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Welcome to the beta version of Gamertell’s weekly Apple App Store gaming update. Each week we will provide you the readers with a comprised list of the newest games on the Apple service.

After spending a large part of my Sunday coordinating Thanksgiving plans and creating this list, I can safely tell you that if Apple wants to make any footprints in the gaming spectrum, they need to clean the App Store up. The recent update to the iPhone improved the App Store into the right direction but there is still more to do on it. I’ll save my complaints for another time so, for now, click through and scroll down the list and check out the newest games in each of their respective categories.

I’ve listed the prices and picked out quotes that best describe the games from their App Store descriptions. A special thanks goes out to Apptism.com for helping me sort out what games are actually new and not just updated.

If you found this list helpful, let me know in the comments below so I don’t think I wasted a day for nothing. If you have suggestions for improvement I’m all ears for those as well.

Action

• Boomer’s Sky Fishing - “Join Boomer on his ‘explosive’ quest to send his fishy friends on a sky-high trip they won’t soon forget!” Price: $1.99
• Milk Run Skiing - “Itching to hit the slopes? Let Milk Run Skiing take you there! With three tracks, you’re sure to have the ski experience you crave.” Price: $2.99
• Crazy Egg Jump - “Crazy Egg Jump is a super addictive and fun silly jumping game in which you control a crazy egg character called Eggsy Egg.” Price: $0.99
• Dougie Moo Xmas Lite - “Dougie Moo Xmas Lite is an easy to pick up and play iPhone exclusive game that features multiple levels of addictive puzzle action.” Price: Free
• BPop Lite - “BPop is a block breaking game. You can break the blocks when they are close to other blocks of the same color.” Price: Free
• Daycare Nightmare - “In Daycare Nightmare™, you’ll help spunky human Molly care for baby vampires, ghosts, dragons and other little beasties while their monster-parents are at work.” Price: $4.99
• iToss - “iToss is simple, and addictive ball-tossing game.” Price: $0.99
• Street Combat - “Dangerous criminals are escaped in the streets of New York. Your mission is to clean the town of these criminals using the martial art.” Price: $0.99
• Whack a Boss - “Whack-a-Boss is a comical variant of the classic Whack a Mole game.” Price: $0.99
• Phull - “Blast your way through this action packed space shooter! Collect gems to buy upgrades to protect yourself from the attacking waves of monsters. Are your skills good enough to defeat the 10 bosses to save the galaxy? Find out today.” Price: $3.99
• iBricks - “iBricks is a brick-breaking game.” Price: $2.99 (also available in a Lite version)
• Turkey Hunt - “Another super-fun casual game from Jirbo, where you have to hunt the Turkeys flying around the screen in various hunting grounds.” Price: Free
• Alien Swarm - “Defend your home world from the alien invaders. With intuitive controls, diving aliens and extra men at 10,000 points.” Price: $4.99
• Christmas Elf - “Help to decorate a christmas tree or pack Santa’s sleigh. You can even make the stars twinkle in the skies to set the mood.” Price: $0.99
• Cutie Scratch -Cats- - “World 1st Scrub Game for Cats version is starting right now and will become new addictions for all of you! If you scrub monitor cover, the background picture of kittens will be shown up.” Price: $0.99 (also available for Dogs)
• Elemental - “Elemental is a pure arcade and addictive game, where you guide a little ball through four beautiful elemental worlds : earth, wind, fire and water.” Price: $2.99 (also available in a Lite version)
• Fish! - “Fish! is an iphone game that has you guiding your little fish to collect gold nuggets by dropping food into the water!” Price: $1.99
• Resco Bubbles - “Resco Bubbles is an action puzzle game where the idea is to clear the grid of bubbles in order to advance to the next level.” Price: $4.99
• SpyBugRadar - “Innumerable wiretaps are set by evil secret agents for espionage! Don`t let them destroy your peaceful life! Find and destroy them immediately with iPhone/iPod touch!” Price: Free
• Snazoo - “Snazoo is a fast-paced, simon-says game.” Price: $1.99

