Gamertell

The Apple App Store gaming update is Gamertell’s weekly look at the previous week’s Apple App Store game releases. We cover them all - good and not so good - in their respective categories with a breakdown of the great games and the free games right where you want ‘em, at the top and in your face. The list is available every Monday, right as you are about to start that long work week.

As you can see, this week’s list is huge. I guess when you are trying to get up to a billion apps on your store, you’ll pretty much just open the floodgates, huh? Maybe Apple will even send me a nice sticker or something.

Grand illusions that Apple actually takes notice to this list aside, there are a few games worth checking out in this week’s avalanche, so let’s start with those:

What You Might Want To Check Out

HotField Lite
“HotField is a 2D/3D vertical scroller shooter game, splendid graphics effect with amazing and addictive gameplay!”

Totomi Lite
“Addictive and cheerful totem-building puzzle action! Rovio brings you a new and innovative puzzle game that will make you smile and try “just one more time”. Feed and breed animals to make your totem higher. Use your wits to master the relations between different animals, stack up score and clear levels that introduce more and more animal species. The game features non-stop puzzle-action with intuitive controls and colourful and cheery graphics.”

Castle Smasher: Price: $2.99
“Ready, set, aim! Load up your catapult and launch stones at your enemies castles on a quest to conquer the kingdom. Travel from castle to castle as you perfect the art of tearing down enemy walls.”

Dark Hill: Price: $0.99
“Dark Hill was inspired by SilentHill, Fear, Resident Evil, Doom, essentially a mix of these games ...
In dark hill, now overrun by zombies hungry for human, you the only survivor, you must be able to find the way out to save the skin, manage well the weapons to kill the monsters, otherwise it remains just that you escape!”

Leaf Trombone: World Stage: Price: $0.99
“No musical talent required. Just follow the floating leaves and slide your finger. You’ll master your favorite songs in no time.”

MicroKart Pro: Price: $0.99
“MicroKart Pro has finally arrived and if you’re looking for a fun relaxing way to spend the afternoon, you just found it. With over 9 tracks MicroKart Pro offers tons of fun for a low price. Race through plates, cups and pizza boxes on the table, or weave through a monitor, a laptop pens and pictures on the desk. If you’re in the mood to explore, try a practice round on the floor and wander through all the different rooms. Driving is intuitive as you tilt your device to steer, and control your speed with the gas and brake pedal. Choose your soundtrack as you drive, or change the camera angle to see a better view of the track. Find the perfect view for your driving style. Customize your car with 4 different colors.”

What’s Free

Conga Drum Mania - iBabalu LITE
“Conga Drum Mania is a cross between Guitar Hero and the wonderful Tap Tap music rhythm games.”

HotField Lite
“HotField is a 2D/3D vertical scroller shooter game, splendid graphics effect with amazing and addictive gameplay!”

Mythral Lite
“Be the first to destroy asteroids within the Mythral Belt.”

Mini Golf 99 Holes Theme Park FREE
“Play through 9 levels of Mini Golf 99 Holes Theme Park for FREE! Why stop there? Download the Premium version to get the rest of the tracks and unlock secret powers in a theme park full of fun and surprises! Challenge yourself on the 4 courses of the Mini-Golf Masters – testing your power, speed and skill. Get unlimited replay value with more holes, objects and fun! Check out the best casual sports game on the iPhone and iPod touch!”

Hunter 3Dee
“Hunter 3Dee is a top-down space shooter for the Wazabee 3DeeShell. Fight through two zones and six levels in real 3Dee!”

Battlechest Squire
“Prepare to open the most powerful and action-packed set of fantasy weapons ever carried in your pocket. BATTLECHEST is the best FANTASY WEAPONS SIMULATOR on the App Store. With BATTLECHEST: SQUIRE get 3 weapons and over 40 sounds for FREE and only for a limited time.”

Attack from the Dead Lite
“Attack From the Dead (AFD) is a Third Person Shooter(TPS) game that brings you an unforgettable chilling zombie shooting experience with realistic graphics, fantastic actions and outstanding visual screenplays.”

Oort Storm: FS5 (FREE)
“Oort Storm is an intense arcade space-shooter action game. Unknown forces have disturbed the Oort Cloud at the edge of our solar system, launching huge numbers of asteroids, mines, and alien artifacts that threaten to destroy the Earth. Use your shield and shooting skills to make it through one level!”

Blade of Betrayal Free
“Get ready to experience a taste of the premiere action platformer for the iPhone! You are Spencer Corinth on a mission to uncover the mystery behind your father’s death. Run, jump, and slash your way to the truth in this non-stop tale of betrayal and vengeance.”

Primate Plunge Lite
“This primate themed platformer will have you hopping! In Primate Plunge Lite, help poor Monkey navigate his way down through a trecherous jungle and a vertigo-inducing canyon, two out of the six worlds available in the full version. Monkey will find help along the way in the form of exciting powerups, with a parachute to help him down Crumble Canyon.”

Golden Miner Free
“Golden Miner has selected levels. For each level, there are various items that have different scores and need different strength to get. You have fixed time 60’’ and target points at each level. Your scores you got in the last level will automatically cumulate to the next level. After you pass any level, you will be led to the prop store with sexy girl.”

Globs Lite
“Globs is an eye popping action shooter game. Play as Nerdman the geeky biologist who must collect glob eye balls for his scientific research. The globs will quickly get out of hand so use your blaster to defend yourself against an angry army of green gooey goobers.”

Spirit Board
“The Spirit Board welcomes you to the world of the paranormal. It is a dangerous and terrifying path you have chosen to take. The secrets this Ouija reveals are not meant to be known by mortals. Men and women have gone mad, lost forever in demonic shadows.”

