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Important Importables
Jenni Lada brings us information about all of the groovy new gaming imports from around the world.
Now it’s time you get a little something for yourself. After all, you do love yourself, right?
So what better to get than a good time waster? You will thank yourself for it come your Monday morning commute.
So get to browsing this week’s update starting with:
Games You Might Love
Tower Bloxx Deluxe 3D: Price: $5.99
“Reach the skies in a wacky skyscraper construction game that tests your reflexes and puzzle skills! Immerse yourself in a full 3D experience and create a thriving metropolis in City Building Mode with three distinctive districts, 70 levels, and four types of towers. Compete with others in Party Multiplayer Mode or play endlessly in the Quick Game Mode! Build the entire city block now!”
Heavy Mach.: Price: $2.99
“Let’s enjoy a realistic tank shooting game with its easy control specialized to the iPhone device.”
Belowscape: Price: $0.99
“Fast paced action game inspired by Robotron, Smash TV, Crimsonland, and Geometry Wars.”
Dapple: Price: $4.99
“Dapple is a color-matching puzzle game with a twist! Match sets of four or more of the same color to eliminate paint from the board. Matches are made by mixing paints to form new colors. Watch out for brown paint, though. Let it spread too much and you could be in trouble!”
Ike the Inventor: Magical Workshop: Price: $0.99
“Help Ike the Inventor to assemble ordered things. Drag and drop parts on model contour and check it with blueprint. When you assemble parts right, model will be animated. This game made for children, learns them how to distinguish shapes and details as they help Ike to put together 13 different models.”
What’s Free
Pocket Foosball Single Player
“Devote to all table football fans! From now in your device there will be the whole stadium and your own team! You can make the football matches in any time. The joy of victories and stadium’s atmosphere with fans will give you a lot of good mood. You are the best, you are the champion! The game lasts till 5 goals – no limit of time. You can give the name of your team and select the uniform’s colour. For choice 3 playing grounds of different colours are available. The real stadium sound.”
Action Bricks Lite
“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.”
Truck vs Grenade
“Truck vs Grenade is a simple battle between you, gravity, and a some big explosions.”
Arcade Bowling Lite
“In the tradition of Skeeball, everyone’s favorite Boardwalk bowling game, use your fingers and steady aim to fling “laser” balls down the alley and up the ramp into the scoring holes. The further the scoring hole is, the more points you’ll get! Once the laser ball flies off the ramp, you can tilt your iPhone/iPod touch to actually influence the ball’s flight in midair! Use the accelerometer to adjust your aim by tilting left and right, and adjust the ball’s speed by tilting forward and back.”
Puzzle Star Lite
“This is the Lite version of Puzzle Star, the star of all puzzle games! So much fun you won’t be able to stop! Clear groups of similar squares by tapping on the screen, but pay attention! The more squares in a group, the higher your score when you tap! What may look simple is a true challenge! You will find lots of new levels and increased difficulty in the full version, and the possibility of sharing your higher scores with people around the world!”
Monkey Jewels Lite
“Monkey Jewels Lite contains two levels from Monkey Jewels and is a fun and challenging game, sure to keep puzzle fanatics and fans of Bejeweled entertained for hours. Race against the clock to match three or more jewels into clusters to meet the quota for the level by dragging the jewels around the board.”
Match Maker - Valentines Day
“Match the Valentines items in the game as fast as you possibly can!”
TiltaFun Lite
“This is a free version of TiltaFun with fewer levels to give you a taste. Let’s go! Guide the cute little candy monster around variety of brick formations to eat as much as you can of the precious candy within set time limits. You can play the levels in each world in any order but you have to finish all 5 to advance to the next world. Enjoy beautiful graphics, fun game play and awesome original music scores.”
Music Jam Lite
“The conductor’s job is a very difficult and often underestimated task. Thanks to this game you will be able how hard it is to successfully control the whole orchestra. Let the music play! In “Music Jam” your task will be very challenging: you will have to identify instruments which take part in the tune and choose the same from your instrumentarium. As your orchestra consists of eight musicians it will be difficult work, but with good ear and some luck you will guess it in no time.”
Diet WordPop!
“Part puzzle, part word creation and all fun. You clear the board by creating words. As you pop each word from the grid, there are fewer and fewer letters left. Plan ahead to win the round and the game! Diet WordPop! is a unique twist on the word genre and is easy to learn. “
Valentine Word Search
“Special Valentine’s version of AFKSoft WordSearch Puzzle. You will likely find yourself playing this game long after the holiday is over!”
