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.
It must be getting closer to this year’s WWDC. How can we tell? Because there’s a slew of Apple rumors coming out the rumor mills. Will Apple finally start slashing prices on their products? Howabout that Netbook competitor? Is Apple getting into bed with Verizon? We’re taking bets and results will be posted next month readers. While you’re waiting, why don’t play one of these new gaming apps?
What You Might Want To Check Out
METAL GEAR SOLID TOUCH Lite (US)
“Experience METAL GEAR SOLID 4′s story as you fight through this thrilling shooter. Fierce encounters and familiar faces await you around every corner! Download the Lite Version to experience the opening of the story and 3 Middle Eastern stages! Clear these 3 stages and learn the basic tap, slide, and pinch-in/out controls that are fundamental to mastering the game!
Build-a-lot Lite
“Build, buy, and sell houses and send the real estate market through the roof! Flip houses for quick cash or sit back and watch the rental income pile up. Master the housing market and work your way into commercial properties like cinemas, ice rinks, and fire stations. Build up towns and become a real estate mogul!”
Strongholds: Price: $2.99
“Action takes place in the near future when confrontation between two armory corporations turned into armed conflict. Your purpose is to construct the stronghold and destroy the enemy. However the enemy purpose is the same.”
World of Tunes: Price: $4.99
“Save the World of Tunes by orchestrating the Tuneys in defeating the invading alien overlords.”
What’s Free
METAL GEAR SOLID TOUCH Lite (US)
“Experience METAL GEAR SOLID 4′s story as you fight through this thrilling shooter. Fierce encounters and familiar faces await you around every corner! Download the Lite Version to experience the opening of the story and 3 Middle Eastern stages! Clear these 3 stages and learn the basic tap, slide, and pinch-in/out controls that are fundamental to mastering the game!
Paper Breaker Lite
“Paper Breaker is one of the most unique and challenging “breakout” style games available. It updates the classic with a new look and dynamic style. Our Lite version gives you a sneak peak into the exciting world of Paper Breaker and will immerse you into the unique game play of the most original “breakout” style game on the iPhone. This stand alone version provides specially designed levels to get you acquainted with all the elements of Paper Breaker.”
Shadowland: The Sniper
“Shadowland is a realistic and engaging series of sniper games. In Shadowland: The Sniper, you meet your spotter and try to get accepted into a mysterious organization.”
Maze Shifter Lite
“Navigate your way through this full 3D maze! Be quick, and attempt to beat the clock – if the timer hits zero, the maze shifts in front of you, changing it’s layout and your path to the goal. Mazes are generated at random to give this game unlimited playability. It will take strategy, planning, agility, and a little bit of luck to make it to the exit. Can you survive a shifting maze?”
Vampire
“Turn your fledgling vampire into the most notorious, powerful clan in the Vampire underworld.”
Modulo Lite
“A taste of Modulo – 15 sample Modulo Puzzles for free. The simple! Just rotate all the puzzle pieces to be the same way up – simply touch a puzzle piece to rotate it. Get all the puzzle pieces the right way up, and the puzzle is solved.The catch? Each puzzle piece can be connected to other puzzle pieces. When you rotate one puzzle piece all the connected pieces rotate rotate with it! The game has 180 puzzles, from the easy to the mind bending.”
Piecehunters Lite
“The animals have been mistakenly released from the big zoo in the sky and now, you are assigned to capture them back 1 by 1. With the help of the power gems, you will need to travel to various locations and try to capture all the animals. Be careful, as those animals will try to resist your attempts at capturing them, plus there are evil poachers who will want to thwart you at any cost.”
TouchTouchPop Lite
“Feel the refreshing sensation through your fingers! Say no to difficult and complicated games! Lose yourself into the fancy popping bubble world and enjoy the simple game of ‘touch touch pop’. Why not go for the highest score now?”
arrows dice LITE
“Arrows Dice is a fun for the whole family, highly addictive multi-player dice game! It is meant to be played in a group setting, with a total of 3-10 players! Arrows Dice is a game in the same vain as LCR (left, center, right) but, with an awesome twist! The twist is that each 6 sided die has 1 “Randomizer” on it, and when rolled will change to a random player number and pass the coin to that player accordingly.”
