Section: Features, Lists, Handhelds, iPhone & iPod Touch, Updates, Apple App Store

It’s our second edition of the App Store gaming update! This week wasn’t as bad to put together as last week’s, though the insane amounts of turkey didn’t help things.

In this edition of the update we added two new sections entitled: “What’s Free” and “Games you might like.“ I won’t bother explaining to you the complex definitions of these sections, as I’m sure you folks can figure them out. Since we are still in beta, we can tinker around with the list week to week to find just the right format for you guys. As always, feedback is appreciated so feel free to let us know how much you love the list or heaven forbid, hate it!

We also hope to provide reviews for these games at some point so look out for those as well! Now, on to the list:

Games You Might Like

• Rogue – “A favorite on college Unix systems in the early to mid-1980s, Rogue popularized the dungeon crawling computer game dating back from 1980 (and spawned entire class of derivatives known collectively as “roguelikes”). gandreas software now presents the classic for the iPhone/iPod Touch.“
  Price: FREE
• 80s Galaxy – “This is a retro-style 3D shooting game.“
  Price: $2.99
• Hamster House – “Six fantastic Worlds to explore while searching for all the pieces you need to build out your Hamster House. With every level you clear you gain more powers that will help you bring back the lout. In your house you can meet other Hamsters, Customize your house & add objects including Drums, pictures, TV’s, furniture, Audio players and even a dance floor to impress your other Hamster friends with your skills.“
  Price: $0.99
• Disney Fairies Fly! – “Fly with the Fairies through Pixie Hollow in the Disney Fairies Fly!, based on the Tinker Bell movie! Pick your favorite character and glide with the wind as Tinker Bell, Iridessa, Silvermist, Rosetta or Fawn, tackling the many challenges that await you in five magical worlds.“
  Price: $4.99
• 1112 episode 01 – “1112 episode 01 is the Pilot of the world first episodic adventure game exclusive to the iPhone and iPod touch. Louis Everett is leading a quiet life and minding his own business as the most average middle class citizen. He lives with his beautiful but rather nosy wife in the peaceful Jalonsville New jersey. Take a journey to explore this intriguing mystery and discover the reasons behind his constant headaches and strange dreams. Meet a bunch of colorful characters, dive into bizarre situations until an unpredictable event occurs and turns everything upside down!
  Price: $7.99 (Limited Time Only, Regular Price is $9.99)
• French Alphabet L’Alphabet Francais – “The French alphabet is the perfect tool to start. This application will allow you to hear the sound of each of the 26 letters. You can repeat the sounds to learn pronunciation. Just touch the desired letter and voila! Each letter will play at the touch of your fingertips. Use this to imitate the sounds as the native speaker says them.“
  Price: $0.99
• Fast Food Nation – “Choose your character in more than 160 000 possibilities and take him to the glory throughout his career. Master all the elements, ads, menu prices, ingredients and the size of your kitchen. Be aware of the goal of the day and try to make your customers happy!“
  Price: $0.99
• Virtual Dolphin – “Take care of your virtual dolphin. You can clean him, train him, feed him, and make him study, amongst other things. He can die if you let him starve or grow sick if you leave him alone for too long.“
  Price: $0.99

