A selection of 32 new apps for you today:
OnLive
Cloud gaming service OnLive has launched an app for tablets and smartphones, with the Android version live – an iOS version remains in approvals with Apple. The app enables OnLive users to play games on their mobile devices using touchscreen controls or a wireless joypad. For more on the launch, read our full news story.
Android
Xbox Companion
On a busy day for Xbox-related apps, Microsoft has released its official Xbox Companion for Windows Phone, which lets people control their console from their smartphone – including films, TV shows, music and Bing searches.
Windows Phone
My Xbox LIVE
Microsoft isn't letting gamers control their Xbox 360s with an iPhone or iPad yet, but the company has released an official Xbox Live app for iOS. It enables people to track their achievements, connect to friends and edit their avatar, while also reading news about new Xbox Live games.
iPhone / iPad
Batman Arkham City Lockdown
What if Batman was thrown into Infinity Blade? That's seemingly the idea behind this new iOS game, which sees Batman taking on a series of his famous foes in one-on-one battles, with power-ups to help him defeat them. Warner Bros is the publisher responsible.
iPhone / iPad
Dimensions – Adventures in the Multiverse
Music startup RjDj's new iPhone game is hard to explain, but easy and fun to play. The company describes it as a real-world game using "augmented sound" to play, as players explore the world and try to discover virtual artifacts.
iPhone
Theme Park
EA's Theme Park has returned in iOS form as a freemium game. The aim is still to build and manage a theme park, customising it with rides and shops. In-app purchases provide the business model, with EA's Origin community providing the social wrapping.
iPhone / iPad
SoundTracking
Music app SoundTracking has made the leap from iPhone to Android, designed to help people share details of the songs they're listening to with friends, including location tags. New for Android is the ability to play full songs shared by friends in the Spotify or Rdio apps (where available), rather than just samples.
Android
Football Manager Handheld 2012
Sports Interactive and Sega's world-dominating football management game is back on iOS, with updated stats and additional leagues – Blue Square North and South at last – AirPlay mirroring support to play on TV, and a new Challenge mode.
iPhone / iPad
Grimm's Hansel and Gretel
Irish startup Ideal Binary has released its latest (and richest) book-app, based on the famous Grimm Brothers fairy tale. Voice narration, 11 pages of interactivity and another 39 pages of text offer a treat for children.
iPhone / iPad
Bejeweled and Bejeweled Blitz
PopCap Games has split Bejeweled in two for iPhone. Bejeweled is a paid game (69p) with the solo gem-puzzling experience, while Bejeweled Blitz is the freemium social version where players have 60 seconds to out-score their friends.
iPhone
Battlelines: Pearl Harbor
Aimer Media and Osprey Publishing have collaborated on this iPad app about the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. It's described as an "interactive, illustrated timeline", with a map plotting the Japanese attack and American defence efforts.
iPad
Hasta La Muerte
Microsoft's latest first-party game release for Windows Phone is Hasta La Muerte, a 2D arcade-puzzler with characterful scribbly graphics.
Windows Phone
Evernote Hello
The first of two new apps from cloud startup Evernote, this aims to help you recognise the people you've met, using a mosaic of faces – "Say goodbye to business cards and forgetting people". The downside being it revolves around giving them your phone the first time you meet them and getting them to create a profile.
iPhone
Evernote Food
The second new Evernote spin-off today is Evernote Food, which wants to get you to "capture, share and relive your memorable meals". Photos can be tagged with locations, captions and friends, and it syncs with the main Evernote service.
iPhone
DK Kids' Crafts
Dorling Kindersley's latest iPad app wants to get children into crafting, with virtual scrap bags, cross-stitch and furry felts. There are also "off-screen activities" showing kids how to make pirates, doodles and teddy bears.
iPad
The Survivors
The Survivors is a novel that's been turned into an "Immersedition" interactive book-app, with historical background to its Salem witch trials setting, maps and images ready to browse behind more than 300 touchpoints placed on the virtual pages. Characters are also on Twitter and Facebook to add a social twist.
iPhone / iPad
Avast! Mobile Security Beta
Security firm Avast Software has launched an anti-virus and anti-theft app for Android smartphones, promising automatic virus scans, infected URL alerts and (for rooted phones only) a firewall. On the anti-theft side, there is a history wipe feature, phone lock, siren activation and GPS tracking.
