Celebrate Independence Day With These Fantastic App and Game Sales

It's Independence Day here in the US, and the App Store is getting its fair share of the party with a ton of great games and apps on sale for low, low prices. Hooray!

We'll keep this list updated as we find out more information, and as folks send us their sale plans for the Fourth of July. For now, then, here's what we've got.

Update: July 4, 9:28am Better make sure you have all of your needed grilling supplies. Lots of charcoal, various things to throw on the grill, and of course beer (aka. fuel for the cook). We've also updated our list to include a couple dozen more great app and game sales.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has put several titles on sale, dropping all of its game prices to $0.99. This includes heavy hitters like Man of Steel in both regular and HD flavors, LEGO Harry Potter Years 5-7, Batman Arkham City Lockdown, Scribblenauts Remix, LEGO Batman DC Superheroes, Midway Arcade and Bastion.

From HeroCraft, you can grab Majesty: The Northern Expansion for $0.99, instead of the regular $2.99. You can also unlock Strategy & Tactics: WWII for a low $0.99, instead of the more typical $6.99. Deep savings, indeed.

Blitz Games is coming in for some inexpensive gaming, offering nine new "Brain Box" levels to Paper Titans, a quirky little strategy puzzler that our very own Rob Rich reports his mom doesn't hate. The full game with updates is price reduced for the holiday from $2.99 to $0.99, so get it while it's cheap!

Even free apps are getting into the spirit, like This Is Not A Ball Game's sale on in-app purchases for the long weekend. In addition to a sweet new update, the game's pricing structure will change as follows, with the standard pricing for in-app purchases ($1, $3, $5, $10, $20, $50) dropping to half-off. The new promotional pricing will be $1, $2, $3, $5, $10, $25 for the same items and item packs. Note that the $1 items will not be half off, and will remain the same.

Telltale Games has reduced most all of their paid apps to $0.99. This includes the recently released Poker Night 2 and most all of their story / adventure games. Check the full list at the App Store.

And all the rest

And there are a whole bunch of other apps and games on sale to fill your Independence Day with savings. Here's a list of some of our picks.