On iOS today: Modern Combat 3, Shantae: Risky’s Revenge, Candy Town

From today, at 11:00 PM Eastern in the USA, you can play these new iOS games for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad or iPad 2 via the App Store.

Here’s an overview of what Apple announced.

Content: Blosics
Price: $1
Availability: Check availability in your region.
Developer: FDG Entertainment

INTRODUCING BLOSICS – OUR NEW PHYSICS PUZZLER!
Experienced by over 40 million online players!
Tons of iOS Exclusive Features!
All New Episodes!

120 LEVELS AND FREE UPDATES!
Prepare to enter a vivid world filled with exciting challenges.
Colored blocks come alive and transform into impressive structures. They can even talk – but don´t expect to be BFF with them. They don´t like you and they’re stupid!

GET RID OF THE BLOCKS!
Use up to 13 different Power Balls to shoot the blocks and try to hit their weak spots. Find the right strategy to get rid of as many blocks as possible.

UNIQUE POWERS!
Each Ball has special powers like magnetic field, rocket engine, exploding shell and many others. Unlock new balls by earning stars.

FOUR EPISODES!
Float in the Sky; Dive Underwater; Explore Caves; Venture into Deep Space..

AMAZING PHYSICS!
Aim right and watch fascinating chain reactions!
Discover hidden secrets and beat the high score.

EXTREMELY ADDICTIVE!
Once you pop, you can´t stop!

Feature Overview:
– 120 levels
– Four Episodes
– Smooth Graphics
– Takes Advantage of iPhone4s Power
– Amazing Physics Simulation
– Retina Display Support
– 13 different Power Balls
– 2 Control Options
– Game Center Support
– Global High Scores
– Game Center Achievements

Content: Candy Town
Price: $1
Availability: Check availability in your region.
Developer: Clickgamer.com

Like a kid monster in a candy shop…
Take on the role of a cute, cake-munching monster in Candy Town, the match-three game just bursting with sweetness. Match the colored cupcakes as they appear, put together big combos for a ton of points.

SUPER CUTE
Characters don’t come much cuter than this greedy little monster; no one is immune to its irresistible charm.

THREE GAME MODES… SWEET!
Story Mode has you complete levels of increasing difficulty, in Flash Mode the clock is against you so be quick and score as many points as you can, and in Endless Mode you have all the time in the world, just play for fun!

FAMILY FUN
With its cute visuals and simple, intuitive controls, Candy Town is the perfect game to play with your family. Kids will love the looks and there’s enough challenge there for grown-ups too!

CAKE COMBOS
Match more than three cakes at a time for high scores—what’s the highest combo you can put together?

Content: Chicken Coup Remix
Price: $1
Availability: Check availability in your region.
Developer: Puppy Punch Productions

Sound the alarm! The chickens have escaped! A sly fox unlocked the coop while you were asleep and now they’re ready to dine! Get your chickens back into their coops before its too late.

Simple Sorting Gameplay with a Twist

– CHICKENS aren’t the only things you can grab! Make foxes drop your chickens by dragging them into the barn!
– Create CHICKEN CHAINS by sliding your finger across like colored chickens. Drag them back home for massive score multipliers!
– Build up your CHICKEN POWER by dragging individual chickens or Chicken Chains to their coops. This score multiplier will make the next chicken you save worth that many more points!
– If things get too hectic unleash a powerful CHICKEN BOMB to clear the screen!

Tons of Re-playability
– Fight to get the highest scores on the GameCenter Leaderboards. Can you get all the platinum stars?
– Collect a variety of awesome GameCenter Achievements! Can you become the ‘Chicken Messiah’!?
– New levels and more content coming soon!

HD Version
– Specially optimized for the iPAD!

Content: Dawn of Magic
Price: Free
Availability: Check availability in your region.
Developer: Lakoo

100 years ago, the goddess created the magic gem, as a response to the human wish. The world prospered with the mysterious power of the magic gem…until we abused it. With only a small amount of magic struggling to hold the world together, you find yourself faced with making a choice that will save it–or end it all!

Game Features:
1) Classic RPG with stunning visuals and animation.
2) Quests filled with adventure, mysteries and epic battles!
3) Unleash the powers of magic gems and save the world!
4) Pick your team! Discover the multiple endings!

CREATE YOUR OWN TEAM
Choose between 3 heroines, each with distinctive battle skills to fight with you! Gain special abilities through special items and upgrading their skills.

COLLECT THE MAGIC GEMS
Magic gems give you magic abilities that you can unleash against your enemies and wild beasts that roam the land! Each team member can be customized with different magic gems, giving you mastery over different magical powers.

