Gamertell

Valentine’s Day is coming up gaming fans, so how about giving the one you love something to play on their iPhone or iPod Touch? There’s something for everyone in this week’s list, from free Rolandos to Alien Sled Racing.

So get scrolling started with:

Games You Might Like

Rolando Lite
“Explore the tutorial land of Honeycup Meadows in this free version of the critically-acclaimed action hit, Rolando. Rolandoland has been invaded and the Rolandos need your help! Use innovative tilt, tap and Multi-Touch controls to solve physics puzzles, toy with interactive environments, and evade pesky enemies as you lead the Rolandos to victory.”

Duck Hunter Lite
“A simple shooting game which is quick to play yet highly addictive with beautiful graphics and animations. Tilt the iPhone or iPod Touch to aim, tap anywhere on the screen to shoot. A true test of skill for beginners and a lasting challenge for experts. Rumours in duck hunting circles are that scores above 500 are possible during duck frenzies.”

Bravian Lands: Price: $2.99
“Help brave Daryll to free magical kingdom! His homelands invaded with evil creatures and only you can stop them!”

ALIEN SLED RACE 3D: Price: $0.99
“Choose an alien, choose and customize a sled then challenge a selection of courses, racing against a randomly selected alien opponent. Hit targets with snowballs to get bonus points, or hit your opponent for even more points! Complete three “laps” and make it to the finish line fast enough and you will be rewarded with a key that can unlock more aliens, sleds, courses or accessories.”

What’s Free

Rolando Lite
“Explore the tutorial land of Honeycup Meadows in this free version of the critically-acclaimed action hit, Rolando. Rolandoland has been invaded and the Rolandos need your help! Use innovative tilt, tap and Multi-Touch controls to solve physics puzzles, toy with interactive environments, and evade pesky enemies as you lead the Rolandos to victory.”

Duck Hunter Lite
“A simple shooting game which is quick to play yet highly addictive with beautiful graphics and animations. Tilt the iPhone or iPod Touch to aim, tap anywhere on the screen to shoot. A true test of skill for beginners and a lasting challenge for experts. Rumours in duck hunting circles are that scores above 500 are possible during duck frenzies.”

Bop-It! Lite
“Bop-It! is a just-for-fun game that can help you relieve a bit of stress. Simply take a “Bop” at us with the baseball bat.”

Ninja Puzzler Lite
“This isn’t like the other puzzle games out there. Ever wonder why you’re breaking jewels in that jewel game? If it were us and a bunch of gems appear before us, we surely wouldn’t be breaking them. Or that game with funny shaped blocks that you have to fit together? Ever thought about who’s dropping them and why? Well, in Ninja Puzzler, the pirates are dropping cannonballs on you! Cannonballs are much more scarier.”

iTac Lite
“Now play the classic Tic Tac Toe on your iPhone and iTouch.”

Metal Euchre Lite
“Give the top Euchre Game for your iPhone and iPod Touch a go.”

Crater Naut Lite
“Experience the fun and challenges of piloting a lunar lander from orbit to touchdown. If you land successfully, lift off, fly around, and land again. This free, Lite version of Crater Naut is designed to be easy to fly and land. It gives you a good idea of what flying the full version of Crater Naut would be like, but without the more difficult challenges that the full version of Crater Naut offers.”

Textropolis Lite
“Travel word-wide and build up your Textropolis by finding the words hidden in each city. Play through 3 cities and earn up to 30 stars in this free-play word discovery game. Stumble across a new word? Textropolis includes definitions for every word in the game. Watch each city grow as you discover its words and add to your total Textropolis population! Shake your phone or iPod to get a helpful hint when you are stuck! You can even send postcards from your best cities to a friend via email to show off!”

Werewolf Lite
“Werewolf is a party game that’s best with at least 7 players. You must supply your own friends—THIS GAME CANNOT BE PLAYED SOLITAIRE. However, you only need one copy of the program and a single iPhone or iPod touch for the entire party! This “lite” version of the program supports games with exactly two Werewolves and one Seer. The full version adds three more characters (The Vigilante, The Protector, and The Innocent Lovers), and allows you to vary the number of Werewolves and other characters in the game. It also provides a post-game report that tells you exactly what happened on each turn of the game.”

