Chances are most of our readers are aware of a morally reprehensible decision taken by the software store Handango regarding the developer account of Omnisoft, a small Pocket PC software developer….

We’ve added support for Windows Live Alerts to PocketGamer, so if you prefer to receive your news updates through MSN Messenger or your cellphone, you can add us to your list by following this link. The Windows Live website seems to be pretty unstable at the moment, so don’t be surprised if it doesn’t load….

Please accept my apologies if the site appears to be running slowly tonight - I’ve set the server to re-index a few things (OK, the entire drive…) and it’s pegging the system at 100% CPU load. Everything should be back to normal tomorrow morning. If you find things unbearably slow, please do post a comment and let me know about it, and I will see if I can find a different solution!…

I’ve decided to let the PocketGamer server handle its own DNS… however, it appears that in order to get it to work I’ve had to set the domain to use our server without having a chance to independently test it. So, if you happen to visit tomorrow and get a 404 error, we are still here and I’ll be trying desperately to fix the problem! …

You may have noticed that, once again, PocketGamer was down last night. …

If you’re reading this, it’s a good sign because it means the server is alive again. We’re currently experiencing difficulties with the mail service (in particular, the virus scanner), which is crashing and taking the server down with it….

I’m sure you’ve noticed that the number of automated bot postings on web forums is undergoing somewhat of a renaissance at the moment. We’ve always tried to keep an “open door” policy for guest posts, but it’s taking me the better part of 30 minutes every day to clean up spam items. …

Regular news posts will resume tomorrow. I’m sorry about the inconsistency over the last week or so, but my final exam is tomorrow and I’m free after that. Many thanks to Sponge for picking up the slack and my apologies to everyone for the inconvenience. If you think I’ve missed anything important, please feel free to submit it again….

Once again I’m plunged into university exams, which unfortunately means that news postings on PocketGamer are likely to suffer over the next fortnight. Please forgive any tardiness and accept my apologies for any inconvenience!…

Since the games scene is a bit slow at the moment I’d like to catch up on some of the older titles we might have missed over the years (it does happen, sadly). If you know of a game we’ve never featured on the site, please get in touch or post a reply in the Comments Thread for this news item….

I’ve increased the private message storage limit from 10 to 100 messages, as I gather that some people have been experiencing difficulties. I’m afraid I only discovered this today, and it seems that it was a default setting in vBulletin which we overlooked. My apologies for any inconvenience caused!…

Unfortunately it seems some blasted spam bots have decided to flood PG’s forums with over 50 threads in the past day. I’ve done my best to get rid of a few, but there are just too many to do by hand. As of result, we’ve had to disable guest posting for the time being. This shouldn’t have an effect on any readers, just those who wish to comment. Registering is easy, and unlike these damned bots, we won’t spam your e-mail….

Stella, the multi-platform Atari 2600 emulator has been updated to 2.2, with ports for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, GP2x, and of course, our PocketPCs….

As I’m sure you’ve noticed, the PocketGamer server has been getting increasingly unstable over the last few months. Today a system file became corrupted, taking the server down with it. Fortunately, I’ve managed to solve the problem for now, but I think that this is a possible sign that our hard disk (which now has over 33000 hours on it) might be on its way out, and hence I’m planning a move to a brand new server in the next few weeks….

I’ve noticed that we seem to be a bit short of reviewers - Eric Pankoke seems to be doing all the work! If you’d like to review Pocket PC games for the site, please do get in touch with me at david@pocketgamer.org, letting me know a bit about you and providing a short sample of your writing (100-200 words). …

I have absolutely no idea what caused the downtime last night - it looked like MySQL fell over, which then took down httpd, which was promptly followed by the suicide of Ensim’s services….

I’ve made some changes to the server in an attempt to make the site load faster, and so far they appear to have worked. However, there’s always the possibility that I’ve broken something else while doing this, so if you notice a problem and think it’s related, do please let me know!…

I’m heading up to Kirroughtree in Scotland to go mountain biking for the next few days. As I’m not even sure whether they have electricity at the Yoof Hostel, site updates are probably going to be few and far between…. With any luck, Sponge will hold the fort while I’m away but I won’t be around to answer email or deal with any site related queries. Apologies for any inconvenience!…

Something that seems pretty popular over at Pocket PC Thoughts is their email blast feature. To shamelessly quote their description, “rather than having to come to this site to get your news & views, it will be emailed directly to you based on the criteria below. The email will arrive as a nicely formatted HTML or plain-text message, depending on your settings. You can filter out topics that you don’t want, or more precisely, only get the email notifications for specific category of postings.”…

Over the past day or so I’ve been transitioning PocketGamer to a new template, which should bring the site into the 20th century and make it quite a bit faster to load. ;-)…

I’ve just changed the email address used for MSN Messenger, only something seems have gone wrong somewhere. I can sign in, but all my contacts appear as offline. As MSN is my primary method of communication with the Pocket PC community (and I don’t have a backup of the contact list), this is a bit of a problem……

Just thought I’d wish everyone a Merry Christmas from Pocketgamer, and give an excuse for slow news updates the next couple of days …

By now I’m sure most of you are aware that Microsoft plans, in the next few years, to merge the SmartPhone and Pocket PC platforms in the new iteration of Windows Mobile, codenamed “Photon”….

We appear to have corrupted a database or two. I’m working on fixing the problem now, but it looks like it’s going to take a while. In the meantime, please accept my apologies and enjoy PocketGamer without ads. :-)…

Due to some routine server housekeeping tonight you may find PocketGamer slow or inaccessible at times. Any outage shouldn’t be for more than a minute or two while the server reboots. My apologies for any inconvenience….