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Portland Based Brainium Studios today introduces Spider Solitaire 1.0, their new gaming title for iOS devices. Spider Solitaire is a simple and extremely popular variation of the classic card game where the goal is to build stacks of cards of descending suit sequence from King to Ace. Brainium gave Spider Solitaire, one of the most popular solitary card games in the world, a fresh modern look, and wove it into the classic gameplay that everyone loves.

Sydney based InnoLab today introduces Bowling Paradise, their new 3D gaming title for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. Exciting, addictive and suitable for all gaming skill levels, Bowling Paradise features seven beautiful, unique locations. Each location has its own atmosphere and gameplay. Players can choose pin colors, ball skins as well as different control options to add spin to the moving ball. With different game modes, player can play alone, against CPU or with friends.

Grat Crabtree today introduces X-ray Effect 1.0 for camera-equipped iOS devices, his Entertainment app that produces the illusion of X-ray vision. A nostalgic artifact of the 1950’s, comic books have sold novelties claiming to be X-ray glasses for more than 50 years. Like those cardboard eyeglasses, X-ray Effect actually produces the illusion of X-ray vision in live video on the iDevice screen. A worthy addition to any iPhone owner’s collection of party Apps, it is sure to “amaze your friends.”

UK based Lightwood Games today introduces Sudoku Party 1.0, their latest iOS app to put a new spin on a classic puzzle. As well as offering 3 different levels of difficulty for solo play, Sudoku Party introduces a unique online mode. In Party Play, two players work together to solve the same puzzle, but also compete to see who can control the largest number of squares. Once a player has placed a correct answer, their opponent has just a few seconds to respond or they lose claim to that square.

Good News 4 Me can now lay claim to having the best selling game among the U.S. App Store market with its newly released game Zuba Deluxe. Though the game holds a similar style of famous blockbuster games Zuma and Luxor, it has managed to attract even more users with its unique idea and challenging atmosphere. Zuba Deluxe is centered on the Ancient Maya Civilization that pushed over the edge, after an evil spirit has stolen the golden pieces of the Mayan magical statue.

Hong Kong based Dim Dim Sum App today announced the recent launch of AniEmoticons 2.0 for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. A whimsical emoticon avatar library, this app gives users the power to easily add in unique, exclusive emoticons into their emails and text messages from a library of thousands of options. It’s the perfect way to relay your mood or just as an added laugh, and features an ergonomic design which makes browsing, choosing, and adding in emoticons a breeze.

Colibri Games, independent video game developer, notice that our first and awesome game The Tiny Bang Story HD now available for iPad, a fantastic puzzle adventure set in a beautiful hand-drawn world. The Tiny Bang Story, developed by Colibri Games, is set on the fictitious world of the Tiny Planet. When an asteroid hit the planet, its fragile world broke into pieces. Players will now have to recover its lost beauty and help the population of the Tiny Planet.

Word Race, an addictive face-to-face party game for friends and families, is now available for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. In Word Race, players test their creativity by describing a word to their team without using any of the forbidden words. “Ha, you said ‘city,’ when the word was Tokyo!” you gleefully call out forcing your opponent to take a penalty and start over with a new word.

The development team at smartphone app company Kwalee has been given the ongoing opportunity to spend 20 percent of their weekly office hours on personal projects. Programmers and artists at Kwalee are given Wednesdays to develop projects of their own choosing, individually or in groups, whilst still working very hard on Kwalee’s debut iPhone app, codenamed ‘Vegemite’, in the remainder of their time. The theory is developed from Google’s famous and successful 80/20 time policy.

APPSPIRE.me, a leading mobile app marketing company in Austin, Texas, released an infographic today called The Tower of Power: Top 10 Tower Defense Apps for iPhone. The infographic covers 10 mobile apps that are tower defense games, and ranks them based on creativity, ingenuity, and popularity. Charles Haggas, CEO and co-founder of APPSPIRE.me, states that the purpose of the infographic is to shed some light on popular and entertaining tower defense games.