Aside from a cancelled flight and 100°+ weather at my destination my out of town adventure is going pretty smoothly! Despite my no computer/no office handicap I was able to keep up with today's news fairly closely. I saw a handful of games come out that I think might be worth looking into as well as some new lite versions of already existing titles (plus a dollar deal!). I'll add to this if I see more worth while titles come out this evening. Let me know if there's anything I missed! Check 'em out:

Let's Golf! Lite - A free demo of the highly acclaimed golf game from Gameloft. 

Light Wars Lite - A free demo of, you guessed it, Light Wars. Think Geometry Wars for the iPhone. 

Eggs from USSR (.99 cents) - "Carefully remastered replica of the most popular video game in the Soviet Russia." Looks great! I love game and watch titles. 

The Battle of Pirate Bay (.99 cents) -  "They say the best defense is a good offense, so take out the horde before they reach your base, using the three finest ships in your armada! The Schooner can catch up to your foes and take them out quickly. The Frigate has the largest stash of ammo. The mighty Galleon holds the most powerful weapons, and can devastate any oncoming ship with a single blow! And finally, in a pinch, let cannonballs take flight from your base's mighty long range cannon! But don't rely on it - that kind of power takes time to recharge."

Toki Tori ($4.99 --> $.99): "Push your brain to the limit as you guide Toki Tori through 80 challenging levels spread over 4 mysterious worlds - collecting eggs as you go. You are armed with an arsenal of different items and weapons including the infamous Telewarp, Bridge Builder and Freeze-O-Matic! Combine these to solve each ingenious level - some easy, some brain-bendingly difficult! Toki Tori pushes the capabilities of your iPhone/iPod touch with sumptuous graphics and oodles of puzzle polish."

Hey guys, just a quick heads up that I'm going to be out of town starting today until next Monday (July 6th). I'm not going to be around working on updates throughout the day like I normally would, but I WILL be checking my RSS feed while on the road and will updating via Twitter the biggest stories of the day. I'm going to have little bit of time in the evenings and plan on devoting that to doing a review a night. On the chopping block? MUST. EAT. BIRDS., BigTop 10, Diabolika and Defender Chronicles. That's the plan at least! So that's about it, keep an eye out on my Twitter account for the biggest stories and have a good week!

Oh iPhone developers of the world, you're too kind! Ngmoco, in honor of the release of Rolando 2, is putting two of it's games on sale for a buck:

WordFu (previously $2.99) is a dice rolling word puzzle game originally released back in February:

Shake your letter dice and spell as many words as you can before the clock runs out. Build up your score by unleashing an endless word barrage! Freeze time, flick dice for better letters, and let loose a fiery spelling fury! Once you’ve mastered it on your own, take on your friends over WiFi. Dominate the leaderboard on your quest to earn WordFu Belts and become a true WordFu Grand Master. Once no worldly man can defeat you, play Shaolin Style for the highest WordFu challenge!

Dr. Awesome (previously $1.99) is a microsurgery game that was released back in December:

A deadly strain of virus is attacking the population and friends from your contact list have been infected ! Show your awesome skills and perform microsurgery using precise accelerometer controls. Dr. Awesome's comic narrative and infinitely re-playable arcade action will keep you on call around the clock. From the makers of critically-acclaimed Topple and Maze Finger, Dr. Awesome is crafted exclusively for iPhone and iPod touch.

So here's the scoop! ZeniMax Media, owners of Besthda Softworks (Oblivion, Fallout 3), have acquired legendary development studio id Software (DOOM, QUAKE, Wolfenstein). Well what does this have to do with iPhone gaming? You may recall a couple of weeks ago id Software, who has been very vocal about their fondness towards the iPhone, announced their latest mobile project Doom Ressurection, which we wrote about here . The game is expected to continue it's development cycle as expected and little will be effected with the acquisition.

Bethesda has also made it public on multiple occasions their interest in developing a title for the iPhone. They've even gone so far as to develop rough versions of Fallout 3 for the device, none of which will never come to light. You can read the full press release here. Scoop...ended.

Those kids at Gizmodo are a clever bunch, they are. They've managed to swindle an exclusive post written by Bill Nye explaining the iPhone 3GS's new oleophobic screen. A pretty brilliant idea if you ask me. Instead of trying to explain it myself here's a brief excerpt of the post:

The new 3GS iPhone has a coating that helps you leave no, well hardly any, prints–-fingerprints. The glass screen is coated with a polymer, a plastic that human skin oil doesn't adhere to very well. People in the chemical bonding business like to call the finished surface "oleophobic."

Such a lovely Greek cognate may sound like it means "afraid of oil." And, it does, but it also connotes (or carries with) "aversion" or "not-like-to-be-around-tivity," if I may. Instead of sticking to the bonded-plastic surface of your new phone, the oil from you fingers or cheekbone or tip of your nose stays more or less together as its own smooshed droplet.

There's plenty more where that came from! For the full write up head on over to Gizmodo.