Apple App Store gaming update for the week of May 18

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Apple App Store gaming update for the week of May 18 - May 24, 2009

by Kris Rosado on May 25, 2009 at 11:11 AM

The Apple App Store gaming update is Gamertell’s weekly look at the previous week’s Apple App Store game releases. We cover them all - good and not so good - in their respective categories with a breakdown of the great games and the free games right where you want ‘em, at the top and in your face. The list is available every Monday, right as you are about to start that long work week.

gamertell apple app store weekly update logo Is a new iPhone on the way? According to multiple news sites’ sources, it’s true. The new device will supposedly be available around July 17, 2009, and will feature double the power. More RAM, a better processor, a better camera that will feature video recording and perhaps a better looking screen? Where do I sign up!?

Of course, nothing will be unveiled until June 8, 2009, at the WWDC so here are some games for your current-gen iPhone or iPod Touch:

What You Might Want To Check Out

Ancient Tribe: Price: $0.99
“Ancient Tribe is a real-time strategy game in which you will be the God of the ancient tribe. You control their hunting, collecting resources, and then expanding the population by making use of the resources, upgrading their technology and equipment. And when the primitive tribe develops to a certain level, they will build a Miracle to pay tribute to your mightiness. The ancient tribe is surrounded by different environment including forest, desert, volcanoes, ice land etc.. And among them are various kinds of wild beasts and Boss is a big team with special power and you can train them up to be your hunting troop. This game supports Multitouch function and you can touch and drag on the screen to control the troops.”

Arvale: Ocean of Time: Price: $4.99
“Arvale: Ocean of Time is another award-winning, epic Role Playing Game, just like the other Arvales! But THIS game contains over 40 hours of gameplay, 8 immense continents, more hyperboles, 325 maps, 445 monsters, 400 items (including more wheelbarrows!), more typos, and Two thousand laughs!”

Johnny Crash: Price: $2.99
“Johnny will do anything to get noticed in Texas and New York. Help him gain daredevil status and fly inside a thunder cloud to get electrocuted by lightning or collide with a flying flock of birds. The more outrageous your stunts, the more points you earn. Play with friends and get endless replay value in High Score Mode! Never has performing pain-inflicting stunts been so freakishly entertaining!”

Sonic the Hedgehog: Price: $5.99
“Experience Sonic the Hedgehog on the iPhone and iPod Touch for the first time! Relive the your favorite memories of the Genesis era as you rocket Sonic through hair-raising loop-de-loops and dizzying dives as you gather up Rings and stop Dr. Eggman’s schemes for world domination! Dr. Eggman has turned all of the animals into mechanical monsters, and it’s up to the legendary hedgehog to save them.”

What’s Free

Planet Defence Lite
“Based on Defender, one of the best arcade games of all time, Planet Defence Lite is now available for the iPhone and Touch offering you fully featured game play for the first two levels. Planet Defence Lite is a fast-paced horizontal scrolling space shoot’em up using Tilt or Touch control to maneuver your space ship. Defend the planet by protecting the humans that roam on the planet surface. Green aliens skim the planet surface and pick up humans. When they reach the top of the screen they mutate and the human they carry is lost. When there are no more humans left the planet explodes.”

Falling Beach Girl
“Advanced physics modeling brings the classic ragdoll fun to your iPhone or iPod Touch. Tilt the screen to change the direction of gravity. Grab the babe to throw her around an endless sea of beach balls and force her through tight spots. You’ll be hooked!”

Zombie Trade Wars Free
“In the near future the United States finds itself in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Your mission is to travel from city to city buying and selling goods that people need to survive and defend themselves from the onslaught of zombies. This game follows the format of other classic “wars” games (such as Dopewars / Dope Wars).”

Warbots
“Turn your Warbot faction into the most prestigious, powerful faction in the Warbots world.”

PowerDown Lite
“PowerDown is inspired by the famous Lights Out puzzle game, and faithfully recreates the experience while bringing gorgeous graphics and presentation to the IPhone platform for 2009. Download the lite version to play through the first 4 puzzles with 50 classic puzzles and an endless supply of further puzzles available in the complete version.”

