Mobile gaming company, evertap has officially released their new game Zombie Run for Free for a limited time in correlation with Halloween. Zombie Run is a fast action game for iOS devices where you the player are running through an abandoned farm after your car runs out of gas, when all the sudden you realize you aren’t alone. You’re amongst the dead tonight, and there’s only one thing to do – Run! Kill zombies while picking up lifelines along the way to help you succeed on your mission.

California based Wanderful Interactive Storybooks today releases Jack Prelutsky’s classic children’s poetry book in interactive form. These poems are now available as a fun and humorous way to introduce children to Poetry for Apple iOS devices. Originally released as part of the revolutionary Living Books series by Broderbund Software, “The New Kid on the Block” has been updated with new features and is the ninth title released in the new Wanderful series.

Conceptis co-sponsored and contributed puzzles to the 8th World Sudoku Championship and 22nd World Puzzle Championship, 2013, which took place in Beijing, China. With a collection of 8 popular games in the App Store including the top mobile Sudoku app in Japan, Conceptis is the leading developer of logic puzzle apps for iPad and iPhone. Jin Ce, a 16 years old Chinese teenager beat 236 other power Sudoku players from 35 countries and became the world Sudoku champion of 2013.

Berbie Software today announces BigHairyGoal 1.1 for Mac OS X. BigHairyGoal is a tool for creatives and software developers for getting ideas and concepts down, and to arrange them in a way that gives more insight. The app functions like a whiteboard letting users attach note cards to, connecting them with lines and to reorder them. Effortlessly visualize alternative approaches and reason possible decisions, while keeping the big picture as an information radar of progress and success.

Apowersoft Studio today releases Apowersoft Audio Recorder, its sophisticated new recorder software especially designed for Mac OS users. This robust tool grants anyone the ability to effortlessly record audio from any external or internal audio source. It covers streaming audio, including the users computer media sound, microphone sound and more. Easily grab an audio copy of whatever you want from Youtube, Skype, iTunes, Spotify, QuickTime player and many other channels.

Cambridge-based company, AppsVortex today announces Cortex 1.0, their new puzzle game for iPhone and iPod touch. 30 rush and speed levels are guaranteed to push the player’s brain to its limit with the dynamic and ever-changing synchronized movements of the boxes. Using different strategies, players can collect and use their powers when needed most to wisely stop, reveal, and disable boxes in time. They need to make progress from a rookie all the way up to insanely complicated stages.

St. Clair Software has released Jettison 1.3, an update to their application that automatically ejects external drives before your Mac goes to sleep. It eliminates the hassle of manually ejecting Time Machine backup drives, network server volumes and flash drives. Just close the lid of your MacBook and Jettison does it for you! Version 1.3 now remounts SD cards as well as other drives when you wake your Mac back up and helps you figure out why some drives can’t be ejected.

Mean Bean Games today introduces Forces of Nature 1.2.5, its new game title for iOS devices. Forces of Nature is a unique defense game where you must use Sprout to protect the forest from incoming waves of robots. You do this by strategically planting an army and using Sprout’s attacks and specials. With unlockable units, star ratings, bonus levels and survival mode, you’re sure to be challenged. It is up to you to help Sprout add some greenery back to a dead robot-infested land.

Florida based App Superhero introduces Pocket Fights 1.0, its fun, new interactive game title for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. Pocket Fights gives users the ability to take or upload the face of a friend, family member, colleague, or celebrity, then place and size it on custom avatars, and use thumb swipes to fight them. Complete with excellent graphics and sound effects, the app also takes random pictures of the fight to share on popular social networks.

The organizers of the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference have announced the WN Mobile Games Competition with a grand prize of $30,000. Developers are welcome to submit games for iOS, Android, Windows Phone or Tizen and can range in development stage from beta to already published. The WNMG conference takes place twice a year in St. Petersburg, Russia and is currently the largest conference in Europe exclusively devoted to mobile gaming. Applications must be received by January 17, 2014.