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Doodle Grub has carved a nice niche in the market offering Snake style action with a cutesy twist on the concept, making for an ideal game for younger players. Already offering a series of different themes and musical tracks, it's just been updated to offer even more theme songs to listen to while playing.

Action is of the tilting variety with players helping the Doodle Grub navigate around the stage in order to eat apples and grow ever larger. It's so cutesy that there's even just been a new comic strip blog released featuring the adorable snake within the game. The comic is available over at Doodlegrub-comic.com and is bound to entertain kids. Updates are promised on a weekly basis

Check out the trailer for Doodle Grub below. It even features a ridiculously cute kitten!

Doodle Grub is available now. It's a free app with a $0.99 in-app purchase available to unlock all features.

Coming soon to the app store is Hard Lines - a game that appears to happily capture the spirit of Pac-Man, Snake and Geometry Wars all in one go.

Like all the best arcade style games, Hard Lines is all about how long the player can last. Players must guide Lionel the line through the Geometry Wars style arena, ensuring that they don't collide with an enemy's tail (just like Snake).

Gaining the best high score is the order of the day here with OpenFeint support allowing for global comparisons, and there will be 6 different gameplay modes providing some fresh but fast paced entertainment. Developers, Split Milk Studios, promise a good healthy dash of humor too so it'll be interesting to see how that works out in the full product.

Hard Lines will be available on the App Store in the near future and we'll be sure to provide more information soon. For now, take a look at the screenshot gallery and trailer below.

'Snake' is one of the oldest videogame concepts out there. Starting as a tiny character, you gobble up food and your body grows until you collide with either your own tail or the game's boundaries. It's a fun concept that starts out very simply, but eventually becomes a tricky balancing act of maneuvering your own body while still trying to grow.

Danjerous Labs loves Snake, but even they believe that a Snake game for iOS devices needs to fit its a platform. On the other hand, they didn't want to sacrifice the game's integrity in the process, and weren't satisfied with many of the Snake-inspired games in the App Store. So, to fill this perceived need, they wrote their own version of Snake. Developer Jeremiah Konkle says, "My approach was to strictly maintain the core concept of the "self-evolving puzzle" while updating the graphics, sound, and only slightly the gameplay to make this concept truly *fit* the iDevice gaming platform."

Danjerous Labs' game, Reef Snake, is their answer to "Snake on the iPhone." Reef Snake includes a visual reboot, with a fluid snake rather than one bound to moving rigidly, and an underwater setting. Additionally, rather than buttons the game uses tilt controls, again as a nod to the differences between an iPod and, say, a computer. Game Center lets users compare their high scores. The core components of the classic, however, remain: keep eating until your "become lost in your own maze," as the app's description puts it.

Reef Snake walks a fine line between embracing the abilities of iOS devices and staying true to Snake's roots, but it seems to have pulled that feat off with at least some success. Watch the above video to get a feel for Snake's gameplay, and if you feel so inclined, download it too—Snake is available now in the App Store for free.