Apple App Store iPad gaming update for the week of July 12-18, 2010

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.

Since the iPhone managed to grab most of the limelight, the iPad has had a relatively quiet week. Still, that doesn’t stop developers from releasing some interesting games for us to try out, so why not take a look at the latest titles available below? You know you want to.

What’s Free

Doodle Chaos

“Doodle Chaos is an experimental physics puzzler for the iPad. It’s part pool, part miniature golf, part physics puzzler, part… something else.“
Super MineSweeper HD Free
“The popular game Super MineSweeper is now on iPad. The whole user interface is re-made to take advantage of the iPad high resolution screen, the game play experience is now much better.”

Bowman HD

“Bowman is a highly addictive classical game. Even if you’ve never heard of it before, play it just once and you’ll be hooked.”
SuperFlood HD Free
“Super flood is a very addictive puzzle game. In addation to the classic square grids board, this game supports triangle & hexagon grids board, which is even more fun and challenging than the classic board.”

Air Hockey Extreme! Lite

“Have you ever imagined holding an air hockey table in your hands? Have you actually held such a table? Now you can do it with Air Hockey Extreme!”

Zoo Paradise

“Play Zoo Paradise, your own animal wonderland of penguins, polar bears, monkeys, dragons and more! Upgrade your habitats to attract more visitors. Keep them happy so they’ll spend more money and help you build a bigger, better, funner Zoo!”

What’s New

Action

3D Island War HD: Price: $0.99
“3D Island War HD is a simple and addicting game to bring you the fun on your iPad! The game logic is very simple. You only have nine bombs but you need to destroy all eight enemies on the two islands within limited time.”

Inkvaders HD: Price: $2.99
“In this fast and furious hand-drawn shooter, take on the alien horde in an addictive side-scrolling romp through a hilarious, “Mars Attacks!”-style battle for the fate of humanity.”

Phasers HD: Price: $4.99
“Fast-paced vertical scrolling shoot-em-up action! Hours of intense, fun-packed playing… 25 levels! Immersive-tilt graphics pull you into the game!”

Adventure

Eden’s Quest: Price: $6.99
“Eden Hunt, a young adventurer, goes on a quest to find the inestimable statue of Akua. To locate the precious treasure, you must help her solve over 100 riddles, open strange locks and master the rules of a mysterious local game…”

Little Metal Ball HD: Price: $3.99
“Little Metal Ball is the ultimate top-down full-tilt platform adventure and is now the perfect game for the iPad.”

Arcade

iBubble Shooter HD: Price: $1.99
“Prove your shooting skills by exploding these colorful bubbles! Be sure to do up with all your work before starting this game. Because bursting those funny bubbles will glue you to the screen and make you forget about any other stuff.”

Frog Feast: Price: $0.99
“It’s eating time for Freddy Frog and he is hungry! It’s your job to help Freddy eat by flicking Freddy’s tongue toward the Flies. Be careful though Freddy cant eat every thing that flies around him.”

Space Monsters: Price: $0.99
“The Earth is under attack from Space Monsters and you are the only hope in this classic Space Invaders style game.”

Space Invaders HD: Price: $4.99
“Experience the King of Shooting Games, the arcade hit that captured the hearts of legions of fans and took the world by storm! Use your cannon to defend Earth from waves of descending alien Invaders!”

Sheepy HD: Price: $1.99
“The original Sheepy is back, now on the iPhone and iPad! Play the game that has kept over 3,000,000 people counting on their fingers and toes. Count the sheep as they jump, peek, fly, and leap across the screen.”

FastBall 2: Price: $2.99
“In FastBall, you control a rolling ball. In his way, there are many obstacles and his only ability is to jump. This is where he needs you, you’ll make him jump by tapping the screen.”

