Small Wonders has just recently announced that Battle of Puppets, their really awesome looking strategy game has just been released!

Here is the description:

Battle of Puppets casts its player in the role of a silent puppeteer, who must strategically control his hordes of marionette minions and send them across the show stage. The goal is to perform your act on Broadway, but first, they must travel across the country, taking on opposing puppets at each stop!

Touting a vibrant artistic style, Battle of Puppets combines beautiful graphics, the hallowed art of puppetry, and ruthless combat! Players select and perform their opera in a series of 22 American theatres, each with its own custom backdrop of famous landmarks. Each competition then lets the puppeteer strategically build units, upgrade their castle and outposts, and even cast spells using written gestures to destroy the opposing forces and win the affection of the crowd.

Each of the 5 operas vary significantly in terms of relative strengths and weaknesses, unit types, building speeds, and most interestingly, how they are affected by changing weather conditions. Choosing the best route across the country based on weather patterns is just one of the compelling strategic decisions players make in Battle of Puppets!

There are also 6 professions and an extra race to unlock as the campaigns progress! Professions let players perform magic to sway the course of battle on stage, and are activated by executing unique gestures. Learn to repair your troops, mind control the enemy, boo the opposition, and more! Also, use the unlockable race to take on the hard mode campaign.

Features:

Maps:
• 22 unique locations, each with changing backdrops for day and night.

Armies:
• play as any of the 5 different armies, each representing famous operas.
• 20 distinctive unit types

Modes:
• 3 game-play modes
• Battleground – destroy the enemy castle
• Survival – stay alive!
• Fast Battleground – destroy the enemy fast
• 3 difficulty levels
• 3 distict user profiles

Professions:
• 6 unlockable professions let players cast magic on the enemy

Climate:
• Multiple climates that affect your troops in battle

Languages
• English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Japanese and French.

And a gameplay video:

VERY cool game, I love the concept of it. We’ll try to get a review up as soon as we can get our hands on it!

IUGO Mobile Entertainment recently announced a great puzzle game called ESCAPE: Norm’s World, and we have screenshots and video!

Here is the description:

Zone out on limitless Zen puzzles with ESCAPE. Jump the little guy from stone to stone to eliminate all and solve the puzzle. Escape features:

- Endless levels and gameplay
- 2 additional unlockable difficulty modes introduced through DLC (iPhone only)
- Simple controls for all ages
- Minimalist graphics for maximum appeal
- Unique cerebral game play complimented by relaxing audio and visual effects
- Surprisingly addictive!

Here is a gameplay video:

And here are screenshots:

Looks great! It will be released for both the iPhone and Blackberry devices, stay tuned for more information.

Guerrilla Bob, from Angry Mob Games and published by Chillingo, has hit the app stores!

Description from Chillingo:

Guerrilla Bob supersedes the ordinary survival shooter experience by providing elements of depth and complexity never before met with any iPhone games of its genre.
It goes beyond circling endless waves of enemies, and adds structured level designs and various challenges.

Level by level, follow Bob to taste the thrill for the kill! You must help Bob make his way through the dangerous canyons, steep deserts and dreadful towns. To do this, he must not only survive the countless attacks, but also explore the land in search of new arsenal and secret items. To make things even more challenging, Bob gets some epic boss encounters.

Here is the extended gameplay video:

And a whole whack of screenshots of some of the enemies you will find in Guerrilla Bob:

The game looks so fun – we can’t wait to get our hands on it! Review soon.

A very cool idea, dubbed Project 72 from Dog Town Studios, has just hit the app store. Here’s the description:

STORY

Project 72 begun Tuesday January 5, when 4 boys from Venice CA aka Dogtown sat down for dinner and started to discuss what to do next. The idea of making a game in 72 hours started to take place. A few hours later at 8pm the project was officially on its way, deadline set to Friday January 8 at 8pm . Were they gonna finish it in time?

They did and this game is the result!

GAME

You guide your rocket through space avoiding running out of fuel and hitting all the obstacle.
When you collide with an obstacles you either slow down or get eliminated

* Asteroids and satellites will cause the ship to slow down.
* Black holes will pull you towards them until you run out of fuel and get stuck in space (GAME OVER!).
* UFO’s should be avoided at all cost as they will destroy you on the spot.

