Get your wallets ready! The iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad are about to get a major influx of high-quality games for the AppStore as the Christmas season kicks into high gear.
This week there are a whopping 12+ games for you to get your grubby mitts on, and they will cost a pretty penny indeed if you plan on getting several of them.
On tap for this week: Infinity Blade, Puzzle Quest 2, Illusia, Dead Rising: Mobile, TXT Fighter, Pogo Games, A Moon for the Sky, Hero Project, Jenga, Pirates vs Ninjas vs Zombies vs Pandas, Monopoly for iPad, Eternal Legacy, Dungeon Hunter 2, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit for iPad, Assassin’s Creed: Altair’s Chronicles HD, Snood for iPad, A Moon for the Sky HD, Hero Project for iPad, Hooga HD and Jenga HD. PHEW!
Here’s the list of this week’s releases:
Infinity Blade
Price: $6
Developer: Chair/Epic Games
For untold ages, the God King has ruled with an iron fist – his power is incalculable; his followers, legion. Now you must journey to the Dark Citadel to battle his Titans, one by one, until you face the tyrant himself. As it has been for all in your bloodline, this is your birthright – to free your people from an endless legacy of darkness. The immortal can be vanquished – but only if heart, mind, and steel are one.
The first mobile game powered by Epic’s cutting-edge Unreal Engine 3 technology, Infinity Blade takes handheld gaming to new heights with gorgeous visuals, adrenaline-fueled battles and advanced character progression in a fully 3D castle realm.
Features:
DYNAMIC SINGLE-PLAYER CAMPAIGN: Spectacular 3D characters and environments powered by the award-winning Unreal Engine 3 bring to life the story of a lone knight’s pursuit to save civilization.
RESPONSIVE AND INTUITIVE TOUCH CONTROLS: Attack, dodge, block, and cast devastating spells – all with the simple swipe of a finger.
SIMPLE NAVIGATION: Easy to use, tap-to-move controls enable players to effortlessly navigate and explore the castle realm while searching for collectable items such as treasure, swords, shields, armor and other magical objects.
DEEP CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION: Dozens of Swords, Shields, Helmets, Armor, and Magic Rings to acquire and master – leveling up your character and increasing Attack, Health, Shield and Magic skills.
GAME CENTER: Achievements and Leaderboards
COMING SOON!: New Areas to conquer! Multiplayer! New Swords, Shields, Helmets, Magic Rings, and Enemies!
Puzzle Quest 2
Price: $10
Developer: Namco
Escape to a puzzle game fantasy world filled with amazing creatures, powerful weapons, and challenging minigames! Addicting Match 3 gameplay is blended seamlessly with immersive role playing in this sequel to the award-winning Puzzle Quest! Jump right into the action and customize your character with any one of four classes, each with different skills and abilities. Gain experience and earn treasure as you progress through the adventure, unlocking new spells and harder Match 3 challenges! Are you a brave enough hero to reclaim the once peaceful village of Verloren from the evil clutches of the demon Gorgon?
Illusia
Price: $5
Developer: GameEvil Inc.
The makers of ZENONIA have extended to a new side scrolling casual action RPG containing all the core elements of traditional role playing games presented in visually appealing anime style graphics. Explore through quests, refine your gear, and battle your way to unravel the secrets behind the mysterious tower of ILLUSIA that nobody has entered before! Annihilate evil and preserve good, on your adventure of restoring peace to the land of Aztaran…
Features
SEVEN WONDERS OF ILLUSIA: Journey through the seven distinctive colorful stages of ILLUSIA’s picturesque environment.
MULTIPLE MODES FOR EVERLASTING FUN: Enjoy the action of Rush Mode and Mission Mode in conjunction with Normal and Hard Mode.
UPGRADABLE CLASSES & SPECTACULAR SKILLS: 14 different affiliates of fighter and magician class each possess active, passive and buff skills.
