Gamertell

Welcome to the update before Christmas! It’s another two-parter this week with the first half updating you through the Family category and the second half taking care of the rest.

This week’s most notable game is SimCity. It’s at the peak price of $9.99, but it’s well worth the money if you like genre. If simulations aren’t your thing, there are more than a few… 

Games You Might Like

Action Defense: Price: $0.99
“Action Defense is a fun and interesting game which adds actions in the Defense game genre. Because it is made by considering iPhone features at most, you can use and enjoy it easily. You should defend lots of enemy planes with only one tank.You can move the tank by tilting your phone and you can shoot ammos to any direction by touching the screen.”

Lemonade 2: Price: $0.99
“Lemonade 2 is the most sophisticated lemonade stand simulation game available for the iPhone and iPod Touch.”

7 Cities TD: Price: $4.99
“7 Cities TD is a Tower Defense game staged to the backdrop of the beautiful Amazon region. You are The Defender, tasked with building towers along the Amazon rivers to protect the ancient Golden Cities, and stop the pirates and their evil minions. To help you do this, you have the latest technologies and the ancient secrets and mysteries of the Golden Cities at your disposal. As you prepare the defenses around each of the Seven Cities their people will give you their most valued treasure as thanks. These treasures allow you to acquire new defenses and skills to defeat even the toughest and meanest enemies that appear. There are rumors that the pirates have unholy ships in their forces and have even summoned gigantic creatures from the depths. Only a master of defense such as the Defender can hope to protect the Seven Cities from such a ruthless onslaught!”

SimCity: Price: $9.99
“It’s the SimCity™ you know and love, made specifically for your iPhone™ and iPod touch™. And, if you’re new to the SimCity universe, prepare yourself for one of the most engaging, addicting games you’ve ever played. Take charge and create entire cities from the ground up - the sky’s the limit! Maneuver through lush cityscapes with a mere flick of your finger. Plan, build, and manage your thriving new metropolis from budgets to bulldozers, taxes to tornadoes! A helpful tutorial is also available to guide you through your first SimCity adventure.”

Brain Quest® Blast Off: Grade 3: Price: $9.99
“Modality, the premier mobile learning architect for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch, has combined the fun of these devices with the Brain Quest activities that kids love, parents trust, and teachers approve. Youngsters can tap, flick and fly through thousands of grade-specific questions as they strive to achieve Genius status. Players journey toward each level’s Trophy Cup Challenge by first selecting one of five knowledge areas: math, language arts, science, social studies and grab bag. A series of questions ranging from multiple choice to word jumbles and math equations test students on the same facts and concepts they’re learning in school, reinforcing their lessons in a fun and exciting new way. Players practice at their own pace within each content area to prepare for the Rocket Round, a time trial that determines if the student has mastered that category. Beat the clock by answering a series of questions correctly before the rocket launches, and advance to the bonus round for extra points. Once all five knowledge areas are successfully completed in a single level, players navigate to that level’s Trophy Cup Challenge, where they are required to stretch themselves as they prove what they know, and learn what they don’t. Game play continues for successive rounds, with increasingly difficult question sets.”

Defend Mechopolis: Price: $1.99
“Defend Mechopolis is a unique 2d progressive side-scroller defense game. The objective is simple, DEFEND MECHOPOLIS from the invasion of the landians. As the professor you are given the task to protect Mechopolis, the last known city on the planet, from being captured and destroyed by the landians. After the great war between the winged and the landians, all of the remaining winged creatures built Mechopolis to protect them from the outside. Your mission is clear and you know what to do!”

What’s Free

Xmas In Space : Play-a-Long Christmas Carols
“Your favourite alien race, the Quagaaars (from ‘Mines in Space’), have created a musical Christmas card game for you to play along with your most cherished carols. By simply tapping the screen in time to the visuals and harmony, you too can play such songs as ‘We Wish You A Merry Christmas’, ‘O Come All Ye Faithful’, ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’ and many more. Choose between a melodic bell or a soothing harp to recreate these classics in the palm of your hand for you and your family/friends to enjoy during the festive season. If you enjoy other music games such as Tap Tap Revenge, Bloom, Saturday Night Fever: Dance or PocketGuitar then this an Xmas dream come true!”

rePeteLite
“rePeteLite is the free version of our popular rePete. It will help you hone your speed, dexterity and memory. Anytime you are bored or just passing time, fire up rePeteLite for a few quick rounds of training. You select the speed and the size of the grid. rePeteLite will display a sequence on the grid using light and sound. Then it’s your turn to repeat the sequence. Just try and keep up. If you hit just one wrong button in the sequence, rePeteLite will let you know. Give it a try, but watch out. It’s highly addictive!”

Learn to Enjoy Sudoku
“Learn to Enjoy Sudoku features Sudoku Mini puzzles, the ideal way to learn Sudoku. Sudoku Mini is just like regular Sudoku, except that it is played on a smaller board with fewer digits. The strategies are the same, but with fewer cells and fewer digits, Sudoku Mini is easier to play. Our multi-stage hint system starts with a gentle reminder to get you back on track, and works up to an illustration of the exact technique to use and how it applies to the current board. Use our hints to ease those frustrating moments, and to learn how to be a better player.”

Jelly Blocks Lite
“Jelly Blocks is a simple yet absorbing puzzle game that is fun for all ages. Move jellies until you get the same colored jellies stuck together. All jellies are controlled simultaneously. Lite version contains 12 levels.”

ChartFightSP Battleship
“The Age of Sail! Ships-of-the-line, corvettes and brigantines battling it out on the high seas. Now imagine their captains carrying iPhones: instant access to the latest nautical charts, bird’s eye view of ship disposition, push-button cannon fire. This version of the classic battleship game is seriously outdated… in a good way! Use the gorgeous interface to find your adversary’s ships before they sink yours. Use ChartFightSP to play against your iPhone/iPod only, or upgrade to full ChartFight Battleship to play against friends over the Internet.”