Moo Cow Fury FREE
“What can a cow do besides being eaten, and giving milk? A cow can join the MooCow racing league! In order to set a new record, cows must race to get as many laps as possible before time runs out. Hold down the Fast button to run across the screen. However, if you run, your cow will give you a little brown surprise. Press the “avoid” button to quickly move past the poop. You can clear this surprise by pressing the flame button when in front of the poop. But if you get too close, you will step in it and lose points. When you just avoid the poop, you will get a 5 point bonus. You will also, in turn, lose energy. To gain energy, Destroy poops and you will see grass grow. When the grass is fully grown, it will have its blades farther spread out, and you can eat it for energy.”

Mr.Bear’s Rescue Lite
“You think you know Mr.Bear? See if you can spot the difference between your favorite pages of the comic. You have 3 extra lives, and 3 hints to complete 25 fun filled levels. Unlock a special feature by completing the game.”

Papaya Chess
“Play Chess with friends head-to-head. Play Chess with other users around the world. No registration! In-game chatting. You can pick the game table. In order to customize your avatar, get on the leader board, or play other games, download the full version “Papaya Premium”. “Papaya Premium” is FREE.”

Crak LE
“If you enjoy solving engaging logical puzzle, you will love cracking this one. On its face, Crak is ridiculously simple game. Just like Sudoku, Crak is always played on a fixed size grid with a fixed goal. In Crak, you have a 6x8 grid made of 6 sets of 8 distinct objects - say numbers 1 to 8. But unlike Sudoku, you start Crak with the grid is already filled in with the numbers. Your challenge is to break up or crack the grid in 6 sets. Think of it as a reverse Jigsaw puzzle where instead of completing a image based on visual clues, you are asked to brake up a gird based on logical consistency.”

Tap 11
“Tap 11 (elevens) is a simple card game with a few simple instructions: Select two numeric cards one after the other which add together to equal 11. Select Jack, Queen, King one after the other. Selected cards are indicated by a glow around their edges. When a correct combination of cards are selected they are replaced by new cards. The aim is to use all the cards in the deck, the progress through which is indicated by the bar at the bottom of the screen. Not every game is able to be completed so keep up your speed. Try to improve your best time!”

ANIMAUXlite
“ANIMAUX is a picture puzzle game with a educational twist. Users arrange photo pieces into an image of an animal in order to solve the puzzle. Short description of the animal is also displayed within the game.”

Similis Lite
“Similis Lite is the free version of Similis. Similar: having characteristics in common. Etymology: French ‘similaire’, from Latin ‘similis’ Like its bigger brother - Similis - Similis Lite is a different kind of matching game and is truly unique in how it is played. Take the tired old match three or more gems concept and mate it the old arcade Whack-A-Mole and you have the fresh new game, Similis Lite! Playing is simple: tap on all the icons that are exactly the same and that have the most matches before the time runs out. Similis starts out slow with easy to recognize icons but gets faster and faster, with increasing complex icons as you progress. Miss too many matches - strikes - and the game is over!”

Primitives LITE
“Primitives LITE, is a puzzle and skill based game that requires the cooperation of two very different types of hero to conquer the worlds you will find yourself hurled into. Help Block and Roll overcome the obstacles and puzzles they encounter throughout the game. A unique blend of player interaction is presented as Block is controlled with a d-Pad type touch pad control, and Roll is maneuvered with the device accelerometer.”

Super Yum Yum 3 Lite
“A fruit monster has run off with your juicy fruit and kidnapped your babies. Help Leon chase after Ms. Tum Tum in this off-the-wall puzzle adventure spanning 4 worlds and 36 brain-tingling levels. Eat fruit, change your colour, and lick your babies to make them follow you. Remember, more chameleons means more eating power, and that means it’s GIANT FRUIT time!”

iPoints Online Lite
“iPoints (dots) is a logical game. It develops attention, thinking ability and memory. Besides of single mode the game has online mode. The game is based on the location of the two parties’ points to play at the place of intersection of vertical and horisontal lines forming the box. The winner is the player, who’s been surrounded by a larger number of opponent’s points. The goal of the game is to capture the points of your rivals by encircling them with your own.”

