Best way to warm up for a Vegas weekend

The only game on this list actually made by , Texas Hold’em takes everything the company learned from its first effort with the iPod poker game and builds on it, using the iPhone to the best of its ability. This $5 game puts you in a Texas Hold’em casino poker game in a first person perspective, and features ten different locations each with progressively higher buy-ins. The game features detailed movement animations and graphics, lots of background noise and music, and a top-down view if you get tired of the first-person perspective. There’s also a multiplayer mode that lets you play up to eight other Texas Hold’em fans over a Wi-Fi network. (Read our .)

Best update to an old classic

Though I admit that my was very rocky, did its best to update Tetris with improvements that resolved all of my problems, and in doing so created a stellar experience for iPhone users. While it would seem that after more than 20 years, everything you can do with the classic falling blocks puzzle game has been done, EA still managed to find some new twists with Tetris by incorporating touch-based gestures and shaking into the game which make it even more fun. That, combined with updated gameplay, makes Tetris for the iPhone a must-have, especially for classic game fans. (Read our .)

That’s it for iPhone offerings. Let’s look at our Mac-based game inductees…