Given my love for most things Sega and all things zombie, it’ll come as no surprise to hear that I highly enjoyed (deep breath) House of the Dead: Overkill – The Lost Reels for iOS.

That’s not to say, however, that the game doesn’t have its flaws. Far from it. Join me after the break where I’ll perform a bloody post-completion autopsy.

Given the seemingly outrageous price and lame internals compared to the likes of the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, we’re still not entirely sure who the Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 is aimed at.

The UK’s Three Mobile has no such concerns, seemingly, as it’s announced its intention to carry “the next big thing” when it touches down this summer.

Jelly Bean Android 4.3 was one of many no-shows at Google I/O 2013, alongside the 32GB LTE-friendly Nexus 4 and aaaaaall the other goodies we were unofficially promised.

“Where the hell is Jelly Bean Android 4.3?” is a perfectly valid question at this stage, and the answer to that – earlier this week, at least – was: at a Thai mobile expo thingamajig.

This week will forever be known as the week that I finally got broadband in my new flat. Well, for me, at least. In the world of mobile, it was HTC grabbing all the headlines for a change – and there’s more to come.

As for comments, you dirty dogs were drawn to Most young Brits would rather go without sex than mobile for a week like moths to a sexy flame, thanks to the accompanying picture of a young lady’s bottom. Shame on you all. Especially you, shuwaz, a married man.

It’s been a funny old week for HTC news. The Taiwanese manufacturer denies rumours of an HTC One Google Edition, while the HTC First ain’t coming to the UK for now. Martin also scribbled about a depressing talent exodus, and what about that HTC Desire 600?

The latest rumours detail a larger HTC One, essentially the same phone with a potentially mammoth screen, while the much-discussed M4 is supposedly called the HTC One mini.

Get this Samsung Galaxy S4 deal @ Amazon

Amazon states the RRP of the SIM free Samsung Galaxy S4 as £629.95. We think you’ll agree that the current selling price of £499.95 (a saving of 21%) is far more palatable.

Apple has confirmed its big WWDC keynote will take place in San Francisco on June 10, and the highlight is set to be the latest refresh of iOS, set to tick over to its seventh full version.

And iOS 7 is likely to mark the biggest shift in Apple's mobile platform since it first arrived with the original iPhone all those years ago, thanks to the involvement of a certain Jony Ive.

HTC has denied it's working on a “Google Edition” of the HTC One. So obviously, it's a cast-iron certainty.

Not only that, but it'll be announced within the next couple of weeks, and will go on sale over the Summer. What does HTC know anyway?

Get this Google Nexus 7 deal @ Tesco Direct

Tesco Direct has already knocked a tenner off the Google Nexus 7, bringing the price down to £189, and using code TDX-TFNG you can bring it down a further tenner to £179. Niccce.

The possibility of a rebooted Nexus 7 tablet was one of the many hardware-related rumours doing the rounds ahead of Google I/O last week – a rumour which like all the others proved to be unfounded.

But that doesn't mean a refreshed Nexus 7 isn't on the cards, and Taiwanese supply chain voyeur DigiTimes continues to report on its existence, and says it should start shipping before the end of Q2 ahead of a Q3 launch.

Habitual leakster @evleaks has been at it again, releasing an official press shot of the upcoming Huawei Ascend P6 which is set to be announced on June 18.

So what's the big deal? Not much, at first glance. But take a closer look at that side profile on the right and you'll see the Ascend P6's most significant physical trait: a chassis that's just 6.18mm thick.

Samsung has been going after Apple in its ads for a while now, and now Microsoft is following suit with its latest Windows 8 adverts.

A couple of new spots have surfaced this week showing a ballsy Microsoft taking direct aim at the market-dominating iPad tablet and its supposed lack of a serious edge.

What a difference a month can make. Back in early April, HTC was soaking up the praise for being Facebook's go-to phone partner for Facebook Home.

Fast forward to the present, though, and feedback from customers in the US has been so unfavourable that the bespoke Android handset now won't be coming to the UK at all for the time being.

We've been here before, and here we are again: Nokia is reportedly working on a big-screened “phablet” smartphone to be released at some point in the next year.

So says DigiTimes, which at least has the sense to qualify its claims with the highly deniable “reportedly in discussions” qualifier.

Consensus was that the Apple iWatch would launch later this year, but a reasonably well-respected analyst has thrown a spanner in the works of expectation.

KGI Securities’ Ming-Chi Kuo suggests that the Apple iWatch won’t land until late 2014. Say what?

BBM is many things to many people. To some, it's the best messaging platform on the planet, to others the unlikely glue that kept miscreants in contact during the riots a couple of years ago.

In the wake of the recent announcement to widen BBM's reach to iOS and Android this summer, former BlackBerry co-CEO Mike Lazaridis has been having his say, and it's fairly obvious which camp he falls into.

I can’t be bothered going back and finding it, but I’m pretty sure I said last year – perhaps a few times – that in future, all smartphone flagships will (or at least should) be waterproof as standard.

The Sony Xperia Z gave credence to my crazy rambling, and now the LG Optimus GJ makes me look even less crazy. I hate to say I told you so…

At the weekend, I relayed JK Shin’s prediction of 10 million Samsung Galaxy S4 units “sold” (I’ll get back to that definition momentarily) this week, and it’s only gone and happened right on cue.

Fuelling the frenzy, we’re told that the South Koreans will soon launch a further four Samsung Galaxy S4 colours. Splendid.

Get this Motorola Razr i deal @ Orange

Orange has chopped the price of the Motorola Razr i in half. Was £299.99, now £149.99 with a £10 top-up (£159.99 total). Can’t argue with that!

I reviewed Guardian Cross – a card collecting game from Square Enix – back in April, and it’s easily one of my most-played iPad games of the year. Thankfully, there’s no internal clock (I dread to think how much time I’ve wasted), though I appear to have logged in on 42 separate days.

That’d be all well and good if Guardian Cross was the best thing ever, but I’m still slightly torn; is it actually any good? There’s a niggling voice that says I should save myself and banish the game to the virtual trashcan in the sky.

I figured I’d think out loud (er, in black and white) and rate Guardian Cross in five categories, assigning a ‘delete’ or ‘not delete’ designation in each. I genuinely have no idea how this is going to turn out. ‘Citing!