What’s Free

• ChocChocPop Lite – “This is the lite version of ChocChocPop, the sweetest Match-3 game ever on App Store! With the chocolate theme and the fun gadgets, it offers you a completely new experience in Match-3 genre!“
• Xmas-a-Mass Free – “This is the free version of our popular Christmas title Xmas-a-Mass featuring the village location and a Christmas night finale!“
• Aerolite Free – “Aerolite Free brings unlimited levels of classic asteroid destroying fun to your iPhone and iPod touch.“
• Blackbeard’s Assault Lite – “Ahoy Matey! The object of this fast-paced puzzle game is to remove all the balls as they travel along a path. Simply tap where you want to fire. When you match 3 or more balls of the same color, the group will be removed and you will earn points.“
• Santa Lite – “This is the lite edition of “Santa” and it has two levels. The full edition has 20 levels and more challenges. You are to help Santa deliver mountains of presents personally.“
• Python Lite – “Python is a great variation of the classic snake game. Control the snake using the accelerometer / tilt sensor.“
• Resco Bubbles Lite – “Resco Bubbles Lite is an action puzzle game where the idea is to clear the grid of bubbles in order to advance to the next level.“
• Steppin Lite – “Steppin Lite is a new kind of racing game that makes innovative use of the iPhone & iPod touch screen. You use your fingers to ‘run’ across the screen as fast as you can.“
• Tower Lite – “Tower Lite is played by building up layers of blocks. At each layer, a platform of blocks moves horizontally back and forwards across the screen.“
• Christmas Rock’n’Roll – “Christmas is coming to Flint Island but the evil sky spirit clearly hasn’t heard that this is supposed to be the season of goodwill! While stealing the children’s presents from under the Christmas tree he accidentally takes our hero ‘Rock’ and will only let him go if his good friend ‘Roll’ can collect all the musical notes from his favourite Christmas carols. Just to make matters worse the notes have been scattered across a number of Flint Island’s most dangerous mazes.“
• PokerLogica Lite – “Sudoku and poker meet! PokerLogica is a logic puzzle game in which you must determine the identity of the face down cards by eliminating the impossibilities. To guide you in this task, each column and row is designated as a poker hand (e.g. four-of-a-kind). Knowing this, along with what cards are currently visible, you must use your keenest deductive reasoning to determine exactly what card is where.“
• Checkers Online Lite – “Play checkers against people from all over the world! You will find players in a few seconds!“
• Descramble Free – “Descramble Free is an electronic version of the classic 15-puzzle game. Concentrate and plan ahead to properly order the numbered tiles or pieces of a picture. When you have successfully completed the puzzle, shake it to start a new game.“
• iChess (Evaluation) – “An evaluation version of iChess. This is a fully functional version of iChess which includes an evaluation reminder which is displayed before each game.“
• Perilar Lite – “The kingdom cries out for justice! For centuries, the Temple of Darkness was sealed, guaranteeing peace for the kingdom above, until the treacherous imp Ascaroth crept into the castle, slipped past the guards and the watchful King Minox, and broke the seals! The Temple’s opening spells doom, the kingdom overrun by powerful monsters! Perilar Lite is a turn-based, classic computer RPG. You create a character with old-school game mechanics, then explore a vast, dangerous world.“
• Rogue – “A favorite on college Unix systems in the early to mid-1980s, Rogue popularized the dungeon crawling computer game dating back from 1980 (and spawned entire class of derivatives known collectively as “roguelikes”). gandreas software now presents the classic for the iPhone/iPod Touch.“
• Scratch-It Lite – “Scratch-It! And solve it! Designed uniquely for the iPhone, experience the true sensation of touch and scratch on Apple’s innovative touch screen technology. Scratch the screen to reveal the image and solve when you think you’ve got it! But beware, the more you scratch and reveal, the more points that are lost. So scratch less and gain more! Think you can tell a bird apart from a bunny or a pen from a plane? Scratch-It and see if you’re up to the challenge!“
• Mines – “A simple, elegant minesweeper game for the iPhone and iPod touch, with intuitive controls and customizable difficulty. High scores coming soon.“
• Know How LITE – Think and play outside the box! – “Try it free: This lite version contains seven tricky levels and will whet your appetite for more, guaranteed! The full version “Know How – Think and play outside the box” is available for $3.99 at the AppStore.
• Toobz-Free – “Your goal is to create a system of “Toobz” (pipes) beginning at a randomly-placed starting point. Your Toobz network must allow water to flow without any spilling. As you advance through levels, you’ll have less and less time to place the pieces before the water starts automatically. You can start the water at any time, allowing you to quickly advance to the next level and earn extra points.“
• Splash ‘n’ Dash – “Splash ‘n’ Dash trains your momentary vision and focus abilities in a simple and fun way. Spot the 6-digit number that flashes for only a quarter second on the screen, then enter them in.
• iTrivia Lite – “The iTrivia craze is sweeping the iPhone, and now you can get a free taste with iTrivia Lite, featuring 100 super-charged, mind-bending questions ripped from the worlds of movies, television, business and entertainment!“
• Trivia Bingo Lite: Sports Edition – “Think you’re a sports nut? Try playing Trivia Bingo Sports Edition either alone of against your friends to see how good you really are!“
• iBear Flags CIS – “Learn all the members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), their capitals and flags! CIS is a regional organization whose participating countries are former Soviet Republics.“
• iBear Flags OPEC – “Learn all the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), their capitals and flags!“
• UGuess – “UGuess is a fun and simple game. Your iPhone has a unique four digit number in its mind. It is your job to guess that number. After every guess you will get a hint that will help you for the next guess.“

