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After a successful Kickstarter Pro Pinball: Timeshock!, an upcoming title from Barnstorm Games, will be arriving on the App Store later this week. That in itself is awesome.

Ahead of that, we are proud to announce that we have a new trailer for the game -- exclusively on 148apps.com!

The game is based on the popular 90s game series Pro Pinball.

Barnstorm Development Chief Adrian Barritt mentions the nostalgia that made the redevelopment possible. “It’ll be great to have Timeshock! back in the hands of players again; the Kickstarter campaign has demonstrated that there is so much nostalgia for this title both from us and fans of the original Pro Pinball series of games," he says. "We are bringing the definitive pinball simulation to a new generation of platforms and players, starting today with iOS. The Retina screens and tactile nature of the iPhone and iPad are such a perfect fit, the game has never been realized in such stunning clarity before.”

As noted, the game is due out this week. It will be available in two tiers, Standard ($2.99) and Deluxe ($6.99) on the App Store.

The trailer is below:

Choice Provisions - home stable to Woah Dave! and the BIT.TRIP series - is bringing their new game, dubbed Destructamundo, to iOS device users.

Check out these BULLET POINTS:

Easy single-tap gameplay for short bursts or long sessions of stellar extermination! Play for a few seconds on the toilet, or play for hours on the couch!
Awesome power-ups that make your quest for universal destruction all the more satisfying!
Original dialog between each level!
72 levels set across three different parsecs!
Rad space-related terminology like “parsecs”!

Destructamundo is slated to arrive on the App Store on January 28, and will cost $1.99.

2k and Firaxis have formally announced an upcoming game: Sid Meier’s Starships.

The new game is part of the Sid Meier series, and specifically expands upon Civilization: Beyond Earth's science fiction universe. The game is described as a turn-based strategy game that makes the player the fleet commander ultimately in pursuit of peace.

Sid Meier (who serves as creative development chief at Firaxis) talks about experiences with regards to the new game. “When designing Starships, I was intrigued by the idea of exploring the next chapter in the story of Civilization: Beyond Earth. What happens after we colonize our new home and eventually build starships to take to the stars? What has become of our long-lost brothers and sisters from the planet Earth?” he says. “My goal was to create an experience that focuses on starship design and combat within a universe filled with interstellar adventure, diplomacy, and exploration.”

There's no word on pricing yet, but Sid Meier's Starships is scheduled to drop in "early 2015."

For fans of the evil adolescent comedy Mean Girls, this is great news: Mean Girls: The Game is set to be released on iOS.

Developed by the appropriately named So Much Drama Studios, the game is cheekily described as a "tiara defense" game; it's all about maintaining the crew's rep.

Designed as an easily accessible ‘tiara-defense’ game, Mean Girls finds the original Plastics at peace with their world, when a new upstart Plastics clique attempts to take control of North Shore High School by piecing together the broken Spring Fling Tiara. Players can select from eight of their favorite Mean Girls characters — Cady, Regina, Gretchen, Karen, Janis, Damian, Aaron, and Kevin, each with their own distinct boost abilities — and all the cliques from the cafeteria, to help defeat opponents and complete each level.

Additional Mean Girls game features include:

Location, Location, Location: Play through movie-inspired locations such as the North Shore High School Cafeteria, Classroom, Football Field, and the Basketball Court.
Power Ups: Collect hump day treats, Kalteen bars, peppermint foot cream, pieces of the tiara, and improve popularity to gain points and boost power ups.
Let It Out Honey: Burn your friends on Facebook with your high scores and let them have it in the Burn Book.

There's no word on the exact time or price just yet, but we're keeping an eye on this one.

Development house Starship is getting closer to releasing its new imagination game, Playworld Superheroes.

Some game details, per a recent press release:

Set in a city garden littered with junk and unloved cast-offs, each chapter of super-powered playtime begins in the Playworld treehouse, a crafting hub in which the game’s themes are realized. Players must defeat playful enemies on the ground in intense moment-to-moment action, jumping back to the real world to craft new tools and gadgets to level up their powers. Would-be heroes must then take to the skies to overcome their greatest challenge yet. Armed only with their imagination, the player must skip between two worlds to save them both in a Hollywood blockbuster-styled game of their own creation.

Playworld Superheroes has been teased before, but now we get to see a fresh trailer with a bit of gameplay while we wait for its release - which should be fairly soon.

Yellow monkey Studios, the crew behind HUEBRIX and Finger Footie, is bringing a new gaming adventure to iOS called Socioball.

It looks like a sort of cross between one of those step-by-step programming games and something akin to golf. If golf involved getting a ball to some sort of teleporter pad, that is. Okay so it's a bit odd, but it does look pretty interesting.

Socioball is scheduled to drop on the App Store next week on January 15.

Secret Files Tunguska, the hit console mystery adventure, is finally making its way to iOS courtesy of Deep Silver FISHLABS and Animation Arts. The game, which will be localized into 7 languages, features plenty of in-game puzzles, great artwork, and dozens of locations.

Secret Files Tunguska will have an initial cost of $4.99 on the App Store. In the meantime, you should take a peek at the new gameplay trailer below.

