iOS Gaming Update 17 June 2011

Here is the latest batch of games to hit the iOS platforms.

Mower Ride for iOS devices.

Mower Ride is a hilarious high-speed racing game - entirely motion controlled, this turbocharged lawnmower takes players on a turf-churning thrill ride as it crashes through fences, speeds across perilous roads and swerves around the busy backyards collecting energy power-ups and trimming the shrubbery. Ramming rival riders into garden ornaments, outdoor furniture, water features, swimming pools and walls is the only way to keep on mowing and achieve the greatest garden-gouging distances. Mower Ride offers a side-splitting, high-octane racing game that puts the "agro" in "agriculture".

Players can send asynchronous challenges to their lead-footed friends, offering up a challenge to beat their mower-mounted distance, while an in-game Booster Store allows them to spend their hard-earned gardening gift to pimp out their power mower.

Mower Ride will be available for $0.99 / €0.79 / £0.59 on the App Store from 16th of June (please embargo until then) as an universal app for all iOS-enabled devices - iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

Great Little War Game HD 1.4 - Tons of New Features for iPad and Retina

UK based Rubicon Development today releases Great Little War Game HD 1.4 for iPhone 4 and iPad users. Combining comedy with strategy in 3D, this turn-based game has players engaged in a war with amusing enemies, sounds and special effects. The gaming challenge is still very real with planned attacks and defenses necessary. Nearly one million players have downloaded the game app since its release. The 1.4 update is a major one, with tons of new features to enhance user experience even further.

Rubicon has incorporated a ton of new features in this major 1.4 version update. Some of the new features include:
* Lavish iPad 2 graphics enhancements
* Skirmish mode
* Gamecenter Achievements
* Lots of extra free maps
* New 15 mission additional campaign
* Difficulty settings
* Facebook Connect
* Much more

Along with the myriad new features and functions, Rubicon has added masses of gameplay and usability tweaks for the ultimate user experience.

Device Requirements:
* Retina display iPhone, iPad
* Requires iOS 3.2 or later
* 33.4 MB

Pricing and Availability
Great Little War Game HD 1.4 is only $2.99 (USD)

Frogames announces TITUS for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a politician? Play the role of TITUS, an agoraphobic watchmaker who decides to achieve his dream of becoming the president of Wealland.
TITUS by Frogames is a dark and cynical political campaign simulator, full of low blows, corruption and 3D mini-games for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

Key features:
- 5 mini 3D arcade games.
- a Campaign mode where you will have to conquer your fears and face Desmond the mime to become President of Wealland.
- a simple Election mode.
- a direct access to the mini-games to practice and beat your own records.
- more than 30 achievements.
- an encyclopedia that provides game tips, descriptions of the characters you already met, and a map of Wealland.
- a somber universe featuring a uniquely gloomy atmosphere, with troubled characters, and eerie music.

TITUS is available on the Apple App Store for an introductory price of $1,99 until June, 30th.

Turtle Fly has landed in the iTunes App Store for iPhone and iPod touch

Turtle Fly has landed in the iTunes App Store for iPhone and iPod touch as another extremely fun title from j2sighte. You’re a turtle who can fly. Not with wings, but cola-powered jet-boosters attached to the turtle. Built specifically for Apple’s iOS devices, Turtle Fly offers an interesting storyline, fun visuals and easy touch controls. Upgrade the turtle with a stronger engine, boosters and other items to help him fly higher. There are 4 stories to be unlocked under certain requirements.

Features:
* 7 levels
* 4 stories
* Control by touch or by tilt
* Fun graphics
* Great physics
* Game Center integrated

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iOS 3.0 or later
* 9.0 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Turtle Fly 1.02 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

Must-Have iPhone Game Melon Truck Improves Game-Play with New Update

California based independent developer, Batuhan Akalin, has released Melon Truck 1.1 for his challenging yet entertaining game for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. As the Must-Have game critics are touting about, Melon Truck now provides variety of game-play enhancements with this new version. More melons to shoot, ability to track melons, and updated location of speed/angle indicators are just a few improvements that will have gamers talking about Melon Truck this summer.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iOS 4.0 or later
* 12.5 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Melon Truck 1.1 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

Bathtime Boogie Brings an Explosion of Color to the App Store

iOS game developers Dobsoft Studios have announced that their newest game Bathtime Boogie 1.1 has landed on Apple’s App Store. The quirky and off-beat vertical shooter was designed by Dobsoft Studios’ own Rowan Edmondson, formerly a designer on the team that created the wildly popular One Single Life. Dynamically changing gameplay, random special events and bosses, and difficulty scaling means every play is unique.

Features:
* Face off against the bathtub invaders in a frenzy of soap-slinging action, with the difficulty increasing all the way
* Five totally unique bosses and one extra special event mode that can show up at any time
* No two plays alike means endless replayability and countless hours of fun
* Openfeint and GameCenter integration provides leaderboards and achievements and ensures your bragging rights are all taken care of

Prepare to be addicted to the weird and wonderful world of Bathtime Boogie!

Device Requirements:
* iPhone 3GS or better, iPod touch 3G or better
* iOS 3.1.3 or higher
* 11.4 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Bathtime Boogie 1.1 is available now for $0.99 (USD) on the App Store, in the Games and Entertainment categories.