What’s New

Action

• Bugs War – “Bugs War is a simple, brief and extreme game to reduce the stress. Kill the roaches that threaten your house and save your house.“
  Price: $0.99
• Christmas Stack – “Christmas Stack is a stacking game in which you control Elfis the Elf, one of Santa’s adorable little elves who is trying to catch and stack as many falling presents as possible.“
  Price: $0.99
• Pocket Skiing – “Itching to hit the slopes? Let Pocket Skiing take you there! With three tracks, you’re sure to have the ski experience you crave.“
  Price: $0.99 (On sale! Regular: $2.99)
• Nanobot – “The goal of the game is to ensure the cells are kept in a particular partitioned area. If a nanobot is destroyed by an invader, a new one will be injected in after a few seconds.“
  Price: $0.99
• 80s Galaxy – “This is a retro-style 3D shooting game.“
  Price: $2.99
• BallZup – “Keep all the BallZup to smash brickz, uncover hidden powerups and collect the falling multipliers to increase your score.“
  Price: $6.99
• Coins n Rainbows – “”Toss” the coin towards the “Rainbow Table” by moving the iPhone or iPod touch in your desired direction (horizontally).“
  Price: $0.99
• Hamster House – “Six fantastic Worlds to explore while searching for all the pieces you need to build out your Hamster House. With every level you clear you gain more powers that will help you bring back the lout. In your house you can meet other Hamsters, Customize your house & add objects including Drums, pictures, TV’s, furniture, Audio players and even a dance floor to impress your other Hamster friends with your skills.“
  Price: $0.99
• 1944 : WWII Edition – FIGHTER PILOT – “Shoot Guns and Rockets while dog fighting your way to victory!“
  Price: $0.99
• Armageddon Squadron – “Polarbit present Armageddon Squadron, an arcade flight simulator giving you control of some of the best known aircraft of the WWII era in a variety of mission types and environments.“
  Price: $5.99
• Virtual Ninja – “By tracking your movement through your device’s accelerometer, it determines what method of ninja attack corresponds to your motions. Use your special Ninja Powers to access a total of ten different attacks.“
  Price: $0.99
• Block Builder – “Block Builder plays as a game where you start with 3 blocks. Blocks accumulate by the right timing of each row of blocks. When the rows of block(s) stack, they create a tower that will hopefully reach the top of the screen.“
  Price: $0.99
• Disney Fairies Fly! – “Fly with the Fairies through Pixie Hollow in the Disney Fairies Fly!, based on the Tinker Bell movie! Pick your favorite character and glide with the wind as Tinker Bell, Iridessa, Silvermist, Rosetta or Fawn, tackling the many challenges that await you in five magical worlds.“
  Price: $4.99
• Egg Splat! – “Eggs are falling from the sky!!!! Your mission is to utilize all your Mind Powers to prevent the eggs from falling too fast and exploding on the pan!“
  Price: $0.99
• Sky Thunder – “Sky Thunder is a classic shooting game which brings you back exciting arcade shooting games. You are the captain controlling a powerful aircraft to challenge enemy’s headquarters, with a large variety of obstacles ahead.“
  Price: $0.99
• VolleyTennis (VS Com) – “This game is like tennis volley. Play with computer. Count is same tennis. six game match.“
  Price: $0.99