Adventure

• A Falling Boy - “Falling Boy is a new action game experience! Simple rules: move the boy from left to right; keep him away from the top and bottom line; make sure the life bar doesn’t drain; get across all the obstructs.” Price: $0.99
• Armado Lite - “Guide Armado as he rolls, jumps, and crashes his way through this action packed journey.” Price: Free
• Outer Space - “Fly with your rocket in the outer space and experience a lot of different adventures.” Price: $5.99

Arcade

• rePete - “rePete will help you hone your speed, dexterity and memory. Anytime you are bored or just passing time, fire up rePete for a few quick rounds of training.” Price: $0.99
• Rabbit Run - “Help Elmsley the Rabbit push the manhole covers back onto their bases, to stop the Fox from getting in to his warren.” Price: $1.99
• OMG Cherries - “Help Larry collect all cherries and avoid Willy the worm.” Price: $0.99

Board

• BeeCells Lite - “The goal is to group six or more balls of the same color together. Once the balls are grouped, your score increases, and the grouped balls disappear to make room for more maneuvers.” Price: Free
• Amazing Maze Free - “Amazing Maze is a fun game where you tilt and try to get the colored balls into the center of the maze.” Price: Free
• Refill Lite - “The goal in Refill is to make a row, column, or 3x3 square of the same color.” Price: Free
• Achi - “Achi is a board game for two people. It is similar to tic-tac-toe, except that you get to move your pieces after you put them all down. Unlike tic-tac-toe, draws do not occur.” Price: Free
• Tetratile - “Tetratile is an addictive brain twister which will keep you hooked for hours.The goal is to line four tiles up in a row, a column or a diagonal. The twist is that pieces are inserted from the right or the bottom, moving a whole column or row.” Price: $2.99
• Aqua Jigsaw - “Dive under water and catch a glimpse of splendid marine life with Aqua Jigsaw, for the iPhone and iPod touch.” Price: $1.99
• BrainVita - “The Peg Solitaire game, is like a brain vitamin, which will strengthen your logical thinking ability and enhance your level of concentration.” Price: Free
• Tic-Tac-MMO - “Compete with thousands of other players across the world for the top slot on the leader boards while experiencing beautiful graphics and real-time interactive gameplay.” Price: $1.99
• Amazing Maze : Labyrinth with a twist - “Amazing Maze is a fun game where you tilt and try to get the colored balls into the center of the maze.” Price: $1.99
• Checkers Professional - “Checkers is the classic strategy board game with the goal of capturing all the opponent’s pieces.” Price: $1.99
• Master Number - “The main objective of this game is to guess a four (4) digit number that aren’t repeated in the less number of tries.” Price: Free
• Tic Tac Toe Too - 3D - “In this game, you get to play in 3 dimensions. Get 3-in-a-row on one board like in the traditional board game, but also make 3-in-a-row across the 3 boards in 3D.” Price: $0.99

Card

• Animal Mechanicals: Memory Match - “Train your brain and test your skills by matching pairs of cards featuring art and characters from the Animal Mechanicals television show.” Price: Free
• Poker Buddy - “Poker Buddy is a rich, fully featured poker tournament manager for your iPhone or iPod Touch.” Price: $1.99 (also available in a Lite version)
• Thanksgiving Match - “Have fun matching the Thanksgiving themed cards in the shortest amount of time!” Price: Free
• Chinese Hearts (Gong Zhu) - “Gong Zhu is a single deck, four players card game. Very similar to Hearts but has some interesting differences. “Gong Zhu” means to drive the pig (Queen of Spade) out. The objective of the game is to score positive points and avoid penalty points.” Price: $1.99
• Pai Gow Poker - “Pai Gow Poker is based on the Chinese Domino game called Pai Gow. Pai Gow Poker is played with a 53 card deck of standard playing cards, 52 cards plus 1 joker. The object of the game is to make two poker hands after being dealt 7 cards. Price: $0.99

