Gamertell

No wit this week, just a long list of gaming apps for your Apple handheld.

Most notable this week is Puzzle Quest Free, which is the stripped-down version of the still-a-little-pricey Puzzle Quest game for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Puzzle Quest Free is definitely welcome as I haven’t been entirely sure about spending $8 but now I can try it without breaking my piggy bank.

Join the puzzle based RPG are numerous shooters, word games, crazy Anime girl games, and even another version of the classic game, Rogue. So scroll on down and get playing already!

Games You Might Like

VyFight: Price: $4.99
“Pilot a spacecraft and destroy the enemy fleets while controlling from left to right and from top to bottom with the accelerometer. Exceptional playability. Become the best pilot of the world and obtain credit in order to buy better spacecrafts in the shop. Publish your scores on line and compare them to the other players of the whole world. Find tips allowing you to pass the levels more easily and to increase your scores. Judiciously choose your bonus to change your weapons, increase your scores,… and many more surprises.”

Rogue Touch: Price: $2.99
“Rogue Touch is the classic dungeon adventure-RPG completely reborn for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Explore the Dungeons of Doom while trying to retrieve the Amulet of Yendor.”

Block Knights: Price: $4.99
“Block Knights is an addictive puzzle game with a campy, adventure twist. Players tilt and tap the iPhone to guide pieces through four engaging gameplay modes. Block Knights balances tense timed modes like Arcadia and Guillotine with the relaxing gameplay of Infinitas mode. Players looking for more can take on armies of Mobs across multiple stages in the epic Quest mode.”

Puzzle Quest Free
“Puzzle Quest Free is an addictive gem matching puzzle game combined with an epic role-playing adventure that is perfect for both casual and hard-core game enthusiasts. This introduction to Puzzle Quest offers you the ability to create your hero, embark on some quests, and learn to battle on the head-to-head puzzle board. Battle your opponents on the puzzle board by swapping four different colors of gems, gold coins and attack skulls, in order to create matching rows of three or more. “

Backyard Hockey: Price: $0.99
“Pablo and his friends are up for some hard-hitting hockey action. Take on individual opponents as you attempt to slap-shot the puck pass them and into their goal. Beware you have to play defense, too, as they will be hitting hard shots back at you. This game is has fast-paced, back-and-forth competition as you attempt to get the most goals and rack up points. Play five rounds against five of Backyard Sports toughest kids; beat one and you advance to another game, take a loss and it’s game over. Bonus points awarded for holding your opponent scoreless, scoring goals in a row, and extra banks off the wall. Keep your high scores and hand the game off to your friends to see if they can put up more points than you!”

WordMind: Price: $2.99
“WordMind is a word guessing game. Using as few guesses as possible, you have to try to discover a 5 letter secret word. For each guess, you are told which letters are in the word and whether they are in the correct position.”

What’s Free

Puzzle Quest Free
“Puzzle Quest Free is an addictive gem matching puzzle game combined with an epic role-playing adventure that is perfect for both casual and hard-core game enthusiasts. This introduction to Puzzle Quest offers you the ability to create your hero, embark on some quests, and learn to battle on the head-to-head puzzle board. Battle your opponents on the puzzle board by swapping four different colors of gems, gold coins and attack skulls, in order to create matching rows of three or more. “

xBall
“XBall (cross ball) is very simple arcade type game. The only object is to get all the balls into the other size of the court. When they are all there you will advance a level and get an extra ball to get across. As the balls increase in number its harder and harder to keep the balls from crossing back into the starting court.”

Space Rage 2 Lite
“The lite version allows you to fully play the first 3 levels of Space Rage 2. With fantastically fun 3D dog fights in space you have full control over your ship by tilting your device. You are given random missions to have death matches with enemy ships or protect a cargo ship so it doesnt get destroyed before it reaches its target. Get the full version to have unlimited number of levels, with highscores and even being able to submit your score online.”

Snake XT
“Relive your old memories in an iPhone way! One tap of Snake Xtreme, a Sssssleek new version of the old-time classic arcade game Snake, and you’ll get all wrapped up. Objective is to (as if we have to explain ;) ) eat as many pellets as possible, avoid the obstacles at all costs and watch your tail grow! Think you got game? Then play either of our two challenging versions if you dare. Challenging, but anybody can play them!”

Radio Flare Lite
“Fight back waves of intruders in this musical shooter game. Propelled by radio flares, your space ship speeds pulsing through deep space, taking you on a journey into sound. Radio Flare Lite invites you to experience a beautifully modeled space trip accompanied by an interactive electronica soundtrack. You steer your ship with one finger while targeting enemies with another. Hit enemies are desynchronized in time to the beat and blast out radio flares. Collect radio flares to advance and intensify the soundtrack. Rack up points through tactically executed quadruple shot combos. Radio Flare Lite offers one fully featured tutorial stage. Radio Flare Lite is a music game featuring an interactive version of the licensed song “Libration Point” by renown electronic musician DJ Glow / Trust (Berlin).”

myFly LITE
“It is quick and annoying and reluctant to stay out of your way. Now is your change for revenge in this LITE version of myFly where the fly is so realistic you forget it’s a game.”