Adventure

• 1112 episode 01 – “1112 episode 01 is the Pilot of the world first episodic adventure game exclusive to the iPhone and iPod touch. Louis Everett is leading a quiet life and minding his own business as the most average middle class citizen. He lives with his beautiful but rather nosy wife in the peaceful Jalonsville New jersey. Take a journey to explore this intriguing mystery and discover the reasons behind his constant headaches and strange dreams. Meet a bunch of colorful characters, dive into bizarre situations until an unpredictable event occurs and turns everything upside down!
  Price: $7.99 (Limited Time Only, Regular Price is $9.99)

Arcade

• Cookie Catch – Christmas – “It is Christmas time and Casey is ready to catch some gingerbread cookies! Get into the holiday spirit by helping Casey catch all the yummy gingerbread cookies while making sure to avoid getting hit by falling snowballs as those will turn Casey into a snowball-head, and Casey really hates when that happens.“
  Price: $0.99
• Bomboozle – “Draw lines and detonate bombs to destroy the cutesy blobs in this relaxing yet addictive collapse style puzzler. Colorful graphics and a jaunty soundtrack accompany you through the game and the intuitive touch interface makes this a great pick up and play title.“
  Price: $2.99
• <iArchery on myHIP – “The game is simple, use your bow and arrow to hit the practice targets, but NOT the squirrels or rabbits.“
  Price: $0.99
• Christmas Swap – “”Christmas Swap” is the fun and exciting new puzzle game from TacoLamp! You must help clear the levels of all the falling pieces in ways that will test your brain and challenge your reflexes! Christmas fun for the everyone!“
  Price: $1.99
• Marble Worlds 2 – “Welcome to Marble Worlds 2 for the iPhone. Explore one hundred play areas across 5 different themed worlds. Tilt your iPhone, or touch the screen to navigate Marble Worlds collecting gems and solving puzzles as you go. Use features such as bounce pads, air blowers, jet holes and exploding bombs whilst avoiding the evil marbles. Marble Worlds is a highly addictive and playable challenge, and hours of fun.
  Price: $2.99
• Jingle Balls – “Get into the Christmas spirit with Jingle Balls! Roll your ball around the garden, collecting Stars before your time runs out whilst avoiding those nasty Puddings and flying Icecubes… Collect random appearing presents to increase your time limit. Don’t lose your balance on the SeeSaw.
  Price: $0.99
• Bat Master – “One player. Two bats. Three levels. Do. Not. Blink.“
  Price: $0.99

Board

• Monkey Memory – “Monkey Memory is a memory game based on a scientific test made with chimpanzees. The object of Monkey Memory is to remember the location of numbers and correctly recall the sequence.“
  Price: $1.99

Amidakuji – “Amidakuji is a Japanese classic method of lottery that looks like ladders. It is designed to create random pairings of arbitrary numbers of two sets of start points and goals, each with an equal number of elements.“
Price: $0.99

• Chinese Chess Professional – “ZingMagic’s critically acclaimed Chinese Chess application is renowned for its superb playability for players of all levels from beginner to expert. Whatever level of Chinese Chess you play at, you can be sure that ZingMagic’s Chinese Chess will give you a stimulating and challenging game.“
  Price: $2.99

Card

• Poker Rulz – “Poker Rulz is not an actual poker game – it is a reference to the rules for popular “dealer’s choice” poker games (the kinds of games you play with your friends and family for fun). It seems like there is always somebody who is unsure of “what’s better” so Poker Rulz includes a list of the standard poker hands and how they rank. There are also some “general guidelines” to help newer players.“
  Price: $0.99

Casino

• iWinPoker – “Learn how to correctly play video poker. Use iWinPoker to play while you learn! Single Play and Triple Play options that can be played with all of the 31 included video poker games!. Change modes from the options screen, or just swipe up to pull up 3 hands or swipe down to take it back to one.“
  Price: $5.99