What’s New
Action
Tower Bloxx Deluxe 3D: Price: $5.99
“Reach the skies in a wacky skyscraper construction game that tests your reflexes and puzzle skills! Immerse yourself in a full 3D experience and create a thriving metropolis in City Building Mode with three distinctive districts, 70 levels, and four types of towers. Compete with others in Party Multiplayer Mode or play endlessly in the Quick Game Mode! Build the entire city block now!”
Submarine: Price: $2.99
“Take control of a submarine and navigate your way through rocky seabed, icebergs, floating mines, depth chargers and whirlpools. Each new level will be more and more intensive, exciting and breathtaking. Passing obstacles will become extremely challenging, and you will be able to lead the submarine to it’s final destination, only if you show enough courage, patience and reaction as a real submariner. “
Rogue Cupid: Price: $1.99
“If you love Valentine’s Day, you will appreciate Rogue Cupid for its floating hearts and calming, melodious harp music. If you’re more curious, hold two fingers on the screen to bring up cupid’s bow! Use a third finger to draw an arrow back and let go to fire! Golly, you’re a real life cupid! You shouldn’t shoot the floating hearts though - they represent society’s Valentine’s Day spirit…”
Heavy Mach.: Price: $2.99
“Let’s enjoy a realistic tank shooting game with its easy control specialized to the iPhone device.”
Dangerous Bananas: Price: $0.99
“Guide the monkey across the jungle, city and swamp. The more levels you reach, the more bananas you will need to eat in order to go to the next level. But don’t fall in water and watchout for crocodiles, snakes, cars and trucks.”
Boa Constrictor: Price: $0.99
“Yes there are many ‘Classic Snake’ games available for the iPhone/iPod Touch, but none of these worms are as evolved as Boa Constrictor! Boa Constrictor offers two unique gameplay experiences:
Aragom Space War: Price: $2.99
“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.”
Simon Has Gas: Price: $0.99
“Simon has eaten something that does not agree with him. His discomfort now becomes your entertainment. Simon expels round after round of flatulent fun. Your job is to repeat the sequence of gaseous eruptions. How long can you last during this noxious onslaught? Adjust the pace of his repulsive outpouring from a slow rumbling to a thunderous barrage. Or, mute the sound and follow the visual expulsions for those times that Simon needs to be a bit more discreet.”
Save the Steak!: Price; $0.99
“Save the Steak!” is a game inspired by my puppy Eclipse. She managed to snatch a whole piece of steak right off of the kitchen counter while I was out snow shoveling! Using the cool Apple accelerometer, balance the table top to keep the steak in the middle of screen! The doggies, Eclipse, Java and Leela will be pawing at the table edges to slide the steak their way, those smart little rascals… Try to save the steak as long as possible! Enjoy the funky background music along with funny animations and wacky sounds!”
Laser Shark: Price: $2.99
“Guide the shark around the chains to the fish, cook them with the lasers. 30 unique levels.”
Belowscape: Price: $0.99
“Fast paced action game inspired by Robotron, Smash TV, Crimsonland, and Geometry Wars.”
Shoes Attack: Price: $0.99
“Shoes attack is very famous now in the world for the political issue. We design a little game for you to win 1 point by shooting your shoes at the thief each time. Play with your friends. Just download and try it.”
Atom Miner: Price: $0.99
“Attack the electrons circling the atom in order to weaken the nucleus. When the atom has no more electrons, the nucleus explodes, sending protons flying. Tap the protons to earn extra lives and bonuses.”
The Boxer: Price: $0.99
“The first episode in a fighting tournament series where your boxing skills are pitted against a wacky cast of characters! This episode, Round 1:Fight!, introduces the basic mechanics of the game and lets you rumble through the easy circuit! Slug and dodge your way through fighters to dominate this circuit because the next episodes will feature more advanced fighters!”
Block Chaser: Price: $0.99
“Block Chaser is addictive action game using footstep. There are diverse footsteps and items. Use them and survive as long as you can. As time goes by, you will experience more speedy and fun. Touch your iphone/touch and move your smile left or right. Each touch screen, it will change move direction. If you go over left or right, or fall down game is over. You can compete the world via conline ranking system.”
Adventure
SkyCoaster 3D: Price: $0.99
“SkyCoaster 3D is an exhilarating, high-speed 3D roller coaster simulation that is sure to get your adrenaline pumping.”
Arcade
Valentine’s Game: Price: $1.99
“This Valentine’s Day Game is a highly addictive game where you are in control of Cupid, a love struck deity, who needs to collect as many hearts as possible in order to fly higher and higher.”
Trace Game: Price: $1.99
“Nail-biting touch-operation! Tracing screen with a finger is ONLY what you need to do! Let’s control and lead the red-gem to the goal without touching the walls and obstacles.”