Brain Fever LITE
“Warm up your neurons! Improve your spelling and enrich your vocabulary thanks to this simple but efficient game! Brain Fever Lite is a word-puzzle game which will make every words lover happy. To score points, you must find words in a grid of lettered tiles. Find the longest word as quick as possible and become the king of dictionary.”
Perfect Balance: Harmony Lite
“Rotate and stack shapes, and try to achieve perfect balance in this physics puzzle! Perfect Balance was released as a Flash 9 game at the beginning of 2009, and over 5 million players have enjoyed its challenges after the game hit the biggest Flash games sites in the Internet world wide. This lite version contains only the easy levels of the full game.”
iTicTacToe
“In the main game screen there is a 3X3 grid. You will play against the computer. Each of your touches on one of the blank spaces will generate one “x” and the computer will generate one “o” against that. To win the game you will need to successfully place three respective symbols in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row.”
Port Of Call Lite
“The traffic of goods by sea is organized in accordance with international agreements and contracts between individual countries. About 80% of the goods (called “cargo volume”) transported between two countries is handled by ships registered under the flags of the countries concerned. The remaining 20% are open to the free competition of ships under other flags. These ships, called “tramp” ships, are usually prepared to transport all kinds of goods. This aspect of the shipping business is the focus of Ports of Call.”
Xonata
“Xonata turns your IPhone or IPod touch into a MINI virtual Guitar, Piano, Violin or Flute. With a unique button layout you can choose from the 4 most popular instruments and decide what you want to play next! Play any song you want or be creative and create your own unique songs. Xonata has 14 notes enough to play any instrument and with a great professional recorded sound for each note you will be amazed of the music you can perform. You can enjoy the application in either of the two options, Game Play or Free Play.
Guess The Logo Lite
“How well do you remember the logos you see around you every day? Guess the Logo puts 6 highly visible variations of the same logo in front of you and asks you to choose the right one. This is the FREE trial version of the popular logo quiz, already played by millions across the web.”
Color Drops
“Color Drops challenges you to be quick and clever when you try to match colored or numbered balls! You can match them up vertically, horizontally or diagonally to clear the field. Color drops demands you to become a master of dexterity!”
3D logic lite
“With 3D logic you get one of the most addictive games that has ever been created straight to your iPhone/iPod. Admire the fresh and stylish look while your brain explodes in the mental challenge of fifty tricky levels. Connect all end-squares of the same color on three sides of a cube by a continuous path of that color.”
iQuest: Beginnings
“The Kingdom of Noth is under attack by fiercesome monsters. The King died fighting these gruesome creatures that are swarming the countryside. The law of the land is that the throne can only be claimed by the greatest hero. Now everyone is picking up a blade, a bow, or using magical forces to fight back the darkness and claim the throne as their own. Complete quests to earn gold, items and experience. Purchase lands to earn income in the Kingdom of Noth. Fight in the arena to prove you’re the greatest hero of the land. Claim the throne of Noth, and see if you can hold onto it.”
Build-a-lot Lite
“Build, buy, and sell houses and send the real estate market through the roof! Flip houses for quick cash or sit back and watch the rental income pile up. Master the housing market and work your way into commercial properties like cinemas, ice rinks, and fire stations. Build up towns and become a real estate mogul!”
What’s New
Action
io: Price: $1.99
“In io, your mission is to bring the Nautilus-114 spaceship back home. However, the task isnít easy thanks to the many robotic minions that now inhabit the ship. In order to accomplish your mission, you have to play evasively (hide in the dark, walk donít run), avoid detection and carry out your objectives. You are also accompanied by your robotic friend and constant help, Ned. Together, you will take enemies down, gather data pertaining to the destruction of the ships human crew and bring the ship back home (or will you?)”
Physix: Price: $0.99
“Physix contains 3 different games:
- Falling drops
In this game you have balls that fall out of a cone downwards. The balls have different colors and you must sort them right into the boxes. You can control the way of the ball by slightly tilting your iPhone. But be careful after a while the balls appear faster and faster and the boxes start to move.