Android (spotted by Android Police)
Six-Guns
Gameloft's latest free-to-play game on iOS is Six-Guns, set in the Wild West. It includes 40 missions and is set in Arizona and Oregon. Gamers may recognise the odd element or two from console title Red Dead Redemption.
iPhone / iPad
Collins My First Dictionary HD
Children learning to read and write may have fun with Collins My First Dictionary from developer Viscuit Creative. It offers audio pronunciation in American and British English, with sample sentences, the ability to add words to a favourites list, and mini-games.
iPad
Wikitude for OS6
Augmented reality app Wikitude has a new BlackBerry version without... the augmented reality? Well, yes. People with BlackBerry smartphones running the OS6 software can use it to find cafes, pubs, events, tweets and Wikipedia articles around them through more traditional map-based means. The AR features are left for the separate version of Wikitude running on BlackBerry OS7.
BlackBerry
Lonely Planet Magazine, Dream Trips
Lonely Planet magazine has released its second book app for iPad – or "bookazine" as it's calling them. Image-heavy features include pieces focused on Botswana, New Zealand, Bali, the US and Morocco.
iPad
Diamond Dash
Wooga's Diamond Dash social game has attracted more than 10 million players on Facebook, and now it's made the leap to iOS. It's free to play, but players must pay for extra lives (although they can also be earned by asking friends, or waiting for a free refill).
iPhone / iPad
Dear Zoo
Pan Macmillan has released an iPad version of award-winning children's book Dear Zoo, adding animation, a Picking Pairs game and voice narration from actress Caroline Quentin.
iPad
NYTimes Election 2012
The New York Times newspaper has launched an iPhone app with a guide to the 2012 US presidential election, including news, poll numbers, candidate biographies and other updates. It's free in its basic form, but users require a $14.99 monthly subscription (which includes the NYTimes.com website) for full access.
iPhone
Colosseum Heroes
Korean publisher Gamevil's latest Android game sees you slicing and dicing a variety of monsters, with a mix of side-scrolling action and RPG elements.
Android
Puzzle Words HD
Swedish developer Westfell's new iPad app for children wants to help children learn the alphabet while also having fun with digital jigsaw puzzles. There are three different themes for the six-piece puzzles.
iPad
ABC Spy
More letter-based fun comes from Stealth Education's new iPhone app, which gets children to create their own alphabet by taking photos of things in the real world that begin with the various letters. Once done, they can turn their work into a video to share with family or YouTube.
iPhone
Tiny Village
Mobile social games publisher TinyCo has ported its Tiny Village game from iOS to Android, getting players to build prehistoric villages, raise dinosaurs then battle it out with bosses.
Android
Boom Bugs
Player Three's Boom Bugs is a colourful and entertaining-looking puzzle game for iOS and Android, which sees spiders being blasted by a variety of other bugs. It's safe to say Angry Birds has been an influence on the gameplay, although it's not a pure clone.
iPhone / Android
Do or Die
Digital agency Razorfish's chairman Clark Kokich has published an iPad business book-app that claims to chronicle "the decline of traditional marketing and advertising, and makes a provocative case for why companies should quit simply saying and start doing". Case studies are included from Nike, VW, Virgin America and other brands, with Twitter feeds, videos and other interactive content included.
iPad
Pat LaFrieda's Big App for Meat
Meat. Lots of meat. This iPad app is the work of New York butcher Pat LaFrieda and production house Zero Point Zero, offering 200 different cuts of beef, lamb, pork, veal and poultry, along with 50 minutes of video tips from the celebrity chef.
iPad
