My real-life cat, it appears, has been frustrated with me lately. Oh, she's still spoiled, but there have been a couple of occasions in which my attention has been diverted from her to a wholly digital feline. "Super Phantom Cat," to be specific, has won my heart. "Super Phantom Cat" even seems self-aware. "Love," the game tells players, "lights up the sad and cold chamber of your heart."

There are a lot of mobile games out there -- last year more than 100,000 iOS games were released in North America. They're worse when your girlfriend is scattered around the galaxy. In this iOS game a young boy tries to put back together his first love, a female robot, and learns to live on his own along the way. Words come to life in "Story Warriors: Fairy Tales." Words come to life in "Story Warriors: Fairy Tales."