In order to travel far into space you need rocket fuel, there are fuel power-up’s that appear randomly throughout the game and you need to pick up as many as possible. There are also other power-up’s to help you on your mission such as a Shield and some Nitro.

Very polished looking game! Check out the screenshots:

DarkSonar, a new kind of submarine battle game, from TriApps has just hit the appstore! Here is the description of the app:

Missions
Find the enemies and destroy them.
Locate the base of the enemies and destroy it.
You must help our allied mother ship not to be sunken,
You must help our allies to destroy all the enemies.
And so on.

Weapons
You can switch your weapon at any time during the battles (missions) : like torpedo, homing, mine, bomb and decoy (If your ship is upgraded to use it)
Don’t forget to upgrade your weapons more powerful (Damage, Weapon Speed, etc)

Features
Single play mode only
Total 14 missions are included
Upgrade screen after each mission
Dynamic battles with great sounds
Intuitive user interfaces and easy to control
Prologue and Credits at the end of this game.

Here is a gameplay video:

The game looks really cool – I have never seen anything like this before. We’re going to try to get our hands on it and give it a good review.

A very nifty puzzle game, Project Void from IGotItGames, has recently hit the app store. It’s pretty unique, check out the description:

The goal is to use Tetris-styled pieces to cover randomly generated game boards. Along the way to the finish line you’ll encounter colored voids, tools and more. There are two game modes to experience – a more casual, friendly mode, and a hardcore timed mode. In the end, post your score online to give somebody else a run for their money!

Here is a gameplay video:

The game looks pretty challenging, and apparently the stages are randomly generated! We’ve added it to our review queue, so be on the look out for it.

Just learned that Mortal Skies – Modern War Air Combat Shooter by Erwin Jansen has just hit the app store. I’m a huge fan of shmups, and this game looks great. Here are is a gameplay video:

And here are some screenshots:

Game looks fantastic – despite reports of its difficulty. Probably going to pick it up sometime later this week. Hope you all enjoy it!

A very cool looking 3D racing game called Electro Racer from Discovery Networks International has just hit the app store. Here is the app description:

Get ready for an exciting new Racing game on the iPhone from Discovery International. The team that brought you Cannon Challenge, now brings you “Electro Racer”

High-speed arcade racing game Electro Racer, lets you pilot a futuristic alternative fuel hovercraft through two adrenaline packed race tracks. Collect powerups and glide through turns and jumps as you compete against computer-controlled opponents, and then upload your high scores to see how your performance ranks on the global online leaderboard.

KEY FEATURES:

4 Different Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Exciting 3D graphics
2 High speed race circuits
Online Leaderboards

If you like F-Zero, Ridge Racer, Wipeout, Need for Speed, or Asphalt 4, then you should play Electro Racer Today!

Check it out, definitely looks like a promising racing title.

Low Grav Racer, from Cobra Mobile, will be free for an unspecified period of time, so be sure to grab it while you can! Reminiscent of F-Zero, definitely one of those titles you gotta check out, and it’s free, so you can’t really go wrong.

Here is a gameplay video:

Enjoy!

Flick Kick Field Goal, from PikPok Games, has just hit the app store!

Here’s the description:

See if you have what it takes to compete in the ultimate American Football Field Goal Kicking competition.

Field Goal features multiple kicking challenges, realistic graphics and insanely addictive flick to kick game play.

Flick Kick™ Field Goal Features

• Intuitive Flick Kicking: Control the angle and curve of your kick with the flick of your finger.
• Ultimate Football Challenge: 360 degree wind with shifting severity. Anything from a light breeze to gale force winds must be taken into account
• Multiple Game Modes:

– Sudden Death: The classic test of skill. No time limit, just keep making kicks to add multipliers to your score.
– Arcade Mode: kicks are taken from five different positions. Score as many points as you can. The last kick at each position will award you bonus points if you make it.
– Time Attack: Quick Fire Flick Kicking! Make as many kicks as possible within the time limit – Don’t buckle under the pressure!
– Practise Mode: Perfect your technique and learn how to become a kicking master

• Online Leaderboards and Achievements with OpenFeint Support : Show your friends that you’re the best kicker around
• iPod Library Access: play your favourite music during the game
• Stunning 3D graphics!

And some screenshots: