Apps Rush: Pocket Planes, Temple Run: Brave, Max Payne, Toca Train, AmpliTube Slash and more

A selection of 14 new and notable apps for you today – a games-heavy selection, since it's Thursday, which has become the key release day for mobile developers. Pocket Planes Brand new from NimbleBit – the developer behind iOS hit Tiny Tower – is a simulation game where you manage a fleet of airplanes as they fly passengers and cargo around the world. The game features similar pixel-perfect visuals to Tiny Tower, and social features to trade plane parts with friends. iPhone / iPad Temple Run: Brave Arcade game Temple Run has been hugely popular with mobile gamers, but now there's a new version tying in with Disney/Pixar's new film Brave. It sees heroine Merida doing the running, sliding and jumping, with spruced-up visuals and Scottish scenery. iPhone / iPad Max Payne Mobile Rockstar Games didn't waste much time porting its mobilised Max Payne game from iOS to Android. It sees you playing framed cop Max as he tries to clear his name, with the game's signature slow-motion bullet time intact. It's available for Android smartphones and tablets. Android Toca Train Swedish kid-apps developer Toca Boca was feted during Apple's WWDC keynote. Now it has a new app out, Toca Train, which puts children in the position of a train driver on a cartoon island. It's less a game with goals, and more a digital train set, marking the company's move into 3D. iPhone / iPad AmpliTube Slash Two new apps in one week for rawk guitarist Slash – his album-app came out earlier in the week, but this is more for other musicians. AmpliTube Slash is a mobile guitar effects processor and recording studio app, based on Slash's real-life pedals and amps. It's a branded version of the existing AmpliTube app, and the link above is for iPhone – here's the separate iPad version . iPhone / iPad Top Gear: Stunt School Revolution The BBC's Top Gear already has a popular Stunt School app, but now it's been rebooted with more cars, locations and stunts to pull. Escaping Alcatraz, balloon-hopping motor-homes and the ability to "speed through a roller-coaster on a New York skyscraper with a cow on your pickup". As you do. iPhone / iPad My Xbox Live Microsoft has taken its Xbox Live app to Android, providing people with a way to sign in to their profiles and check their achievements, tweak their Xbox Live avatar and chat to friends on the gaming social network. Android Aviary Photo Editor Aviary's photo-editing tools are used by other apps, but now they've been turned into a standalone app too. It includes core editing tools, including the ability to sharpen pics, adjust the colour balance and add virtual stickers and text. Effects packs are available as in-app purchases too. The link above is for Android, but here's the iPhone version . Android / iPhone Magic Piano Music apps developer Smule has brought its Magic Piano app from iOS to Android. It's a virtual piano with more than 200 songs available to download and play, from the worlds of rock, pop and classical. Android Brave: Storybook Deluxe Two Brave apps in one day, as Disney puts some marketing welly behind its new animated film. This is a storybook-app based on the Pixar movie, with interactivity and animation, as well as an archery mini-game. iPhone / iPad Pinstagram Yes, your instincts are correct: this iPad app mashes up Instagram and Pinterest, showing people's Instagram photos in a Pinterest-style board, and helping them to post those pics to their actual Pinterest account. Whether it has a chance of survival when those two services launch official iPad apps is open to question. iPad Return to Wolf Creek Acclaimed Australian horror movie Wolf Creek has a new iPad app, including its original trailer, interviews, deleted scenes, a 45-minute documentary and storyboards, as well as the option to "post your scream" to the film's companion website. iPad No Zombies Allowed Mobile social games firm Booyah's latest title focuses on the undead, as you try to save a town by recruiting survivors from a zombie invasion – getting supplies from businesses in the real world around you. iPhone / iPad Texas Hold'em King Live RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook gets a good-looking online poker game from Magmic, albeit in beta for now. It includes in-game chat, a host of avatars to choose, and is played purely for fun. BlackBerry PlayBook