Gamertell

I guess the Apple certification team took a bit of a holiday themselves this week, since this list is currently at its slimmest pickings to date. Next week we’ll probably see a barrage of titles. I can’t wait for that!

In the meantime, here’s this week’s update for your brand new shiny Apple gaming device and if you are still hesitant about picking one up due to cost, Appletell might have some good news for you.

Also, sometime this week to compensate for the slim list, I’ll be posting a top 10 must have gaming apps if you are still unsure what to download. So stay tuned!

Games You Might Like

Retro: Price: $4.99
“RETRO is a glorious homage and throwback to latter-day game design and gameplay, utilizing the iPhone and iPod Touch’s accelerometer and touchscreen. Gameplay is simple: Guide your landing craft through 23 challenging levels, solving puzzles, avoiding hazards and saving all the little people as you go.”

MyModelTrain - Winter Edition: Price: $4.99
“You always wanted to become a train driver, but never had the space or the money for your own model railway in your hobby room? Then download My Model Train, the first highly detailed mobile train-simulation, to your handset! It’s your task to solve logistic problems as fast as possible by operating switches, signals and reversal-tracks. Transport colorful toy-passengers and boxes from station to station, select the ideal route and avoid unnecessary shunting! You should always collect enough coal and water to keep your engine going. Keep an eye on other trains and avoid collisions while driving over crossings, through tunnels or over bridges! Realize your dream and fill the role of an experienced engine driver in My Model Train! “

MewMew Tower: Price: $1.99
“The “MewMew Tower” is the game that is accumulating a lot of cats highly the sky in a line. You will stack a cat straightly so that balance may not worsen. If iPhone is leaned, a cat will collapse easily. Oppositely, let’s incline iPhone and balance when becoming ill-balanced.”

Animals of Mass Destruction: Price: $5.99
“Puppies with shotguns, stealth Kung Fu kittens, hacker chickens with tasers, chaos, madness, mass explosions, mass hysteria, and mass destruction! Oh My!
Fight your way through animal soldiers while solving brain teasing puzzles in order to save the world from global terrorism. Capture hostages along the way and interrogate them for information. Power up and go berserk in destruction mode and lay waste to the environment around you. Oh, did we mention that you are not human?”

What’s Free

iHusky 3D Pet
“Real 3D lovely Husky on your iPhone! Play with it now! The first 3D puppy on iPhone: Play with your lovely puppy, feed, bath and take good care of it. Train it to learn more fun actions. Make your puppy prettier by shining suits.”

Ballz! - Lite Version
“Play the first 5 levels in our Christmas Theme. Are you the sort of person who likes Bejeweled 2 or Tetris? Fed up of feeding your fish in the Koi Pond? Want to play a game that doesn’t require the flexibility of a Jedi? When shooting a deer in iHunt just doesn’t do it for you. Ballz! is the game for you! The premise is simple: Match at least 3 like symbols and your Ballz disappear! For every successful match, your match indicator fills. Once it’s full, the next level is yours. But beware! If you’re too slow and run out of time, you’re doomed to start again! You can even track your top scores!”

iSpot
“Spot the difference between two nearly identical drawings and photos as fast as possible! The game includes polished image pairs, each with 6 to 8 differences. Hunt for all the differences before the timer runs out by tapping them.
You are given 5 lives and each incorrect tap will cost you points and a life. The faster you finish, the higher you score. Depending on how fast you can complete, you are given rank and place on the distribution graph for each photo.”

Brain Puzzle Lite
“BrainPuzzle is a brain puzzle game using the angle of reflection of the light and many blocks’ characteristics. The aim of this game is to connect the light which comes from a room’s way in to the way out by using many blocks and jewels that have diverse characteristics. It would be clear only when the light passes through the assigned number of jewels or blocks and goes to the way out. If there are remained jewels or jewels which are not reflected or blocks which are not gone through, the game can not be clear. There are many ways to complete the game. Also, you can see one example of many ways if you use a hint item.”

What’s New

Action

Tilt: Price: $2.99
“Tilt is an action-puzzle game where you navigate a ball through a maze of obstacles and enemies. Just Tilt your iPhone to control the ball and find your way to the exit. Each level contains lightning, portals, doors, traps, and more. The faster you complete each level, the higher your score.”

