Cut the Rope: Holiday Gift, Infinity Blade, Adventure Bay and more! New iPhone Games This Week

Each week hundreds of new games hit the App Store, vying for your dollars. Join us every Friday as we sort through the pile and let you know which games should be on your radar. This week’s releases include a festive twist on a popular puzzler, a high seas adventure with your friends, lots of role playing action, and more!

New iPhone Games This Week is a new feature on Gamezebo. Be sure to check back every Friday to discover the latest and greatest games that have just surfaced on the App Store!

• Adventure Bay – ngmoco’s latest social game offers adventure on the high seas. (Review, Guide)
• Cut the Rope: Holiday Gift – Everyone’s favourite candy-loving monster gets a taste of the Christmas season in the free 25 level spin-off.
• Dead Rising Mobile – The Xbox 360 classic about being trapped in a mall filled with zombies makes the jump to the iPhone, and goes a long way to prove how good 3D games on the device can be. (Review)
• Dungeon Hunter 2 – Gameloft’s hotly anticipated action RPG sequel finally hit the App Store this week, offering a portable treat for fans of games like Diablo and Torchlight.
• Eternal Legacy – Fans of Chaos Rings will no doubt be interested by Gameloft’s first Japanese style RPG, which seems to offer all the flair and production of a SquareEnix title.
• Hero Project – Glu’s latest freemium offering takes players into the world of superheroes.
• Illusia – A unique mix of casual gameplay, side-scrolling action, and role-playing.
• Infinity Blade – The prettiest game on the iPhone makes its debut, and much to our delight this action RPG has the gameplay to match. (Review, Guide)
• Jenga – The classic family game gets a digital re-imagining with input from the original designer!
• Maya’s Dress-Up – Paper dolls go portable in this spin off from the PC time management game Fashion Boutique.
• A Moon for the Sky – Line drawing meets twitch gameplay as players try to draw lines to help the moon climb up to the sky.
• Pirates vs. Ninjas vs. Zombies vs. Pandas – Every gaming click imaginable makes it’s way into this Angry Birds style physics puzzler.
• Pixeline and the Jungle Treasure – Traditional platforming gets another solid release on the iPhone in this common yet fun side-scrolling adventure. (Review)
• Star Wars: Imperial Academy – First person shooting in a galaxy far, far away. (Review)
• Touch Pets Dogs 2 – Everyone’s favourite portable pooches are back, and the gameplay is decidedly different in parts this time around. (Review, Guide)
• WINtA – From the brilliant mind of Masaya Matsuura, creator of PaRappa the Rapper and grandfather to the modern music video game, comes a new music game about tapping lit squares.

Did we miss anything? Be sure to tell us what great games you discovered this week in the comments!

Jim Squires

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Jim Squires is the Editor-in-Chief of Gamezebo. Everything you see passes his eyes first, so we like to think of him as "the gatekeeper of cool stuff." He likes good games, great writing, and just can't say no to a hamburger. Also, he is not a bear.