Jump Lite
“The JUMP brings you an uncommon fun experience with natural physics simulation. Unique gameplay, great graphics and dynamic action. The goal of the game is to get the best score and collect the cups at the end of each level; keep the ball from falling into the abyss between the boxes. You can control the ball by tilting your iPhone/iPod Touch.”

Air Hockey Fingertip Sports Lite
“Air Hockey Fingertip Sports Lite. This is the FREE version supported by ads. A full version of the game is also available from the App Store with no ads. New features include improved physics, a variety of puck/mallet sizes from tiny to giant, improved graphics, and a larger play area.”

Squares2 Lite
“The Lite version of the popular Squares2 game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Guide your black square around the screen, collecting other black squares along the way while trying to avoid the red squares! Pick up as many black circles (power-ups) as possible to get bonuses, such as invincibility, slow motion and mini square. Red circles (power-downs) give you penalties - live evil squares, increased speed and big square. The game is fast paced and fun to play. Be warned, it’s very addicting! ** The lite version of the game includes all of the exciting gameplay of the full version, but does not retain your high scores and does not allow your scores to compete against other high scores in the world.”

Oort Storm: FS5 (LITE)
“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!”

3DWorld For Free
“Just like the title, walk around in a 3D World. This beautiful 3D environment was created by Unity Technologies for use with the Unity game engine. Experience the capabilities of Unity for the iPhone/iPod Touch. There is another developer listing this application as a paid application. All they have done is taken the Unity demo and submitted it. Here it is for free.”

ShiveringKittens Lite
“Kittens are freezing and it’s your job to save them! In this quirky new puzzle game, you free adorable kittens from their icy confinement by arranging falling blocks. The more ice blocks you set, the more kittens you save! With each kitten you rescue, the satisfying ice crunch and plaintive meows reward you for your efforts. For those brave souls who want to up the ante, ShiveringKittens comes in 10 increasingly challenging levels.”

Minesweeper Free
“Minesweeper Free is a best-of-breed Minesweeper game. Like other Minesweeper games on the App Store, board size and difficulty are customizable.”

Sidepod Poker Odds Lite
“It’s a full-blown odds calculator for Texas Hold’em poker, featuring one of the very few engines capable of computing standalone exact odds. It is THE ONLY engine that takes dead cards into account. It has a keyboard especially designed for the quick and flexible input of cards and even card ranges (you can choose to provide rank or suit only!). It is flexible. It is powerful. And it is free.”

[Lite] Candy Candy Match
“Here, the Playrun, Co. presents new versions of fabulous and equally-scrumptious match application! We believe these new versions of match games perfectly fit for your fancy iPhone/iPod Touch. Keep on amusing yourself by testing your memory ability. Entertaining your eyes and brain by pairing all sorts of candy matches. Unlike other matching games, these games are desinged with different level. Each level gets significantly more difficult level.”

[Lite] Doughnut Match
“Here, the Playrun, Co. presents new versions of fabulous and equally-scrumptious match application! We believe these new versions of match games perfectly fit for your fancy iPhone/iPod Touch. Keep on amusing yourself by testing your memory ability. Entertaining your eyes and brain by pairing all sorts of doughnut matches. Unlike other matching games, these games are desinged with different level. Each level gets significantly more difficult level.”

NANO Lite
“NANO is an intuitive and unique app. Part particle-flow puzzle, part interactive ambient music composition. Play for relaxation, or for a challenging diversion.”

ChocoBan
“ChocoBan is based on the classic SokoBan, extended to use two different block types. Your goal is to help the Easter Bunny re-arrange chocolate pieces so that the round ones end up in round holes and the square ones in square holes. Point on a chocolate piece and drag it in the direction you want the Easter Bunny to push. You can also make him go to a specific place by pointing on the ground.”

Boost Lane
“In this Revnjenz “Club Racing” mini game, you are put in control of your virtual street import racer. Your goal is to Boost through lanes of other import racers, in an effort to pick up as many upgrade parts as possible. On top of you dash panel is a cool indiglo gauge speedometer where you can reach speeds nearing 200 mph while flying “safely” through traffic, but only if you have the skills to back it up. After all, he with the most parts wins, right?”

Carrect
“Move your finger to drive a car. Collect coins. Avoid oncoming cars. It’s a very simple game.”

What’s New

Action

Vector Tanks: Price: $2.99
“Vector Tanks—you are in command of a futuristic tank amid a surreal 3 dimensional battlefield. Enemy tanks are everywhere. Survival seems impossible! The best you can hope for is to take out as many enemy targets as you can before you are destroyed.”

Zombie: Price: $0.99
“Have you ever wanted to act in your own personal zombie movie? Here’s your chance! All the elements are here - relentlessly advancing zombies, starving for human flesh, people to save, and even bats to pick off! Kill the zombies and bats, save the people, and advance through the ranks! (100,000 points makes you a General!) So how do you participate in this adventure? Hit a zombie’s head and he will be injured. He may take more than one hit to kill. Tap anywhere on a person’s body and he will switch direction and flee the zombies. Tap a bat and he will drop dead right before your eyes! Get involved in this exciting, fast-paced game. Become a Zombie Hunter today!”

