Gamertell

Wave goodbye to February and say hello to March and the coming of Spring. Not just love will be in the air but more comfortable temperatures which means more opportunities for gaming on the go.

Good thing you invested in a device you’re going to be carrying with you anyway, right?

This past week, Taito felt like getting into the kitchen with Cooking Mama on the App Store. There’s also the highly talked about games Sway and Zen Bound. The classic Brick Breaker game gets a face lift and there’s even a game that lets you scratch lottery tickets without any of the guilt.

As usual, lets kick things off with some…

Games You Might Like

Sway: Price: $4.99
“The scatterbrained wizard accidentally blew up the world of Sway. All your friends survived the big badaboom due to their soft interior and fuzzy exterior but are scattered all over the galaxy. Now you must help Lizzy the Lizard find her friends by swinging her through the worlds. When you save Ninja Man, Stitches, Box Boy or one of your other friends you can make them sway too!

Swing and sway through beautiful worlds in bouncy physics simulation using finger gestures to control the creatures little grabby hands. It takes a bit of practice to get used to the controls but once you get the hang of it, you never wanna stop swaying. Explore the many levels, ranging from easy to very challenging, keeping you swaying for hours and hours.”

PocketPop Revenge: Price: $1.99
“Yes it’s back! The award winning PocketPop, winner of a Best Product Award 2001 at the Pocket PC Summit, and having shipped in excess of 250,000 copies on Pocket PC, is back, slicker and harder than before. This time its Revenge. Newly enhanced and made over for the iPhone and iPod Touch, PocketPop Revenge keeps three of the classic playing modes; Classic, Magnetism and Column Clearer you know and love from the original PocketPop, but adds a new harder longer Revenge mode that ups the anti. Classic is the standard clear the board and get the highest score. Magnetism changes the game mechanics by magnetizing the side of the board. Column clearer lets you keep going for longer by filling columns that become empty as you clear the board.”

Free Money*: Price: $0.99
“With Free Money* you can train your finger in minutes a day to scratch off lottery tickets! Practice makes perfect right, of course I’m right…i’m on the internet and therefore you MUST DO WHAT I SAY. Instead of wasting TONS of money on non-winning lottery tickets, now you can practice scratching them off WITHOUT LEAVING YOUR HOME OR SPENDING MORE THAN $0.99!”

Sentinel: Price: $4.99
“You are commander of the dropship Sentinel. You must defend a distant colony from the alien hordes in this stunning new evolution of tower defense. Protect key structures which block the enemies’ path as the aliens smash their way towards your stronghold. Utilize an array of advanced technology including upgradeable towers and droids which can repair buildings or harvest resources.”

Cooking Mama: Price: $6.99
“Popular the world over, the hit cooking action game “Cooking Mama” is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch! This edition features a generous helping of dishes from the home console series as well as plenty of never-before-seen cuisine! The “Cooking Mama” controls have also been optimized for use with the iPhone and iPod touch, ensuring a fresh play experience for even veterans of the home console releases! “Cooking Mama” includes two fun game modes: “Let’s Cook,” where players make meals with Mama, and “Cooking Contest,” where players can freely practice a variety of recipes and techniques.”

Brick Breaker Revolution 3D: Price: $5.99
“Get blown away by stunning 3D graphics, infinite levels, insane power ups, secret bonus levels, epic boss battles and more! Three amazing game modes deliver endless excitement: Revolution, Classic and Time Attack! Pick up over 20 unique power-ups including Nukes, Magnets, Rockets, Freeze Shots and Unstoppable Fury Ball! Break your first brick to start a revolution today!”

Crayon Ball: Price: $1.99
“Crayon Ball is a great physics puzzle game! It’s tilt sensitive and the balls roll around realistically. There are awesome powerup balls, like bombs that shake the screen as they explode!”

What’s Free

Tap Tap Mania Lite
“Help Potatofaces get back to their own world! As Potatofaces scroll towards and into the warp gate, tap its counterpart in the bottom part of the screen to send it back home!”

Avoider
“Voider is a action game that how long you can survive. You can control the U.F.O to roll your ipod. Your chance is 10 times. If you bump 10 times, the U.F.O will be broken. If you reach high score, you can register your name. How long time can you survive?”

The Corsair Lite
“The Corsair Lite is our highly acclaimed shooting gallery (or rail shooter) game for iPhone. Travel the high seas and battle against wicked pirates!”