Bobble Surfer Free
“Bobble Surfer Free gives you a free taste of what’s on offer in Bobble Surfer! The free version comes with the easiest break from Bobble Surfer, as well as an easy-to-handle board. Give it a go and try the original surfing game for iPhone! Bobble Surfer is the closest thing you can get to catching a wave on your iPhone! Lean the phone left and right to turn the board, and lean back to slow (stall) the board. Although it looks simple, Bobble Surfer is built on a complex physics simulation of a wave - we’ve just tweaked and tuned it for extra fun!”

Finger Olympic 100M Training
“We’ve got the training version of FingerOlympic FOR FREE!! Let’s challenge a road to theOlympic Final with your fingers! Literally, this is a series of games to play Olympic events by the finger. The first event is a 100-meter dash. Its simple and easy to play. First gently place your index and middle fingers on the panel…. and then make a dash! You know how to move your fingers, just make it to the goal. Train your fingers to Olympic level and aim to become the world champion!”

Monospace Lite
“Monospace Lite is a unique puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod touch, where players need to think in both 2 and 3 dimensions. The goal is to collect a certain amount of white cubes in every level. To do that, the player is given the ability to switch between 2 and 3-dimensional views of the game situation. Possibilities and solutions change depending on the players perspective.”

What’s New

Action

Relativity X: Price: $0.99
“Inspired by Einstein’s theory of relativity, spin the board around and rotate the falling piece to fill a ring. Play through different levels on classic or see how far you can get in endless mode.”

Kitty Kannon: Price: $0.99
“CATapult your kitty across a countryside littered with carnivorous canines, malicious mines, and other crazy CATastrophes.”

Ultimate Finger: Price: $3.99
“Defend the Crystal from monsters by exercising 3 sophisticated magics as the Gurdian of the Crystal: The Thunder,The Pillar of Fire,The Explosion.”

Math Zapper: Price: $0.99
“Math Zapper is an education tool for children and adults alike. For children Math Zapper is able to help them to master their addition, subtraction and multiplication skills. For adults, you can never practice enough, keeping your basic math skills sharp is key to keeping brain function strong. Math Zapper is played using the number pad and multiple go buttons. As the game is played equations fall from the sky and must be solved prior to hitting the ground. You have only 5 misses before the game is over.”

BubbleHead: Price: $2.99
“The ultimate cartoon flyer game exclusively designed for iPhone and iPod touch. Speed your way through thrilling, hand-drawn levels and multiple environments. Choose the Arcade game mode and fly through five different planets with 25 carefully built levels featuring hundreds of crisp, painstakingly drawn obstacles. Or you can take part in the worldwide competition in the Random game mode with unique level structure whipped up fresh each time you start the game! This means never-ending fun for players of all ages. Experience two exciting game modes in just one title and beat the players all around the world in online high scores charts!”

Action Bricks: Price: $0.99
“Like other puzzle games, the objective is to get your maximum bricks to disappear, however, Action Bricks utilized the Accelerometer and bring the game play to a newer level! By rotating your device, bricks will falls into different direction and may help you to join the bricks and get higher score! By shaking the device, it will reorganize the bricks from the start in case you cannot achieve your level’s target.”

Synergy: Price: $0.99
“This game is full of gripping excitement, but most of all it is EXTREMELY ADDICTING! Challenge your brain to master the controls, but don’t get mixed up as the game gets faster and faster and faster! Challenge yourself to get a new high score, or get a friend to control one axis and see how long you can survive together!”

Slingshot Ducks: Price: $0.99
“You have to shoot with a slingshot at cute little ducks diving in a lake. Use your finger to pull the red line and release it to shoot! Just like with a real slingshot, it’s easy to adjust the speed and angle of your shot.”

ExZeus: Price: $5.99
“The primary objective codenamed ‘ExZeus’ would reclaim the Earth’s surface using 3 experimental robots. The secondary objective is to investigate the alien war-machine’s weaknesses and defeat the mysterious ‘Diadora’.Fast and furious 3D shoot’em-up style, with powerful weapons. Up to 12 different enemies and 5 different bosses. Hit-bonus system and power-up scheme. Multi-Lock and Fire & Forget Missiles. Shop to upgrade your robot’s features and build your strategy. Original soundtrack with high-energy beat keeps pace with the intensity of the action.”

