Apple App Store gaming update for the week of January 18 through 24, 2009

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.

Skipping the pleasantries, the biggest question this week is what Apple plans to unveil on Wednesday, January 27, 2010. Will it be the fabled Apple tablet? Will it be iPhone OS 4.0? Will it be the ability to purchase iMacs and Macbooks in pretty colors? Only Steve Jobs and company know for sure.

While we wait at least we can depend on Rock Band Lite, Sea Wolves, Hotel Tycoon, and Are you Alright? to keep our minds preoccupied.

What’s Free

Swapper-The rolling Ball machine Lite
“NEW!-LITE version of The Swapper- great mind challenging arcade game Now available, Enjoy briliant graphics, and fun of challenging yourself. Get the taste of full version and try SWAPPER LITE -ROLL AND SWAP FOR FREE!”

ROCK BAND FREE
“Play along with 26 tracks from legendary rock groups, including Smashing Pumpkins…30 Seconds to Mars…Lynyrd Skynyrd…Foo Fighters…Blink-182…Beastie Boys… Motörhead…Go-Go’s…Steve Miller Band…AFI… The Pixies…and George Thorogood & the Destroyers.”

Indian Rummy
“Say hello to Indian Rummy or Desi Rummy as the locals call it. If you are already familiar with Gin Rummy you are sure to like this spicier version of the same game. The only major differences from Gin Rummy are:

Game is played with 13 Cards. Player knocks when deadwood becomes zero on discard. Wildcards in use any hand without a pure sequence (sequence without wildcards) and a second life (a sequence with or without wildcards) has a deadwood of 80″

Takedown
“Takedown is an online, multiplayer wresting game. It combines the best features of a Massive Multiplayer Online game, and Live 1vs1 Fighting, to create an engaging, fun and deep playing experience.
You don’t have to be a wrestling fanatic to get or love Takedown. It appeals to anybody that likes playing fun games.”

Zombie Air Strike
“Kill zombies in dozens of the world’s cities OR play from your own location! Its the perfect game for long car trips! The map follows where you move in real life! If you go nowhere, neither does the map, so this mode isn’t for couch potatoes. And as long as you aren’t the driver, its the perfect game for long car trips or a great way to learn local street names. Location Services must be turned on so the game knows where you are. Sitting still? This is the mode for you, because the map will automatically move for you. Mid-screen is a convoy to protect. Is it the president, the prime minister, some diplomat? You decide! Your job is to protect that vehicle as it speeds through the city to safety. Location Services does not need to be on to play this version, so you can save on some battery drain.

Sherlock Holmes: The Game is Afoot FREE
“Put your examination skills to the test and solve mysteries based on the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mysteries. BONUS eBook downloads with every case you crack! Scour the world hunting for hidden clues in two immersive gameplay modes that let YOU become the detective. Test your skills of deduction within the various unique environments. Think its all “Elementary, my dear?” Download to find out! Created by Mobile Deluxe™, the trusted authority in casual games since 2003.”

Crazy Tornado Lite
“Absorb and destroy!! Top 10 cities are in your hand. Destroy all the famous landscapes over the world to accomplish these tough missions! To steal the rich resources of earth, aliens planted several powerful bio-tornado in the biggest cities of the earth. These tornados will absorb the energy from earth and use this power to destroy everything on earth! You have to move these bio-tornados around to gather enough energy and escape from earth, or the deadly air on earth will destroy the tornado!”

Labyrinth 2 Lite
“The creators of the original iPhone Labyrinth game bring you Labyrinth 2 Lite – the groundbreaking game taken to the next level. New game elements: Cannons, Bumpers, Multiple balls, Doors, Magnets, Fans, Resizers, Merry-Go-Rounds, Duplicators, Lasers and more. Up to 4 player multiplayer over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. Compete against yourself with a ghost ball showing your best run.”

Paradise Quest Lite
“The revolutionary Match-3 puzzle adventure that has captivated millions of online players is now available with exclusive features for your iPhone and iPod touch! PARADISE QUEST is the perfect game for a short break or hours of casual fun! Sit back, relax and enjoy!”

Blade Master: Prelude to Destruction FREE
“An action packed, great looking RPG/adventure game for your iPhone; a fully sized, great value gaming experience in the palm of your hand! Aramis, youngest son of a powerful warlord and king, overshadowed by his elder brothers, finally given the chance to prove himself on the eve of a great war. Become the fearless young warrior, journeying on quests both secret and great. On discovering ancient secrets, you could hold the key to winning the war raging on your borders… Heroism, betrayal, jealousy, love, action; this game has it all!”