- Billard madness
In this game you see a billard table and onto that fall balls of different colors. You now have to sort them into the right holes. But be careful when you sort one into a false hole you loose a life.
- Exploding box
This game is very easy but also extra fun. You have a box in a little room and you have to shake the room till the box explodes. For each box you get 10 extra seconds. What do you think how many boxes can you explode in 1 minute?”
lilt line: Price: $2.99
“lilt line is a retro rhythm racing beat ‘em up action game with a dubstep flavour!”
Shadowland: Shades of Black: Price: $0.99
“Shadowland is a realistic and engaging series of sniper games. In Shadowland: Shades of Black, Chapter 1, you perform various missions for a mysterious clandestine organization. Do you have the moral freedom to take part of a deep black op?”
Acclaim!: Price: $0.99
“Acclaim! is a simple addictive puzzle game where you rotate buttons/cogs/bling into the correct place. Its simple yet provides enough depth to hook you in. While the game was in beta, many people became addicted to its simple yet interesting style of game play.”
Squashem: Price: $1.99
“Heart pulsing edge of your seat action in a high energy tilt based game! Race against the clock to squash all 10 runners per level, and submit your best time to the internet high scores, or go head to head with your friends with local high scores. Chase ‘n squash the 10 runners as they flee, more fun than anything!”
Red Sphere: Price: $0.99
“Lead red glass sphere through the labyrinth to the black hole. Be careful, the shpere can be broken easily by the metal constructions or mechanism of labyrinth. Draw “jumper” to direct the sphere. At the same time you can put 3 “jumpers”. When you’ll put the next “jumper” the former will disappear.”
iStimulus: Price: $0.99
“Get your hands on some stimulus and bailout money. Play iStimulus. iStimulus is a funny and addictive game that pokes fun at the government’s stimulus and bailout plans.”
Unbreakable: Price: $0.99
“You are the pilot of the unbreakable Driller. You have discovered a cave full of valuable gems but unfortunately it is inhabited by monsters! Ram into these monsters to launch your Driller up in the air and collect the gems. The key is to try to stay in the air and keep colliding with monsters to build up your combo multiplier. Your combo multiplier resets when you hit the ground. The goal is to earn enough points to move on to the next level before you run out of fuel.”
Need For Cheese: Price: $0.99
“Get the cheese, avoid the filthy cats and stay alive as long as you can!”
Meteor Mission III: Price: $0.99
“The goal is to rescue the astronauts who are stranded on lunar platforms by maneuvering your spaceship vessel onto the landing pad while dodging meteors and alien spacecraft. Of course that’s only half the mission. Once the astronaut is teleported aboard you must safely return him to the space station.”
Blood Lust: Price: $0.99
“You are a covert ops trooper, air-dropped into a remote jungle to investigate a crashed UFO, when unexpectedly you are faced with a bigger problem. A massive swarm of blood sucking MOSQUITOS! Fight for your life by smashing hordes of mosquitos before they suck all your blood! Watch your arm and kill them as they land! Keep an eye on your health, and don’t forget to check your hand!”
Jungle Crash Land: Price: $1.99
“EMERGENCY! You’re running out of fuel in the midst of the jungle! Use your rockets to clear the runway of obstacles before you touch ground. The popular web game is now FINALLY available for your iPhone / iPod Touch!”
8bit Games – Flying: Price: $0.99
“You sell an epoch-making game ‘Flying’ with the computer and make it big! You liberated by development busy every day are interested in the mystery of an interesting pyramid, and head for Egypt with a private airplane. After the long journey, you encounter the mystery in the pyramid?!”
Adventure
Dark Raider: Price: $7.99
“Outcast by society for his radical experiments, a brilliant scientist leaves his world behind, in search of acceptance. But he never expected to learn the truth. Long ago, in a world between worlds, the gods locked the secrets of immortality in a box, and hid the keys from civilization. To become a god, he must travel through time and space, fight ancient keepers of the soul keys, and retrieve the greatest treasure of all.”