Brain Scrambler
“Brain Scrambler is an addictive mind twisting puzzle game where have nine square pieces which need to be arranged into a larger square so that adjoining edges have matching features. The goal is to solve the puzzle by turning tiles by double taping them and/or move them into the right place. You can move the tiles in any direction (horizontal/vertical), which will push the existing tiles into the position of the moved tile. You can select from several different images, which vary in difficulty.”

NFSW - Need for Steering Wheel
“Are you master of Need for Speed* with keyboard? Want more challenge? Want steering wheel, not keyboard? NFSW is here! You can drive your car using iPhone/iPod touch. It is iMocon technology based, so if you have wifi access point for iPhone and wired connection for your PC, you can play NFS like using keyboard, with more exciting way.”

Baseball Sim Leagues at PennantChase
“Follow your free baseball sim teams with this iPhone application! Whether you already have an account at pennantchase.com, or plan to get one, this app will give you fast, easy access to all your leagues and teams! This native app gives a more intuitive mobile interface and much faster speeds than browsing the full website. Check box scores, stats, standings, power rankings, award leaders, and more!”

What’s New

Action

Super Marble Roll: Price: $2.99
“Use the remarkably natural tilt controls to guide your marble through a variety of deviously designed courses. Negotiate platforms, collect jewels and avoid deadly drops whilst battling the clock in an exciting race to the finish. Build new high scores over three difficulty levels by completing each course in record time. Super Marble Roll is an arcade action game, blending the timeless gameplay of classic arcade machines with refined production values to form a new benchmark in accessible handheld gaming.”

iAlien: Price: $0.99
” Push the Aliens back into outer space before they destroy Earth. Start your military campaign in a Tank, progress your way up to a Jet Fighter and finish the Aliens off in space with your galactic fighter. Start out in your Tank. Tilt your device left and right to dodge Alien goop. Have fun blasting Aliens out of the sky but watch out for the boss. He’s harder to kill and shoots in all directions. The F15 Stage is next. Aliens hide behind clouds but they’re no match for your guns and missiles. You have two sites to target the Aliens. The close up site shoots bullets and the other missiles. When you have a target in site your gunner will fire for you. Last Stage. Fly through Space. You must shoot down the last 10 Aliens before you run out of fuel. Tip: Use a High speed setting and follow the arrows to find the Aliens. Once you’re close, slow your ship down to target and fire your laser canons. You’ll enjoy flying through space while stars and planets go whizzing by.”

Force Archer: Price: $0.99
“In Force Archer, the player must choose the angle, power and the target carefully to defeat opponents one by one and reveal new mystery characters to progress. Each character has special arrows that can intensify the damage to your opponent.”

DolphinPatrol: Price: $0.99
“DolphinPatrol - saving the world, one dolphin at a time. It’s like whac-a-mole but with dolphins. (Inspired by the crew of S/V Rainha de Bruxa.) Dolphins are cute but sometime there as just too many of them, busy doing what dolphins do best. Find your favourites, befriend them, name the whole school. Make yours a public show of dolphin affection. Or keep it quiet. Just be quick about it!”

Bellum: Tactics: Price: $4.99
“Bellum: Tactics is a turn based tactical shooter game putting you in command of an infantry squad launched in the middle of a modern war. Complete various missions in a war-torn country; destroy your enemies with the help of numerous tactics, weapons, and technological wonders.”

TouchGloves Gym: Price: $0.99
“A featureless mannequin wakes in a cell, the moon shining brightly behind it. Welcome to TouchGloves Gym, a first-person boxing sandbox designed around the iPhone’s touchscreen and accelerometer.”

Westbang: Price: $0.99
“A sheriff of a small town has been killed. People are desperate for protection. Will you be the one, who will stand against the outlaws of the wild west? Westbang is a fast and funny rendition of a classic game concept! Fight many enemies, test your reaction and compete for the highest score on a way to become a legend of the old West!”

Stunt Kite: Price: $0.99
“Stunt kite is a unique arcade style kite simulator. Hone your kite flying skills to prepare for several entertaining kite games.”

