Another day, another free iOS game, this time from Guild Wars developers NCsoft. Gem Keeper is the company’s first mobile game, and it will be part of the Free App a Day promotion for a limited time.

Gem Keeper is a highly rated tower defence game with 40 unique levels, 14 different towers and 30 types of gem crazy monsters! It will run on any iPad, iPod touch or iPhone running iOS 4.1 or later. You can check out the game’s website here, or if you don’t need any more convincing to drop exactly none of your well earned money, then click here to head straight to the App Store.

Today in Sentai Filmworks title acquistion; The Book of Bantorra. Following a long list of recent license acquisitions from Sentai Filmworks comes yet another announcement of The Book of Bantorra being picked up for digital and bilingual DVD release later this year.

Sentai have made a name for themselves recently for their haphazard license pick ups of series that they mostly don’t plan on even dubbing or releasing in any kind of meaningful manner, but at least more anime is getting licensed right?

Book of Bantorra funnily enough is based off a series a books (light novels to be precise) and runs for 27 episodes. Sentai plan to release the series later this year.

Following last month’s January Forza 4 car pack, Microsoft are releasing yet another DLC pack filled to the brim with more hot cars for players to tear up some asphalt with come next Tuesday when the pack hits the Xbox Live Marketplace. The car pack will be titled ‘February American Le Mans Series Pack’ and is set to feature enough vehicular goodness to please any racing fan.

The cars featured in the pack include:

• 2011 #2 Audi Sport North America R18 TDI
• 2011 Panoz #050 Panoz Racing Abruzzi
• 2010 Dodge Quinton “Rampage” Jackson Challenger SRT8
• 1991 Mazda #55 Team Mazdaspeed 787B
• 2011 Bentley Platinum Motorsports Continental GT
• 1986 #2 Audi Sport quattro S1
• 1992 Alfa Romeo 155 Q4
• 1995 Ford Mustang Cobra R
• 2011 Holden HSV GTS
• 2011 Volkswagen Polo GTI

So be sure to pick up the ‘February American Le Mans Series Pack’ for Forza Motorsport 4 next Tuesday for 560 Microsoft Points, or alternatively (if you haven’t done so already) you could purchase a season pass to the game which unlocks all DLC as they are released for the price of 2400 Microsoft Points.

As reported yesterday, DoDonPachi Saidaioujou is currently undergoing location tests in Japan. Yesterday we learned about the new Dress System, but today we get to see some actual gameplay footage. The footage comes straight from a location test, and while it is not the best quality (taken using an amateur camera), it still shows off the game well enough.

The gameplay looks like typical DoDonPachi, and there is some insane bullet hell action going on here. The footage here shows off the first three levels, complete with the boss battles. It looks rather impressive, and there is a noticeable improvement in the background visuals compared to past games.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s Scribblenauts Remix, a port of the NDS game has been downloaded over one million times on the iTunes App Store. And to celebrate this achievement, players will receive a brand new Valentine’s Day update as a reward.

However you won’t have to wait until February 14 to download, the update is available today giving players access to the Valentine’s Day themed playground. Players here can be inspired to create objects with a certain romantic theme, such as a “loving, polka-dotted charonosaurus” or “giant, pink, flying chocolate box.”

Scribblenauts Remix is available to download on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch for $0.99.

Thanks to the lovely people over at Daily App Dream and independent Canadian-based developer, XperimentalZ Games, the iOS title Don’t Run With A Plasma Sword is free – but for a very limited time.

The title has been well received by both players and critics alike – distinguishing itself by offering an astounding mix of game modes – featuring story mode and endless mode with four highly unique gameplay environments. With a retro sci-fi style, RPG elements, awesome boss fights, comics and plenty of humour this is a title you’re not going to want to miss.

If a free game wasn’t enough, XperimentalZ Games have added a few more potential bonuses. If the title makes it to 100k downloads, the game will remain free for a minimal period of one month. At 150k downloads, an additional game mode will be developed on top of the already scheduled updates. At 200k downloads, yet another game mode will be added! So download the game and sit back and wait for your soon to be developed updates.

Check out the retro-humoristic in-game user manual that has been updated and uploaded to Youtube below, and then click right here to download your free copy of Don’t Run With A Plasma Sword.

Marvel: Avengers Alliance is a Facebook game, the very first in fact, for parent company Marvel. It sees players take on the role of a S.H.I.E.L.D agent tasked with taking on the very worst of Marvel’s rogues gallery – more powerful than ever thanks to a mysterious evil power that brings them all together. The game is being developed by Playdom, part of the Walt Disney company.

As a S.H.I.E.L.D agent players must assemble the best team of Avengers that they can in order to become the greatest S.H.I.E.L.D agent of all time and save New York from impending doom. How? By recruiting and training heroes. That’s right, you get to be human resources. Looking further into the game’s already established Facebook page sheds light on a fairly standard Facebook set up – play is limited by energy that gradually refills over time, and players will unlock more content (new heroes, equipment and items) as they go.

Today some new recruitable heroes have been announced, adding to the line up that already includes given characters such as Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and Hawkeye:

Human Torch
The Invisible Woman
Mr. Fantastic
The Thing
Colossus
Cyclops
Kitty Pryde
Nightcrawler
Phoenix
Storm

The full game will be launched in Q1 of this year, and you can watch the full announcement trailer below:

General Aladeen has an announcement for the people of the world – you should listen to his wisdom:

“My website just launched – it’s already bigger than Facebook! Visit it! (unless you’re in Wadiya, where for some reason there’s no internet. I didn’t ban it. Honest)”

His Excellency has constructed this magnificent site to be read in both English and Wadiyan, so that you can learn more about his greatness with ease. You can also friend the General on the lesser known site that is Facebook, or follow him on the site where birds sing via @RepublicWadiya.

General Aladeen has several useful and informative links on his website, including news of his fellow great leaders and humorous things such as the UN .

Andriasang has reported that Japanese developer Cave has begun location tests for their upcoming shooter, DoDonPachi Saidaioujou. The game is one of few shmup projects that the company is planning to release in 2012, including DoDonPachi: Blissful Death.

It seems DoDonPachi Saidaioujou will try to shake the tried and tested formula a bit by introducing a ‘Dress System’, where you basically dress up the game’s female characters in various outfits. It isn’t purely eye-candy or aesthetic, as the way you dress your character will affect the gameplay. For example, choosing the bikini outfit results in the highest difficulty.

Not exactly innovative, but it’s a quirky and interesting idea.

Are you ready for Super Bowl Sunday? Did your fantasy football team do so poorly this year you were the laughing stock of all your friends? You have a chance for redemption! AccuScore has released a special Facebook app called the Sport SKL Super Bowl Challenge. Pit your prediction skills against your friends and answer 10 questions with your predictions for this year’s Super Bowl that range from simple questions like the result of the coin toss to more difficult predictions such as how many touchdowns will be scored.

The Super Bowl Challenge will be the launch point for their new Sport SKL app that allows players to pit their predictions and knowledge in college football, the English Premier League, and the NFL. AccuScore has plans to expand the app to the NBA in the near future.