Days of Thunder: Price: $0.99
“The first stock car racing game on the iPhone and iPod Touch, based on the classic motion picture! Experience the adrenaline and action-packed excitement of full contact stock car racing while battling the field and climbing the leaderboard! As Cole Trickle, use the iPhone’s accelerometer to speed your way through six racing circuits, demolish your competition, and win the Days of Thunder Cup.”

Bop-It!: Price: $0.99
“Bop-It! is a just-for-fun game that can help you relieve a bit of stress. Take a Bop at the SnakeHead bag or better yet, take a picture of someone you know (or select an image from your Photo Library) and Bop them like crazy with a variety of “Boppers”. Perhaps you’d like to watch an egg or tomato spatter on their face. Or maybe throwing shoes or a toaster at them is more your cup of tea. The possibilities are endless!”

Rocky Artue: Price: $4.99
“Rocky Artue is on a quest to find his father, and only you can help him in this exciting new iPhone adventure with a heartfelt mission!”

Krypton Egg - The Ultimate Breakout: Price: $0.99
“Krypton Egg is not like another breakout where you just need to bounce the ball to destroy bricks. After a few levels you will have to manage dozen of balls at a time by taking advantages of the creative power-ups all over the screen. During bonus levels, Krypton Egg even turns into a Shooting style mode providing you the challenge to defeat horde of enemies and bosses. Game Over? You can still restart from any level you have cleared. But will you be able to hit the highscores?”

Cupid’s Arrow: Price: $0.99
“Guide the arrow to the hearts, avoid the swinging ball and chains, get all the hearts before time runs out.”

Big Fun Racing: Price: $0.99
“Big Fun Racing (BFR) is a stunt racing game where you race against time to collect coins in various stunt levels. Built upon the NVidia PhysX physics engine this racing game brings great driving physics to the iPhone / iPod Touch. Big Fun Racing has 50 built-in tracks for you to drive in 4 difficulty modes, from easy to ultra hard and additionally there is an “Internet Tracks” game mode where you can download new tracks directly to your device and play those tracks, even when you are offline! New tracks are available from time to time and a countdown timer in the Internet Tracks menu shows you when the next track will be out.”

Ace Hunter: Price: $0.99
“Ace Hunter:Whitetail drops the player into amazing Whitetail hunting action! Ace Hunter:Whitetail analyzes your kill-shot on the fly, awarding bonuses for accurate, instant kills. The Whitetail Deer in Ace Hunter react to your every move, so you had better make every shot count.”

Adventure

White House Escape: Price: $1.99
“iAdventureGame is proud to release its first adventure game designed from the ground up to be played on the iPhone. The game will take you through the four levels of the White House Residence while you explore and solve puzzles that lead you to success. You will explore from the Yellow Oval Room to the President’s bedroom as you work your way through the challenge. From the Bowling Alley to the Sun Room, you will have to use the items at your disposal to solve your quest.

The game uses mixed text and graphics, and navigation is easily accomplished through the simple closest room selection and auto-positioning scrollable maps. There is absolutely no typing required, and the game uses the iPhone interface to provide a finger friendly adventure. And since our mobile devices perform many roles throughout the day, the game automatically saves and loads the game state, making it easy to pick up and play whenever you get the chance.”

Bravian Lands: Price: $2.99
“Help brave Daryll to free magical kingdom! His homelands invaded with evil creatures and only you can stop them!”

Arcade

iFly: Price: $2.99
“This addictively fun new game was created to be the ideal quick play challenge. Test your paper plane flying skills while gliding through a field of obstacles, looking for and landing on the metal grate before time runs out!”

Tube Runner: Price: $0.99
“Race through a spinning vortex tube in space. Avoid the treacherous holes in the tube. Spin the tube to avoid the holes, or attempt to jump them.”

iSkeeball: Price: $0.99
“The classic arcade game of Skee Ball, in the palm of your hand. “

3-Marble Fun: Price: $0.99
“3-Marble Fun is a relaxing game with rules slightly similar to the classic “Three Cushion Billiard” game where you have to make a successful combination shot in order to score.”

AlphaBubble: Price: $0.99
“Designed in part by an elementary school teacher, this game helps younger children learn their letters by using fun images and sounds (each bubble says its letter when popped). Older children and adults will also enjoy the difficulty of the more advanced game modes.”

iCollect: Price: $0.99
“iCollect is a simple and amusing game. In this game you should collect the falling items. You can choose the items to be hearts, fruits or bear and you can collect them with a head or a basket. The fun part of the game is that the basket/head is controlled by tilting the iPhone/iPod or dragging it with your finger tip.”

