Portland, Oregon – Whimsy Animals for iPhone and iPod touch, a simple kids jigsaw puzzle game, is now available on the iTunes App Store from David Ross Software, developer of Uni Sudoku, Knit Buddy and Bike Quiver. Explore sixty beautiful animal photos and sounds by completing simple jigsaw puzzles. Practice hand-eye coordination, recognize shapes, and learn about scale while unveiling a world of animals – familiar and new, domestic and wild, baby and adult – all with their fun and unique sounds. All ages.

With the easiest level just slide touch over piece to send into place, the hardest level requires precise placement. Play in order or browse to your favorite. Great to play with your kid or to give them for a plane or car ride or at a restaurant. Beta-tested by my own three-year old niece.

The different levels allow kids of different abilities and ages to enjoy the game. Pre-schoolers will probably enjoy the game the most as this is the height of when kids are obsessed with animals and their sounds. Whimsy Puzzles is not designed to be played for hours a day, but as a fun moment to share with your kid or something to absorb them when you have to focus on something else, like a phone call or driving.

Device Requirements:
iPhone and iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Whimsy Animals 1.0 is only $1.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category. Video preview available on YouTube.

Whimsy Animals 1.0: http://www.whimsypuzzles.com/animals/animals.html
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whimsy-animals/id338720513?mt=8
YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Lg0HcnoC4
Screenshot: http://www.whimsypuzzles.com/elephant_pieces.jpg
The Animals: http://www.whimsypuzzles.com/theanimals/theanimals.html

Minneapolis, Minnesota – Plaid World Studios today is proud to announce the release of Mouse House 1.1.5 for iPhone and iPod Touch. Now anyone with an Apple iPhone or iPod Touch can enjoy the app the Unofficial Apple Weblog calls a “very adorable and surprisingly complicated puzzle game.”

“Mouse House is a natural fit for the iPhone,” said Chris Dillman, CEO of Plaid World Studios. “Your entire family will enjoy it’s cute style and hours of clever puzzles.”

Use your environment to block stingers and wind your way to the top of the house. Mouse House’s touch control offers two control schemes to choose from. Guide the heroic Mouse through 57 levels of challenging and addictive puzzle fun! Mouse House has been continually updated since it’s initial release, adding new levels and user requested features. The most recent update added music, a level select screen and multiple save slots.

Game Features:
* Intuitive touch based controls: Touch the screen to make Mouse move a space in that direction, or hold your finger down to keep him moving along
* Classic puzzle fun
* A lively cast of adorable critters
* Power up with fireballs you launch with a tap of your finger
* 57 levels of challenging puzzles to keep the fun going

Device Requirements:
iPhone and iPod Touch 2.2.1 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Mouse House 1.1.5 is only $1.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

Plaid World Studios: http://www.plaidworld.com
Mouse House 1.1.5: http://www.plaidworld.com/games_mousehouse.php
Purchase and Download: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=294789951&mt=8
Screenshot 1: http://www.plaidworld.com/images/screenshots/MH_03.jpg
Screenshot 2: http://www.plaidworld.com/images/screenshots/MH_04.jpg

Williamsburg Virginia, USA – Hunter Research and Technology today announces the worldwide availability of Cover Match 1.0 in the iTunes App Store. Cover Match is a mesmerizing new match game for the iPhone and iPod Touch that uses album art from a user’s music library.

“Since the era of CDs and the advent of online music downloads, album cover art has lost a lot of its prominence” says Todd Hunter, Cover Match co-developer. “Gone are the days where people spent hours flipping through album collections, looking at the gorgeous art. We wanted to recapture some of that magic in Cover Match. Using album cover art as the basis for a match game results in a rich, nostalgic visual experience and makes for very compelling game play”.

Graphically mastered and engineered, Cover Match is no ordinary match game. Crisp OpenGL graphics and special effects accompany each level, enhanced by the beauty and exquisite detail of album art. Using a classic arcade format, Cover Match starts off slow with just a few album covers to match, then heats up with unlimited levels of randomly sorted cover art. Cover Match offers billions of memory-testing game possibilities.

Players can choose from fun and scored modes. Fun mode has no limits, no timers, and no pressure. Scored mode tests memory and matching skills using a timer and tap counter. Points are awarded for matches, and a bonus is given for any time or taps leftover at the end of each level.

Other features include portrait and landscape play options and an extensive help section. The game offers a built-in soundtrack, but will also let iPod music play through for a custom soundtrack. If a game is interrupted for a phone call, Cover Match will automatically save current progress and score. Players can compete for high scores to win a place on the online Cover Match Top 25 list. Finally, Cover Match includes built-in album art to augment small music collections, and contains an iTunes shop where free and paid music and podcast cover art are available for download.

Pricing and Availability:
Cover Match works on any iPhone or iPod touch running iPhone OS 3.1.1 or later and is available for $0.99 (USD) on the iTunes App Store. More information, including screenshots, is available on the Hunter Research and Technology website. Media professionals interested in reviewing Cover Match can request a promotional code to download the app from iTunes at no cost.

Hunter Research and Technology: http://hunter.pairsite.com/
Cover Match 1.0: http://hunter.pairsite.com/covermatch/
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cover-match/id337471653?mt=8
Press Images: http://hunter.pairsite.com/pr/

Aurora, CO – Gravity Sling, one of the first iPhone & iPod Touch games to take advantage of Apple’s new policy allowing In App Purchase from free applications, is now available for free download from the App Store. Gravity Sling is an inertia based puzzle game where the player needs to use the gravity of nearby planets to sling the astronaut through space trying to safely get back to the space shuttle.

“We are extremely excited to be one of the first to take advantage of In App Purchase from free applications,” said Brian Robbins, Founder of Riptide Games. “We believe this gives players a much better and more seamless game experience, while allowing us to provide the best game we can to the player.”