Bobby Carrot 1 Lite
“16 LEVELS FOR FREE! Riddling rabbit Bobby Carrot is 5 years old! Following the sensational success of Bobby Carrot Forever (available here in the App Store) we are now presenting a journey back through time to the old classics, 4 exciting past episodes which started out back in 2004 as little J2ME puzzle games.”

Chronicles of Inotia: Legend of Feanor Lite
“In this classic RPG, Feanor journeys through the intricate land of Inotia to battle demonic monsters and restore peace back into his homeland.”

The Free Fall
“You are falling and the only way you can stay alive is to float. You use your accelerometer to move to the left or right as you try to float. But wait, it gets better. You land on a butterfly and you morph into a butterfly and float like one ! Try out morphing into an elephant and you earn more points. Flip side is that the elephant has to fly. You just fall through.. faster. A fun adventure is here .. THE FREE FALL !”

Bouncing Ball FREE
“Do you enjoy the fun to bounce a ball around? Try your luck with Bouncing Ball! Hana Mobile presents Bouncing Ball, an addictive puzzle game of skill and strategy. Tap the screen to make blocks to bounce the ball, your goal is to navigate the ball to the exit block. Be careful, there’re many dangerous zones on the road! Play the hard mode to challenge your limit!”

Snap it Lite
“Snap it” is puzzle game based on clasicall game “sokoban”. You can finish stage by moving blue button with “Touch” and “Swipe Gestures” and pair all snap button.”

GoGoBongo
“Go Go Bongo is a very simple but very fun game. You need to play the bongo drums on the screen as fast as possible while alternating between them. See how fast you can play in ten seconds. Fun for all ages, from young kids (I caught my four year old playing it on my ipod touch one day) to old fogeys like myself.”

Fireball
“Your mission is simple: destroy the blocks and rack up the points! Break and bump your way through 15 challenging levels collecting power-ups along the way. More levels and game modes coming soon!”

Pachingo Lite
“Enter Pachingo Lite, a new game styled after the Japanese game of Pachinko, a device used for amusement and prizes. The game itself resembles pinball to a certain degree, with a ball being dropped from the top and interacting with pins on the way down, earning points and prizes on different interactions. The machines are widespread in establishments called “pachinko parlors”, which also often feature a number of slot machines. Pachingo Lite takes on this idea and expands upon it with addictive and engaging gameplay. Aim, Shoot and Clear all the green pins before you run out of balls! Hit special pins to get more balls bouncing, or give you that extra spring you needed. Bonus points awarded for tricky shots. If you’re lucky the magic rainbow will save your ball before it is consumed by the fire below! Earn higher points for clearing the most pins total.”

10 sec
“No longer fight to decide who will do the dishwashing, or the cooking, or pay for the next round of drinks. Now you can face each other in ‘10 seconds’ : a game better than short straws or heads or tails.”

Chess Free
“Are you tired of playing chess games that look like they were designed for a Commodore 64 instead of an iPhone? We’ve got the antidote for you. Chess Free is the best designed chess game for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and best of all - it’s free! Chess Free supports both 1 player and 2 player gameplay, so you can play against friends or test your skills against a challenging computer opponent. If you’re really bored, you can even put the game in demo mode and watch your phone play itself.”

Vehicle Memory
“Vehicle Memory is a nice little iPhone version of the well known game Memory where you need to unveal matching card pairs. In this memory version cute kids-like vehicles are used as theme for the cards. The game comes with 3 background songs and nice sound effects to let you play vehicles memory over and over.”

Egyptian War Lite
“Play Egyptian War (also known as Egyptian Ratscrew or Egyptian Rat Slap), a complex variant of Slap Jack, on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Test your reaction speed against the computer or challenge your friends to play on the same iPhone or iPod Touch!”

MoC: Magic Squares Lite
“Similar to Sudoku, Master of Cards: Magic Squares combines an ancient mathematical puzzle with the euphoric joy of a card game!!”

Rythmia Joker Poker Lite
“Rythmia Joker Poker is a simulation of a casino full pay joker video poker machine with a unique OpenGL 3D environment. Realistic card flipping and effects makes this game visually pleasing and highly addicting. Upgrade to full version for double up and game statistics tracking.”

iKendu (Free)
“** iKendu (Free) includes the same great features of iKendu and provides a great introduction to this fun, challenging, and addictive new game ** iKendu takes Sudoku to a new level by adding elementary arithmetic to exercise your brain. Each puzzle grid contains rows, columns, and bordered regions. To solve an iKendu puzzle, you combine numbers in each bordered region with the given math operation to obtain the region’s given answer while not repeating any number in any row or column.”

Artsee Activities Free
“Artsee Activities Free is a perfect activity for pre-readers and those just starting to read. Touch the screen to splatter paint and guess the shape that appears. This game focuses on discovery and creativity rather than scoring and points and is designed to be played together with an adult or as a quiet activity while waiting. The large buttons and intuitive controls are especially designed for children and are proven in keeping them engaged rather than discouraged. This simple but compelling shape finding activity has no predetermined end point and gives children (and their parents) a chance to explore to their heart’s content.”

Pocket Tanks
“Pocket Tanks is the fast-paced artillery game that is simple to learn, and fun to master. The perfect quick game for friends and family, you’ll find yourself hooked for hours of play! Bury your opponent in a mound of dirt, or assail him with a barrage of bullets. Visit the Weapon Shop before battle to arm yourself for the struggle, or try the Target Practice mode to learn all the weapons and the best tactics to win. Experience the thrill of launching volley after volley of powerful and fun weapons across the battlefield, using very simple controls. Select your angle, power, and FIRE! There are many unique weapons including: Napalm, Firecrackers, Skippers, Cruisers, Tracers, Dirt Movers, and dozens more! This is the light-hearted game of heavy artillery for everyone.”

