[Update] Christmas 2013 - the 146 best iPhone and iPad game sales and freebies

Updated on December 20th, at 15:18: Okay, we lied. We just updated the list again.

This time around, we've updated it with sales on more games from 2K and Square Enix, plus deals on Anomaly and Fieldrunners games, and Shardlands, Lili, Lemonade Factory, Waking Mars, LostWinds, and Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer on the cheap.

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Ah, Christmas.

A time for family, for presents, for awful TV specials, for good food, for indigestion, for The Muppet Christmas Carol, for snow.

And, also, for developers to slash the prices of their games so they'll be high up on the iTunes charts before the App Store freeze and will therefore get seen by all the new iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad owners.

Good ol' Christmas.

This week, we'll be tracking all the price drops before Apple shuts the App Store backend (on December 21st). So, whip out your wallet and grab some cheap games. Ho ho ho.

Activision Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies - £1.99 / $2.99
Call of Duty: Strike Team - £1.99 / $2.99
Skylanders Battlegrounds - £1.99 / $2.99
Skylanders Cloud Patrol - 69p / 99c
Guitar Hero - 69p / 99c Bulkypix Meltdown - 69p / 99c
PinWar - 69p / 99c
Type:Rider - 69p / 99c
Jazz: Trump's Journey - 69p / 99c 10Tons Joining Hands 2 - 69p / 99c
Grim Joggers - 69p / 99c Shenandoah Studio Battle of the Bulge - £2.99 / $4.99
Drive on Moscow: War in the Snow (iPad only) - £4.99 / $6.99 2K Sid Meier's Pirates (iPhone) - 69p / 99c
Sid Meier's Pirates (iPad) - 69p / 99c
XCOM: Enemy Unknown - £6.99 / $9.99
Civilization Revolution (iPhone only) - 69p / 99c
Civilization Revolution (iPad) - 69p / 99c
Sid Meier's Ace Patrol: Pacific Skies - £1.99 / $2.99 Chillingo Anomaly Warzone Earth (iPhone) - 69p / 99c
Anomaly Warzone Earth HD (iPad) - 69p / 99c Subatomic Studios Fieldrunners for iPad (iPad only) - 69p / 99c
Fieldrunners 2 (iPhone) - 69p / 99c
Fieldrunners 2 HD (iPad) - £1.99 / $2.99 Warner Bros. LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 - 69p / 99c
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 - 69p / 99c
LEGO The Lord of the Rings - £1.99 / $2.99
LEGO Batman: DC Super Heroes - 69p / 99c
Batman Arkham City Lockdown - 69p / 99c Star Wars Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - £2.99 / $4.99
Angry Birds Star Wars II - Free
Star Wars Pinball 2 - 69p / 99c Taito

RayStorm - £2.99 / $4.99
RayForce - £1.99 / $2.99
Dariusburst SP - £3.99 / $5.99
Bubble Bobble Double - £1.99 / $2.99
Space Invaders (iPhone) - £1.99 / $2.99
Space Invaders HD (iPad) - £1.99 / $2.99
Space Invaders Infinity Gene - £1.99 / $2.99