SkillFly: Price: $0.99
“SkillFly: The lost city in the space! You are lost in an abandoned city in the space with tunnels and mazes… Escape from the city and find the exit in the shortest time avoiding collissions as much as possible. Wanna Try? You are going to have obstacles and entertaining puzzles before escaping from there.”
Arcade
World Archery Classic: Price: $0.99
“Do you like to compete with others? Here is a fantastic addictive shooting game. You can compare your score with others via the Ranking Server.”
GridLocked: Price: $0.99
“Traffic is building on the city streets. Driver fustrations are high. You control the traffic lights. Choose wisely when you decide what direction of traffic is to wait and the other to go. Don’t let stopped cars wait too long. See how long you can go before you are GridLocked!”
Romu: Price: $3.99
“A puzzle game that requires quick thinking and quick reflexes. Romu is based on the classic Shisen-Sho (a.k.a. Four Rivers) rules, but with a fast-paced gameplay completely different from its predecessors. Includes 32 levels in four different worlds, each with unique characteristics and tactics. There are four strategic tools to help you beat the clock and increase your score. Get it now and compete for top spots in the global leader board!”
Retap!: Price: $0.99
“How long will you last in a round of Retap? Like a game of Simon Says, repeat the patterns you see and echo the sounds you hear by tapping the flashing orbs in their correct sequence; Just the kind of minigame you need to pass the time! It sounds easy, but quickly gets challenging. You can choose from any of three difficulty levels and your scores will be tracked by a local leaderboard. It’s addictive and splendid for warming up your memory skills!”
Money Tree – Kids Coin Learning Game: Price: $0.99
“In this game the money tree is a cute and friendly looking tree that drops coins for kids to catch in a barrel. The barrel is piloted by one of 6 fun characters. Kids will have fun and learn to recognize the different coins and their values.”
Modulo: Price: $1.99
“The simple! Just rotate all the puzzle pieces to be the same way up – simply touch a puzzle piece to rotate it. Get all the puzzle pieces the right way up, and the puzzle is solved.The catch? Each puzzle piece can be connected to other puzzle pieces. When you rotate one puzzle piece all the connected pieces rotate rotate with it! The game has 180 puzzles, from the easy to the mind bending.”
World Flick Kick Classic: Price: $0.99
“Here is a fantastic addictive Flick Kick football game. You can compare your score with others via the Ranking Server.”
Board
Strongholds: Price: $2.99
“Action takes place in the near future when confrontation between two armory corporations turned into armed conflict. Your purpose is to construct the stronghold and destroy the enemy. However the enemy purpose is the same.”
ZooCortege: Price: $1.99
“Will you be able to solve Zogg the Frog’s challenge ? Zogg the frog make a selection of 4 funny animals. You have to guess the right combination. ZooCortege is a mastermind like game. With a funny ambience.”
LunchTime: Price: $0.99
“Lunchtime is an interesting intelligence puzzle game. This game is 3 modes(Easy, Normal, Hard) stage provide. Everyone enjoy the game. To test your intelligence.”
Guinea Pig Dice: Price: $1.99
“Guinea Pig Dice is a brand new game brought to you from the makers of Smooch! Guinea Pig Dice is a creative spin-off of the classic dice game Pig. You have two guinea pig dice which have six different guinea pig sides. Roll the dice and test your luck however, if you roll the Guineas On the Run all points earned during your turn are lost. Be the first one to 100 points to win Guinea Pig Dice! Guinea Pig Dice features unique dice roll names and scoring combinations, fun animations and has an intuitive AI with various difficulty modes. Play alone, play verses a friend or play verses the iPhone!”
Atomicity: Price: $2.99
“Atomicity is a very addicting transport puzzle game. The objective is to assemble the molecules shown using the atoms on the board. Sounds simple, huh? The part where this seemingly easy task gets more difficult, is that once an atom starts moving in one direction, it will continue moving until it hits another atom, or a wall.”
CornerChaos: Price: $0.99
“Roll balls into the grooved play area. Create groups of 4 or more of the same color. Groups of balls are removed from the game, leaving you more space to work with. Create cascades, and double groups to win more points! Whatever you do, don’t run out of space! Sit back and relax, as this is a game of organization, and logic. There is no need for fast paced action, you can play as fast or as slow as you like!”