Squaren: Price: $0.99
“Squaren is a simple yet challenging (and most importantly fun!) iPhone game created by some gamers! Use your iphone to move your squaren and collect the dots before time runs out. Get bonus points, and challenge your friends to beat your high score!”

Retro: Price: $4.99
“RETRO is a glorious homage and throwback to latter-day game design and gameplay, utilizing the iPhone and iPod Touch’s accelerometer and touchscreen. Gameplay is simple: Guide your landing craft through 23 challenging levels, solving puzzles, avoiding hazards and saving all the little people as you go.”

Friends Tease For Christmas: Price: $1.99
“You can use your saved photos, intercept the portrait accurately, choose the funny hairstyle and body, and use the props you like. Every prop produce different effect. The next step is to shake your phone. Take a look at what you have done. Not enough? Of course, you can save the picture in your phone. If you like, you can e-mail the picture through our system, but the data is to be transferred to our server. More hairstyles, more body choices, more props and more unexpected results are upcoming.” NOTE: Also Available in a non-Christmas version.

Extraction Zone: Price: $1.99
“Extraction Zone is a fun and addictive action game with two game modes, providing quick fun and potentially infinite gameplay. You are stuck deep in enemy territory with only an immobile turret with which to defend yourself. You must defend your position until you can be extracted, but it will be no easy task, as your foes will come quickly and often. In addition to your main gun, you will have four different powerups at your disposal to survive the onslaught of tanks, bombers, and trucks loaded with explosives. Features story mode, with four levels to provide quick action and survival mode, providing endless gameplay with a gradual difficulty progression.”

Cricket Game: Price: $4.99
“Take your favourite oval with you everywhere you go. Cricket puts you out in the middle of the field, willow in hand, with some hearty pace and spin coming your way. Using our gesture system you can bat away the likes of googlies, beamers and yorkers by controlling your bat with a flick of your finger. Draw upwards to play a slashing drive, diagonally and up for an all-or-nothing slog, and diagonal down for an elegant leg glance or late cut.”

iPentris: Price: $4.99
“iPentris is an advanced incarnation of a classic game concept. It is far more challenging, but more rewarding at the same time. Compete against players from all over the world and enter your name in the global highscore list.”

AlienMangle: Price: $0.99
“Aliens are invading. They have taken the form of zombies from 50s horror movies but because they only received the signal in black and white they got the skin color horribly wrong and are a bright aqua color. Protect your ROBOT SHEEP from the alien invaders.”

Adventure

Animals of Mass Destruction: Price: $5.99
“Puppies with shotguns, stealth Kung Fu kittens, hacker chickens with tasers, chaos, madness, mass explosions, mass hysteria, and mass destruction! Oh My!
Fight your way through animal soldiers while solving brain teasing puzzles in order to save the world from global terrorism. Capture hostages along the way and interrogate them for information. Power up and go berserk in destruction mode and lay waste to the environment around you. Oh, did we mention that you are not human?”

Dusktreaders
“From the world of the Dusktreaders MMO, explore the fast paced city of New Hexborough armed with silver bullets and a sword where zombies, skeletons, and werewolves lurk around every corner. Each mission unlocks the next. Once you have completed them all, the difficulty of all missions is increased. Be quick and stay alert, you have a limited time to finish each mission—there isn’t a second to waste.”

Arcade

Air Hockey Pro: Price: $0.99
“The best table arcade game ever made in a realistic virtual form.”

Froot Groove: Price: $4.99
“Froot Groove is a very colorful game with melodic background music. Meedo, Goobie, Boloo are three monkeys who are on a mission to unlock the secret of the Groove Island. Using the iPhone or iPod touch you will control three characters simultaneously to catch froot and avoid Dagger Rocks. The game consists of 20 different levels as well as 3 difficulty settings. The game automatically saves after each level. Once the game is complete, submit your score to be placed on the top 100 highest score list.”

Board

BlackBox: Price: $0.99
“Black Box is a game of “hide and seek” which simulates shooting lasers into a black box to deduce the locations of balls hidden inside. Play (locally) an unlimited number of puzzles (generated on the fly) over 6 levels of difficulty and *Bonus Feature*, like in all other PuzzleManiak games, challenge other players by downloading everyday an unique puzzle and compare your score to other ones.”

