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Top 5 Android racing games

2013-09-20T16:22:00.000-05:00

The Android Play Store is still pretty hard to traverse and find new games. KYMI picks the 5 best racing games in the store

It seems that the inherent need for speed in humans ensures that racing games are loved by everyone, irrespective of age. As the Android Play Store is expanding, it gets slightly difficult to separate out the noise from the best products. We have done the difficult part of the job. Here are 5 Android racing games that we loved the most:
1. Asphalt 7: Heat - Asphalt 7 provides an immersive experience in the streets of some world-famous cities. The arcade street racing game has great visuals, good replay value and is challenging enough to keep you coming back. You have to slam cars, drift with finesse and fill your nitro meter to be the best in the world. Available for Rs. 55.
2. Real Racing 3 - If you are a purist who cringes at the absurd physics and handling of arcade racing games, look no further. This realistic racing game has beautiful visuals, an impressive portfolio of licensed cars and an extremely challenging gameplay. The game follows the Free to Play.
3. Need For Speed : Most Wanted - When talking about racing games, can NFS be left far behind? The Android version of the popular street racing game has a lot of variation in the game modes it offers and will satisfy all your adrenaline needs. Most expensive of the lot at Rs. 270.
4. Riptide GP 2 - Breaking away from the car racing category, Riptide GP 2 will put you in the driver’s seat of a jet ski. The game handles physics beautifully, with the water and your vehicle working in perfect, natural tandem. The game has a bit of a steep price tag at Rs. 170.
5. Carmageddon: Anyone growing up in the 90’s would testify to the sheer pleasure that Carmageddon was. Ported from the PC, Carmageddon was amongst the first games that allowed you to go unchecked in a city, wrecking havoc and creating mayhem. If you have a taste for games in this genre (and you got yourself a copy of GTA V), then don’t give this game a miss. Priced at Rs. 107.

80 best free Android games 2013

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1. Angry Birds

The amazingly popular iOS game moved to Android a while ago, earning over two million downloads during its first weekend of availability.
The Android version is free, unlike the Apple release, with maker Rovio opting to stick a few adverts on it rather than charge an upfront fee. The result is a massive and very challenging physics puzzler that's incredibly polished and professional. For free. It defies all the laws of modern retail.
Angry Birds for Android was first available to download from app store GetJar but is now available through Google Play.

2. Bebbled

Bebbled is your standard gem-shuffling thing, only presented in a professional style you wouldn't be surprised to see running on something featuring a Nintendo badge with an asking price of £19.99.
You only drop gems on other gems to nuke larger groups of the same colour, but with ever-tightening demands for score combos and scenes that require you to rotate your phone to flip the play field on its head, Bebbled soon morphs into an incredibly complex challenge.

3. Red Stone

There's an awful lot of square-shuffling games on Android and Red Stone is one of the best. And one of the hardest. You start off with a big fat 'King' square that's four times of the normal 'pawn' squares, then set about shuffling things so the fat King can get through to an exit at the top of the screen.
It's hard to accurately describe a puzzle game in the written word, but seriously, it's a good game.

4. Newton

Released in beta form, Newton is a maths/physics challenge that has you lining up shots at a target - but having to contend with the laws of nature, in the form of pushers, pullers, benders (no laughing), mirrors and traps, all deflecting your shot from its target.
The developer is still adding levels to it at the moment, so one day Newton might be finished and might cost money. But for now it's free and a great indie creation.

5. Angry Birds Star Wars

The Angry physics phenomenon took a turn for the weird late in 2012, with Rovio acquiring the rights to blend Star Wars characters with its popular Angry Birds play mechanics. Angry Birds Star Wars is actually pretty nice, with players using Star Wars weaponry to smash down scenery alongside the usual destructive physics action. Not the car crash IP clash we were expecting.

6. Drop

Some might call Drop a game, others might classify it as a tech demo that illustrates the accuracy of the Android platform's accelerometer, thanks to how playing it simply involves tilting your phone while making a little bouncy ball falls between gaps in the platforms. Either way it'll amuse you for a while and inform you of the accuracy of your accelerometer - a win-win situation.

7. Frozen Bubble

Another key theme of the independent Android gaming scene is (ports of) clones of popular titles. Like Frozen Bubble, which is based around the ancient and many-times-copied concept of firing gems up a screen to make little groups of similarly coloured clusters. That's what you do. You've probably done it a million times before, so if it's your thing get this downloaded.

8. Replica Island

Replica Island is an extremely polished platform game that pulls off the shock result of being very playable on an Android trackball. The heavy momentum of the character means you're only switching direction with the ball or d-pad, letting you whizz about the levels with ease. Then there's jumping, bottom-bouncing, collecting and all the other usual platform formalities.

9. Gem Miner

In Gem Miner you are a sort of mole character that likes to dig things out of the ground. But that's not important. The game itself has you micro-managing the raw materials you find, upgrading your digging powers and buying bigger and better tools and maps. Looks great, plays well on Android's limited button array. Go on, suck the very life out of the planet.

10. ConnecToo

Another coloured-square-based puzzle game, only ConnecToo has you joining them up. Link red to red, then blue to blue - then see if you've left a pathway through to link yellow to yellow. You probably haven't, so delete it all and try again.
A brilliantly simple concept. ConnecToo used to be a paid-for game, but was recently switched to an ad-supported model - meaning it now costs you £0.00.

11. Titres

Once you're successfully rewired your brain's 25 years of playing Tetris in a certain way with certain buttons and got used to tapping the screen to rotate your blocks, it's... Tetris.
It hinges on how much you enjoy placing things with your phone's trackball or pad. If you're good at it, it's a superb Tetris clone. Let's hope it doesn't get sued out of existence.
UPDATE: While Titres seems to have been removed from Google Play, there's now an official Tetris app available to download.

12. Trap!

Not the best-looking game you'll ever play, with its shabby brown backgrounds and rudimentary text making it look like something you'd find running on a PC in the year 1985. But Trap! is good.
You draw lines to box in moving spheres, gaining points for cordoning off chunks of the screen. That sounds rubbish, so please invest two minutes of your time having a go on it so you don't think we're talking nonsense.

13. Jewels

Coloured gems again, and this time your job is to switch pairs to make larger groups which then disappear. That might also sound quite familiar. The good thing about Jewels is its size and presentation, managing to look professional while packing in more levels than should really be given away for free.

14. OpenSudoku

We had to put one Sudoku game in here, so we'll go with OpenSudoku - which lives up to its open tag thanks to letting users install packs of new puzzles generated by Sudoku makers. It's entirely possible you could use this to play new Sudoku puzzles for the rest of your life, if that's not too terrifying a thought.

15. Abduction!

Abduction! is a sweet little platform jumping game, presented in a similarly quirky and hand-drawn style as the super-fashionable Doodle Jump. You can't argue with cute cows and penguins with parachutes, or a game that's easy to play with one hand thanks to its super accessible accelerometer controls.

16. The Great Land Grab

A cross between a map tool and Foursquare, The Great Land Grab sorts your local area into small rectangular packets of land - which you take ownership of by travelling through them in real-time and buying them up.
Then someone else nicks them off you the next day, a bit like real-world Risk. A great idea, as long as you don't mind nuking your battery by leaving your phone sitting there on the train with its GPS radio on.

17. Brain Genius Deluxe

Our basic legal training tells us it's better to use the word "homage" than to label something a "rip-off", so we'll recommend this as a simple "homage" to the famed Nintendo Brain Training franchise.
Clearly Brain Genius Deluxe is not going to be as slick, but there's enough content in here to keep you "brain training" (yes, it even uses that phrase) until your battery dies. The presentation's painfully slow, but then again that might be the game teaching you patience.

18. Coloroid

Coloroid is aery, very simple and has the look of the aftermath of an explosion in a Tetris factory, but it works. All you do is expand coloured areas, trying to fill them in with colours in as few moves as possible - like using Photoshop's fill tool at a competitive level.

19. Cestos

Cestos is sort of a futuristic recreation of curling, where players chuck marbles at each other to try and smash everyone else's balls/gems down the drain and out of the zone. The best part is this all happens online against real humans, so as long as there's a few other bored people out there at the same time you'll have a real, devious, cheating, quitting person to play against. Great.

20. Air Control

One of the other common themes on the Android gaming scene is clones of games based around pretending to be an air traffic controller, where you guide planes to landing strips with a swish of your finger. There are loads of them, all pretty much the same thing - we've chosen Air Control as it's an ad-supported release, so is technically free.

Best free Android games 21 - 40

Updated The best free games on Android for phone and tablet

By Gary Cutlack August 13th

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Page 2 of 4Best free Android games 21 - 40

21. GalaxIR

GalaxIR is a futuristic strategy game with an abstract look, where players micro-manage an attacking alien fleet. Pick a planet, pick an attack point, then hope your troops have the balls to carry it off. There's not much structure to the game as yet, but that's what you get when you're on the bleeding-edge of free, independent Android gaming development.

22. Graviturn

Graviturn is an accelerometer based maze game, where the aim is to roll a red ball out of a maze by tilting your phone around. Seems embarrassingly easy at first, until increasing numbers of green balls appear on screen. If any green balls roll off the screen you die and have to try again. It's abstract. It's good.

23. Alchemy Classic

There are a few variants on Alchemy out there, each offering a similarly weird experience. In Alchemy Classic you match up elements to create their (vaguely) scientific offspring, so dumping water onto earth makes a swamp, and so on. It's a brain teaser thing and best played by those who enjoy spending many hours in the company of the process of elimination.

24. ActionPotato

In ActionPotato you control three pots. Pressing on the pots makes them jump up into the air, where they harvest potatoes. See how many you can get in a row. That's the gist of it. And don't collect the rotten potatoes, else you die. That really is it. The Google Play stats say this is on well over 1,000,000 downloads, so it's doing something right.

25. Scrambled Net

Scrambled Net is based around the age-old concept of lining up pipes and tubes, but has been jazzed up with images of computer terminals, high score tracking and animations. Still looks like something you'd have played on a Nokia during the last decade, but it's free - and looking rubbish hardly stopped Snake from taking off, did it?

26. Dropwords

Dropwords is laid out like your standard Android block-based puzzle game, the difference here is we're not dealing with gems - you make blocks disappear by spelling out words from the jumbled heap of letters. There's not an enormous amount of point to it, but you can at least submit your scores and best words to the server, where an AI version of Susie Dent will pass her approval.

27. Barrr

What you do in Barrr is man-manage a bar world, pointing men at the beers, games or tattoo parlour, then taking their money off them once they're drunk and happy like a good capitalist. And make sure they go to the toilet. Things, as things do in games, soon start speeding up and it gets rather insane and difficult.

28. Tetronimo

The name gives it away - this is a Tetris clone. Or rather it's a game that uses the same sort of block-shifting rules as Tetris, only with a very nice and user friendly touchscreen area beneath the block pit to make it easy to play. We're having trouble locating this on Google Play at time of writing - either a glitch or the inevitable legal troubles.
UPDATE: Tetronimo seems to have been removed from Google Play, but there's now an official Tetris app available to download.

29. Wordfeud

Wordfeud is a superb little clone of Scrabble, with a big, clear screen and online play options that actually work. The game's been offered for free with some hefty advertising over it thanks to the developer being based in Norway - which only received paid-for app sales support recently. A paid version may arrive soon, but Wordfeud remains free right now.

30. Friction Mobile

Friction Mobile is a very odd concept that makes no sense in still images. You fire a ball into the screen, then try to hit that ball with other balls until it explodes. The catch is you're not allowed to bounce balls backwards into your own face. Because then you die. Sounds rubbish, but works well. It's free, so give it a no-obligation, no-commitment whirl.

31. Geared

Geared is a weird little thing finally converted over to Android from iPhone. It's an embarrassingly simple concept - players slot different sized cogs into place on the screen, with the aim being to power one gear from another. Then, as is video game tradition, it gets harder and harder. Plus there are 150 levels of it all.

32. Meganoid

A stunning little retro game, Meganoid plays and looks like something that ought to be running on a Nintendo emulator. But it isn't. It's new and on Android. It's a speed-based challenge, using on-screen or accelerometer controls to jump and bounce through ever-hardening levels. Developer Orange Pixel is aggressively supporting it, too, with constant map packs, characters and more regularly appearing for download.

33. Cordy

A standard and traditional platform game. Cordy is a speed-based affair, with players running, jumping and collecting their way through its pretty green levels, using an electrical cable to jump, swing over obstacles and grab energy. Uses on-screen buttons so can be a bit tough to play, but comes with 12 free levels to get you going.

34. Angry Birds Rio

Yet more Angry Birds for fans of the simplistic trial and error physics game. Angry Birds Rio is another chapter-based effort as well, with developer Rovio leaving tempting empty slots on the menu screen for periodic updates of new levels. More of the same, but with a prettier, 3D look to it this time thanks to a vague association with animated movie Rio.

35. Grave Defense Holidays

As with Angry Birds, the maker of this superb tower defence game has spun out a separate version it fills with seasonal levels. Recently updated with an Easter map, this free version of the game also includes Valentine, Christmas and St Patrick's Day themed maps. Currently calls itself Grave Defense Easter. Easily one of the best examples of the tactical genre.

36. Words with Friends Free

The popular iPhone Scrabble-alike is now on Android, with an ad-supported version up on Google Play for free. Words with Friends Free should actually be called Words for People Without Any Friends, as once installed it lets users play with complete strangers online - or pick specific people from your contacts list. It's turn-based, so several ongoing games can be strung out for days.