NIKAI KARA MEGUSURI: Price: $0.99
“NIKAI KARA MEGUSURI” is a game that can visually experience famous proverb “Eye medicine from the second floor” of Japan. It seems to be very impatient as the person who is below is made to do the eye medicine(MEGUSURI) from the second floor(NIKAI) , saying that “Eye medicine from the second floor”. Eye(ME) move when the machine is inclined right and left in this game, and obtain the eye medicine that the second floor drops well, please. The record expands when it is possible to obtain it. Because the Chinese character is controlled directly, let’s actually feel the meaning of the proverb. You can listen to favorite music while playing.”

Money Catcher: Price: $0.99
“Look, money is falling from the sky! Really! Swads of cash, gold coins, jelwery, and much more. Catch them while you can ‘caus it won’t last! Simply tilt you iPhone to guide your truck. Catch all the falling money you can. Those fall to the ground will increase the ground level, reducing the space and time you have to catch more. Avoid those ice cubes that were mixed in the falling money - they will freeze the truck and slow you down.”

Ipong: Price: $0.99
“Ipong, takes the famous Pong game for 80 years, you met the challenge of catch the ball and keep the pace as long as possible to be included in the world ranking gamers.”

CUP destroyer: Price: $2.99
“Help Tawada to win the cup! Destroy the required number of blocks in each level without letting the cup fall into the ground. Tap on a block to destroy it (black blocks cannot be destroyed).”

Blow!: Price: $0.99
“See who can catch the most bubbles in this fun, mesmerizing game for your iPhone or iPod Touch! Use a combination of blowing (or shaking) and tilting techniques. Blow (yes, physically blow) on your iPhone to make your scope larger, or change game settings to shake your device instead. Tilt your iPhone or iPod Touch in all different directions to catch bubbles or avoid them. Blue bubbles earn you points while green bubbles act as point multipliers. Yellow bubbles trigger a brief “vacuum mode” which sucks blue and green bubbles toward you. But watch out for the red bubbles, because they do some bad things! Challenge your friends to see who can get the highest score and earn the best Appchievements! Or just have fun blowing bubbles.”

Smack Me: Price: $2.99
“Play SmackMe! the addictive new iPhone musical reflex game! See if you can keep pace through a series of progressively challenging levels and difficulty sessions. Can you make it to 100%?”

myFly: Price: $2.99
“They are quick and annoying and reluctant to stay out of your way. Now is your change for revenge in this very unique game where the flies are so realistic you forget it’s a game. In the main game, from the main menu, you can select from 3 difficulties; 8, 10 and 12 seconds to kill all the flies of which there are 15. Give it your best swing and start myFly for lots of fun and realistic gameplay.”

First Contact: Price: $2.99
“An innovative new 3D action game. Eliminate the incoming missiles, nukes, and UFOs which threaten your colonies on a planet under siege. How long can you last? Rendered in full 3D, with complete freedom to view the planet from any angle. Simple, intuitive interface—rotate, zoom and fire using multi-touch!”

Upsi Runner: Price: $0.99
“An old school style arcade game that harks back to the likes of Frogger and Donkey Kong. Guide the snail to the top of the screen dodging the butterflies, bombs and monsters.”

SuperTank: Price: $2.99
“SuperTank is a 3D tank shoot game. the copter will lead you to the “Crazy Island” and order you kill all the crazy tanks, as the commander’s motto “no terror no pity…the war is starting… “

SPACE MOGURA plus: Price: $1.99
“They have come from beyond the universe… “SPACE MOGURA”, mole-shaped creatures from far beyond the universe, have launched an attack to invade the Earth. You must whack the “SPACE MOGURAS” and defend the Earth to death. “SPACE MOGURA plus” introduces a world ranking system to show your highest score to the world. Become the world’s best mole hunter! Players compete in order to submit the high score within the time limit. The faster you whack the moles, the higher score you get. If you satisfy a certain condition, it will apper some “SPACE MOGURAS” that are worth more points.

SHOOTER - THE OFFICIAL MOVIE GAME: Price: $0.99
“Shooter - The Official Movie Game is one of the first true 1st person shooters to be released on the iPhone and iPod Touch. As Gunnery Sergeant Bob Lee Swagger, you must clear your name after being accused of an assassination attempt on the President. Stealthy pursuit, a steady hand and nerves of steel will allow you to eliminate those responsible.”

Ninja Hero: Price: $1.99
“Dynamic and exciting shooting game based on legendary warriors in ancient japan. Players should terminate all ninjas on the dark side not an innocent civilians. Also find treasure in the underworld in the sea.”

MusicNeon: Price: $0.99
“This game is easy to play. At every level, you have to complete the mission by rotating neon tubes in order to connect a path between the positive electrode on the left and the negative electrode on the right. After any two of different electrodes are connected, all neon tubes in the path are sparking and replaced by new random neon tubes. At every level, higher score and more time extension can be earned by finding a longer path or connecting quality neon tubes at once, since the quality neon tubes contain interesting gifts which are waiting for you to discover. You need to complete harder mission and also face more obstacle of immovable neon tubes at advanced levels. Remember, you can enjoy all the types of neon tubes you collected in your ” neon box”.”

The Hunt: Price: $0.99
“A simulation of a popular Soviet game “Electronica IM-18” - “The Hunt”, analogue of Nintendo’s EG-26 Egg (Game & Watch series).”