Gravity Sling also incorporates the popular OpenFeint platform enabling integrated leaderboards and achievements throughout the game. Gravity Sling was originally developed as part of the iPhone Game Game held at 360iDev in September. It is the result of a collaboration between Riptide Games, PyroMonkey Productions, Spatial Reasoning, Crucial Games and NoiseBuffet. All Denver-based iPhone developers

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Gravity Sling 1.0 is free and available exclusively through the App Store in the Games category. Instead of launching as a full version with separate free-lite version, Gravity Sling is only available as a free download. Players that enjoy the game may purchase an additional level pack of 30 more levels for just $0.99 (USD) or the equivalent amount in their country.

Gravity Sling 1.0: http://www.riptidegames.com/2009/11/gravity-sling-is-out/
Download Gravity Sling: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=336233522&mt=8
Promotional Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1qGYFvHb0A
Screenshot: http://www.riptidegames.com/games/gravitysling/GravitySling_Screenshot_1.jpg
Splash Image: http://www.riptidegames.com/games/gravitysling/logo512.jpg

Chillingo and Tetraedge Games are proud to announce the availability of its new game: Jules Verne’s Secrets of The Mysterious Island for iPhone and iPod touch on the Apple App Store.
“Secrets of the Mysterious Island” is the sequel of “Return to Mysterious Island” launched this year. This even more exciting second part has an extremely rich story line and content. It is also a part of the MICROIDS catalog, the world leader in adventure games.

For approximately 700 Mb, the player will find out the end of the adventure of Mina, a sailor who finds herself stranded on the shores of a wild and apparently uninhabited island somewhere in the South Pacific.
Jules Verne’s “Secrets of The Mysterious Island ” contains stunning 3D graphics, many ambient sounds, music designed to enhance the mysterious atmosphere and feel. It is perfect for experienced adventure gamers as well as for Jules Verne’s novels reader or even very casual players.

A special 3.0 feature allows you to navigate in the game both with the fingers touching the screen but also using the compass and the accelerometer to explore and turn in the 360° view. A very intuitive in-game tutorial will guide your first steps of the adventure. A full 3D environment with numerous tricky mini-games and intriguing puzzles, will keep you entertained for over 15 hours of exciting gameplay.

Jules Verne’s “Secrets of The Mysterious Island ”  is available for $ 6.99 from Apple App Store on iPhone and iPod touch.
This initial version will be fully translated in five languages: English, German, French, Spanish and Italian.

You can watch videos on youtube :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR3LmaKYEmw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnCz1FXmp18

For more information about Chillingo please visit   http://www.chillingo.com
For more information about Tetraedge, please visit   http://www.tetraedge.com

DESCRIPTION
Some 150 years after the events of the book, Mina, a young and carefree navigator taking part in the Jules Verne competition, is also cast ashore on the island after her ship sinks. At first, she must recover physically from her ordeal by finding items to eat, and then she sets off to explore this new territory cut off from the world in the hopes of finding a way to leave and return home.

The adventure reaches its end after Mina discovers the island’s secret, meets Captain Nemo’s ghost, and neutralizes the magnetic shield which isolates and conceals the island from the outside world. The cinematic end sequence shows the rescue services’ helicopter Mina had called land on the beach.

The intent of the game Secrets of The Mysterious Island is to make the players return to this island, which they so much enjoyed exploring, and to make them once again embody the young Mina who, according to numerous forums, was also well-liked…

The first Return to Mysterious Island ends with the unlocking of the shield which isolated the island from the rest of the world. The second installment begins with the crash of the helicopter that came to rescue Mina: a sudden volcanic eruption brought down the aircraft. Mina survived but is once again trapped on the island.
She searches Captain Nemo’s base in vain, then the ruins of an unknown civilization, afterwards, she finally understands that it is outside pollution that threatens the island.
The only way to save this natural wonder is to turn the shield back on. If Mina makes this decision, she gives up, as Nemo did before her, the idea of returning to civilization.

_ The sequel of a success : more than 100,000 copies sold.
_ “The Mysterious Island” is one of the writer’s most famous novels, one of his most enjoyed in
North America (the main characters being Americans), and one of the most often adapted to the big screen.
_ Highly popular themes: survival, exploration, discovery, science and mystery in a fabulous tropical setting.
_ An interactive inventory system lets one combine various collected items in order to create new objects and tools…
_ The same design and development team as for the first game keeps the same know-how and an identical proprietary engine for a fluid and excellent point and click navigation.
_ Two-character play: Secrets of The Mysterious Island is a story of friendship because Mina adopts a cute, little monkey. This is especially true because he is no longer just a simple partner in the island’s misfortune. He is able, due to his dexterity, to reach places inaccessible to our main character. The player will thus be able to slip into Jep’s skin when the story will force him to: his point of view and his skills will be completely changed as a result…

_ Intuitive matching inventory: Secrets of The Mysterious Island is mainly based on combinations of objects: two, three, four and even five elements are sometimes indispensable to
obtain and make what one seeks or needs. Some elements are fungible, others can be used again.

_ Different puzzles :
- “Pre-technical”: primitive but ingenuous use of tools by the monkey.
- “Technical”: use of the installations built by the castaways in the novel (mill, oven…) to start up ambitious projects: enameled pottery, glass blowing, forging…
- “High technology”: turning back on the volcanic engine of the unknown civilization, repairing Nemo’s sophisticated machines, testing the sick plants…
- “Social”: interacting with the monkeys of the island with the help of an interface based on In RTMI 1 the player embodied Mina and used Jep as a simple tool.
In the second installment, Jep becomes a character in his own right. He saves Mina at the beginning of the game.