Nintendo has announced a new feature especially geared towards smartphone-using fans of its upcoming Wii gamem Mario Kart 8. The web service, tentatively known as Mario Kart TV, builds upon the ability of players to share race footage on the internet; the mobile device-ready video feature should be available to right around the official release of the game.

According to investor information presented by Nintendo, the service "will enable more people to easily watch Nintendo’s official videos, view rankings, watch videos that their friends have shared and videos of tournaments in which they have participated. We will work on providing this type of service so that players can enjoy video games more and be in contact with them even when they are not in front of a video game system."

No release date has been confirmed but, as noted, the service should go live at the end of the month (5/30) - around the time Mario Kart 8 is released.

Slothwerks have announced that their upcoming puzzle RPG, Tales of the Adventure Company, is set to release on iOS this June. Here is a description of the game from the developer themselves:

In a nutshell, Tales of the Adventure Company is a small puzzle/RPG game in which players follow the story of the Adventure Company across 5 episodes. Players will travel from undead crypts to icy wastelands, slaying enemies along the way. As players progress, they’ll unlock new heroes to join the Adventure Company, building their team during each quest.

The developer has also stated that the game will contain no ads or in-app purchases, will have Game Center support, and will be updated with additional episodes after release.

Tales of the Adventure Company is set to release on iOS sometime this June for $1.99. For those to you who can't quite wait until then, a sample version of the game is available to play in web browsers now.

Firedroid has just announced a new game, Ice Cream Nomsters, that is due out soon.

The game is described as a time management adventure via the developer informational:

Om nom nom! Ice Cream Nomsters is a time management game in which you plan the routes of the ice cream truck to deliver ice cream. Deliver as much ice cream as you can before the timer runs out and the ice cream melts. Keep up with the ridiculous ice cream demand by upgrading your ice cream truck!

Ice Cream Nomsters is due out on the App Store in Summer 2014. if the trailer is any indication, it should be loads of fun.

ClutchPlay Games is using Tax Day as an opportunity to release the trailer for its upcoming game Skullduggery!, which is due out in the Fall.

The game is a physics puzzler. According to the release, Skullduggery! combines the physics flinging of Angry Birds with the action coin-collection of Jetpack Joyride and the puzzle-platforming of, well, a puzzle-platformer.

“You can’t take it with you” they said. Well, they were wrong! “Deadbeats” have been taking their riches with them to the afterlife for centuries and it’s the job of the InFERnal Revenue Service — and its army of semi-organic autonomous skulls — to collect!

Using the elasticity of your own brain, flick yourself around the fortresses of the afterlife’s biggest deadbeats. Slow time to avoid deadly obstacles and pull off awesome trick shots to collect riches. Discover hidden caches, slip past surly guards, and much more.

Evergreen Studios has announced that its upcoming game, Tales of Honor: The Secret Fleet, will be available for iOS devices via the App Store on April 24.

Timed to match the time period of the recently released 'Tales of Honor: On Basilisk Station' comics, the game follows the action of a newly minted naval academy cadet looking to save the day. For fans of David Weber's Honor Harrington, it should be a real treat.

Evergreen senior executives Scott Kroopf and Richard Browne are eager to the game hit the App Store. “Tales of Honor: The Secret Fleet is the next phase in the expansion of the Tales of Honor story world,” says Kroopf. “Now gamers can discover the unique battle tactics and enjoy the military authenticity of the Honorverse. The game, like the recently released comic, is intended to function as a standalone experience, yet we're designing them to be complementary. Our goal is to make it easy for fans of all types to explore the rich universe that David Weber has created."

Tales of Honor: The Secret Fleet will be available for free. The second comic issue of Tales of Honor: On Basilisk Station will be available in comic stores and digitally on Comixology.com on April 30.

For more information, please visit www.tales-of-honor.com.

IceFlame LTD, the development house behind soccer and car racing mashup Soccer Rally, has just announced the publish date for Soccer Rally 2.

Like the original this new iteration is likened to polo, with players using souped-up vehicles to advance the game ball. The game sports both single player and multiplayer modes, with multiplayer games allowing for different sports balls to be used. Cars can be customized, and thee is plenty of in-app content to be purchased.

Soccer Rally 2 is due out, for free, on the App Store on April 24.

Headup Games has announced Bridge Constructor Medieval, which follows in the footsteps of hit game Bridge Constructor.

The gameplay elements will be familiar, but the backdrop in this one gets shifted to a time when knights roamed the land and castle decor was in vogue. As in the original, building the right bridges is key; good bridges can help protect supplies, but can also serve as traps with regards to marauding enemy.

More details on Bridge Constructor Medieval will be forthcoming.

11 bit studios has announced its upcoming title, Anomaly Defenders. The game will be the final installment in its Anomaly series of tower offense games.

Anomaly Defenders will be a unique shift, in that the aliens are the attacked party and humans need to be neutralized. The developer refers to the game as the "first ever Reverse Tower Offense game." It will entail making tactical decisions in real time. Towers have different abilities, and units react to different towers in different ways.

There will be 24 levels with adjustable levels of difficulty. Anomaly Defenders is due out later this Spring.