Party Show Lite
“Do you want to spend your party time with more fun? Just try this Party Show. You can use this slot to play a game with your friends in a party. When you press the blue button, the slot will spin to assign a small task for you to show, such as telling a joke, singing a song and dancing. You and your friends can use it in turn to have a good time. It will be more interesting than just using a plain dice.”

Free Pinball: Super-Tilt Baseball
“Super-Tilt Baseball takes your pinball experience where no other game has dared go – a pinball table you can TILT! With Super-Tilt Baseball, you can control the direction of the pinball by tilting your iPhone or iPod Touch, but take care to avoid the fielders ready to turn your perfect hit into an out.

Based on classic baseball pinball machines, Super-Tilt Baseball is like no other pinball game on the iPhone with its outstanding 3D graphics and realistic physics. Swing for the fences and hit the ball out of the park for a home run, or drive the ball to one of the targets to advance the runners and score even more runs. The game plays just as a regular baseball game does with 3 outs to an inning.

The physics will give you the sense that you are playing a real pinball machine. Bumpers snap the ball across the table just as real pinball machine bumpers do. Super-Tilt Baseball gives you the control to pull the plunger back precisely for spectacular skill shots. You can even adjust pinball table angle to get faster action.”

Aargon Lite
“A mind-twisting laser and logic game. This ultra-addictive light puzzle game will test your skills on over 20 mind-bending puzzles. Enjoy this slick new iPhone version of the critically-acclaimed PC game Aargon Deluxe by Twilight Games.”

Things You Can Hear Lite
“Here is a fun game for children that will keep them quiet as they listen for the sounds. They have to match the sound to one of the pictures shown. There are cute graphics that match the game play. If the kids missed hearing the sound, shake the phone to play the sound again.”

Yummy! Lite
“Yummy! is one of the most exciting action-style games for iPhone. Gameplay is simple, but very haunting – your task is to save the yummy from everlasting attacks of swarms of hungry flies. The game is deeply socially integrated, so you can make presents for your friends in Facebook, feed your achievements to your Facebook wall, send e-mails with presents – all this in addition to online scores and awards.”

Monsblaster
“A fresh and cheery matching game with colorful monsters featuring special effects and a game play system for your fun. Try it and find yourself wrapped up in its flow! Don’t forget to check how good you are at our world ranking site!”

Phoenix Emperor – Choose your Destiny
“Quest and battle your way through the realm of the Phoenix Emperor while gaining power, land, and prestige. Your empire awaits – build your legion!”

Pi’s Journey
“This is an educational game about Number Sets, a Mathematics topic of 5th/6th grade. However, it’s recommended to all ages. The main app’s proposal is to help the users to distinguish the Number Sets and to recognize the main properties of the numbers. The game tells the story of Pi, a number who needs to find the truth about his identity. To make his dream come true, you need to help him selecting the falling numbers with the correct sets.”

What’s New

Action

Sea Wolves: Price: $0.99
“Sea wolves is a game based on iphone and ipod touch, and it is very easy to play. participants will tilting the device to avoid the attack from the enemy, and tap on the screen to attack. different attack angles depends on different tap spot.with our reward system, participants will have score from defeat the enemies ,then To level up the battleship by use the scores. This game offers a challenge with different levels, get prepared!”

Forest Climbing: Price: $0.99
“This is an interesting action game. Click the screen to launch the carrot, which makes the rabbit jump. The higher the rabbit jumps, the higher score you will get.”

Eveningstar: Price: $1.99
“Eveningstar pays homage to your favorite sci-fi shoot-em-up games while sporting realistic physical forces in interaction with the environment, and the innovative tactile weapon-system from which it derives its name! Eveningstar plays over 9 unique levels of stunning detail populated with massive monsters, perplexing puzzles, evil enemies and dynamic danger. Eveningstar is a game of skill, as well as a game of brutal action: learn to control the physical force of the Eveningstar weapon to interact with the environment to defend yourself and to open new ways forward, but rely on a trigger-happy finger to buy yourself time to do so!”

iShooter Pro: Price: $0.99
“This app lets you shoot planes.”

