A Good Week For Cheapskate Gamers

Rolando Lite: While charging filled penalty for what should arguably be a boundless upgrade is one App Store trend we'd like to see die (see below), here's one that's great: lite versions of the most common non-open playoffs. Rolando is fantastic if you asylum't played it yet, and now you can try before you buy with the liberated Lite, which is narrow to the first stage only. Free.

Super Monkey Ball Lite: And what ho? A released lite kind of Monkey Ball too with three stages from the gorged ready? Keep it up tough publishers, keep it up.

X-Plane Extreme: It's kind of maddening how X-Plane keeps packaging new planes into all-new editions of the app, charging 10 bucks for each one, but X-Plane Extreme does look pretty great. This one's bringing the armed jets, from the F-22 Raptor, B-2 Stealth Bomber and the ol' SR-71 Blackbird spy even, and they look beautiful. If you haven't bought X-Plane already and dig flight sims, Extreme looks like the report to get (there is also one for Airliners and Helicopters, if that's your thing).

Light Bike Full Version: On retailing for a lowest for a narrow time only, this is the just-released rotund kind of Pankaku's Tron brave with the humbling two-hands-one-iPhone four-player genre we liked so much when we first saw it. Very cool. $1

Digital Bass Line: I've been wanting to play with Korg's awesome DS-10 synth software for the DS for pretty sometime, but until I get my hands on it, this great Roland TB-303 emulator will surge me over. The 303 is the bass synth companion to the legendary 808 drum robot, and it's reproduced wholly faithfully here-genuinely fun to play around with, even if you're not a musician. It's $5.

Almond Emulator: And lastly, do you ever get the discern you're watching someone elude their attention via disconnected clues? Like, say, the iPhone apps they write? The Almond Emulator costs $1, and offers the chance to lean, smell, feel and snoop to a digital on-cover almond; each badge pressed cleanly changes the copy above to read "It tastes just like an almond." Riiiiight. Probably the strangest app I've seen-kick this guy a money, he needs it to restock his meds