Board

GameNight: Price: $0.99
“Gamenight is a live action multi-player board game that’s fun for all your friends and family. Choose from team challenges, one-on-one games and trivia questions.”

iGuess Who HD: Price: $0.99
“Each player starts the game with a board that includes cartoon images of 20 people and their first names. The game starts with each player selecting 1 character which can’t be changed. The object of the game is to be the first to determine which character opponent has selected.”

Card

Solitair GameBox: Price: $1.99
“Solitaire GameBox includes two classic solitaire games: Spider and Klondike. These two are the most popular games everyone like to play. FreeCell will be added in the next update. Buy it now before the price goes up!”

Casino

High Roller HD: Price: $2.99
“A Dice Poker Game is a slick, smooth playing dice game for the iPad. Similar in play to Yacht, Yahtzee™, Cheerio, General, Yot, High Roller is an easy to learn, fun to play dice game.”

Family

Domino Box HD: Price: $3.99
“Call your friends and family and put the iPad on the table, because you’re going to play dominoes!”

Puzzle

Ball & Maze Plus: Price: $1.99
“Does your left hand know what the right hand is doing? Then, Ball and Maze is the game for you. Come, give it a shot to see how precisely you can control and synchronize the motion of both your hands.”

Denki Blocks! HD: Price: $4.99
“Denki Blocks! is a puzzle game like no other. Slide sticky blocks around a board and join the same colours together to solve puzzles.”

KamaSuma HD: Price: $0.99
“If you like Sudoku or Kakuro, you’ll love KAMASUMA. Place numbered balls on the corner sites of trianglesquadrangles surrounding a central polygon. The numbers in each triangle/ quadrangle sum up to a central result, which you should make the same.”

Racing

Collision Course HD: Price: $0.99
“Experience a blazing ride through space as you dodge asteroids and navigate through the inside of space rocks on your way towards an epic collision with the planet earth!”

Drift Mania Championship: Price: $0.99
“Drifting is so popular because it brings all the best aspects of motor sports into one package. Highly skilled drivers control a high powered street car past its limit, sideways at high speed, burning rubber. It can’t get any better!”

Role Playing

Supermarket Mania HD: Price: $4.99
“Supermarket Mania is highly addictive casual time management game with several million players on PC and other platforms. Running a grocery store can be a lot of fun!”

Beauty Resort 2 HD: Price: $0.99
“In the multi-tasking time-management game Beauty Resort 2 HD, help salon-owner Heather build her spa business into a beauty empire. Explore five new worlds, upgrading and decorating your resorts as you go! Running a spa becomes an entertaining challenge as you juggle demanding customers, keep stations clean, and race to reach profit targets in time.”

Simulation

NOTHING

Sports

4 Strikers Hockey: Price: $0.99
“The only Air Hockey app of iPad whose multiple pucks dashes out, and 4 human plays are possible.”

Fly Fishing 3D HD: Price: $2.99
“Among sport fishing enthusiasts, “Fly Fishing” holds unmatched popularity, and we now introduce a full 3D game! In Fly Fishing, the newly recreated casting style is made to offer fully realistic experiences with the tilted iPad operation.”

Pinball Hockey: Price: $0.99
“Tired of all the same-old fashion games of table & ball? You’ve arrived at the right place in iTunes now!”

Strategy

Bowman War
“The Bowmen are back, and this time it’s war. Device a strategy and command your troops in battle! Rout the enemy and assert your dominance!”

Ghost in the Machine: Price: $1.99
“Just when you thought it wasn’t possible to contact the spirit world via iPad, here comes Ghost in the Machine! This isn’t your typical Ouija-type app – not only can you get multiple people involved like the old-school board game, but slick graphics combined with custom animations and creepy sound effects create an immersive experience. It’s just an iPad app… Or is it?”

Fastlane HD: Price: $3.99
“Fastlane HD is a turn based strategy game that allows you and up to three of your friends/family to compete against each other in a battle of wits and ambition, and prove who is the ultimate corporate trailblazer!”

Trivia

Find the Differences HD: Price: $1.99
“How fast can you find 5 differences between 2 photos?”