37. PewPew

Very similar in style and concept to Xbox and Xbox 360 retro classic Geometry Wars. In fact, one might legally be able to get away with calling it a right old rip-off. Android PewPew is a rock-hard 2D shooting game packed with alternate game modes. It's a bit rough around the edges and requires a powerful phone to run smoothly, but when it does it's a fantastic thing.

38. Angry Birds Friends

It's Angry Birds business as usual; only with Angry Birds Friends you get a social-themed makeover that adds challenges, Facebook integration galore and scoreboard tools to make the simple physics game more of a multiplayer experience.
The good thing is the way you can access the same account and see your progress on mobile and through Facebook on desktop, the bad is the looming presence of in-app purchases, with "bird coins" required to be earned or bought to progress quicker.

39. Beats, Advanced Rhythm Game

A standard rhythm action, button pressing music game for Android. Beats manages to outdo the official music games by including a Download Song tab, where it's possible to install new song files created by users. It's very hard and very fast. Just like they should be. Runs perfectly on an HTC Desire, too, so there's no blaming glitches for not doing very well.

Best free Android games 41 - 60

Updated The best free games on Android for phone and tablet

By Gary Cutlack August 13th

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Page 3 of 4Best free Android games 41 - 60

40. Pinball Deluxe

Pinball Deluxe is an actually decent pinball sim for Android, and it's free. At the moment it comes with four tables - Wild West, Carnival, Space Frontier and Diving for Treasure. Ball movement is convincing, and although a bit of the magic is lost thanks to having to use on-screen buttons, it's a smooth enough experience. It's ad-supported. Don't press those. You don't get a bonus.

41. Winter Walk

Winter Walk is madness. You play the part of a gentleman, out for an evening walk. From time to time the wind picks up, so you have to hold on to his hat to stop it blowing away.
While this is happening, the chap's internal monologue appears on screen, giving you an entertaining and distracting read in the process, too. Very simple, but a perfect little high score challenge game for the touchscreen era.

42. Colosseum Heroes

Publisher Gamevil takes a break from churning out the role-playing games to give dumb action a go here. Colosseum Heroes is a 2D slasher, where you simply try to survive for as long as possible, building up your armour and weaponry to make yourself tougher and meaner.
Technically this is a "freemium" game paid for with in-app purchases, but if you're prepared to spend a while building up your character's skills manually, there's no need to pay out.

43. Stardash Free

Developer Orange Pixel has a knack of creating excellent retro titles, with Stardash a fine example.
Designed to look like a Game Boy game from before many of you younger readers were born, Stardash is clearly a bit of a Mario homage - but it's done exceptionally well and is endlessly replayable. If you like it, and you probably will, there's an alternate paid version that removes the adverts.

44. Scramble With Friends Free

Zynga's latest puzzler Scramble With Friends Free is technically a free game, but in order to get the most out of it and play as it's meant to be played you'll need to use the in-app purchasing system to buy "tokens" to let you access games quicker. Which leaves a slightly bad T-A-S-T-E in the M-O-U-T-H, but at least it's free and perfectly playable at a slow pace if you're just curious.

45. Dead on Arrival

Dead on Arrival is a very impressive looking 3D survival horror game, which dumps you in a hospital infested with zombies. You then try to not get eaten by buying new weapons, boarding up doors to keep the brain-eaters at bay and using wall-mounted weaponry to quicken the zombie mincing process. As with many of today's Android titles, there's the option to pay for stuff within the game to unlock features and remove ads - but you don't have to.

46. Stick Cricket

Stick Cricket is a fantastically simple little game that reduces cricket to its core values - you just smash every ball as hard as you can. There's no worrying about field positioning, just a bat and a ball coming at you very quickly. Initially it seems impossible to do anything other than make a complete mess of things and having your little man smashed upside-down, but it soon clicks.

47. Draw Something Free

Draw Something Free is the new phenomenon that's taking the world by storm (at the time of writing, at least). It's basically a mobile version of Pictionary, where you're given a choice of three words of varying difficulty, then tasked with drawing them so someone can tell what it is. Syncs with Facebook, too, for easy cross-platform play. If you like the free trial, there's a paid accompaniment with more content.

48. Fragger

The popular web-based Flash game Fragger is now on Android. It's pretty much a clone of Angry Birds, mind, offering simple physics-based challenges based around chucking grenades all over the place to make stuff blow up. It comes with some rather intrusive ads, but that's the price you (don't) pay for sticking with the free version.

49. The Sims FreePlay

Global mega-corporation EA has gone literally mad, giving away its Android version of The Sims for nothing in the form of The Sims FreePlay. In return for sitting through some full-screen adverts every now and again, players get a decent mobile version of The Sims, complete with pets, plants, lifestyle points and all the usual mundane activities that make the series popular. It's not perfect, but does fit in most Sims core features.

50. Super Bit Dash

About as far away from The Sims as you can get. Super Bit Dash is a retro-style 2D platform game, with controls as simple as its pixel art design. The game runs at a constant pace, so all the player has to do is jump and super-special-jump at the right time in order to avoid smashing into the scenery. Obviously it's a lot harder than that makes it sound.

51. Chrono&Cash Free

Chrono&Cash Free is very hard and sweet little one-screen platform game, where players jump about collecting bags of cash while avoiding enemies. And that's all there is to it, aside from some mini challenges to boost your score multiplier and online sharing of your scores to goad friends into trying to beat you. Looks cool, is a tiny download and a great laugh to play.

52. Autumn Walk

A weird little gem, Autumn Walk sees players controlling a man and his dog as they stroll through a Victorian park landscape. The challenge here is dog management, with the hound either running ahead or hanging back - both precarious scenarios that could cause the lead to snap. It's basically a high score challenge, to see how long you can stand the weird experience. Worth it for the awesome comic dialogue that accompanies your stroll.

53. Meganoid 2

Meganoid 2 is an insanely difficult 2D scrolling platform game, once again presented in developer Orange Pixel's awesome pixel art style. The levels are rather short, with the challenge here being to simply play them again and again and again so you can get through them without death. Might drive you mad. Might be your favourite game of the year. Close call.

54. Pitfall

Developer Activision has updated one of its oldest and most fondly remembered classics, turning the ancient platform game into a posh, 3D infinite running thing. Pitfall uses swipe and tilt controls like the famous Temple Run, including power-ups, vehicles and changing camera angles to add a bit of variety to the look and feel of it all.

55. Bad Piggies

A shock move from developer Rovio, in that this one isn't a simple take on the Angry Birds style. Bad Piggies is a clever building game, which dumps you at the beginning of a big map with a pile of component parts. You then build a flying machine using the given elements, then try to fly it to the end of the level. A really nice, original little idea from the physics game specialists.

56. Pocket Planes

Pocket Planes puts you in charge of an airline. You potter about the world looking for paying jobs, whether that's passenger or freight routes, then send off your planes to do the little delivery tasks. As things progress the complexity increases, until you're eventually flying customised jumbos with hundreds of passengers around major international cities.
It works in real time in the background, so you can minimise it and do other things while all your birds are finding their way home, then pop back in when the game notifies you that something's arrived and needs attention.

57. Neon Blitz

Neon Blitz is a kind of a posh tracing game, where you use your finger to draw over the shapes on the screen. You're rated on accuracy, with scores compared against the world on its global leader board. There are power-ups and stuff like that, but it's all about having a jazzy, bright experience, that works perfectly on a touchscreen.

58. Agent Dash

Agent Dash is another take on the infinite runner genre that's come to dominate the smartphone gaming landscape, only with a comedy spy angle. As well as swiping to dodge objects, Agent Dash incorporates weaponry and spy gadgets, making it more of an interactive and action-based experience than most of its "Step Right" peers.

59. Whale Trail Frenzy

Whale Trail Frenzy is an updated version of the iOS original, with the developer heaping in more levels for the Android release of its bonkers flying game. You just fly a little whale around the sky (for reasons never explained), collecting things, avoiding bad clouds, building up a multiplier and generally being wowed by its unique and gorgeous style. A really sweet experience.

60. Radiant Defense

Radiant Defense is a fantastic tower defence game, given a dazzling modern look. You do all the usual tower defence stuff like building up your weapon strengths and deciding how best to stop the endless marching enemy, with some "super weapons" to unlock and hundreds upon hundreds of waves to beat. And it all looks astonishingly pretty on a big screened device.

In this age of austerity and scrimping, we've all long since sold our last set of dominoes and melted down our Monopoly counters for scrap.

61. Temple Run 2

The original Temple Run made staring at a man's bottom on public transport a wholly acceptable pastime, and this sequel augments the endless-running fun with slicker graphics, more power-ups, obstacles and achievements – plus a bigger monkey hot on your heels.

62. CSR Racing

The best cars require in-app purchases, but there's plenty of free fun to be had with this fast and furious racer. Console-quality graphics show off the mean machines (from Audi, BMW, Bentley and others), and gameplay blends strategy as well as speed.

63. Mini Golf MatchUp

Putting (putt-ing, geddit?) the crazy into crazy golf, the five courses in Mini Golf MatchUp take in dinosaurs, sharks and pirates across 70 holes, with realistic physics to temper the unreal environments. Facebook integration is par for the course, while in-game chat keeps things swinging.

64. SongPop Free

A bit like Never Mind The Buzzcocks' intro round, SongPop Free is the handy alternative to carrying Phill Jupitus and someone you've never heard of in your pocket. Guess song clips from loads of genres, then challenge your friends to do better.

65. Dead Trigger

That zombie shooter Dead Trigger is set in the dystopian future of 2012 is testament to its lasting appeal. Frantic first-person missions set in realistic 3D environments are sure to get your heart racing (unless you're a zombie), even on smaller screens.

66. Cut the Rope Full Free

Cute critter Om-Nom in Cut the Rope is the Daniel Day-Lewis of puzzle games, with a BAFTA amid his haul of gaming awards. The simple premise (cut the ropes to release Om-Nom's lunch) sustains 350 well-pitched levels, packed with character and cartoonish charm.

67. Lexulous

Scrabble by another name (its second, after "Scrabulous" proved a tad too copyright-infringing), Lexulous has all the social gaming options you'd expect, but beats its many rivals with its antisocial options: three AI opponents ranging from the simple to the sesquipedalian.

68. Pac-Man + Tournaments

Fed up of 3D, HD, 360-degree action? This authentic recreation of a arcade classic Pac-Man is the kind of good, clean pill-munching fun they enjoyed in the 1970s. A tournament mode offers regularly updated mazes, but the retro original is hard to beat.

69. Scrabble

Yes, the proper Scrabble, not some copyright-infringing clone that'll be pulled by the time you read these words. EA bought the license, tidied it up and stuck it out on Android, where it's a remarkably advert and in-app purchase free experience.
It's been beefed up with a few new modes, but stuff like the ability to sync with Facebook and play multiple matches is actually exactly what you need. A classic that's not been ruined. Hooray.

70. Blip Blup

Blip Blup is the kind of original little idea we love stumbling across. It's a sort of geometry-based puzzle game that has you pressing squares on the screen to fill in areas of colour.
Your light beams are limited in the directions they can travel, so, once you're through the troublingly simple tutorial levels, it soon becomes insanely tough and will soon have you scratching through your skull's skin and bone until you actually itch your BRAIN in confusion.

71. Doodle Jump

Doodle Jump is ancient, but there's a reason it's down here at the newer end of the Triple-A Android freebies list. It's recently been reworked, updated for today's higher resolution displays and, better still, been stuck up on Google Play for free. If you haven't played it, or played it four years ago on iOS, give it another spin. It's a timeless bit of upwards bouncing action.

72. Super Stickman Golf 2

Super Stickman Golf 2 is one of the recent big-hitters of Android, with the superb 2D puzzle golf game doing insane business. It's free, albeit propped up by in-app purchases, with heaps upon piles of golf courses to whack yourself around, challenging your knowledge of physics and angles as much as your sporting abilities.
Looks great and even manages to head online to offer turn-based multiplayer against friends or randoms.

73. Real Racing 3

Extremely controversial thanks to its use of in-app purchases to buy your way to better cars, quicker play time and much more, there's one reason you really ought to give Real Racing 3 a go - it's the best looking 3D racer on Android by a mile.
If you want something that gives both, all four, or even the full eight of your phone's cores a full workout, this is the one. And you don't have to pay for anything, as long as you don't mind staring at timers and waiting a lot.

74. Gunslugs

Another awesome little 2D pixel art classic from developer OrangePixel, Gunslugs is your standard sort of action platformer given a gorgeous old fashioned retro look.
It's been optimised for play on Sony's old-but-popular Xperia Play buttoned Android model, plus the Moga controller and Green Throttle systems will also let you experience it with proper, physical buttons. A random level generator makes it different every time, too.

75. Nun Attack: Run & Gun

Frima Studios' popular battling nun series has been transformed into the modern trend that is the "runner" game in Nun Attack: Run & Gun where your favourite of the four available nuns smash though levels, equip weaponry and, inevitably, earn the gold coins that can be used to unlock extra features. Or you can pay real money to buy coins. Real nuns wouldn't approve of that.

76. Guardian Cross

Famed developer Square Enix has created this highly regarded fantasy card battle RPG, with, so it claims, some input from developers involved in building the legendary Final Fantasy series. But it's not like those games.
Guardian Cross is all about collecting a powerful deck of card characters, which are then used to battle both in-game fights and real human friends online. There's a bit of mindless grinding and waiting if you want to avoid in-app purchases, but none are compulsory purchases.

