Whoa, it's Wednesday and I can't believe it's already November. I guess the upside of the year racing to a close is that we won't have to wait too much longer to see what iOS developers do this holiday season. Total EA domination seems like the safe bet, although the best thing about the App Store is that anything can happen.

Anyway, this week works like every other week. All of these games should be available for download in the US App Store at 11:00 PM Eastern, or potentially much earlier depending on how east you are of the good ol' US of A.

Aquaria for iPad, $4.99 - Forum Thread - If there's an award out there for indie games, chances are Aquaria has won it. This action adventure game is entirely underwater, and involves lots of exploring, boss fights, and seahorses.

Chicken Rescue, 99� - Forum Thread - Help the mother chicken rescue her chicks across 24 different levels. Your chicken is even upgradeable in a variety of different ways.

Cosmic Cab, 99� - Forum Thread - This seems to be the crazy combination of Crazy Taxi and a tube racer, which sounds A-OK to me.

DynaStunts, $2.99 - Forum Thread - I always seem to enjoy these types of motorcycle games, and I'm really digging both the wicked air you seem to be able to get off jumps and the bright art style of this one.

Monster Burner, $2.99 - Forum Thread - Gameplay looks a little simplistic, but roasting monsters just by touching them seems like a pretty appealing concept.

Poker Pals, $1.99 / Free - Forum Thread - Words With Friends meets Sword & Poker? I'm totally in, I never was that great at Scrabble anyway.

Sad Robot, Free - Forum Thread - A cute big-pixel tilt-based game plays similar to most in that you avoid bad things while pick up good things. The game is free, and initial impressions in the forums mention IAP feels very optional.

The Moogies, $2.99 - Forum Thread - This kid-centric game introduces The Moogies, a set of nine unique characters that Chillingo hopes 2-6 year olds will love.

Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls, Free + $9.99 IAP Unlock - Forum Thread - Well they've certainly got the whole epic setting down that seems to be required for any RPG, and the whole free + IAP unlock seems like an appealing way to sell these kind of games.

Dungeon Defenders: Second Wave (see what Trendy did there) will be released as a free update to the iOS versions of Dungeon Defenders: First Wave [$2.99] tomorrow, the developer has told us via an e-mail release. According to Trendy, Second Wave addresses "many of the issues" from the first game, including the horrendously cluttered UI and clunky menus that kept us from enjoying its first try at an iOS port of its downloadable game.

In addition to these improvements, Second Wave will see "performance improvements," and a player-versus-player content package called "Arena." If you pop out your eyeglasses, you'll be able to see some of these tweaks and adds in its newly-released trailer.

In case you didn't know, Dungeon Defenders is now available on Xbox Live Arcade and as a PC release on Steam. These versions are particularly good according to media types, so you might want to consider checking those out if you're into the game's hack-and-slash meets tower defense action.

Working in the iOS industry since the beginning has filled my head with all sorts of factoids that might not immediately seem that useful, but I'd be a beast on Jeopardy, assuming they ever had a "Random Mobile Gaming Trivia" column. One of these many tidbits I've soaked up is that before today there was no "games" category in the South Korean App Store.

Previously, the South Korean government had a very tight approval process that worked similar to a more strict version of the ESRB. Only, while getting rated by the ESRB in the USA is fairly optional, getting government approval was required. This caused a whole lot of friction with Apple, a company who historically hasn't had that great of a record of compromise. Instead of working with the South Korean government, they just shrugged and axed the game category all together.

Some developers skirted this restriction by releasing their games under the "Entertainment" heading, but this was always highly frowned upon by Apple. But, where there's a will there's a way, and these restrictions just caused diehard South Korean iOS gamers to pick up international iTunes gift cards and make their purchases on whatever non-Korean marketplace was the most convenient for them.

Thankfully, pressure from all sides of the mobile gaming market finally lead to the powers that be in South Korean easing up their restriction and finally allowing for games on the App Store. This change should massively benefit iOS developers, as South Korea not only has an incredibly strong gaming culture, but some ridiculously good gamers. (You'll likely know this first hand if you've ever attempted to play a StarCraft game online.) …And now all those people can buy iOS games just as easily as we can.

To celebrate the occasion, South Korean gaming giant Com2uS has reduced the price of all of their games to 99�. Head on over to their iTunes listing and take a look, due to the global nature of App Store pricing, you don't even need to be South Korean to take advantage of this sale. Also, since it seems like iOS developers are always anxious for any reason to drop their prices of their games, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to keep an eye on the game sales section of AppShopper to snag anything worthwhile as this news spreads and the South Korean App Store sees a flood of new customers.