Mythral: Price: $0.99
“Be the first to destroy asteroids within the Mythral Belt.”

iDracula - Undead Awakening: Price: $0.99
“You are the hunter. Vampire hunter. Well, not quite. In fact, you are being hunted. Or you’re just trying to survive a little more against the horde of Vampires, Werewolves, Witches and Dracula himself. Can you stand the night? iDracula is an intense survival shooter - the most intense game in the App Store. You begin with a simple gun and slow monsters, but as the time passes, they grow stronger and faster, dropping better weapons. You will also be able to gain “perks”, as you earn enough experience.”

Oort Storm: FS5: Price: $2.99
“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, 3-way fire, Pulse Bombs, and AutoChron ‘time freeze’ along with all of your skill to make it through 9 levels and prevent the end of civilization if you can! When you’re done, submit your score on the Global Ranking leader-board and see how you compare!”

MICE: Price: $2.99
“This is a game where you must guide　rats towards a cat who will chase them　away from a fish that they are trying to eat. It is an action puzzle game based on the old Japanese game “Amida”. How many rats will you be able to chase away from the fish?”

H.E.X.: Price: $2.99
“H.E.X. is an exciting, colorful Action-Puzzle Game for everyone who enjoys a challenge from the first minute on. The Rules are easy: The Gameboard filled with colorcoded, hexagonal crystals. By marking the crystals with the touch of your hand, you have match them to a given pattern. If it matches, the crystals are disovled and a new challenge begins. The more you play, the more difficult it gets. The difficulty is raised through more complex patterns and less time to solve them. This will bring your brain into overdrive. Luckly sometimes bonuscrystals appear to help you along. So if you enjoyed „Tetris“, „Collapse! Chaos“ or „Bejeweled“ you will love H.E.X. With its detailed graphics, its lovely animations and an awesome sounddesign you will be hooked immediately. But watch it. This game is highly contagious and anyone who watches you will want to play it for many hours.”

Man the Turrets!: Price: $1.99
“Protect your cities from the invading aliens. Turrets brings old school style arcade action to the iPhone with a modern flare. How many explosions can you chain together? How long can you keep your cities protected from the onslaught?”

Monsties: Price: $0.99
“Monsties is a classic style arcade game that will take you back in time. Use your laser cannon to blast apart waves of monsties before they get to you. Levels get progressively harder. Shoot the UFO to earn between 100-1000 points.”

Miro-Maze: Price: $0.99
“The Miro-Maze is a game in which you have to find your way through a maze. The player is a yellow robot. As you move you ipod, the maze rolls. The player has to move the robot through the maze and reach the finish successfully. Everytime you complete a stage, you will move on to the next stage. Each stage becomes bigger and more difficult. If you select ‘Load game’, you have the option to continue from where you left off.”

Adventure

The Quest - 3D Fantasy Adventure RPG: Price: $5.99
“The Quest is a graphically stunning, engaging and sinister world full of mystery, magic and provocative challenges. Choose from five customizable races and an array of skills, attributes, weapons, armor and enchantments, then explore a huge non-linear realm of four different cities and a wilderness of mountains, caves, lakes and forests. Play an absorbing card game, solve brain-teasing quests and clash with dangerous opponents in this turn- and skill-based Role Playing Game. You will have many choices, including some that may place you against the law, along your way to the dramatic end of your own choosing. You will need all your gaming know-how to survive and discover your destiny!”

Pikey: Price: $1.99
“Pikey is an exciting casual game with 3D graphics designed to be a unique mobile game for your entertainment.”

Rogue Touch: Price: $2.99
“Rogue Touch is the classic dungeon adventure-RPG completely reborn for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Explore the Dungeons of Doom while trying to retrieve the Amulet of Yendor.”

Garden War: Price: $2.99
“Ravenous pests are invading your garden and eating your flowers! Don’t worry, you have water shot,grume launcher,stone launcher,fire blazer and powerful electric tower. Stop them by placing defenses on the most tactical place to kill bad bugs. If all of your flowers die, the battle is lost. Earn money and experience for each pest you kill. Use this money to either UPGRADE your weapons, or add MORE defenses.”

Orbs: Price: $2.99
“Collect green orbs to score points while avoiding obstacles. The game features ten challenging stages, with new orbs and unique soundtracks being introduced each level. To advance, you must achieve the target score for that stage. What starts as an easy task, soon becomes extremely challenging as the speed ramps up and more types of orbs are added to the mix. Do you have what it takes to be an Orbs Champion?”

Arcade

Monsters: Price: $0.99
“Monsters is a fun, simple and pixel perfect game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. With its brilliant graphics and sounds, Monsters makes you work your brain out!”

Girl’s Break!: Price: $3.99
“Girl’s★Break! is a game in the tradition of Breakout (though much, MUCH more cute and Moe) in which you have to clear each stage of all cookies before you can proceed. Each stage presents a fullscreen image of the current girl to you. Beat the level and you unlock that image. Then you can check out the biographies and gallery of all the unlocked images in the girls profiles!”

Cupid Capture: Price: $0.99
“The most romantic game on iPhone!

Features:

• Exciting gameplay for prolonged playability
• Soothing background music

Biplane: Price: $1.99
“Put yourself in the pilot seat of Captain Raccoon as he soars through the skies on a mission to defend Victory Island against the dreaded Pirates.”