Cards

Caribbean Stud Poker: Price: $0.99
“Caribbean Stud Poker for the iPhone and iPod Touch lets you play Caribbean Stud Poker without risking any of your hard earned money beyond the purchase price of the app. You may have seen this game in a casino but were too intimidated to play or were worried you would lose your money because you did not know how to play. Well worry no more, now you can learn to play without risking real money betting.”

Casino

Nothing!

Dice

Dice Shaking and Drinking: Price: $0.99
“Sometimes gambling is fun with your friends. ‘Dice shaking and Drinking’ is easy to play and the user interface is simple. If you select how many dices you want and then press Start, the cup will be shaking and show your points. Have fun with it and your friends.”

Educational

Cookie Rush: Price: $0.99
“Collect the most cookies by putting more of them on the scale than your opponent. The first person to collect 32 cookies wins them all! You have 6 stacks of cookies and can only place one stack on the scale at a time. If you place a stack of 4 cookies and your opponent places 5 cookies they will win your cookies, their cookies, and the cookies in the jar.”

Adam’s Spiel: Price: $0.99
“Adam’s Spiel is a game for German toddlers and pre-schoolers (or anyone who wants to learn a little German). The game shows three pictures and asks the child to touch one of them (e.g. “Berühe die Kuh.” which is equivalent to the English “Touch the cow.”). When the child picks the right picture, the game cheers. If the child picks another picture, the game says “Uh-Oh” and flashes the right picture. After several turns, the game rewards the child with music and a group of objects floating across the screen. Adam’s Spiel also allows you to add your own pictures and voices to the game. This is great if you want to add a picture of the grandparents or your family dog.”

Family

Uli Stein MEMO: Price: $4.99
“Memo Game with Uli Stein Motives. The goal of the game is to find identical pairs of images.”

Pop Pop Pop: Price: $0.99
“Pop moving heads to generate two slightly smaller heads. Heads disappear when they stop moving. Submit your score and compete against the rest of the world.”

MewMew Tower: Price: $1.99
“The “MewMew Tower” is the game that is accumulating a lot of cats highly the sky in a line. You will stack a cat straightly so that balance may not worsen. If iPhone is leaned, a cat will collapse easily. Oppositely, let’s incline iPhone and balance when becoming ill-balanced.”

Music

Nothing!

Puzzle

Trojan Horse: Price: $0.99
“We all know the legend about the beautiful Helena seduced by Paris. That was the cause of a war that lasted for ten long years and resulted in elaborating and deceitful strategy which applied using a wooden horse. This game will show you how the legendary city of Troy was taken down and why after that Odysseus had suffered from constant backache. Trojan Horse is a classical logic game, which requires from you sense of strategy and mastermind. Moving forward through puzzles will show you funny cut-scenes, which narrates great adventures of Odysseus.”

inLine: Price: $1.99
“inLine is a very entertaining and addictive logic game, based on the classic game “Color Lines”. The goal is to remove as many balls as possible at once. To do this you need to arrange lines (horizontal, vertical or diagonal) of at least 5 balls. The more balls you remove at once, the more more points are granted. 3 new balls are added on the board after every move.”

Hall of Mirrors: Price: $0.99
“Hall of Mirrors is a relaxing, quietly addictive puzzle game. The goal is to place mirrors on the board so that all light beams travel to their destination. At the highest level of difficulty up to 18 mirrors may be required to complete the puzzle. This is the perfect game to help wile away the time at the airport, or anytime you want to enjoy a few minutes of a mild brain-teaser without arcade style distractions. You’ll come back to play again and again!”

Racing

Nothing!

Role Playing

Nothing!

Simulation

MyModelTrain - Winter Edition: Price: $4.99
“You always wanted to become a train driver, but never had the space or the money for your own model railway in your hobby room? Then download My Model Train, the first highly detailed mobile train-simulation, to your handset! It’s your task to solve logistic problems as fast as possible by operating switches, signals and reversal-tracks. Transport colorful toy-passengers and boxes from station to station, select the ideal route and avoid unnecessary shunting! You should always collect enough coal and water to keep your engine going. Keep an eye on other trains and avoid collisions while driving over crossings, through tunnels or over bridges! Realize your dream and fill the role of an experienced engine driver in My Model Train! “

Sports

Nothing!

Strategy

Nothing!

Trivia

Nothing!

Word

Nothing!

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