Cuddlies lite
“Meet the Cuddies! The Cuddlies live in a small hidden area in the woods. Chomo, the hoggish hippo, Mari, the paranoid rabbit, Yeats, the constantly tired tiger and Kera, the clumsy panda. In this Lite version you can meet the Cuddlies and go through three exciting levels with them. In this LITE version you can accompany these four friends through the first 6 of 72 exciting levels in which your brain will be pushed to its limits.”

Totomi Lite
“Addictive and cheerful totem-building puzzle action! Rovio brings you a new and innovative puzzle game that will make you smile and try “just one more time”. Feed and breed animals to make your totem higher. Use your wits to master the relations between different animals, stack up score and clear levels that introduce more and more animal species. The game features non-stop puzzle-action with intuitive controls and colourful and cheery graphics.”

MASH Touch Lite
“MASH Touch Lite! Free! Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House. The original pencil and paper fortune telling game is back and ready to reveal everything (and anything) about your future! And we mean everything! And anything! This isn’t your everyday schoolyard fortune telling game. This is a highly refined, technologically enhanced fortune telling game, derived from your classical schoolyard divinations. And all that power is readily available within this game.”

TweezzleLite
“Tweezzle is a cute, fun, and highly addictive puzzle game. The game is played by moving little birds out of the way so you can enjoy the view. Each view contains a beautiful background image. The birds can be removed by lining up three of them. When birds are removed, the part of the view they were blocking appears. The goal of the game is to make the view completely visible.”

Hollywood Hangman Lite
“Go from Hollywood Hopeful to Celebrity A-Lister in this exciting twist on a classic favorite! Hollywood Hangman combines word puzzle fun with Celebrity, Movie, TV, and Music trivia for a Hangman experience that’ll have you seeing stars!”

What’s New

Action

Castle Smasher: Price: $2.99
“Ready, set, aim! Load up your catapult and launch stones at your enemies castles on a quest to conquer the kingdom. Travel from castle to castle as you perfect the art of tearing down enemy walls.”

YETISPORTS 1: Price: $2.99
“Yeti and Penguin are back! For the first time, the ill-assorted couple is taking off on the iPhone. After been smashed around for years, the Penguin finally gets to fly! Tap on the screen to hit Pengu with the baseball bat. Use the iPhones motion sensor to maneuver him trough 27 stages of all new level gameplay. Follow a given flight path to collect all the bonus items in each level and chase the daily and global records! On top there’s the classic mode where your only goal is to glide further than any Penguin has done before. That’s 2 game modes, 9 levels of difficulty and 27 levels!”

Tap of the Dead: Price: $1.99
“A virus has ransacked New York City. Everyone you know is dead…ish. Play as Connor Frost, a reluctant software engineer turned zombie destroyer. Tap patterns as fast as you can before your hand cramps up, and you become one of the walking dead. You need to get to safety! Pass through familiar New York City sites and you might even run into a few familiar faces.”

Really Bad Eggs: Price: $0.99
“Vir is a tiny green dinosaur who has decided to mix up the food chain. His target is none other than the mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex. With trusty rocks at his disposal Vir must take out all of their eggs and he needs your help! You can help Vir by guiding his arm and throwing power. Complete each level by clearing all of the eggs.”

Glide Factor: Price: $0.99
“Glide your way to victory in style! Race through the unique and colourful world of Glide Factor as fast as you can. Glide Factor’s levels are filled with challenging obstacles that test your abilities in control, speed and reaction time!”

GlandariusWingStrike: Price: $4.99
“This is the shooting game for iPhone/iPod touch! This game is innovative and suitable for iPhone/iPod touch because it has an interface which utilizes touch screen characteristics, realistic and splendid graphics and sounds.” NOTE: This is a top-down shooter.

Zombie Pub Crawl: Price: $0.99
“Nothing comes between you and your Friday-night pint of stout—not even reports of deadly zombie attacks. Undeterred by an uprising of the undead, you and your mates hit the London pubs for a night of brew-fueled mayhem with Britain’s famed Matilda II battle tank watching your back. Zombies piss off! Guide your lager-lusting crew from pub to pub through cobbled streets infested with rotting bogeymen, and mow down throngs of immortal mutants that threaten to permanently dry your taps. Pick up ammo and earn tank upgrades to clear the path between taverns. But watch out: These zombies are ravenous for the flesh of the living, and they don’t thirst for ale—they thirst for blood.”

Mr.Shoot: Price: $0.99
“In this so crazy and cool game, you will face different enimy with different shield and speed. There’re 32 levels in this game. You will face the different challenge in different level. Your mission is shoot down all enemes except Mis.Beauty in the limited time. If you hit the target continuously, your hit points will be displayed in the screen.”

Chicken Wars: Price: $0.99
“A chicken KIng will save the Earth against meteoric stones.”

Space Mutants from Space: Price: $0.99
“Space Mutants from Space is your chance to get your revenge on those pain in the *** aliens that keep attacking earth for no particular reason at all! Fight your way through 45 challenging levels each one harder then the next then continue FOREVER through the 45 levels while they get harder, and harder AND HARDER! You’ll also have to take on the 3 major bosses to save planet earth from destruction. Each kill sees you increase your points and cash to purchase better equipment for your tank to take on those menacing aliens and do some MAJOR DAMAGE!”