Casino

• Snow Slots - “Play to win snow flakes on this 5 Reel Christmas themed slot machine and bonus mini game ‘Lucky Pudding’.” Price: $1.99
• Craps - “Craps for iPhone and iPod touch is here! Practice your winning strategies or just play for fun.” Price: $3.99
• Slots - “A simple slot machine.” Price: Free

Educational

• iFarm game for kids - “This educational application teaches the sound of farm animals to young children.” Price: $0.99
• iReveal Food (Free) - “iReveal Food (Free) reveals a familiar food - little by little - until you can guess what it is.” Price: Free
• Lightastic! - “Lightastic! lets you create little works of art called “lightworks” made up of brightly colored lights.” Price $2.99
• Brain Blaze Spelling - “Quiz yourself on the lost art of spelling and boost your brainpower with this fun and challenging educational game.” Price: $0.99
• Bright and Beyond - Age 2 Outdoor Activities - “This lite app includes 10 easy and fun parent-and-me activities drawn from the award winning Bright and Beyond Playtime Activities app!” Price: $0.99
• iDrill Animals - “iDrill is words training game. It is quite ordinary: tap on a square to see a picture, tap on another to see another picture… when pictures match up they are no longer in play, if not, they are turned back over.” Price: $2.99
• One, and only! - “In this game there are 13 different people gathered in a crowd, all but one have clones of themselves. You must find the one that is not like any of the others. You only have 60 seconds, and are only allowed 5 wrong guesses.” Price: $0.99
• Shape Match - ” The user ‘adds’ shapes and colors to existing pieces in an attempt to match the final products.” Price: Free
• What’s the Word? - “The game is simple. You’ll need to guess the hidden word by clicking on the letters. You are only allowed 5 wrong guesses.” Price: $0.99

Family

• ESP Vision Illusion - “ESP Vision is an incredible digital magic trick to perform for your friends and family.” Price: $2.99
• MemoManiac - “Memorize a sequence of flashing items among 16, then reproduce it. If you succeed, the sequence will become longer and longer.” Price: $1.99
• Stompem - “In this puzzle game you touch a white box to stomp a flower, beach ball, pumpkin, or a snowman. The goal is to help Fumu-san stomp them all.” Price: $0.99
• Handy Snake - “This snake is always crawling up. Use accelerometer to control it. Catch as many rabbits as you can while avoiding spiky creatures and hungry mongoose ;)” Price: Free
• Toppler - “Guide a helpless little froggie to cross the Great Pond and reach the coveted star in this simple, yet beautiful and addictive classic!” Price: $1.99
• Catch The Fireflies - A game about catching fireflies. Price: $0.99
• Twizzle - “The Goal: Clear the screen from a set of colored cells in as few steps as possible by tapping groups of three or more adjacent cells of the same color.” Price: Free
• Snowman 3D - “Snowman 3D is a visually pleasing diversion, which allows you to build and decorate your own unique snowman.” Price: $0.99

Music

• Xmas-a-Mass - “Xmas-a-Mass is a cozy, fun and colorful physics based game for Christmas.” Price: $2.99
• MusicBalls - “You have four balls of different colors: blue, yellow, red and green and you are to press the balls in the same sequence as they are lit up.” Price: $0.99
• Stomp It - “Stomp” (i.e. Tap) on the item images and Stomp It produces Exaggerated Sound Effects like water pipe, oil barrel, wire fence, push broom or garbage bin lid.” Price: $0.99
• PianoWork - “It’s a simple piano keyboard with 7 Major C keys. You can play it in your iphone and ipod touch by your fingers.” Price: Free
• iDrum: Ministry of Sound Anthems - “Recreate your favorite club tracks of yesterday and today. Build and customize the beats any way you like.” Price: $5.99
• Name That Music Video - “In the game, you see music video clips and win by answering questions about the video.” Price: $6.99

