Hasta La Gadget!

A screenshot showing that CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman's Dots high score list has disappeared.

(Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET)

If you know anything about the new hit iOS game Dots, which has already logged 3 million players and more than 250 million total plays, you know that for any serious player, it’s all about high scores.

So I’ve been a bit upset over the last 24 hours after noticing that the Dots high score system had gone awry. On the one hand, my entire personal high score list had disappeared. But perhaps more troubling, the all-time high score list had regressed, with someone’s world-beating score of 800 simply having vanished.

If this is all Latin to you, then take a trip over to the iOS App Store (Android users, help is reportedly on the way) and download Dots. Before you do that, though, clear your schedule for the next week so that your inevitable new obsession doesn’t interfere with important meetings, dates, dinners, or even sleep. Now you’re ready.

Once you start playing, you’ll quickly discover that you’re basically competing with yourself. You feverishly try to make dots disappear, and once you realize that the … [Read more]

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