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Tiny Utopia, LLC today introduces Soda Star 1.0, a fast-paced sorting puzzle game for ages eight to adult. Soda Star lets players control a soda bottling plant gone haywire as they grow their soda empire by unlocking levels in a constantly expanding bottle factory. Players sort bottles and pack them into similarly colored crates by switching levers to ensure bottles get on the right conveyer belt. It is currently available on the iTunes, Android, and Google Play stores.

EUROCOMP has announced PocketCAS 3.2, an update to its powerful mathematics software for iPad and iPhone. PocketCAS is a very advanced computer algebra system which makes iOS devices capable of calculating mathematical problems in just seconds. The main target groups are scientists, engineers, teachers and students. Version 3.2 adds several new features like implicit plotting and prepares support for iCloud syncing. It is discounted by 50 percent for a short while.

Anna and Ava, LLC introduces Animal Alphabet Book 1.0, a retro-inspired learning app designed to help young children learn the alphabet in an easy and entertaining way. The app helps children learn the alphabet by sight and sound recognition. Each letter is associated with a colorful retro-inspired animal illustration. The interface is child-friendly, allowing children to simply turn the pages with just a swipe of their finger. Kids can choose from three audio voices and three learning styles.

i-Free Innovations, a leading Russian mobile game and apps producer, together with Creat Studios, a successful developer of games for PlayStation, announce the release of Dream Cruise 1.7 for iPad, an adventure game that lets users travel the world on a luxury liner in search of a missing millionaire and his yacht. Dream Cruise combines a rich plotline and reactive gameplay with a new approach to simulation games. Players must constantly manage their own assets using arcade-like gameplay.

ABBYY and linguistic technologies and services, today announced that it has expanded the content available for purchase and use in ABBYY Lingvo Dictionaries 3.2 for iOS, with the Random House Webster’s College Dictionary under license from K Dictionaries. ABBYY Lingvo Dictionaries is a comprehensive dictionary and translation application. Empowered with the breakthrough OCR technology, it delivers the easiest way to translate unfamiliar words by photographing them with the iPhone’s camera.

Wanderful, Inc. has received the prestigious Editor’s Choice Award from Children’s Technology Review for its interactive storybook, Ruff’s Bone. Ruff’s Bone 1.1 is the eighth title, originally published by Living Books but enhanced and updated for iOS devices by Wanderful, and the third of these titles to receive the coveted Editor’s Choice Award. The interactive story tells the tale of Ruff who eagerly awaits his Sunday bone given to him each week by his master, who throws it for Ruff to fetch.

Today, microLARGE Software introduces Taskdeck, a simple task and to-do list app for Mac OS X. Entering the competitive market of task and to-do management apps, Taskdeck stands out by combining a minimalist, keyboard-driven user interface with handy features like tags, attachments, drag & drop prioritization, and powerful searching and filtering. Related tasks are grouped into lists, with each list showing a badge that indicates the number of open, due, or overdue tasks.

Paddle is today pleased to announce the immediate availability of Paddle for Developers. It’s a simple framework allowing Mac software developers to quickly and easily create trial and demo versions of their Mac applications. The Paddle framework, in its basic installation, allows users to offer a trial/demo version and take payments in-app. The framework can be added to an existing Mac application in as little as 5 minutes.

Paris based Coladia announces lower prices for their Mac adventure games. The games include Cleopatra – a Queen’s Destiny, Da Vinci Secrets, Destination – Treasure Island, Secret of the Lost Cavern, Dracula 3 – The Path of the Dragon, Nostadamus – The Last Prophecy, Return to Mysterious Island 1 & 2 and The Fall trilogy Chapter 1, 2 and 3. Coladia has established partnerships with prestigious developers and publishers to bring the best adventure games on the Mac and the iOS platforms.

Dresden based publisher, Planet Bildung today introduces Learn to count 1 to 10, their new children’s educational app developed for iPad. The app is part of a series of educational games for children and introduces the numbers from 1 to 10. To create a child-friendly learning environment, many graphical elements such as navigation, figures, numbers, and symbols were kneaded with modeling clay by hand. The app includes a total of 7 games, with no in-app purchases required.