Kryzer Prologue: Price: $0.99
“Fasten your seatbelts, because KRYZER PROLOGUE marks the start of a whole new stunning gaming experience for iPhone and iPod touch! KRYZER is different, KRYZER is fast, KRYZER will blow your mind! With only minimal input movements, it’s your job to control the flight path of an inter-dimensional cyberspace glider as it confronts endless foes in a 360° field of play. KRYZER combines arcade action and innovation and generates a whole new gaming ambience! A banging electronic soundtrack and stylish 2D graphics round up the whole experience.”

Alien Day: Price: $1.99
“You are the great “Zörrrgus”, the Lord God of the galactic empire “Zültarrrr”. You need to exterminate the human vermine that is infesting and polluting your beautiful blue sphere, which you have just promised to your dear and lovely wife, the goddess “Züliiia”, who has an infinite appetite! With your godly finger you are smashing the metal insects that have invaded the magnificent flowered gardens of “Zöltâtän”. But if your godly power is unequaled in the whole universe, be aware that here on Earth, the humans know how to fight back! This 3D shoot them up game, with vertical scrolling, fully uses the new functions of the touch screen, allowing the player to have fingertip control. Go with the great Zürrr!”

Adventure

Sticky Balls: Price: $0.99
“Control trigger to fire balls into path and make sets of 3 or more to eliminate them from path, but don’t let balls reach the target.”

Pirate Panic: Price: $1.99
“Fend off competing pirates and battle your way around the world. Collect treasure and gold in this fast paced game you will want to play over and over again.”

Arcade

NBC’s The Office Challenge: Price: $0.99
“NBC’s The Office Challenge is a game that brings you the hand on experience of the award winning American mockumentary ‘The Office’ on NBC, starring 4 central characters; the titular Assistant (to the) Regional Manager Dwight Schrute, the paper salesman Jim Halpert, the receptionist Pam Beesly and the accountant Kevin Malone. 36 micro games to get you most of the experience and keep you addicted to the phone. Each character has a set of mini-games revolving around its traits in the series. Unlock characters as the game progresses. Play the survival mode to unleash real logical analyzing and quick responsiveness.”

Football Hooligans: Price: $0.99
“Join the Road to Africa for the World Cup by kicking your friends around the field. Compete Head 2 Head or try to beat the iPhone player with 3 difficulty levels. Game play just like air hockey. Kick your friends butt with off the wall bank shots and flick shots for greater speed. No you can’t cross the center line. If enough hooligans cough up a few bucks to buy this game, we can make a cool football game. Tired of the stupid goal sound we provided? Then record your own “GOOAALL!!!”, burp, or other sound to keep your friends on the defensive.”

Turbo Subs: Price: $1.99
“Based on the best-selling PC game, Turbo Subs is now available on iPhone and iPod Touch! Are you ready for this super-charged Time Management game? Embark on a tasty new adventure as Rebecca and Robert create successful sandwich shops in the most peculiar sites around New York City! It’s a tough town, so they will both have to work fast to satisfy impatient customers and fend off villainous thieves. With loads of upgrades, secret sauces and more, Turbo Subs is a tasty treat for all!”

Mr.Bear’s Rescue: Price: $0.99
“Mr.Bear’s Rescue Game: You think you know Mr.Bear? See if you can spot the difference between your favorite pages of the comic. You have 3 extra lives, and 3 hints to complete 25 fun filled levels. Unlock a special feature by completing the game.”

aball 2 : Camilia in space: Price: $1.99
“Once again, Camilia fatboule is lost in a universe of platforms suspended in the stars. Will you manage to make her cross these platforms along twenty difficult and twisting levels? Test your balance in this univers full of traps!”

Board

RotationPuzzle: Price: $0.99
“This is a new type of puzzle. (it is not 15 puzzle !!! ) And it is very hard to solve. You will be asked for outstanding logical thinking skills to solve this puzzle. Also, it will seem almost impossible to solve as the level gets higher but it is never impossible. As you get the way of solving it, it will get easy. Challenge your self to it.”

