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D-Lund announces Knoc Knoc Volumes 1 and 2 for iOS, their entertainment app for kids that features hilarious jokes and clever animation. Kids interact with a cast of animated characters, Knock Knock and his gang, the Who’s there Doors, with a series of voice activated knock knock jokes, complete with animated punch lines. This app, created by Disney Artist, Dan Lund, features 60 interactive jokes, fully animated and voiced by top artists from the world of family entertainment.

OHK Labs announces the release of SportsPicker 2.0 today, their leading non-wager sports-based competition game. With its combination of a simple interface for picking the winners of sports games and the power of the Facebook platform, the app delivers a fun and challenging social game of professional and collegiate sports. The friendly bragging-rights system adds social gaming challenges and a redesigned interface for choosing the winners of sporting events and competing against friends.

SkillPod Media has announced the release of Frankie Pain 1.02 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. This app delivers high quality graphics, well thought out gameplay, and an interesting story line in a free Run and Gun puzzle game. Game upgrades such as additional weapons are available via in-app purchase, but are not required to finish the game. Unlike many apps, this game can be downloaded and played from start to finish for free and includes power-ups, achievements and live leaderboards.

Running Dead, from Leal Arts features truly stunning retina ready 3D graphics, real-time generated maps, reaction gameplay, weapons upgrades, endless levels and realistic zombie hoards. Gamers play as a lone survivor in a zombie infested world with the aim of running through the 3D rendered environment, killing or avoiding a variety of different zombies in their path while avoiding cars, navigating through buildings and running fast enough to avoid becoming the zombies next meal.

Addictive and fun new puzzle app game Word Search by Devarai features unlimited puzzle levels, high definition themes, dozens of word categories, a 24 hour global and local leaderboard, and more. It also helps people improve their vocabulary, concentration and spelling skills. In Word Search, puzzle addicts race against the clock to find hidden words from a vast array of chosen categories, such as: the city, time and calendar, famous movies, nature, people, society, and several more.

In a first for iOS publishers, Artchiteq New Media Entertainment LLC, developer and publisher of interactive mobile games, today announced the release of an HTML5 demo version of its upcoming Agent 351: Logic Bomb v2 for iPhone and iPod touch. Users can play the game online without downloads and a simple one time login. The game, a combination of storytelling, spy movies, and trivia was released last year to glowing fan reviews and a #12 debut in the iTunes Trivia category.

Conceptis introduces Conceptis Sudoku for iOS, an addictive no-frills gaming platform providing 6 different Sudoku variations in a single app. Alongside classic 9×9 Sudoku grids, the game offers Mini Sudoku, Diagonal Sudoku, Irregular Sudoku and OddEven Sudoku in various difficulty levels. The puzzles come in a wide range of difficulty levels and are suitable for beginners, intermediate, and the most advanced players. Huge brain-bashing Mega Sudoku puzzles are also offered for iPad only.

Finger Arts recently launched Spider Solitaire, a free app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Based on the card classic, Spider Solitaire is already at #2 in the Cards and Strategy categories in the US, and #1 in Strategy in Switzerland, Venezuela, Austria and many other countries. With great sound and beautiful Retina-enabled graphics and animations, users will love the way cards move, slide, bounce and spin their way into place with touch and drag capabilities.

Hong Kong based RGamma has announced the release of Face Reading Booth the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. This unique app lets users analyse people’s face and detect various person’s positive and negative traits of their character, based on real face reading techniques. The app also offers several different face reading modes as well as many other useful features. Users are free to save ones’ face and share their results via e-mail.

Skunk Brothers today introduces OrigamiGore 1.0, an unusual castle defense game for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. OrigamiGore, the deadliest and most popular game show in all of Japan chose you as a contestant: You control up to 4 upgradeable turrets to defeat the attacking monsters and defend your castle. The game features 50 levels, 3 difficulties, a survival mode, lots of upgrades and many achievements are waiting for you to be unlocked.