Christmas is right around the corner and most of us feel uplifted by the shopping rush around us. There’s hardly any time to relax, wind down and pick up a game to play. But for those of us that did our Christmas shopping early this year, there’s plenty of time to mock those that left it to the very end yet again by getting our hands dirty with some great games that were released in the AppStore. One of these games is Draco and it will fire up your world. Literally!

Draco is a fun arcade slide-and-shoot type of game that seems to get a lot of the ingredients right for the recipe to success. I actually like it when games have a story line, something you can follow along and that even hardcore action shooter gamers can feel like they’re involved in. Draco starts out beautifully, with a myth about how the Great Heartwood tree was the heart of the world [...]

How many times did you find yourself complaining to other parents about the videos that your children watch on TV or on the Internet? It’s hard enough to keep track on what they’re watching when you’re at home, and sometimes impossible while you’re at work. But now, you can give him another option, a better option, one that you can have total control over. Enter Video Baby on the AppStore.

Video Baby is the app that both you, and your child will enjoy. With it, you can control what videos your child is watching, and he can enjoy watching his favorite videos in a fun format, especially designed for him. All you need to do is create a profile and start adding as many playlists and videos as you like. And the great part is that you can add as many profiles as you like, too. So, each one of your children can have his [...]

In a galaxy far, far away, there’s a planet that uses Maths to control the world. But now, an alien planet is attacking, and all the secrets of Maths risk to be forever lost. And it is all up to you to save this planet by using the force of Maths to destroy the enemies. All the action takes place in AppStore’s own Math Evolve for the iPhone and iPad.

Math Evolve is an educational and fun app that helps children improve their Maths skills, while having fun shooting at vile creatures to save an endangered planet. Just add your name to create a profile, and then you’re all set to go. This way, you can keep track of the evolution of your Maths skills and compare them with your brothers, sisters or friends, since you can create as many different profiles as you want.

With Math Evolve, there are 12 levels to clear, 3 different environments to pass through [...]

A delivery container was lost, and all the padlocks of the container have been scattered along four continents with different seasons. Unless somebody with the necessary skills appears and manages to complete the challenges to recover the padlocks, then the container will never be opened again. What do you say? Can you be the one to recover the padlocks? Download Four Seasons Planet from the AppStore and find out.

Four Seasons Planet is an arcade game, where you have to calculate your every move to remove the delivery boxes on the screen in the proper order, so that the parts of the padlocks don’t fall on the ground. The goal is to make them fall on certain boxes that cannot be moved. These are usually marked with certain writings or yellow stripes, so that you know straight from the start where the padlock has [...]

Remember when you were little and you used to pile up bricks or cards or whatever seemed appropriate, trying to make your pile as high as possible? Now, it would look a little odd if you would start piling up bricks or cards while you’re at the office. But that doesn’t mean you have to say goodbye to the thrill of stacking things. Especially now, when you can test your stacking skills with a single download of Stack King from the AppStore.

Stack King is an addictive arcade game, where you basically have to create a stack of boxes. And you can do all this with just one tap on the screen. One tap, plus a good hand to eye coordination and reaction time. Because these boxes don’t just stand there, waiting for you to pick them up. As they slide horizontally from one side of the screen to another, you have to stop them with a tap, when you think [...]

When you say puzzle, you automatically think of pieces that have to go along to create a bigger picture. Well, but what if, instead of creating a picture out of puzzle pieces, you were supposed to recreate a song? Sounds interesting? Well, there’s only one way to find out. Download Musical Puzzle HD from the AppStore and find out for yourself.

Musical Puzzle HD is a new type of puzzle that requires both your visual and audio skills. Just pick a song from the list provided by the app, play it, and try to recreate it by using the audio puzzle pieces that you are given. Once you found the right piece, add it to the board and play the song once again to see if you were right and what sound you need to add next.

With Musical Puzzle HD, the unique feeling of listening to classical music is accompanied by the thrill of actually being [...]

TaggyDial lets you pair pictures of your friends and family with contact information already available on your iPhone by tagging faces in the pictures. Afterwards, you can just tap the face you previously tagged to call that person.

This iPhone app tries to make use of all the photos you already have on your device and lets you magically call a person by tapping on its face in a photo. Well, it’s not really magic, because you have to manually add photos to the app, tag each person in the photo and pair it with one of your contacts or create a new one.

Then, when you want to call your friend Bob, launch TaggyDial instead of the Phone or Contacts app and tap a picture and then tap your Bob’s face to bring up his contact card. Tap the number you want to call and you’re done.

You can also have more than one contact in a photo. This works [...]