Bridget
“It seems simple enough: One player creates a bridge from the top to the bottom of the game board by connecting circles. The other player creates a bridge from the left to the right by connecting X’s. Whoever builds their bridge first wins. However, the game is not as simple as it first appears. No, the first person to move will not always win. No, simply blocking your opponent is not an effective strategy. And yes, the computer can apply graph theory better than you can.”

Paradox Lite
“Paradox Lite is a boiled down version of our puzzle game “Paradox 3000” that takes elements of “Pipes” and “Tetris” and creates an eclectic mix. In Parardox Lite there is one available mode of play aptly named “Puzzle Mode”. Set to a chilled-out groove, “Puzzle Mode” is relaxed and methodical while offering challenging puzzles to excercise your brain muscle. Paradox Lite is a fun, inventive, and an entertaining version of its big brother “Paradox 3000”. Give it test drive today for the unbeatable price of free.”

Rolling Monkeys
“Rolling Monkeys” is a game to make a monkey evolve to man by rotating the wheel. As you rotate, the monkey goes over the evolution and then…!? What happens then is a secret. Find out when you play the actual game!”

Done Drinking
“Ever been a little intoxicated and had some difficulty making it home….just couldn’t keep yourself upright and had the urge to just fall asleep right where you were? If you have experienced this scenario, then you can relate to this character, and if not; you will soon experience what it feels like to be somewhat tipsy! Done Drinking is an entertaining game that requires you to keep the male character walking a straight line and avoid falling down at all costs. If he falls down, the party is over and he will be Done Drinking and simply fall asleep! As he tries to walk a straight line, he will suck back just a little more out of his bottle which makes it all the more difficult to keep him upright. You will get 5 chances to get your longest walk score.”

Sounds of Action
“Its hard core action! The Sounds of Action will get heart pounding with the sounds of extreme action! Great for breaking up boring meetings, making a point, or just getting your heart rate up! Get this free version now and be eligible for additional sounds when they are released. Have additional action sounds that you want to hear? Let us know and we will include them in future releases.”

Lock ‘n’ Roll
“Lock ‘n’ Roll is an intriguing puzzle game requiring a combination of luck and skill. Roll four dice at a time and arrange them on a 4x4 grid. Receive points for various combinations according to number and color. You must place all four dice and once you lock them down, they are fixed in place! The most difficult combinations are cleared from the board. Earn enough points and be rewarded with a Joker! The game keeps going until there are no more places for dice. How high can you score? That’s entirely up to you.”

Focus Free
“Focus is a really fun game, full of entertainment, with various levels (Easy, medium, hard). You enjoy to exercise your memory, insight and focus to see well cards for a few seconds discoveries.”

Dreidel Tap
“Another super-fun casual game from Jirbo, where you have to tap the Dreidels flying around your iPhone while at the same time avoiding the burning candles!”

24 Points Lite
“24 Points is simply a math game. The game starts with four random pick cards, caculate all four cards use combination of plus, minus, multiply or divid. If the final result equals number 24, then you WIN!”

Bob’s Dream Lite
“Bob dreams of a world full of adventures. But this world is in danger. The dragons try to turn the dream into a nightmare. Only Bob can defeat them. Help Bob find all 8 keys to the dragons secret lab and to destroy the nightmare machine.”

Foxie Hunny Arctic Adventure Lite
“Welcome to Foxie Hunny’s Arctic Adventure Lite by Fusion Creative Studios. Enjoy the challenges as you cross the arctic in search of Foxie’s best friend Noodles The Fox. Fight your way through dangerous creatures, while collecting diamonds, and eating Chicken and Steak for extra powers. As you progress into other levels, you are able to touch the mid-point flag so it does not bring you back to the starting point.”

Snoozle Free
“Snoozle is an addictive puzzle game that is easy to learn but difficult to master! Snoozle Free allows you to play for the first 4 levels of Snoozle. If you like the game then purchase the full version! Use the touchscreen to flick the balls to the top of the screen. Match 3 of the same color to clear them from the screen. Clear 10 to advance to the next level. Each new level adds a new colored ball. When you clear a ball that has others attached to it, they drop away. Drop 10 to earn a swap - double-tap to change the current ball to whatever color you need!”

Santa Snow Ball Lite
“Santa Snow Ball is a cute cartoon style “shoot and hide” game. (Lite version only contains level-1) The story is about the Great Santa finding that global warming is the real killer causing Christmas feel disappear and someone secretly build a huge plant, CO2 maker, to create tons of CO2 to make global warming terribly speed up. Now you have to help the Great Santa to fight with that.”

Alien Swarm Lite
“*Three stage version of the critically acclaimed Alien Swarm* Defend your home world from the alien invaders. With intuitive controls, diving aliens and extra men at 10,000 points.”

Sheep Lite
“The lazy farm hand is nowhere to be found, leaving sheep scattered across the field! Get your fingers ready, because it’s time to round up the flock! Using your finger and the accelerometer hurry the sheep into the pen! Catch half of them and you’re off to the next round. Become the best herder in the world by showing your high score off online.”

Gift Grab
“Another super-fun casual game from Jirbo, where you have to grab the gifts flying around your iPhone while at the same time avoiding the black coal disguised as presents!”

Block Chaos Lite
“It’s time for Block Chaos on your device! Funny color blocks will make big explosion! Only you can take control on them. What are you waiting for? Let’s go to the color journey!”

Run Away!
“Escape the pack of gangsters! Dodge waves of attacks! Fight for your life and avoid getting trapped! Harder than it looks… better than it sounds.”

Flexis Lite
“At long last your favorite innovative physics-based puzzler game “Flexis” is available to iPhone and iPod Touch owners. With brightly colored blocks that fall and interact with one another in a dynamic, realistic manner, “Flexis” will provide hours of casual and engaging entertainment.”

