Smokin Apps™

Beautiful Widgets Pro for Android – Review

Bobby — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:50:03 +0000

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: customization apps are very important to me. Being able to tweak your phone to look and feel different than the standard UI is a blessing, and Beautiful Widgets Pro helps do just that. And, there are external themes you can download for the app to customize [...]

Carmageddon for Android – Review

Bobby — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:13:59 +0000

Remember Carmageddon, where the more people you ran over with your car the more points you received? Many countries actually banned the original PC title for its violence (this was ages ago). Now, Carmageddon has successfully made its way to Android. So, rev up your engines and head towards your nearest granny on the sidewalk [...]

Asphalt 7: Heat for Android – Review

Bobby — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:36:00 +0000

Oh, hey, another Android racing game that everyone new about and bought anyway. You would think that people would eventually stop buying an Android racing game franchise after the novelty of having a handheld racing game wore off, right? Wrong! There’s a reason that Asphalt 7 is selling like hot cakes and Gameloft is the [...]

Talisman Prologue HD for Android – Review

Bobby — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:20:51 +0000

Now, THIS is the board game turned app that you’ve been waiting for. Talisman Prologue HD is a great way to explore the land of Talisman via single-player campaigns. Roll the dice and then draw a card, but do so in a beautifully drawn, digital style. The Good There’s a lot of fun to be [...]

doubleTwist with Magic Radio for Android – Review

Bobby — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:17:21 +0000

doubleTwist with Magic Radio is an app that allows you to enjoy your synced music over WiFi, stream music, videos and photos to Xbox 360, PS3 and Apple TV, and have a “magic” radio of personalized streaming music from a catalog of over 13 million songs. But, there’s a problem: the radio isn’t magical, at [...]

Temple Run 2 for Android – Review

Bobby — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:46:29 +0000

Run, Forest, Run! Just kidding, but someone should make a runner based on Forest Gump. But, since no one has, Temple Run 2 is a close second, I suppose. It’s hard to create a runner that doesn’t have players losing interest after an hour of playing. However, Imangi Studios has created a nearly flawless follow-up [...]

Nova Launcher Prime for Android – Review

Bobby — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:31:53 +0000

What’s the first thing most people do when getting a new phone? They customize it. With Android, though, customization options are limited; I always wished I could do more. I’ve tried many other launchers, include Next Launcher, Apex, and ADW, but none quite did the trick. Enter Nova Launcher Prime. The Good There are a [...]

Nimble Quest for Android – Review

Bobby — Wed, 08 May 2013 18:17:28 +0000

Did you enjoy playing Snake? Centipede? Well, then you’ll definitely enjoy playing Nimble Quest from Nimblebit. In Nimble Quest, you are the leader of a conga line of fellow heroes in which you can add to your line after defeating them. You’ll fight against bats, spiders, zombies, knights, pirates, wizards, skeletons, and more. The Good [...]

Iron Man 3 for Android – Review

Bobby — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:15:20 +0000

You know what goes great with this weekend’s release of Iron Man 3? A free Iron Man 3 mobile game made by one of my favorite mobile game developers, Gameloft. In this game, you’ll take on four villains from the Iron Man comics: Living Laser, M.O.D.O.K., Ezekiel Stane and Crimson Dynamo. Did I mention it [...]

Swype for Android – Review

Bobby — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:06:04 +0000

Do your slightly big fingers have trouble typing on the standard touch-screen keyboard? Are you sick of having to backspace after every word you type to correct it? If so, you might be interested in an app called Swype, which brings a completely new way of typing on your android touch screen keyboard. Heavy emphasis [...]

CSR Racing for Android – Review

Bobby — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:04:34 +0000

The Good The graphics in CSR Racing are absolutely stunning, THE best I’ve seen on Android to date. The game definitely feels like a mobile version of Forza, and even has the same level up style of gameplay. There is a great deal of cars available, with upgrades and colors for you to choose from. You [...]

Fieldrunners 2 for Android – Review

Bobby — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:59:26 +0000

I know what you’re thinking: Jeez, ANOTHER tower defense game? Well, yes, but Fieldrunners 2 isn’t just more of the same. For those that have played tower defense games before, Fieldrunners 2 is easy to pick up and doesn’t need much explanation, although the game does have some unique aspects to it. The Good One [...]

