescent Moon Games 8.3
6 Grand Prix Story Kairosoft 8.1
7 Tiny Heroes Simutronics 8.1
8 NFL Rivals NaturalMotion 7.9
9 Tiny Invaders Hogrocket 7.2
10 Frogger Decades Konami 7.0
Quality Index Top 10 iPhone apps to September 2011
APP NAME PUBLISHER Qi
1 Songkick Concerts Songkick 9.6
2 eWalletGo! Illium Software 9.6
3 Gettysburg Battle App NeoTreks 9.4
4 Alarmed Yoctoville 9.2
7 Kid Apps: 13 in 1 Pilot Fish Media 9.0
8 RateThis! CookieJar Solutions 9.0
9 Skyscanner All flights, everywhere! Skyscanner 9.0
(N.B. The monthly games chart is based on titles released and reviewed in the last month. The apps chart is based on titles released and reviewed over the last three months. Hence, this is not a cumulative chart and earlier released titles may have higher scores.)
For anyone who doubted whether Aussie studio Halfbrick could reproduce the immense success it enjoyed with Fruit Ninja on the App Store, look no further than Jetpack Joyride's position on the Qi rankings for September. That's not to suggest the rocket-propelled Barry Steakfries had it all his own way this month - RedLynx and Chillingo's highly polished line-drawing sim DrawRace 2 almost pipped Jetpack Joyride on the final bend, while the fearfully addictive Grand Prix Story couldn't quite complete a fairytale F1 finish for its Japanese constructor. Proof once more that good things come in small packages on iPhone, meanwhile, as Tiny Invaders's and Tiny Heroes's 'miniscule' names belie their big ambitions.
Picture the scene: you're the coach of a junior football team and you want to share the key in-game moments from a league match with the parents of your players as they unfold. With Timelines's Photogram app, you can circulate these pivotal passages of play to multiple people with one click, and choose from dozens of themes and backgrounds. Speaking of children, the seventh-placed Kid Apps: 13 in 1 helps moms and dads educate their offspring in the comfort of their own home via a series of interactive games, puzzles, and exercises. Did I mention it's free? Yep, there you go.
We'll continue to provide an updated listing each and every month, together with a round-up of the year. For all the up-to-date information on which games, apps, and publishers are reviewing best, head on over to the Quality Index now.
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About Steel Media
Steel Media is a leading mobile consumer technology publisher based in the UK. With a team boasting over 50 years of experience in consumer and contract publishing, the company currently publishes Europe's biggest mobile and handheld gaming website PocketGamer.co.uk, the leading mobile games industry portal PocketGamer.biz, and consumer friendly mobile entertainment site PocketPicks.co.uk. Steel Media also runs the iPhone Alliance and Smartphone Alliance advertising networks, syndicates content to mobile operators and handset manufacturers, and provides a range of editorial, design, and other contract publishing services to a number of leading blue chip brands.
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