The Plateau Lite
“This is the Lite edition of “The Plateau”. It contains 10 fully playable levels of Challenge mode.”

OobitsLite
“OobitsLite is a new puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod touch. The objective in the game is to select groups of “oobits” (square crystal cells), in a cross of 5, using the touch capabilities of the iPhone, and move the selected cells in the grid, swapping them with a set of cells in a new location, trying to form a horizontal or vertical chain, which will disappear, leaving a gap. Players will get bonuses for multiple chains formed and cascades when the surrounding cells fall to fill the gap left by a chain. The accelerometer of the hardware will be used to determine from what direction the new cells fall into the grid. A 10 turn quickplay mode is available, where the goal is to get as high a score as possible.”

iCue Memory Lite
“iCue Memory Lite is a free version of the more fully-featured application iCueMemory. If you enjoy this game, please consider purchasing the other stand-alone games (iCue Memory Cards and iCue Memory Numbers) or the full suite (iCue Memory).”

Oh Balls!
“Get all of the balls to the same color as fast as possible in order to win this simple yet addicting game.”

Campaign Trail
“Campaign Trail lets you relive one of the most historically significant presidential elections in the palm of your hand! Choose the candidate of your liking and pitch your lucky and wit against the computer component in this familiar and yet innovative match-3 game.”

What’s New

Action

Steady Snowman: Price: $0.99
“OH NO! The cold winter wind is picking up and our snowman might not make it! Addictive action awaits as you try to keep the snowman from toppling over!”

BonusHunter: Price: $0.99
“BonusHunter is a not too serious game where you guide a banker via motion control to pick up as much cash as possible. Only problem are the colleagues who may get in the way while doing the same. Another challenge is the continuously decreasing time you get to collect your bonus. Fortunately, once in a while the Capitol comes to the rescue and showers you with cash. But the injected money flows quickly so you have to react fast. All major events in this game are accompanied with an appropriate sound effect culminating in a fanfare which will play once you haven proven your ability as a bonus hunter.”

Santa Snow Ball: Price: $2.99
“Santa Snow Ball is a cute cartoon style “shoot and hide” game. The story is about the Great Santa finding that global warming is the real killer causing Christmas feel disappear and someone secretly build a huge plant, CO2 maker, to create tons of CO2 to make global warming terribly speed up.”

PCB Current: Price: $2.99
“PCB Current is an exciting shoot-em-up game. Never ending entertainment every time you play. New randomly created game play is generated for each level. Cool sounds play only when you want, respecting the iPhone or iPods device sound settings. Current flows from left to right, making a moving target for you to try to stop. Each new level increases the number of surges and the speed they travel. The Circuit Board changes appearance with respect to the AMP Gage. The Amp Gage displays the circuit boards condition. If the task of keeping your circuit board surge free is hard try lowering the settings. Don’t let the Amps get too high!”

iWizard: Price: $0.99
“iWizard is a app for making magic. Touching the screen with one or more fingers you produce sorcery. You create the spell yourself – you can change the type of spell parts, their quantity, size, color, set the flight trajectory, rotation degree, limpidity. A lot of variants. Your each spell will be unique, different from others, but all they will be equally gorgeous.Also you can change the spell sound, background, gravitation power and other parameters. You can save any of your spells to show to your friends. You can also use the collection of preset spells.”

iSanta: Price: $0.99
“Do you want to play Santa this Christmas and go riding on the sleigh dropping gifts through the Chimney? Be warned that the task isn’t easy; you’ll be riding over rough terrain on a freezing night, and in heavy snowfall! Once you are all settled in the sleigh you will be given a map with a host of towns to cover. Look out for the houses below and drop each gift accurately into the chimney according to the color of the house. The cheer of Christmas isn’t complete without gifts for one and all. This game is endless fun for people of all ages, so put on your Santa suit and make some children very happy.”

iChase: Price: $0.99
“Guide a famished little fish through some tricky mazes deep underwater. And look out for the ferocious octopuses lurking in the maze. iChase features 42 exciting levels, fun sound, and is a perfect test of your skill and reflexes. If you have enjoyed Koi Pond, Enigmo, iHunt, Labyrinth, reMovem, or Pacman, you will enjoy iChase. The perfect game for people of all ages, in other words.”

Christmas Mistletoe Kisses: Price: $0.99
“Mistletoe is a simple Christmas app designed to create warm feelings for the holiday plus maybe get you a kiss!”

Toy Tanks™ 3D: Price: $1.99
“Toy Tanks™ 3D is now available for your iPhone and iPod. Fight against the evil dictator Yussuf al Fatal and his army of thugs in 9 levels where the heat is constantly on!”

Sheep: Price: $0.99
“The lazy farm hand is nowhere to be found, leaving sheep scattered across the field! Get your fingers ready, because it’s time to round up the flock! Using your finger and the accelerometer hurry the sheep into the pen! Catch half of them and you’re off to the next round. Become the best herder in the world by showing your high score off online.”

Whack It: Santa: Price: $1.99
“To follow-up Whack It: Frogs, Mad In Sweden presents Whack It: Santa. At this season it’s time to find out if your fingers are fearsome and fast? Ready to take on a Santa in a duel? Here’s your chance to test your skills! Whack as many santas as you can in 60 seconds. Don’t miss the bonus santa – the one wearing the golden dress. But watch out for the Bad Santa with tie that pop up unexpectedly. If you are fast and faultless you get a time bonus. Whack it: Santa is a game for finger practice and a bag of fun with no end. A game takes just a minute. Think and act fast. Good luck!”

Super Spaceball: Price: $0.99
“Super Spaceball is an extremely addicitve game with unique gameplay! Guide spaceballs by drawing lines on the screen with your finger. Navigate through mazes and different space maps. Munch stars to collect points and extra Lives. Having fun while playing you can also impove your knowledge about our universe - after completion of each level a new amazing fact about space will appear on the screen.”

