The festive folks behind the popular Angry Birds game hardly let a major holiday go by without an update to the Angry Birds Seasons app.
This Halloween, gamers get 30 new levels and a brand new orange bird to combat those pesky pigs.
The game is updated a few times a year for free to mark occasions such as Christmas and Valentine’s Day.
The Seasons app is available for Android (free), the iPhone and iPod Touch (99 cents) and the iPad ($1.99).
Another now-classic mobile game, Plants vs. Zombies, is a great haunted distraction for this week.
Players fight to keep zombies from coming inside their house. (If the zombies come inside they’ll eat your brains and it’ll be game over.) Players fight back by planting menacing plants in their front lawn that keep the zombies at bay.
It sounds wacky, but it’s one of the smartest games out there, gradually building by adding new weapons as the gamer learns the ropes.
Plants vs. Zombies is available on Android, iOS, Mac, PC and also online.
If you’re looking to create a virtual pack of the undead yourself, check out the fun app Make a Zombie, which is a free app for iOS devices.
Users can choose between near-limitless options of hair, blood-spattered clothing, empty eyes and missing appendages and then download the image of the surprisingly cute cartoon zombie to their phone.
It’s a great way to get a Facebook photo for the holiday.
And for those who need a way to scare their friends, check out the iPhone app Fright Factory ($1.99).
The app’s scary stunt is hiding inside a series of optical illusions that asks the phone’s holder to stare intently at the screen. During the third illusion, a zombie pops up and screams, which is sure to spook anyone paying rapt attention to the illusion.
Just make sure your friends aren’t so spooked that they drop the $200 smartphone to the floor.