Pharos IV: Assault Lite
“Enemy fighters relentlessly attempt to eliminate you and your starbase - but your superior technology and skill might be able to prevail. Good Luck! Pharos IV: Assault Lite includes the first 3 levels of the full version.”

HeavyMach Lite
“Let’s enjoy a realistic tank shooting game with its easy control specialized to the iPhone device.”

The Space Explorers
“Simulator of soviet “Electronica IM-13”, “Explorers of Space”, analogue of Nintendo’s EG-26 Egg. You’ve just landed on newly discovered planet and are immediately attacked by hundreds of alien ships.”

The Cave
“The goal of The Cave is to match 3 or 4 worms with the same color. If you tap two worms with the same color they will match and after matching at least another, they will dissapear giving you points. First levels will seem easy but as the game progresses you will see how the worms are appearing faster.”

Orion’s Belt Lite
“Experience the free version of the space shooter that’s like nothing else available on the iPhone! Rise through the ranks of the Minatakan fleet from cook to squadron commander as you take the controls of an ultra-maneuverable space fighter. In this top-down action game you’ll encounter multiple enemy ships programmed with powerful AI. You’ll also need your wits to complete a challenging campaign loaded with strategic twists and turns.”

Aragom Lite
“Aragom is a fast paced space war game, reminiscent of the old TRS-80 trek game. The galaxy is being overrun by Aragom and they have already destroy all other defences. Commanding the USS Constellation, you must destroy all the Aragom before they can destroy you, all the bases, or time runs out.”

WarLords
“Ever imagined how it would feel to be a part of the Mafia? Ever wondered how it would be to risk your life to make a quick million? Ever thought about the palaces and mansions you could buy if you were a big time gangster? Well now you can experience all of these things and a lot more. Warlords is a mass user based game where you can create your own gang and fight other gangs to gain supremacy in the world of war. From doing jobs to buying properties, you will be able to live life like a real life WarLord. Buying weapons and ammunition you will be able to keep your empire safe. You’ll be able to grow your own mob by initiating (inviting) friends to your mob.”

Sheep Abduction Lite
“Planet Zurq 340 is dying! They need a single drop of water to save their planet. Luckily, they’ve found a planet with lots of water: Earth! Since Zurqs are very polite they need to ask permission from the local inhabitants: humans. In order to establish contact with Earth, crop circles need to be created. Sheep seem to be the ideal candidate to chew crops. So…In order to save the planet, you will need to move around sheep to their destination!”

Scribattle Lite
“Scribattle Lite is a fast-paced game where you must help your stick-man warriors defend their planet from a hostile Scri invasion. Use touch controls to defeat wave after wave of attackers, pushing your fingers to the limit!”

Bounce Trap Tilt Lite
“Action, Strategy and Chance come together in this exciting new game for the iPhone. Bounce Trap Tilt Lite will challenge your its unique play that combines reaction time, planning, and tactics. Bounce Trap Tilt Lite takes the best elements of pinball, pachinko, puzzles and creates a new classic in the tradition of Tetris, Bejewled and Peggle.”

ABC Match
“ABC Match is a matching game that will help your child learn what letters of the alphabet look and sound like. Flip the tiles of the game over to reveal the letters and hear their names. Match any two, and that pair of letter tiles remains revealed. The object of the game is to reveal all the letter tiles on the board. ABC Match includes the option for you to choose just upper-case letters for the tiles, or upper-case/lower-case pairs. It also includes the option for a smaller (12-tile) or larger (20-tile) puzzle.”

Cards Math Free
“Cards Math Free is a popular math game played with poker cards. The object of the game is to make 24. You can add, subtract, multiply and divide. Use the numbers on all four cards, but use each card only once.”

Addict+ Lite
“Try out the lite version of Addict+ and get a taste of 4 levels for free. Train your brain with this addictive puzzle game. Take yourself to the next level by matching the number pairs that add up to the target. Addict+ Lite is the brain training game that’s actually fun!”

