Following just a couple weeks after the release of its OpenFeint 2.4 SDK, iPhone developer Aurora Feint has announced it will release a standalone application for its social gaming network in mid-January.

The OpenFeint app's landing page will feature two features specifically designed to expose users to new games. The initial screen will feature a new free game every day, which will show if their friends on the network have added it as a favorite or written a review for the title. It will also offer a dynamic list of games that their friends have recently played.

The iPhone application will also demonstrate many of the new features introduced in OpenFeint 2.4, allowing users to see when their friends are online, instant message buddies, check a message inbox, access forums read developer announcements and newsletters they've signed up for, designate games as favorites and add reviews, access geolocation leaderboards, save game data to OpenFeint servers, and more.

"We have received many requests from players and developers alike, so we decided to release a stand-alone app on the heels of our OpenFeint 2.4 launch," says Aurora Feint marketing VP Eros Resmini. "We hope the app provides our players with a simple way to access the OpenFeint community of 7M+ players and discover content in our catalog of 650+ games."

You can see screenshots of the upcoming OpenFeint app after the break.