'I'm gonna shoot your face off, ho ho ho!' The game designers arming Santa

Santa Claus is coming to town - and he's got a shotgun, a stash of nuclear warheads and an army of zombie elves

Christmas, that traditional time when families come together to sit around looking at their iPhones. So what better way to get in the spirit for that solitary sofa time than by downloading some Christmas-themed apps?

The festive phone-staring tradition has spawned an entire industry of yuletide apps, from 101 Christmas Cake Ideas (which seems to be a slideshow of different ways to disguise the leaden mass no one actually wants to eat) to Christmas Countdown and Sleeps to Christmas, which are basically calendars with clip-art tinsel stuck on.