VyFight: Price: $4.99
“Pilot a spacecraft and destroy the enemy fleets while controlling from left to right and from top to bottom with the accelerometer. Exceptional playability. Become the best pilot of the world and obtain credit in order to buy better spacecrafts in the shop. Publish your scores on line and compare them to the other players of the whole world. Find tips allowing you to pass the levels more easily and to increase your scores. Judiciously choose your bonus to change your weapons, increase your scores,… and many more surprises.”

Block Knights: Price: $4.99
“Block Knights is an addictive puzzle game with a campy, adventure twist. Players tilt and tap the iPhone to guide pieces through four engaging gameplay modes. Block Knights balances tense timed modes like Arcadia and Guillotine with the relaxing gameplay of Infinitas mode. Players looking for more can take on armies of Mobs across multiple stages in the epic Quest mode.”

Segment: Price: $0.99
“You’ve seen slide puzzles, but none like this. In Segment, you race against the clock to win gold, silver, and bronze medals. These medals are saved to your Camera Roll, where you can show them off as trophies. But watch out! The rumble timer is always moving, and when it reaches zero, a 2x2 quadrant of the puzzle gets shuffled, slowing your progress and adding a new level of challenge.”

Marine Girls: Price: $1.99
“Marine Girls is a territory-wining game by moving ball with Touch and swipe gestures like the Qix or Gals Panic As stage goes on, game will be tough with various enemies threatening players. Try to save veiled sexy girls behind the curtain by avoiding cute sea animals. More stages will be coming up with images of sexy girls.”

A 1000 Taps: Price: $0.99
“Can you make a 1000 taps in a minute? It is now time to push your skills to the limit. Compete with your friends to get the highest score.”

Party Trampoline: Price: $2.99
“Have a blast jumping on a trampoline! Use your head to pop balloons and keep “the bar” high. Tilt to control your movement and push off. Tap to do acrobatic flips, and shake as a last resort to pop those pesky balloons. Prevent balloons from falling below “the bar”—that you set, so very high (and that raises after each level). Pop the balloons in the map order to complete a level. This is the game where Democrats and Republicans have fun together. Each politician has different strengths and weaknesses.”

Board

Scrabble Word Finder - English Version: Price: $0.99
“Scrabble Words is a great tool for either looking up a word that you can use in a game of SCRABBLE®, or to check a word that’s been played. In the Standard English version of the application, the word list is comprised of several publicly available, approved word lists, used in English speaking countries around the world. Additional versions are in development for other languages, and others to zero in on the approved word lists for specific parts of the English speaking world. Please remember that this will never be an approved authority for SCRABBLE® Tournament play in the USA or other places where the approved word list is under copyright.”

Girls Skip vol.02: Price: $3.99
“This is a puzzle game that uses numbers. Following the rule, you touch a panel on the screen to erase them. You succeeded to erase 40 panels, you can get a girl’s picture!”

Cute! Trouble maker: Price: $1.99
“Little sister finds some mistakes in a strange picture of her older sister’s game. By touching the Cute Trouble Maker find the mistakes in the picture. Your goal is to find five mistakes in the set time limit.First, you can see two pictures.Find and touch a mistake. You can see two marks.If you are right, you will see O or if you are wrong X. When you finish all 20 stages or reach the end of the limit time, the program will turn off.”

Aya Go: Price: $9.99
“The ancient game of Go is still widely played in Japan, Korea and China. The simple rule set hides a game of enormous depth and strategic beauty, considered by many as being the ultimate thinking game. Where Chess is highly analytical, Go depends on intuitive response to patterns and the capacity to trade advantages. The beginner can easily overplay a position or play too timidly - learning to play Go teaches fine judgment and complexity management.”

Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe: Price: $0.99
“The Ultimate remake of a classic logical game from Crystal Games. Just download it and turn your iPhone into amazing hi-tech Tic-Tac-Toe board, with best looking crystal clear graphics, advanced A.I., smooth animation and amazing sounds. You can play against your iPhone - in ‘Easy’ or ‘Hard’ modes, or choose ‘human-vs-human’ and try it with your children and mates.”

Blue Dice: Price: $0.99
“Ever lost your boardgames dice? Blue Dice are the solution. Simply open application and Shake Device to randomly display two colorful Dice that will show your next move.” NOTE: Also available in various colors.

Moon Blocks: Price: $0.99
“Moon Blocks is a beautiful sliding puzzle game developed for the iPhone and iPod touch. Moon Blocks has dozens of game board backgrounds and tile sets that, when combined with ability to use images from the iPhone/iPod touch photo library, give users a visual experience like no other. In addition to its raw beauty, Moon Blocks has a robust physics algorithm that allows users to smoothly slide multiple blocks. A variety of board layouts from 2x3 all the way to 5x7 will challenge users of all ages and skill levels.”

Card

RummyBlast: Price: $0.99
“RummyBlast is a fast-paced game where you select cards to form runs (groups of the same value) or straights (groups of sequential values) similar to Rummy. When the desired tiles are selected, the player touches the “Discard” button. If a valid run or straight was created, the card tiles are removed and new tiles fall in from the top.”

Skat: Price: $3.99
“SKAT is the most popular german card game. Enjoy the game whenever you like.”

