Notable New Releases

First Looks

Parachute Panic

iTunes ($0.99)

Description:

"This unique casual game requires you to successfully land a host of parachutists into passing boats. Beware of imminent dangers such as helictopter blades, U.F.O´s, sharks and thunder clouds.

How to Play:

- deploy parachutes by tapping on a falling skydiver

- swipe anywhere to draw wind and influence their movements

- destroy some obstacles by tapping on them 5x

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The game is addictive, yet suprisingly hard. The music is also really great!

Need For Speed Undercover

iTunes ($9.99)

Description:

DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES? Get behind the wheel of the world’s #1 racing franchise to find out! Explode into a racing frenzy with Need for Speed™ Undercover on your iPhone™ and iPod® touch in this action-packed adventure of hot pursuit and betrayal.
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Need for speeds graphics are top notch, the game includes many modes, and the overall presentation is good.

Return to Mysterious Island

iTunes ($4.99)

Return to Mysterious Island is like Myst, but better in some ways. Unlike Myst which uses photos, this game uses panoramas. This game also includes animation in the panoramas. For example, you might see a fish jumping out of the water in the panorama. You also collect and combine items.

Description:

Jules Verne's Return to Mysterious Island, inspired by the great Jules Verne’s novel, puts you in the shoes of Mina, a sailor who finds herself stranded on an island somewhere in the south Pacific.

Though the island looks deserted at first, it is dotted with traces of human habitation.

While Mina fights for survival and rescue, she’ll try to figure out who or what originally lived there, hoping to find what has been left behind...

True to the novel that inspired it, the game will have you exploring the island, in search for food or tools, while solving the many mysteries that hide from its cloudy heights down to its deepest caves...

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