Free iPhone and iPad games: Squids, Apex Of The Racing

Welcome to another instalment of Pocket Gamer's free game round-up - a feature that highlights the top App Store titles that have been made free in the past 24 hours.

As we've stated many times before, prices in the App Store change frequently. Grab these freebies before you miss out on a top bargain.

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And if you're craving even more quality freebies, be sure to check out our sister site Free App Alliance for daily recommendations of the best free apps the App Store has to offer.

Squids, which was updated to support the iPad back in December, is a colourful strategy title that features several RPG elements, such as the ability to level-up your character.

The aim of the game is to recruit a small party of stretchy squid - each with unique abilities - and jump into turn-based battles against other pesky sea creatures like shrimps and crabs.

At review, we gave this title a sparkling Silver Award, and commented that "every bite" of it is "a delight". That probably means it's worth downloading.

As you can see from the cropped screenshot above, Apex Of The Racing is a drive-'em-up in which you jump behind the wheel of 16 "specially designed" vehicles and race across 20 varied tracks.

You can compete in 15 different career events en route to fame and fortune, and put your driving skills to the test over three game modes - one of which tasks you with avoiding oncoming traffic.

There are more than 30 Game Center achievements waiting to be displayed on your virtual mantelpiece, plus a whole bunch of leaderboards to assault.