Racing

• Wave Blazer - “Wave Blazer features three single player game modes and a fully stocked online multiplayer versus-mode allowing you to face off against players from all over the world.” Price: $4.99
• Auto Mangle - “AutoMangle is an addictive vehicular combat game featuring game options allowing 192 different gameplay configurations.” Price: $1.99 (also available as free Lite version)

Role Playing

• Aurora Feint II - “Aurora Feint 2: The Arena comes loaded with even more powerful character classes, an updated sound track, intense visual effects, and new locations to explore.” Price: $7.99
• Alternate Endings - “Alternate Endings: The interactive murder-mystery-comedy that lets you solve the crime! ” Price: $1.99
• Angel Sword - “Prepare to battle demons, solve mysteries, and travel across two major lands in search of the legendary Angel Sword®.” Price: $4.99

Simulation

• DuckDuckDuck - “The goal is to swim all of your ducks to matching colored whirl pools. Tilt to swim your ducks. Ducks can nudge other ducks off whirl pools, but don’t tilt too far or they will swim away!” Price: $2.99
• iBullseye - “Test your aiming accuracy and steadiness in this realistic target shooting simulation.” Price: $0.99
• BiiPlane - “BiiPlane is a fun airplane flying game. The objective is to fly your Biiplane and collect boxed stars.” Price: $0.99
• KungfuFX - “KungFu FX is not a game, but a way of fast-tracking yourself as a pretend Hong Kong sound FX foley* artist, in the comfort of your own home, on the street or at the office.” Price: $1.99
• Fish Tycoon - “Fish Tycoon is the award-winning virtual fish breeding game from the creators of the acclaimed Virtual Villagers series.” Price: $0.99
• Spawn Illuminati - “Spawn is a program that creates amazing animations of little particles that are influenced by different forces.” Price: $1.99
• Bike or Die 2 - “The best 3D game for the iPhone and iPod Touch has arrived! Bike Or Die 2 features hours of biking fun with tons of levels to play!” Price: $2.99
• LopMe - “blow Bubble wrap on your iPhone/iPod now.” Price: $0.99
• MazePong Lite - “The goal of the game is to hit every targets scattered in a maze with a bouncing ping pong ball.” Price: Free
• Mini Jackpot - “Enjoy with three different slot machines without risking your money!” Price: $1.99
• Sapus Tongue Lite - “The game consists of launching one of two players as far as possible. The players are Sapus, the super-hero toad and Monus, the anti-hero monkey.” Price: Free