Educational

• English Alphabet ABC – “Here is the perfect tool to help your child learn the alphabet while having fun. This application will help keep your child entertained while in the car, a long line or at a restaurant. This application will allow you to hear the sound of each of the 26 letters. The sounds can be played over and over agian in order to help learn pronunciation and memorize the characters. With just the touch of each letter. Children also love the colorful backgrounds, which helps with association in order to learn them better. We are sure you and your child will love this application! If you have any suggestions please feel free to contact us, and stay updated for future releases.“
  Price: $0.99
• French Alphabet L’Alphabet Francais – “The French alphabet is the perfect tool to start. This application will allow you to hear the sound of each of the 26 letters. You can repeat the sounds to learn pronunciation. Just touch the desired letter and voila! Each letter will play at the touch of your fingertips. Use this to imitate the sounds as the native speaker says them.“
  Price: $0.99

Family

• Pocket Yacht – “Pocket Yacht is an exciting new dice game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. You may also know this game as Cheerio, Yot, Yam, or General. Take turns rolling five dice to score big with a straight, full house, four of a kind, Yacht, or Chance combination.“
  Price: $2.99

Music

Nothing.

Puzzle

• Miners – “Help your team of miners to collect gold by redrawing the level underneath them. Just be careful to avoid the slime!“
  Price: $0.99
• Slide It! – “Slide It! is a brand new puzzle game for both casual gamers and enthusiasts. In the tradition of Bejeweled and Hexic, Slide It! provides the player with an addictive game mechanic that is simple to learn, yet difficult to master.Your goal is to slide tiles off the board into their corresponding slots. The challenge is learning how to think ahead and maximize your score by growing your multipliers. As you progress through the levels, there will be fewer obvious solutions, so you must plan your moves carefully while keeping an eye on the timer.“
  Price: $3.99
• Christmas Puzzle – “An excellent puzzle game with a lot of beautiful Christmas and New Year’s Eve images that will put you in a happy Christmas mood!“
  Price: $0.99
• Shade – “Shade is a unique and challenging puzzle that tests your positional memory. When the game starts, you are shown a board with colored tiles. Your task is to rebuild the pattern as quickly as you can.“
  Price: $4.99
• Twin Cubes – “Yes, the twin cubes! The twin cubes introduce a novel concept of pairing rotation between the cubes. When you turn faces on one cube, you simultaneously drive the virtually coupled faces on the other cube. This synchronized movement requires algorithms in solving the puzzle which you have never faced on any Rubik’s cubes in the real world.“
  Price: $0.99
• ZAB – “Are you ready for a totally new, fast-paced, addictive puzzle game? ZAB will test the limits of your mind and fingers. Easy to Learn. Simple to Play. Labyrinthine to Master.“
  Price: $1.99
• Kakuro – “Kakuro is a game that is like a cross between Sudoku and Crossword. This game generates millions of unique boards of varying difficulty, so you never have to play the same game twice. This game can be quite addictive!!!“
  Price: $0.99
• National Geographic: Herod’s Lost Tomb – “Explore the ancient biblical world, uncover hidden archeological clues and help researchers solve the mystery Herod’s Lost Tomb in this hidden object game from National Geographic. Based on a major television event, Herod’s Lost Tomb allows players to join archeologists as they excavate masterpieces of ancient architecture and examine clues that reveal the final resting places of one of the Bible’s most infamous characters.“
  Price: $3.99
• Traffic Jam 2Your poor Beetle is trapped amongst a sea of cars during rush hour! Itís up to you to free it from each of 250 horrendous Traffic Jams. Your task is simple, yet challenging – move vehicles forward and back until you’ve cleared a path between your Beetle and the Exit Circle.“
  Price: $0.99

Racing

Nothing.

Role Playing

Nothing.

