What's new on the app stores on Thursday 25 August 2011
A burst of 15 apps for your consideration
Spy Mouse
As intro lines go for an App Store game, "Danger. Intrigue. Stealth. Cheese." has to be applauded. This is the new game from Firemint, the studio behind Flight Control and Real Racing. It builds on the line-drawing mechanic from the former, but with a madcap tale of cats'n'mouse to puzzle through.
iPhone
Peggle HD
PopCap Games took its time taking its addictive Peggle game to iPad, but the results look worth the wait. It offers 55 levels of ball-dropping fun, with the additional Peggle Nights add-on available as an in-app purchase.
iPad
Restaurant City: Gourmet Edition
Social games developer Playfish ? an EA subsidiary these days ? has brought its popular Facebook game Restaurant City to iPhone and iPad. As with rival Zynga's CityVille hometown, this is a new version for iOS, but the original game's mixture of cooking, customising and sharing remains intact.
iPhone / iPad
Someone Once Told Me
If you buy one app from this roundup, make it Someone Once Told Me. Based on the photo-blog of the same name, it lets you take a photo of yourself with a space to write in a piece of advice or a comment that someone once told you, and submit it to the site. More importantly, 70% of the �1.49 price will go to charity Operation Smile, which helps children with cleft lip and palate facial deformities. Great site, great app, great cause.
iPhone
HD Widgets
Cloud.tv has launched its HD Widgets app for Android Honeycomb tablets, which it claims offers widgets that are "far and away more detailed and attractive than first-gen widgets and are sure to make even iPad users a little envious". Expect plenty of homescreen customisation with 12 widget types to install.
Android
Hector: EP2
Love graphical adventures like the Monkey Island series, but want something all-new? The Hector series should be your first stop. Subtitled "Senseless Acts of Justice", this second Hector game for iOS promises "lewd, crude and gritty law-enforcement". Expect plenty of belly laughs, judging by the first game.
iPhone / iPad
Sprinkle
Sprinkle is hoping to be the next big casual hit for iPhone and iPad, getting players to douse fires with a water cannon mounted on a crane. Obstacles, spin-wheels and traps make that more complicated than it sounds in this clever physics-puzzler.
iPhone / iPad
Aupeo Personal Radio
Personal radio service Aupeo already has an iPhone app, but now it has a native iPad version too: one of the first streaming music services to do that in Europe. Users can listen to more than 100 customised stations, or create their own based on individual artists.
iPad
Edge Extended
Mobigame's Edge was critically acclaimed, but also the subject of a controversial trademark lawsuit after its original release. With that settled, Edge Extended is a sequel, with more levels, music and a new 3D graphics engine.
iPhone / iPad
Johnny English Reborn Mobile Spy Kit
Rowan Atkinson is starring in an upcoming revival of his Johnny English spy character, and there's an app out on iPhone in advance of the movie's October debut. The app includes various pseudo-spy features: voice disguiser, lie detector, intruder alarm and night vision camera. Content from the film is unlockable too.
iPhone
Contre Jour
Chillingo's latest iPhone game claims to be "blurring the lines between games and interactive art": players use their fingers to control the landscape rather than the game's hero Petit. Strange but rather wonderful-looking.
iPhone
The Moron Test HD
DistinctDev's popular Moron Test iPhone game has been ported to iPad, with a similar mixture of puzzles and mini-games.
iPad
My 1st JCB
Aimed at 1-5 year-olds, this iPhone app offers all manner of cartoon diggers and dumpers, with a mix of mini-games and creative activities based on the children's toy brand of the same name.
iPhone
Caring - Andr� Fran�ois
Caring is an app based on photographer Andr� Fran�ois' journey around Brazil taking shots of humane medical care. The book was published in 2006, but has now been turned into a free iPad app.
iPad
Kazaa
Remember Kazaa? Its days as a filesharing villain for the music industry are long gone: it's a licensed music subscription service now. And there's an app for that, albeit only in the US. The Kazaa iPhone app offers streaming songs and offline cacheing, artist radio and playlist creation. A $9.99 monthly subscription is required.
iPhone
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