Yummy!: Price: $0.99
“Yummy! is one of the most exciting action-style games for iPhone. Gameplay is simple, but very haunting – your task is to save the yummy from everlasting attacks of swarms of hungry flies. The game is deeply socially integrated, so you can make presents for your friends in Facebook, feed your achievements to your Facebook wall, send e-mails with presents – all this in addition to online scores and awards.”

Mortal Skies – Modern War Air Combat Shooter: Price: $1.99
“1944, You are one of the last pilots to stop an invading hostile superpower. Will you succeed to destroy them and turn the tide of World War 2? Mortal Skies is a Classic Shoot Em Up arcade action game with action packed gameplay and awesome graphics. Discover this fast paced shoot em up action game with hours, even days of fun. Collecting all achievements will keep you challenged to unlock extra planes and a bonus level.”

Adventure

Secret of the Lost Cavern Episode 3: Price: $0.99
“Strange symbols found while hunting remind Arok of an encounter with a charismatic traveler a long time ago. In order for him to find his long-forgotten friend, the most brilliant painter of Prehistoric times, Arok begins a long and perilous journey.

Play as Arok and enter a fascinating and bewitching Stone Age adventure. Learn about Prehistoric life, follow the path of your mentor and work with him to recreate the paintings of the renowned Lascaux Cave.Venture through a wild time and decipher the symbols left by our ancestors. Hunt, fish, cut stones, paint animated frescoes and take part in mysterious shamanist ceremonies to win your place among the Lascaux Cave artist tribe.”

Necromancer Rising: Price: $4.99
“Necromancer Rising is a huge game with 50 levels of excitement and adventure. Running on the latest build of the SouLEnginE it also looks amazing. This is a FULLY EXPLORABLE fps. You are the last remaining Battle Priest of the king’s army. Your family has been slaughtered buried and their bodies robbed from their grave. Your task is to travel down into the Necromancer’s lair and destroy his generals and minions. As you proceed you will regain your former strength and some day be able to destroy the necromancer himself!…”

Broken Sword: Director’s Cut: Price: $6.99
“Paris in the Fall… a brutal murder at the Palais Royale. When Nico Collard is invited to interview statesman Pierre Carchon, she finds herself inextricably drawn into a terrifying conspiracy. One of the all-time classic adventures, multi BAFTA-nominated ‘Broken Sword: Director’s Cut’ pitches sassy journalist Nico Collard, and intrepid American George Stobbart into a mysterious journey of intrigue and jeopardy. Guide George and Nico on their globe-spanning adventure, exploring exotic locations, solving ancient mysteries, and thwarting a dark conspiracy to reveal the secret truths of the Knights Templar.”

Arcade

Pirate Race: Price: $1.99
“Pirate Race is a fun game where you use your Pirate Ship to find hidden treasure. You need to find as much treasure as possible. The treasure is moving around your screen so you need to use your Pirate Skills to catch them all.”

Drop Ball: Price: $0.99
“Grip your iPhone, handling the falling ball, you must hit the ball on the ground. Touch your screen, eagle drop the ball. You can use your own picture from Photo album. According to the hitting angle, You get more points. Every session allowed to 15 limit balls. If you exceed the 700 point or hit the center of ball, You get one ball more. Be careful! Your ball hit the mine on the flying stick, you loose your points.”

The Great Wall: Price: $0.99
“Great Wall is a breakout style game with many scenic backgrounds depicting the Great Wall of China. Currently there are 10 levels with more in the next expansion. Great Wall utilizes the tilting functionality of the iPhone to control the paddle. The angle of the ball is affected by how the ball hits the paddle. You can pause the game at any time by tapping once on the screen. Tapping it again will allow you to resume the game. A high score screen will keep track of the 10 highest scores. Have fun and let me know what you think.”

Escape: the space mission: Price: $0.99
“Lots of small and big planets are rushing to you. Head off the collision with the planets and defense the spaceship by controlling it. Be careful! You don’t have any weapons. Escape from space with your spaceship! It’s your mission. You can select one of 3 types of spaceships. Good luck!”

Corporate Crackdown: Price: $0.99
“This recession is causing companies to crack down on slacking employees. If you don’t get this company back on its feet and it’s employees back to work, it’s you who will be out on the street looking for a new job!”

Arrowz: Price: $0.99
“Arrowz is a must have app for all the archery lovers.
Blast all the Balloons to move to next level. Remember this is a strategical game save your arrows for other levels. Postion the archer by dragging him up and down. Double-Click on the archer to shoot an arrow.”