Spaceballs: Price: $1.99
“Spaceballs in an action packed space themed puzzle-chain shooter in the same genre as games like Zuma, Action Loop, and Magnetic Twist. The goal is simple. Fire projectiles at the chain and connect three or more of the same color. When that happens they’ll explode! Try your luck and skill at achieving a huge combo, bonus, and highscore!”

Planet Defence: Price: $0.99
“Based on Defender, one of the best arcade games of all time, Planet Defence is now available for the iPhone and Touch. Planet Defence is a fast-paced horizontal shoot’em-up featuring Tilt or Touch control to maneuver your space ship. Defend the planet by protecting the humans that roam on the planet surface.”

Iron Sight: Price: $0.99
“Iron Sight offers a unique blend of action, strategy and simulation. The basic premise is deceivingly simple: destroy the enemy before he has a chance to destroy you! Attack with a large and varied range of weapons: homing missiles, artillery, satellite support, cluster missiles and much more. But you’d better watch your back – enemies respond to the current situation, value possible threats to select the appropriate weapon and utilize available terrain for cover. Iron Sight is sure to please any fan of Worms, iShot, Artillery or battle mech games.”

HUNT: In Space!: Price: $1.99
“Hunt! No, there’s no big game or other animals involved. This time, it’s those pesky green aliens that just won’t stop it already with invading Earth and whatnot - you pack your trusty hyper tech rifle, complete with pretty colored led lights, and take them on. Where else but in space? Hunt! Is a simple and intuitive shooting game that transforms the iPhone’s touch sensitive controls into a fast paced, thumb-numbing game of blast the bad guy. Use one thumb to control where your rifle aims and the other one to shoot and reload it, as the little green men dash by ever faster.”

GuruGuru-Hammer2: Price: $0.99
“Score points by throwing your hammer to kill the enemy. An exhilarating game that allows you to seriously increase points when in striker mode and using combos. Touch the screen and swing the hammer when the game starts. The hammer will start to glow once you build up enough momentum. Kill the enemy by releasing your finger to throw the hammer. Combos are made by killing enemies in succession, and multiplies your score by the number of combos achieved.”

Fight or Flight: Arcade Simulator: Price: $0.99
“Fast-paced 3d flight simulator that brings to life the air war between the Axis and Allies. Play in either arcade or simulator mode. Take your pick between flying a P-51 Mustang or Messerschmitt Bf-109. Fly exciting missions including bomber escorts and interception of V1 “buzz bomb” cruise missiles. Plot out a course of action and keep your eyes peeled.”

Cosmic Nitro: Price: $0.99
“The end of the world is nigh! Defend the world from the onslaught of an unfeeling universe! In Cosmic Nitro you must blast through nine different invasions. To play merely touch the invaders to blast them, but when things get too tough you can swipe the screen to launch a shield.”

AI Wars FPS: Price: $0.99
“A Full 3D First Person Shooter game (FPS). Set in the future, battle against AI robots in deathmatch or team deathmatch style games, where you take on the role of a human-hacked AI robot.”

Primate Plunge *NEW*: Price: $1.99
“This primate themed platformer will have you hopping! Help poor Monkey navigate his way down through trecherous jungles, canyons, towering waterfalls, into the heart of a volcano and through the driving rain of a cold industrial city. Monkey will find help along the way in the form of exciting powerups, including parachutes and jetpacks.”

Golden Miner: Price: $1.99
“Golden Miner has 99 levels. For each level, there are various items that have different scores and need different strength to get. You have fixed time 60’’ and target points at each level. Your scores you got in the last level will automatically cumulate to the next level. After you pass any level, you will be led to the prop store with sexy girl.”

Smith Shooter: Price: $0.99
“Shoot Mr. Smith as far as you can with a cannon in 3D town. Enjoy the pleasure of shooting a 3D ragdoll with realistic physics against a Bus, a building, or explosive barrels. See how far you can get with Mr. Smtih exploding and bouncing realistically.”

Cruise Strike: Price: $0.99
“What could possibly be more fun the piloting cruise missiles to hardened enemy targets. Your mission is to successfully pilot a cruise missile to the target through heavily fortified enemy territory. We placed a new twist on 3d flight simulation gaming by enabling you to engage in terminal target destruction.”

AstroZapper: Price: $0.99
“Fly your spaceship through the universe while dodging space rocks. Use your lasers to destroy the asteroids and advance to the next level. The game is simple, yet exhilarating.”

Adventure

As you like: Price: $15.99
“This is Adventure Game. You can enjoy with many Girls. (Sorry, All sentences are written in Japanese only)”

SkyLab: Price: $0.99
““Take control of the Rotor, a spinning bar of particles. Stay within the permitted areas of the SkyLab, avoiding walls and other obstacles. Use the rotator to change alternate direction of rotation. Frustratingly addictive, Game is focused on gameplay. SkyLab is firm but fair - you’ve only got yourself to blame for not completing a level”

Dark Hill: Price: $0.99
“Dark Hill was inspired by SilentHill, Fear, Resident Evil, Doom, essentially a mix of these games ...
In dark hill, now overrun by zombies hungry for human, you the only survivor, you must be able to find the way out to save the skin, manage well the weapons to kill the monsters, otherwise it remains just that you escape!”

Get Out!: Price: $0.99
“Get Out! is a simple maze game where you need to find the key and exit. There are monsters, I call them unknown, roaming in the maze to stop you from doing just that. Unlike other maze game you have played, there is no weapon system nor power up pill in the game. You are basically defendless! All you can do is make your every move cautiously and find both objectives before you get caught.”

