FatRedCouch and Alex Beard Studios are celebrating their children’s app, “Tales from the Watering Hole,” with a painting contest with over $1,000 in prizes. Contestants download the app, use their creativity to paint one of the app’s Painting Pages, and upload their work to FatRedCouch’s Facebook page. Images with the most Likes receive prizes. “Tales from the Watering Hole” is an interactive storybook app, with Painting Pages, Games, and Puzzles. Available for iOS, Android, Kindle, and NOOK.

Uplike today is proud to announce the updated Uplike 1.2.1 for iOS. With an all new look and feel, Uplike easily and enjoyably lets iOS and Android users collect and organize everything they like, including websites, pictures, videos, people and more. The new no-cost app also features a range of special features, including social sharing, geo-localizing, an integrated player for YouTube, Dailymotion and Vimeo videos, and more. Users can explore the bookmarks of friends and followers.

TopoMonkey today announces GeoFlight South America HD 1.1, its award-winning geography app for iPad. Part of a series of geography apps, GeoFlight South America makes learning geography fun. Using high speed arcade action, the objective of the game is to fly a cute little airplane character as quickly as possible between countries, capitals and big cities in South America. Featuring 3 game modes, children will learn about 14 countries, 14 capitals and 100 big cities in South America.

California based Balloon 27 today announced that Hill Bill 1.02, their quirky and addictive motorcycle trick game will now feature 10 stunning new levels in their Vegas level addition and tons more. Hill Bill features a zany character named Bill, who has high hopes to ride like his ultimate hero, Evel Knievel, and jump the Grand Canyon. This little daredevil attempts bigger and more intense, crazy stunts on his third-hand garage sale motorcycle as the levels progress.

Melesta Games launches a holiday update to its turn-based MMORPG Toy Monsters. Players get a cool chance to trick or treat monsters, complete a spooky quest try on scary Halloween masks and enjoy magic buffs of them, discover tricks and effects of pumpkins on the field, and so have the best gaming Halloween celebration ever! Each gamer can take an advantage of great every day gifts and holiday discounts in the game. Hoarders can stock everything they need and enjoy even more!

Cheech Games has released Words In Famous People v.1.0, their latest trivia app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Guess the name of the world’s most famous people. Featuring over 300 levels with beautiful retina graphics, Words in Famous People gives recognition to the people that shaped the world it is today and tests your celebrity knowledge. To make the game more challenging, players can compete with other players and submit their scores through the Game Center Leader boards.

Malkinware today announces Reference Tracker 2.0, a major, paid update to their popular academic reference manager and research tool for Mac OS X. Designed around the latest Mac OS X technologies, the app has a whole load of great new features like Journal Article Search, Publication Lookup by DOI, the latest versions of the most popular styles like Harvard, APA, Chicago, MLA, and Vancouver, a really easy-to-use styles editor to create custom styles, or modify any existing styles, and much more.

Based on IDW Publishing’s cult comic series and featuring real-world rock star cameos, the 3D scrolling endless brawler is free for a limited time starting October 31st and ending November 1st on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Based on the comic book series created by British guitarist Llexi Leon, Eternal Descent: Heavy Metal Heroes places gamers in the role of Sirian, a nomadic warrior fighting back endless hordes of demonic creatures as they rampage through the city streets.

Buogle Communications has officially released its newest version of Ghost Slayer for free. Ninjas are assigned to destroy enemy ghosts in the underworld, in paradise and in the afterworld. Player must collect points by moving and breaking objects to destroy enemy ghosts. Destroy all enemy ghosts to move on to the next level. Featuring 20 fun levels, the game becomes increasingly challenging with each level. There are many addictive and funtastic new levels in Ghost Slayer 2.0.

UPLU, a mobile app company today is proud to announce the release of a unique application aimed at younger (2-6 years) mobile device users. Yuvi – Story Aerobics for Kids 1.1 is designed to take the use of mobile devices to a new level and to have actual health benefits. The core of the application is a revolutionary approach which utilizes storytelling as a motivational tool for getting kids to exercise. It also encourages the growth of their imagination, creativity and reasoning.