Petri: Price: $0.99
“Petri is an exciting action-puzzle game with gorgeous graphics. It’s simple! Manipulate the colors on the screen. Dragging your finger erases the colors. Double-tapping changes the colors.”

Gold Finger: Price: $0.99
“Hit the button as many times as you can in 30 seconds as it moves across the screen. If you can hit it more than 81 times within 30 seconds, your finger may be the Golden Finger!”

Glow: Price: $0.99
“Glow is an addictive free-form drawing puzzle game featuring a unique hand-animated neon art style. Score points by drawing freehand to capture pieces, grab bonuses and chain together combos! Draw your way through 9 unique stages, balanced at 3 different difficulty levels for a total of 27 unlockable stages. Try to discover the 50 hidden combos to maximize your score. The unique art style features hundreds of hand-animated frames in a unique neon look, and is enhanced by state-of-the-art particle systems and lens flare effects.”

Netron: Price: $2.99
“Neutron is a revised version of the TRON’s lightcycles race. But in neutron the ground is not a 2D field, you’ll play in a 3D form. Yes indeed!, the field can be a cube, or any other surface created with cubes.”

Monkey Diving: Price: $0.99
“Prepare yourself for ultimate primate Monkeypulco Cliff Diving Challenge. Touch the monkeys to make them dive, ensuring you time your touch so the monkey dives into the deepest part of the wave for maximum points. Time it badly and your monkey will have a sore landing and you will lose a life.”

Linx: Price: $2.99
“Linx is a fun game that gets fast and frantic very quickly! Draw “linx” between squares of the same colour. Draw the required amount for that level and you advance to the next. It’s not as simple as you think, though. In your way are balls that bounce around the screen. Hit a ball with your line while you’re drawing it and you lose a life. Take too long to draw a link, and you lose another life. It’s not all bad; there are bonuses to be had: squares that count as any colour, bombs that remove other squares, and smart bombs that remove all squares of that colour. You’ll also get extra lives, extra seconds for your timer, and you can even remove a ball from play.”

Elemental: Price: $0.99
“Elemental is a pure arcade and addictive game, where you guide a little ball through four beautiful elemental worlds : earth, wind, fire and water. Open the gates to the new maps and worlds, by gathering or creating green and red pills, and putting them in the right place. But beware; you have many enemies who only wish one thing : preventing you from succeeding. Understand their behavior and use your mind, world topology, bonuses and items to avoid or get rid of them.”

Choppy: Price: $4.99
“Choppy is a cute arcade style side-scrolling shoot em up game. Help Choppy save his friends and defeat Lord Evil and his robot minions.”

Cuorbs: Price: $0.99
“The simple, fast and furious action of Cuorbs has come to the iPhone! This simple but addictive action game will challenge your wit and your coordination. The seemingly simple task of matching the blue Cuorbs to the blue energy field and the yellow Cuorbs to the yellow energy field will put your hand eye coordination to the ultimate test. Whether you want to kill a few minutes or a few hours, play Cuorbs now!”

CosmoHero: Price: $4.99
“Ladies and Gentlemen! We are glad to introduce our new game CosmoHero to you. It’s a great spacefighter where you will face lots of dangerous enemies with sophisticated skills and heavy armaments. Every minute you’ll be facing extreme danger and you’ll need best armaments to face the enemy. If you don’t want to die at the very start of the game, you need to start with strong weapons! To give you powerful weapons, we’ve developed many cool guns from common machinegun to plasma gun and ion shell. In time of need you can’t go without homing missiles, which annihilate a part of the enemy. Other various bonuses will also make your life easier in merciless battle environment. After every three levels you’ll face a super-boss on your way. These ship-killers have unique skills and super armaments, which can in a matter of seconds reduce you to ashes and scatter the ashes all over the galaxy. It’s only your skills and armaments that will help you to fight the enemy. The future of galaxy is in your hands and your mission is to save the galaxy. Good luck! Go!”

Smack Boxing: Price: $1.99
“With the usual twist of sarcastic humor we revamped the iPhone multitouch controls into the best stress relief experience ever! Boxing has never been this fun before. If you liked NES Punch-Out, then this is the right game for you! This is not a boxing sim, so it is definitely not for you if you expect that.”

Dodge: Price: $0.99
“Dodge is the perfect choice for kids and adults alike! Giving you a quick-paced, bright and funny game experience, Dodge will immediately enchant you with its simplicity and charm! 2-Player mode is available to play on-the-go with your friends! Your task seems simple: Keep the big balls from colliding with the small balls! As time progresses, you will have to take care of more and more balls and dodge more and more red balls! You can submit your results to our online rankings page.”

Crazy Tanks: Price: $0.99
“CrazyTanks is insanely fun game. Drive your crazy tank by tilting your device. Shoot at enemy tanks by tapping the touchscreen. Collect yummy powerups.”

Alphabetic: Price: $1.99
“26 LETTERS IN 26 SECONDS. How hard can it be right? Get ready to find out in Alphabetic, the most challenging Hidden Object game ever! Test your pattern recognition skills and dexterity in this fast paced and addictive puzzle game. This completely original game is available exclusively on iPhone and iPod Touch.”

Adventure

Das Boot: The Hunt For U-505: Price: $0.99
“You are in command of the USS Pillsbury attached to TG 22.3. Your mission is to capture an enemy U-Boat and the Enigma code books that it contains. You have Depth Charges and Air-Strikes at your disposal. You must use your Sonar to locate the enemy U-Boats, without it you’re blind and at the mercy of torpedo & mine attacks. Strategy is your key to survival you have only a limited number of depth charges onboard also the USS Guadalcanal can only send you a limited number of air-strikes.”