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Lite
“See what it’s like to sit in the hot seat in this “Lite” version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Work your way to the $2,000 question utilizing all four lifelines. But think fast! Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Lite features a nerve-wracking game clock just like the show”

TowerSmash Lite
“TowerSmash Lite is a Christmas-only version of TowerSmash, with only the Xmas theme available. If you enjoy TowerSmash Lite, be sure to check out the full version of TowerSmash to get more themes, more blocks, different ball sizes, and a faster physics engine!”

puzzle25
“Puzzle25 is the puzzle which rearranges 25 tiles correctly. Please rearrange quickly. Challenge Level2 if you complete Level1. Level2 is quite difficult. If you can clear Level2, there is PuzzleAP.”

RUBOKU DELUXE
“Solve the Puzzle by arranging the tiles so that each color only occurs once in each ROW and COLUMN (Just like Sudoku)”

Alpine Racer Lite
“Hit the slopes with Alpine Racer Lite by Namco! Ski and snowboard in this version of the arcade hit. Blistering 3D graphics bring the sport to life as you pull off aerial tricks and fly down the alpine. Claim your spot as King of the Mountain!”

MakeMeSay Lite
“Get ready for an awesome multi-player party game along the lines of Password, Taboo, or Catch Phrase. MakeMeSay will challenge your wits while pitting you against your friends. No longer will you have to play alone on your iPhone or iPod Touch, this party game will bring everyone together. Divide yourself and your friends up into teams, select how long you want to play, and off you go. MakeMeSay will give you a number of words that you will need to get your team to say. Make sure not to say the word yourself (or a word that rhymes), or else you loss the point for that word. Also, watch the clock, time is running out. Once your team is done their turn pass the iPod off to the other team. The “Lite” version only has 10 words per category and you can’t change the number of rounds, words, seconds, or teams. To get access to all the words and the ability to change your settings check out the full version.”

Rebus Free
“Rebuses are a kind of picture puzzle that use the size, position and orientation of characters and words to represent common phrases. The aim of the game is to work out what phrase is hidden in each puzzle. Rebus includes 500 puzzles to solve, utilising an easy, unobtrusive interface. Take as much or as little time on each puzzle as you need, without having to worry about timers or countdowns. Playing Rebus should be a relaxed but challenging experience! The difficulty of the puzzles ranges from absurdly easy to unfairly hard.”

WordSearch EN Lite
“Discover this original game, adapted from the classic WordSearch. Find twenty to thirty Words hidden into a 8x12 grid! Double-tap the screen to navigate between the grid and the words list.”

What’s New

Action

Cooking Mama: Price: $6.99
“Popular the world over, the hit cooking action game “Cooking Mama” is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch! This edition features a generous helping of dishes from the home console series as well as plenty of never-before-seen cuisine! The “Cooking Mama” controls have also been optimized for use with the iPhone and iPod touch, ensuring a fresh play experience for even veterans of the home console releases! “Cooking Mama” includes two fun game modes: “Let’s Cook,” where players make meals with Mama, and “Cooking Contest,” where players can freely practice a variety of recipes and techniques.”

Tissue: Price: $1.99
“The goal of this game is to pick tissues from the box.”

Sway: Price: $4.99
“The scatterbrained wizard accidentally blew up the world of Sway. All your friends survived the big badaboom due to their soft interior and fuzzy exterior but are scattered all over the galaxy. Now you must help Lizzy the Lizard find her friends by swinging her through the worlds. When you save Ninja Man, Stitches, Box Boy or one of your other friends you can make them sway too!

Swing and sway through beautiful worlds in bouncy physics simulation using finger gestures to control the creatures little grabby hands. It takes a bit of practice to get used to the controls but once you get the hang of it, you never wanna stop swaying. Explore the many levels, ranging from easy to very challenging, keeping you swaying for hours and hours.”

Pharos IV: Assault: Price: $0.99
“You might be fresh out of SpaceFleet Academy but it doesn’t mean you don’t have the ability to take on the Enemy. You’ve been posted to a remote starbase that is down to its last fighter. Your mission: defend the starbase at all costs against all comers. Enemy fighters and destroyers relentlessly attempt to eliminate you and your starbase - but your superior technology and skill might be able to prevail. Refuel in the treacherous neighboring nebula - but watch out for wandering asteroids! Good Luck! Full 3D action, beautiful graphics and a grooving soundtrack combine to make Pharos IV: Assault a fun and and exciting gameplay experience for all ages.”

Sentinel: Price: $4.99
“You are commander of the dropship Sentinel. You must defend a distant colony from the alien hordes in this stunning new evolution of tower defense. Protect key structures which block the enemies’ path as the aliens smash their way towards your stronghold. Utilize an array of advanced technology including upgradeable towers and droids which can repair buildings or harvest resources.”