77. Flatout: Stuntman

Supposedly a spin-off from the home console racing titles, Flatout: Stuntman takes one of the more shocking elements from the driving games – the crash dummy physics of drivers thrown from their cars – and turns it into a whole game.
The idea is you have a crash, trying to ensure as much damage is caused to your little ragdoll character. Possibly the sort of tasteless thing that might trigger a 'Ban All Games' campaign, but... fun. And free. So your wallet won't get hurt.

78. Pocket League Story 2

Mobile developer Kairosoft went down the "freemium" route with this sequel to its superb man-managing football business sim, so Pocket League Story 2 is playable for free if you don't mind suffering a little more than those who pay for upgrades. It's still a great little game, in which you take charge of managing the ground, scouting for players, coaching matches, building facilities and much more.

79. GYRO

GYRO is exactly the sort of thing we like - a clever new idea that makes the most out of today's touchable devices. It's a bit abstract. You are the circle thing in the middle, and you rotate yourself to absorb the incoming spheres, matching the balls with the right coloured segment.
Shields and score multipliers then fire in, and, inevitably, it all gets quicker and harder. Perfect even on older phones and tablets of modest performance.

80. Galaxy on Fire 2 HD

Galaxy on Fire 2 HD is one of the most visually impressive 3D shooters to be found on Android, Galaxy on Fire 2 also chucks in some trading and exploration play to add a little more depth to the combat, making it into something similar to having your own little portable Eve Online. You also get to play as a lead character called Keith, which is quite an exciting rarity.

The 10 Best Android Apps of the Month: June 2013 (video)

2013-06-29T17:19:00.000-05:00

Despicable Me

First up on our list is a little game called Despicable Me: Minion Rush. If there was one thing everyone liked about the movie, it was the minion. And now you can put yourself in their world, as they now have their own game! A huge plus to this particular game is that it’s a lot of fun, unlike a lot of poor movie adaptions out there.
Upon first glace, one would say this is just another rendition of Temple Run. They’d be right, too, however, Gameloft added a lot of additional content. So much so that it really sets itself apart from all of those other Temple Run rip offs.
Furthermore, the graphics look really nice, and the cutscenes are a welcome and fun addition. Overall, the game was a lot of fun to play, and really, our only complain is the overused game mechanics. If you’re a fan of Despicable Me and the little minions, though, that’s easy to look past.

Ditalix Live Wallpaper

Next up is a live wallpaper called Ditalix. This unique and fun wallpaper has literally thousands of permutations — it’s one of the most customizable live wallpapers that we’ve ever seen. Not only that, but the settings are a lot of fun, too.
There are a lot of options available. You can use squares, hearts, owls, and they even pay an ode to XDA Developers. Unfortunately, there is simply way too many settings for us to cover them all. So if you’re into live wallpapers and like a lot of customization, Ditalix might just be up your alley!

Duolingo

Our regular viewers should recognize Duolingo, as we included it in our Best apps for Kids list. This is because it is a great learning tool for kids, as it assists them in learning a second language. It won’t teach your kid a second language on its own, though. It’s just a helpful tool to use on the side.
It also supports a lot different languages. So if your kid is learning a certain second language, chances are that that same language is available on Duolingo. All in all, it’s a very easy app to use. Each lessons is set up in a way that allows people to quickly complete it so you don’t have to sit around tethered to a computer for hours trying to finish an entire section. It gives it to you in bite-sized pieces, which is great.

Floating Notifications

Next up on our list is Floating Notifications, a unique, yet helpful little app. For those who have used Facebook Messenger’s chat heads, imagine that the chat head functionality was available for any app that sends notifications. That’s basically what Floating Notifications does.
Any app that is able to send a notification can be come a chat head, for lack of a better term. What’s really nice is that instead of dealing with notifications in your notification bar, you can take care of them directly from your desktop. This can be great if you’re in a hurry or if you’re just a fan of these kind of notification systems.
Either way, Floating Notifications is a great app, although it’s very niche. The important part is that it works well and is pretty much bug-free.

Google Keyboard

Not a fan of popular keyboard’s like SwiftKey and Swype? Are you into the vanilla Android look? Well, we’ve got some good news for you. Google launched the stock Google Keyboard from Jelly Bean 4.2.2 and put it on the Play Store!
As you might expect, it’s a very solid keyboard, and it has all of the features that you would normally get on a device running vanilla Jelly Bean 4.2.2. It has trace typing, auto correction, and it’s stylish. The voice dictation was also very accurate, and overall, everything seemed to work great.
It’s hard to not recommend the stock Google Keyboard, and since it’s launch, it’s easily one of the best out there.

Quick Social

Next up is Quick Social, a must-have for social network aficionados. If you’re on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ all day, Quick Social can make things vastly easier to manage. It does this by allowing users to post updates to all three social networks, or any number of them, at once.
While it’s a very simile app, it’s definitely one of the most handy out there. All you really need to do is sign into your various social networks. After that, simply go to your notification bar where you can post to any social network at any time. If you really want to update all three networks at once, you can use the quick social feature to do that.
There isn’t much to Quick Social besides that, but it’s still a very powerful tool that will no doubt come in handy for heavy social media users.

SourcesPro

SourcesPro is a very unique app, which means it’s pretty niche, too. This graphics app is a lot of fun if you’re into fractals and things like that. You can create custom images using a number of tool that can be tweaked over and over again until you get them the way you want.
There is quite a learning curve with this particular. We had to test them one out for quite some time before we were able to get the hang of it. Once you do, though, it’s quite fine to use, especially if you’re someone who likes to create art. SourcesPro can also be a lot of fun for creating quick animations or background images.

SuperN64

There’s a lot of good emulators out there — PlayStation, Super Nintendo, Game boy Advance, you name it. However, Nintendo 64 emulators seem to be strangely absent. There are a few out there, but most of them are just too broken to work. SuperN64 looks to change that, and so far, it’s done a pretty good job.
This is, far and wide, the most stable Nintendo 64 emulator to date. It still has a few bugs — if you try hard and play a lot of games, you can still find issues with it, but it’s nowhere near as bad as other Nintendo 64 emulators. Overall, it’s a really good Nintendo 64 emulator.

Vine

For those of you who somehow don’t know, Vine is a social network that features six second videos instead of your regular status updates. It’s not really unique, though, as other places have done something similar. However, in this scenario, it’s an app, and a lot of people seem to like it.
Being owned by Twitter, you’ll notice that Vine has a lot of similar functionality to Twitter. You can check out what’s trending, individual posts, your own activity, and pretty much everything else. The iOS version has been out for awhile, but the Android version just released this month. It’s also received a steady number of updates, adding new functionality and better performance. All in all, it’s a pretty solid app.

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Wrap up

If you take a look at our leaderboard (image above), you can see how these apps stack up against each other. Keep in mind that these are not how we rated them — they are based off of Google Play Store ratings. So there’s no bias on our part whatsoever.

Where’s my Mickey?

Disney has a number of games based on their hit title Where’s My Water?. This new iteration is called Where’s My Mickey?, and as you might expect, it’s pretty much the same as Where’s My Water?. Only this time, you’re trying to get Mickey some water so he can successfully run a lemonade stand.
For those who aren’t familiar with the game, each level has a finite amount of water. A certain amount of that water has to get to Mickey, and to do that, you dig paths to him. It can be a little tricky, but nothing too difficult, and it’s a lot of fun!

Top 10 Android games released this week: Gangstar Vegas, Monsters University

2013-06-27T16:14:00.000-05:00

Welcome back to Android Gaming Weekly, our weekly recap on new game releases. We still plan to cover upcoming releases and games we’re playing, but this column is dedicated to new games you can install and start playing right now. Check out our top picks and let us know if you have any suggestions for next week in the comments below.

Gangstar Vegas

Description: Roll up on a dangerous new trip through the City of Sin in the latest episode of the acclaimed open-world action game! Get ready for fun, immersive and wild gun wars! Because of the high-quality graphics used in this game, this title will use 2.5 GB of space.

Gangstar Vegas $6.99Gameloft PLAY QR POWERED BY APPAWARE

Eden to Green

Description: The machines have invaded the beautiful planet of Eden! Alien machines have come to steal the natural resources of Eden. They’ve all but completely destroyed Eden and there are only a small handful of plants and trees left alive. Euphoria, the natural energy of Eden needed for life to survive, is dwindling fast.

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DROID COMBAT – MISSION ALPHA

Description: Take control of a giant, augmented-reality warrior and defend your Turf against all challengers! Challenge friends to thrilling, fast-paced battles. Swipe with your finger to launch guided missiles at your opponent. Tap incoming missiles to shoot them down with your lasers.

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Where’s My Mickey?

Description: Join Mickey on a brand new adventure in Disney’s most popular mobile game franchise! Where’s My Mickey? introduces a whole new world of life-like physics-based gameplay with stimulating weather mechanics and humorous animations. Immerse yourself in the ultimate mobile gaming experience as you watch funny episodes while solving challenging puzzles! Tap, swipe and swirl to help Mickey collect water and complete each story. Every drop counts!

Where's My Mickey? $0.99Disney PLAY QR POWERED BY APPAWARE

Monsters University

Description: WELCOME TO MONSTERS UNIVERSITY! SCHOOL IS NOW IN SESSION WITH THIS OFFICIAL MONSTERS UNIVERSITY MOBILE GAME! Let the scary out in two exciting games based on the Disney-Pixar film “Monsters University,” and prove you’re the ultimate scarer! Prep for more Scare Games to come in future updates!

Monsters University $0.99Disney PLAY QR POWERED BY APPAWARE

Treasures of the Deep

Description: Arabella Steem’s inventor father has gone missing, and it’s up to her to fix his device. Travel the world’s 80 levels and hunt down his device’s missing crystals in this wonderful and relaxing match-3 puzzle masterpiece. There’s just one problem; the crystals are only found inside rare seashells near geomagnetic anomalies on the ocean’s bottom. Players must solve the match-3 puzzles to unlock the crystals and help Arabella move on.

Treasures of the Deep FreeHeroCraft Ltd PLAY QR POWERED BY APPAWARE

Tour de France 2013

Description: THE OFFICIAL TOUR DE FRANCE 2013 MOBILE GAME ! Enjoy the thrill of the world’s most popular cycling race and face the stars of the peloton! Including all official stages and teams of the Tour! Your mission: leading your team to Victory and winning the YELLOW JERSEY at the end of the Tour on the mythic stage of the Champs-Elysées in Paris!

Tour de France 2013 - The Game $4.72PLAYSOFT PLAY QR POWERED BY APPAWARE

Redline Rush

Description: Jump into a super sports car and test your driving skills in this high speed driving game where you have to weave through traffic to escape the police. Avoid crashes, take down traffic cars, pick up power-ups and walk to the top of the leaderboard! This game will challenge even the most skilled arcade racing fans.

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Might & Magic Clash of Heroes

Description: The award-winning Puzzle-RPG is now remastered and optimized for Android devices! Live the epic adventure of five young Heroes leading their armies to save the world of Might & Magic.

Might & Magic Clash of Heroes $5.21Ubisoft Entertainment PLAY QR POWERED BY APPAWARE

Going Going Gone: HR Classic

Description: Friends become rivals in ESPN Going Going Gone: Homerun Classic! Featuring an explosive homerun derby experience in which you compete to crush your rivals and top the rankings. Customize your batter with hundreds of options, unlock dozens of bat types and power-ups to out hit your friends and earn an unbeatable high score. Sporting four different ways to play: Classic Arcade, Facebook Rivals, Unique Events and Versus mode.

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COMING SOON

42 Best (And 1 WTF) New Android Games From The Last 2 Weeks (6/11/13 - 6/24/13) Part 2

2013-06-25T16:54:00.001-05:00

Beejumbled

There's a spelling bee joke in here somewhere, but I just can't find it. Mega-publisher 2K Games is stepping down a bit for a Boggle-type word game, where the object is to create words from jumbled up letters in a honeycomb. Different characters (mostly just bees in stereotypical costumes) can grant bonuses that are sort of like Scrabble squares, but more specific. Check the video for some so-bad-it's-good entertainment.

Bee fast, Bee accurate and Bee ready to swiftly construct words when the clock starts. Word enthusiasts will buzz about this fast-paced word jumble where the challenge is to score big by creating words, words, and more words. Get Slick and earn an extra 50 points for playing words with “ick” in them and don’t get stung by the competition when your opponent unlocks Tiki bee-cause the letter “K” is worth double points.

Beejumbled

Shelter

I've made my feelings on zombie games well-known in the past, but novelty and innovation will get you a spot on this list, even if you insist on throwing in the undead. Part panel-flipping comic book, part tower defense, part card battle game, Shelter follows the story of a group of zombie apocalypse survivors as they try to make it to safety. The hand-drawn visuals are particularly appealing.

Shelter is an exciting new zombie card-dueling game. Playing like a hybrid of a collectible card game and the castle defense genre, Shelter will provide you with hours of challenging play. Defend yourself from the zombie onslaught as you fight to be reunited with the woman you love. You define your strategy, but be warned... You'll need to adapt to survive.

Shelter

Roundhouse

Inspired by over-the-top 2D brawlers from the 90s (which were themselves inspired by over-the-top action movies from the 80s), Roundhouse is here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And they didn't have its favorite kind of bubblegum at 7-11, and no one in the restaurant would share, and it's just had a bad day, alright? The game's unapologetic devotion to old-school style extends to the on-screen controls, which faithfully mimic the dingy arcade cabinets of your childhood. The full game is a buck, with a free version available as well.

Roundhouse is a 2D-Physics action game that takes you, the world's toughest rock star, to Hell and back. Inspired by old school arcade brawlers, Roundhouse is easy to learn and difficult to master. Perform furious feet-flyin' combos as you fight your way through many unique stages, each with challenging bosses that will put your thumbs to the test. Develop the foot fetish you never knew you had; no shame required.