Super Solitaire Club Edition: Price: $4.99
“Super Solitaire Club Edition is a collection of five master solitaire games. The game engine has all standard features: animated dealing, a hint system, undo, rule switching, automatic card collection to the foundations and sound. Do not expect scoring, or fancy end of game graphics (yet?). The default rule of most games is well balanced and gives you good chances of solving a game. If that is too hard you can change some settings to make things easier. In contrast to some other Solitaire implementations Super Solitaire allows you to move ANY card and does not make any guesses based on the position of your finger.”

Rounders: Price: $4.99
“At Greeks, the buy-in is just $100, with a minimum stake of $5 ($10 if you’re on big blind). This is a good place to take the $500 you win at the University, but once you’re a bit more flush you might want to go to somewhere like Binghampton, where the buy-in is $500 and the minimum stake is $15/$30. You can even go to The Taj if you’ve got $5000 to burn. If you’re short, on the other hand, you can work as a delivery man, ferrying goods around for relatively small change at the cost of a few hours of your time. Or, if driving a truck sounds too much like honest work, you can bail your buddy Worm from jail and use him to cheat by revealing what cards one of your opponents has whenever you succeed in a rhythm-timing sub-game. If you fail, back to jail Worm goes, and you lose more time. The intriguing storyline puts you in a crunch situation which truly challenges your poker skills. Strategy takes the front seat as you battle against time to emerge on top. With unequaled gameplay having elements like loans, underground tournaments, head’s up, bottom dealing and signaling, Rounders is sure to give you the most intense poker experience ever!”

Casino

HeadsUp Poker Trainer: Price: $1.99
“This game will help you learn heads-up poker strategy. You will be presented with a series of quizzes where you must choose to go all-in or not. If you are first to act, you can either fold or push all-in. If you are second to act, your opponent will always go all-in first and you can either fold or call. The suggested ranges for pushing all-in or calling all-in are determined using Nash Equilibrium. Nash Equilbrium defines the perfect pushing and calling ranges where neither you nor your opponent can have an advantage over the other. In a real game, you can start with your baseline knowledge with the Nash Equilibrium as your starting point and adjust for each opponent if you wish to exploit their play.”

Dice

InterLove: Price: $1.99
“InterLove is a tingling game for couples who enjoy to indulge each other in new ways and learning about their partner’s most secret wishes. This simple game is easy to learn: After spinning the love pointer, a new task for her or for him must be performed in each round. In this way you can playfully learn about a lot of exciting ways to indulge your partner. Thanks to a database that contains a total of 120 exciting actions, this game guarantees sizzling entertainment also the second, third and fourth time and lots of fun in bed. Both win at the end, because with a bit of fantasy and passion, both game partners will enjoy themselves.”

Trifecta: Price: $0.99
“Trifecta is an addicting tile game that will keep you occupied for hours. The object of the game is to get rid of all three layers of tiles. Tap the screen to roll your dice, then choose up to three tiles such that the sum of the tiles is the same as your dice total. For example, if you roll a 5 some possible selections would be a 5, a 1 and a 4, or even a 1 and two 2s. Great for both when you only have minutes to spend or when you have hours.”

Educational

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Family

Monkey: Price: $1.99
“Monkey is a true 3D vocal avatar that enables you to record and share your greetings, your songs, your jokes, your shows.”

Spot It! USA Edition: Price: $2.99
“One of the most popular games for iPhone is now available in different edition. USA Edition brings you all the beautiful places of interest and local culture all over the America. This is a perfect and fun game for every family members - For you, your kids, your dad, your mom, and even your grandma!”

HyperCube: Price: $2.99
“Tilt and spin game levels and use gravity to get the HyperCube to the finish line. Over thirty levels to entertain and challenge. Spacey graphics, spring physics, and special bonus items give the old marble-in-a-maze games a fresh spin. Search for keys to open doors and grab time bonuses to extend your time. Get a push from anti-gravity generators, shrink with contractors to fit in tight spaces, and dodge vision impairing poison while on your quest for the finish line.”

iRubixCube: Price: $0.99
“iRubixCube is iPhone/iPod Touch based mobile game and it was developed regarding the real puzzle game named ‘Rubik’s Cube’.”

TilePics: Price: $1.99
“An image is selected and is broken down into individual tiles based on the difficulty level. TilePics supports 5 difficulty levels ranging from 9 tiles up to a 64 tile puzzle. High scores are kept for each difficulty level, including time elapsed and total moves. This allows you the fun of seeing how quickly you can solve a smaller puzzle as well as tracks the time and moves spent on a larger puzzle (a great distraction for long flights). TilePics comes with 25 unique, high quality images. These include landscapes, animals, sunsets, flowers and the occasional painting.”

egg - a- palooza: Price: $1.99
“The eggs are falling from the sky! Help the chef catch all the eggs in this awesome new arcade game. Play as chef as you go through 10 fun levels of this non-stop egg-breaking gaming experience. Just tap to where you want the chef’s plate to go and catch the falling eggs. Get 100 eggs without dropping more then 3 and you win the level.”

BoGi: Price: $2.99
“Four 3D vocal avatars that enable you to record and share your greetings, your songs, your jokes, your shows.”