Hothead Games Drops Cell Bound into the App Store

Hothead Games today announced the release of Cell Bound, their latest game for iPhone and iPad. This simple and addictive puzzle matching game is available in the App Store now for $0.99.

In Cell Bound, players will be placed immediately in control of an important piece of science equipment – a sterile culture dish. Unfortunately, as soon as the dish is in the player’s hands it is subjected to contamination from a constant bombardment of colored cell structures.

Cell Bound has three different game modes to play, plus Game Center support:

Infinite Mode: The main mode, colored cells drop towards the center and explode when 5 like colors are connected. All of the cells can be burst using the smart bomb trigger in the center of the dish. More smart bombs can be accrued by racking up points.
Timer Mode: Gain as many points as possible in 1:30 minutes. There are no smart bombs, and for every 1,200 points, one more second is added to the timer.
Burst Mode: Cells that connect and are not the same color turn black and inert, obstructing the new cells.

Smith And Tinker And Marvel Entertainment Release Marvel Kapow!

Smith & Tinker, the Seattle-based mobile game company, and Marvel Entertainment have released Marvel KAPOW! 1.0, a casual action-game now available worldwide on the Apple App Store. Built specifically for touch-based mobile devices, the game puts the power of Marvel’s greatest Super Heroes at your fingertips. Marvel KAPOW! features 23 classic play levels, 3 boss levels, arcade mode, Game Center leader-board integration.

Players can slash with Wolverine’s claws, rebound blasts with Captain America’s mighty shield, capture with Spider-Man’s web and smite with Thor’s hammer as they vanquish an onslaught of cyber-bots based on Marvel’s greatest Super Villains. Marvel KAPOW! features 23 classic play levels, 3 boss levels, arcade mode, Game Center leader-board integration, plus continuous support and free content updates including the release of new hero powers and villain bots later this year.

Jack of all Tribes HD Deluxe Now Available on the App Store!

Jack Of All Tribes HD Deluxe is available for iPad for $6.99. In this game users navigate around a primeval world using a combination of strategy and time management gameplay. Users are tasked to help tribesmen set up their homes, create thriving villages, keep villagers happy with food, drinks and entertainment, and protect them from natural disasters and aggressive barbarians.

Travel to the past with Jack and rule a prehistoric tribe in this fun time management game with puzzle elements! Help fellow tribesmen set up their homes and create thriving villages. Keep villagers happy with food, drinks and entertainment; protect them from natural disasters and aggressive barbarians. Introduce new technology and become friends with the chief’s beautiful daughter. Find artifacts from the future to help Jack return to his time. Help the lovable tribesmen prosper and master your time management and task prioritizing skills in this charming and challenging game!

40 Mesmerizing levels
12 Types of buildings to construct
18 Artifacts to collect
Fascinating storyline
Original gameplay

A Long Way Home for iPad Lands in the App Store

Indie Developer Jonathan Mulcahy is pleased to introduce A Long Way Home 1.0 for iPad. You have been stranded 100 light years from Earth, can you survive the long way home? A Long Way Home is an action / physics / puzzle game set in space. Making you way through 100 levels across 10 stages you must jump from asteroid to asteroid collecting enough dark matter to open a portal to the next level.

Featuring:
* Game Center Leaderboards for each stage
* 100 Levels
* Physics Style Gameplay
* 3 Control Types (Accelerometer, Hot Zones and Onscreen Buttons)
* Stunning Graphics
* Fantastic Ambient Music

Device Requirements:
* Compatible with iPad / iPad 2
* iOS 3.2 or newer
* 60MB of space

Pricing and Availability:
A Long Way Home is available now on the iPad through the iTunes App Store for $1.99 (USD). Promo codes are available for qualified reviewers. Please specify the website or blog you represent when making your request.

GAMEVIL’s Skipping Stone Makes a Splash onto iTunes App Store

In the game, players use just a single finger to tap and keep their Skipping Stone bouncing along the water. Timing the taps just as the stone hits the water’s surface will make it skip higher. Sea creatures help and hinder along the way as players collect coins and items for bonus skipping boosts. Featuring colorful animated worlds, eye-catching effects, and achievements and leaderboards through Game Center, Skipping Stone is a simple yet addictive one-touch casual game for players of all ages.

Top Fuel Drag Racing Simulator for iPhone adds Apple’s Game Center

Procypher Corporation adds Apple’s Game Center to its popular Top Fuel Drag Racing Simulator version 2.0 for iPhone. Feel the need for speed? Then jump into the most realistic drag strip racing game available in the App Store and start driving a nitro burning top fuel funny car now. Race down a 1/4 mile drag strip in a 8,000 hp 280 mph funny car simulator while competing against your friends, family, and people from anywhere around the world.

Features:
* Extremely realistic functionality
* Real nitro burning race car sounds
* Speed adjusted moving roadway
* Functioning tachometer
* Functioning speedometer
* Manual transmission
* Reaction time display
* Final speed display
* Quarter-mile time display
And more!

If you have always loved fast cars and competing for the top position, but owning a real race car just wasn’t part of the big picture, then experience the thrill of racing and excitement of competion with our popular racing app Top Fuel!

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* 5.4 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Top Fuel Drag Racing Simulator 2.0 is $1.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.