Stories By Andrew Podolsky

EA Mobile has just released the first info and screenshots for their upcoming sequel to SimCity, called SimCity Deluxe. Click ahead for your first look.

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Last summer we played a lot of Knights Onrush, a game where you flick and smash attackers who are trying to break down your castle door. That was probably the best example of a “castle defense” game on the iPhone, and it set the bar very high. Since then we’ve played lots of similar titles, and ZombieSmash adds just enough new, like absurd weapons and goofy physics, to make it worth trying as well.

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The winners are in! Click to see what your favorite iPhone console or PC ports are, and who takes home today's free game codes.

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In this week's podcast, Andrew returns from a week of interviews and demos at San Francisco's Game Developers Conference, offering audio of chats with developers from the games Pocket Creatures, Undead: The Last Refuge, and Zen Bound 2. Plus, we discuss GameFinder, our brand new app.

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A wonderful thing is happening right now in mobile gaming. For years, the Korean cellphone gaming marketplace was far more advanced than the American market. In Korea, gamers were having in-depth RPG and adventure experiences on their cellphones while the rest of us were getting by with just Tetris and Snake. Now that the iPhone has taken hold, Korean developers like Com2Us can easily port over their insanely detailed and addictive games to the US App Store, resulting in gems like Caligo Chaser.

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In a free update coming in late April, the Australian time-management strategy game Train Conductor will introduce three new levels set in the United States. We got to play two of these levels at GDC: New York City's subways and tracks that span the Grand Canyon.

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Cellphone gamers in Korea have been playing it for months, beta testers are currently putting it through its paces on iPhone, and today we finally got our chance to try Zenonia 2 at GDC. We’re impressed that Zenonia 2 manages to improve on the original in nearly every meaningful way.

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iPhone gamers love options. After all, there are tens of thousands of them competing for the dollars in your games budget. With that in mind, Bulkypix and Magic Pockets have an offer for you: Take Call of Duty: World At War: Zombies, subtract about six or seven dollars from the price tag, add more zombies, OpenFeint high scores, and bring the setting up to modern times. It may not have online multiplayer, but that still sounds like a good deal to us.

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We've updated our preview with hands-on video of Pocket Creatures from GDC. See what goes into growing a garden in this very strange, wonderful virtual pet simulator.

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In addition to new Splinter Cell screens, we just received the latest Zombie Infection screens as well. Sure, it looks just like Resident Evil 5, but that doesn't mean we're not eager to play it more.

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This morning we received the first-ever batch of screenshots for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction on the iPhone. Check them out!

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The end is nigh! Horrible, unspeakable devils have risen from the depths to lay waste to our cities. As you draw your bow or start to mumble a fireball spell, you might pause for a moment, because these devils are downright adorable-- they look more like a line of plush dolls than the end of the world. It’s hard to have to fight back when they disarm you so effectively with their cuteness.

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Street Fighter 4 is now available on the App Store for $9.99, in a surprise announcement made at GDC. Enjoy your classic 2D fighting, and we'll have our review available for you soon.

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GameFinder 1.0.1 has been released, adding support for all you 3.1.2 users! Check it out at Slidetoplay.com/Gamefinder and let us know what you think!

We've updated our preview with new hands-on video! Check it out to see what this episodic PS2 brawler looks and plays like on the iPhone.

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Kepa's revealed the final name of the game to us: QuickHook. Avalanche Game, it was nice working with you, but you're now relegated to the same trivial spot in history shared by Blue Harvest, the working title of Return of the Jedi.

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Are you a master of avoidance? If someone asks you to do some household chores, do you run and hide on the roof? While you’re up there, you can work on your avoidance skills even more by playing Tilt To Live, a game where you use the iPhone or iPod Touch’s tilt controls to keep an arrow-shaped cursor away from deadly red dots for as long as possible.

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The winners are in! Did you take home a $15 iTunes gift card, Angry Birds poster, or a game code? Click ahead to see what our readers want to hear about at GDC.

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A few new screens have come down the wire prior to next week's big Game Developer's Conference. These upcoming EA games, along with Mirror's Edge, should all be released for the iPhone and iPod Touch in the next few months, and the newest among them is Skate It.

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Glu's got a good grip on flying games. Their last two, Glyder and Glyder 2, were both considered Must Haves by our reviewers, and the original even won our very first Game of the Month almost a year ago. Now they're lending Dreamworks their flying game developer chops with a tie-in to the upcoming movie, How To Train Your Dragon.

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