Arcade

Mini Golf Classic Course: Price: $1.99
“Miniture Golf comes to the iPhone and iPod Touch in full 3D! Windmills, castles, moving obstacles—all the miniature golf classics are included. Some holes even have multiple ways to reach the hole. Tilt the iPod/iPhone to change your view and aim the ball. Putting is as simple as tapping the screen. Mini Golf Classic Course includes an entire course of 18 unique holes. The game will automatically save no matter where you are in the game so you can pick up and play anytime.”

Ring Out! 3D: Price: $0.99
“This game is to make a Badook(GO) pieces(stones) to collide with counterpart’s stones so that the latter ones would be out of the table(Ring Out). You will win if you remove all counterpart’s stones. The colorful 3D screen will please you and make you play with excitement. In your turn, please measure the distance and angle of the counterpart’s stones and push your one stone by controling the strength of your finger. When pushing, you should be prudent in deciding the stone’s direction and pushing strength not to make your stone ring out.”

A+ Records: Hotdog Eating: Price: $0.99
“A+ Records:Hotdog Eating is a Hot Dog Eating Contest, you need to swing your equipment continuously and imitate the motion of eating a hot dog. The faster you swing, the faster you can finish eating a hot dog. Besides swinging the equipment, you need to also imitate the motion of drinking water in order to help swallow the hot dog. This game is a test of patience and skill of time control.”

Gem Panic: Price: $2.99
“Gem Panic carries the feeling of the old classic puzzle games, while bringing new and modern gameplay and looks to your iPhone. It’s a simple, easy-to-use puzzle game, where you advance through levels by solving harder and harder teasers. You need to eliminate all elements (gems) by moving the matching ones near each other. Beware, if one is left unpaired you are screwed!”

BeachSpotter: Price: $2.99
“Bored of spotting differences in boring buildings, landscapes or mundane objects? Suffer no more! Beach Spotter offers enjoyable gameplay by transporting your imagination to a golden beach with blue skies, crystal clear seas and, of course, beautiful women!”

Pachingo: Price: $0.99
“Enter Pachingo, a new game styled after the Japanese game of Pachinko, a device used for amusement and prizes. The game itself resembles pinball to a certain degree, with a ball being dropped from the top and interacting with pins on the way down, earning points and prizes on different interactions. The machines are widespread in establishments called “pachinko parlors”, which also often feature a number of slot machines. Pachingo takes on this idea and expands upon it with addictive and engaging gameplay. Aim, Shoot and Clear all the green pins before you run out of balls! Hit special pins to get more balls bouncing, or give you that extra spring you needed. Bonus points awarded for tricky shots. If you’re lucky the magic rainbow will save your ball before it is consumed by the fire below! Earn higher points for clearing the most pins total.”

Board

iOmok - Gomoku: Price: $0.99
“Five in a Row is an abstract strategy board game and is also called Gomoku, Gobang. Black plays first, and players alternate in placing a stone of their color on an empty intersection. The winner is the first player to get an unbroken row of five stones horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.”

Save Her: Price: $0.99
“Save Her is a path puzzle game that you can play for a really long time.”

iGems: Price: $1.99
“iGems is a so EASY and so FUN puzzle game like a Bejeweled. Game rule is so simple just tab gem mass that connected over 3 or items. You can get more score with more big mass and If you mistake in tab, you will lose 20 point. iGems has different feature with other gem games! It’s MULTI TOUCH! If you tab 2 or 3 gem mass in the same time then you can get bonus score!”

White 2 Black: Price: $0.99
“White 2 Black” is a puzzle game. Its objective is to convert all white to black pieces. Tapping on a piece will turn its color to the opposite one, i.e. a white piece will turn black and a black piece will turn white. Also the pieces above, below, to the right and to the left will change their colors according this rule.”

Felaur Mine Sweeper: Price: $0.99
“Yes, It’s Mine Sweeper that you’ve already known.”

Make-a-Box: Price: $0.99
“A simple game that is easy to learn and quick to play. Make-a-Box sports. The rules are straightforward. Claim the most boxes and win. Players take turns claiming line segments. When you complete a box you score a point and get another turn again.”

Adjacent: Price: $1.99
“Adjacent, a game of strategy and planning, is played on a board of ninety-six squares with seventy-two tiles. The seventy-two tiles are comprised of two sets tiles of six shapes and six colors. The objective of the game is to place all seventy-two tiles onto the board. Each placement of a tile on the board earns a score. There is no time limit and the score is not tied to the time it takes to place a tile or to finish the game. It is a game that one can relax and take the time to plan and strategize every move.”

NeoLines: Price: $1.99
“NeoLines is a simple yet addictive puzzle game where you have to align colored balls in a line, square or both. Matched balls disappear, and each turn new balls arrive. Submit high scores online and see how well you performed against other people around the world. Built on the state of the art OpenGL engine, full with beautifully rendered balls make this game not boring even after weeks of play (as tested on ourselves!)”

Card

Ultimate Video Poker: Price: $1.99
“Rythmia Ultimate Video Poker is an accurate simulation of the 9 most common video poker machines done in a unique OpenGL 3D environment. Realistic card flipping and effects makes this game visually pleasing and highly addicting. All games have optional double up mode in order to simulate games that have double up.”

Top Trumps: Price: $0.99
“Our Top Trumps application is the modern conversion of the classical card game “Go Fish” (in other countries also known as Auto Quartett, Megatrumpf, Top Trumps, Happy Families, Jeu de familles, Gioco delle famiglie or Authors). The 32 cards with modern cars are shuffled and evenly shared between the player and the iPhone. The player choose the value of one category of the displayed card and the value is compared with the same value of the card which the iPhone is holding. Who has the higher value wins the trick and the winner has the turn with the next card of the stack.”