Tapatalk Forum App for Android – Review

Bobby — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:24:34 +0000

Are you sick of slow loading times while you’re trying to surf forums on your browser? Well, aren’t we all. But, hey, there’s an app for that! The Tapatalk Forum App allows painless browsing and posting on some of your favorite online communities, such as the IGN boards, Blu-ray.com forums, AndroidForums, and Niketalk. In fact, [...]

Wunderlist for Android – Review

RoshanD — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:40:27 +0000

Google could just introduce a new category in Google Play featuring ToDo apps only, as a large number of them are already available and still counting. And the best part is that a lot of them are great apps for daily use and hence, are constantly improving to attract more users. Looking by the Google [...]

Avengers Initiative for Android – Review

RoshanD — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:44:35 +0000

Breaking all hopes of the developers, the Avengers Initiative wasn’t as huge as the movie and this made the game slide down, all the way from 7 dollars. Now that its free, packing a baby form of Infinity Blade, the 1.5 gigabyte game isn’t that bad either. A top secret prison under S.H.I.E.L.D has been compromised, releasing [...]

Swing Shot for Android – Review

Umouch — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:35:41 +0000

Have you ever wanted to throw a beehive at a monkey? Make a sloth fall down with a pineapple? Wonder what sound they’d make ? Do you miss being the sling-shot king of the neighborhood ? Satisfy those inner desires and make them reality. For added contentedness, all of it is real-time! Try out your [...]

Grand Theft Auto: ViceCity for Android – Review

Rob — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:56:14 +0000

When Grand Theft Auto 3 came out last year on handheld devices, it in many ways marked the rise of iOS and Android as serious gaming platforms. By bringing a visually-enhanced version of one of the most-loved games of all time to the palms of people’s hands, it proved that the formats are here to [...]

Rayman Jungle Run for Android – Review

Umouch — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:53:35 +0000

For those of you who have fond memories of playing the Rayman series of games back in the 90′s… little Raman, & his floating head, are back. The game, coming from the folks at UBISOFT Entertainment, introduce the game by saying, “The legendary platforming hero is making a jump to your favorite mobile device.” I [...]

Contract Killer 2 for Android – Review

Umouch — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:02:18 +0000

We all know that there is no shortage of 1st and/or 3rd person shooter games in the PlayStore for our Android devices! That said, I think we can agree that there is a severe lacking of games that both look great, and have awesome game play built in. Well, Contact Killers 2 attempts to fill [...]

Eventbrite for Android – Review

Rob — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:51:30 +0000

Every now and then, most of us should allow ourselves to have a truly impromptu day, where we don’t make any plans as such, and just get caught up in some of the happenings and events happening around us. Eventbrite is an app that facilitates this way of doing things, by showing you what [...]

Yumm Halloween for Android – Review

Rob — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:32:59 +0000

Yumm has grown to become a bit of a familiar face among Android users. The cute razor-toothed creature has already featured in one mobile game, and Yumm Halloween is very much more of the same, with a slightly altered look. Fans of the original Yumm will notice that this Yumm is considerably hairier than his [...]

Death Dome for Android – Review

Rob — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:09:24 +0000

Death Dome is the latest in a tradition of games best exemplified by the brilliant Infinity Blade 2. It’s essentially a time-and-slash game where the basic objective is to dodge, parry and block your enemy’s attacks as you battle through duels of increasing difficulty. There really isn’t much to say about the plot. In the [...]

Magic Wingdom for Android – Review

Rob — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:41:29 +0000

It seems to be a general rule with mobile platforms that the best games are not the graphically-intensive ports of other console games, or games that are clearly a rip-off of successful console hits (I’m looking at you, Shadowgun), but simple puzzle games perfectly suited to touchscreen gameplay. Magic Wingdom is just such a game, [...]

Halloween Widget for Android – Review

Rob — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:20:49 +0000

There’s no easier way of getting into the Halloween spirit than by having a spooky soundboard on your mobile phone. Well, actually there is. There’s trick-or-treating, Halloween parties and dressing up as Slender Man, but a soundboard surely helps. This simple Halloween widget takes the form of an evil pumpkin face on your UI. When [...]

Halloween Pumpkin Carver for Android – Review

Rob — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:18:00 +0000

What is it with pumpkins and Halloween? Whether they represent human souls in purgatory or whether they were used to light the way on cold autumnal nights, the orange squash has really carved out a niche for itself in popular culture, and it’s safe to say that we’ll be seeing them around for many Halloweens [...]