Simulation

• Fast Food Nation – “Choose your character in more than 160 000 possibilities and take him to the glory throught his career. Master all the elements, ads, menu prices, ingredients and the size of your kitchen. Be aware of the goal of the day and try to make your customers happy!“
  Price: $0.99
• Virtual Dolphin – “Take care of your virtual dolphin. You can clean him, train him, feed him, and make him study, amongst other things. He can die if you let him starve or grow sick if you leave him alone for too long.“
  Price: $0.99
• Fish Bling Bling – “Fish Bling Bling is a real-time simulation game. The fishes continue to live even when the game is turned off. Recommended for fans of Koi Pond that want virtual pet-like features or those who enjoy simulation games in general.“
  Price: $1.99
• Pet BugsThis fun application lets you carry around your very own bug collection wherever you go. You choose your companions from a variety of different bug types (all loosely based on real bugs, Ladybird, Stag beetle, Goliath beetle). You also get to choose from a multitude of environments/backdrops in which to place them.“
  Price: $0.99

Sports

• Zen Table Tennis – “It is a long way from the pick up ping pong matches in the filthy back alleys of Lhasa to the ethereal mountaintop temple of the Ten Thousand Paddles. But here you are, one match from enlightenment. There is just one problem—an invisible demon who has seemingly mastered the physics of the sport. Well, two can play at that game. Remember the teaching: “Become the ball.“
  Price $1.99
• Pocket Mini Golf 2 – “Pocket Mini Golf 2 – winner of “Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine”‘s Best Software Award 2007 & 2008- is now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Get ready for some extreme mini golf fun! Masses of features (including multiplayer) and superb graphics make this the most enjoyable and addictive golf game available. Pocket Mini Golf 2 features a massive variety of holes, including fairways, rough, sand pits, beaches, loads of interesting objects to negotiate and much much more…“
  Price: $2.99
• Basketball Game – “Play basketball on your iPhone. First practice and then try to hit as often as possible with 20 shots. Adjust the difficulty by adding a ceiling, fixing the basket and changing the gravity.“
  Price: $2.99
• iMarksman Arcade – “So you think you can shoot? Well take your best shot with iMarksman Arcade, exclusively available for iPhone and iPod Touch. iMarksman Arcade is 2 games in 1 and combines the skill of marksmanship with fun. Take your pick between Duck Hunter and Carnival Shooter.“
  Price: $1.99

Strategy

• Bugz – “The aim of the game is to pop as many bugz as possible by starting a chain reaction of bugz popping. To do this you have to tap the screen to create an initial pop which will expand and then shrink again. If your pop hits another bug then that bug will pop, starting a chain reaction effect.“
  Price: $0.99
• Smiles Zen – “SMILES ZEN is a relaxing strategic puzzle game. It uniquely combines matching games like Bejeweled with patience games like Solitaire and Mahjongg. Sudoku fans will appreciate the depth and strategy ZEN offers. Make and break matches as you light up the board.“
  Price: $2.99

Trivia

• Film Trivia – “Take the film trivia challenge with unique questions on an eclectic mix of films, from Casablanca and early horror films to the latest future releases!“
  Price: $4.99

Word

• Smile*Man (British) in the U.K. (Also available in a Germany edition) – “A Fun, Challenging, Exciting game with Cool Crisp Animations and Funky Music! Smile?Man is Fun and Addictive! Select a Category … Go! … The timer is running …Touch letters to spell the hidden word … Try to beat your High Score! … 9 Wrong answers and “OH NO!!“ try again … Watch out for that crazy Devil?Man! …“
  Price: $1.99
• Russian Flip – “Russian Flip is a learning tool similar to flash cards, but with an intelligent progress tracking system that helps you learn faster. After you “flip” to the answer, you pick if you were Right or Wrong.“
  Price: $5.99

Konstroo This! – “The object is to decipher or formulate words by rearranging letters. This is accomplished by touching and dragging letters into the proper order. If you need inspiration you can shake the device to shuffle the letters randomly!“
Price: $0.99

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