Amazing X-Ray FX: Price: $0.99
“Completely fool your friends into thinking your iPhone or iPod touch doubles as an amazingly cool hand X-Ray machine. Be blown away by just how realistic the X-Ray looks, an effect achieved by a multi-layering technique of ultra hi-res Xray images, subtly moving in 3D like phased sync with real-time movements you control (accelerometer sensor based). You will swear this is the real deal. The X-Ray effect is NOT simply a boring video sequence you have to follow. You control in real-time all the movements of the X-Ray scanning by gently tilting your iPhone/iPod up, down, left and/or right along the span of your wrist & hand. Within minutes you will master the art, ready to have fun with it. X-Ray FX also features high quality audio to complement the imagery along with a cool “blur in” countdown effect, to allow you enough time to position your iPhone/iPod at the starting reference point (the left wrist). Additionally, there are dual X-Ray visual modes (normal & inverse), triggered simply by tapping the screen anytime mid-scan.”

Defend Mechopolis: Price: $1.99
“Defend Mechopolis is a unique 2d progressive side-scroller defense game. The objective is simple, DEFEND MECHOPOLIS from the invasion of the landians. As the professor you are given the task to protect Mechopolis, the last known city on the planet, from being captured and destroyed by the landians. After the great war between the winged and the landians, all of the remaining winged creatures built Mechopolis to protect them from the outside. Your mission is clear and you know what to do!”

Bounce On: Price: $2.99
“Get your Bounce On! Team Phobic presents Bounce On, a new side scrolling platform game in the vein of Sonic and Mario. After falling from a familiar pocket, roll and bounce your way through over 15 levels on your adventure home. Keep your eyes out for priceless gems, adorable enemies, and amazing power ups you’ll encounter on your journey. The achievement system provides challenging gameplay for beginners and pros alike, giving hours of fun for all skill levels.”

Avalanches: Price: $0.99
“Tilt your device to control Mark the Mountee. Keep him out of harms way. As icicles fall tilt to the right or left so that Mark doesn’t get hit. One hit and the game will be over. Keep Mark safe as long as possible to rack up a high score.”

Arcade

Wirlygig: Price: $1.99
“In Arcade-style action, you fly the Wirlygig, that legendary and yet entirely unknown vehicle, across a landscape littered with Golden Orbs, Energy Pods, Bombs, and hardened Barriers! Harvest the Golden Orbs for points as you amass a vast sum of ... well ... points! Gather Energy Pods and gain health and power! Avoid the bombs! A single explosion merely harms the Wirlygig. Hit a few and the Wirlygig is no more! (Until you tap the screen). The Wirlygig bounces off the Barriers, disturbing your flight path, blocking access to Golden Orbs, grating on your nerves. Gain enough power and they can be destroyed (more points!). What level of difficulty are you capable of? At the highest, the bombs don’t just sit still ... they come after you!”

kLong: Price: $2.99
“kLong pits you against an adaptive artificial opponent as you volley for point supremacy on a variety of challenging and eye-catching levels.”

Kraut: Price: $1.99
“You have the choice between two modes: beat the highscore in timed arcade games or solve 90 challenges of various types in the campaign. Customize arcade games by choosing the board size, difficulty and flower sets. Unlock more options by earning one of the many awards. The game features animated help screens and let’s you paint your signature on highscore entries.”

Booty Blocks: Price: $1.99
“Booty Blocks is the new addictive puzzle game from the award-winning Planet Moon Studios. Set on the high seas, in Booty Blocks you’ll catch sinking blocks of crates, each full of loot. Quickly stack them into groups and set off exploding combos of BOOTY!”

Gaia Christmas Edition: Price: $0.99
“Get our hot holiday sequel to the highly-rated tilt puzzler Gaia. It’s the Gaia Christmas Edition. Same Game, Different Season. Your favorite is all dressed up for the holidays. All the fun of the original Gaia, with 20 new glittery Christmas pieces and a price to fit your shopping list.”

Totem - Tower Building Puzzle: Price: $0.99
“Help the tribes worship their Gods by constructing totem poles, and earn tribe points by filling the lands with your creations. As you play, you will be able to unlock additional tribes, achieve milestones and earn tribe medallions.”

Abby Crabby: Price: $1.99
“Abby Crabby is an original game with nostalgic feel and a modern twist. Arcade fans will recognize the classic action and gameplay in our undersea take on what some might call a fusion of Space Invaders, Missile Command and the Caribbean. Unfortunately for these crabs, they live in the Pacific Garbage Patch. Tilt to navigate Abby Crabby across the dangerous waters of the ocean floor as trash falls from above. Protect the baby crabs by bouncing, catching and then throwing thrash with a swipe!”

Ball-X: Price: $2.99
“Guide and tilt your marble on a vertigo induced 3D arcade adventure puzzler that will test your nerve, dexterity and brain matter. If you like games such as Marble Madness, you love Ball-X. Battle against the clock across 17 levels of twisted arcade action and solve the portals of madness to determine your fate and path to the diamond maze. Solve physics puzzles using boxes, lifts, switches, plasma fields, teleports, see-saws, moving platforms, magic pathways, ramps and speedups. Collect enough diamonds and pass the challenges and you’ll blast your way into the Ultimate challenge - the Diamond Maze - A 3D labyrinth full of wonder, danger and treasure. Tuned tilt-action for precision control at low speeds. Designed for beginners and pros alike - Easy to learn, difficult to master - Feel the ball”

Turtle Bounce: Price: $0.99
“Bounce your way to the top with Turtle Bounce for iPhone! Take control of everyone’s favorite amphibious reptile as you play through multiple levels of crazy bouncing action. Dodge airplanes, pufferfish, and other fiendish foes en route to a high score. Touch the screen to bounce your turtle off of your finger… but whatever you do, don’t drop it!”

Up There: Price: $1.99
“Every creature has a desire. A fish endeavors to swim. An ape endeavors to swing. A human endeavors to understand. A balloon endeavors to go: Up There! Up There is the crown jewel of Veiled Game’s products, the proud result of nearly four months non stop work. Caged away, the balloon wants only to go up. Tilt the iPhone back and forth to avoid the barriers that want to drag you down, and escape Up! Its a games that is elegant in its simplicity, addicting in its pure fun.”