Stick Tennis for Android – Review

Rob — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:36:04 +0000

Simplicity is beauty. I don’t exactly know who said that, but the phrase seems befitting of many of the most popular Android games. The same can be said of Stick Tennis, a game which conveniently automates all your player’s movement so you can essentially just focus on hitting the damn ball. In principle, this is [...]

World of Goo for Android – Review

Rob — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:17:19 +0000

World of Goo is one of those games that has managed to capture the gaming world’s imagination thanks to a combination of engaging puzzle gameplay and a delightful cartoon aesthetic that seems to be all the rage these days. Suffice to say that the game’s release on Android has been long overdue. In World of [...]

Amazing Alex for Android – Review

Rob — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:49:11 +0000

In the past couple of years, Finnish game developer Rovio has become completely synonymous with its ridiculously popular Angry Birds franchise. Leaving aside my belief that those games are ridiculously overrated, it’s probably a wise move for the company to show that they have more tricks up their sleeve. This is precisely what they’ve done [...]

Bonfyre – Photo Sharing App for iOS and Android – Review

Rob — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:48:58 +0000

The idea of a photo sharing app may not be the most original concept in this world of mobile apps, but it’s an area within which there’s plenty of room to expand and improve on what we’ve seen until now. The idea of Bonfyre is, as the name suggests, to share photos revolving around specific [...]

The Bard’s Tale for Android – Review

Rob — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:17:25 +0000

There are precious few definitive RPGs available for Android. For the most part, it seems that hack & slash games such as Dungeon Hunter can be liberally labelled as RPGs, but let’s face it, they just lack the character to be. The Bard’s Tale – while a largely hack & slash affair itself – definitely [...]

Wooble Attack for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch – Review

Eng Wei Jie — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:05:01 +0000

We’ve all played Whac-A-Mole some time in a our childhoods, a game requiring fast reflexes and dexterity. However, Wooble Attack takes things to a whole new level by increasing the difficulty to such point that you will be left gasping for air after each round. In Wooble Attack, expect to see the cliché 6 mole [...]

Yumby Toss for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch – Review

Eng Wei Jie — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:21:26 +0000

On first glance, Yumby Toss bears many a resemblance to Angry Birds with both games having a seemingly similar control system and both games involving the launching of cute bird-like creatures. However, as the game progresses, Yumby Toss discerns itself from the latter through a very different control approach. For starters, the game has players [...]

How to turn your Android smartphone into a full-sized games console

Rob — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:05:40 +0000

Our beloved smartphones. They’re so small and run so silently, that it’s easy to forget that the high-end ones are quad-core beasts that could – figuratively speaking – beat the shit out of many of our ‘big’ home computers. As such, many of us haven’t considered their potential for raw old-school gaming fun. Yes, we [...]

Bad Piggies for Android – Review

Rob — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:55:57 +0000

Rovio’s Angry Birds have been hogging the limelight for too damn long. Yes, the series may appeal to people who enjoy absent-minded trial-and-error gameplay, but Rovio are clearly a reasonably talented bunch of developers who could afford to be a little more ambitious. Amazing Alex offered this, but at the expense of endearing visuals and [...]

Desktop Remote for Android – Review

Rob — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:35:21 +0000

One of the best things about apps is how they can accommodate the very human need to be an appallingly lazy slob. Even on the level of finding our way around, we no longer have to guide ourselves using silly things like signs or the sun, but just follow the line on Google Maps and [...]

Netflix for Android – Review

Rob — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:32:50 +0000

The online TV and film-streaming service from the States has truly landed and made a massive impact here in Europe. In a market that was previously dominated by Lovefilm, Netflix has arrived to give the service a run for its money, resulting the streaming giants going head-to-head with great libraries of films and TV, competitive [...]

ETERNITY WARRIORS 2 for Android – Review

Rob — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:00:08 +0000

Smartphones have found themselves to be apt little devices for dungeon-crawling slash-’em-up games. Games like Eternity Warriors and the Dungeon Hunter series have particularly stood out from the countless games in this genre, and the follow-up to the former is a basic, but worthy and addictive addition to the handheld dungeon crawler canon. Eternity Warriors [...]

