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Halfbrick's Jetpack Joyride wins big at Pocket Gamer Awards 2012

Top honours for endless runner

Halfbrick's Jetpack Joyride wins big at Pocket Gamer Awards 2012
The covers have been pulled off this year's Pocket Gamer Awards, with a lavish event thrown in San Francisco proclaiming Jetpack Joyride as the best game of the year.

Halfbrick's endless runner took home three honours in all, with the title also winning the best iPhone game category, as well as best action/arcade release.

Roll of honour

Other winners include Southend's ilomilo, which was named as best Windows Phone release, while YoYo Games' Mr Karoshi took home the honour of best Android release.

On Xperia Play, Minecraft: Pocket Edition came out on top, with Disney's Where's My Water? winning best casual/puzzle release and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time being named as best 3DS game.

The full list of winners can be found over on Pocket Gamer.




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