Board

BeLineX: Price: $0.99
“BeLineX (BeLineXmas) is the Christmas Theme of popular game - BeLine. It is exactly same features with BeLine, but with Christmas feel. BeLineX is a popular challenging puzzle game that facilitate hours of gameplay. Your goal is to clear the tiles by aligning 5 identical tiles in the middle row. If you are a fan of puzzle games like Bejeweled, Collapse, Tetris or Trism, you surely will like BeLineX - the new game concept of aligning identical tiles.”

Link Link Kill: Price: $0.99
“Cards are aligned in grids. Imagine linking two cards with maximum three straight lines and no other cards under the lines. If you can connect two cards that way, touch them and they will disappear (be killed by a flash). See, the rule is very simple.”

Crossbones: Price: $0.99
“Crossbones is a challenging and addictive pirate-themed puzzle game. Match cards as fast as you can to collect pirate loot. Play solo or against computer opponents in single player mode. Challenge your friends over the internet or via local multiplayer.”

Christmas Lights Off: Price: $0.99
“To solve each puzzle you must turn off all of the Christmas lights. When you tap a light you toggle it and the lights above and beside it on/off. If you’re in a hurry play against a timer in Survival mode.”

Peg Solitaire Classic: Price: $1.99
“About 200 years before the French Revolution, a French nobleman was imprisoned in Bastille. This nobleman thought playing chess would be a good idea to kill time. “Is there a chess game for one player?” He then designed the well-known “Fox and Geese Board” to play alone. The game evolved since and is known as Peg Solitaire. You may start with any peg on the board, and jump over the peg next to it, landing on a hole. The peg being jumped over will be removed from the board. The target of the game is to remove all pegs until one peg remains. If the last peg stays in the middle, we call it “Perfect”!”

Oobits: Price: $2.99
“Oobits is a new puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod touch. The objective in the game is to select groups of “oobits” (square crystal cells), in a cross of 5, using the touch capabilities of the iPhone, and move the selected cells in the grid, swapping them with a set of cells in a new location, trying to form a horizontal or vertical chain, which will disappear, leaving a gap. Players will get bonuses for multiple chains formed and cascades when the surrounding cells fall to fill the gap left by a chain. The accelerometer of the hardware will be used to determine from what direction the new cells fall into the grid. Different modes are available: a strategy mode where the user has to meet a goal in a certain amount of turns, and an arcade mode where the user has to get a certain number of points in a certain time period to move to the next level. A 10 turn quickplay mode is also available, where the goal is to get as high a score as possible.”

Combination: Price: $2.99
“Combination is a new, unique and addictive brain-expanding puzzle game. Designed by Dr. Chris Jefferson, expert in Artificial Intelligence, this new puzzle game is sure to entertain and stump you while expanding your brain power. The idea is simple: Place all the pieces on the board, so that pieces of different colours cannot attack each other. While the rules of the puzzle are simple, mastering this game and all of the ways pieces can interact may take a lifetime!”

Card

Focus: Price: $1.99
“Focus is a really fun game, full of entertainment! Find the twin card and enjoy to exercise your memory, insight and concentration focusing well the cards for a few seconds discoveries.”

iPref: Price: $4.99
“iPref lets you play trick-taking Preference game against computer opponents, so you can practice and be prepared for play with your friends. Advanced playing algorithm of the game will provide hours of challenges for you whenever you have time to play the game. High-quality graphics, use of gestures and other iPhone-specific technologies add a nice touch to this classic card game from nineteen century (even Leo Tosltoy played it!)”

Speed Fiend: Price: $0.99
“Speed Fiend is the popular card game Speed for the iPhone/iPod Touch. It involves quick thinking and mental agility. Unlike most card games, there are no turns. You must play as fast as you can against your computer opponent to be the first to play all your cards. It is just as addictive and easy to learn as Solitaire, but plays like an arcade game and adds the challenge of developing quick reflexes. The rules are simple. You can play a card on a discard pile if your card is one higher or lower than it. You play a card by dragging it onto the discard pile. Once you have played a card, you can tap your reserve deck to draw another card. If you play all your cards before your opponent, you win.”

24 Points: Price: $0.99
“24 Points is simply a math game. The game starts with four random pick cards, caculate all four cards use combination of plus, minus, multiply or divid. If the final result equals number 24, then you WIN!”

CatchMe: Price: $3.99
“CatchMe is an entertaining speed game. Each player(2 ~ 4) has a deck of cards. The cards are turned over one by one automatically. Whenever the top cards of the piles exactly five items of a kind, players must race to tap the iPhone(or iPod touch) in the middle of the players as soon as possible. If you’re correct, you can take all the played cards. If you’re wrong, you pay the others a card each.”

4ColSol: Price: $0.99
“4ColSol - or 4 Column Solitaire - is a quick and easy solitaire card game. With quick thinking and quick fingers, a game can be played in about a minute! The game is played by dealing out 4 cards at a time into four columns. If two or more cards at the end of the column are of the same suit, the lower cards can be removed (Aces are high in this game). If a column empties out, a single card from one of the other columns can be moved into it. After any or all of the allowed moves are made, four more cards are dealt out. The game is complete when all the cards have been dealt out and all the final moves have been made. If you are left with just the four aces, one in each of the four columns, then you win. Otherwise, give it another try - it’s fun and speedy!”

