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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.

Dot Connector 1.0 is a wonderful new addition to Ellie’s Games. With cheerful music and no ads this is a magical addition to a suite of apps that are child-friendly and a parents dream. In Dot Connector kids are able to choose from a vast selection of categories. From animals to cars to boats and more! Once this selection is made there is a variety of colored levels to choose from. At the start the first number melodically appears and as soon as it is touched a second appears and so on.

adaptIO, LLC releases ViralTV 1.0, their first free app for iOS. ViralTV is the easiest way to watch the hottest videos going viral right now. Simply launch ViralTV on your iDevice and see a list of the latest videos that are getting the most attention. Easily stream your video playback via AirPlay to your connected AppleTV for viewing with family or friends on a large screen. A key feature is that you can easily share a video you find with your facebook friends, on twitter, or via email.

A Pixel Christmas 2012 is popGumbo’s follow-up release to Pixel Classic for iPhone. Pixel is back in this special holiday edition. He is hungry, and needs your help to feast on his favorite candy-colored bits. If you succeed in your mission, Pixel will reward you with dances, flips, winks, and kisses. The developers are banking on the fact that their lovable character, quality music and art and unique form of game play will delight players of all ages.

Serious Brew’s critically acclaimed Cargo Commander is now available on the Mac App Store at a special introductory price. Travel through the vast reaches of wormhole-filled space salvaging priceless cargo from alien infested containers. Punch and shoot deadly mutants in the face, while traveling between your ship and containers. Jockey for promotions with thousands of other Cargo Commanders in the galaxy, collect over 80 different cargo types, all the while earning your way back home.