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Arizona based Cliqueyou today announces Chess Opening Trainer 3.0, an update to its popular games title for iPad. Chess Opening Trainer is a tool for building and mastering chess opening repertoire. This release enhances the opening training feature by adding the ability to bookmark key positions or ‘tabiya’, an important concept in mastering chess openings. Also, it is now possible for users to use Chess Opening Trainer as a position trainer for tactics, end games and other essential positions.

Independent developer Mathieu Brassard today released Explore the Animal Kingdom 1.5 for iOS. Explore the Animal Kingdom is especially designed for babies and preschoolers. Easy to use and intuitive, this App captivates kids by presenting them with 100 high-quality pictures of animals, their sounds and also the correct pronunciations of their names. Touching the picture will reveal the sound the animal makes, and touching the name will pronounce it.

NINEPOINTEIGHT LLP releases Sweepstakes Free 1.0, the free iOS app giving away real cash prizes everyday. All sweepstakes are completely free to download and enter. As a special launch promotion, prizes have been set at a guaranteed of minimum of $20.00 USD daily and $100.00 weekly for the app launch through to at least December 1. Prize values will increase in value as the number of users increases.

Mongolian based Mongol Content is excited to announce the upcoming release of Magnet Boy for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Magnet Boy challenges gamers to collect various robot parts as they fly from level to level by using momentum & the laws of magnetics in order to successfully maneuver around obstacles and get to where they’re going! Featuring authentic platforming fun, puzzle inspired gaming, and arcade action Magnet Boy bursts onto iOS later this week.

In a special promotion with games-portal, Daily App Dream, independent developers James Pawliuk and Brandon Alter are offering everyone the opportunity to download their tactical RPG, LostStar Tactics, for free. In LostStar Tactics, players control a band of warriors who have crashed on an unknown planet and must fight to survive as they explore the new world. The gameplay features strategy-centered, turn-based combat. This offer is available only for a few days.

Mega Bee culminates Zen Cap Games debut on the App Store this week. Coincidentally the date also marks the indie developer’s wedding day. Inspired by fellow Aussie company Halfbrick’s Fruit Ninja, the objective of Mega Bee involves the rescue of Princess Bee via frenzied swiping to collect items. The entire game was conceived, designed and developed by an ex-stock trader who has worked on enterprise software projects and can consume a gallon of strawberry ice cream whilst playing board games.

Independent developer Fabio Bassan announced Ultra Reaction 1.0 for iOS, an app that challenges users to see who’s faster with this innovative, groundbreaking, reflex testing game. Players improve their reaction speed and get better in other fast-paced games like Call Of Duty and Battlefield. Players can dominate the leaderboard, complete the achievements and let their friends know who’s the speed king.

Forge Reply, independent mobile publisher and studio, division of Reply’s company, is proud to announce that Aloha from Hawaii 1.0, available on the App Store today. Aloha from Hawaii invites gamers to join Annie, Bob, Max and Ziggy in their trip around the world looking for adventure far from the boring South Pole. This brand new platform/runner features four amazing penguins superstars, hand drawn graphics and a unique cartoon style.

To honor the US presidential election 2012, Conceptis released a collection of Pic-a-Pix logic puzzles dedicated to this coming event. With 20 colorful hand-crafted puzzles for the iPad, sharpening your mind has never been this much fun! Enjoy slowly unveiling hidden pixel-composed pictures of Obama, Romney, former US presidents, party logos, national monuments and many more election themed images while your puzzles are being solved. The puzzles are available for in-app purchase on App Store.

BiBa Soft released their word game Play Dictionary last month receiving five star ratings and rave reviews. Today, they announce the release of their new 1.2 version which features single player, and multi-player modes using Game Center. The game shows players how many letters are in the word and if it is a noun or an adjective, players can also use the word in a sentence. Now players can play head to head word challenges using auto-match or invite friends to play and chat in game.