Square Enix Demons' Score - £1.99 / $2.99
The World Ends with You: Solo Remix (iPhone) - £5.99 / $8.99
The World Ends with You: Solo Remix (iPad) - £6.99 / $9.99
Chaos Rings (iPhone) - £1.99 / $2.99
Chaos Rings (iPad) - £1.99 / $2.99
Chaos Rings II (iPhone) - £2.49 / $3.99
Chaos Rings II (iPad) - £2.49 / $3.99
Chaos Rings Omega (iPhone) - £1.99 / $2.99
Chaos Rings Omega (iPad) - £1.99 / $2.99
Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions (iPhone) - £4.99 / $6.99
Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions (iPad) - £5.49 / $7.99
Secret of Mana - £2.49 / $3.99
Final Fantasy (iPhone only) - £2.49 / $3.99
Final Fantasy II (iPhone only) - £2.49 / $3.99
Vanguard Storm (iPhone only) - £1.49 / $1.99
Crystal Defenders (iPhone only) - £2.49 / $3.99
Drakerider Chains Transcendent (iPhone) - £4.99 / $6.99
Drakerider Chains Transcendent (iPad) - £4.99 / $6.99
Final Fantasy III (iPhone) - £5.49 / $7.99
Final Fantasy III (iPad) - £5.49 / $7.99
Final Fantasy IV - £5.49 / $7.99
Final Fantasy V - £5.49 / $7.99
Deus Ex: The Fall - 99p / 99c
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (iPhone) - 69p / 99c
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light HD (iPad) - 69p / 99c Team 17 Worms 2: Armageddon - £2.49 / $3.99
Worms 3 - 99p / 99c Ironhide Game Studio Kingdom Rush HD (iPad only) - 69p / 99c
Kingdom Rush Frontiers (iPhone) - 69p / 99c
Kingdom Rush Frontiers HD (iPad) - £1.99 / $2.99 SNK The King of Fighters 97 - £1.49 / $1.99
The King of Fighters-i- (iPhone only) - 69p / 99c
The King of Fightesr-i 2012 (iPhone only) - £2.49 / $3.99
Samurai Shodown II - £1.49 / $1.99
Metal Slug 1 - £1.49 / $1.99
Metal Slug 2 - £1.49 / $1.99
Metal Slug X - £1.49 / $1.99
Metal Slug 3 - £1.49 / $1.99
Blazing Star - 69p / 99c Gameloft The Dark Knight Rises - 69p / 99c
Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour - 69p / 99c
The Amazing Spider-Man - 69p / 99c EA Burnout Crash! - 69p / 99c
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (iPhone) - 69p / 99c
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (iPad) - 69p / 99c
Need for Speed: Most Wanted - 69p / 99c
Need for Speed: Shift (iPhone) - 69p / 99c
Need for Speed: Shift (iPad) - 69p / 99c
Need for Speed: Undercover (iPhone only) - 69p / 99c
Shift 2: Unleashed (iPhone) - 69p / 99c
Shift 2: Unleashed (iPad) - 69p / 99c
SimCity Deluxe (iPad only) - 69p / 99c
Mass Effect Infiltrator - 69p / 99c
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (iPhone) - 69p / 99c
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (iPad) - 69p / 99c
Dead Space (iPhone) - 69p / 99c
Dead Space (iPad only) - 69p / 99c
Mirror's Edge (iPad only) - 69p / 99c
Max and the Magic Marker (iPad only) - 69p / 99c
NBA Jam (iPad only) - 69p / 99c
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 (iPad only) - 69p / 99c
The Sims 3 - 69p / 99c
The Sims 3: Ambitions - 69p / 99c
The Sims Medieval (iPhone) - 69p / 99c
The Sims Medieval (iPad) - 69p / 99c Other developers Shardlands - 69p / 99c
Lili - 69p / 99c
Super Lemonade Factory - 69p / 99c
Waking Mars - £1.49 / $1.99
LostWinds - Free
Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer - 69p / 99c
Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor (iPhone) - 69p / 99c
Spider: Secret of Bryce Manor HD (iPad) - 69p / 99c
Costume Quest - 69p / 99c
Echo Prime - 69p / 99c
F1 Challenge - 69p / 99c
Indigo Lake - 69p / 99c
Fruit Ninja HD (iPad only) - 69p / 99c
King of Dragon Pass - £3.99 / $5.99
Bit.Trip Run - £1.49 / $1.99
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP Micro (iPhone only) - 69p / 99c
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP - £1.49 / $1.99
Frozen Synapse (iPad only) - 69p / 99c
Infinity Blade III - £1.99 / $2.99
Ms. Splosion Man - 69p / 99c
Small World 2 (iPad only) - £2.99 / $4.99
Pivvot - £1.49 / $1.99
Slitherine's Legion (iPad only) - £2.99 / $4.99
Bastion - 69p / 99c
Pizza Vs. Skeletons - £1.99 / $2.99
Anomaly 2 - 69p / 99c
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition (iPad only) - £4.99 / $6.99
Adventure Bar Story (iPhone only) - 69p / 99c
Pathogen - 69p / 99c
I Am Level - 69p / 99c
Cognition Episode 1 (iPad only) - 69p / 99c
Cognition Episode 2 (iPad only) - £1.49 / $1.99
Wave Trip - Free
Forever Lost: Episode 1 SD - 69p / 99c
Aralon: Sword and Shadow HD - 69p / 99c Epoch - Free
Contra Evolution (iPhone) - Free
Contra Evolution HD (iPad) - Free
Quell Reflect - Free
Isle of Bxnes - 69p / 99c
Star Command - 69p / 99c
Stellar Wars - 69p / 99c
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (iPad only) - 69p / 99c