If you love the holiday season as much as we do, then you'll be happy to know that Nimblebit has just pushed live a Christmas-y update to Tiny Tower. There's festive music, Santas and elves, apartments filled with Christmas trees and wreaths, and all sorts of other merry surprises.

If you own an iDevice of any sort, there’s very little chance you haven’t played a Nimblebit game. The three-man indie studio founded by brothers Ian and David Marsh is responsible for some of the most endearing free-to-play experiences around, including Pocket Frogs, Tiny Tower and the recent Pocket Planes. Well, folks, hold on tight to your wallets, because details of the next title have begun to eek out, and it looks adorable.

Tiny Tower’s not so tiny any more. Yesterday, Nimblebit’s Ian Marsh took to his Twitter to make a startlingly big announcement: the game has now surpassed 10 million iOS downloads. And let’s not forget that the game has recently launched on Android, too, so the combined number of downloads is no doubt even higher. So how does a developer celebrate such a milestone? With a giveaway, of course!

Just yesterday Bingo Blitz developer Buffalo Studios claimed that Zynga's upcoming game Zynga Bingo was a copy of its social game. And this came not long after Tiny Tower developer Nimblebit made similar accusations. Now Zynga has finally responded and, expectedly, denied any wrongdoing.

Earlier today we brought exciting news from the Great White North – Zynga had released two brand new games on the Canadian App Store, and one of them seemed to be in the same vein as Tiny Tower. Since that time I’ve had a chance to go hands on with Dream Heights, and it turns out that it’s less “the same vein” and more “blatant plagiarism.”

Tiny Tower is a tower building simulation game from NimbleBit for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Given a bit of money and unlimited potential, it’s up to you to build your very own pixel tower however you desire. Building this tower can be a bit complex, but with Gamezebo’s quick start guide you’ll be up and running in no time with a tower that’s a bit more than just tiny.

Building management in real life is no fun. You need to keep vacancies low, tenants happy, and make sure everything is safe and up to code. Despite some similarities to the real thing, however, building management in Tiny Tower is a blast.

Building a skyscraper is hard work. But building a game about building a skyscraper? That’s even harder. Since we first previewed Tiny Tower back in March, the team at Nimblebit have been hard at work getting the game prepped for launch. Now that they’re a little further along, they’ve been so kind as to prepare a trailer to whet your appetite even further.