As expected, the App Store has released another round of new apps, and since we’re right in the middle of the busy holiday season, there are a ton of great and long-awaited games to play either out today or coming this evening.
- Telltale has released the first episode of its Tales of Monkey Island series on the iPad, continuing the storyline from the classic game.
- Gameloft’s Uncharted-like Shadow Guardian will be available this evening, as will NOVA 2, the sequel to last year’s popular FPS. We saw a preview of both a little while back.
- Sega is bringing the old Altered Beast game to the App Store, and it’s probably just as bad as you remember.
- Eidos has surprised us with a release of the Xbox Live and PSN title Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, arriving on the App Store for both iPhone and iPad tomorrow. Should be a good one — reviews were excellent on the previous platforms.
- Aralon: Sword and Shadow HD is a really impressive fully 3D action RPG to play through, available for $6.99 on the App Store soon.
- Real Racing 2 is coming out this evening. I got to play an early build, and I can tell you that it’s fantastic — one of the best racing games on the App Store.
- Riven: The Sequel to Myst arrived on the store last night.
- Classic adventure title The 7th Guest is now out on iPhone for US $2.99 and iPad for $5.99.
- World of Goo is also due out on the iPad tonight, and this version is supposed to be one of the best.
- EA’s Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is arriving on iOS in a streamlined version, but it’s going to be on sale for just 99 cents, so that’s nice.
- Duke Nukem 3D isn’t a new game, but it (and the iPad special edition) has gone free recently.
- A few apps are updating for the holidays: both educational astronomy app Star Walk and destructive worm simulator Super Mega Worm have special Santa-related updates out now.
Man oh man, that’s a whole lot of great games to play. Most of these apps aren’t quite out on the App Store just yet (though some of them are available in New Zealand, where it is already tomorrow), but they should all be live on the US store by 11:00 PM Eastern time.
Another week of big iOS releases: Real Racing 2, World of Goo, lots more originally appeared on TUAW on Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.