Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you!

• Snowboard Hero: The ultimate snowboard experience with wicked tricks, insane air time, and super fast downhill speed. Now with 2 new characters, 2 new tracks, and 24 new events! [$4.99 - iTunes link]

• Smurfs’ Village: Now you can customize your Smurfs with 13 new Smurfy hats from Tailor Smurf! [Free - iTunes link]

• Due: Update brings new tweeks and fixes such as the ability to edit overdo reminders. [$4.99 - iTunes link]

• Cat Physics: What are cats up to at dawn, when nobody’s around? Update brings 10 new levels, retina display support, and is now a universal app for iPhone and iPad! [$0.99 - iTunes link]

• Shazam Encore: Now with LyricPlay: see synced lyrics as the music plays! [$5.99 - iTunes link]

Any other big apps or game releases or updates today? If you pick any of these up, let us know what you think!

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Today the London based company, Shazam, announced the launch of its new Shazam Encore [$4.99 - iTunes Link] app on the App Store. The original Shazam is a free app that currently has over 10 million downloads so why not try to cash in with a new app that costs $4.99. Here is what you get for your money.

• Improved speed performance: making it even quicker for users to tag tracks and learn more about their music.
• Music recommendations: users can discover other music similar to the track that’s been tagged to enhance their music collection and knowledge.
• Find what’s hot and popular: Shazam music charts generated by millions of other Shazamers can be accessed to help users keep up to date with the new tracks and players in the music scene.
• Search music: easily find music by artist, album or track from over 8 million songs.
• Drive and Tag: Shazam automatically enters into car mode when the iPhone is placed in an in-car dock to make it simple to discover what’s playing on the radio even when driving.

Okay, so they’ve added some nice new features, but are those features worth $4.99? Let us know what you think.