CupidStrikes: Price: $0.99
“How far would you go to show your love to your valentine? Would you reach for the sky?… Bring down a star maybe? Well, let’s save you the trouble… because we have everything planned out. After a lot of persistence, Cupid has agreed to lend you his bow for a day to win adorable gifts for your sweetheart. From candy bars to diamond rings… aim Cupid’s bow at the various gifts floating in the air and strike them with an arrow to win. Watch out for heart breakers, though, as they result in loss of a heart!”

Space Guy: Price: $0.99
“You are Space Guy. Your mission is to stop alien invaders from shrinking your planet by harvesting all it energy! SAtay vigilant, close the enemy wormholes and shoot the monsterous invaders! There are Power Ups for you, the planet and some lil’Buddies orbiting the globe can help you smash those creepy beasties from beyond! Space Guy is the last line of Planetary Defense!”

Glow Shooter: Price: $0.99
“Glow Shooter is an exciting adventure that looks great. It’s easy to pick-up by anyone. Yet challenging, that has players battling for top spots on the leaderboards.”

iMole: Price: $0.99
“The Classic game “Catch the Mole” improved. Fruits, Bonus, Explosions and Watches that give you the opportunity to enhance the time and the record points and clear Moles able to set free the Moles got. The Mole’s home exit will become more and more during the game. Movement and velocity will change continuously and each game will be different. A game for all, from little child to more in age.”

Board

Watermelon Chess: Price: $0.99
“Watermelon Chess (known as Xi Gua Qi in China) is a two-player abstract strategy game. The object of the game is to capture the opponent’s pieces and reduce their numbers to two.”

Card

Reiner Knizia’s Money: Price: $1.99
“Money is a fast-paced and addictive card game based on the original tabletop eurogame release by Reiner Knizia. You start the game with six bills of random currency. Your goal is to concentrate your reserves into just two or three types of currency before the game ends. To do so, you must spend the money you already have. It takes money to make Money! Though Money is one of Reiner Knizia’s deepest (and richest) card games, it’s all been carefully fit into this iPhone release. Recolored bills make it easy to read your currency. Simple gestures allow you to examine your own hand and the bids of your opponents. Everything is animated, for a colorful play experience. Finally, six different AIs, each with their own personality, help make every game unique. You can slowly discover the AIs’ strategies to improve your chances of winning. Money is the first release in RPGnet’s MobileEuroCard series, all of which share common gestures and animations, making it easy to dive into any game as soon as you’ve learned your first.”

Secret of Lost Pyramid: Price: $0.99
“Ancient maya pyramid keeps its secrets. You have to help archaeologists to find the store treasures. To get there, you need to challenge ancient pyramid guards and win 41 jade stones fighting against them in the ancient card game.”

TriPeaks Explosion: Price: $1.99
“Come see why people call this the most addictive version of Solitaire there is. And now presented in the most fun way on iPhone or beyond, TriPeaks Explosion just raised the bar. See for yourself.”

Casino

Slots Megapack 2: Price: $2.99
“Save 50% over buying the 3 slot games separately! Games included are Monkey Money, Dragon Dollars and Totem Treasure 2.

Monkey Money: The cheeky monkey grins his way to huge wins in Monkey Money! Can you win the Jungle Jackpot? Try it now and see!

Dragon Dollars: Enjoy an adventure in the mystical East with Dragon Dollars Slots. Dragon Dollars has two entirely different free games features and the bonus Jade Jackpot!

Totem Treasure 2: Totem bonuses abound and the mystical Golden Wolves may award you the biggest treasure of all – the Wampum Jackpot! Once again the totem smiles upon your wins.”

Dice

NOTHING

Educational

Aefo Alfie: Price: $1.99
“Alfie’s at it again! That irrepressible adventurer has set out to see the sights of Europe and America, and you’re along for the trip. The only problem is, Alfie can’t seem to go anywhere without getting himself lost! Please help Alfie as he visits more than 30 of the world’s top attractions. Remember – Alfie is likely to get lost in the same place more than once!”

Find me! for kids: Price: $0.99
“In this game, your child will have fun looking for objets hidden among many others. With 5 grid sizes et 3 levels of difficulty, the last one with similar objects but small differences, this game will develop the visual skills and sense of observation of your child. Your child will also appreciate the beautiful graphics, animations and sounds. This game is part of our education game collection “learning is fun”. Visit our web site for more info.”

