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Freemium Field Test: Pokémon Shuffle shakes up Nintendo's classic with match-three battles

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<p>Free-to-play games often look appealing, but it’s difficult to know at a glance whether the business model is insidious and fun-ruining, or reasonable and worth pumping a few bucks into. With Freemium Field Test, we’ll take a recent free-to-play iOS game, put it through its paces, and let you know if it’s really worth your time (and money).</p><p>We’re excited to see what Nintendo does with its first smartphone and tablet games (http://www.macworld.com/article/2899635/nintendo-making-mobile-games-was-inevitable-and-its-good-news-for-everyone.html) next year, but… well, one of the company’s best-loved franchises is already on the App Store. Even though The Pokémon Company is owned by Nintendo, it has a strange level of autonomy from its parent—so the company just brought free-to-play puzzler Pokémon Shuffle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pokemon-shuffle-mobile/id1014919815?mt=8) to iOS devices.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2987178/ios/freemium-field-test-pok-mon-shuffle-shakes-up-nintendos-classic-with-match-three-battles.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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