Super Match: Price: $0.99
“Super Match is a classic memory match game. It would help kids developing their short-term memory and cognitive ability. Super Match is a fabulous looking entertainment game for kids. It is presented to you by iBokan, following a series of successful kid-oriented Apps. Kids would love it for its beautiful cartoon graphics and adorable sound effects. Adults would certainly find it attractive as well!”
Paper Ball – (Logic 3D football battle): Price: $1.99
“Fun unique logic game is a continuation of the classic football game on paper. The main goal of the game is to score the goal into the opponent’s gate. In doing so, it is necessary to build a defense so that opponent was not able to get to your gate. You can play against artificial intelligence or against another person. With a victory over the computer new variety of fields with their surroundings can be opened. The principle of the game is that on the field through to move the ball for a certain number of moves. If the number of available movement ends, the turn goes to another player.”
Narde: Price: $4.99
“Narde is the backgammon variant with extended game duration and more strategy-oriented positions. Checkers in narde may be moved only to open or friendly-occupied points, no hitting allowed. Moves from starting point can be done once for a dice roll. Exception is the first move in case of doubles which can not be played completely, in such case two checkers are allowed to play.”
Card
Math Game: Price: $0.99
“Aplusiphoneapps announces the release of their latest iphone app – Math Game, a wicked cool math flash card game! Math Game is a fun and educational game that is a new spin on old traditional math flashcards. This game is great for kids of all ages looking to improve or practice their math skills.”
WINCI: Price: $0.99
“WINCI is an app that allows you to keep the scores of the players during a game. It can be used to play cards or any other game that requires tracking players scores. You can use it in all those cases which you don’t have access to paper and pen.”
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Educational
My Spaceship Builder: Price: $0.99
“Create your own Spaceship! Your kids will have so much fun playing with this app. They can create thousands of different scenes by changing the spaceship look, backgrounds, meteorites and more! Once you have selected a category of accessories, use the Red button to browse all the available elements in it, you will see the scene updated in real-time.”
Mathematics Trainer Plus: Price: $0.99
“Answer arithmetical problems by entering digits with the numeric keypad.”
Match ‘em up – Words: Price: $0.99
“Match ‘em up is designed keeping preschoolers/kindergartners in mind. It is very ideal for kids between the ages 3 to 6. Match ‘em up is a wonderful game which is designed to encourage preschoolers to learn and identify words in a fun way by matching the words with the pictures. It is designed with a very simple layout. Kids just need to touch and drag from left to right to match the two picture with corresponding word. They get a visual clue of a line being drawn as they touch and drag to match them.”
Brain Fever: Price: $3.99
“Warm up your neurons! The best of brain-teasers, puzzles and IQ tests in one application! With its 20 activities, Brain Fever will severely test your mental capacities. Improve your memory, logic, mental calculation, spelling and spatial recognition! Regular training will make you progress very quickly.”
Brain Fever Letters: Price: $0.99
“Warm up your neurons! The best of brain-teasers, puzzles and IQ tests in one application! Brain Fever Letters will severely test your mental capacities. Improve your spelling and vocabulary thanks to simple but efficient games! Regular training will make you progress very quickly.” Also available in Logic, Geometry, Math, and Memory.
Miss Spell’s Class: Price: $0.99
“Miss Spell’s Class is an original word game that lets players test their spelling skills against the most commonly misspelled words on Dictionary.com. Players must quickly decide whether each of 20 words is spelled correctly or incorrectly, as speed and accuracy count to get to the top of the class!”
Operator: Price: $1.99
“Operator is fast-paced, math-based game that requires fast fingers and basic mathematical skills. You must choose the correct operator for a problem to score. The ultimate goal is to complete the problem set in the shortest amount of time.”
Basic Flash Card: Multiplication: Price: $0.99
“School success for a child is important for all parents. Basic Flash Card can help make memorizing math facts fun for your son/daughter. This simple program presents the math fact and then gives your son/daughter immediate feedback about their answer. This prevents them from learning the fact wrong.”
