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Expanding indie developers Kwalee have bolstered the ranks once again this month with talented programmer David Smithson joining the team. Kwalee are going from strength to strength right now with a noticeable increase in media attention surrounding the release of the third game – Farm Fighters and the imminent update to their second title Pussy Flip, soon to be re-named and re-launched with some significant new features on the 29th January 2013.

Flipout! is back and better than ever. Flipout! 1.3 is challenging, educational and slightly addictive game based on the classic card game Concentration. It is a game of skill and luck that challenges a player’s memory. Players flip over two cards and try to get a match. It’s available for iPhone, iPod and iPad. Flipout! was built by the creative geniuses at Grio Games, a subsidiary of the awesome game, mobile and web development company, Grio.

Negative Nimbus, the award-winning iOS game about a lovable-but-curmudgeonly raincloud who can’t stop raining, is giving thanks by going free for the Thanksgiving weekend. In the game, players guide Nimbus through the stunningly animated worlds of Sunnyland, raining on all the flowers and trying to keep everyone else dry. The universal iOS app, which usually sells for $0.99, will be available for free from Thursday, November 22nd through Sunday, November 25th.

Sphero Glide hits 70 percent on KickStarter after revealing demo at the 2012 Blue Conference. Rewards have been tweaked for people who still want to back the kickstarter project and have their very own sphero. With 3 weeks to go, many people have already tweeted their support. Sphero is a robotic-gyro controlled 3D Flight Simulator for iOS and Android. Using the sphero, players will be able to play Sphero Glide using realistic hands-on flight simulation in a Unity3D environment.

Castle Kings 1.01 for iOS is a new strategy game based on the everlasting standoff of the four Mighty Races: Humans, Elves, Orcs and Undead. Players take over as many castles as possible, in order to multiply troops and conquer even more castles, and, consequently, win the battle, the main task of each mission in the game. Featuring fearless knights, greenwood elves, combatant orcs and undead of the underworld, the game is filled with shady alliances and notorious betrayals.

New York based Independent developer, Patrick Gallagher has introduced Get Out Fast: The House, his new Adventure game for iOS devices. In Get Out Fast, you try to escape from an old house before a bomb goes off by solving common sense puzzles. Get Out Fast presents its world using a old-school text adventure description, while giving you slide out touch panels to control movement and object interaction.

Conceptis introduced Conceptis Hashi for iOS, a new brain-bending puzzle game that requires creating bridges between islands by logic deduction. Hashi, also known in the west as Bridges, Hashiwokakero and Chopsticks, is an addictive bridge-connecting puzzle which was invented in Japan. The first release includes 120 free puzzles starting with very easy grids for beginners and increasing in size to extremely hard grids for the experts. Bridge the Islands – solve the puzzle.

Forget everything you’ve seen in science books, and forget what your teachers told you about the beginning of life. The time has come to discover the truth behind what really happened billions of years ago – when life itself didn’t even know that it existed. You’re invited to a challenge in the Primordial Soup with three little Helpers: Nunstuck, Git & Slotermeyer! ZAKI Gaming is proud to present their first action/arcade/puzzle game for iOS called 3volution – A Primordial Soup Challenge!

SideBump Studios today announces Let’s Bowl 2: Bowling with Friends 2.1 now free for iOS, its super-realistic bowling sim for one to four players. Featuring highly accurate game physics, ball speed, release, and hook are all user controlled, and pin action closely resembles actual bowling. The app offers single-,multi-, or multi-player online gameplay, plus Game Center Auto-Match. With 34 different balls and a choice of 9 alleys, bowlers of every age will be watching the outcome of every throw.

Noble Master Games releases two retro real-time strategy games on iPhone and iPad. Tropical Stormfront and Desert Stormfront are inspired by the turn-based “Classic Empire” wargame by Walter Bright and the classic Command & Conquer, albeit simplified aiming at a game that is easy to control on touch screen devices. While Tropical Stormfront is played over tropical archipelagos, Desert Stormfront takes place in a hot desert landscape.