Roundhouse

Gear Jack

Someone made an endless runner starring Marvin the Paranoid Android from the Hitchhiker's movie? Take my money. Gear Jack is a pretty basic runner/platformer, but at least it tries for some unique twists with the 2D visuals, and your robotic runner can perform parkour tricks as he jogs along. Jack is upgradeable, and after you beat the initial 30 levels, there is an auto-generated mode for more replay.

Help Jack escaping from the W.Hale, the first fully automated starship created by the humans, that was hit by a huge electromagnetic shockwave and that is now slowly floating toward a black hole! The entire robotic crew has gone crazy, and Jack is the only one that can save the ship from being destroyed! But it will not be easy!

Gear Jack

Dark Nebula HD

Dark Nebula is, at its core, a marble game - you know, like the ones you used to play in the backseat on car trips, and lost every time your parent hit a pothole. In the digital age things get a little more complicated, with a wide selection of levels filled with levers, traps, spikes, spikey levers, and all sorts of other rolling accoutrements. The game is compatible with the Sphero toy/controller, if you happen to have one rolling around.

For the first time in stunning HD graphics! Revisit the original 11 levels in super crisp quality AND enjoy 12 new extra levels, never released before! Dark Nebula is a labyrinth game on steroids. Just tilt the device to move your character through the levels while avoiding traps, opening doors, bouncing and sliding all the way to the finish line.

11 original levels + 12 brand new extra levels!
Highly challenging Expert mode!
Stunning HD Graphics!
Cinematic musical score!

Dark Nebula HD

BitBattle

Normally we'd overlook a game that panders pretty hard to the bits and chips crowd, but this free strategy game has no ads or IAP, so it gets a pass. BitBattle has cops versus rebels, among other urban warfare factions, in a tiered defense game that plays a lot like Plants vs. Zombies. The art is cute, if that's your thing, but the relatively huge install size is a bit off-putting.

BitBattle is a simple retro-styled, multi-themed, fast-paced arcade game. Pick among the 2 + 6 unlockable armies composed each one of 5 unique units and conquer the battlefield to defeat your enemy.100% free, guaranteed: no ads, no trick, a full game for you. Featuring 12 wonderful chiptune songs made by collaborators. Oh! and 2 players mode in the same device!

BitBattle

Bam fu

Bam fu is sort of a digital version of the old Hungry Hungry Hippos board game. Two, three, or four local players try to rapidly tap on a field of circles, switching them to their personal color. The person with the most circles when the time is up wins. The game's intention is to foster an atmosphere where the players are almost fighting in the real world - like Twister, with less groping and more punching. The 2D graphics are pretty good, and the design of the playing field itself is surprisingly functional.
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HANDS CLASH IN CHAOS in Bam fu, a game for two-, three- or four people on one device. Everyone is fighting over the same pebbles. Physical contact is totally part of this game. Each player fights for her own color. Pebbles loop through the colors of the players when you tap them. Make the majority of the pebbles your color and win the round. Win five rounds and you’ve secured your victory. Be super quick. Block arms, push hands and squeeze fingers. Act like a kung-fu master. Protect your pebbles from being snatched. Play against slow people. (Works every time!)

Bam fu

Fireball SE

Fireball SE is sort of like a dual-stick shooter... without the shooting. And just one joystick. The object is to guide your ball of light across the playing field and avoid the amorphous blobs chasing it, Asteroids-style. At the right moment, you can activate bombs to clear them away, racking up combos and giving yourself a bit of non-breathing room. The standard countdown and survival modes are present, and graphics look pretty smooth, albeit on the simple side.

Smooth Controls, Explosive Action, and Thrilling Escapes. Fireball: Special Edition is an addictive and challenging, arcade survival game. Dodge swarms of enemies and lead them to their destruction across 3 modes and 2 difficulty levels. Use Meltdown mode to slow down the action and escape from certain death. In Waves mode, play through 8 consecutive waves of increasing size and speed. In Countdown mode, play 5 unique stages of 3 minutes each and try to score as high as you can with massive combos. In Survival mode, play 5 more stages where the goal is to stay alive as long as possible.

Fireball SE

Asteroid Impacts

Not to be confused with the classic Asteroids, this game lets you guide heavenly bodies across a 2D Tron-style sky. The object is to smash apart small planetoids with mathematical precision, using gravitational forces and vectors to guide your asteroids' path. The Tron inspiration doesn't stop at the visuals; the music is decidedly electronic and low-key, placing this simple game loosely in the "zen" genre.

Use your dexterity and wits to guide various types of asteroids on their journey through outer space. Become the center of gravity and lead them to their ultimate goal – a planet’s core. Stand up to the film and game industry that tells you to fight alien invaders and help them instead. Find out what happens if some asteroids actually reach their targets. One outcome that is to be expected: a good time for you.

Asteroid Impacts

Emancy: Borderline War

Mix Risk with a top-down shooter or action dungeon crawler, and you'd get something like Emancy. While the story and visuals behind this strategy game aren't anything to write home about, the action is fluid, and the ability to control your assigned soldiers directly in battle is interesting. This game drives the free-to-play angle pretty hard, so be ready for some significant in-app purchases.

Emancy: Borderline War combines massive battle action and strategy in an unprecedented way. You are controlling the best soldier of your army in battles. But you have no superpowers - your soldier may get killed like any other. This is a game of skill and tactics. Win the battle by defeating enemy army in action and win the war by commanding your armies with a strong strategy. Game is easy to play and you'll learn how to control your player in a few minutes using swipe gestures to move and tap to shoot. Dual stick controls also supported.

Emancy: Borderline War

Pipe Trouble

Snake and oil land controversy: two great tastes that taste great together. I'll give the developer of Pipe Trouble points for originality and style, if not tact - both the file name and the screenshots for Pipe Trouble come from the iPad version of the game. The goal is to build an oil pipeline that mixes efficiency with safety. Build too close to fields or forests, and leaks or protestors could sink your entire project. But build around them, and your investors will get angry at the increased cost. Pixel art fans should get a kick out of the visuals.

PIPE TROUBLE takes a clever new spin on an old arcade classic and puts players in the middle of Big Oil & Gas. In this over-the-top satire you're tasked with building your own pipeline, and trying to balance the financial demands of using the least pipe to make the most money against the impact on the local environment and neighboring farms.

Pipe Trouble

PRICE DROP

by Pop Sandbox

100+ downloads

9 ratings (4.5 avg)

4.5

$1.01

Install

Flying Fox

Flying foxes have a rich tradition in gaming history - just ask Miles "Tails" Prower. This one's invention is mothered by necessity: he's created a crude flying machine for the purpose of stealing some Kentucky Not-So Fried Chicken. Guide the fox through 2D stages in a combination of platform games and physics puzzles, using various environmental quirks to get to your fowl quarry. Here's the international version.

Play as the inventive—and very hungry—black fox as you attempt to plunder the farm of all it's chicken-y goodness. Fly around each stage and pluck the chickens up by swooping down from above. Use your head to get to those hard to reach hens and beat the timer.

Unique gameplay, swoop down from above and steal the chickens away.
Puzzling levels with a ton of variety.
Use objects like bowling balls to smash barriers and get those chickens.
Beat the time limit and show off your score online.

Flying Fox

Kyubo

Imagine Tetris as a platforming game, complete with falling blocks and a bit of twitch timing. Add a little indie artistry and a lot of levels, and you've got Kyubo. The blocks that make up the levels of the game have a startling amount of variety, and while there's not a lot of visual flair, it should be plenty of gaming content for fans of either platformers or puzzle titles.

You find yourself trapped in a dungeon room, you don't remember how you got there or who tied you to that chain. Luckily that somebody forgot (?) the key right there so you can set yourself free. Free? Will you be able to find your way out of this odd place you've never seen before? All you got is yourself and some old spirits with their magic powers to help you out in the escape. Be ready to deal with mind twisting puzzles, deadly traps and the truth about this place during your getaway.

Kyubo

Fatty

Fatty is like Kirby, plus a cynical attitude towards obesity. Your little girl character rides on Fatty, an amorphous blob whose only wish is to eat more and more junk food. Bounce, fly, roll, and defecate rainbows as you navigate through the levels, racking up Weight Watchers points like mad and avoiding healthy food at all costs.

Fatty is a simple little game about a stupid fat blob and his bouncing misadventures! Guide Fatty as he eats, crushes and bounds his way over countless hills and through countless obstacles. Be careful to avoid nasty healthy food, poison clouds and diet pill-wielding gym losers who want nothing more than to stop Fatty’s weight-gain. But Fatty cannot be stopped.

Fatty

Tap Rocket

Someone's been listening to too much Pink Floyd. In this monochromatic endless runner, your character flies across the dark side of the moon. The unique part is the zero G aspect: the runner can only gain forward momentum via his jetpack, collecting coins and avoiding obstacles. It's a lot like Jetpack Joyride, with a bigger playing field and more platforming elements.

Run, jump and take flight in this unique zero-g runner! Avoid falling into the abyss, and watch out for fuel-hungry UFOs, falling asteroids and shaky ground. The farther you run, the faster it goes. Collect power-ups to fly farther, and compete against your friends for the high score.

Frantic and addictive action gameplay!
Simple one-touch control.
Collectible power-ups to fly farther and increase your score.
Unique silhouette graphics with jet-powered colors.
Catchy music and sound effects.
Leaderboards and achievements.

Tap Rocket

Gurk III Beta

It's Gurk, the ceaselessly devoted, self-styled 8-bit RPG! And it's back. The beta version of the third entry in this dedicated retro series is free on the Play Store, but is unlikely to stick around after the final game is released.

This is the beta for Gurk III, the third 8-bit RPG of the series.

Gurk III Beta

Scribblenauts Remix

Android Police coverage: Scribblenauts Remix Finally Draws Its Way Into The Play Store, Available For $0.99
Scribblenauts, the incredibly popular DS game, was first offered as an Amazon exclusive. Now you can pick it up in the Google Play Store for just a buck, and if you like light-hearted, open-ended physics games, you should. Right away.

THINK IT. CREATE IT. SOLVE IT. The award-winning, best-selling video game is now available for select Android tablets. Help Maxwell acquire the Starite by creating any object, bringing it to life and using it to solve each challenge. Let your imagination run wild in this groundbreaking puzzle game. Summon to life a ‘colossal, winged car’ or a ‘shy, frost-breathing, robotic hippopotamus’. If you can think it, you can create it.

Scribblenauts Remix

Ninja Village Lite

Kairosoft usually releases free, time-restricted versions of its popular isometric games a few months after the main release. Ninja Village uses the company's standard city-building/RPG fighting combo, this time set in Edo period Japan. The free demo lets you play for two in-game years.

Rewrite the history of feudal Japan with an army of the ultimate guerrilla warriors: ninjas. The shogun has fallen from power, plunging the land into chaos as feuding feudal lords scramble to take his place. But the shogun has an ace up his sleeve: you. As the head of a leading ninja clan, it's up to you to rally your followers and help unify Japan. As their fearless leader, you'll need to train your fellow ninjas in the ways of modern 16th-century warfare--including the use of those newfangled matchlock guns.

Ninja Village Lite

Pocket Stables Lite

And here's the free version Kairosoft's stable simulator. It's got the same village-building mechanic as most of their games, with the RPG battles replaced with isometric horse races. Give the demo a try if you want all the fun of equestrianism without the shovel.

Manage your very own ranch while training your racehorses to win big in exciting races. Build training facilities like dirt courses and pools amidst the beautiful natural surroundings of your ranch. Increase your ranch's fame and entice visitors to spend some dough at your ranch's amenities, like ice cream stands and gift shops. Find horses with the right combination of stamina and speed and intensity and train them to race. Keep winning races to earn bigger and better prizes, as well as the ability to compete in even bigger and more exciting races on an international scale.

Pocket Stables Lite

Rage of the Gladiator

Android Police coverage: Rage Of The Gladiator Disappears And Reappears In The Play Store – Now Available To Everyone
We don't know why the publisher for Rage of the Gladiator decided to remove it from the Play Store, then upload it with a different listing. If you've been looking for it, here it is - and now it should be available to everyone.

You play the role of Gracius, a gladiator battling for his life in the arena. Your opponents are no ordinary evil, but are epic boss fights whose tricky attacks will challenge even the most elite gamers. There are no ‘fodder’ enemies – its all bosses -- the most fun part of games. Beat them before they brutally beat you. Armed with your magical warhammer and a trusty shield, you must exploit their weaknesses by jumping, dodging, shield blocking, or counter-attacking with proper timing, agility, and thinking.

Rage of the Gladiator

WTF Game(s) Of The Week

Stay Mayor

In a fine example of art following life, this endless runner is a tongue-in-cheek account of Toronto mayor Rob Ford's scandalous crack cocaine video saga. In case you don't keep up with Canadian politics, the public figure was accused of smoking crack on video in May, and Gawker (everyone's favorite bastion of journalistic integrity) offered to buy the video for $200,000. In the game, you play as the nameless Mayor running away from the media, trying to collect cash and buy the video himself. The game's not that great, but the description below is.

Uh oh. Looks like the Mayor’s in a buttload of friggin’ trouble with that alleged video of him smoking crack! And who knows if it even exists, amiright? But juuust in case, why don’t you help him collect a heap of cash to buy it before The Gawker does. Only your twinkle toes can out-maneuver the Blood Thirsty Media to help him collect more than they did in that damn “Crackstarter” campaign. $201,255 to be exact. And hey, everyone needs a little boost now and then, so make sure you collect power up buckets of deep-fried courage for more footballs to throw at life’s problems... but make sure you avoid those pesky crackpipes!
Good luck trying to Stay Mayor! Go git em! PS: Don’t smoke crack.