Board

Mining Bots: Price: $0.99
“Boost your way into Mining Bots! Match wits with a fiendishly clever AI as you race to harvest more gems than your opponent…”

Card

Briscas : trick-taking battle game: Price: $4.99
“In this trick-taking battle game, wit overthrows luck. You will enjoy hours of fun playing this beautifully rendered addictive game. Easy to learn but hard to master. Good luck foreigner, in this, your biggest journey yet.”

TRUMP’D: Price: $2.99
“Original puzzle-style solitaire game where the goal is to obtain as high a score as possible by arranging cards of the same suit in sets of 3 or more. Cards must be carefully placed and arranged in the play area as they are drawn from the deck. Arranging 4 or more cards of the same suit earns you bonus points. Bonus points are also awarded for clearing multiple sets of cards in succession (chain combos). Jokers act as blocks, and cannot be removed unless 4 or more cards of the same suit are arranged together. The game is won when you have obtained the highest score possible and cannot make any more moves.”

Queenie Solitaire: Price: $1.99
“Queenie Solitaire is a Klondike-style solitaire with elements of Spider game, specially optimized for iPhone multitouch screen with a large and eye-friendly card set.”

MegaPoker Online: Price: $4.99
“MegaPoker is an ONLINE Texas Holdem Poker game for iPhone and iPod Touch. Join your friends and family to go against thousands other players around the world. Support sit and go poker types.”

Casino

Liberty Bell Slots: Price: $0.99
“Designed specifically for the iPhone and/or iPod Touch, Liberty Bell Slots is fully rendered in glorious 3D complete with animated symbols, lighting effects, and actual spinning reels. Classic sound effects complete the experience, with winning coins. Easy to use, just touch and play, your bet is 5 credits, for one line of play, max bets are always used for maximum winnings. 10 winning combinations, and accurate statistical payouts ensure an authentic experience with great playability.”

Dice

Casino Craps: Price: $0.99
“This casino dice game includes polished graphics, animation, sound effects and gameplay tailored to fit the iPhone and iPod Touch. Play for fun or practice new strategies!”

Educational

NOTHING!

Family

Cookie Crumbs: Price: $0.99
“Turn your iPhone into your very own cookie monster with the easy-to-play, finger-gripping game, Cookie Crumbs! The object of the game is simple. Just tap the chocolate chip cookie, pecan cookie, fudge cookie, oatmeal cookie, Italian cookie, and chocolate cream cookie to score 10 points. As easy as that sounds, Cookie Crumbs advances in difficulty with each point scored, so keep your focus on the iPhone screen and get ready to tap away! How many cookies can you get?”

Bubble Shuffle: Price: $4.99
“Bubble Shuffle is a fun undersea-themed word-building game perfect for adults and children. Every level is a puzzle for you to solve, with a word made out of bubbles that has been shuffled. Create as many words as you can from the letter bubbles and if you get stuck, shuffle the bubbles to help you! Begin with 4 letters to work from and as you unlock more difficult levels this increases up to 7 letters. Progress from level to level by meeting the required target – one word using all the letters, or a specified number of words from those letter bubbles.”

Gummi Taps: Price: $0.99
“Enjoy the fun of chewy gummi bears and wiggly gummy worms right on your iPhone with the easy-to-play, finger-gripping game, Gummi Taps! The object of the game is simple. Just tap the gummy bear, gummy worm, gummi shark, gummy fish, and gummi cherry to score 10 points. As yummy as that sounds, Gummi Taps advances in difficulty with each point scored, so keep your focus on the iPhone screen and get ready to tap away! How many gummies can you get?”

Music

Simon IQ: Price: $1.99
“Remember playing this one when you were a kid? Test and build your memory by following Simon’s lead, repeating longer and longer sequences of patterns on the lighted keypad. Simon IQ is a beautiful reinterpretation of the classic Simon game, complete with star-spangled firework fanfare for successfully completing a sequence.”

Puzzle

USA TODAY Don’t Quote Me: Price: $3.99
“The game of Skill, Knowledge & Really, Really Good Guesses. Identify speakers of an amazing variety of memorable quotes, from the historic to the hilarious, from the noble to the notorious!”