Family

Things You Can Hear: Price: $0.99
“Here is a fun game for children that will keep them quiet as they listen for the sounds. They have to match the sound to one of the pictures shown. There are lots of sounds to challenge your children. There are cute graphics that match the game play. If the kids missed hearing the sound, shake the phone to play the sound again. ”

Music

NOTHING

Puzzle

Isaac Newton’s Gravity: Price: $3.99
“Challenge yourself with the amazing physics puzzles in Isaac Newton’s Gravity! Arrange your objects to hit the trigger and win! Make as many attempts as you want, but cleverness and creativity are key. Need help with one of the 50 brain teasing levels? Isaac Newton himself is there to provide you with hints. Download additional levels, create fantastic new levels, share achievements on Facebook or challenge your friends! Sharpen your wits with Isaac Newton’s Gravity!

PuzzleSciFi: Price: $0.99
“PuzzleSciFi allows you to create your own puzzles based around a SciFi Movie theme (from the 60′s and 70′s). First you select an image from the 20 images included with this fun interactive app. Then you cut your image into puzzle pieces…now your ready to scramble the pieces and try to solve your new puzzle. This app is filled with entertaining audio effects that makes the whole process so much fun!”

i-Quest: Price: $0.99
“It’s a cube elimination game which is simple but has many interesting props. You will have a very nice leisure-time by playing this game.”

Arctic Games: Price: $0.99
“Arctic Games is a fun-filled, fast paced and challenging interactive trade off game that allows a single player to swap winter games’ icons in order to make a three in a row set. While getting three in a row causes the player to remove the set and earning points, getting more than three also removes the group and earns the player more points. Arctic Games encourages matching and strategy thought processes as the player is having fun building sets. In order to advance through the levels, the player must earn points while moving arctic icons left or right and up and down. Each level progressively gets more challenging. To advance through the levels, players must earn an incrementally escalating amount of points.”

Eat Meat: Price: $0.99
“Almost all of us are experienced in the world of games from a wonderful start of Brick games. It not only increases your IQ level but fasten up your approach to different solutions, thats why it is still popular among everyone belonging to any age. Our designed Blocks game got a whole new idea of SEA Experience to increase your curiosity every time you start to play. Enjoy it.”

Mine Blast: Price: $0.99
“Mine Blast puts you in the role of miner who is charged with extracting valuable gems. Unfortunately all they gave you are explosives! Described as a unique and devilishly addicting puzzle game that requires some good tactical thought. Observe, strategize and carefully position each explosive within a mine’s pit to blast all of the gems free. Careful though… Not enough of a blast and each gem will stay wedged within the rock. Too many simultaneous blasts and you may just shatter the gems to pieces!! Dislodge all of the gems in a pit and you’ve completed it. Complete a pit and you collect all of its gems… Collect enough gems to open new mines. Each mine offers a different set of challenges and options to solve.”

NeonTrek Touch: Price: $0.99
“NeonTrek Touch – guide our hero through the neon maze on his way to freedom in this cutting-edge puzzle/strategy game. To find the exit, you need to locate the different-colored neon and transform yourelf…but don’t take too long: the challenges are timed.”

iNutty: Price: $0.99
“iNutty is a side scrolling platform puzzle game where the player does not control the character but the environment around him – this mechanic is similar to God games. The character is controlled by the AI. He will run in order to reach a certain goal. You must use certain objects to slow down the character. The character will have certain attributes (strength, agility and intelligence). There will be pre-defined characters which have different points towards each attribute. Each level will start with one of these characters. These attributes will govern the characters reaction to a trap, obstacle or an event created by the player. Most of the objects in the game are standard everyday usable objects. Their use however is different. Objects can also be combined with others to create unique results. This, however, is not applicable for all objects. Your goal is to make sure that the character does not reach by the preset time. Learn and master all the combos and specialties to achieve the best score you can get. Remember, the more time you delay the character, the more score you will get.”

Runestone: Price: $1.99
“The object of the game is to fill the runestone with runes. Each rune must be placed adjacent to another rune that is already on the runestone. In addition, the rune must match all adjacent runes by either color and/or shape. The only exception is the Griffen rune which is wild and can be placed anywhere on the rhinestone.”