Memoric: Price: $0.99
“The principle is very simple - look at picture for a while and try to memorize it and to repeat it as quickly as possible.”
LuziBraq: Price: $0.99
“If you know “Whack a Mole” you basically know how to play this game. Tap a Luzi to braq him away. In difference to other Tap-to-Whack-Games this one lets you play against others on one single device.”
Dragon Defense: Price: $2.99
“Dragon Defense is a tower defense game. You must defend against dragon army. You can build towers of 5 type, Bow, Fire, Ice, Poison and Web. Each type has unique ability.”
Air Master 3D: Price: $0.99
“You are the last Air Master, humanity’s only hope against an unstoppable alien threat! Make your way to the alien homeworld, destroying everything in your path across five planets.”
MonsterShoot: Price: $0.99
“It’s what David used to slay Goliath. Now it’s your turn. Pull back on the slingshot and let it fly to shoot those monsters out of the sky.”
The Red Square: Price: $0.99
“The Red Square game is an addictive skilled game in which you must avoid others squares.”
Board
HenHouse: Count Attack: Price: $1.99
“Press the eggs in numerical order to free the cute chicks! Hatch’em as fast as you can to set new time records.”
Battletaire: Price: $1.99
“Battletaire, also called Battleship Solitaire, is a fun and challenging game for all ages. Battletaire combines the game play of Sudoku and Battleship where your mission is to find the location of the 10 hidden ships using the numbers along the grid as guides. Each puzzle starts with a few revealed squares depending on the level you are playing. As you are promoted in rank (from Seaman to Fleet Admiral) the puzzles become more challenging. If you love Battleship or Sudoku, you will love this game!”
Card
3 Card Pro Poker: Price: $4.99
“As you would expect from the PRO Series casino games, 3 Card PRO includes valuable training tools like our ‘Ask the Dealer’ to determine your best odds to play the current hand. Additionally, in depth stats are collected on your hands played so you can review your winning percentages and refine your winning strategies. By playing 3 Card Pro, you can have hours of fun learning a new game if you have never played before, or you can hone your skills while playing one of your favorite casino games.” NOTE: Also available in 4 Card Poker.
Love Dice: Price: $0.99
“Love Dice are a fun way to put some spice into your love life by reconnecting with your partner and is an entertaining and creative tool for couples. Love Dice provides two main options for a couple, each providing increasingly risky die for both the “Body” and “Action” categories. You choose the risk level you are comfortable with then enjoy! For those who want a little more variety and spice, Love Dice also provides two other optional dice, the “Location” and “Duration” dice. With these extra dice a very specific activity can be played out. Mix and match the dice and their various levels of risk, locations, and durations to provide endless, and sometimes adventuresome, combinations. If you roll a question mark, feel free to choose or let your partner decide. Most of all be prepared to have some fun and make any day, Valentine’s Day!”
Casino
Totem Treasure 2: Price: $1.99
“The award winning slot machine simulation Totem Treasure 2 comes to the iPhone! Totem bonuses abound and the mystical Golden Wolves may award you the biggest treasure of all - the Wampum Jackpot! Once again the totem smiles upon your wins - literally! During normal play the Chief acts as a wildcard and substitutes for all symbols except scattered wolves. All wins with the Chief on the payline at paid at 5 times normal pays! 3, 4 or 5 scattered wolves during normal play will award you 16, 24 or 40 free games and the Wolf Feature - where all pays are doubled. Sit back and wait for the Chiefs to fill all positions on the centre reels - you’ll really be in the money. Double up any win or play roulette to try and multiply a win up to 35 times your original pay.”
Dice
NOTHING
Educational
Ike the Inventor: Magical Workshop: Price: $0.99
“Help Ike the Inventor to assemble ordered things. Drag and drop parts on model contour and check it with blueprint. When you assemble parts right, model will be animated. This game made for children, learns them how to distinguish shapes and details as they help Ike to put together 13 different models.”
Icos3D: Price: $2.99
“The core of the game is a sphere made of 80 triangles. The triangles are coloured in white or blue in a regular way. A small part of the sphere consists of six triangles with a common point and can be rotated by 180 degrees. There are 30 such parts and every rotation of a part changes the regularity of the coloring of the sphere. The goal of the game is to restore the original regular pattern, which is randomly mixed according to the game level.”
KERN: Price: $0.99
“A random type-centric word with a missing letter appears at a variable point size. As the leading begins to shrink, you navigate the missing letter to the proper space and release it’s handle to lock it in place. The placement accuracy is measured and your score is calculated based on the size of the type, the leading height, and the perfection of placement—all measured in points. If you miss by too much and form an unnecessary ligature, one of your five ligature tokens will be lost. Lose all five ligatures and your game is finished. How many points will you Kern?”
