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.

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.

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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.

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A few years ago I interviewed Dave Perry. Dave Perry is a nice guy. He made Earthworm Jim in the nineties. But these days he's more commonly known for his big ideas about the future of cloud-based gaming.

Anyway, one of the things he mentioned back in this interview was about how upcoming revisions of Adobe Flash would support proper 3D rendering. It seemed like a long way off at the time but it looks like it's happened without anyone really noticing.

Browsing through one of many free online game sites just now I saw a screenshot for a suspiciously Halo-esque first person shooter with the words "click to play" barely discernible through the cluster of ads on the screen. Yeah right, I thought.

I clicked it, and was prompted to upgrade some Adobe stuff, which was digitally signed as legitimate. A few seconds later I was playing a deathmatch in this quite real first person shooter.

It's not as impressive as modern day shooters in terms of effects, but wowzers, it's a big step up for Flash based game visuals. Super high frame rate, nice textures, everything.

Of course, some things never change. I was getting gunned down like a n00b by thirteen year olds I didn't even see coming. Again and again. Obviously, they must have discovered some cheats I didn't know about.

See what we mean. Don't know what it's called.

Big red ball. Downwards slopes. Fill in the gaps by placing little platforms in order to guide said red ball safely to its destination. Sounds simple enough?

You'd think so, but actually new Facebook game Go Home Ball 2 takes some getting used to. It's fun, though - promise. Give it a try...

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It's not the first time we've mentioned Simpsons games on the blog - there was this puzzle thingy, and one of my personal favourites, the brilliant iPhone game - but this overlooked Simpsons game is a little more... racey.

Most straightforwardly, you take control of Bart as he hops on his skateboard and speeds through Springfield - naked - for no apparent reason. Avoid cops, collect powers ups, and try not to land on Flanders' window with your junk on display.

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