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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.

Another week of Apple App Store games has arrived for your downloading pleasure but I’m betting you’re too preoccupied anticipating the release of Snow Leopard for your other Apple device, right?

Well instead of twiddling your fingers waiting for UPS to bring you your copy, why not play a game instead?

What’s Free

A Quest Of Knights Onrush
“This is a promo game made based on Knights Onrush characters and graphics - it’s free and fully functional. However, it’s totally different kind of a game. You control one character and your mission is to force through hordes of enemies using your sword. Fight knights, swordsmen, wizards and ballistas, take advantage of the leveling system, do your best to fight as far as you can. Go and kill them all.”

KidwordsFree
“A fun game to teach your kids how to spell! Identify the brightly colored images on top, and use the picker below to spell the word. Having trouble with a word? Turn on the Voice setting, or set it up to speak the name of the image automatically!”

What’s New

Action

Justice in glory: Price: $0.99
“Justice In Glory is a horizontal scrolling action game. You play as Barry who will walk from the streets to the insurance company‘s office, defending yourself from the insurance agents. There will be employees stopping you from entering the main office. You have to use your tools and agility to knock out those insurance agents before reaching the safe that stores your grandmother’s money.”

Bust-A-Move: Price: $4.99
“The original “Bust-A-Move” game is reborn on the iPhone / iPod touch, bursting with bubble-popping fun for both 1 and 2 players! Featuring Story Mode, where you control Bub in an all-new puzzle-solving adventure; VS. Mode, where you and a friend play head-to-head over Bluetooth; and Challenge Mode, where the puzzles never stop!”

WarMen: Price: $1.99
“Year 2013. Fight as a member of the resistance against a futuristic tyranny. Play as Marco. Former Veteran, now fighting the global dictatorship along with his friends from the resistance. Get deployed on a tactical operation to sabotage enemy “scrambler” devices.”

Adventure

Game of da Dead: Price: $1.99
“Experience a new type of iPhone gaming. “Game of da Dead” is a fun and easy to learn action-packed adventure game where your mission is to battle zombies that have invaded the galaxy and rescue the humans that haven’t been infected. Control the gun turret with your upgradable machine gun, rocket launcher, seeking missiles or strategically place land mines to eliminate the Zombies before they attack the humans.”

Arcade

Inkvaders: Price: $0.99
“The task of saving the day falls at the feet of Generic Marine (G to his friends). 
As the Martian horde invades, G must battle his way from his base on the Moon back to Earth, to wipe the Martian menace from our streets and restore the human race.
It won’t be an easy task but G has an arsenal of 15 deadly weapons to hand. Join him and shoot, splat, and blast your way through 30 levels across 3 unique locations, to victory!”

Funji Bunny
“Final game of Funji trilogy- homage to frogger. Also simple, time-killing and good music. Let’s help bunnies get to the dock with endless supply of carrots! Try to ride floating logs or lilypads. Be wary of cars and snakes passing by.”

iMech: Price: $2.99
“Welcome to iMech - the Real-Time Online Multiplayer 3D Shooter for the iPhone and iPod Touch. In iMech, players can login to our servers and battle up to 7 other Mechs to the death”

Board

Animal Kingdom: Price: $0.99
“Animal Kingdom is an easy-to-learn, easy-to-play board game with beautiful graphics and animations. It is joyful by simply watching how pieces move around on the board. It is a challenging game too, and you should feel proud if you can defeat our hard-level AI (we have never done that). Animal Kingdom is perfect for charging your brain in 5 minutes everyday, and you can resume the joy whenever you want. “

Spelltris: Price: $1.99
“Test your spelling skills as you create words from letters scrambled in a 3x3 or larger square. Once you use up letters, more will fall into the empty places! The longer the word, the more points you score. Can’t find a word to spell? Shake the device to mix up and cross the letters or simply touch the sword button to destroy the blocks so that a new batch of letters can drop down! Do you have what it takes to be the next spelling hero?”

Card

Epic Blackjack: Price: $0.99
“Play Blackjack with smooth, realistic card placement as if you were sitting at the table!”

Poker Solitaire Deluxe: Price: $0.99
“If you like Texas Hold’em, you’re going to obsess over Poker Solitaire. It’s like playing 5 hands of poker at a time. Poker Solitaire Deluxe features an in-depth tutorial for easy pick-up and play. PLUS play to win with the guaranteed winnable hands in the Daily Deals section. Go at it alone, compete against your friends, post scores to the real-time leaderboard and use your game points for FREE downloadable content in the Rewards Store.”

Casino

Superstar DJ: Price: $0.99
“Superstar DJ… the Music DJ themed slot machine! Get on the decks and match musical symbols to unlock exclusive music from artists on the Spiralking label including Matt Laws from Binary Finary. Upload, share and compete with your hi-score and awards via AGON Online and directly post your progress to Facebook and Twitter!”