PathBuilder: Price: $3.99
“PathBuilder is an addictive puzzle game where you rotate, move and swap tiles in a square board with the goal of creating a continuous path between two end points. The number of game levels is unlimited; all puzzle boards are randomly generated (every time different) by combining the game options in such a way that the overall difficulty smoothly increases as levels go. A “hints” button is available to let the program make moves in your place (how many hints depends on level and luck); when you fail a level, in spite of all hints, you can ask the program to show you, with an animation, all steps to the solution.”

Kibosh: Price: $0.99
“Kibosh is a strategic board game where the goal is to place as many of your pieces on the board while trying to block your opponent. The person with the highest score wins.”

Crak: Price: $0.99
“If you enjoy solving engaging logical puzzle, you will love cracking this one. On its face, Crak is ridiculously simple game. Just like Sudoku, Crak is always played on a fixed size grid with a fixed goal. In Crak, you have a 6x8 grid made of 6 sets of 8 distinct objects - say numbers 1 to 8. But unlike Sudoku, you start Crak with the grid is already filled in with the numbers. Your challenge is to break up or crack the grid in 6 sets. Think of it as a reverse Jigsaw puzzle where instead of completing a image based on visual clues, you are asked to brake up a gird based on logical consistency.”

Sudoku Box: Price: $0.99
“The classic sudoku puzzle for your iPhone or iPod touch.”

ImagePuzzler: Price: $0.99
“ImagePuzzler converts your iPhone or iPod Touch into an entertaining puzzle game. Use any photo stored on your device or even take one with your device’s camera and it will immediately get converted into a fun puzzle to solve. Take a photo of a friend, let ImagePuzzler jigsaw it and let him try to solve it. After all, your friend should know himself best, right? :-D”

Hex Territory 2: Price: $0.99
“In this game you play against the Robot Army’s artificial intelligence for control of the Hex Territory. The goal is to conquer more territory than the enemy. You control the blue units and the enemy controls the red. Select one of the player units and all possible actions available will be displayed. Selecting gray spaces duplicates the selected unit and selecting yellow spaces moves the selected unit to that space. Every time you move or duplicate a unit to an empty space all of the opponent’s surrounding units are captured.”

Chess Professional: Price: $1.99
“Regardless of your playing level, ZingMagic’s multi award winning Chess is a stimulating and challenging game for beginners and champions alike. Chess is a two player game with a colourful history which can be traced back to its Indian ancestor, Chaturanga. In 1291 the Archbishop of Canterbury in England threatened clergy who continued playing Chess with a diet of bread and water. The game has flourished over the years and is now one of the most popular board games in the world, requiring thought, skill and strategy to become successful. The object of Chess is to capture the opponent’s King. To capture the King you must place it in check. If the King cannot escape by itself, or with the help of its army, it is in checkmate and the King is captured.”

BurgerBurger: Price: $1.99
“Now! Becoming the BurgerBurger shop owner. Let’s bring burger to every one of our customers.”

Pirate Roulette - Find the X-Stone: Price: $0.99
“A mini game will start occasionally while you are playing the main game. In the mini game, you will see three replicas of the pirate captain and only one of them has the X-stone. To win the event, find the X-Stone five times in a row and send us a capture of the “Congratulations” screen along with your text message. Then your message will be shown in the next weekly update.”

Card

Thirteen: Price: $2.99
“In Thirteen, you take on 3 computer opponents with the goal of playing all of your cards before the other players. A player gets rid of their cards by taking turns playing them in hands like Singles, Doubles, Triples, Straights, Chops and Bombs. Twos are the highest cards in the game. There are many configurable options and rules including four Opponent AI Difficulty Levels and an optional on-screen Helper, which makes only cards that the player can currently play selectable.”

Spades Professional: Price: $1.99
“The successful Spades player is a fine strategist, a master of deductive reasoning and a champion of mind games. ZingMagic allows you to develop and test these skills by bringing Spades to your mobile device. The powerful engine with 6 different playing strengths ensures a fascinating and challenging game every time. Spades supports all the usual features you would expect from a ZingMagic game, including reviewing the game, takeback and replay of moves, display of the previous move and hints.” NOTE: Also available in Hearts and Euchre.