Sports

• All Stars Darts - “All Stars Darts is the first title in a series of sports games set in an American sports bar.” Price: $0.99
• Foosball World Cup - “This isn’t just any Foosball game, though. This is World Cup! ” Price: $2.99
• Hit Tennis - “The addictive tennis game where you hit the ball by swiping your finger across the touch screen.” Price: Free
• IBubbleWrap! - “iBubbleWrap! is the ultimate bubble wrap simulator for the iPhone and iPod Touch. If you enjoy popping bubbles, you owe it to yourself to get this app.” Price: $0.99
• Master Kick - “Master Kick arises in glory of the best arcade version of table soccer seen till now!” Price: $0.99
• Touch Hockey FS5 - “Touch Hockey outclasses every air hockey game available on the iPhone and iPod touch with the fastest animations possible!” Price: $0.99
• Xhake Shake - “Shake it, Flip it, Rub it, Tap it and… Freeze! Xhake Shake challenges the limit of your eye-hand response. If you like Bop It, you shouldn’t miss Xhake Shake!” Price: $2.99
• Ace Tennis Online - “Play 3D Tennis with players from all over the world! It takes only a few seconds to find a real player to play with, and with the integrated chat, profile and friends list you will enjoy the game for a long time.” Price: $0.99 (limited time, $4.99 normally)
• Adrenaline Pool Lite - “This award winning pool is the only online multiplayer internet Pool game on iPhone/iPod! You will always find hundreds of players to play with you and chat.” Price: Free
• 3-D Vector Ball - “Battle your way through the electronic labyrinth of Vector Ball - a modern take on arcade gems of decades past.” Price: $0.99
• Finger Sprint - “Finger Sprint is the game you’ve been waiting for! Run with you fingers as fast as you can to try and get the number 1 space on the leader board.” Price: $0.99
• NinjaShooter - “NinjaShooter is gun shooting game.” Price: $1.99
• Aqua Baller - “Aqua Baller brings all the fun of old school water toys to the palm of your hand with a fun street-style.” Price: $0.99
• Beer Pong U - “BeerPong U brings the excitement of beer pong (also called beirut) to the iPhone and iTouch platform!” Price: $2.99
• Bobble Surfer - “Bobble Surfer is the closest thing you can get to catching a wave on your iPhone! Lean the phone left and right to turn the board, and lean back to slow (stall) the board.” Price: $0.99
• Olympic Sports - “Olympic Sports brings you to the heart of the Olympic Summer Games. Test your skills against some of the top athletes in the world to see if you can bring home the Gold Medal!” Price: $0.99
• Blackjack Card Counter - “It allows any blackjack player, professional or amateur to keep track of their Blackjack card count.” Price: $1.99
• Shake Jump - “Exercise your Arms in 30 Seconds!” Price: $0.99
• iBasketball - “Using your iPhone to make a shot motion, play a game of around-the-world and see how many baskets you can make.” Price: Free
• iHunt - “Enjoy the realistic hunting sounds and scenery. Try to beat your best score. Includes 4 levels of difficulty.” Price: $0.99
• Super Foosball - “The only foos ball game where you spin the paddles yourself and control each row individually.” Price: $0.99
• Super Strike - “Super Strike combines stunning graphics and real sound with awesome gameplay. This isn’t you normal bowling game… this one is fun!” Price: $0.99
• Virtual Pool Lite - “Virtual Pool, the world’s best selling 3D Pool simulation, is now available on the iPhone and iPod Touch.” Price: Free

Strategy

• President of the United States 1th-22nd - “President 1th is a jigsaw puzzle of the Puzzle Thema collection.” Price: $0.99
• All Winners Solitaire - “With All Winners Solitaire, every hand that is dealt is a game you can win.” Price: $2.99
• GenieDS - “Here is a nice application for your iPhone/iTouch that has all the Tips and Cheat Codes you need for your Nintendo Game Collection.” Price: $2.99
• iCanSketchit - “iCanSketchIt is the only competitive drawing game that truly determines the best finger-sketch artist in the world. Incredibly easy to learn, nearly impossible to master, no two games are ever alike.” Price: $0.99
• Loop Lines Free - “The goal is to build a line of five or more loops or doughnuts to remove them from the board.” Price: Free
• Rescue Angels 148 - “A naughty devil has bewitched some little angels and trapped them in a maze of bubbles. Your mission is to rescue them to safety.” Price: $1.99
• Solitaire - “This is your classic game of Solitaire for the iPhone or iPod Touch.” Price: $0.99
• TripleX - “It’s a more exciting, revolutionary version of the ancient game of noughts and crosses (tic tac toe).” Price: $1.99
• Cubes - “Seemingly simple at first, you’ll quickly discover that in order to score big points, you’ll need to create long connected chains of cubes across multiple surfaces.” Price: $2.99
• Reversi - “Reversi (also known as Othello) is a much-loved classic strategy game, often described as taking only a minute to learn, but a lifetime to master.” Price: $1.99
• Strategic Assualt - “Construct bases and capture strategic buildings. Lead your army to victory commanding tanks, helicopters, gunboats, and many other military units in battle against a vicious enemy.” Price: $1.99
• Tix Tac - “Tic Tac Toe at its best! Play against the computer on your iPhone or iPod Touch.” Price: $0.99
• Elect-Tac-Toe - “Battle it out against a friend of the opposite political view with this take on the classic tic tac toe game.” Price: $0.99