Wheel-O-Matic: Price: $0.99
“Wheelo your time away with the modern day version of this classic toy from the 50’s or put your eye-hand coordination skills to the test! Time your movements just right to make the wheel “whip” around the curve and pick up speed. The longer it travels at a high speed, the more points you score! Extensive use of the accelerometer, coupled with great looking graphics, sounds effects and a scoring system makes Wheel-O-Matic more entertaining than the original.”

Music

PianoPitch: Price: $1.99
“Want to play your favorite song on the piano, but don’t have the piano sheet for the song? To do this you will need great listening skills to figure out which key plays what sound. Piano Pitch is an application that helps you practice your listening skills. When the game starts, this app will play a random note. You can listen to the note more than once if you want, simply press the play button. Then, try to play the same note on the piano keyboard. When you can do this with minimal mistakes, you’ll be able to play the songs you like, without looking at any piano sheets.”

David Archuleta 101 - Quizner’s Trivia: Price: $0.99
“Test your knowledge of David Archuleta trivia and have fun at the same time with Quizner’s David Archuleta 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.”

ImWithCupid: Price: $0.99
“Tilt your device to guide him around the stages. The hearts beat, and cupid dances in time to the music! Avoid the icky hearts or get a penalty. Will Cupid make it? Only you the player can help out!”

RhythmVivid: Price: $0.99
“Memorize the pattern shown by the white pads at the beginning of each level, and then play the pattern yourself. The pattern gets longer at each level. The game starts slow but can quickly get out of control if you’re not on your toes. Try to internalize the game tempo and play on beat to increase your score!”

Grand Pro: Price: $1.99
“The vibrating, authentic grand piano for iPod touch and iPhone — with adjustable reverb, automatic time stretch, and fully configurable keyboard. Be the maestro with Grand Pro, a new iPod touch and iPhone instrument. Play breathtaking nocturnes in soft mode. Or play ground shaking legatos with up to five fingers. Adjust the reverb level to change the acoustical environment. Slide your fingers to roll the keys. And when you have the perfect tune, record it. Everything that made the grand piano the majesty of instruments now fits in your pocket.”

Puzzle

Binary Game: Price: $1.99
“Binary Game is a fast paced highly addictive puzzle game, with very simple and intuitive game play! Turn ON or OFF the correct binary switches to find the number which you are shown at the beginning of each round. Scoring is based on accuracy and speed. Submit your scores online and see if you made any of the high score lists!”

FindIT Carnival: Price: $1.99
“The aim of the game is simple: spot the 5 differences between the two pictures shown on the screen before running out of time. “

Hang the Rabbit: Price: $0.99
“Hang the Rabbit is based on the popular word guessing game : the hangman. The player guesses letters in order to uncover the hidden word. Be carful, you only have a few guesses before hanging the rabbit.”

aMAZEing: Price: $0.99
“With aMAZEing you can explore high quality full 3D mazes. To complete a maze you have to collect all the gems hidden along the way. At the start of each maze you get to choose the number of rooms that it will have along with the number of gems that you need to find before you have to get to the exit. With intuitive controls and an infinite number of mazes; this can make for many hours game play.”

Orbitsu: Price: $1.99
“An unknown force has invaded the Star System. The fate of the galaxy is in your fingers. Only you can clear the Star System and stabilize the universe. Strategically launch orbs into the star field’s orbit. Connect any 3 orbs of the same color to cause them to explode! Any remaining orbs attached to an explosion will collapse and become Charged orbs. Connect a Charged orb with 1 orb of the same color to cause them both to blow up. Clear all orbs to complete the stage. As you progress, additional challenges arise such as orbit changes, black holes, super novas and more!”

Letter Bug: Price: $1.99
“LetterBug is a fun, challenging word-spell puzzle game. Players spell words from layers of letters. The longer the words and the faster you can spell, the more points you get.”

Primrose: Price: $2.99
“Primrose’s gameplay is deceptively simple: You’re given random pairs of colored tiles that you must place on a 7x7 grid. When you surround a group of one color with another color, the surrounded group clears, scoring points. The surrounding tiles flip to the color of the tiles that were cleared. When tiles flip color, chain reactions are possible. Larger groups and longer chain reactions are awarded more points.”

MaPu - The Magic Square Puzzle: Price: $0.99
“The idea of the magic puzzle is very simple: you have to move the tiles in an order, so that the numbers in every row and every column and the diagonal add up to the same value - there is not one single solution to this puzzle, there are many ways to arrange the tiles. That’s all you need to know - but don’t be tricked by the simple rules, it can be very tricky to find the right spot for the tiles. This game supports different sizes for the field, from 3x3 up to 9x9. The 3x3 is easy to solve, the bigger ones can be a challenge.”

Codewords: Price: $1.99
“Codewords puzzles are like crossword puzzles without clues, in which each letter has been assigned a number from 1 to 26. Your goal is to figure out which numbers go with which letters. Solve the puzzle by picking the correct letters. Codewords comes with 25 original puzzles, 20 regular ones and 5 special “red herring” puzzles in which the black squares are also assigned numbers. These 5 puzzles are more challenging as you must decipher which letters are real and which are not. No timers, beeps or tricks; just you and your brain working to uncrack the code. Hints are available and the solution can also be shown (if you really need it).”