Heartbreakingly stunning 2D graphics
Fun and easy to play
Music by award winning composer Sam Allison
Made by the same team that brought you the Ikea Monkey Game!
Finally get a bit of control down at city hall using ONLY YOUR THUMB!
Helps numb the pain
Fun and easy to play again
Almost as funny as Toronto news stories
No where near as funny as commenters on Toronto news stories
Who are we kidding, this isn’t funny. The city’s management is in shambles and Toronto is a hyper polarized electorate with no hope for change in the next 18 months.

Stay Mayor

42 Best (And 1 WTF) New Android Games From The Last 2 Weeks (6/11/13 - 6/24/13) Part 1

2013-06-25T16:39:00.001-05:00

Tiny Token Empires

Today's roundup is presented by Tiny Token Empires from HeroCraft. This game has an interesting mix of genres: the city and empire building is reminiscent of a Civilization-style game set in 2000 B.C. But the way that your empire expands is kind of like Risk... until you get into the actual battles, which play out as a swapping puzzle game. It's an intriguing and humorous combination of strategy and puzzle elements, with HeroCraft's usual spit and polish. There are five individual campaigns in the $4.99 game, with three difficulty settings for new, intermediate, and advanced strategy players.

HeroCraft are delighted to announce the launch of the critically acclaimed casual strategy game Tiny Token Empires on Android. Mixing brain-teasers, humor and strategy, Tiny Token Empires puts you in charge of five ancient Empires: Rome, Greece, Egypt, Persia, or Carthage. By developing cities and armies, and annexing new territories, you gradually expand your power! With its cute characters, tough enemies and compelling puzzles, you’ll fall in love with this world - just before you conquer it!
Game features:

A world of goofy gods and cute monsters
5 game modes, 5 distinctive campaigns
5 nations, 5 heroes, 25 generals and 50 troop types
3 difficulty levels to test the biggest brain
Over 15 hours of gaming!

Tiny Token Empires

Games

DRAKERIDER

Android Police coverage: [New Game] Square Enix's Drakerider Flies Into Google Play With Dragons And The Usual High Price
Square Enix is back, with a new full-sized RPG adventure at a premium price. Drakerider isn't tied to any existing franchises, so if the dense world of Final Fantasy or Chaos Rings is intimidating to you, this might be the best place to start. Featuring full 3D gameplay and storytelling, the game is a typical Japanese RPG, with a story that focuses on fighting dragons. It doesn't come cheap, but then, none of Square's games do.

Kill or be killed. Experience the perils of adventure with your ferocious sidekick in this brand-new smartphone RPG. The stage of DRAKERIDER is set in Igraine, a world on the brink of destruction due to the repeated attacks of the Dread. Aran Lawson, once an ordinary tracker, now finds himself as a dragalier—and mankind's final hope. This is the story of our hero and his dragon companion, Eckhardt.

DRAKERIDER

Crayon Physics Deluxe

Android Police coverage: [New Game] Indie Hit Crayon Physics Deluxe Now Available On Google Play: Simple Graphics, Endless Possibilities
Crayon Physics has become a darling of the indie gaming world, thanks to super-simple graphics and gameplay that nevertheless evolves and challenges. It's basically a game version of Harold and the Purple Crayon: create gadgets, weights, and simple machines to move a small ball towards the goal. Crayon Physics Deluxe got its Android debut on the Galaxy Note 10.1, but now it's available to one and all - though a stylus surely wouldn't hurt.

Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.

Replicated the familiar feel of a crayon, loved by both kids and adults
The drawn picture becomes an object and drops
Customizable stages: Have your friends try out YOUR own stages

Crayon Physics Deluxe

Might & Magic Clash Of Heroes

Android Police coverage: [New Game] UbiSoft And Tag Games Release Nintendo DS Favorite Might & Magic Clash Of Heroes For Android
The Heroes of Might & Magic franchise has had a few releases on Android before, but this one is the first to jump straight from the Nintendo DS. Clash of Heroes is a combination of traditional RPG elements and a puzzle-style battle system, wherein you arrange your units in color-coordinated formations to unleash combos in turn-based fights. The original was well-received, both on the DS and its subsequent re-releases. At five bucks, it's surprisingly cheap for a console port, and local multiplayer is included.

The award-winning Puzzle-RPG is now remastered and optimized for Android devices! Live the epic adventure of 5 young Heroes leading their armies to save the world of Might & Magic. Create offensive or defensive unit formations, master advanced combos and build up the right strategy to beat your enemies. Master, earn and hire more than 10 heroes, 40 units and 50 artifacts to create the ultimate army combination. Overcome various challenges: enemy heroes, special challenges, Boss fights or riddle battles.

Might & Magic Clash Of Heroes

Where's My Mickey? XL

Android Police coverage: [New Game] Disney Can't Stop Licensing: Where's My Mickey Now Available For $.99, XL Tablet Version For $1.99
If you're getting a sense of deja vu, you're not alone. Where's My Mickey uses the same physics-based gameplay as the previous Where's My Water and Where's My Perry games, this time with Disney's most iconic IP. There are a few new tricks for veteran players, and the cartoony visual style is kind of appealing. Die-hard Mickey fans may want the game just for the short cartoons that play in between stages. The regular version is a buck, while the expanded tablet version costs two.

Where's My Mickey? introduces a whole new world of life-like physics-based gameplay with stimulating weather mechanics and humorous animations. Immerse yourself in the ultimate mobile gaming experience as you watch funny episodes while solving challenging puzzles. Tap, swipe, and swirl to help Mickey collect water and complete each story.

Where's My Mickey? XL

Gangstar Vegas

Android Police coverage: [New Game] Gameloft Releases Gangstar Vegas, Their Most GTA-Like GTA Clone Yet, For $6.99
Gameloft's Gangstar series has moved to Sin City, and expanded both the play area and the main character's abilities in the process. It's your standard Grand Theft Auto clone, but if you're looking for a story-driven crime game with no shortage of over-the-top action, Gangstar Vegas should deliver. Be on the lookout for famous Las Vegas landmarks, like The Berragio, Nero's Palace, and The Luxxor casinos. Music comes from Skrillex, Kavinsky, and Chromatics, if that's your jam.

Roll up on a dangerous new trip through the City of Sin in the latest episode of the acclaimed open-world action game. Get ready for fun, immersive, and wild gun wars. In this third-person shooter action game, you will play as a rising MMA champion. Framed by the mafia, you are supposed to throw your bout at the fighting event of the year. But when your opponent beats you to the punch and goes down first, famous crime lord Frank Veliano’s perfect plan goes down too. You have just become the most wanted man in the city.

Gangstar Vegas

Eden to Green

Android Police coverage: Eden To Green Opens Up On The Play Store, Now Available To Tree-Huggers Everywhere
Eden To Green is the latest game published by Zynga, and it is most certainly not a rip-off of Plants vs. Zombies. Well, that's not really fair: this game does switch things to a 3D perspective, and the enemies are Terminator-meets-lawnmower machines. The graphics are surprisingly good (the game seems limited mostly to Tegra hardware at the moment) and the turn-based battles take advantage of the extra dimension. Be prepared for a big social push and lots of IAP.

The machines have invaded the beautiful planet of Eden. Eden to Green is an addictive blend of casual-strategy and fast-paced battles with iconic plants versus comic machines. Create an army from a wide variety of plants to fight back against the alien machines and restore the once beautiful vistas. Increase 'Euphoria' by planting and once on the offensive, plant more and better plants to launch an all-out counter-attack. March on until the war against the machines is won.

Eden to Green

Infinite Universe

Tin Man Games has a small but dedicated following: old-school tabletop gamers who can't get enough of this developer's unique mix of traditional pen-and-paper RPGs and Choose Your Own Adventure-style storytelling. The latest entry in their RPG collection is Infinite Universe, a sci-fi affair set in a galaxy that's not far away at all at an indeterminate time. The story combines your typical rebels versus empire staging with some identity crisis and a bit of mystery. Infinite Universe is expensive, like all Tin Man games, but worth it for fans.

In the fourth millennium, the Mandellian Empire of the Tau Ceti system is at war with the rebel army known as DWORF. And lucky you have been chosen for a dangerous solo mission to kill or capture the rebel leader, through mind-bending loops of time and space. But wait a minute. Just who are you anyway? And how did you even get here? Such secrets you must uncover if you are to unlock your destiny… A newly written story by Brewin’, illustrated by Josh Wright. An all new sci-fi epic set within an all new universe!

Infinite Universe

Hero of Many

Android Police coverage: Hero Of Many Is A Beautiful Side Scrolling Game That Definitely Isn't About Sperm
OK, the playable characters in this game look like a certain human by-product. Go ahead and get the giggles out of your system now. The game itself is more about exploration than fighting, as if the monochromatic, silhouetted environments didn't clue you in. Yes, it's a rather typical indie game (how many of these have you seen in the last two years?) but if you like that sort of thing, have at it.

Hero Of Many takes you on an epic journey as a tiny hero in a dangerous world. But you’re not alone; you lead a swarm of water-beings through fierce battles for freedom across four different worlds and twenty-six choreographed levels. It’s an atmospheric action adventure that takes you deep into underwater caverns. Where you:

Explore mysterious places
Save your friends
Learn how to survive
Face array of challenges
Discover new powers
Defeat monsters

Hero of Many

Frozen Synapse

Android Police coverage: [New Game] Frozen Synapse Launches In The Play Store For $6.99, Reminds Everyone How Awesome The Humble Bundle Is
The Humble Bundle has been an opening venue for many PC games turned Android showcase, and Frozen Synapse serves as a pricey reminder for how awesome that program is. But the game is certainly worth its steep asking price, at least if you're a fan of turn-based, top-down strategy. The game's unique hook is that you make your selection, then both you and the enemy move at the same time. The PC game has been faithfully adapted to Android with a new touch interface and multiplayer battles. The game is currently in beta.

Frozen Synapse is a multi-award-winning tactical game. Frozen Synapse brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre bang up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad: classic gameplay with a modern interface. Plan your moves, test them out, then hit the "Prime" button: both you and your enemy's turns are executed simultaneously.

Frozen Synapse

The Silent Age

Android Police coverage: [New Game] The Silent Age Slips Into Google Play, Asks Many Mysterious Questions In Point-And-Click Format
The deluge of awesome point-and-click games for Android continues. In The Silent Age, Joe the Janitor is alone on a dead planet, with nothing but a time machine and your puzzle-solving skills to help him. Visuals are impressive for 2D sprites (dear developer: thank you for not going 8-bit) and the first chapter of the story is free. The rest you'll have to wait for, probably with an in-app purchase or two to follow.

It’s 1972. Love is free. Flipflops, English leather and bandanas are the height of fashion. Meanwhile the Cold War is more than lukewarm and a real one is going on overseas. Movements are happening. Environmentalists, the female liberties movement, and on the dance floors an entirely different kind of movement is overtaking the underground clubs. The winds of change are certainly blowing over the country.

The Silent Age

Pet Rescue Saga

Android Police coverage: [New App] Mega-Popular Game Pet Rescue Saga Scurries Into The Play Store
What do household pets and Bejeweled-style block puzzles have in common? Not much, but Pet Rescue Saga tries to get some mileage out of the matchup anyway. This super-popular game already has legions of fans on Facebook, based on an adorable art style and not much more. Naturally, it pushes the social element pretty hard, and you'll have to pony up real money or give the game some free advertising to continue when you run out of lives.

Can you bust through matching blocks to save the Pets from the evil Snatchers? Loads of tricky and challenging levels of puzzle excitement await in this amazing adventure. Our first exciting mobile release features 72 mind-boggling levels. We're working hard to bring you tons of great features & levels in our next release. Please note Pet Rescue Saga is completely free to play but some in-game items such as extra moves or lives will require payment. You can turn-off the payment feature by disabling in-app purchases in your device’s settings.

Pet Rescue Saga

Stargate SG-1: Unleashed Ep 1

Android Police coverage: [New Game] Stargate SG-1 Unleashed Gates Into The Play Store, With Full Voice Cast From The Show
Stargate fans, unite: this game may just be the last officially-licensed media to ever feature the four core SG-1 cast members in an in-universe performance. Unleashed is a pretty generic action title that plays out as an episode of the sci-fi television show. It's not going to take home any game of the year awards, but if you've got an itch that only Colonel O'Neill can scratch, it's a much better option than that Infinity Blade knockoff from last year. More episodes will be coming as in-app purchases.

The Stargate SG-1 interactive adventure has arrived. The original cast of Stargate SG-1 is back, and they are reunited in an entirely new episode that will awaken all your Stargate memories. Starring the voices of Richard Dean Anderson as Jack O’Neill, Amanda Tapping as Samantha Carter, Michael Shanks as Dr. Daniel Jackson and Christopher Judge as Teal’c, this is an all new immersive third-person adventure you can enjoy on your Android. Get involved in the action – defeat Jaffa warriors, infiltrate a Goa’uld labor camp, solve cryptic ancient puzzles - and stop a new evil menace before it’s too late.

