It doesn’t look like I’ll be getting much sleep tonight…way too much temptation to stay up late with a huge crop of entertaining new iOS releases on the horizon.
From highly anticipated Summer releases including Walking Dead: The Game and Spy vs. Spy to a trio of treats from Chillingo, there are plenty of new gaming experiences to choose from.
Watch the trailers below, clear off some space on your iDevices and let us know which of these fresh apps you’ll be scooping up tonight at 11pm EST.
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Flick Champions World Edition
99¢
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The Flick Champions are back, this time getting you into the spirit of the Summer Games with eight “classic tests of human endurance” including: Running, Volleyball, Swimming, Javelin, Kayaking, Handball, Hammer Throw and Synchronized Swimming. A universal app with unique daily challenges and 40 “game changing items” to collect. It looks like it’ll have good replay value.
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SolaRola
99¢
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Originally launched for Java platforms in 2007, this popular puzzle / platfomrer gets a reboot on the iOS platforms, taking full advantage of the native tilt and touch capabilities.
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Shatter Crash
99¢
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A Fast-paced, futuristic iPad puzzler that puts Tetris in-the-round.
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Worm vs Birds
99¢
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A new release Thursday just isn’t complete without a Chillingo published, avian-themed physics puzzle game, so here it is. Fire your worms, each of which is armed with a special ball, to knock the feathers off the birds. What is it with Chillingo and birds?! I think they may be a bit obsessed with our feathered friends.
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Tiny Owls
99¢
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Speaking of birds…here’s a cute looking puzzle platformer for the kids, where you are a mother owl trying to rescue all her little baby owls, who trail vulnerably behind her. You can try the first 15 levels for free, right in your web browser.
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Car Toons! / Car Toons! HD
99¢ (iPhone) | $1.99 (iPad)
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This is the latest title from FDG Entertainment, a physics-puzzle game that looks like it plays a lot like Saving Private Sheep, but with a humorous collection of cars, each with their own personality and attributes.
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A frenetic physics-based balance game, complete with wise-cracking buckets, or as the developer dubs it, “lame-proof humor woven throughout hundreds of funny interactions between the characters, minions and the bosses.”.
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MANOS – The Hands of Fate
$1.99
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An homage to both the 1966 American horror cult classic film of the same name and to unforgiving NES-era platformers, this game is like so totally retro on like so many levels!
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Spy vs Spy
99¢l (50% off launch price, reg. $1.99)
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We seem to b having a trend with Tetris-inspired games tonight. This iPad-only arcade game is a sliding/dropping block game with multiple game play modes, will likely appeal to Tetris fans.
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ORC: Vengeance
$2.99
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The final title in Chillingo’s triple-threat, ORC: Vengeance is an eye-catching original Action RPG for the iOS platforms. I don’t really even play action RPGs, but this one’s got me excited.
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Shellrazer
$2.99
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What the shell?!
An epic turtle vs. goblin side-scrolling defense battle royal…need I say more?
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BLAZING STAR
$2.99
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SNK PLAYMORE continues with their NeoGeo ports, this time bringing us the 1998 R-Type-ish side-scrolling shooter Blazing Star
Note that the trailer below is from the original game, I couldn’t find one for iOS release.
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Walking Dead: The Game
$4.99
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Once again, my most anticipated title happens to be the last, Telltale’s release of the first episode of the Walking Dead adventure game for iOS. Console and PC gamers are already up to episode 2, but now it’s the mobile gamers’ turn. If you are a fan of the comic book or television series, you’ll definitely want to be grabbing this one for $4.99! Just remember, the choices that you make in episode one, will have a direct (and unique) effect on the events of episode 2…so choose wisely.
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It doesn’t look like I’ll be getting much sleep tonight…way too much temptation to stay up late with a huge crop of entertaining new iOS releases on the horizon.