Durak: Price: $1.99
“Durak (doo-rock) is a popular international card game, now available on the iPhone and iPod Touch. The object of the game is to strategically get rid of all your cards before your opponents do. The last person holding cards is the Durak, everyone else is a winner! Play against the computer or up to four friends on WiFi. Like all truly great card games, chance plays a role, but it takes skill and strategy to master the game.”

Rythmia Deuces Wild: Price: $0.99
“Rythmia Deuces Wild is a simulation of a casino full pay deuces wild video poker machine with a unique OpenGL 3D environment. Realistic card flipping and effects makes this game visually pleasing and highly addicting. Rythmia Deuces Wild also has an optional double up mode which can be turned on or off in order to simulate double up or non double up machines. Rythmia Deuces Wild Double Up is fair with no house edge, as ties are push.”

Rythmia Deuces and Joker Poker: Price: $0.99
“Rythmia Deuces and Joker Poker is a simulation of a casino full pay deuces and joker video poker machine with a unique OpenGL 3D environment. Realistic card flipping and effects makes this game visually pleasing and highly addicting. Rythmia Deuces and Joker Poker also has an optional double up mode which can be turned on or off in order to simulate double up or non double up machines. Rythmia Deuces and Joker Poker Double Up is fair with no house edge, as ties are push.”

Casino

Egyptian Dreams 4 Slots: Price: $1.99
“3, 4 or 5 scattered pyramids during normal play will start the Pharaoh Feature - where you get to pick your free games, multiplier AND up to FIVE wildcards! The cash pyramid jackpot is triggered whenever 3 Eyes of Ra appear on screen. Win your way up the Cash Pyramid to win the jackpot!”

RouletteBetter: Price: $5.99
“RouletteBetter is a software that suggests you the best bets to play at Roulette through probability analysis of previous events and numbers drawn. You can use RouletteBetter following the bets suggested from the software; you can also disable this functionality and play using the integrated stastistics analyzer, that allows you to study the probabilities of various events and shows you the best playable events.”

BINGO!: Price: $1.99
“Now you can throw a bingo party whenever you want to! You don’t have to carry big bingo machine anymore. It’s so easy, all you have to do is the same thing you do with real bingo and the numbers will be recorded automatically on the master board.”

VG Bikini Slots: Price: $0.99
“Combine bikinis, sexy virtual girls, and slot machines, and you have VG Slots. Play this 3D animated slot machine, enjoy the bikini girls spin, and match three to see the entire girl. Matching two will only win money, to see the girl, you must be lucky and get all three. Keep playing until all girls are revealed. Classic slot machine sounds, and a full screen mode complete the experience. Enjoy!”

Dice

Fish-Prawn-Crab: Price: $0.99
“Fish-Crab-Prawn is a classic Chinese gambling game played with 3 dice. Each 6-sided dice contains the following faces: fish, prawn, crab, chicken, coin and calabash. The object of the game is to predict which combinations of faces will appear on 3 dice. This is a game of pure luck. The payouts are as follows: 1 face (1x), 2 faces (2x), 3 faces (3x).”

Dicey-Derby: Price: $0.99
“Dicey Derby is a fun game that uses dice number to move the car at that track. So there are six tracks and the car that crosses the finsh line wins.”

Dice Brawl Deluxe: Price: $0.99
“Pick your dice, then take it to the streets! In Dice Brawl, each player rolls five dice with varying numbers of sides, then uses them to capture the opponent’s dice. Dice Brawl Deluxe introduces three new special dice powers for added layers of strategy. It features 56 dice configurations, each with up to 7 variants, for a total of 389 possible setups per player - over 150,000 unique game setups. Play against a friend on one device, link up to other devices on a local network, or battle one of four challenging AI opponents.”

Educational

Leaf Trombone: World Stage: Price: $0.99
“No musical talent required. Just follow the floating leaves and slide your finger. You’ll master your favorite songs in no time.”

Typing Class (Games): Price: $0.99
“Its not just learning. Lots of fun games inside. iPhone/iPod touch brought new era in software keyboard. Users find little difficulty in typing. “Typing class” helps to learn fast typing with fun and makes you more productive.”

Bunny Money: Price: $1.99
“Ready for Spring? In BunnyTown, kids are taught about numbers and money. The local currency is painted eggs and makes for some pretty colorful exchanges. Count the butterflies. Hear the bunny’s voice. Look at the pretty flowers and painted eggs. What’s that ? Did a pig just oink ? Must have come from the piggy bank filled with Bunny Money!”

Meteors: Price: $1.99
“A falling sand style simulator using custom gravity fields. Create your own universe. Build a force field using black holes (attract particles), white holes (repel particles) and gravity shields.”

Meghan’s Memory Game Kindergarten: Price: $0.99
“Meghan’s Memory Games are classic style memory games aimed at teaching the reading and spelling of the most common words a child will come across in their daily reading. Meghan’s Memory Game Kindergarten contains over 250 two, three and four letter words. The idea behind the game is for the player to remember the position of the cards that have been revealed on previous turns. It is a great game to develop attention, learn new words or just to keep your mind sharp.”

iKendu: Price: $2.99
“iKendu - but can you? If you like Sudoku, you’ll love iKendu! iKendu takes Sudoku to a new level by adding elementary arithmetic to exercise your brain. Each puzzle grid contains rows, columns, and bordered regions. To solve an iKendu puzzle, you combine numbers in each bordered region with the given math operation to obtain the region’s given answer while not repeating any number in any row or column. The first two puzzles will help you understand how it works, and you’ll soon be on your way to becoming an iKendu champion.”