VISUALLY IMPRESSIVE CUSTOMIZATION: Transform your character from head to toe from the vast selection of weapons and armors.
Dead Rising: Mobile
Price: $5
Developer: Capcom
Frank West, a freelance photojournalist on the hunt for the scoop of a lifetime, pursues a juicy lead to a small suburban town only to find that it is being overrun by zombies!
He escapes to the local shopping mall thinking it will be a bastion of safety, but it turns out to be anything but. It’s a true struggle to survive the endless stream of enemies, but with full reign over an entire shopping center, Frank can utilize anything to fight off the flesh-hungry mob.
Features
If you fall to the shambling hoard you can send out a distress call via Facebook or Twitter to your friends.
If your friends revive you, they will get extra bonus point. If they don’t you can rise as a “NAMED ZOMBIE” in their game. Help each other to survive in this nightmare!!
TXT Fighter
Price: $1
Developer: Chillingo
How’s YOUR Txtnique? It’s the fighting game with a twist. This unique Text-‘em-Up is frantic-fun and improves your typing skills! Brawl against your friends in multiplayer VS Mode! He who types smarter, faster and more accurately wins!
Features
ROUND ONE…TYPE!: TXT Fighter is a beat ‘em up with a difference, all your moves are initiated by typing the words on screen. Not only is it raw fighting fun, but it is also a great way to improve your texting abilities; TXT Fighter teaches you to type faster and improves your spelling.
VS MODE: Once you’ve mastered your skills on a keyboard, bring them to your friend’s iPhones, iPod touches or iPads using the integrated Bluetooth technology. Hold out for a super move to bring your friends fighter to their pro ’verb’ ial knees!
CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER: With 7 unique super characters and 6 beautiful, animated stages in arcade mode (plus one secret stage), 2 awesome mini games, loads of achievements and unlockables, and live head to head action over Bluetooth connection, TXT FIGHTER offers huge play-time. TXT Fighter is MADE for the soft keyboard of the iPhone and iPod Touch.
DEEP ARCADE STORY: The action is centered on beating each character’s personal rival AND everyone’s nemesis, the deadly Master Wu, who has wronged everyone, one way or another. Start with El Pulpo or Amelie and through challenging each character, Special moves, new characters and other bonus content are unlocked. Sometimes it won’t be obvious how to unlock that special move, and part of the fun is figuring it out!
CRYSTAL AND GAME CENTER INTEGRATION: TXT Fighter comes with a self-explanatory How-To as well as full Crystal integration that provides players with social networking capabilities (Facebook and Twitter) as well as challenges, leaderboards and achievements.
Pogo Games
Price: Free
Developer: EA
5 GREAT POGO GAMES IN 1 FREE APP! For the first time on iPhone & iPod touch, enjoy favorite puzzle, word, and card games like Poppit!, Word Whomp, Turbo21, Mahjong Safari, and Sweet Tooth 2! Join millions of people already playing Pogo games – and play for FREE!
Features
CHALLENGE FACEBOOK FRIENDS & CHECK OUT LEADERBOARDS: Your Pogo Profile is the same on Pogo.com, Facebook, and iPhone/iPod touch. Challenge your Facebook friends to match your personal bests and see how you stack up against them on the leaderboards.
EARN TOKENS, RANKS, AND MORE!: See your token totals grow as you play. And for a LIMITED TIME ONLY, take on WEEKLY BADGE CHALLENGES!
LOOK AT THE POPULAR GAMES YOU GET!: For hours of casual fun on your iPhone or iPod touch, you can now enjoy…
ARE YOU A CLUB POGO MEMBER?: Your Club Pogo membership gives you 100% Ad-Free gameplay, just like on Pogo.com and Facebook!
A Moon for the Sky
Price: $1
Developer: Bulkypix
Taking the lead in the new breed of drawing games, A Moon for the Sky, has the player draw lines which effect on-screen objects – namely a moon which the player is trying to fling back into the sky.
