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After a brief disappearance from the App Store, Rockstar Games has re-released Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the iPhone. This brings the free game to version 4.0 and the $4.99 full game to version 2.0. The game requires iOS 5.0 or later, and the update brings iOS 7 compatibility to the title.

Retina display graphics have also been added for the iPhone 4 and 4s. While the graphics are much improved, the title is not width-optimized for larger iPhone 5 and 5s displays. Both the paid and lite versions will demand 250 MB of space on a compatible iOS device.

Avenged Sevenfold has announced today that their upcoming action adventure game, Hail to the King: Deathbat, is coming soon to mobile devices. The game is being developed by Subscience Studios and is inspired by "classic dungeon crawlers," according to the press release.

Hail to the King: Deathbat is a companion title to Avenged Sevenfold's Machinima video series.

“We’ve been fans of games since we were kids, and we thought it would be fun to create one of our own inspired by our favorites," explained M. Shadows, lead singer of Avenged Sevenfold. "There are so many cool and innovative indie games being developed today, and we realized we could design and build the kind of game we'd love to play on our own. It is coming together amazingly well, and we can’t wait to share it."

The evad3rs iOS 7 jailbreak has had a bit of a rocky launch. First there were rumors that someone close to the group had stolen the exploit and sold it to a private buyer, then soon after its release the jailbreak community accused the evad3rs of becoming greedy by partnering with the Chinese App Store TaiG.

The evad3rs quickly responded to all the rumors with a message posted on their website. In a letter addressed to the "Jailbreak Community," the evad3rs have made it clear that users were "not locked into TaiG" and could still install Cydia. The evad3rs also added that they had never shared their exploits with TaiG's owners, and that preventing piracy is extremely important to them. This all lead to pod2g announcing on Twitter today, that the evad3rs had decided to "remotely disable the default installation of TaiG in China for further investigations on the piracy issue."

The team that launched evasi0n 7 to jailbreak iOS 7 devices has penned an open letter to address rumors and speculation circulating around the jailbreak community. The main controversy erupted thanks to evasi0n 7 replacing Cydia with the Chinese app store TaiG in China. The store has subsequently been pulled from evasi0n due to allegations of app piracy.

The full letter from the evad3rs explains that a deal was made with TaiG to simply bundle the app store with evasi0n in China. No jailbreak exploits were shared with the company, and as part of the agreement TaiG is contractually bound to not have piracy in their store. Additionally, users in China who jailbreak their devices are not locked into using TaiG if they prefer an alternative like Cydia.

Need some last-minute shopping ideas this holiday season? Apple's got your back. iBooks can now be used to send digital books as gifts, in the same way music and apps can be gifted. Once received, the books can be read with the iBooks app on an iOS device or OS X Mavericks.

The new gifting functionality comes just in time for the holidays. To send a book using an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, open the iBooks app and find the title you wish to send as a gift. Tap the share button in the upper right corner, then tap Gift from the pop-up menu options. Fill out the recipient's information, select a delivery date, and tap Next to continue.