Dem Bones: Price: $1.99
“A fun game for young children (ages 4-10) that helps them learn the bones of the human body by rebuilding a skeleton. With sound effects that help them learn the names of the bones as well, this game is the perfect educational distraction for long road trips, waiting for dinner, or just keeping them out of trouble.”
Family
Unscramble Puzzle: Price: $0.99
“Simply tap and slide tiles smoothly to place them in order by using the empty space.”
Mixapix: Price: $0.99
“Mixapix is a take-off of the slider puzzle. It’s still a slider puzzle but it allows the user to select the images to be used for the puzzle. The level of difficulty can be increased not only by changing the number of tiles but by also using a front and reverse image as the puzzle. The user may shake the iPhone or iPod Touch and the image will be scrambled or a convenient scramble button is included. A puzzle timer starts as soon as the user slides the first puzzle piece. The object is to reassemble the puzzle in the shortest time and using the fewest number of moves.”
Choose a Fate Party Game: Price: $0.99
“Enjoy over 400+ questions that will add life to any party, get together, or meeting. Fate questions are always a hit as they have you deciding between things that you both really want or the lesser of two evils. For example, do you choose to have the superpower of being able to make multiple copies of yourself or of making multiple copies of other people? Think of the fun, pranks, revenge, and response to both decisions! Plus, if you’re looking for some random fun! Go to the Category screen and shake your iPhone to enter Party Mode! which randomly chooses categories and questions for you. A perfect addition if you’re looking to spice up your party or don’t know what to choose? That’s what this game is all about!”
Shiroku: Price: $0.99
“Play through 100 different, increasingly difficult puzzle challenges that will push your mind to the limit. Compete against the computer player and try to get the highest score in each level. Collect the bonus numbers while forcing your opponent to take the negative numbers!”
Easter Games: Price: $0.99
“In this application you will find 3 different games, each with 3 different themes, for a total of nine games. The games are all quite simple, and should be playable by all ages (4+). The three themes include: Easter Eggs, Rubber Duckies, and Easter Bunnies. The three different games include: Drop, Match, and Attack.”
Dapple: Price: $4.99
“Dapple is a color-matching puzzle game with a twist! Match sets of four or more of the same color to eliminate paint from the board. Matches are made by mixing paints to form new colors. Watch out for brown paint, though. Let it spread too much and you could be in trouble!”
Music
American Idol 201 - Quizner’s Trivia: Price: $0.99
“Test your knowledge of American Idol trivia and have fun at the same time with Quizner’s American Idol 201. 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.” Also available in Zac Efron and Jesse McCartney quizzes.
Puzzle
Pockster WordFind: Price: $0.99
“With Pockster WordFind we focus on this aspect of game playing. We have incorporated automatic saves to the game so that you can always get back to the game you were playing in case Life happens. The state is saved for each puzzle, which means that you can try one puzzle of WordFind, stop it and select another of the 50 available puzzle, and come back to it at a later date without losing your place on either puzzle.”
iAmBored+: Price: $0.99
“So you’re bored and don’t know what to do; fresh out of ideas. Look no further! Give iAmBored a whirl, literally!”
Bag Bigfoot: Price: $0.99
“Bag Bigfoot is a challenging strategy game where you attempt to capture the mythical Bigfoot by dropping stone pillars on a classic strategy game hexagonal map. At first this looks easy, but as you progress to higher levels Bigfoot will learn from his mistakes and there will be less pillars left around from other explorers to trap him. The unique interface allows you to accurately select any hex and place a blocking pillar. Easy to play and yet very challenging to beat, Bag Bigfoot will give you hours and hours of great game play. Bag Bigfoot also features an automatic game save, so you can come back to your game in progress at any time. You can also manually save up to three games as well.”
iFiller: Price: $0.99
“iFiller - an exciting puzzle game. This game is splendid antistress and antidepressant game. It is designed for all age groups.”
ArcadeManiak: Price: $2.99
“ArcadeManiak is a special collection of the most popular PuzzleManiak games, featuring a new user interface. There is a whole new visual experience, where your favorite games have been visually supercharged with stunning graphics. ArcadeManiak also features 10 tracks of original music to play in the background, or you can solve the puzzles accompanied by your own music library.”