STORYLINE: At the dawn each new millennium, Astrolunia sees its Moon die and the world is thrown out of balance. The goal of the game is to safely loft a new moon to take its place in the heavens. It may sound simple enough, but, well, like all good physics games, the challenges in store for you will keep you coming back for more time and again.
SIMPLY ADDICTIVE: A Moon for the Sky is a pick up and go game, fun to play either when you have a few minutes to kill, or to take on the 18 level saga. The game has two qualities that make it very addictive to play: it’s simple and it’s aggravating.
As you progress through the 18 fun levels you find more and more obstacles around which you have to maneuver through to secure the new moon into its orbit. Or, take on the Endless Mode to challenge and track the progress your friends or even the whole world on the leaderboards to see who is the best at raising the Moon up to the sky.
Features
Hero Project
Price: Free
Developer: Glu
“We’ve seen the future. Something is coming…” Hero Project, 7th Foundation, MMLXI
Welcome to the HERO PROJECT, rookie – we need your help! My name is Captain Midnite, I’m a member of Parliament – the PARLIAMENT of HEROES, twelve strong, standing together against the inevitable tide of mankind’s dark destiny. We created the HERO PROJECT so you can help us save the world…
This is a world in crisis, a crisis foreseen by few, and understood by none – until now. We must take ACTION! No more cities in flames or destroyed by angry mobs! No more evil-doers taking our valuable, precious stuff! No more kittens inexplicably stranded in trees! It’s time to make a STAND – join the HERO PROJECT and stamp out super-villainy FOR GOOD!
The time is NOW. Let your inner Hero loose and we WILL save the world, second-by-second, street-by-street, kitten-by-kitten…
Features
Jenga
Price: $3
Developer: NaturalMotion
The official Jenga game is here! Designed in consultation with Leslie Scott, the original creator of Jenga, Jenga for iPhone/iPod touch lets you take the tower building experience anywhere.
Features
REALISTIC PHYSICS: Real-time 3D physics simulation, authentically recreating the behavior of a real wooden Jenga tower. Each block is realistically affected by the surrounding blocks, recreating the same strategic depth of the original game.
TOUCH CONTROL: Anyone who’s played Jenga knows how delicate your touch needs to be. The iPhone’s super-accurate touch screen gives you the control you’ll need to go for world record heights (incidentally… the record is 40 2/3 layers!). Blocks can be teased out using a mix of gentle tapping and drag controls. It’ easy to begin with, but you’ll soon find it tough when the pressure is on and the tower is wobbling!
SOCIAL GAMEPLAY: Obviously the best part of any game of Jenga putting off your friends as they are making their move. The four-player Pass’n’Play mode truly reproduces the nail-biting tension of the real thing… but you can play it anywhere!
COMPARE TOWER HEIGHT WITH FRIENDS: And what’s more, Jenga for iPhone lets you compare your current tower height against that of friends around the world – while you play! A little friendly competition is the best motivator…
ARCADE MODE: Jenga on iPhone introduces a brand new mode: Jenga Arcade. Match colors for exrtra points and score multipliers by moving fast – but don’t topple the tower! Whilst you play, you earn coins which you can spend on special boosts like collapse reverse, multipliers, and wildcards. It’s fast and frantic… totally turning Jenga on its head.
STUNNING VISUALS: Jenga for iPhone is beautiful. With full Retina Display support, you won’t see a single pixel. Advanced wood shaders make the tower pop out and let you gauge its stability. And everything is set in beautiful environments, rivalling the quality of what has recently only been possible on modern games consoles.
GAME CENTER INTEGRATION: Like all titles from NaturalMotion Games, Jenga fully supports Apple’s Game Center including leaderboards, achievements and easy friend comparisons.
AUTHENTICITY: Designed in consultation with Leslie Scott, the inventor of Jenga, to create the most authentic Jenga experience ever.