Dice

NOTHING

Educational

NOTHING

Family

Mr. and Mrs. Tarzan: Price: $1.99
“You Tarzan, she Jane in this hilarious new game featuring the Lord of the Jungle! As Tarzan it’s up to you to keep Mrs. Tarzan happy in your jungle home. After numerous appearances on TV, radio and theater, the Lord of the Jungle finally arrives to your iPhone and iPod Touch. Run household errands, dodge dangerous animals, find missing items, and do whatever else it takes to keep Jane happy in over 20 captivating levels. You’ll have to be quick on your feet and your vine, though, because the jungle is full of surprises and hidden dangers like killer bees, slithering snakes, hungry plants, and more!”

Music

SightRead: Price: $0.99
“The game is very simple: Four random notes appear on the staves, so you have to play them correctly using the piano keys.”

Reverse the Verse - Classic Rock Edition: Price: $0.99
“For the first time you can have access to hundreds of Classic Rock songs – played backwards – and test your skills at trying to figure out the right answer! Thanks to “Reverse The Verse,” the newest release from jacAPPS, you’re one touch away from hours of challenging fun. It’s not as easy as it seems but it’s always fun to play (and it can be hilarious hearing these songs backwards!). You’ll hear songs from all the great artists such as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Bob Seger, Bad Company, and Lynyrd Skynyrd.”

Puzzle

Boiler Blast: Price: $0.99
“What? Someone bungled the boiler job and none of the pipes are connected! As the only plumber on site it’s all up to you. Those pipes need to be connected…and fast! It isn’t fair but that’s life in Boiler Blast, the arcade puzzler where you race to connect all of a building’s pipes before the boiler blows! To make matters worse…much worse…the site is crawling with rats who just love to sniff around and cause trouble! It’s a crazy job…but it’s your job! Quick! Grab your trusty wrench and don’t forget the hammer. Jump into that basement and let the pipes fly! Place ‘em, spin ‘em, pull ‘em…it’s madness! Watch that boiler rattle. The more it shakes the crazier it gets. The crazier it gets the closer you are to the blast. Keep one eye on the timer, one eye on Ratty and both hands spinning pipes. There’s not a second to lose!”

aKids Puzzle: Price: $0.99
“a cute puzzle game for kids”

Racing

NOTHING

Role Playing

The Myth Of Heroes Legend: Price: $1.99
“The type of the game is SLG Strategy. The player can enjoy bright color and exquisite screen and figures, in which aesthetic map, vivid figures and specially gorgeous background music will bring players with different experience. The game have adopted large amount of the hit effect, fire, freeze and witchcraft effect together with gorgeous background music, which makes the game being easy to play.”

Wizard Warfare: Price: $2.99
“Your training is at an end; the tournament has begun. Now is the time to fulfill your destiny and become the most powerful Wizard in the land.”

Simulation

NOTHING

Sports

Beat the Cooler: Price: $0.99
“Have you ever had a bad day? Did your boss dump a load of work on you or did he just dump you? Are the kids and your wife living in a constant state of nag? Is your husband having a torrid affair with the remote control and paying you no attention. It’s time for BEAT THE COOLER™. Let out all your aggressions and problems of the day on the Cooler in the dugout…just like the Big Leaguers! Shake, swipe, and tilt your IPhone in limitless combinations to gain points, win prizes, and hear the response of the Cooler. More points and combinations will open the door to more Cooler damage, more Cooler gameplay, and more Cooler respect.”

Strategy

Bucket Me!: Price: $0.99
“Do you want to dominate the ocean? Do you want to feel the pleasure of doing everything follow your inclinations? Then you get a chance to release yourself trough “Bucket Me!”. You could control the sea animals freely, as long as draw a beautiful arc line on the bucket, they were absorbed into the bucket according to the arc line you draw. It’s time to exert your vivid imagination to chart a geography of your mind into the deep blue sea by the colorful lines and control those adorable fellows, put them inside your bucket!”

Breaker !: Price: $0.99
“Breaker !” is an arcade game and is also the right mix of the classic “Breakout” and the classic “Space Invaders”

Trivia

NOTHING

Word

Word Path: Price: $0.99
“Word Path is a casual but addictive word search game. The goal is simple: from a large, scrolling grid of randomly chosen letters remove as many words as you can find. A word’s path through the grid doesn’t have to be strictly horizontal, vertical or diagonal; it can twist, turn and cross over itself and the grid boundaries.”

iPhone/iPod Touch Links

AppleTell: [Appletell reviews Cubit for iPhone, iPod touch] [Appletell reviews Crystal Clear for iPhone, iPod touch] [Appletell reviews Comics for iPhone, iPod touch] [Free Apps roundup for August 21st, 2009]