Symbolism: Price: $0.99
“Part puzzle and part stragegy game, Symbolism is a unique offering that challenges gamers to think both methodically and critically in order to rack up high scores. The premise of the game is somewhat simple. Each square has a symbol and a color and can only be placed next to squares that have either the same color or symbol. Once an entire row or column has been filled, it is cleared. Once every square on the board has been marked at least once (signified by a yellow background), the level is over.”

Time Bomb: Price: $0.99
“Someone has hidden a time bomb and it’s your job to find it and deactivate it! It takes quick and steady hands to succeed. Use your assortment of tools to carefully remove the bomb’s outer shell, determine the appropriate wires to cut, and then cut them before the timer runs out.”

Big Booty: Price: $0.99
“Big Booty is a new, ingenious, and deliciously addictive puzzle game where you match beautifully rendered precious gems, jewelry, and doubloons to fill your pirates chest to the brim!”

Racing

ALIEN SLED RACE 3D: Price: $0.99
“Choose an alien, choose and customize a sled then challenge a selection of courses, racing against a randomly selected alien opponent. Hit targets with snowballs to get bonus points, or hit your opponent for even more points! Complete three “laps” and make it to the finish line fast enough and you will be rewarded with a key that can unlock more aliens, sleds, courses or accessories.”

Role Playing

Prohibition 1: Bootlegger: Price: $2.99
“It’s the Roaring Twenties - WWI is over, mass production made technology available to the middle class (cars, radios, movies), skyscrapers, woman’s suffrage, King Tut’s tomb was discovered, and… Alcohol prohibition just started. Al Capone sent you to the east coast to set up shop. Your goal is to make as much money as possible in 52 weeks without getting killed or thrown in jail. You’ll battle Gustins Gang, ‘Lucky’ Luciano, Maxie ‘Boo-Hoo’ Hoff, Carlo Matranga, and might even have a chance to take out Capone.”

Simulation

iSjoel: Price: $0.99
“iSjoel (pronounced izjool) is based on the popular traditional Dutch party game Sjoelen. The goal of Sjoelen is to slide 30 wooden pucks on a shuffle board into numbered scoring boxes. The boxes are numbered, from left to right : 2, 3, 4 and 1.”

Range Qualifier: Price: $0.99
“Range Qualifier is a simulation of a typical military target range. Qualify with the M16 on this detailed replica popup target range. Receive awards for Marksman, Sharpshooter and Expert qualifications.”

iStrip - Novelty App: Price: $0.99
“The application brings the two essential features of any self respecting Novelty Pen to the digital age: an LCD clock and a swimsuit model. You can choose one of the six supplied swimsuit fabrics or add your own from your photo library. iStrip can be operated in either ‘Freestyle’ or ‘Clock’ modes. ‘Freestyle’ mode uses the iPhone’s built-in accelerometer to reveal the vintage model beneath the dress. Use this mode in the pub or at a party to show off Novelty Pen to your friends. ‘Clock’ mode moves the dress a slowly with the passing of time. But you can also sneak peak by moving the dress across the screen with your finger. This mode is perfect for use with your iPhone dock. You can keep it running all day.”

Sports

NOTHING!

Strategy

Keno Pool: Price: $1.99
“Keno Pool is a little known Pool game that until now was played primarily by high-rollers in local Pool Halls. It is a simple, fast paced, exciting game of strategy, skill and luck that will keep you entertained for hours as you watch the balls spinning around, in and out of the wooden keno board.”

Trivia

Movie Quizzy: Price: $0.99
NOTE: Yet another movie trivia game.

I.E. Practice: Price: $1.99
“This is the Impossible Exam practice/answer key that guides you through getting a very high score. This is the Impossible Exam, but all of the answers are in red to help you get through this in a fly. You are guaranteed to beat the Impossible Exam in under 20 seconds with this app.”

Word

Word Guess: Price: $0.99
“Do you remember the popular paper-based game called Hangman that we all played as kids where you try to guess the word by guessing individual letters? Well, now you can play that same type of game on your IPhone or IPod Touch. With over 8000 words ranging from 3 letters to 10 letters, this game is great for the entire family and is not only fun, but a great educational tool to help kids practice spelling as well as broadening their vocabulary. Feel good again about letting your children play a video game.”