Friday Freebie: Bakugan: Battle Brawlers online demo, Japanese PSP Demos...
...and more homemade PG iPhone goodies than you can shake a touchscreen at!
Who would have thought that there are so many ways to make dragons fight for your amusement? One whiff of a brightly coloured plastic sphere and those pugnacious mythical lizards are ready to throw down quicker than a footballer's wife after a crate of Bacardi Breezers.
The latest in a long line of Pokemon-flavoured brawlers, Bakugan: Battle Brawlers is making its way to the DS very soon. In anticipation of this, the Bakugan website has a fancy schmancy online demo of the card-based battler for prospective fans to try out.
It's not an exact mock up of the incoming DS version, but the basic mechanics are exactly the same. There's also a snap mini-game to play, plus some wallpapers and a screensaver. So if you fancy getting your dragon taming skills in shape - and, let's face it, who doesn't? - your next stop should be the Bakugan website.
On PSP this week we're going Japanese demo crazy. Yes, we know what you're thinking: what's new? But this week, we're really losing ourselves in games we could never hope to understand.
The fantastic PSPDemo.org houses a library of Japanese PSP demos that have slipped past us previously among plenty of the ones we have already covered. There are a good few English speaking ones in there too, though, and everything is helpfully organised by genre, making for breezy browsing.
As for iPhone, we have our usual triumvirate of The Trawler Report, The Freebie Focus and the iPhone gaming podcast. But it's also a good idea to head over to the Lite section of the iPhone forums, which is steadily growing with a catalogue of iPhone demo delights to check out.
The other big freebie news this week is the launch of Quotestars, our new weekly feature in which the wittiest/best informed among you have the chance to win a £5 iTunes gift voucher for posting comments on the main site and in the forums with a registered PG account.
Don't say we're not good to you. Check back next week via the 'Track It!' button for more of the same.