Wrangle!: Price: $2.99
“A great new, free form, spelling game for everyone!”

iGuess: Price: $0.99
“Ever been in the situation when you have a few minutes to kill but don’t know how to kill that time? Well now you can kill those minutes in style with iGuess for the iPhone and iPod Touch with 2 different modes of play”

Racing

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Role Playing

Bounty Ball: Price: $0.99
“This game is the ultimate test of Hand-Eye Coordination and reaction time. Think you’ve got it under control? Take the challenge right now! Battle your way through ten different levels. Each of which get harder and harder adding more balls and more bombs. Hit one bomb and its game over! Do you think You have what it takes? Play it Now!”

Simulation

Triple Shot Sports: Price: $1.99
“Triple Shot is by far the most advanced recreational shooting game, immersing the player in the world of competitive target shooting. Most Olympic events consist of activities that are traditionally derived from hunting and combat skills and over time these practices have evolved into a variety of competitive sports that include Archery, Pistol Shooting and Free Rifle. As with real life shooting events you will have full control over the aiming of the ‘weapon’ but you must take into account both the prevailing weather conditions and the athletes breathing pattern that can affect the accuracy of the shot.”

iPopCorn (Shake it to Make it!): Price: $0.99
“The faster you shake, the faster it pops! Built in temperature indicator lets you know when to shake faster. Timer display keeps score of how long it takes you to pop a full batch!”

Pay2Play: Price: $1.99
“Pay2Play is the game of trading and danger. How much money can YOU make selling senate seats? Head all over Illinois trading your way to success!”

Sports

Arcade Basketball: Price: $0.99
“The objective of the player is to shoot the basketball as many as you can. Submit your score and compete against the rest of the world. Good luck and have fun.”

Backyard Hockey: Price: $0.99
“Pablo and his friends are up for some hard-hitting hockey action. Take on individual opponents as you attempt to slap-shot the puck pass them and into their goal. Beware you have to play defense, too, as they will be hitting hard shots back at you. This game is has fast-paced, back-and-forth competition as you attempt to get the most goals and rack up points. Play five rounds against five of Backyard Sports toughest kids; beat one and you advance to another game, take a loss and it’s game over. Bonus points awarded for holding your opponent scoreless, scoring goals in a row, and extra banks off the wall. Keep your high scores and hand the game off to your friends to see if they can put up more points than you!”

fantaFootball Premier League 08-09: Price: $2.99
“The best football league all over the world, the English Premier League, has just begun and tons of fans and wannabe-coaches are ready to challenge you with goals, assists and nice performances…
This is the Fantasy Football game, this is fantaFootball!”

Strategy

Skat for Two (Bauernskat): Price: $1.99
“This is the popular 2 player version of Skat, the most popular german card game, a.k.a. Offiziersskat. Play Bauernskat / Offiziersskat against the computer, or against a friend in case you don’t have a deck of cards at hand (or not enough space to spread out all cards, like in a bus/on a plane).”

Amazi Cubes: Price: $0.99
“Amazi Cubes is a new revolutionary puzzle game for the iPhone and iTouch. To solve the puzzle make each of the cube’s faces match in color! Only being able to rotate the cubes in sets of 3x3 each move makes this puzzle just as challenging as the Rubix cube! Selecting a set of 3x3 cubes is easily done with one tap of your finger on any of the inside cubes! Then to rotate them, tap your finger outside the puzzle in the desired direction! You will not only find Amazi Cubes Perplexing & Addictive, but you’ll be amazed that it was never thought of earlier!”

Trivia

Oscars History: Price: $0.99
“The lavish evening gowns, the glittering lights and the memorable acceptance speeches makes this one of the most watched nights in the Film Industry. But, do you know, your facts on the Oscar’s? The insider’s fact guide to the history of the Oscar’s, this iPhone app is a must have! With over 300 questions compiled across all categories make this a through, diverse and exciting app to spend time with, before or after the Oscar’s. So, enjoy the awards - Buy Oscar’s History today!”

iVacation - Philadelphia: Price: $0.99
“iVacation provides you with a first hand look at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a 50 picture slide show that includes captions for each picture. Learn about Philadelphia with our iVacation Trivia that is fun and educational.”

Writers block: Price: $0.99
“Hundreds of questions to choose from with points for each correct answer. Many questions have a detailed web page links for detailed information. Users can submit a question as well! Active Leaderboard with a list of the top points scorers”

Word

Nine: Price: $1.99
“Nine is a simple word puzzle game. The objective is to find as many words as possible using four or more of the nine letters supplied. The one constraint is that the words must all contain the letter displayed in the middle. Complete with over 200,000 words in its dictionary, Nine will keep your mind working for many, many hours.”

Pockster Crypto: Price: $0.99
“Word games in general, and cryptograms specifically, are a great way to stimulate cognitive thinking. Pockster Crypto is a great way to challenge yourself on your iPhone, and it is designed for easy pick up and play operation. The game automatically saves for those moments when you have to divert your attention to the outside world, and it auto-loads your position when you start the game back. Each puzzle saves its own state, allowing you to work on any or all of the 50 games in the collection as you wish. The game load screen shows you a preview of the game in its current state before you load it, allowing you to find that game you want even if you cannot remember the game title. “

WordMind: Price: $2.99
“WordMind is a word guessing game. Using as few guesses as possible, you have to try to discover a 5 letter secret word. For each guess, you are told which letters are in the word and whether they are in the correct position.”