Orion’s Belt: Price: $3.99
“Experience the space shooter that’s like nothing else available on the iPhone! Rise through the ranks of the Minatakan fleet from cook to squadron commander as you take the controls of an ultra-maneuverable space fighter. In this top-down action game you’ll encounter multiple enemy ships programmed with powerful AI. You’ll also need your wits to complete a challenging campaign loaded with strategic twists and turns.”

FingerFrenzy: Price: $0.99
“Fun, challenging, and addicting, FingerFrenzy is based on the classic whack-a-mole game, but adds a fresh new twist to the genre.”

Crayon Ball: Price: $1.99
“Crayon Ball is a great physics puzzle game! It’s tilt sensitive and the balls roll around realistically. There are awesome powerup balls, like bombs that shake the screen as they explode!”

Sproing: Price: $0.99
“In Sproing you use your spring to launch multi-colored pieces towards the sky. Match three of the same color, and the pieces spin out of sight, taking any piece no longer connected to the ceiling with them. The timer warns you to keep up the pace, and when it expires the field is shifted down towards the floor. When a piece crosses the threshold, your game is over. Enter your name for preservation on the High Score table, then start again to see if you can do better!”

Earth Day: Price: $0.99
“Earth Day is an action-packed arcade game that pits the player in an engaging experience of defending our mother Earth from fleets of alien spaceships attempting to invade our planet. Give it a try and we guarantee you’ll be hooked!”

Bounced: Price: $0.99
“Bounced is a simple and intuitively fun game. Just tilt your iPhone/iPod Touch to hit the pink colored wall. When you hit the wrong wall, the number of life will be decreased.”

Black Shades: Price: $0.99
“Black Shades is an intense first-person-shooter game about a bodyguard protecting a VIP from an onslaught of assassins. It is a direct port of the popular open-source game Black Shades (http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/02/black-shades-iphone/).”

Bass Fishing Battle!: Price: $2.99
“This game allows you to use the iPhone/iPod touch as a fishing rod and feel the excitement of going after the big catch.From seasoned anglers to first time fishers, cast your line and catch some fun!”

Airport Mania: First Flight: Price: $0.99
“Pack your bags for a trip through the skies in Airport Mania! Travel through 8 amusing airports while you land a variety of planes, purchase upgrades, and avoid delays. Stay on your toes as some planes carry precious cargo and will need to land in a hurry, while others might need a trip to the repair shop. But, with good planning, you’re sure to make it to the gate on time! With unique challenges, whimsical characters, and fun that will put a smile on your face, Airport Mania is one flight you can’t miss!”

Tap Tap Mania: Price: $0.99
“As Potatofaces scroll towards and into the warp gate, tap its counterpart in the bottom part of the screen to send it back home!”

16push/sec: Price: $0.99
“This is the application which counts how much you push the button per ten seconds. Please try to make a high score and compete with challengers in the world on online.”

Light Riders: Price: $0.99
“The point of Light Riders is to outlast your opponents. The longer you survive, the more points you will get. As you ride your Light Ride it will leave an Energy Trail behind it that neither you nor your opponents can pass. You will need to out maneuver your opponents while making sure you don’t end up in a wall.”

Kitchen Sink: Price: $0.99
“Coins, rings, and rotten food spin toward the drain. Touch the valuables before they hit, but don’t touch the rotten food. Miss three coins or rings and the sink is broken: game over. It starts slow, but gets fast and hard quickly. Can you beat 1000 points?”

Codename Lone Wolf - Elite Sniper: Price: $1.99
“Codename Lone Wolf is the latest in the sniper genre with several unique features that you won’t find in other games. After 6 months in development, Codename Lone Wolf brings you high quality custom drawn graphics with over 4,000 frames of animation made specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Each of the 26 missions is unique and modeled after real world locations.”