Family

Pocket Tanks Deluxe: Price: $4.99
“Pocket Tanks is the fast-paced artillery game that is simple to learn, and fun to master. The perfect quick game for friends and family, you’ll find yourself hooked for hours of play! Bury your opponent in a mound of dirt, or assail him with a barrage of bullets. Visit the Weapon Shop before battle to arm yourself for the struggle, or try the Target Practice mode to learn all the weapons and the best tactics to win.”

Youth Sports: Price: $1.99
“Youth Sports is a fun app for parents with kids that play competitive ice/field sports. It provides simple to use tally counters and timers for shots, assists, goals, take away/tackles, moves, and cross passes, field/ice time, and +/-.”

MyBall: Price: $0.99
“Simple but amazingly fun and addicting games: Collect the coins while avoiding the increasing number of fireballs. Tilt your iPod / iPhone to move the ball : Use the gravity to get as far as you can! Challenge your friend to beat your score!”

iDrag Racer: Price: $0.99
“Think you have got the speed. Prove it on the 400 m Drag Strip. Choose your Vehicle and race to be “The Best”. Improve your time or beat 10 unique Levels of Automated Racer for each Vehicle. A perfect fun activity to share with Friends and Family. Option to Adjust Controls to suit both Left and Right Handers.”

What Would You Do If…?: Price: $1.99
“Enjoy playing one of the funniest group party games you could ever play! Find out from your friends the dirt on what they would do in funny, provocative, interesting, and unusual situations!”

Sky Burger: Price: $0.99
“Sky Burger puts you to work stacking burgers to order! Catch the right ingredients as they fall from the sky, and don’t forget that top bun when you’re done! Build over 50 unique burger orders that grow taller and taller the more orders you complete. Complete enough orders in a row and build an unlimited SkyBurger! Earn cash for each burger and get promoted up the Sky Burger corporate ladder. Watch your business grow with each promotion! Look back at your career stats and compare them to the top Sky Burger employees.”

Falling Stars: Price: $0.99
“Try to catch the falling stars and avoid the skulls. Fun and addictive. Submit your score and compete against the rest of the world.”

iMatchSticks: Price: $0.99
“Logical game related to matches where you need to solve the tasks by manipulating with the sticks. A simple yet absorbing game that puts you against the iPhone. It is quite entertaining and it will boost the logic of the player. The game has no age restriction and can be played by anyone.”

Music

megaSynth: Price: $4.99
“After many sleepless nights, endless cups of coffee and blown-out eardrums, the long-awaited big brother to miniSynth is finally here! With its three luscious oscillators, dedicated LFOs, built in sequencer, polyphonic keyboard, chord-maker (and much more), megaSynth pushes the envelope in mobile soundmaking. Its possible configurations are intractably many, making megaSynth a studio-worthy little addition to any professional rig. Meanwhile, the included 200+ presets will be sure to thrill the enthusiast for a good while, and influence the start of countless new songs.”

Sarabandax: Price: $3.99
“Arriva oggi per iPhone e iPod Touch SARABANDAX!
Srabandax mette alla prova la vostra cultura musicale, proponendovi sette canzoni dei maggiori cantanti italiani di tutti i tempi, scelte a caso da un database di circa 500! In questo gioco si è cercato di riprodurre lo studio dove si svolgeva il quiz TV Sarabanda, per rendere ancora tutto più coinvolgente!”

Puzzle

Maze Shifter: Price: $0.99
“Navigate your way through this full 3D maze while avoiding obstacles and using teleporters to your advantage. Be quick, and attempt to beat the clock - if the timer hits zero, the maze shifts in front of you, changing it’s layout and your path to the goal. Multiple difficulty settings allow for quick “pickup and go” games as wells as long, danger filled maze sessions. Mazes are generated at random to give this game unlimited playability. It will take strategy, planning, agility, and a little bit of luck to make it to the exit. Can you survive a shifting maze?”

Buckingham Palace: Hidden Mysteries: Price: $4.99
“Travel to Buckingham Palace, the home of the kings and queens of England, and one of the most visited places in the world! Scour this famous building and its surroundings for hidden objects to solve a mystery. Collect items to unlock puzzles and learn fascinating facts about the palace’s remarkable history.”

ShellBreaker: Price: $0.99
“Ok smarty pants, you think you’re a word wizard? You think you are done just because you beat the Scrambled Eggs? Wrong! Now it’s time to take the gloves off, let’s see your brain up against the ShellBreaker! That’s right, we’re bringing out the big guns! One word, ten letters, no beginners, no easy, no mercy. What now? Can you handle it? Then bring it!”

iFlower Connect: Price: $2.99
“If you like Bejeweled 2, this game is for you. It’s fun, and cute! Your girl friend and your kids should love it. Sit back, relax and match flowers in your beautiful garden. Match more, higher your score. Tutorial mode will guide you lean it in 5 seconds. Enjoy 2 game modes, standard and expert.If you like challenge, you can play expert mode; 40 levels are waiting for you. Bees and carts will help you if you meet problems.”

Bible Art: Price: $4.99
“Great artists have turned to the Bible for inspiration. Have you ever asked yourself what the painting was about? Bible Art offers all the background information on famous biblical paintings! We have collected over a hundred famous paintings and connected them to the corresponding Bible passage - the passage the artist was inspired by. The paintings are displayed as colorful puzzles, offering hours of challenge and entertainment. If you just want to see the art on your phone, just shake it and the puzzle is solved before your very eyes!”