Twins Snakes: Price: $1.99
“Original puzzle game. Snake eats the berries and grows up more and more. But all is not so simple as it seems – he has a crazy brother. You are controling the cute little green snake, who absorbs berries scattered everywhere on the playing field, grows more and more, filling his body as a result almost the entire screen. His crazy brother does the opposite. For eaten berries you get points. Creep, eat and grow, but the main thing – do not eat your tail and each other in the end!”

Racing

Comet Racer: Price: $0.99
“Prepare for wild races inside abanadoned mining rocks and comets throughout the universe! Race against the clock or your own shadow through squiggly mazes packed with power-ups, secret passages and hidden items.”

Caribbean Racing: Sailing: Price: $0.99
“Finally real sailing regatta on iPhone and iPod, worldwide competition trough online high score ranking, each race with changing weather conditions, full boat control, animated sea. Race against time and compare your results with competitors.”

Role Playing

NOTHING

Simulation

Are You Alright?: Price: $0.99
“Are you Alright? is a unique and fun time management game. Our main character, Chloe, is a brilliant doctor that strongly believes the medical machines invented by her dad will bring great benefits to a lot of patients around the world. She continues to work at hospitals in different countries to demonstrate the machines so that they can be widely used and recognized. Player will play as Chloe that works with a lot of different patients in the ER. She needs to have good time management skills in order to treat all patients before their health points disappear so that the hospital will be rewarded with high prestige.

Hotel Tycoon: Price: $1.99
“There are four virtual cities which has their own features.
In the start, you have a small hotel and some amount of money. You can buy an empty real-estate in the market, and build a new hotel. As an owner, you are supposed to hire employees, advertise your hotels, make promotions, start services, renovate rooms. You can adjust the room price day by day. Don’t forget pricing up the fare during the special season! The more export you are, the sooner you can make money to build better hotels. It’a very important to hear from your guests. You can also sell your hotel on the market.”

Sports

Table Tennis – ZigZagGame: Price: $1.99
“Exciting and successful background noise when listening to people’s joy when you fail to sigh, unfortunately. Feeling can be applied to the actual elasticity of the ball is a Table Tennis game Ting devices.”

Strategy

Sparta 301: Price: $1.99
“The second Persian invasion of Greece (480-479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece. The King of Sparta collect 301 warriors（Queen included）preparing to fight with the Persian invaders at Thermopylae.”

Trivia

Pro Basketball Trivia: Price: $4.99
“Please note that this application is in NO WAY associated with the NBA or any Professional Basketball team. Test your knowledge of your favorite team. With over 1400 Trivia questions from 14 different teams. Buy now and keep enjoying the FREE upgrades. We are in the process, team by team of adding questions to this huge database. Every time we get a new team done we will upload a new update to Apple. Do not miss out on the great value, as we add more teams we will have to increase the price. Act now and save!”

Word

Lexo: Price: $2.99
“Lexo – the fun, challenging and addictive word game for every occasion. Unscramble the mixed up letters to find the hidden word. 4 game modes and 3 difficulty levels make Lexo ideal – whether you want to warm up a sluggish brain or face a more serious challenge.

Lexo features 4 game modes to suit every situation. In Endurance, solve as many words as you can in a reducing time limit. When you have only a few minutes to spare, play Against The Clock and solve as many words as possible in 3 minutes. To test how fast your brain’s working, see how long it takes you to solve 5 words in Time Trial. Prefer a purer challenge? With no score or time limits? Play No Pressure.

Lexo’s words have been manually reviewed and graded into 3 difficulty levels so you can select just the right level of challenge for any particular moment. The Easy level contains shorter and more common words, whilst the Hard level contains longer or more unusual words.”

Country Music Crossword: Price: $0.99
“Country Music Crossword lets you play 29 crosswords featuring hit country songs and musicians from the 80s, 90s, and today. Our game gives you one to three songs that have charted in the country top 100 and then asks you the name of the artist or group. We’ve also included one puzzle for with trivia questions from the best westerns TV shows of all time.”

Deduce: Price: $2.99
“Deduce is a game of deduction (and a small element of luck) played with six letter words. You are challenged to deduce a mystery word by exercising both your vocabulary skills and your ability to make logical inferences.”

iPhone/iPod Touch Links

Appletell: [Free apps roundup for January 22nd, 2010] [Macintosh/iPhone software update roundup - January 22, 2010] [Appletell reviews SEED 1: Rise of Darkness for iPhone, iPod touch]