Trivia

• Absolutely Trivial: Science - “Test your knowledge with over 1,000 surprising questions pulled from dozens of subject areas including biology, chemistry, earth science, geology, physics, space, weather, and others.” (also released in Television, Sports, and Geography versions) Price: $4.99
• PrimeTime Quiz Show - “Choose from 4 different answers, use 3 life lines, and answer 15 questions correctly to advance to the Grand Finale.” Price: $0.99
• Flag Guess - “Flag Guess is a fun and entertaining trivia game that quizes you on countries’ flags.” Price: $1.99
• Slogorado - “Now, we are bringing the best brand slogans of the US and Germany to the iPhone with “Slogorado® - The Famous Brand Slogans Quiz”!” Price: $0.99
• World Traveller - “Discover the secrets of our amazing Planet in this new exciting adventure quest game from Game Era Studios.” Price: $4.99
• Astro Pachinko - “Astro Pachinko is the classic arcade action game with a fun, challenging trivia twist that can make you popular at parties, delightful to your friends and extremely intelligent.” Price: $1.99
• 1-2-go - “Are your reactions fast? Find out with this tool! With this utility you can test your reaction time.” Price: $0.99
• Impossible Exam - “The Impossible Exam contains a ton of questions,some that deal with a hodgepodge of subject matters.” Price: $0.99

Word

• Sopa De Letras - “Spanish language version of Finblade’s WordSearch!” Price: $2.99
• Code Break - “Break the 4 or 5 word, color, or number code as quick as possible!” Price: $1.99
• Imangi - “Imangi challenges your vocabulary while exercising your spatial reasoning skills!” Price: $2.99
• KanjiPop - “A word in english is shown for which you must identify a correct Kanji character out of a choice of 16. Once you correctly identify all 16 within a given time, you will advance to the next level.” Price: $0.99
• Twistism Extreme - “Twistism Extreme is a simple yet captivating anagram game played against the clock.” Price: $0.99
• Water Words - “Unlike other word games Water Words features atmospheric and stylish audio visual design plus unique power-ups to help your quest for words.” Price: $1.99
• All Shook Up - “The aim of the game is simple. The bottom of the screen contains one or two jumbled up words, all you have to do is drag those jumbled up letters from the bottom rows to form words in the top rows.” Price: $1.99
• Babel Words - “Use the multi-touch display to click on the tiles and create as many words as you can within a time limit. If you get stuck, simply shake your iPhone or iPod Touch to shuffle up the letters.” Price: $3.99
• Fortune Egg - “Read your today’s fortune by using a Fortune egg.” Price: $0.99
• Free Hangman - “Hangman is a simple puzzle word game where you must guess the letters that make up a word. Now with a special thanksgiving theme.” Price: Free
• iHangman - “iHangman includes more than 36,000 words in 12 categories with definitions, scientific, geographical and historical facts, global online scoring, timer, single & multi player mode, sounds, beautiful graphics and animations.” Price: $0.99
• Margot’s Word Brain - “They’re all (5) word games I love that are really fun and easy to play. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t hard to master.” Price: $5.99
• Picture Clue: Word Puzzle Game - “Picture Clue is a unique word game where you have to guess the words from a picture clue.” Price: $1.99
• TwentyFive - “TWENTY FIVE is a game that requires you to make English words out of 25 alphabets you have been given.” Price: $2.99
• WordSerach2 - “Word Search #2 is the second of several in the series, is a fun and exciting game of finding words amongst scrambled characters.” Price: $0.99
• Christmas Experience - “Christmas-themed entertainment environment with multiple games that you can take with you anywhere!” Price: $0.99
• Christmas Spell - “Letters gently float on snowflakes inside a snow globe. Touch and rearrange each letter to guess the scrambled word.” Price: $1.99
• Worder -“The game involves guessing all the words that can be made from combinations of 9 letters. All the letters also make up one 9 letter word.” Price: $0.99

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