Stargate SG-1: Unleashed Ep 1

DROID COMBAT - MISSION ALPHA

Android Police coverage: Verizon's D:COM DROID Augmented Reality Game Leaks Early, APK Available For Download Now [Updated]
Here's Verizon's latest attempt at glitzy DROID branding, this time in the form of an augmented reality game. The battle mechanic itself doesn't feature much AR - tap and swipe to shoot the enemy until he's dead. But there's an Ingress-style location-based element to help you find items or credits, and players can take photos of their customized mechs on real-world backgrounds. Duke it out with local players to become king of the hill... and hope they haven't spent more on in-app purchases than you have.

Take control of a giant, augmented-reality wARrior and defend your Turf against all challengers. Challenge friends to thrilling, fast-paced battles. Swipe with your finger to launch guided missiles at your opponent. Tap incoming missiles to shoot them down with your lasers. Reveal a secret world of giant DRIOD wARriors with your phone’s camera. See the opponents in your vicinity and challenge them to battle. Find hundreds of hidden weapons, ammo, and accessories nearby to power your DROID wARrior.

DROID COMBAT - MISSION ALPHA

Redline Rush

Android Police coverage: [New Game] Crescent Moon Games Pulls Redline Rush Into Google Play, Parks It In The Free Lot
Mix a traditional racing game with an endless runner, and you'd get something like Crescent Moon's Redline Rush. The game is a bit on the simple side with just two buttons for controls, so it probably won't satisfy hardcore racing fans. But easy gameplay and great graphics, endless runner junkies will feel right at home. Run from the cops for as long as you can, and collect coins to improve your ride... or just go the easy way and pay some real-world cash for a new car.

Jump into a super sports car and test your driving skills in this high speed driving game where you have to weave through traffic to escape the police. Avoid crashes, take down traffic cars, pick up power-ups and walk to the top of the leaderboard. This game will challenge even the most skilled arcade racing fans. Join the Chase. Welcome to Redline Rush.

Redline Rush

Despicable Me

Android Police coverage: [New Game] Despicable Me: Minion Rush Dashes Into The Play Store With Cinematic Charm Intact
Licensed movie games come in roughly two forms on mobile: endless runners and beat-em-ups. Despicable Me chooses the former, because it's a kid's movie... but I wouldn't mind seeing a Smash Bros-style fighting game starring the Minions. Anyway, the official movie-game includes the iconic yellow critters running away from various bad guys. You can dress up a minion for a more personal touch, or go Godzilla on Gru's lab.

Gru’s loyal, yellow, gibberish-speaking Minions are ready for their toughest challenge in Despicable Me: Minion Rush. Play as a Minion and compete with others in hilarious, fast-paced challenges in order to impress your boss, (former?) super-villain Gru. Jump, fly, dodge obstacles, collect bananas, be mischievous, and defeat villains to earn the title of Minion of the Year.

Despicable Me

Monsters University

Android Police coverage: [New Game] Disney's Monsters University For Android Is Now In Session In The Play Store
The marketing assault for Monsters University has just begun, and no kid's movie is complete without an official licensed game. This one uses the standard endless runner format to showcase Mike and Sully, chasing after a rival school's mascot for some post-curfew fun. The main game is a buck, but you can try out the core game in the free Catch Arnie title.

Let the scary out in 2 exciting games based on the Disney•Pixar film “Monsters University,” and prove you’re the ultimate scarer. Prep for more Scare Games to come in future updates.
Catch Archie:
• Get a hold of Archie the Scare Pig, the squealing mascot of Monsters University’s rival school, Fear Tech, in this thrilling game.
• Chase Archie in 30 exciting stages, and tire him out to win each stage.
• Swipe to jump, slide, and dodge tricky obstacles throughout campus.
Toxicity Challenge:
• Compete in the first scare game event of the year, and put your agility skills to the test.
• Race against the clock, and run through the sewers before time runs out.
• Watch out for the stinging glow urchins that will sting and slow you down throughout all 30 stages.

Monsters University

Little Nick: The Great Escape

Remember what I said about licensed games falling into one of two categories? Here's yet another example. Little Nick is apparently a kid's show originating from France, and (this is important) has nothing to do with a certain terrible Adam Sandler movie. The game lets you play as one of the pint-sized gang as they endlessly run away from adults, with the usual assortment of obstacles and power-ups. BulkyPix has a decent reputation, so maybe it's good enough for the show.

The official adaptation of the Little Nicholas animated series is finally coming to Google Play devices. Little Nicholas has been up to mischief again. Help him flee on his bike before Old Spuds catches him. Travel through the city's different neighborhoods (the residential area, the city center and the wasteland) and join Little Nicholas and all his friends on this madcap chase. Saddle up for a crazy race..

Little Nick: The Great Escape

Man of Steel

Android Police coverage: [New Game] Man Of Steel Flies Into The Play Store, May Or May Not Be Invincible
...and here's the beat-em-up side of the equation. Man Of Steel turned out to be pretty polarizing in the theaters, but the $5 game is getting negative reviews in the Play Store, currently sitting at a 2.4-star average. The game is yet another Infinity Blade-style fighter, driven by taps and swipes. Supes fans can revel in a few unlockable costumes, but the rest of the game is rather bland, even with some better-than-average graphics.

**THE OFFICIAL GAME OF THE MAN OF STEEL MOVIE.*** NOTE: Man of Steel is optimized for top Android devices including the Google Nexus 7 and Samsung Galaxy S4. Additional support will be added in future updates. General Zod is threatening Earth and only the Man of Steel can stop him. Utilize the powers of Superman to fight your way to victory and save the planet from certain destruction.

Man of Steel

Batman: Arkham City Lockdown

See that listing up there for Superman? That, with Batman instead. Arkham City Lockdown is now on Google Play after a short stint of Amazon exclusivity. Too bad the tie-in game came a year and a half after its iOS counterpart, and about that long since anyone cared.

The inmates have escaped and Batman has his hands full defeating an army of henchmen and some of his most iconic villains. Scour the rooftops and the seedy underbelly of Gotham City through a series of one-on-one battles with The Joker, Two-Face and more, as well as the Batman: Arkham City Lockdown exclusive - Deathstroke. Choose from several Batman skins and power-ups as you punch, kick and combo your way to cleaning up Gotham City.

Batman: Arkham City Lockdown

Pulse Infiltrator

Psychically-enhanced super soldiers seem to be a dime a dozen in the future - what clandestine world power wouldn't want operatives that can kill you with their brain? The Portal inspiration in Pulse Infiltrator is pretty clear, but the hook is your gravity-manipulating telekinetic power. Graphics are sharp, if simple, and if you can handle touchscreen FPS controls, there appears to be some pretty good puzzle and shooting action.

Pulse Infiltrator is a first person tactical espionage action game for Android that emphasis on problem solving and shooting action. Solve problems by use your telekinesis powers to throw objects around and snap them to place. You can also manipulate gravity around you to lift objects to create different path ways. Use your weapon to blast through enemy security or avoid them completely. It is up to you to help the Pulse underground resistance group and sabotage the Citadel Corporation.

Pulse Infiltrator

Icy Tower 2 Temple Jump

The Icy Tower series has gained a startling amount of players. The latest release isn't really a sequel so much as an expansion pack - it's got plenty of towers, but seems to be pretty low on ice. This one is set in a generic tribal temple, wherein running is swapped for jumping and graphics are decidedly 2D. Jump across various floors and floating platforms, collect coins, earn power-ups - you know the drill.

Jump up the Temple without falling down. Easy to learn and amazingly entertaining, this arcade hit game will stick like glue in your hands for hours and hours. Can you reach the top?

Endless and challenging jumping fun.
Easy and smooth controls, tilt or touch.
Exciting treasure floors to jump on.
Catch coins to spend in the shop.
Amazing Power-ups to spice things up.
Upgrade the tower to get advantages.

Icy Tower 2 Temple Jump

CRUSH

Crush has the combination of simple concepts and punishing difficulty that masochistic puzzle fans love. It's pretty similar to the classic board game Go, albeit in a single player form, but the sliding, tilting graphics are strangely hypnotic - it's downright impressive to see in what's technically a simple 2D game. Three modes should keep you on your toes during the short play sessions.

WARNING: This game is hard. The creator of Slydris, 2012 iOS Game of the Year*, is back with another elegant and intense puzzle game designed specifically for touch screens. CRUSH sounds simple: Keep the blocks from filling the screen by removing matching colors with a single touch. But the blocks keep coming, and each touch boosts the stack even higher.

CRUSH

20 best Android apps this week

2013-05-24T16:58:00.000-05:00

Tetris Blitz, Amazon Local, Blip Blup, Clueful, AppGratis, GPS Navigation & Maps, Epic and more

EA has reworked Tetris as a free-to-play game called Tetris Blitz

It's time for our weekly roundup of brand new and notable apps forAndroid smartphones and tablets.

It covers apps and games, with the prices referring to the initial download: so (Free) may mean (Freemium) in some cases. The equivalent iOS roundup will be published later in the day.

For now, read on for this week's Android selection (and when you've finished, check out previous Best Android apps posts).

Tetris Blitz (Free)

Huge popularity of the Bejeweled Blitz game has persuaded EA to try the free-to-play blitz-gaming model for the most famous puzzle game in the world: Tetris. Blitz meaning two-minute sessions to score as many points as possible, boosted by power-ups, and compete against Facebook friends' performances. The game is free-to-play, so in-app purchases are involved.

Amazon Local (Free)

Available already in the US, Amazon Local is now accessible in the UK too. It aggregates deals and discounts from local and national businesses, from shops to spas and hotels, aiming to show you the offers closest to your current location, with digital vouchers to redeem them.

Blip Blup (Free)

Blip Blup is a hypnotically-addictive puzzle game from UK studio ustwo, which sees you tapping to fill a screen-full of tiles with colour. The complication being walls and obstacles that get in the way of your colour-pulse's path. There are more than 120 levels to work through, with an in-app purchased used to remove the game's in-app ads.

Clueful (Free)

Concerned about privacy and apps? Clueful is trying to capitalise on uncertainty around the attitudes of some developers and startups with its "personal Privacy Consultant". Released by Bitdefender, it monitors how apps on your device are accessing your personal information, providing a score for each on how nice (or nasty) they are.

Cloudee: Backup & Share Videos (Free)

Cloudee is the work of set-top box maker Boxee: a service for storing and sharing videos, as well as organising them into collections. "If YouTube is for everyone on the Internet, and Facebook is for everyone you know, then Cloudee is for those who matter to you the most," suggests the company. Once uploaded, vids can be watched on smartphones, tablets, computers and TVs.

AppGratis (Free)

Famously booted off the App Store by Apple, app discovery service AppGratis has now turned its attention to Android instead. Its app promises daily offers for free and discounted apps, with recommendations from the AppGratis team and a daily push notification with a new offer.

GPS Navigation & Maps +offline (£1)

Skobbler is making a big push for its new navigation app, pricing it at £1 with a combination of turn-by-turn navigation and a single map of the world that can be used online or offline. The business model is that you buy access to country maps offline as in-app purchases, although one country is included in the initial download.

Epic (Free)

Ahead of the release of animated movie Epic, Gameloft has published the official mobile game. It's a freemium title that sees you building a kingdom then battling against enemies, with a choice of single-player and online multiplayer modes in the latter case. Facebook provides the social connections, while in-app purchases fund the action.

Mensa Academy (£2.99)

Mensa has teamed up with Square Enix for an official brain-training game on Android, promising more than 1,000 questions to test your grey cells in numeracy, language, logic, memory and visual. The male character looks like a professor, while the female character looks like Lara Croft. No stereotypes there, then.

EasilyDo Smart Assistant (Free)

There's a trend in 2013 for startups trying to provide personal-assistant apps for smartphones, aiming to out-Siri Siri. EasilyDo is the latest on Android, promising that it "tells you when to leave to arrive on time, monitors for important emails and friends' news, warns you of bad weather, tracks packages, files receipts, and even helps you celebrate birthdays".

Fast & Furious 6: The Game (Free)

There's a long history of Fast & Furious games on mobile devices, but social publisher Kabam is the latest licence-holder, aiming to do for the cars'n'guns movie franchise what it's already doen for The Hobbit. Which is? A lucrative freemium game, of course. Here, you'll be racing, customising cars and trying to work your way up the global leaderboards.

Pocket Rally (£0.65)

If you prefer your racing to be less furious (but still fast), Pocket Rally may be worth a look. Taking its cues from console games like the Colin McRae series, it sees you belting through circuits (tarmac, gravel and grass included) racing up to three other cars at once, with a choice of Challenge and Single Race modes.

Glide - Video Walkie Talkie (Free)

"Would you rather write about going to the beach or show yourself at the beach? Exactly," suggests Glide's Google Play listing, pushing the idea that video messages are better than texts (and blithely unaware of the general quality of 3G reception on many British beaches, by the sounds of it). Still, this is one of the apps aiming to help people ping video to their Facebook friends, even if they're not available at the time.

Grimm's Bookshelf (Free)

Irish startup StoryToys has turned a number of the Grimm Brothers' fairytales into pop-up storybooks for Android. Now it's got a single Bookshelf app to promote them all, with free samples and the ability to launch any of the apps you already own from within it.

Week Calendar (£1.49)

Can anyone outdo the Google Calendar service on Android? Week Calendar is trying with an impressively-slick calendar app that ties into Google Calendar, Exchange and other services. Intuitive drag'n'drop controls make creating and moving appointments easy, with good use of colour to sort everything.

Arma Tactics THD (£3.24)

PC strategy-game series Arma has spawned this mobile game, initially for Tegra-powered devices. It sees you controlling a four-person special forces team through a series of military missions, with slick graphics and freedom to try different tactics to succeed.

