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During the time George Washington was president, he knew Noah Webster, the man responsible for producing and releasing the first US dictionary. In celebration of Washington’s birthday and his life, Spuzzle, Inc. is offering its word game app, Word vs Word for free from Friday, February 15 to Monday, February 18, 2013. Word vs Word is a social word game with an all-in-one link between a crossword puzzle, hangman and a word search game that connects to Apple’s Game Center and Facebook.

London based Digitalists IA Ltd today introduces Russian Yourself 1.0.0, its new entertainment app for iOS devices. Free for limited time, this app creates caricatures from users’ photos. Russian Yourself automagically detects faces on the photos and then it creates a Russian passport photo. Users will be able to choose from hundreds of unique combinations and save to Photo Roll for private sharing and enjoyment or share with friends on Facebook, Twitter or email and more.

Classic Empire Builder, Knights and Merchants 1.0 has been released on the Mac App Store. The game was originally developed for the PC by Topware Interactive and is now for the first time available for users of Intel Macs. The Mac App Store version is a multi language version that contains versions in English, German, French and Italian. Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom – Available on the Mac App Store for $9.99 USD.

Independent development team, MagnetiCat Games today announces Tiny Crosswords 1.1.0, an update to its popular crossword game for iOS devices. Tiny Crosswords ships with 54 free tiny crosswords you can play anywhere, anytime with additional packages available for in-app purchase. Featuring an easy and user-friendly interface, Tiny Crosswords was designed and tested from the ground up for touch screen devices and is amazingly easy to play. Version 1.1.0 adds many new puzzles!

WET Productions has announced that their flagship iOS apps: My Virtual Girlfriend and My Virtual Boyfriend, will be marked as free this Valentines day, in the iTunes app store. My Virtual Girlfriend and My Virtual Boyfriend are dating simulation games that feature a host of unique characters to choose from, with varying personalities and appearances. The games combine both humor and light romance, and offers a unique gaming experience for both iPhone and iPad users alike.

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, Realore announces a sale on its games that feature love stories. Roads of Rome series and All my Gods will be available at a discounted price for 4 days, beginning February 14. Players can enjoy them on different platforms – iOS, Mac and PC. Roads of Rome series is about noble Roman general Victorius who falls in love with the daughter of Ceasar, Julia. In All my Gods, Saturn’s son falls in love with the goddess of love Venus. The sale will end February 17.

Happy Labs today introduces Hotel Story 1.0.2, its new game title developed for iOS devices. Hotel Story is an epic strategy and simulation game for the hotel and resorts genre. Players customize the resort in an isometric view, manage facilities, decorations, and invest in projects which will help grow the town in which the resort is built upon. Players have access to 14 different types of facilities, and 18 unique tourist types. They can also show off their resort with fellow Hoteliers online.

Indie developer Sergey Safonov today introduces Scramble: Word Puzzle Game for iOS, his mind-altering game where players must rearrange a group of letters to form a word in as few turns as possible. Played against Zen-like background photos, it is unlike typical word games that permit moving individual letters to any position. Scramble players must drag groups of one or more letters off the screen moving left or right. Moved letters reappear in reverse order on the opposite side of the screen.

iEntertainment Network, Inc. introduces M4 Tank Brigade for Mac OS X, a brand new Free online WW II tank game. IENT also is the home of the Mac WarBirds 2013 online combat flying simulation. M4 Tank Brigade players can control up to 4 tanks, manuever each for different combat missions, control airstrikes and artillery, jump between vehicles, and fight for battlefield dominance. And, they can kill PC users as often as they like.

Joining Food Run HD is a new version of Food Run 1.0.7, for iPhone only. This gives players a choice of an all-in-one universal version and a cheaper iPhone-only version of the colourful platform game. Game progress is synced via iCloud across all versions and platforms. With colorful characters based on popular foodstuffs, Food Run is presented using crisp cartoon visuals. The goal in Food Run is to reach the end of the level, collecting all the foods and stars along the way.