Twenty Four: Price: $0.99
“What are the last 4 digits of your Social Security Number? What is the sum of those 4 digits? Now multiply them all ... Can you create a formula to combine all those 4 digits to reach a magic number say, 24, using simple math? Welcome to game 24 brought to iPhone/iPod from a popular street game played between 2 players. 4 cards will be dealt face-up; whoever creates a formula using all 4 cards to hit 24 wins the round. You’ll be playing against a cunning opponent, your iPhone/iPod. Solve as many puzzles as you can within the time limit and plaster the scoreboards with your awesome achievement! Next time when you play any card games, you will be lightning fast to figure out all kinds of strategies! This is a great game for both kids studying basic math as well as for adults sharpening number crunching skills. Still think you can’t do math in your head? now you can!”

Casino

Ingo: Price: $0.99
“From the hit Flash game, here is INGO! Ingo is the ultimate addicting crossover of Bingo and Keno. Gameplay is easy. Just generate an INGO, and if it matches a number on your card, Press Got it! Clear all 10 spaces to win!”

Dice

NOTHING

Educational

Math Genius Junior: Price: $1.99
“Aimed at under 10’s It has the same functionality as it’s parent product Math Genius but all the puzzles it generates can be solved in 2 calculations. First, randomly select 6 numbers from the spin columns. Steady your nerves then race against the clock as it counts down the time. Try to get as close as you can to the automatically generated target number using the 6 selected numbers. You can add, subtract, multiply or divide any or all of the 6 numbers in your pursuit of the magic target number. Once you’ve added, subtracted, multiplied or divided two numbers together, you can also use the resulting number in your equation.”

Sleuth: Price: $1.99
“The initial version comes with 10 original, intriguing mystery stories. Each story includes: The main story written by real mystery writers, with a narration that usually ends with “I know who…” Four (4) to Six (6) clue sentences hidden throughout the story, but made available in the Clues page to help you out. The wheel of three (3) to five (5) suspects for you to spin and take a crack at solving the mystery. The final solution of the story to read, but only if you choose the right suspect! If you get it wrong, your friends will laugh at you, your spouse will leave you and you will loose your job. Ok… none of that will happen, but why risk it!?!? Once a story is unlocked, you are given not only “the rest of the story”, but additional explanations of each clue are unlocked as well. Ability to Re-lock all of the stories to hide the solution and clue explanations. Now you can challenge your family and friends!”

Deca Sudoku: Price: $1.99
““Deca Sudoku” is an exciting game with fast paced “challenge” game mode for all you Sudoku experts out there or a smooth ride normal puzzle game mode. With 100 puzzles at various difficulties and 100 stunning color schemes, ” Deca Sudoku” offers hours of fun. Now you can take your puzzles anywhere.”

Aeio: Price: $0.99
“This simple and addictive game challenges both your memory and your rhythm skills: it trains your ear, your brain, your feeling for rhythm.
Like the 1980’s game „Simon says“ or „Senso“, this application plays sequences, which you have to repeat by tapping the symbols in the correct order and with the same rhythm.
Difficulty increases with each level, and you can collect accuracy bonus points. It‘s fun - and addictive.”

Family

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. Selectable difficulty and game modes to tailor the game play for your skill level.”

iSmiley: Price: $0.99
“If you’re a fan of “match 3” style puzzle games (like Bejeweled) then you will love this! iSmiley is puzzle game for all ages, featuring funny smileys. Move adjacent smiley faces to form a group of three to remove them. Try to create trigger combo moves so that more groups are removed by a single move!”