Pirates vs Ninjas vs Zombies vs Pandas
Price: $1
Developer: PAN Vision
It is Pirates… it is Ninjas… it is Zombies… it is Pandas and it is full on War! Help the deadly factions eliminate each other in a gruesome fourway conflict based on simple misunderstandings and a cataclysmic failure to communicate! Fire the brave warriors out of the mighty cannon and let them sacrifice themselves for the honor of their factions! It doesnt matter that no one remember the reasons for fighting… War knows no reason! – and neither will you after having played; Pirates vs Ninjas vs Zombies vs Pandas! In each level the player has a limited number of cannonball characters available and must use these tactical in order to destroy the targets.
Features
Monopoly for iPad
Price: $10
Developer: EA
NOW IT’S “GO” TIME ON iPAD! Play the game you know and love in an ALL-NEW VERSION fully designed for sleek and fast fun on iPad. From Mediterranean and Baltic to Boardwalk and beyond, enjoy a wealth of new ways to play with friends – or friendly computer opponents!
EXCLUSIVE iPAD FEATURES INCLUDE…
GET “GOING” IN MULTIPLE MODES OF MONOPOLY PLAY
In Play Now mode, jump right into gameplay with up to 3 other players. Or take on in-game computer opponents featuring 4 levels of difficulty (Very Easy, Easy, Medium, and Hard). Also connect multiple devices to play with up to 4 players via local WiFi or Head-to-Head via Bluetooth! And yes, you can play multiplayer games with friends that have MONOPOLY for iPhone® & iPod touch®! (Just note that if you go against a player with an iPhone or iPod touch, you’ll be playing the iPhone/iPod touch version of MONOPOLY.)
EARN A COMPETITIVE EDGE IN TEACHER MODE
Play a single-player game against a quirky computer competitor. Get helpful hints and tips that pop up throughout the game. Improve your gameplay and discover new strategies. Even experienced players could learn a thing or two!
MONOPOLIZE FRIENDS & FAMILY IN TABLETOP MODE – AN iPAD EXCLUSIVE!
The signature mode of MONOPOLY for iPad, Tabletop mode lets you play up to 3 other players in an immersive interactive equivalent of the classic board game. For example, with iPad, the board stays put while the interface automatically rotates to face the current player – and that’s just for starters!
CHOOSE YOUR OWN HOUSE RULES
A variety of new House Rules are available to give you more gameplay depth and style. Allow one-time use of “sleight of hand” tactics like loaded dice and property grabs to make games even more exciting. Hey! Just sayin’!
MONOPOLY IS COMPLETE FUN ON iPAD – YOU CAN EVEN ANALYZE THE DICE DATA!
From Marvin Gardens and Water Works to Park Place, own and manage the famous holdings of the MONOPOLY board, which comes to life like never before with sensational graphic quality, plus whimsical music and sound . Even get end-of-game stats like the all-new Dice Stats. See how often each number is randomly rolled in individual games or over the life of your MONOPOLY for iPad game!
Eternal Legacy
Price: $7
Developer: Gameloft
Enter a huge world made of cinematic environments in this intense role-playing game, worthy heir on your iPhone and iPod touch of its Japanese predecessors.
ENTER THE WORLD OF ALGOAD
A SMOOTH, THRILLING BATTLE SYSTEM
LIVE YOUR OWN ABSORBING ADVENTURE
Dungeon Hunter 2
Price: $7
Developer: Gameloft
The benchmark for action RPGs hits your iPhone & iPod touch in its second opus. Slide to Play says, “Exceptional games like Dungeon Hunter don’t come along often.” And that is why you need to play its sequel.
EXCLUSIVE CO-OP MULTIPLAYER MODE: Play the campaign solo or with up to 4 adventurers at the same time.
MULTIPLAYER COMPATIBILITY: Multiplayer mode available only on iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 3G or iPod Touch 4G, with 3.1.2 OS or higher.
25 YEARS LATER, RETURN TO GOTHICUS – IN HD
DUNGEON HUNTER LEVELS UP!
DEEP CUSTOMIZATION SYSTEM
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