TVCatchup for Android – Review

Rob — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:53:06 +0000

Smartphones have provided us with a new platform from which we can stay constantly connected to the world. Whether this is reading the news, philosophical texts, or watching the depressingly gripping freakshow that is Jeremy Kyle, all our needs are catered. TVCatchup is an Android app that very much ticks the latter of the purposes that [...]

LinQsta for iPhone – Review

Eng Wei Jie — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:42:30 +0000

LinQsta does away with the need for physical business cards with the implementation and utilization of QR codes to share your details. To start off, LinQsta requires users to register for an account on their website before it can be used. My only gripe about this app would be that the registration system has to [...]

McPixel for Android – Review

Rob — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:19:01 +0000

Every now and then, a game comes along that’s so utterly stupid that you become instantly endeared to it. McPixel is just such a game. Having been one of the first ten games to successfully make it through Steam’s Greenlight program on the PC, the absurd point-and-click game has now made it to Android. McPixel [...]

New Star Soccer for Android – Review

Rob — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:55:31 +0000

Sometimes, it seems as if even the crappest games can draw you in and turn into something disproportionately addictive. Especially with the premise that you’re a single footballer who starts in the lower echelons of the football league, with the aim of becoming the world’s greatest player. This is exactly what New Star Soccer brings [...]

SwiftKey 3 Keyboard for Android – Review

Rob — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:59:33 +0000

There’s no denying that touch-based smartphone keyboards have come a long way in recent years. With screens getting bigger and bigger, and ever more responsive, many of us now feel perfectly comfortable with whatever default UI keyboard our phone provides us with. Yet it’s safe to say that none of them have achieved close to [...]

Grand Theft Auto III for Android – Review

Rob — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:00:35 +0000

Grand Theft Auto III is unequivocally one of the finest and most important games of all times. Its release back in 2001 did what many believed wasn’t possible at the time, by bringing the previously birds-eye-view criminal world of the earlier games in the series into an open-world 3D environment. It pretty much spawned a [...]

Football Manager Handheld 2012 for Android – Review

Rob — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:22:53 +0000

Many a good man’s hours, or even lives, have been wasted away sitting in front of their computers late into Friday nights, utterly absorbed in the alternative Football reality made up mainly of statistics. Football Manager, the successor to the legendary original Championship Manager series, is the finest game of its kind, and handheld devices [...]

Max Payne Mobile for Android – Review

Rob — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:30:55 +0000

Max Payne is a PC gaming classic, and its gameplay formula of 3rd-person shooter combined with the brilliant bullet-time function is one that never grows old, as proved by the recent release of Max Payne 3. Bringing this infallible formula to handhelds then, seems like a logical move. Max Payne Mobile is a loyal port [...]

Great Big War Game for Android – Review

Rob — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:22:55 +0000

There is an insatiable hunger for mass-scale conflict in all of us. Not that many of us actually want the world to be blighted by war and destruction, but there is something about being in control of a large military force that’s infinitely appealing, and Great Big War Game lets you act out your conflict-based [...]

Where’s My Perry? for Android – Review

Rob — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:34:46 +0000

Take a feverishly popular mobile game like Where’s My Water, change the protagonist to a more recognisable character while keeping the core gameplay intact, and what do you get? Where’s My Perry, that’s what. A game that some may see as a cheeky cash-in, but that doesn’t make it any less satisfying an experience. Where’s [...]

Waze: social GPS traffic & gas for Android – Review

Rob — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:28:29 +0000

Social networking and navigating your way through traffic are two areas of our lives in which smartphones have proven themselves worthwhile companions. It therefore seems as logical to splice these two things together as it is to cross-breed a panther with an eagle. That is what Waze aims to achieve. Waze calls itself a ‘cool [...]

Farm Invasion USA for Android – Review

Tricia — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:34:42 +0000

Farm Invasion USA is specifically designed for people who love playing hide and seek games with increased vitality and fun. The game involves aliens raiding a farm and stealing all the corn from the farm. Farm Invasion USA revolves around a farmer and his two sons who are actively counting on the amount of corn they [...]

TuneIn Radio for Android – Review

Tricia — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:38:35 +0000

The world of app development has taken yet another great turn as you can now listen to music online with your mobile device. TuneIn Radio makes it possible for you to listen to online radio stations with an amazing clarity and experience. You too can have fun listening to your favorite radio station when you [...]