Apps

The Retina-ready iPad game Namco demoed onstage at Apple’s media event last week has gone live in the App Store. Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy costs $5 as a universal download for the iPhone and iPad. Like Skies of Glory and other 3D flight simulators, Sky Gamblers uses your iOS device’s accelerometer and gyroscopes to control your fighter jet in the air. The graphics looked stunning onstage last week, so we can’t wait to try this game on our new iPads this weekend!

Featured in this week’s must-have iOS games is the much-anticipated Age of Zombies – the new game from Halfbrick Studios. The creators of Fruit Ninja and Monster Dash bring us their biggest adventure yet, which sees the return of Barry Steakfries – the tough-as-nails commando who loves nothing more than to shoot up zombies. Also earning a place on our list of favorites this week is Gun Bros, another shoot ‘em up from Glu that features non-stop 3D action as the ‘Bros’ attempt to protect the cosmos from t...

Here at Mashable we love a good zombie. The grosser, the better. We imagine a few of you out there feel the same way, so we've scoured the App Store to find the best...

“Bustin’,” Ray Parker, Jr. once observed, “makes me feel good.” Mr. Parker made that declaration in song for the 1984 movie Ghostbusters. Had he instead been tasked with recording a tune for the 2012 iOS game Ghostbusters Paranormal Blast, he’d be less likely to feel enthusiastically toward busting, be it ghosts or otherwise.

We can imagine that a fair share of iPads got unwrapped this morning, and the first thing you’re going to want to do is switch it on and get a…

Apple's iOS 4 has arrived, bringing multitasking and more to iPhones and iPod Touches everywhere (iTunes willing). Here are the apps that already take advantage of the new OS, and some that should be hitting the App Store soon. In the App Store NOW: • Dropbox - Sync your Dropbox files in the background. • Evernote - Download and upload notes in the background, and continue recording voice notes while you're messing around in other apps. • Zagat • LinkedIN • How To Cook Everything • Trapster...

iOS 5 is here and most apps are slowly updating to include iCloud support, Newsstand, Twitter integration and more to iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches all around the world. Here's our list of apps updated for iOS 5. Let us know if we're missing any apps! • Twitter - Photos upload to pic.twitter.com, DMs are re-designed on iPad and more • Foursquare - Updated with a new Radar feature to alert you when you're near some friends, a place you wanted to try, or a list you followed • Soundhound - iCloud...

Kicking off this week’s must-have games roundup is Wild Blood, Gameloft’s first game to be built upon the impressive Unreal Engine, which lets you live out the story of Sir Lancelot. There’s also a new title from Marvel, the awesome sequel to VS. Racing, and Square Enix’s latest Final Fantasy title.

The physics in the game seem to be very real and is consistently applied throughout the game. Take some time this weekend and teach yourself through trial and error the basics of bridge building with Bridge Constructor.

As a follow-up to Tank Hero, Tank Hero Laser Wars is a puzzle game with a twist. You control an armored tank equipped to remove all enemy tanks from the battlefield. But the battle takes place in a locked room.

The recent spate of shootings, particularly the one in Newtown, CT, have sparked a wave of debate that tends to focus on both gun control and violent media, mostly video games. Now, in an uneasy confluence of the two, the National Rifle Association has released its own iOS shooting game, called NRA: Practice Range. Made by mobile developers Medl but apparently licensed by the NRA, the game seems designed as an aggressively uncontroversial take on guns, allowing users to move their phones to shoot skeet...

We've rounded up the best kid's games that were included in our weekly Top 5 Kids Apps this year.

What helps this game stand apart from other role-playing tower defense games multiplayer games is its co-op mode.

What makes this 3D puzzle game truly amazing is the fact that you can create your own levels from photos in your library or ones you take in the game with the camera.

Block Fortress is a mix of tower defense and first person shooter style games where you must create your own fortress to defend.

Apple announced on Thursday that the application downloaded to reach the App Store's 50 billion milestone was "Say the Same Thing" by Space Inch, landing an Ohio man a $10,000 gift card.

Several interesting apps were released this week. Disney released its own Draw Something competitor called Scribblemix that lets you trade drawings back and forth with friends. What's more, Facebook released a major update to Facebook Home, and Hulu put out a big update for the iPad. Curious about how all these apps look? Check out Mashable's hands-on video, above, featuring our favorite apps from this past week.

Want to stay inside and keep cool? These iPad games will keep you entertained while you’re close to the A/C.

Few mobile games offer single-screen action with friends as intense and fun as Lucky Frame’s Gentlemen! Sure, there are multiplayer experiences like swapping turns in Letterpress or fighting for the highest score in Ridiculous Fishing, but nothing quite like this. It’s sort of like a two-player take on Super Crate Box mixed with Spy vs. Spy, only instead of having to kill off waves of enemies, you’ll need to dispose of a human foe sitting right across from you. You’ll compete across a handful of simple...

This hero of this week’s game is Mikey, who must jump through a series of obstacles to save his friends.

Google has made its Quickoffice suite free on iOS for users with Google accounts, and Disney has released an iPad companion app for its Disney Infinity console game.