Big-Screen iPhone 5 Apps (Games)

Asphalt 7: Heat 99 cents 
Asphalt and Need for Speed are the two most popular driving game franchises on the iPhone, and only Asphalt has been optimized for the big screen so far. You're supposed to keep your eyes on the middle of the screen in a driving game, but the wider screen gives you more room to enjoy the gorgeously detailed cityscapes on Asphalt's urban courses.

Jetpack JoyrideFree
A wider screen in landscape mode is a real boon for platform games because you can more easily see what's ahead of you. Halfbrick's silly, energetic Jetpack Joyride is a perfect example of a game which gets a little extra boost on the iPhone 5, as you zip along through a kooky laboratory powered by an jetpack with no off switch.

Lili $4.99
This gorgeous, nonviolent Unreal Engine powered adventure game is one of the top ways to show off the screen and GPU power in the iPhone 5. As a bespectacled grad student, you wander through a gorgeously rendered tropical land of spirits and tribal fetishes, with the iPhone 5's new graphics hardware making everything buttery smooth.

Minecraft Pocket Edition $6.99
Minecraft is a huge cult game, something of a shibboleth among software developers and semi-pro geeks. The iOS version of Minecraft doesn't have all of the world-building features of the main game, but more features and creatures are being added on a regular basis, and the app now supports full iPhone 5 resolution, giving you a little bit more breathing room as you're building your worlds.

Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy$2.99
This 3D airplane dogfighting game is a gorgeous flight sim with fighting, and you want to be doing that over as wide a vista as possible. Turn the screen into landscape mode, and that's what you'll get with an iPhone 5: a wider view as you swoop over simulated cities in Sky Gamblers.

Spell Tower$1.99
Spelling as in words, not spells as in magic. Spell Tower is a word-building game, beautifully designed with great-looking fonts. On the iPhone 5, you can play in an iPad-compatible mode that just isn't available to owners of earlier iPhones, with more lines of letters on the screen.

Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP$1.99
It's an incredible work, and probably the single most hipster thing I've ever seen on an iPhone. (That's saying a lot.) S&S is a relatively slow-paced, immersive action-adventure game using stylized quasi-8-bit graphics and a custom electronic music soundtrack. It's enough like and unlike other adventure games that it's fascinating, and it spreads its gloomy world across the whole iPhone 5 screen.