Family
Sleeping Beauty: Price: $0.99
“It’s time for a fairy tale. You probably all have heard or read the story of Sleeping Beauty. Specially for you we have prepared an animated version of the tale about a beautiful princess and a bad spell cast by an evil sorceress. Apart from the original story based on Charles Perrault’s fairy tale, we give you “King’s Dream” – an interactive story in which kids decide by themselves what happens next. Beautiful graphics and witty content will give your kids lots of fun and joy, and stop them falling asleep from boredom.”
Trixel: Price: $2.99
“Trixel is a deceptively simple puzzle game that’s easy to play and tough to master! You flip a set of colored tiles to match the pattern displayed in the top left of the screen. You have a limited number of moves to do it. As the game progresses you must increasingly think a few moves ahead. New obstacles will continually surprise and challenge you, as you unlock the 100 puzzles within! Trixel is for those who like to test their brain power and want to have fun doing it. Fans of Chess, Blocked, Sudoku, Parking Lot, Drop 7, Lights Out, Symbol 6 and other challenging ‘brain’ games will feel right at home.”
Aqua Quest: Price: $0.99
“Collect all the coins in this fun arcade game. Submit your score and compete against the rest of the world.”
iTone: Price: $0.99
“Do you hear images? Do you see sounds? Do you like finger painting? Have you ever wanted to paint sound? Now you can experience all of those wonderful joys right on your iPhone or iTouch. iTone is a program that allows you to paint sound with your fingers in glowing colored light.”
Music
World of Tunes: Price: $4.99
“Save the World of Tunes by orchestrating the Tuneys in defeating the invading alien overlords.”
Puzzle
PRESS CHECK: Price: $1.99
“PRESS CHECK is a designer ode to the old-school art of print plate alignment re-imagined as a challenge of speed and accuracy on your iPhone/iPod Touch. Show off your non-digital skills with levels ranging from the beginner 2-color set-ups to the expert 5-color jobs. Compete against virtual press operators worldwide with the international leaderboards for which to aim and judge your scores against. You’ll long for the sweet smell of ink and the hum of the press as you test your eye for perfect registration.”
Memory School: Price: $1.99
“Memory School is an educational and entertaining game for your little one. It’s your classic memory game utilizing the alphabet. Let your child’s fingers have fun matching the ABC’s while educating and exercising their mind.”
Escape (The Room): Price: $0.99
“Escape is a relatively simple concept. There are things hidden throughout the room which enable you to escape from the room. Search every inch of every part of the room to find clues to help you achieve freedom.”
Fruitcake: Price: $1.99
“Action puzzle where you swap adjacent fruits in order to create rows of three or more, trying to compete against the clock. Rows can be formed in any direction on a hexagonal field.”
bounce around: Price: $1.99
“The game board consists of an 8×8 grid of 8 brightly colored marbles. The object of the game is to match 3 or more of the same colored marbles in a row which are then removed from the board. Any pieces above the removed pieces fall down until no empty space is below them. Then, new pieces are pushed up from the bottom, filling the board back up.”
3D logic: Price: $2.99
“With 3D logic you get one of the most addictive games that has ever been created straight to your iPhone/iPod. Admire the fresh and stylish look while your brain explodes in the mental challenge of fifty tricky levels.”
Racing
ParaJumping: Price: $1.99
“Do you like jumps and courage? Hunter for actions that take your breath away? Now you haven’t to take parachute and rush to celestial distance! The idea of the game is simple – you chosen hero (of course under your direct guidance) should to be the first who will touch down, thereby he/she will gain more scores and will get much money than competitors. You will need money for treatment (i.e. for life growth). And no wonder, as parajumping – it is no joke.”
Role Playing
Kingdoms Live 10 Legend Points: Price: $0.99
“Start as a peasant and battle your way up to become the ruler of the mightiest kingdom in the Kingdoms Live world!” Note: Also available in 60 and 140 points.