Christmas FreeCell: Price: $0.99
“A challenging solitaire game where the full deck of cards is dealt into eight columns out of which four suit stacks are built. Cards can be moved within the columns, to the four “free cells”, and to the suit stacks. This version includes 4 different festive Christmas themes, 6 color themes, and optional background music. The object of FreeCell is to build up four suit stacks, starting with the Ace of each suit and ending with the King. The game is won when the cards are ordered so that they can all be stacked on top of the four suit stacks. The entire deck is dealt into eight columns of turned up cards. Cards can be moved around within the columns so long as they alternate color and are stacked in descending order. For instance, the Ten of Spades can be stacked on the Jack of Diamonds or Hearts. In addition, one card can be placed in each of the four “free cells” in the upper left portion of the screen.”

Casino

Big2 Poker: Price: $2.99
“Big2 is a card game similar to A$$hole, Crazy Eights, Bullsh*t, and Winner as the object is to be the first player to discard all of his or her cards. It is believed that this signature “climbing” game probably originated in coastal China around 1980. It has since become very popular in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Philippines, Singapore and in a number of western countries with die hard cult followings in the US and Canada! First player to $100 wins!”

Ultimate Hold’em Poker: Price: $0.99
“Ultimate Hold’em Poker is the fastest growing game is Las Vegas today. Not to be confused with other Texas Hold’em games, Ultimate Hold’em Poker is the completely unique casino table version of the game. Playing solely against the dealer, the player must utilize normal Texas Hold’em strategy as well as balance the huge bonus bets available in the game. With multiple bet modes, online high scores, intuitive controls, and spectacular graphics, Ultimate Hold’em Poker is a must have for any poker player.”

Santa’s Wild! Slots: Price: $1.99
“Santa’s Wild! Slots is a whimsical Christmas themed slot machine for your iPhone or iPod Touch. Santa is wild, matching any other symbol and doubling all awards. Carol of the Bells plays as the reels spin, and christmas lights twinkle when you win. You’ll be amazed by the realistic controls, sound effects, and spinning reel animation. A scrollable pay table, touch responsive reels, and shake feature makes it the most interactive slot machine game available.”

Dice

Pig: Price: $0.99
“The game of Pig is a classic folk game first described in print in 1945. In Pig you must be the first to reach 100 points by rolling a single die. The game gets tricky in that if you roll a 1, your turn score is then 0 and your turn is over.”

Casino Craps: Price: $2.99
“Choose from multiple table felt and rail images to customize look *** Set the maximum odds for your table (default 3x-4x-5x) *** Six chip denominations (5 - 1,000) *** Shake your phone or double tap the dice to roll *** Optional dice animation and sound effects *** Saves your game when you leave the application *** Automatically collect winnings or leave them on table *** Call odds, hardways and place/buy/lay bets on or off for come out roll *** and much more!”

Craps Deluxe: Price: $4.99
“Practice your craps strategies with Craps Deluxe, the premiere craps game for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Easy to use, hard to put down, Craps Deluxe offers a true casino-style experience. Try new strategies at your leisure, build a large bankroll, or simply learn how to play with Craps Deluxe.”

Educational

Number 14: Price: $1.99
“Number 14 is a dynamic puzzle game where four random numbers between 1 and 9 are generated. You must combine the numbers using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division so that the result is 14.”

iCue Memory Binary: Price: $0.99
“iCue Memory Binary is a standalone version of the Binary game found in the full iCue Memory game. If you enjoy this game, please consider purchasing the other stand-alone games (iCue Memory Cards and iCue Memory Numbers) or the full suite (iCue Memory).”

Blockhawk: Price: $1.99
“Blockhawk is a collection of block-based puzzle games with a wide variety of game styles. There is also plenty of room to grow as the game can go from extremely easy to quite challenging!”

Brain Thaw: Price: $2.99
“Do you freeze up when you’re forced to deal with numbers? Revitalize your math skills with Brain Thaw, a fun and educational game that will help you bring those skills out of retirement. Guide your number-loving penguin through fields of delicious numbers—but watch out! Fearsome yetis abound, and there’s nothing they like better than making a snack out of little eggheads like you!”

Braineous: Challenge Your Brain: Price: $3.99
“How smart are you? Assemble puzzles, solve math problems under pressure and match gestures as accurately as you can before time runs out. Braineous includes 10 exercises to stimulate your neurons, but the challenge doesn’t stop there. Think you’re good? Submit your score to the Try This Game Network and compare yourself with the rest of the world to find out how smart you REALLY are.”

Brain Blaze Subtract: Price: $0.99
“Brain Blaze Subtract is a set of subtraction flash cards for operands 0 through 12. Parents will find the color-coded progress grid invaluable for tracking progress for up to 6 different users. Kids will enjoy the positive audio praise when they complete a set of flashcards. Boost your brainpower and keep your brain young with this fun and challenging educational game. The interface and features are similar to our other math flashcard applications, Brain Blaze Add, Multiply, and Divide. There is an optional setting for negative numbers.”

iCue Memory Cards: Price: $1.99
“Imagine being able to memorize the order of cards in an entire deck as quickly as they can be dealt, or phone numbers the moment they are voiced. Just like muscular strength, the ability to remember increases when exercised. Whether you want to win the World Memory Championships, ace your history test, or simply remember someone’s phone number without having to write it down, iCue is for you. Based on leading memory improvement techniques, iCue will help you improve your memory before you know it. It takes a little time and practice, but once you’ve got it down - you’ll be able to amaze your friends. Scoring is based on memorization time, number of items being memorized, recall time and accuracy. Compete against yourself and against others around the world for the highest scores.”

iCue Memory: Price: $2.99
“Through three simple games you can practice and perfect the skills required to remember playing cards, long strings of numbers, mathematical constants like π (Pi), e, ϕ (Phi), Ɣ (Gamma), and strings of binary digits. Based on leading memory improvement techniques, iCue will help you improve your memory before you know it. It takes a little time and practice, but once you’ve got it down - you’ll be able to amaze your friends. Scoring is based on memorization time, number of items being memorized, recall time and accuracy. Compete against yourself and against others around the world for the highest scores.”