VAST WORLD MAP
Explore the world and discover secret missions, rare magic gems and items!

Content: Flick Tennis: College Wars
Price: $2
Availability: Check availability in your region.
Developer: Rohit Gupta

Introducing the most realistic tennis simulation with comic book adventure! Fabulous controls, Head to Head Multiplayer, Doubles, 35 pages Comic Book, 12 difficulty variations, 11 gorgeous tennis courts, 10 unique players and much more! A sports game unlike anything you have seen before.

Redefining the intensity, passion, speed and fun of the game of tennis.

Intuitive flick controls makes gameplay simple yet incredibly deep, allowing you to make your own strategy. A comic book takes you to a journey in style, putting you in front to drive the story!

Be aggressive, or attack the game on the net, destroy your opponent and become an unstoppable force on the court. Flaunt your skills and challenge your friends to a head to head multiplayer duel. Breathtaking 3D graphics, hyper-realistic physics and real-life animations takes the game to a whole new level.

Difficulty Variations
– 12 difficulty variations with 3 opponent levels (Beginner, Amateur, Professional) and 4 real-life tennis player types (Defensive Baseliner, Aggressive Baseliner, Volleyer and All-Court Player). Puts you in the center of the court just like in real-life tennis.

Controls:
– Intuitive swipe controls for ground-stokes, lob, slice, drop etc.
– Strategic control to move your player. ONLY After hitting your shot, tap to move your player. Attack the game with serve and volley or play safe at the baseline!
– One-touch camera. Select the camera you are most comfortable with while playing the game.
– Save your game if you want to play your current in-progress match at a later time.
– Play the interactive tutorials in the game to master the controls.

Live through a tennis fantasy in a comic book
Play role of a Tennis Prodigy who must fight for his survival and become the best college tennis player. Follow his quest of joy, anger, despair and jubilation as he makes friends and enemies as you drive through 35 pages of comic book across 11 episodes.

Game Modes
– Head to Head Multiplayer: Challenge your friends and family for a head to head multiplayer duel. Warning: Head to Head duels gets insanely intense 🙂
– Singles and Doubles match: Doubles adds a completely new dimension to the gameplay with fast-paced action!
– Exhibition: Unlimited hours of gameplay. Compete in the match with customized settings, players and stadium.

Stadiums and Characters:
– All 3 surface types (Grass, Clay and Synthetic) in 11 breathtaking tennis stadiums.
– 10 unique characters that comes to life in the comic book story.

Scoring:
– No tie-breaker in final set or a single set match. If the score of the games becomes 3-3 or 6-6, player needs to win by margin of 2 games.

Miscellaneous:
– If you do not want to play the story mode, you can unlock all the characters, modes, episodes and stadiums with one-time in app purchase of “Master Key”
– You can always gift this app by clicking on the down arrow in “Buy this App” button.
– If the game crashes, please restart your iPad.

Content: Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation
Price: $10
Availability: Check availability in your region.
Developer: Gameloft

The best, most realistic smartphone FPS series returns with even higher intensity and an apocalyptic battle for the freedom of the United States, for one or more players.

BE THE HERO OF AN EXPLOSIVE SOLO CAMPAIGN
– Fight through a 13-mission campaign from Los Angeles to Pakistan.
– Witness multiple memorable moments thanks to AAA scenario-scripting.
– Experience different types of gameplay: escort, destroy, helicopter, 4×4 chase…

LIVE THE MOST IMMERSIVE REAL WAR EXPERIENCE
– The deepest and most intuitive FPS gameplay on smartphones improved once again, now with a sprint and slide feature.
– Gaze-upon next-gen GFX that allow for an unprecedented rendering of environments.
– Improved SFX and voice acting will immerse you in an apocalyptic scenario.

ENJOY WHAT IS SIMPLY THE BEST MULTIPLAYER ON SMARTPHONES
– Enter battles for up to 12 players in 6 exclusive maps and 7 different modes.
– Use your customized weapons to move up an addictive leaderboard with more than just ranks.

Content: Ninja Pong
Price: $1
Availability: Check availability in your region.
Developer: By “ALIEN WORM” Marcin Konczakowski

In the specialized Ninja Master training one skill is extremely important. The skill in Bouncing.

In the tough Ninja’s life full of spying, sabotage and infiltration there is always something to jump over. You have to stay focused and concentrated if you don’t want to fall dawn. It becomes more complicated if you’re a tiny Ninja with gigantic head and you have to deal with a precipice larger than you could have ever imagined!

