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Word Carnivale 1.02 takes the stage in China! PlayScreen partners with AdsYolo to help Chinese gamers gain mastery of the English language with a unique and fun educational game experience. In Word Carnivale, players are pitted against their friends in a “best of three” contest to form words within the allotted time. Word Carnivale replaces boring static blocks with balloons that pop when words are formed, allowing new balloons to float up.

Today CUCUMBER announces a new update for Flying Boy 1.2. A casual, jumping, flying arcade game, Flying Boy is bursting with vibrant hand-drawn graphics and smooth controls. Filled with flying and jumping gameplay, players collect coins, upgrades and jump boosters, but avoid rain clouds and sticky traps. New daily missions, let players enjoy the thrill of a quick soaring flight on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android. Flying Boy has been crafted by the two-person development team of CUCUMBER.

After the success of BANG! the Official Videogame and AXL: Full Boost, comes From Cheese 1.3.0, the new, top rated, fun, reverse logic game by the award-winning developer SpinVector. Now available on the App Store and the Mac App Store, from $0.99 USD. Players draw a scent-trail from a piece of cheese to a chubby mouse, then the mouse will smell the trail and follow it all the way backwards to the cheese. The app features 50+ mind-twisting levels, nicely drawn interludes and a jazzy soundtrack.

Magic Frame Studios announces Chronos Salvation 1.0 for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch through the App Store. Chronos Salvation is an Adventure videogame based on a Point and Click Games, with amazing illustrations and puzzles. Chronos Salvation will bring us to the year 2138, where our lives, even the planet in which we live, are faced with a serious problem. In Chronos Salvation, players are the people chosen to go to a planet, extract the ore and return to Earth to save it from a terrifying end.

The AppFlixion Group introduces Scholar or Scumbag 1.0 for iOS. A former torrent site administrator that once served time in federal prison for illegally uploading movies has become a successful software developer and is releasing his second iPhone app entitled, Scholar or Scumbag. With Scholar or Scumbag users put skills to the test. Given a picture, users simply decide whether the an individual in history was a scholar or scumbag.

Independent development team Hu Yong Jie and Etienne Nguyen Tan Hon today introduce SketchBlock 1.0, their new painting app developed for iPad. SketchBlock specially focuses on various pen and brush effects as well as features a new approach of image management, giving users the possibility to manage paintings by blocks and sheets. User can easily duplicate and transfer artwork between blocks, and a painting can be re-imported as background for a new work, and so much more.

Indie developer Ferraioli Antonio today announces “40” v.2.0, a update to his free top-rated iPad app. Players challenge 1, 2, or 3 virtual or online players to the Italian card game scala 40, derived from rummy. Each player receives 13 cards at the start, and the game uses 2 decks, a full red deck and a full blue deck of 52 cards plus 2 jokers each. Version 2.0 adds online games, access to settings, visualize names and scores while the game is in progress, and much more.

CinoFusion, Inc. introduces Bling it! 1.0 for iOS. The app offers endless possibilities in a sparkly world of colorful gems. The app features over 100 high resolution geometric gem shapes and brilliant gem colors, more than 50 templates, and dozens of backgrounds that can be combined to make stunning pieces of art that sparkle. Mixing entertainment and imaginative play for all ages, Bling It! features countless combinations, allowing users to Bling friends, family and pets.

Pic-A-Boo Baby introduces Pic-A-Boo 1.0 for iPad. This app for babies and toddlers allows for the creation of a personal peek-A-boo experience, based on albums or camera photos, like no other peek-a-boo app has done before. The app comes with a built in video camera feature to record the child’s reaction to the game. Pic-A-Boo features ready to play peekaboo illustrated sets of real farm and safari animals and their sounds, alongside a collection of illustrated creatures.

CrowdGame today announces Trivially 2.3, an update to its popular real-time, multi-player trivia game developed for iOS. Trivially turns your iPad into a portable game console for up to 11 players, who interact in real-time with each other via the browser on their mobile phone, PC, or Mac. It offers hundreds of built-in questions in the form of included content packs in a variety of topics. Version 2.3 offers new features designed to make Custom Trivia contests even more fun and competitive.