May 2012

Selectsoft, a California-based developer of family-friendly games, is pleased to announce the release of Mahjongg Staxx for the Mac App Store. Enjoy creative layouts, dazzling backgrounds and stacks of tiles – up to 24 layers per layout. Customize your tile sets and layouts with easy-to-use editors, or just choose from a huge collection of decorative tile sets and over 1 million preset layouts. With incredible eye-catching tiles stacked to the max, it’s a whole new way to play mahjongg.

Gamelion Studios today introduces Crazy Kangaroo 1.0 for iOS, their platform/z-scroller Game, where players control Barney the kangaroo by tilting forward and backward, and left and right. Featuring zany graphics and animation, Barney is seen from an overhead view as he hops from lily pad to alligator to stone trying to get home. Evading hunters, collecting stars, scoring power-ups, avoiding drowning by hopping from one waterborne object to another, Crazy Kangaroo includes more than 50 missions.

The Smyth Group releases So You Think You Know Words for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, and Nook Color, a contemporary crossword style game that will captivate erudite linguists and aspiring logophiles. So You Think You Know Words offers word gamers of all ages and skill levels a contemporary and easy-to-learn crossword style challenge. The game contains a variety of themed puzzle packs consisting of 100 individual puzzles, each including a cryptic clue and three empty solutions and more.

GameCell today is pleased to announce Pocket Monkey for iOS, their exhilarating game, filled with dangerous and wild creatures. Help pocket monkey on his journey to find his lost tribe, while avoiding traps and other animals. Your pocket monkey can climb trees and jump from branches to collect fruits along the way to survive the journey, and use collected bananas and nuts to fight the fierce creatures, he may encounter. Experience highly addictive gameplay that guarantees hours of sheer fun.

Smappsoft today announced the release of Wave Rave for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. This new puzzler challenges your brain in a fast paced retro arcade setting. Wave Rave is a unique puzzle game inspired by the work of mathematician/physicist Joseph Fourier. With a nod towards old-school arcade favorites, Wave Rave presents players with a series of increasingly complex waveform puzzles. Players must match target waveforms by reconstructing them from their component waves before time runs out.

21st Street Games released “The Tossing Dead” on iOS, Mac and Android devices today. The studio previously know for their titles “Techno Kitten Adventure” and “Nyan Cat Adventure” continue their off the wall style and humor, this time playing out in the popular Zombie & Slash game genres. “The Tossing Dead” keeps players slashing, shooting and exploding their way through hordes of Zombies. Players familiar with slash action gameplay will get everything they love plus gory 3D graphics and guns.

Fairlady Media today announces the release of Pocket Poet, a new free entertainment app, on the App Store. Pocket Poet allows the user to quickly create and send a customized poem to a friend or loved one. Pocket Poet includes thousands of lines of pre-written poetry in categories such as Birthday, Love, Friendship, Mother’s Day, etc. It also includes colorful backgrounds for each category. The user inserts words and phrases and selects a background perfect for the recipient.

FlickDirect Inc. today announces Movie Clock 3.4 for iOS, an updated version of its award winning movie app. Movie Clock counts down the days, hours, minutes and seconds to the release of your favorite upcoming movies. Upcoming movies are constantly updated as new films are announced, so you’ll never have to worry about missing out on the latest releases. Version 3.4 offers improved navigation and image display, and the My Reminders tab now allows you to view each of your reminders detail page.

The Dapper Gentlemen today announced that Ugly Meter becomes the first iPhone application to dethrone Angry Birds Space from the #1 spot in the iTunes App Store. Featured on the Howard Stern Show, Jay Leno, Today Show, MSNBC, Fox News, and The New York Post, Ugly Meter 3.12 offers a fun way to determine who is the ugliest of them all. Using the device camera, pictures are analyzed for ugliness. All your friends will want to try and prove that they are not as ugly as you say they are.