Bounce over thousands of brave warriors just by touching the screen and moving your finger horizontally. Stay out of bombs and arrows. Catch all bonuses, special Ninjas and pass incredible Nights. With two gameplay modes, diverse lands, many achievements, different leaderboards and a lot of additional, unlockable content and gameplay modifications you will keep coming back to the addictive bouncing more often than you think! Lose yourself in Ninja Pong!

HIGHLIGHTS
– 4 beautiful, detailed lands where you can enjoy the pure pleasure of bouncing
– Extremely simple but insanely addictive MOVE & BOUNCE gameplay!
– Tiny Ninjas
– Awesome bonuses
– Arcade & Endless gameplay modes
– A lot of additional, unlockable content and gameplay modifications
– Gorgeous HD Retina graphics – looks dead good on iPhone 4S/4
– Game Center with 33 tricky achievements and 7 different leaderboards
– Facebook & Twitter integrations – show high scores to your friends
– “Gift This App” option makes it easy to share Ninjas with friends
– Supports both the latest devices (iPhone 4S/4) and older models (iPhone 3G)

Content: Peak Gold
Price: $1
Availability: Check availability in your region.
Developer: Colorbox

From the creators of Twins Candy comes the next hit casual game Peak Gold.

Work hard and harder in gold mine to reach your Peak Gold point, say goodbye to the poor life!!

Features:
– Enjoy with gold/ore collecting by hooking as much gold/ore as you can.
– Your main objective are collecting all gold/ore which moving on the conveyors to pass next depth before generator machine run out of energy.
– By using the gold/ore to recharge generator, you can explore many challenge levels and collect HUGE DIAMOND to reach PEAK GOLD point at 100m depth.
– Fever Mode: with double hook available and temporary stopping running down energy, this feature can give you chance to go deeper. Try to enter this mode as much as you can.
– Unique animal: avoid some bad animal whose try to obstructing your processing
– Use upgrade system in Shop to increase your income, faster hooking and even give more chance to reach the final goal.
– New hooking control compare with other gold miner game, NO MORE WASTING TIME TO HOOK
– Open Feint/Game Center support

Content: Riptide GP
Price: $5
Availability: Check availability in your region.
Developer: Vector Unit

Riptide GP features super-realistic water physics and gorgeous high-detail graphics. We recommend 4th Gen and newer devices for optimal performance.

Rev up your supercharged jet ski and take a wild ride through twisting canals and rivers, futuristic cityscapes, and mysterious research facilities. Skill, stunts, and speed will be your best allies as you grab massive air off huge waves, kick out death-defying tricks, and boost your jet ski to victory across a dynamic, ever-changing torrent of foam and spray.

FEATURES:
– Tear through 12 futuristic water raceways.
– Unlock and master 6 screaming fast jet skis.
– 3 game modes: Race, Hot Lap, and Championship.
– Grab massive air and perform dramatic stunts to earn boost.
– Alter your environment mid-race with interactive triggers.
– OpenFeint and GameCenter enabled: Earn Achievements, post to Leaderboards, and (OF only) race against your Friends’ best split times.
– Created by Vector Unit, the developers of Xbox 360 hit Hydro Thunder Hurricane.

Content: Saving Moo
Price: $1
Availability: Check availability in your region.
Developer: Clickgamer.com

It’s a well-known fact that a farmer’s greatest fear is bunch of alien invaders stealing their cows. In Saving Moo, it’s up to you to prevent that from happening. Watch your weapons of grass destruction chew through the field and ‘produce’ Moo Sacks, use these to purchase new weapons and more livestock in a bid to repel the alien invasion once and for all. Cute, funny, clever and challenging, Saving Moo has everything a great arcade game needs…plus chicken launchers.

Saving Moo Highlights
– Intense and addictive arcade gameplay will have you playing for hours.
– 25 increasingly tough levels to get through spread over 5 days, will your Moos survive?
– Survival mode, keep your cows on Earth for as long as you can.
– 17 crazy weapons to choose from, including egg cannons, hot marshmallow guns, and even TV launchers.
– 3 types of cow, from a baby calf to a full-grown bull, use them wisely.
– Unlock the incredible Super Cow and destroy everything in one go.
– Check out the Moo-pedia for all your weapon and cow info…it’s udderly fascinating.