The Perfect Touch: Price: $1.99
“Do you have The Perfect Touch? The object of Perfect Touch is to achieve perfection by placing all of the pieces into the correct holes before time runs out (30 seconds). There are 5 difficulty levels each of which force you to be more accurate with your item placement. There is also a choice or lefty or righty which is used to orient the pieces for easier viewing.”

PipeGame: Price: $0.99
“PipeGame is an adaptation of a simple pencil and paper game that I played in grade school. PipeGame is a challenging strategy game where the object of the game is to build a continuous PIPE connection from one side of the board to the other in the long direction for your color of dots. You are playing against the iPhone. See if you can beat it!”

Hollywood Hangman: Price: $2.99
“Go from Hollywood Hopeful to Celebrity A-Lister in this exciting twist on a classic favorite! Hollywood Hangman combines word puzzle fun with Celebrity, Movie, TV, and Music trivia for a Hangman experience that’ll have you seeing stars! With 1500 puzzles, three hot music tracks and the ability to create your own puzzles, this is the most complete Hangman available! Play in Single Player mode, share with a friend in Pass n’ Play mode or compete for celebrity dominance in real-time Multiplayer WiFi battles.”

Shape Slide: Price: $0.99
“Shape Slide is a game of puzzling shape recognition, touch speed and accuracy. How fast can you slide the pieces into their respective slots before the time runs out? There are 36 shapes implemented in the 60 different base game combinations including 4 different board sizes, 3 challenging game modes, and 5 timer difficulty settings! Also, if you’re familiar with the game Perfection, this one is for you!”

Racing

Slope Rider: Price: $2.99
“Slope Rider, the ultimate snowboarding game is now available for iPhone and iPod Touch! The wildly successful 3D snowboarding game for the Mac has been painstakingly redesigned specifically for iPhone’s unique interface – meaning a faster, smoother ride and controls that handle like a dream. Slope Rider is an adrenalin-pumping, high-speed ride that delivers an awesome extreme sports experience without the reality of broken bones, frozen fingers and hours of queuing.”

MicroKart Pro: Price: $0.99
“MicroKart Pro has finally arrived and if you’re looking for a fun relaxing way to spend the afternoon, you just found it. With over 9 tracks MicroKart Pro offers tons of fun for a low price. Race through plates, cups and pizza boxes on the table, or weave through a monitor, a laptop pens and pictures on the desk. If you’re in the mood to explore, try a practice round on the floor and wander through all the different rooms. Driving is intuitive as you tilt your device to steer, and control your speed with the gas and brake pedal. Choose your soundtrack as you drive, or change the camera angle to see a better view of the track. Find the perfect view for your driving style. Customize your car with 4 different colors.”

Role Playing

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Simulation

Soccer Manager: Price: $4.99
“At last a football manager simulation for the iPhone and iPod Touch has arrived. Soccer Manager allows you to take control of a top European team and guide them to league and cup success using your managerial skills. Choose any team from the top two divisions of six European countries. Buy and sell players, negotiate contracts, deal with your chairman on your path to glory. Qualify through playoffs, get promotion, win the premier division, qualify and win European competitions in order to fill your trophy cabinet. Your status will record historical achievements even if you change jobs.”

Sports

Penalty Kicks: Price: $0.99
“Penalty Kicks is the most exciting moment in sport. After 90 minutes of football, it’s all tied and down to the Penalty Kicks.”

Tottenham Hotspur Keepy Uppy: Price: $1.99
“The concept of Tottenham Hostpur Keepy Uppy is simple; keep the ball in the air as long as possible by tapping the ball with your finger. Dropping the ball on the ground will reset your score, if you successfully beat your high score, it can be entered into the Global Leaderboard. Compare your scores with other Tottenham Hotspur Keepy Uppy players around the world!”

Fantasy Golf Captain 2009: Price: $2.99
“Create the Perfect Golf Round with Fantasy Golf Captain. Fantasy Golf Captain is a brand new way to compete with your friends and prove your knowledge of your favorite golfers. Each weeks PGA tournament is a new chance to win. It’s incredibly easy and fun to play!”

Strategy

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Trivia

Trivia World: Price: $0.99
“Trivia World is a collection of trivia questions spanning 15 categories. Try out trivia questions ranging from Health, History, Sports, Science, Hollywood, Celebrities, Music and much more! We have combined all our trivia apps (each selling for a dollar or more) into one single trivia app. Going forward, we will keep adding new categories and new questions all into this app. Presently each category has an average of 100 questions now, with a total of around 1500 questions. Every category has its own global high scoring system. So you can check how you rank among the other players from all over the world.”

SAT Prep Vocabulary 101 - Quizner’s Trivia: Price: $0.99
“Test your knowledge of Vocabulary and have fun at the same time with Quizner’s SAT Prep Vocabulary 101. Fight boredom anywhere, anytime, and in those “in-between” times. For extra fun, compete against your friends or play together with your family. Stuck on a question? Quickly get an assist by emailing a friend directly from the quiz.”

Word

WordSearch5: Price: $0.99
“Word Search #5 is the fifth of several in the series, is a fun and exciting game of finding words amongst scrambled characters. Locate the word in the grid and then selecting by touching the screen and dragging from the first to last character. Do it in a timely manner to try and get the fastest time.”

iPhone/iPod Touch Links

Appletell: [Macintosh/iPhone software update roundup - April 17, 2009] [Free Apps roundup for April 17th, 2009] [iPhone Developer Intervention Week 4: Life after a release (plus free promo codes!)]