Journalist and blogger around town, Stuart Dredge (Mobile Entertainment, Guardian, The Times, once of Pocket Gamer) gave a whistle stop tour of 45 iOS games he found interesting for various reasons.

1. 1000 Heroz, RedLynz: new content every day for 1000 days

2. The Heist, Tap Tap Tap: Puzzler using existing community to drive downloads

3. 1-Bit Ninja, kode80: Retro graphics with a twist

4. Bumpy Road, Simogo: graphic style, you manipulate the environment

5. Backbreaker 2: Vengeance, NaturalMotion: console-quality using touch controls

6. Saywhat?!, 8linQ: lyrical-based rhythm game, working with Sony

7. Pocket Academy, Kairosoft: porting Japanese PC games to iOS

8. Pit Stop, miSoff: You're just the F1 pit crew - focused gameplay

Social/location

9. CityVille Hometown, Zynga: Mobile game that doesn't link into your Facebook games

10. Shadow Cities, Grey Area: Location-based hardcore, geeky, RPG with gesture controls

11. Tiny Tower, NimbleBit: FarmVille mechanic applied to tower building.

12. Pocket Frogs, NimbleBit: You breed frogs and swap them with friends.

13. My Star, Mobile Pie: Music-themed social game, developed with Orange

14. Tap Zoo, Pocket Gems: Top grossing iPhone game

15. DJ Rivals, Booyah: Social, location, music game spun off from Facebook

16. Twimon, GungHo Online: Foursquare meets Pokemon with a Twitter levelling up mechanism

17. Cache & Seek, VisionArena: Crossover location vs fitness game

18. Gbanga, Millform: Location social game with a $99 World Domination satellite

19. Monopoly Here & Now: The World, EA: iPad game with all-new tabletop mode to share with the family

Hardcore

20. Dead Space, EA: First time EA has taken iPad seriously

21. Fable Coin Golf, Microsoft: Earn coins in iPhone to spend in the console game

22. Real Racing 2 HD, Firemint: 10 hour campaign mode, 16-player MP, YouTube updates, TV-out feature

23. Infinity Blade, Epic/Chair: Console quality graphics with mobile UI and gameplay

24. One Single Life, FreshTone Games: Only one life but backlash over it being a paid game

25. Gun Bros., Glu Mobile: Core social game

26. Sword & Sworcery, Capybara: Beautifully crafted.

Cool Tech

27. Piclings, PAN Vision: Platformer based on photos you've taken

28. AR.Race, Parrot: Hover drone augmented reality game

29. Reflow, Xymatic: A really good show off game (AR)

20. Space Cadet: Pedometer RPG, Gurr And Games: Pedometer RPG!

31. Wiki Golf, Jesse Daugherty: Six degrees of Kevin Bacon on Wikipedia

Music/audio

32. Swing Pong, Head First: Sound-based version of Pong

33. Papa Sangre, Somethin' Else: Audio-only creepy game

34. Angry Hipsters, Colin Tulloch: Angry Birds clone, pulls into hipster music

35. Stem Stumper, Ananse Productions: Another sound-only game

Visual flair

36. Ultimate Alphabet, ToyTek: Taking image-based I Spy game to iPad

37. Albert, Fingerlab: Cardboard/felt graphics.

38. Kami Retro, Gamevil: Old school platforming with a twist

Other stuff

39. Prose with Bros, Evil Laugh Games: Competitive multiplayer fridge magnet game

40. Toca Robot Lab, Toca Boca: Robot-building app for 3 year olds

41. Nancy Drew: Shadow Ranch, Her Interactive: Part game, part interactive book

42. Appysnap, Never Odd or Even: Challenges based around photography

43. Talking Tom Cat, Outfit7: 15th most connected app in the UK

44. Gnonstop Gnomes, Churn Labs: What AdMob's CEO did next. Pass on your gnome

45. Imaginary Range, Square Enix: Interactive comic