Content: Shantae: Risky’s Revenge
Price: Free Demo/$3 for full game
Availability: Check availability in your region.
Developer: WayForward

This download includes the full version just waiting to be unlocked; either from the title screen or during your quest.
Enjoy unlimited access to the Risky Boots Battle, Scuttle Town, Scarecrow Fields and Caves. You will be prompted to make a full purchase from within the game

About Shantae: Risky’s Revenge
Prepare for a powder keg of high octane, hair-whipping, belly dancing, monster slaying action; now available on iOS! Guide “half-genie” Shantae through haunted wastes, burning deserts, enchanted forests, and cavernous labyrinths. Discover magical attacks, brew zombie coffee, save golden babies, and shake Shantae’s hips to transform into more powerful creatures. Use all of your powers to foil the lady pirate Risky Boots and rescue Sequin Land from certain doom!

Features:
– Use your hair to whip monsters and solve puzzles
– Belly dance to become a Monkey, Elephant, or Mermaid
– Battle epic bosses and upgrade your powers
– 3 save slots for multiple players
– Includes thousands of frames of animation
– Flirtatious storyline and humorous characters
– Retina display and Game Center support
– A quest so big it’s bursting at the seams!

Content: SpinTrip
Price: $1
Availability: Check availability in your region.
Developer: Clickgamer.com

Take it for a spin…
You have been sent on a quest by the wise old sage. The evil Gants have stolen her magical Shims and it’s up to you, a little ’tisu, to get them back.

Equipped with your wheel and the mystical power of the Chibs, embark on a fantastical adventure across the world of Canoo!

FANTASY LAND
The world of SpinTrip is filled with weird and wonderful creatures, you are a little blue creature called ’tisu, the evil enemy are the Gants, and the magical creatures that power your wheel are the Chibs.

CHIB POWER
With the wheel you can collect Chibs, strange little creatures that possess magic powers. These powers will be added to your wheel allowqing you to jump higher, blast your enemies, smash through ice and more!

HAVE AN ADVENTURE
Travel from the icy tundra and waterworld through caves, deep woods and hills into the sky world.

RIGHT CHIB FOR THE RIGHT TIME
Carefully choose what Chibs to use and when to use them. Remember, the path taken through the game will also influence your final success.

Content: Tiny Token Empires
Price: $1
Availability: Check availability in your region.
Developer: Bulkypix

Tiny Token Empires is an amazing mix-it’s a puzzle game, « Match 3 » game and turn-based strategy game. The player plays one of the five major ancient empires: Rome, Greece, Egypt, Persia, or Carthage. By developing cities and armies, and annexing new territories, the player gradually expands his power over the world!

But Tiny Token Empires is also a “casual’ strategy game that doesn’t take itself too seriously. It contains a crazy comical universe: goofballs gods, super cute mythological monsters, clown legionnaires, and much more.

On a 3D map dividing the Mediterranean Basin into 75 territories, each nation starts the match with one single territory that includes its capital. Each territory provides stable revenue, and each city is able to train units of infantrymen, archers, boats, preachers, and the like. The point of the game is to mobilize maximum troop power to invade the maximum amount of territory, obtain maximum revenue, and so on, until the whole map is under total control.
When a battle starts between two armies, the game goes into Puzzle Mode in order to bring the confrontation to an end. A puzzle is presented in the form of a grid of 9×9 boxes. Each box contains a token. The armies and the 5 units that each of these armies can contain are displayed on both sides of this grid.

Key Features:
– Five campaigns – one per nation for over 15 hours of gaming.
– 5 nations, 5 heroes, 25 generals and 50 kinds of units!
– 5 kinds of puzzles to get through battles, digs, events and more.
– 3 difficulty levels that offer a new challenge every time.
– 4 other game modes (solo and multi) to make the fun last even longer!

Content: World Mosaics
Price: $2
Availability: Check availability in your region.
Developer: Fugazo

Your associate, Dr. Remington, has unearthed a relic of the mysterious and elusive Pelasgians, or “Sea People.” In order to unravel the mysteries of a civilization that disappeared over a thousand years ago, you must solve the pictographic puzzles they left behind to safeguard their history.

Your quest begins in Greece, in the very shadow of the Majestic Parthenon, but it just may take you around the world before you are through!

– 99 Unique Puzzles in Story Mode
– 7 Exotic Locations
– Over 100 puzzles in Extra Puzzles Mode
– Over 10 Hours of Addictive Gameplay!

Via iTunes and TouchArcade. Thanks to FDGGames, chillingo, PuppyPunchPro, Lakoogames, rolocule, touchgameplay, AlienWormGames, colorboxsoftware, AndroidCentral, Knowyourmobile, wayforwardtube, ablemagic, Bulkypix, fugazoinc