Candy: Price: $1.99
“If you’re a fan of games like Bejeweled and Tetris then you will love CANDY! Candy is literally the sweetest thing to ever hit the iPhone. Join our lovable cast of characters as you enjoy this insanely fun and addicting match 3 game! ”
Perimetros: Price: $3.99
“Perimetros™ is proud to introduce a new and unique spin on a gaming classic that is now available exclusively for the iPhone™ and iPod Touch™. Experience the addictive challenge of quickly maneuvering your game pieces into perimeters instead of just horizontal lines. Use the accelerometer for smooth control and touch screen for precise maneuvering while you find out exactly how many perimeters you’re good enough to complete!”
Pairs: Price: $0.99
“Pairs is fun, educational and challenges little kids and “big kids” alike. So, this is our version of the classic concentration game, Toejam style! The kids can practice their numbers, letters, shapes and colors. Each matching pair takes you one step closer to revealing a stunning photo surprise. And for the “big kids”, Pairs will keep their minds as sharp as a tac! Bump up to the hard level and see how may turns it takes to clear the board. Pairs is sure to entertain and challenge you regardless of your age.”
GLAXIC: Price: $2.99
“Ready for a challenge? Glaxic is it. A mind-bending puzzle game of strategy and speed, Glaxic will test your memory… and your sanity! See the path. Can you remember it? You’ll need to because your planet is in peril and only you can save it. Guide the blue underworld around the board, shifting and rotating to plug the black holes of space and save your planet from plummeting to its doom. Twenty-four levels—one more challenging than the next—provide hours of fun. Only those with the strongest minds and quickest wits will have what it takes.”
Racing
NOTHING
Role Playing
NOTHING
Simulation
Magic Cylinder: Price: $1.99
“Magic Cylinder is cylindrical puzzle similar to the Rubik’s Cube. It is a cylinder with rotating rows populated by colored pieces. One piece is missing allowing adjacent top or bottom piece to change row. The purpose of the puzzle is to return scrambled pieces to form vertical lines of the same color. Like with all our games, number of rows and number of colors (columns) could be changed creating a lot more possibilities then mechanical equivalents. You could also solve the puzzle not only vertically but horizontally, that is only when you select equal number of rows and colors.”
Ghost Buddy: Price: $0.99
“Ghost Buddy is a 3D first-person simulation that casts you as a kind of ‘ghost whisperer’ who has devoted himself to helping lead lost souls to their graves. You must first find and capture each good ghost, then return it to its properly named grave. There are, however, nasty red ghosts wandering around the cemetery as well—avoid them, or protect yourself by zapping them away for a few seconds with your cross.”
Sports
Golf Games: Price: $1.99
“Golf Games will help you have more fun with your next round of golf, and really help you and your golf partners enjoy the game of golf even more. Have fun playing the top 20 most popular and enjoyable Golf Games such as Wolf, Nassau, Skins, Bingo Bango Bongo, and more. Each game is easily explained, and comes with a tailored Scorecard and Leaderboard to assist you and your golf mates in having a great time.”
Carambole Pool Puzzles: Price: $0.99
“Simple snooker. A unique mix of pool and puzzle game. Shoot your ball from the sidelines and hit two or more balls of the same color to clear the field. With more than 50 levels you have guaranteed pleasure even when you have only a few spare minutes.”
Strategy
Chomp!: Price: $0.99
“Chomp is an intriguing, new game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It is a puzzle/strategy game where you try to force your opponent to eat the poisoned cookie, while avoiding it yourself! The rules are simple. The player that eats the poisoned cookie at the end of the game loses. A grid of cookies is placed before both of the players. Each player then takes turn choosing a cookie. When a player chooses a cookie, he or she will then eat all of the cookies below, and to the right of the chosen cookie. The player forced to eat the poisoned cookie, in the top left corner then loses.”
Trivia
Ultimate Fighting Trivia: Price: $1.99
“Is MMA your passion? Do you never miss a fight? Are you ready to tackle 20 random questions pulled from a database of hundreds?”
A Twilight Trivia: Price: $0.99
“Now that you’ve read the book (Book 1) and watched the movie, it’s time to test your skills on a little trivia quiz on the book you love; Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.”
State Capital Quiz: Price: $0.99
“Test your knowledge of the state capitals with this fun educational quiz. Pick out the correct state capital from a list of 5 cities for each state. Amaze your friends and family with your knowledge of the USA!”
US Capitals 101 - Quizner’s Trivia: Price: $0.99
“Test your knowledge of US Capitals trivia and have fun at the same time with Quizner’s US Capitals 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 State Flowers, Largest Cities, State Birds, and State Slogans.
Indie Films: Price: $0.99
“Learn everything you can about the Indie films.”
Word
Mots Meles: Price: $1.99
NOTE: This is basically a word search game in French.
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