Simulation
War Zone: Price: $0.99
“War Zone is a battle strategy game. Player will encounter 24 different battle fields and 4 stages. The game can be played in Battle Mode and Story Mode.”
iPSX: Fantasy Stock Exchange: Price: $1.99
“iPSX is the world’s first Fantasy Stock Exchange for the iPhone! Manage real-world stocks in real-time. Buy, sell, and watch stocks from the NASDAQ, TSX, NYSE, and AMEX, just to name a few! You have a $10 Million Portfolio to spend as you please. Strike it rich or lose it all, without risking a dime! Take advantage of graphs and articles to best inform you about the market and any particular company with the built-in viewer! View real-time historical data of stocks, shares, and dividends.”
Sports
iHoop: Price: $1.99
“Everyone enjoy hooping! Once you start, you’ll get hooked on the “non-stop” hoop action. With simple control just by rotating the iPhone or iPod Touch, anyone can have fun with this game.”
Flick NBA Basketball: Price: $4.99
“Real NBA players. Real NBA teams. Real Flick action! Compete in five individual events: 3 Pt. Shootout, Hotshot Arcade, Long Shot Challenge, H.O.R.S.E. and even a cool Ball Spin mini-game where you swipe to keep the ball going while tilting to maintain balance. Give a quick flick backwards and pop the ball into the air for double points! Choose your favorite NBA player and take the court against the computer or a friend. Line-up your shot, watch the clock and flick away! Do particularly well and you might even earn the trophy.”
Joe Barilla’s Pocket Hockey: Price: $1.99
“If you’re looking for more depth and skill than a quick game of air hockey, look no further. Players take turns trying to knock the puck into the net, using a system similar to pool or billiards. Body check your opponents out of the way, and fire the puck in! Play against the computer in one of three difficulty levels. Try the PAIN difficulty for a real challenge. School your buddy! Play head-to-head against a friend on a single iPhone or iPod Touch.”
Strategy
Word Crush: Price: $1.99
“If you are tired of all the Word Search, Scrabble, Crossword and Boggle like games and want a new challenge then Word Crush is for you. Multiple challenges with multiple levels makes it impossible to ever get tired of playing.”
Joe the Electrician (Electric Joe): Price: $0.99
“You are a unlicensed electrician working on getting your license done so that you can open you own shop. You will face different challenges for wiring cables to connect the battery to all the lights. You have to use all the pieces in order to be successful (no shortcuts!). In the easy mode, you have prefabricated pieces that are already in the right spot, all you have to do is to turn them to the correct position (touching them will rotate them clock wise). In the hard mode, you only get the information of how many connections each piece supports, but you don’t know to which side (top,bottom,right,left) the connections have to be. You have to touch the pieces to connect or disconnect them.”
Board@Work: Price: $1.99
“You’re entering the exciting, fast-paced world of whiteboard management. @Work strives to provide the smartest and fastest whiteboard management in the industry! Your job is to match, match, match! You get paid by matching three or more blocks of the same color or shape. Efficiency is key, and making the most of the blocks currently on the board results in a bigger payday and improves your chances of getting helpful office supplies.”
Trivia
Laughs: Price: $0.99
“Here we prepared a set of high-quality laughs. Some of them are even 30s long. The set includes short laughs, medium long laughs, long laughs, baby laugh and even a chimpanzee laugh! If you don’t want to choose any you can always play random. Somebody told you a joke which appears to be boring or you don’t get it? Avoid confusion and joke teller dissatisfaction and give him a laugh.”
Word
Scrabble Word Finder – Spanish, International: Price: $2.99
“The Scrabble Word Finder (Parablas Scrabble) is an application for finding and verifying words for use in games of SCRABBLE. This is the international Spanish version of the application, and it adheres to FISE (Federación Internacional de Scrabble en Español) rules, as well as the scoring values and letter set for SCRABBLE games sold outside North America. If you play the North American version of SCRABBLE, please purchase the correct version of this application for your set, which is named “Scrabble Word Finder – Spanish, North America.” Also available in Deutsche.
Hangman Classic: Price: $0.99
“Hangman is a classic word puzzle game. This hangman game comes with two classic themes bringing back your old memory.”
iPhone/iPod Touch
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Apple store have very intrasting games.I like apple store game very much.
There are my favorite games in apple store.
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