Clownce: Price: $0.99
“CLOWNCE returns to the old school coin-op days of gaming. Relive your youth in this game combining gameplay from the past with modern controls via the iPhone’s accelerometer control. The game is simple: tilt your phone to move the seesaw right and left. Land one clown on the open end of the seesaw and the other clown will go flying up into the air, popping balloons as he goes. The more balloons you pop, the higher your score.”

iBot Sumo: Price: $0.99
“Welcome to iBot Sumo!!! You control your Bot and battle against opponent Bots to knock each other out of the arena! By the way, they are all after YOU!!! Survival is the name of the game. Push or be pushed. Fight for your right to survive. Winner takes all in this futuristic sumo match. Dare to brave your way through 40 levels of increasing complexity and difficulty. Believe in yourself and your ability to be named the Winner. Nothing is left on the battlefield…”

Brick Breaker Revolution 3D: Price: $5.99
“Get blown away by stunning 3D graphics, infinite levels, insane power ups, secret bonus levels, epic boss battles and more! Three amazing game modes deliver endless excitement: Revolution, Classic and Time Attack! Pick up over 20 unique power-ups including Nukes, Magnets, Rockets, Freeze Shots and Unstoppable Fury Ball! Break your first brick to start a revolution today!”

Flying Ace: Price: $1.99
“Flying Ace is a fast-paced vertical scrolling shooter filled with numerous air and ground targets. Pilot 6 different aircraft, each with various flight characteristics and fire power, as you battle your way through 17 levels of nonstop action. Enhance your firepower by collecting power-ups and obtain temporary invincibility by earning a protective shield bonus for every 100 enemy objects you destroy. You can shoot down almost everything that flies and bomb everything on the ground. Obtain the all-powerful super weapon and use it to strategically destroy everything in your path.”

Classic Dart: Price: $0.99
“Dart game on mobile phone is popular. Other dart games on iPhone shoots by flipping your finger on touch screen. In Classic Dart, Dart floats on the target. Click on touch screen to shoot dart and score. Download it now.”

Adventure

Detective Saburo Jinguji A Decisive Move: Price: $2.99
“Detective Saburo Jinguji Series No.18. NOTICE: Only Japanese version available!”

Arcade

PigsFly: Price: $0.99
“PigsFly is an easy game with a challenging edge. To play, simply catch a ride with the nearest bird and transport yourself (the pig) as far as possible before your bird runs out of energy… Fly too high and you risk running out of energy too soon, fly too low and risk hitting the ground early. No one has ever made it to 2000 yards… Do you have what it takes?”

Window Washer: Price: $0.99
“Clean windows and earn points in this fast-paced, challenging game! Can you move the washer cart fast enough to clean the scrolling dirty windows?”

Slida: Price: $0.99
“Slida is an fun and addictive entry in the “triple match” genre of games. Slide rows and columns of blocks with a drag of your finger to create matches of connecting similar blocks. Blocks wrap around the game board, so there is much more involved in Slida than those other simple “tap to clear” or “swap two pieces” games! Use strategy while playing and you may be rewarded with combos and game extending bonuses!”

Sea Snake: Price: $1.99
“Control your Sea Snake by tilting the screen. You will grow larger with each body segment you collect. Collect 9 segments to advance to the next level. Advance ten levels to enter the next round.”

Board

Shogi Z (Japanese Chess): Price: $2.99
“Shogi is Japanese chess. The pieces that captured can be recycled. Two Pawn or more cannot be put on column. A pawn cannot be dropped to give an immediate checkmate.”

PicGrid: Price: $1.99
“The player uses number clues around a grid to create a picture. Each clue indicates a group of contiguous squares of foreground color. Between each group of foreground color there is at least one empty square of background color. There is always only one solution for each puzzle. Number clues will turn green if you place all blocks in a grid in the correct sequence.”

GoTable - 3 card games in 1: Price: $1.99
“GoTable has 3 card games. Blackjack, Caribbean Stud Poker, Baccarat.”

Janggi - Korean Chess: Price: $2.99
“Janggi, or Korean Chess, is an Artificial Intelligence board game that users can play on an iPhone (or Touch). Janggi is a common board game in Asia (China, Japan, and Korea) but the rules are different in each country. This program incorporates Korean rules and forms and offers an easy-to-understand interface so that anyone can enjoy it.

When the user touches a piece, the possible moves of that piece are shown. The user then touches the desired position of that piece, and the piece moves accordingly. For a single game, the user waits until for the AI to move first. When the piece known as the ‘general’ is lost, the game is lost. Click X to go main page. When the user saves a game, the iPhone saves the game history for later review or replay.”

