If you liked playing the original Mattel Football game devices when you were a kid, get this app. Made by TouchGrove, LED Football 2 nails the clicks, sounds, and graphics of the original. If you're too young to know what the Mattel Football games were like, read further. In LED Football 2 you play as the quarterback with a receiver in front of you. The computer plays defense and moves down ... more.

Flipt, InstantAction’s new puzzler, is available in the app store. Simply changing the orientation of your iDevice allows you to use just about any surface as you race to complete each level. Flipt doesn’t have a lot of bells and whistles out of the gate. There are no options other than sound adjustments. You can only access the main game mode, though there is an unlockable time trial m... more.

Galcon Labs, the follow-up to the popular RTS game Galcon, is available from the app store. Galcon Labs improves upon the original by including several new game modes with unique challenges that make a fun game even more enjoyable. The goal of Galcon Labs, as in Galcon, is to eradicate the enemy by occupying all of the planets on the gameboard. Tap a planet that you occupy to select its f... more.

Ace Combat Xi: Skies of Incursion, Namco Bandai’s aerial combat game, has been released and is available from the app store. While the game is visually appealing and the concept is always entertaining, this game is way too short and has an overall outdated yet still incomplete feel to it. Ace Combat Xi opens with a nice cinematic trailer, similar to the type you’d see at the beginning o... more.

Earlier than September of 2009 the creative minds over at "the Studio of Dreams" (AKA ustwo HQ) envisioned their innovative 48 Hr App idea. Taking a line from our earlier comments on the series: The story behind .™ is perhaps as interesting as the app itself. The team set forth to conceptualize, design, develop, and submit the a unique game to Apple in 48 hours flat. Accomplishing this was n... more.

Grover's Number Special is what will hopefully be the first of many apps to be released by Sesame Street for the iPhone and iPod touch. Combining counting lessons with vivid visuals, Grover's Number Special brings one of the Workshop's most beloved characters to the iDevice screen. Developed in association with IDEO, Grover's Number Special revolves around helping the clumsy waiter suc... more.

iPhone app developer ustwo's 48 Hr App saga took another step today with the release of ..™ into the App Store.  Formed with the unique idea of developing a series of apps in short 48 hour bursts of creativity, ustwo's 48 Hr App project hatched its first app back in September.  Titled .™ (or The Dot), the simple app surprised as a just-one-more-try phenomenon.  Now the second of six app... more.

We saw a slew of updates to some of our AppSmile faves this week.  10 Pin Shuffle, TriDefense, and Cell War all received significant refreshes while Ben10 MouthOff hit the US shores for the first time since its oversees release in October.  Details of all the update follow... 10 Pin Shuffle | Review | Download (Lite) New Features: A new game variation has been added called 10 Pin Poker... more.

Labyrinth 2, the sequel to one of the original and most popular iDevice games, has been released by Illusion Labs and is quickly climbing the app store charts. Bringing several new game elements and extremely polished gameplay, Labyrinth 2 should easily roll over any and all competitors. While the original Labyrinth was strictly about avoiding the holes found throughout each level, Labyri... more.

Super Monkey Ball 2, SEGA’s follow-up to the popular rolling monkey series, is now available from the app store. Enhanced 3D graphics, a multiplayer mode, and vastly improved controls should go a long way toward mending fences with players who were frustrated with the original version. Super Monkey Ball 2 allows you to play as any of the 4 characters (AiAi, MeeMee, GonGon, or Baby), t... more.

Adrenaline Snowboarding, a new downhill racing, snow-carving game from Sandbox Entertainment, is live in the app store. Despite its flashy looks and great title, this game just feels like it was rushed to market and doesn’t quite live up to the expectations. There are a handful of snowboarding apps for the iDevice, with Crazy Snowboard leading the way. In order to compete with these e... more.

This week we are proud to announce our Featured Apps being given away are Audio Puzzle, AirBear, Seed 1: Rise of Darkness, Mr. Mahjong Touch, Simon's Cat in Purrfect Pitch, and Rope Raider! 23 winners will be announced this Thursday 12/17/09! To enter, simply subscribe to our AppSmile Newsletter HERE. Subscribers will be automatically entered to win all future Featured App Giveaways. We'r... more.

Fans of pop music star Robbie Williams rejoiced to hear that he would be getting his own iPhone game alongside the release of his new album Reality Killed The Video Star. Now that the game is here, some of the excitement may wear off due to it's hard to control mechanics and lack of gaming content. Robbie Williams Racing, by Artificial Life, invites players and fans to Robbie's world to ... more.

One of our favorite platformers, Bounce On ,has had a surprise update that has added some significant new features. Team Phobic, creators of Bounce On, have a long history of faithfully updating their beloved platformer since it's initial release in December 2008. Originally a one-world adventure, new worlds were added at pretty regular intervals. The most recent World 4 was added 6 months pr... more.

Audio Puzzle, by Dexoris Studios, is a game perfectly suited for the iPod Touch and iPhone devices. This beautifully presented game generates little "jigsaw puzzles" out of segments of songs, challenging you to fit them back together. What makes it work is that unlike many other music games in the App Store, Audio Puzzle uses music stored on your device. This means that chances are, if th... more.