We've not done much in the way of iPad titles, but then, it's only every now and then that something truly worthwhile grabs our attention.

Rockstar Games has announced Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars HD is coming to the iPad on 9th September, with more than 50 missions, countless side activities, and the ability to customize the soundtrack utilizing your own music on Independence FM.

In the gang ridden and grisly Liberty City, each mission offers no-BS action and the best gameplay elements of the Grand Theft Auto series specifically created with mobile gaming in mind.

I'll be £5.99 from the App Store a week from now.

Here are 9 reasons we think Chinatown Wars is one of the best App Store games money can buy.

Ah, autumn. Our favourite season. Crisp brown leaves underfoot. Frosting breath. Mulled wine by the bonfire with your folks. OK, there's the rain and the gloom and the chill, but this is Britain - it's always rainy and gloomy and chilly. At least in autumn the rain and gloom and chill feel appropriate.

The young 'uns aren't so keen on autumn, though. The reason being, they have to go back to school. We don't any more. We're adults, see (would you believe it). Instead, we get to sit around making up stuff like this list of educational games. Har har.

Is there anything crueller than the concept of an 'educational game', kids? Probably not. It's a little like buying the Batmobile and using it for grocery runs. Go on, you might as well. Hint: some of the entries are less 'educational' than others.

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AGame's latest platformer has come over all Carebears and, to our mind, just a teensy bit Jack Wills.

Jewels innumerable are scattered around the flanks of yon wonderful lilac edifice, darling, and you'd better go collect them before something frightful happens, like the disappearance of class as a social paradigm.

The arrow keys move and jump. Floating cloud signposts will tell you the rest. Tower of Heaven and 60s to Save the Queen are considerably tougher, though not as well colour-coordinated.

Play Dream Tower

Dab hand at rock-paper-scissors? Got the gift of foresight when it comes to the roulette wheel? Have a crack at Riskful Thinking.

It's a compilation of gambling games, spread across four floors. The first floor is the homeliest, with its slot machines and bouts of toss-the-coin.

Earn enough to unlock higher floors and you'll get access to more grown-up entertainments like boxer sponsorship and, um, dog fighting, right the way up to playing the stock market.

You can retire with your winnings whenever you like. At which point you'll realise that you've just spent half an hour of your life chewing the fat with a random number generator. Could be worse, though - you could be on Twitter.

Play Riskful Thinking

It's well over a year since we discovered Roly Poly Cannon 2, but the makers are back this summer for a third outing. Roly Poly Cannon 3 has even more great levels and cuter, more detailed graphics.

Anyone who's familiar with Ragdoll Blaster or Ragdoll Cannon (what's the difference? Find out here) will be familiar with the classic aim, fire, sit-back-and-smile gameplay.

This time however you're firing bombs instead of ragdolls, which injects a hint of Angry Birds. Physics based puzzles are our favourite type of free web game - if you love them too then this is your treat for the day.

Play Roly Poly Cannon 3

Make that as a teenage girl. And moreover, is it wrong that it's actually reasonably fun?

We all know the Internet's full of weirdos but fret not; the only reason I was buying shoes (and diamonds... and fancy haircuts) as a teenage girl in Paris was purely professional.

How else would we be able to tell you about Shopaholic: Paris?

If you know any 18 year old girls these days you'd probably know they are too old for this. But those of you with daughters or sisters at around the "Zwinky age range" (that must be like, 7-13, right?) might enjoy this cute shopping sim.

And with a generous shopping budget of four hundred bucks a day, it's probably the most shopping they'll be doing until they get their first credit card.

Play Shopaholic: Paris