Reversi Online Tournament: Price: $1.99
“How is it, playing a game with someone that you don’t even see? How can you play someone in real time and even be able to chat with them? How is it, that you can do this in the train, in a car, or at a beach? How is it, that you can do all this on an iPhone?”

Card

Nine Jokers: Price: $2.99
“Original puzzle-style 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.”

Casino

Free Money: Price: $0.99
“With Free Money* you can train your finger in minutes a day to scratch off lottery tickets! Instead of wasting tons of money on non-winning lottery tickets, now you can practice scratching them off without leaving your home or spending more than $0.99!”

Sic Bo / Hi-Lo: Price: $1.99
“Sic Bo (骰寶) is also known as tai sai (大細), dai siu (大小), big and small or hi-lo, and in Macau some variations exist with extra bets called Yee Hah Hi. It’s a combination of Craps and Roulette and has many bet options allowing the player to win lots of money at the casino.”

Peep Show: Price: $0.99
“Take a gander at these hotties. Shake your iPhone/iPod Touch at just the right time to drop a coin into the slot, revealing more and more of these hot women.”

Dice

iYacht: Price: $1.99
“Do you enjoy playing dice poker games? If you said “YES!”, then iYacht, for the iPhone and iPod touch, is the game for you.”

Educational

US States and Capitals: Price: $1.99
“Learn the 50 states of the United States of America and their corresponding capitals in this addictive and challenging game. Once you begin the game you will need to choose the correct state from 4 choices at the bottom of the screen. The state will be highlighted in yellow and some trivia about the state will appear in the fast facts section. Once the correct state is chosen the process is repeated for its capital. The game is timed so quick and accurate responses are rewarded with more points. If you are fast enough you may receive a medal. Can you go for the gold?”

Gut Check: Price: $1.99
“A fun game for young children (ages 4-8) that helps them learn the names and locations of major internal organs interactively. Watch as the organs disappear, then rebuild them one by one by pointing to the right location for each one. This game includes eleven major organs: the brain, heart, liver, trachea, esophagus, lungs, kidneys, bladder, stomach, large intestine, and small intestine.”

Word Tiles: Price: $1.99
“Goal of the game is to order the tiles in a way that there is a word in every row. The words are selected from a big list of mainly sight words. That is a fun way to play with sight words. You can also choose how many words are used (from 3 words in the 3x3 mode up to 5 words in the 5x5 mode). Just double tap the screen to get to the configuration menu where you can select of the many game options and different tile designs.”

Brain Quest® Blast Off: Grade 7: Price: $9.99
“Give kids a new way to show their smarts with Brain Quest® Blast Off, the only iPhone and iPod touch application based on America’s #1 educational bestseller. Kids can tap, flick and fly through thousands of questions as they strive to achieve Genius status.”

Beat Box Brainiac: Price: $0.99
“Think you’ve got what it takes to be a Beat Box Brainiac? Memory Games meet 1980’s Beat Box in this challenging and unique brain game. See if you can make it into the worldwide top 10 rankings!”

iCount: Price: $1.99
“iCount is a number game for iPod Touch, iPhone and iPhone 3G. Aim of the game is to reach a target number using 6 other numbers and 4 usual operators (addition, substraction, multiplication and division).”

Family

MishMash: Price: $1.99
“Your challenge is to rebuild the original photos that have been divided and randomly laid out inside the pages. Each photo is divided in cells according to the puzzle size you have set. A cell holds a portion of each photo and are randomly laid out inside the pages. A page represent a photo to rebuild. Each cell displays one image per page. As you move to another page, the same cell will show another image that belongs to another photo.”

Zen Bound: Price: $4.99
“Zen Bound is a calm and meditative puzzle game about wrapping wooden sculptures with rope. A game in which a high score is not the goal - instead it is something to focus on and enjoy at your own relaxed pace. It is a tactile experience: a game of wood, stone and rope with the most beautiful graphics yet seen on the iPhone. The visuals complement the controls to provide interaction that feels natural and comfortable. A major element of the game is the unique, dusty and soothing down-tempo soundtrack designed and composed by ‘Ghost Monkey’. It features binaural processing that creates an enveloping soundscape when headphones are used.”

Virtual Pig: Price: $0.99
“Take care of your virtual pig! You can clean him, train him, feed him, and make him study, amongst other things. He can die if you let him starve or grow sick if you leave him alone for too long.”