Catch Phrase (Free)

Mr Chips! This is an officially-licensed game of British TV game-show Catch Phrase, which has recently been revived by ITV. You'll be guessing 48 catch phrases for free, with more available as an in-app purchase, and a Facebook-powered high-score table to compare your skills with friends.

Combo Crew (£1.49)

Developer The Game Bakers made the popular Squids games, but now it's turning its attention to a new beat 'em up game called Combo Crew. "Inspired by classics like Streets of Rage, Final Fight, and Street Fighter" it sees you punching and kicking your way through a giant tower to beat the suitably-named Mr Boss – complete with asynchronous social features that see you rescuing friends as you go.

Men's Room Mayhem (£0.68)

Okay, who had May 2013 in the "When will there be a mobile line-drawing game based on being the manager of a men's toilet?" sweepstakes? Congratulations. Yes, this loo-based game is the work of developer Ripstone, and has you "directing patrons, keeping everywhere sparkling clean and steering patrons away from trouble".

Total Recoil (Free)

One more Android game – it's a busy week – and another one with a military theme. Total Recoil sees you waging war with a variety of weapons, with an emphasis on action. Or, as the developer puts it: "If you can see it, you can blow it up..."

That's this week's selection, but what do you think? Make your own recommendations, or give your views on the apps above, by posting a comment.

Top 10 Free Games Apps for Android Phones, Tablets

2013-05-22T14:38:00.001-05:00

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1. Blast Monkeys: Blast all the monkeys and have have a good time!

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4. Bubble Blast 2: You can start but You never be able to stop Bubble Blast 2 is a puzzle game in which you burst bubbles to trigger a chain reaction in order to eliminate them.

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1. Blast Monkeys: Blast all the monkeys and have have a good time!

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4. Bubble Blast 2: You can start but You never be able to stop Bubble Blast 2 is a puzzle game in which you burst bubbles to trigger a chain reaction in order to eliminate them.

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7. Diversion: The ultimate 3D platformer: 3 worlds, 100 levels, 150+ characters to unlock! Diversion is the ultimate 3D platformer for Android with 3 unique worlds, 100 levels, and 150+ characters to unlock and collect!

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3. Inotia3: Children of Carnia: Protect your loved ones in Carnia by joining the adventure! What would it take to change a warrior's destiny? The Big Adventure! Inotia3: Children of Carnia! An inevitable fate lies before the children of Carnia. The greatest epic adventure by far! The Chronicles of Inotia 3! The new legend is about to begin in the continent of Inotia.

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Top 10 Best Android Games 2013

2013-05-22T14:33:00.001-05:00

Top 10 Best Latest Android Games:

1.Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour

It is the #1 Action FPS game is back on your smartphone with a new chapter to push the boundaries of mobile gaming even further. In the wake of nuclear warfare, the only chance to avoid global devastation is in the hands of the few elite soldiers who must track down and rescue the world’s leaders from a frighteningly familiar terrorist group.

2.Grand Auto Theft lll:

This is one of My facourite Game.The sprawling crime epic that changed open-world games forever.

3.Temple Run: Oz

You all know How Temple run has created history in Gaming world.Tremple run: Oz is the latest game from Disney and Imangi Studios.It is a brand-new endless runner inspired by Temple Run 2 and the film Oz the Great and Powerful.

4.Angry Birds Space Premium:

Yeah it is one my favourite game.Angry Birds is the IGN's "Best Mobile Game of 2012" Winner!.

It is the mobile game of all time blasts off into space!

5.Asphalt 7: Heat

This Game is for racing Lovers.Hit the speed of heat in the newest, fastest, most visually stunning edition of the famed Asphalt series.

6.Bladeslinger:

BLADESLINGER is a visually stunning, fast paced 3D action brawler developed exclusively for high-end mobile devices. BLADESLINGER follows the story of William Glaston as he returns to his hometown to confront an ancient evil.

7.Cut the Rope: Time Travel HD

Cut the Rope: Time Travel is a completely new adventure filled with time-traveling, candy-crunching, physics-based action!

With two cute monsters to feed in each level, it is twice the fun but familiar to play. If you like Cut the Rope, you’ll love Cut the Rope: Time Travel!

8.Drag Racing: Bike Edition

Well this game is for bike racing lovers.I loved it very much.so felt it is the one of best game in racing.

9.Ruzzle

Last 8 games i have listed came into action and racing categories but Ruzzle is a fun and fast-paced word game where you can challenge your friends or allow an opponent to be chosen randomly.This is quite interesting and you can pass your time by palying this.

Top 20 Paid Games For Android 2013

2013-05-22T14:29:00.000-05:00

Top 20 Paid Games For Android 2013

Download 100 Doors of Revenge

100 Doors of Revenge

Download Angry Birds Space Premium

Angry Birds Space Premium

Download Asphalt 7 Heat

Asphalt 7 Heat

Download Dead Space™

Dead Space™

Download Diamonds Blaze

Diamonds Blaze

Download Fruit Ninja

Fruit Ninja

Download Grand Theft Auto III

Grand Theft Auto III

Download LINE Bubble

LINE Bubble

Download LINE POP

LINE POP

Best RPG Android Games 2013

Download Modern Combat 4 Zero Hour

Modern Combat 4 Zero Hour

Download Need for Speed™ Most Wanted

Need for Speed™ Most Wanted

Download Plague Inc.

Plague Inc.

Download Shellrazer

Shellrazer

Download Ski Safari

Ski Safari

Download SlenderMan

SlenderMan

Download Slingshot Racing

Slingshot Racing

Download Super Hexagon

Super Hexagon

Download The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises

Download Toy Story Smash It

Toy Story Smash It

Download Where’s My Water

Where’s My Water

Top 10 Android Games of May 2013

2013-05-22T14:25:00.001-05:00

Looking for some new games to play on your Android device? Here's our Top 10 Android games of May. Hopefully you will discover some free games that you've missed or haven't played before.

1. Candy Crush SAGA

Similar to Bejweled, Candy Crush SAGA gives you different types of candies and asks you to match them in order to clear them and score points. All you need to do is just swipe your fingers across the candies to swap them. If you match four or more, you will gain more points. To do well in Candy Crush SAGA, set yourself up to get large matches and chances to gain big points! Candy Crush SAGA integrates with Facebook so you can keep track of high scores and so you can challenge your friends. The latest update of Candy Crush SAGA includes new episodes of Savory Shores, Munchy Monolith, and new Chamelon Candy. You can download Candy Crush SAGA from the Google Play Store here.

2. Paper Toss 2.0

Just like the first Paper Toss, Paper Toss 2.0 users will need to flick wads of crumpled up paper into a virtual trash bin. Users will need to touch the paper and slide their finger in the direction they want it to go. The more wads that land in the trash bin, the more points and coins are earned. Think this all sounds simple? Think again! A fan will periodically change sides and “wind” will cause the paper to curve in different directions. If you’re up for a challenge, go ahead and download Paper Toss 2.0 from the Google Play Store here.

3. CSR Racing

CSR Racing is a game all about drag racing. The key to winning the races is starting on the right rev, and up shift at the right time. During the race itself, there is a blur effect as you go faster, which gives off a sense of speed. It also adds excitement when you get closer to your enemy. The game has different tiers, each tier has a racing group you will need to defeat. To beat them, you’ll need a fast car. This game has three different game modes so you can gain money to upgrade to a new car. If you’re into drag racing, CSR Racing is a pretty fun game. You can download CSR Racing from the Google Play Store here.

4. Bejeweled Blitz

Bejeweled Blitz for Android gives players a time limit in which they have to match as many gems as possible. The game is integrated with Facebook, so you can challenge your friends who are bored and reading their newsfeed or you can show off your achievements. Bejeweled Blitz is addictive-incredibly addictive. You can download Bejeweled Blitz from the Google Play Store here.

5. Minecraft Pocket Edition

Similar to Minecraft, the Pocket Edition allows players are drop into a landscape made of different cubes. Players “move” these cubes, which can be used to “craft” buildings and items. Pocket Edition comes with two different modes: creative and survival. During creative mode, players can fly around minecraft's world and build with materials. In survival mode, players can build above the ground (stacking blocks to make castles). At night time, monsters will appear and will attack players as well as their creations. Players can jump in and out of other players' world's. The latest update of Minecraft Pocket Edition includes improved D-pad functionality, crash bugs, new titles, fancy clouds, new titles, and colorful sheep. You can download Minecraft Pocket Editions from the Google Play Store here.

6. Zombie Frontier

The year is 2020, and T viruses spread all over the world. A large group of people got infected and became zombies. In this zombie game, you are the one of the survivors. You must search and destroy as many zombies as you can before you run out of ammo and get eaten. The latest updates of Zombie Frontier include fix of double cost bug when you buy or upgrade guns and items, fix achievement description bug, and bug fixes. You can download Zombie Frontier from the Google Play Store here.

7. Mega Run

If you loved Megajump you will love Mega Run. Redford is back for more in this never-ending running game. In Mega Run, you will get to see your character run and jump at the same time. You can make Redford jump, climb, land on the top of enemies head’ and get extra power on the way. The latest updates of Mega Run include a Google+ Sign in button to the menu, a new way to earn FREE MP by watching videos, and lots of performance fixes. You can download Megarun from the Google Play Store here.

8. Ice Rage

Mountain Sheep’s hockey game Ice Rage has made its way to Android thanks to Herocraft. Ice Rage is all about one-on-one hockey action. Players can check the opponent to get the puck, once you have it, its hard to hold down on the virtual button on screen. There are three different single player modes (Tournament, Quick Match, and Deathmatch) and a single-device multiplayer. You can choose unique characters such as lightning fast Antero or heavy-hitting Enviro-Bear. Ice Rage has tons of action happening. The latest update of Ice Rage include meeting four new characters, and a default joypad is now set by default. You can download Ice Rage from the Google Play Store here.

9. Coin Dozer

Coin Dozer is an addictive arcade game. The goal of Coin Dozer is to push as many coins as you can forward into a slot at the center of the cabinet. When coins fall down the slot, it triggers a slot of machine reels. If you go to the fair just to win a pair of wind-up chattering teeth by feeding $20 info a coin-pushing machine, Coin Dozer will be highly entertaining. You can download Coin Dozer from the Google Play Store here.

10. Angry Birds Friends

The original Angry Birds is a one of the most successful games ever. Rovio is now attracting a new frontier in a competitive arena. “Angry Birds Friends” lets you tap into your network of Facebook friends to offer a new dimension to its familiar game. You can play weekly tournaments with friends and there are three levels per week. Download Angry Birds Friends from the Google Play Store here.

Top 10 Android games released this week: Can Knockdown 3, Daddy Was a Thief, Sonic

2013-05-22T14:20:00.001-05:00

Top 10 Android games released this week: Can Knockdown 3, Daddy Was a Thief, Sonic

Welcome back to Android Gaming Weekly, our weekly recap to focus on new releases. We still plan to cover upcoming releases and games we’re playing, but this column is dedicated to new games you can install and start playing right now. Check out our top picks and let us know if you have any suggestions for next week in the comments below.

Sonic The Hedgehog

Description: The Sonic game which started it all is now optimized for mobile devices! Race at lightning speeds across seven classic zones as Sonic the Hedgehog. Run and spin through loop-de-loops as you collect rings and defeat enemies on your mission to save the world from the evil Dr. Eggman. This re-mastered mobile version of the SEGA Genesis classic features the full “Sonic The Hedgehog” game, plus exclusive features.

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You Don’t Know Jack

Description: Download the Spike TV Video Game Awards’ “Social Game of the Year” to your Android phone or tablet. You Don’t Know Jack is the #1 game in the world that contains both fart noises and trivia about Shakespeare. This free-to-play mobile version includes hundreds of full episodes of everybody’s favorite quiz show trivia game, with new, topical episodes added every week!

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Carmageddon

Description: Carmageddon is the original freeform driving sensation, where pedestrians (and cows!) equal points, and your opponents are a bunch of crazies in a twisted mix of automotive killing machines. The game features anarchic drive-wherever-you-like gameplay and over-the-top surreal comedy violence. It’s the racing game where racing is for wimps.

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Daddy Was A Thief

Description: Bank staff is usually friendly and polite. This time something went wrong! Gain as much money as you can! Hurry! Everyone try to catch you, but you are clever, aren’t you? Find combo speed boosts, shortcuts and grab power-ups to survive.

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Zombie Derby

Description: Do you have the drive to survive? Americans have two favourite things; cars and guns. And no stinking zombie apocalypse is going to change that. Take control of your car to see how far you can get and how many zombies you can kill – and if you can actually escape with your brains intact. Four cars are available to get you to the final fort, each capable of holding progressively more loot. Ranging from the simple Redneck pick-up and the classy Hunter and to the tough Sledge and frankly-silly Harvester, you’ll enjoy throwing these bodged-up jalopies at the lines of the undead.

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Can Knockdown 3

Description: Challenge your aim, hone your precision, and push your puzzle-solving skills to the next level in this insanely addictive game. This installment takes the critically acclaimed Can Knockdown series to all new heights- the physics-based carnival gameplay you know and love- and adds unique puzzles, adrenaline-charged challenges, and even more explosive action!

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Cross Craze

Description: CrossCraze is a classic crossword puzzle game where you place letters on a board to form interlocking words. Play against the computer or with a friend. Frustrated by the time-wasting and cheating found on online game apps such as Scrabble, Words With Friends and Wordfeud? CrossCraze lets you choose a computer opponent to match your own skill level. It will never cheat, never take more than a moment to move and never abandon a game before the end. How refreshing!