Match Magic: Price: $0.99
“Match Magic is designed keeping preschoolers in mind. It is very ideal for kids between the ages 3 to 5. Match Magic is a wonderful game which is designed to encourage preschoolers to learn colors, shapes, numbers, pictures etc in a fun way by matching them. It is designed with a very simple layout. Kids just need to touch and drag from left to right to match the two images. They get a visual clue of a line being drawn as they touch and drag to match them.”

ColorBrain: Price: $1.99
“ColorBrain is a game which tests your ability to memorize colors. Would you like to exercise your memory and have fun at the same time? This game will allow you to achieve both at the tip of your fingers!”

Brain Quest® Blast Off: Grade 3: Price: $9.99
“Modality, the premier mobile learning architect for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch, has combined the fun of these devices with the Brain Quest activities that kids love, parents trust, and teachers approve. Youngsters can tap, flick and fly through thousands of grade-specific questions as they strive to achieve Genius status. Players journey toward each level’s Trophy Cup Challenge by first selecting one of five knowledge areas: math, language arts, science, social studies and grab bag. A series of questions ranging from multiple choice to word jumbles and math equations test students on the same facts and concepts they’re learning in school, reinforcing their lessons in a fun and exciting new way. Players practice at their own pace within each content area to prepare for the Rocket Round, a time trial that determines if the student has mastered that category. Beat the clock by answering a series of questions correctly before the rocket launches, and advance to the bonus round for extra points. Once all five knowledge areas are successfully completed in a single level, players navigate to that level’s Trophy Cup Challenge, where they are required to stretch themselves as they prove what they know, and learn what they don’t. Game play continues for successive rounds, with increasingly difficult question sets.”

Family

Memix: Price: $2.99
“MEMIX is a challenging, addictive game perfect for sharpening the mind in your spare time. It’s a memory game with a twist: make a mistake and the tiles switch places! Choose from four unique modes to bend your brain and test your speed.”

Snakes And Ladders: Price: $1.99
“Snakes And Ladders is a classic board game for young children. It is played by 2 or more players. Each player rolls a die and moves by given number of fields. The winner is the one who reaches the field 50 first.”

Henry & Hailey’s - Kids ABC Game: Price: $1.99
“Henry and Hailey’s Kids ABC creatively teaches the alphabet by mixing and matching. Young children will learn the upper and lower case letters by matching the letters to an object. Children can learn the alphabet by pressing the “learn” button on the main page. Press the “play” button and each pal will talk to you. Once you have learned the ABC’s, you are ready to start the game. Press the “game” button on the main menu. The goal is to align the three barrels to match the upper, lower case letter with the object. When you think you have made a match, press the “play” button. A special surprise will happen once you successfully match all 26 letters and objects.”

iDreidle for Chanukah: Price: $0.99
“The dreidel is usually played in chanukah. Each side of the dreidel bears a letter of the Hebrew alphabet: נ (Nun), ג (Gimel), ה (Hei), ש (Shin), acronym for “נס גדול היה שם” (Nes Gadol Haya Sham – “a great miracle happened there”). During chanukah jewish people play with the dreidel. The Yiddish word “dreydl” comes from the word “dreyen” (“to turn”). The code (based on a Yiddish version of the game) is as follows:
Nun - nisht - “nothing” - nothing happens and the next player spins
Gimel - gants - “all” - the player takes the entire pot
Hey - halb - “half” - the player takes half of the pot, rounding up if there is an odd number
Shin - shtel ayn - “put in” - the player puts one marker in the pot.”

FlatusBox: Price: $0.99
“Play a joke on your friends or family for a great laugh. Play various distracting sounds… farts, burps, a hungry pig, the toilet flushing.”

Count With Bear: Price: $0.99
“A great game for helping young kids learn basic maths using fun animals.”

SpaceRace: Price: $1.99
“You’ve never played a racing game quite like this! SpaceRace is a unique low gravity racing game. Compete against friends or the world with a personal and global “Best Times” list while you attempt to find and collect 20 lunar ice chunks! Use the iPhone and iPod Touch accelerometers to control a lunar rover through two levels of increasing difficulty! With fast paced low-G racing and crazy low gravity stunts, fun will ensue! Space Race uses nVidia’s PhysX engine to give you the feel of real Lunar gravity!”

Pic n’ Mix - SlideIt Puzzle: Price: $0.99
“Ready for a challenge? Strain your brain with Pic n’ Mix , the superb new slide-it game for iPhone/iPod Touch. Pick your image to be tiled and it will be mixed—not only shuffled, but also rotated ! Solve the puzzle by sliding the tiles - use the special rotation squares to turn them—this is one tough puzzle!”

Whack It: For Kids: Price: $1.99
“This is a Whack It: application for the whole family. We have tested it on our younger friends and we think your kids will love it. With the possibility to adjust the level of difficulty (recommended from 5 years) the game is a real family treat. Who will be No.1 on the high score list, you or your kids? Funny animals are popping out of five holes at random and it’s your job to hit as many as you can in 60 seconds. Use your finger as a mallet. Zebras give you more points. The angry lion reduce your score. If you hit fifteen animals in a row you get a time bonus.”

Christmas Games Pack - Collector’s Edition: Price: $1.99
“This is the ultimate Christmas games collection consisting of three super-fun and popular Christmas games: Christmas Memory Match, Christmas Gift Stack, and Cookie Catch. Christmas Memory Match - This fun, Christmas-themed memory match game is perfect for all ages. Cute graphics and jingle bells sounds will get you into the holiday spirit while at the same time help you keep your memory sharp with the quest to match identical pairs. Christmas Gift Stack - Catch the falling Christmas gifts and stack them as high as you can. Avoid snowballs. The higher you stack them, the faster the gifts and the snowballs fall. Can you stack all the way up to Santa? Cookie Catch - Help Casey catch all the yummy gingerbread cookies while making sure to avoid getting hit by the falling snowballs as those will turn Casey into a snowball-head, and Casey really hates when that happens.”