Hidden Items: Price: $0.99
“Search for all of the scattered hidden items in the beautifully decorated places. Try to locate more than 10 objects hidden in each stage as fast as you can.”

Supermarket Mania: Price: $1.99
“Run five distinct stores through 50 manic yet fun-filled stock-‘til-you-drop levels, stock over a dozen of products to sell, serve seven types of hard-to-please customers, and earn enough money to purchase over 20 accessories and upgrades that will help you turn your enterprise into success.”

Puzzle Classic: Price: $1.99
“You know the game, the one with sixteen squares, 15 tiles and one gap, all you need to do is slide the tiles around the grid to fix the picture… it’s that simple. Or is it? Now Puzzle Classic is here to challenge your brain and entertain you whenever and where ever you want.”

Jewel Raider: Price; $0.99
“Your mission is to make it to the castle and find the precious jewel that has been stolen from your land. Bring back the jewel from the castle and free your people from eternal slavery. Each level has a key that will allow you to proceed to the next level once you have collected enough jewels. Different jewels are worth different points, the further you progress in a level the jewels are worth more. Get jewels worth 500, collect the key and advance to the next stage. Lookout for the flying dragons, the falling daggers, snakes, and scorpion.”

Music

NOTHING

Puzzle

Jugen: Price: $0.99
“Jugen is a simple yet addictive game that brings more fun to Your iPhone and iPod Touch. In this game You have to kick all red balls out from board, but keep blue. As you tilt your iPhone or iPod Touch you can control shoot power and direction. When you ready - just tap anywhere on board.”

Recollection: Price: $1.99
“It’s all about memory. You are shown an random selected panel of shapes that is visible for a short amount of time. Once the panel disappears you press the shapes at the bottom of the screen in the order your remember them on the screen. You get points for every correct answer. As the levels progress firstly the time shortens and then you get another shape. You only need to get one answer correct per level to progress.”

Gems: Price: $1.99
“Addictive match-three game with gorgeous graphics, nice sounds and a simple interface. Maneuver gems by sliding your finger to match three in a row. Customize by selecting your skill level or background image, and compare your score on baKno’s Top Players list.”

Fozy: Price: $2.99
“Fozy is a unique and addicting word game designed exclusively for the iPhone. Touch or swipe adjacent letters to form words, then rotate the device to make letters fall in any of 6 directions. Finally, you can move that Q where you need it!”

Super MasterMind: Price: $0.99
“Click onto the holes in the current row to place the peg. Choose your color. At the end, click on OK to validate. You receive a black peg, when one peg is at the correct position, and a white for the wrong position.”

PocketPop Revenge: Price: $1.99
“Yes it’s back! The award winning PocketPop, winner of a Best Product Award 2001 at the Pocket PC Summit, and having shipped in excess of 250,000 copies on Pocket PC, is back, slicker and harder than before. This time its Revenge. Newly enhanced and made over for the iPhone and iPod Touch, PocketPop Revenge keeps three of the classic playing modes; Classic, Magnetism and Column Clearer you know and love from the original PocketPop, but adds a new harder longer Revenge mode that ups the anti. Classic is the standard clear the board and get the highest score. Magnetism changes the game mechanics by magnetizing the side of the board. Column clearer lets you keep going for longer by filling columns that become empty as you clear the board.”

Cube the Box: Price: $0.99
“Cube the Box is a simple and fun puzzle game where you slide boxes to their matching colors and try to match the pattern on the board. This classic Rubic-style puzzle game has caught the iWorld by storm with twists and turns that bring to life, on your iPhone, the play style you know and love based on the worlds most popular and timeless puzzle game. Puzzle your way through hundreds of patterns, with awesome music, lifetimes of entertainment and extended stress free gameplay. Cube the Box is a must have simple, fun and challenging puzzle game. This is the most engaging and addicting iPhone game you’ve ever played.”

Domino Day: Price: $0.99
“Arrange Dominos in such a way that once the first is pushed the chain reaction will knock all your dominos down to the very last one.”

Pockster WordGuess: Price: $0.99
“Pockster WordGuess challenges the user with four separate categories of titles to discover as the timer quickly counts down three minutes. Points are awarded for correct words (and the speed you do it in), and five wrong letters in a word will cost you points. The categories feature Movies, Music, Books, and Countries, so anyone should find a challenge in Pockster WordGuess. It is certainly an entertaining way to realize just how short three minutes can seem.”

