Hyperwave brings a new look to old school shooters

Hyperwave from CatfishBlues brings a fresh view and look to classic arcade shooters and throws in a couple of fun modes to broaden the entertainment value. It offers HD graphics on retina displays and a host of features for just 99c/69p:

• Deep and innovative gameplay, attack and defend at the same time
• Stunning 2.5D neon-style graphics, effects and animated backgrounds
• Several exciting techno musics
• Arcade mode with 50 different waves
• Infinity mode for an endless challenge
• 12 vulcan upgrades and 5 different special weapons
• 3 devastating special-powers and smart friends drones to command
• Wide variety of enemies to face, each with its own peculiar behavior
• Game Center achievements and global leaderboards support
• Supports the new Game Center Challenges introduced with iOS 6

Sega's Jet Set Radio coming to the iPad

Continuing the rise of mainstream games appearing on tablets, Sega will bring Dreamcast classic JSR to the iPad, iPhone and Android devices. Jet Set Radio includes the same slick gameplay, genre-blending soundtrack, and pioneering art style as the other versions alongside new features like OpenFeint and Retina display support and the awesome ability to use pictures taken with your phone or tablet’s camera as in-game graffiti!

There's no immediate clue from the screen as to how the controls will work, but you can rip through Traverse Shibuya terminal on the train, silence the Love Shockers on your lunch break, blast through Benten-cho while boarding a bus and upload achievements to Facebook while riding a ferry! The game was originally announced for PS Vita and consoles, bet that these versions will be a fair bit cheaper.

Ironworm and Joining Hands get iPad 3 retina support

A couple of cutesy games have received the retina treatment with updates, hardly the core stuff the iPad 3 needs to shine, but developer 10tons gets kudos being early out of the blocks with an update. The titles are Ironworm and Joining Hands, a bug-unfriendly platformer and a puzzle game.

Both are pretty cheap, with some in-app purchases, but the Finnish developer has a decent range of games which may also get the treatment.