Sparkle Hearts: Price: $0.99
“Add some glitter to your iPhone with the fun of bouncing sparkling hearts in the easy-to-play, finger-gripping game, Sparkle Hearts! The object of the game is simple. Just tap the heart to score 10 points. You’ll find red hearts, blue hearts, solid hearts, broken hearts, pretty hearts, gothic hearts, and more! As easy as that sounds, Sparkle Hearts advances in difficulty with each point scored, so keep your focus on the iPhone screen and get ready to tap away! How many glittering hearts can you get?”

eyeSpell: Price: $0.99
“eyeSpell is a fun way to improve your spelling. There are two games for one low price eyeSpell for intense spelling practice and speedSpell for a quick right-or-wrong game. Play eyeSpell and you decide if a word is spelled correctly or not first; and if it isn¹t, you have to spell it correctly using the keyboard to get credit. Choose how many words per round, from 5 to 20. The game keeps track of your percentage right in the last round and overall. Play speedSpell and decide if words are spelled correctly in a timed game. You are penalized 5 seconds for every word you miss. Choose rounds of 20, 40, or 60 words. The game remembers your last round and best times for each quantity. Try to beat your best time and that of other players.”

Neon Craft: Price: $0.99
“NeonCraft enables you to create your own neon light.”

Music

Music Catch: Price: $0.99
“Unlike other music games such as Tap Tap Revenge or Guitar Rock Tour, the task in Music Catch is very simple: use your finger to collect shapes. That’s it! The more shapes you collect, the more points you get. Yellow shapes give you a bonus and multiply your points, but watch out for red shapes! Purple shapes are POWER! You’ll have to discover on your own what the pulsing color shapes do… Music Catch includes two relaxing songs from Isaac Shepard’s solo-piano albums: “Before Dawn” from his “Swept Away” album, and “Leaves in the Wind” from his “Deep Joy” album.”

Dave Matthews Band Revenge: Price: $4.99
“Tap Tap Revenge: Dave Matthews Band is the latest and greatest release in the wildly popular Tap Tap Revenge series, this time featuring 10 of the greatest hits from international best-selling recording artists Dave Matthews Band.”

Puzzle

Primitives: Price: $4.99
“Primitives, is a puzzle and skill based game that requires the cooperation of two very different types of hero to conquer the worlds you will find yourself hurled into. Help Block and Roll overcome the obstacles and puzzles they encounter throughout 20 unique and challenging levels. A unique blend of player interaction is presented as Block is controlled with a d-Pad type touch pad control, and Roll is maneuvered with the device accelerometer.”

Kakuro Sums: Price: $0.99
“The perfect companion to your Kakuro puzzles. A great, not to mention infinitely useful little program which shows you all the combinations for any given clue over any number of squares. Simply enter the desired sum and the number of squares to fill and Kakuro Sums will reveal all possible combinations that add up to the sum.”

Connect Two Fairies: Price: $0.99
“Connect Two Fairies is a unique puzzle game where you have to match two tiles of the same type and remove them from the screen. Make sure that the path between the two matching tiles is clear and that it doesn’t bend more than two times or the move will be considered wrong. You must clear all the tiles from the screen before the time runs out in order to finish a level. But be very careful, a wrong move will make you lose 5 seconds. On the other hand, a correct one gives you an additional 10 seconds. Connect Two Fairies will keep you and your friends or kids entertained for hours! Compare your highest score with your friends and see who is the greatest match maker!”

NeonNim: The Subtraction Game: Price: $0.99
“Think you can beat your iPhone (or iPod touch) in a classic game of Nim: The Subtraction Game, a simplified variation of the Ancient Chinese game. Choose from four different levels of iPhone AI intelligence. Also featured is a two player mode where friends can challenge one another using one iPhone/iPod touch.”

Puzzle Bubble: Price: $0.99
“PuzzleBubble is an award winning puzzle game. You will love it no matter who you are—kid or grown up. The rules of the game: You have to hit 3 or more bubbles of the same color so they disappear. If all the game area gets filled with bubbles—you lose. +A lot of bonuses!!! +When you earn 500 points you can shake iPhone and bubbles swing and burst by groups!!! Variety of levels, great bonus bubbles will make the gameplay extraordinary. Start your PuzzleBubble today!”

Patternz: Price: $0.99
“Patternz is a fun logic puzzle game using lights. The object is to turn off all the lights on each level. The faster you turn the lights off, the more points you get. It is simple to learn to play, but hard to master. If you get stuck on a level, you can use the Hints button to see a solution for that level, but a time penalty will be incurred. The solution shown may or may not be the optimal solution, so you may be able to score higher by solving the puzzle yourself. The scoring system makes it fun to play again and again even after you solve the various levels as it then becomes a race to see how quickly the puzzles can be solved, and how high you can score.”

