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Arthur Christmas is an interactive storybook app that at last reveals the incredible, never-before-seen answer to every child’s question: “So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?” The answer: Santa’s exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the heart of the film is a story with the ingredients of a Christmas classic – a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero: Santa’s youngest son, Arthur.

Vancouver based Ibexis Studios today introduces Snakes And Ladder World Edition 1.0 for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. A digital reimaging of the classic board game of the same name, this entertaining mobile game challenges players to roll the dice and navigate a game board from start to finish as quickly as possible by taking advantage of short cuts and avoiding snakes en route to victory! The app can be enjoyed alone versus virtual opponents or by two live players at once.

Check the Record today releases ACS Trials 1.1, their medical research app for iOS. ACS Trials provides thorough, focused, MD-written summaries of seminal and recent trials in acute coronary syndromes. Featuring over thirty cardiology medical calculators, including the CRUSADE, TIMI, and GRACE scores, it allows medical providers to make sense of cardiology trials, with quickly accessible one-liner ‘soundbites’ as well as deeper analysis and historical context of landmark trials in cardiology.

Washington based Juicy Bits released Halftone 1.7, an update to their popular vintage photo and comic effects app that now has over 1 million users. The update adds new cropping and rotation features along with user-requested image adjustments like brightness, contrast, and saturation. In addition, title captions have multiple color choices, and a new “Santa hat” stamp makes it easy to create Halftone images for the upcoming holiday season.

Macbundler, one of the top bundle websites has launched a sister site called Deals2Have. Deals2Have will offer deals on creative items, web application subscriptions and Mac deals. Deals will run weekly and be discounted for up to 10 days before ending. Professional designers, developers and web businesses have the opportunity to monetize their content by offering them at discounts to thousands of our customers.

Neon Five Studio and Backpack Undertainment proudly announce the release of “A Christmas Calendar” exclusively for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. It is playable, exciting, funny and offers a fun-to-play game for kids and adults. “A Christmas Calendar” is a brand-new style of Christmas calendar. Help Santa to prepare for Christmas and meet all of your friends, such as Rudolph, the Gingerbread Man and the Wichtel. Day by day you get a new Christmas task from Santa.

Neon Play, the UK’s #1 independent mobile games studio, has won its tenth award in only six months after CEO and founder Oli Christie was named Entrepreneur of the Year at the National Chamber of Commerce Awards. The award tops a fine first 19 months for the mobile games firm which has been gaining local and national recognition from a number of business publications and organisations. The start-up previously found success at the regional South West Chamber Awards winning in three categories.

Which cookies are an absolute must for Christmas? What treats definitely belong on the Christmas table? Anyone who doesn’t know may simply get Recipes Genius from Jourist Publishing House – for free. The universal app for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad offers a total of 480 recipes that are explained step by step, including photos. The price of the mobile Christmas bakery is not relevant till Sunday night: the app is now available for free.

Dolly Drive, online backup for Apple’s Time Machine, will now offer Mac users free seeding on 250 GB and higher online storage plans. The “Seed for Speed” program gives Dolly Drive subscribers with large initial backups the fastest means for getting their data securely in the cloud. Dolly Drive was named MacLife’s Best Software and Best of Show at MacWorld 2011, and recently announced it will be including online storage and file syncing as part of its complete cloud storage offering.

SKH Apps today introduces Board Solver for Words With Friends 1.0, their complex puzzle solving tool for iOS devices. Board Solver for Words With Friends combines optical character recognition with word generation technology to effectively create a championship level Words With Friends player in the hands of any user. Created by a small team of scientists, this app has the unique ability to read game screens and show users where to place their tiles to make the highest point words.