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Time is running fast to get your very own Sphero for Christmas. Arc Agile Technologies announces that less than 30 hours remain in Sphero Glide’s KickStarter campaign. The Sphero is the first robotic ball gaming device that you control with a tilt, touch, or swing from your smartphone or tablet. You can even use Sphero as a controller for on-screen gameplay. Sphero Glide needs only 7 percent to complete funding for its KickStarter campaign.

Swedish app developer, Wombi today introduces Wombi Ice Cream 1.0, their new kid-friendly application for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Designed for ages 4 and up, Wombi Ice Cream allows players to build their ideal ice cream sundaes. The game comes with ample choices of cones, bowls, ice cream flavors, and a slew of toppings. Its variety of options allows a large span of different sundae combinations, and its colorful illustrations and playful gibberish language will keep players engaged.

Barcelona based Planet Factory today introduces Kids Planet Discovery 1.0 for iOS, their free game app that offers children a new way to learn our beautiful and amazing world. Lots of adventures to solve missions and discover countries and continents while helping our friends, the cute aliens that have landed on Earth. The app includes games, including puzzles, maps, dress-up, memory, odd-one-out, find-it and more, all placed on a world map you have to complete.

Shelly Data Doodles today announces updates to both “Puffer’s Train Challenge” and “Puffer’s Train Challenge Lite,” their popular family-friendly train puzzle games for iPhone and iPod touch. Now available in Japanese, the latest update of these family friendly games provides game play improvements along with authentic images of historic trains and locations from throughout the Old West. Both games play in “Zen mode”, a kids friendly format and “Star mode”, an online competitive format.

Hompimplay’s iPhone, iPod touch Christmas songs app, Jolly Jingle, will be available for free this Saturday, December 8th. Jolly Jingle is a fresh, exciting and educational new game for children to get them into the Christmas spirit. It helps parents teach their children timeless Christmas classics. As children gleefully sing along, they can click on magical icons that reveal hidden surprises and explore a winter wonderland of Christmas magic!

TwoTea Applications is releasing an educational game for iPad and iPhone, What Doesn’t Belong? Christmas Edition 1.0. The app is meant to help with essential intellectual and spiritual development of children. With the right approach of the parent or teacher, the app becomes a great tool for speech therapy and helps develop many problem solving skills. It has the ability to add multiple players and have statistics for each.

MochiBits, Inc. announces the release of their new word association game, Word Wall 1.0.0, for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Players exercise your minds and brains with this simple yet challenging single player word association game. Players match 32 distinct words into 16 different pairs. Words can be synonyms, antonyms, or compound words. Word Wall comes with 40 free walls with the option to buy more packs as IAP.

The edge-matching puzzle nVex 1.0 has been released by Swedish app developer Hansson Software. Playable by four year olds and above, with many levels of difficulty, it is expected to perform well on iOS in the casual games segment. In an age where a majority of all released casual mobile games are cute, Hansson Software has gone back to the basics and made a geometrically simple design for the app. Players familiar with Tetravex type puzzles will feel at home in nVex.

Purveyor of awesome iPhone apps, Bright Newt Apps introduces Christmas Pictures – Mustache Bash Holiday Edition 1.0, a brand new iPhone app. Christmas Pictures, which is the Holiday Edition of Mustache Bash, lets users turn any picture into a holiday greeting, complete with Santa hat, beard, glasses, and other festive designs, and share it to friends via Facebook, Twitter, or email. You can even have the picture printed as a postcard and mailed anywhere in the world.