A Robo Riot!: Price: $0.99
“Robots are tired of doing the bidding of their human masters and they’ve figured it’s finally time to overthrow them. In this engaging arcade puzzler, it’s your job to protect humanity from the endless robotic horde. Take down wave after wave of robots, collect powerups and save the world from the Robo Riot!”

Racing

NOTHING

Role Playing

Tides of War: Price: $0.99
“Arrrrrr mateys! The pirates are attacking, and it’s up to you and your men to stop the advance before it’s too late. Do you have what it takes to stop the pirate invasion?”

The Quest - Islands of Ice and Fire: Price: $3.99
“The Quest - Islands of Ice and Fire is an expansion to The Quest, a beautifully handdrawn, engaging and sinister world full of mystery, magic and provocative challenges. After enabling the expansion, you can continue to play The Quest with your existing character(s) to explore new areas and quests. However, if you don’t have The Quest, you can also play the expansion as a standalone game. In the game you are a Kingdom Agent on special assignment to discover the source of a mysterious illness that has devastated one island (icy Thule) and threatens another (fiery Eldfell). You’ll need all your wits and gaming talents as you travel through these deceptively picturesque worlds to overcome new challenges, for good or evil.”

Swine Flu Wars: Price: $0.99
“Hopefully it won’t happen - but in the near future the United States could find itself in the midst of a swine flu epidemic. Popular commodities that provide protection or relief from the flu are in extremely short supply. Your mission is to travel from city to city buying and selling goods that people need to maintain their quality of life - or at least survive. Hopefully you can make a little money in the process. This game follows the format of other classic “wars” games (such as Dopewars / Dope Wars). Unexpected events can result in price surges or drops. If you’re tight on money - “Crazy Jim’s Payday Loans” will spot you some cash – but at a substantial interest rate. Make the wrong choices - and you might even come down with the swine flu yourself.”

Simulation

Skeet Shoot World Championship: Price: $1.99
“Skeet Shoot World Championship is the new amazing iPhone Game for Skeet Shooting lovers with 20 Game Levels and 20 locations all around the World. Every Level has 2 SETS and every SET has 2 ROUNDS wiht 20 skeets to be hit per round. Every level has a minimum number of skeets to be hit to move to the next level. The score of each Skeet is calculated by the time tou take to hit it. At the end of the Championship your score is written in the Skeet Shoot World Ranking and can be seen by all Players.”

Sports

Pigskin Pass: Price: $2.99
“Pigskin Pass delivers a 3d football experience like no other. You are the quarterback, the coach tells you the play and you have to deliver precision passes while you go for the top scores. Take on 3 exciting game modes including Arcade, Time Attack, and Practice. Compete for high scores, as well as the highest Quarterback rating. Other stats shown are attempts/completions, total yards, number of touchdowns and more. Passing is based on a new system which requires you to aim using the accelerometer and “swipe” to pass the football. This new system allows you to have ultimate control over your quarterback’s actions. You will have to be precise with your throws to gain points. The coach’s plays are given to you before each possession. When you hike the ball, targets run the routes of the play shown to you prior to the snap.”

Soccer World: Manager 2009: Price: $3.99
“Soccer Management action designed specifically for playing on the go with your mobile device! Guide your chosen team to league success, or save your bankrupt team from relegation. Scenarios provide additional challenges to test your management ability.Quick progression design ensures you can get to the match action promptly for your Soccer Management fix.”

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Word

Bighorn Mountain Word Challenge: Price: $1.99
“Bighorn Mountain Word Challenge is an exciting new word game from Bighorn Software for the iPhone and iPod touch. Word Challenge is an easy-to-play, compelling game that will keep the word enthusiast engrossed in achieving an ever higher score. Word Challenge is simple to play. Just drag letters to the word rack to form a word. Words are scored on the value of the letters. Play a word longer than 5 letters and earn bonus points. Additional bonus points are assigned to letters with a “gold nugget” background. When you’re satisfied with your word, just click the “Play” button to play your word. Playing 10 words completes the game.”