Racing

Alpine Racer: Price: $5.99
“Hit the slopes with Alpine Racer by Namco! Ski and snowboard in this version of the arcade hit. Blistering 3D graphics bring the sport to life as you pull off aerial tricks and fly down the alpine. Claim your spot as King of the Mountain!”

Role Playing

NOTHING

Simulations

Angry Pinata: Price: $0.99
“Forget your stress balls, put away those soothing brain hackers… it’s time to take it out on a Pinata. Select from 4 different pinatas and start whacking away with your iPhone until it bursts into candy.”

Sports

Bowling Arcade: Price: $0.99
“A crazy bowling game where you will be hitting melons instead of pins. It is an arcade bowling, fun and addictive. Submit your score and compete against the rest of the world.”

Tailgate Games: Price: $2.99
“Do you live to tailgate? Are you counting down the days to the first kickoff of football season? Does the clank of horseshoes bring a smile to your face? If so, Tailgate Games is the iPhone app you’ve been waiting for! Compete in 4 classic tailgate games, Cornhole, Horseshoes, Ladder Ball / Ladder Golf, and Washers, to see if you have what it takes to be the Tailgate Champion!”

Strategy

Cascade: Price: $2.99
“Cascade is an easy to play word game. The rules are simple, just tap on the letters to create a word at least 3 letters long and press the Enter button. If the word is good you get points added to your score. If you decide you don’t like the word you’re building you can always cancel some letters by tapping on them a second time. Increase your score by chaining longer words, using more uncommon letters (like Z), and relying on the multiplier orbs. With four beautiful backgrounds, a high scores board, and a bonus round you will find yourself addicted to a higher score in no time.”

Trivia

20 Questions: Price: $2.99
“The classic game of twenty questions - now for the iPhone! Think of any object in the world, and the funny and charismatic character will attempt to guess what you are thinking of. The AI gets smarter as you play, learning from your answers and adding them to his digital brain online.”

Italian Trivia: Price: $1.99
“Are you studying Italian or you just want to test your ability in understanding it? Then Italian Trivia is the right quiz for you! Each game answer to 20 random questions pulled from a database of hundreds.”

Selena Gomez 101 - Quizner’s Trivia: Price: $0.99
“Test your knowledge of Selena Gomez trivia and have fun at the same time with Quizner’s Selena Gomez 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.” NOTE: Also available in other subjects.

Jewish Trivia: Price: $4.99
“The totally unreasonable Jewish “Essential” Trivia. Esoteric knowledge, trivial facts, Jewish Trivia “essential” to Jewish Knowledge, the values that are at the core of Jewish beliefs and practices. Jewish Trivia touches the very roots of the Jewish people and helps make the heritage of Judaism enjoyable and entertaining. Jewish Trivia will encourage you to explore Jewish values, traditions, life-cycle events, holiday, and Israel, from perspectives that are novel, though-provoking and exciting. It will encourage you to continue these explorations with the full power of your imaginations and reflections.”

Word

Word Shake!: Price: $0.99
“Word Shake! is a fun and easy to use game to keep you stimulated with your word skills. A jumbled up set of letters representing a word is presented on the screen and you are to unscramble the word by touching the letters to assemble it.”

WordSearch EN: Price: $1.99
“Find twenty to thirty Words hidden into a 8x12 grid! Double-tap the screen to navigate between the grid and the words list. In this first version of the game, 24 thematic, handmade grids are waiting for you with 3 levels of difficulty.”

WordsFinder: Price: $0.99
“WordsFinder: (English language words): finds words with missing letters for puzzles, cryptograms, scrabble, or just to check your spelling. Enter the search term to find the word(s) you are looking for with a dot (.) for one letter,
and/or an at-sign (@) for multiple letters. More than 600.000 words are included, without the need for an on-line connection.”

WordFu: Price: $0.99
“Shake your letter dice and spell as many words as you can before the clock runs out. Build up your score by unleashing an endless word barrage! Freeze time, flick dice for better letters, and let loose a fiery spelling fury! Once you’ve mastered it on your own, take on your friends over WiFi. Dominate the leaderboard on your quest to earn WordFu Belts and become a true WordFu Grand Master. Once no worldly man can defeat you, play Shaolin Style for the highest WordFu challenge!”