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Toy Defense 2

Description: Toy Defense 2 is the long-awaited sequel to the multi-million-download hit Toy Defense! Set in WW2, this action/strategy game is packed with more levels, amazing new features, a big selection of fighting units for each world, and more intense action than ever. Take part in various missions in a range of theaters of war, from the picturesque beaches and forests of Normandy to the deserts of northern Africa. The most epic battles of WW2 await you!

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Dark Avenger

Description: Enter the dungeon and hack-n-slash your way towards immortality! The highly anticipated dungeon crawler arrives on mobile! Evil has awoken from its slumber. Our heroes must rise and send the forces of darkness back to the depths of hell. Choose from three heroic classes: Templar, Archer, or Mage. Equipped with enhanced, intuitive controls, you will experience the game like never before!

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Attack of the Wall St. Titan

Description: A giant robot, built to destroy and subjugate the masses. Reprogrammed by an anonymous hacktivist to turn on your evil corporate creators, you are the Wall Street Titan. Occupy Wall Street with a giant robot fist! Selected by Indie Game Magazine as one of the best mobile arcade games of 2012!

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68 best free Android games 2013

2013-05-22T14:14:00.000-05:00

As Android phones and tablets have increased in popularity, the number of apps available for the platform has rocketed.

And that means more free Android games. There's a lot of junk out there but, fortunately, there are gems among the junk.

We've worked our way through a whole load of Android games to reveal the ones you should download to your phone.

So without delay, here is our pick of the best free Android games available.

We also have a video run down of the top 10:

1. Angry Birds

The amazingly popular iOS game moved to Android a while ago, earning over two million downloads during its first weekend of availability.

The Android version is free, unlike the Apple release, with maker Rovio opting to stick a few adverts on it rather than charge an upfront fee. The result is a massive and very challenging physics puzzler that's incredibly polished and professional. For free. It defies all the laws of modern retail.

Angry Birds for Android was first available to download from app store GetJar but is now available through Google Play.

2. Bebbled

Bebbled is your standard gem-shuffling thing, only presented in a professional style you wouldn't be surprised to see running on something featuring a Nintendo badge with an asking price of £19.99.

You only drop gems on other gems to nuke larger groups of the same colour, but with ever-tightening demands for score combos and scenes that require you to rotate your phone to flip the play field on its head, Bebbledsoon morphs into an incredibly complex challenge.

3. Red Stone

There's an awful lot of square-shuffling games on Android and Red Stoneis one of the best. And one of the hardest. You start off with a big fat 'King' square that's four times of the normal 'pawn' squares, then set about shuffling things so the fat King can get through to an exit at the top of the screen.

It's hard to accurately describe a puzzle game in the written word, but seriously, it's a good game.

4. Newton

The developer is still adding levels to it at the moment, so one day Newtonmight be finished and might cost money. But for now it's free and a great indie creation.

5. Angry Birds Star Wars

6. Drop

7. Frozen Bubble

8. Replica Island

9. Gem Miner

10. ConnecToo

A brilliantly simple concept. ConnecToo used to be a paid-for game, but was recently switched to an ad-supported model - meaning it now costs you £0.00.

11. Titres

Once you're successfully rewired your brain's 25 years of playing Tetris in a certain way with certain buttons and got used to tapping the screen to rotate your blocks, it's... Tetris.

It hinges on how much you enjoy placing things with your phone's trackball or pad. If you're good at it, it's a superb Tetris clone. Let's hope it doesn't get sued out of existence.

UPDATE: While Titres seems to have been removed from Google Play, there's now an official Tetris app available to download.

12. Trap!

Not the best-looking game you'll ever play, with its shabby brown backgrounds and rudimentary text making it look like something you'd find running on a PC in the year 1985. But Trap! is good.

You draw lines to box in moving spheres, gaining points for cordoning off chunks of the screen. That sounds rubbish, so please invest two minutes of your time having a go on it so you don't think we're talking nonsense.

13. Jewels

14. OpenSudoku

15. Abduction!

16. The Great Land Grab

Then someone else nicks them off you the next day, a bit like real-worldRisk. A great idea, as long as you don't mind nuking your battery by leaving your phone sitting there on the train with its GPS radio on.

17. Brain Genius Deluxe

Clearly Brain Genius Deluxe is not going to be as slick, but there's enough content in here to keep you "brain training" (yes, it even uses that phrase) until your battery dies. The presentation's painfully slow, but then again that might be the game teaching you patience.

18. Coloroid

19. Cestos

20. Air Control

21. GalaxIR

22. Graviturn

23. Alchemy Classic

24. ActionPotato

25. Scrambled Net

26. Dropwords

27. Barrr

28. Tetronimo

UPDATE: Tetronimo seems to have been removed from Google Play, but there's now an official Tetris app available to download.

29. Wordfeud

30. Friction Mobile

31. Geared

32. Meganoid

33. Cordy

34. Angry Birds Rio

Yet more Angry Birds for fans of the simplistic trial and error physics game.Angry Birds Rio is another chapter-based effort as well, with developer Rovio leaving tempting empty slots on the menu screen for periodic updates of new levels. More of the same, but with a prettier, 3D look to it this time thanks to a vague association with animated movie Rio.

35. Grave Defense Holidays

36. Words with Friends Free

37. PewPew

Very similar in style and concept to Xbox and Xbox 360 retro classicGeometry Wars. In fact, one might legally be able to get away with calling it a right old rip-off. Android PewPew is a rock-hard 2D shooting game packed with alternate game modes. It's a bit rough around the edges and requires a powerful phone to run smoothly, but when it does it's a fantastic thing.

38. Tap Fish

A nice looking little aquarium, that combines the timeless hobby of staring at goldfish with game elements based around breeding new varieties. There's a slight sting in the tail here in that Tap Fish is one of the initial wave of "freemium" Android games brought into life thanks to Google's launch of in-app billing. The really cool new stuff costs little bits of money.

39. Beats, Advanced Rhythm Game

A standard rhythm action, button pressing music game for Android. Beatsmanages to outdo the official music games by including a Download Song tab, where it's possible to install new song files created by users. It's very hard and very fast. Just like they should be. Runs perfectly on an HTC Desire, too, so there's no blaming glitches for not doing very well.

These are the best free games for Android

Bluestacks' new Gamepop Android console takes on Ouya with 'Netflix for games' approach

2013-05-12T13:30:00.000-05:00

Known for bringing Android apps to Windows and the Mac, Bluestacks is following Ouyawith the launch of its own independent Android console called Gamepop. Positioning itself as a "Netflix for games" but with hardware, Bluestacks will provide Gamepop owners with unlimited access to Android titles for a $6.99 monthly fee, and will even throw in a free console and gaming controller to kick off its May pre-orders.

Bluestacks' VP of Marketing John Gargiulo tells The Verge that Gamepop will run a customized version of Android 4.2, emulating Ouya with a custom UI. While the Gamepop's design appears to have borrowed a bit from Ouya and Boxee, the company says its hardware is capable of "running all the top Android games today." Gargiulo believes that Bluestacks's battle will be "won on content," signing up notable gaming studios Glu, Halfbrick, Jawfish Games, and Gameloft to deliver customized Gamepop experiences.

GAMEPOP AIMS TO BEAT OUYA WITH A "NETFLIX FOR GAMES" APPROACH, WINNING ON CONTENT, NOT HARDWARE

Gamepop will include multiplayer games that will allow players to use their smartphone to interact with supported titles, offering a dedicated iOS and Android app that can utilize a device's built-in sensors to play mobile games on the big screen. Its creators believe that Gamepop is more of a service than it is a product, and may eventually bring it to multiple platforms beyond the console.

Pre-orders are already open for Gamepop, which offer the console and a controller free as part of its monthly subscription (paid annually) until the end of May. International orders are accepted but will ship internationally soon after the US, and you will not be charged until it ships. Bluestacks says that while it hasn't decided on a final price, it will likely fall around the $100 mark and will start shipping to customers "this winter."

Android game sale round-up: Flashout 3D, Trainz Driver, Doodle Devil and more

2013-04-27T22:58:00.000-05:00

It is that time again where another week is coming to a close. Even though we had a bunch of sales for Android games start on Monday, some of them are still going on right now. However, there are additional games that have gone on sale starting today so get ready to score some more deals.
As always, these sales are all for a limited time and could end at any time. Therefor if you are planning to buy any of these games, you will want to pick them up sooner rather than later. So without further delay on our part, here are the current Android game sales going on right now.

Kemco puts all their games on sale for $0.99 for a limited time

Developer and publisher of a variety of retro style RPG titles on Android, Kemco has a pretty decent sized catalog of games to sift through. Well the company has announced that all over their games on Google Play and Amazon's AppStore are on sale starting today for $0.99 for a limited time.
There is only one game that isn't on sale and that is the Xperia Play optimized version of Knights of the Earthends. Other than that, all of their games are on sale for $0.99, with the sale ending in a week's time. So if you've been planning on picking up one or two of their games and haven't yet, now is a good time to do it since this sale will save you between $2-$3 per games.

Google Play Link: Kemco Games

Flashout 3D

SUPER SALE! NOW FLASHOUT 3D 50% OFF!
This is a special time limited offer - get it this cheap while you can!IMPORTANT: You can change the graphics quality in the settings menu! Scroll down for app support and useful info!

FLASHOUT 3D by Jujubee is the best racing experience for your mobile device! Get into one of your ultra fast ships and join the competition! Use rockets and guns to fight your way to victory in all events and become the best racer in the whole galaxy!

Google Play Link: Kemco Games

- Shall we date/Ninja Love by NTT Software for $3.99
- Doodle Devil by Joybits for $0.99
- Doodle Pool by My Interactive for $0.99
- International Snooker HD by My Interactive for $1.91
- Trainz Driver by N3V Games for $0.99
- Alien Breed by Team 17 for $0.99

- Nine Gamebook Adventures books by Tin Man Games on sale for 50% off ($3.07)
So even though the Kemco games have been on sale all week, and the Tin Man Games titles since mid-week, there are still a fair amount of games now on sale starting today. Of course if we miss any other games on sale, just let us know in the comments below.

Top 10 Games Mobile Time Killers

2013-04-15T17:45:00.000-05:00

Top 10 Best Ways To Make Money Using Internet

2013-04-12T15:01:00.000-05:00

If you are looking for some easy ways to earn money online then below are the top 10 best ways to make money using internet this year,

10 – Selling for people.

Yes, some people just don’t have the gift of selling and that’s where you can come in and clean up. There are sites that have people who have stuff to get rid of or are looking for someone to help them get started with their products. It takes someone with the skills to successfully pull this type of job off but you either have it or you don’t. It’s niche specific too so if you’re an aficionado of fishing equipment and you run into someone with a new lure or service, you can use your connections to get the word out for a cut of the profits. Negotiate your contracts with these people properly and you’ll gain a reputation quickly and your business should expand.

9 – Affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing is a huge part of the internet. Basically you use your website, blog, email or social networking to sell someone else’s products or services. You then become an affiliate that gets a percentage of each sale. This is facilitated by secure databases that tracks your specific affiliate ID code. This can be extremely lucrative but it takes savvy. Just because you have popular website doesn’t mean anything you post will make sales. You have to have the right products at the right times and some will be perennial and others you’ll have to swap out monthly. Statistics for this type of internet work are extensive and generally accurate. Study up and give it a go.

8 – Consulting.

If you’re an expert in some field you can set up an online consultation business. You can do it live via video or via a message board. There are many combinations and you’ll have to find out which one best suits you. For example if you’re knowledgeable about a specific area that others aren’t you can clean up. People love that extra inside tip or guidance that keeps the wolves off the door.

7 – Counseling.

Counseling is huge on the web. People need that guidance and when it comes to issues like marital problems, business, education, raising pets and more you’ll find millions of counselors available on the web. Some are so popular that they have their own web broadcasts. If you’re looking for the more intimate side of counseling just keep your clientele to a comfortable one and when they get better and move on, more will come in to take their place. Your reputation will grow with the satisfied customers and that will lead to something you can depend on.

6 – Virtual office administration.

There are always companies looking for people who work at home on the internet. With some basic administrative skills you can be an office worker at home. You can actually work for several companies from around the world. Handling emails, writing reports, doing phone calls or customer support. This is a huge income market that allows for the comfort of home or small office.

5 – Negotiate deals.

Have you the skills to bring people together and get a deal done? Then using the internet to negotiate deals is for you. This can be a huge income if you get the big deals. It may take some hunting but look for people in an area you’re a specialist in. If you see two companies that don’t know one another and you feel you can cut a deal then get in there and push. Make sure you have the right contracts so no one gets rid of the middle man. This is a line of work that calls for good manners and cool nerves but getting a company to purchase or work with another can be very rewarding.

4 – Trading.

Not stock trading although that is a lucrative internet business but just overall trading of cool goods and services. Do you have that inside track on excellent toys or tools? How about awesome crafts like quilts and furniture? Curio pieces no one else has but someone wants to trade? Finding that sought after item that someone else wants but can’t find can turn into quite the windfall. There are numerous news stories about this way to make money on the internet. One sharp eyed dealer finds that painting or chair and then finds the person who has been looking for it for years. The searcher has that car or jewelry you’ve been looking for you know you can sell for a higher price or get to another searcher for a cut. It happens. It takes skill, perseverance but once you get the hang of it you’ll be a reputable trader.

3 – Writing.

The skills of writing are a huge demand on the internet. The best skilled writers make wonderful incomes and have regular clientele. If you freelance for online magazines you can also get work at mainstream publications. It all depends on skill, talent, and determination. It will take some searching to find whether you want to work for an agency or handle freelancing on your own. Added to that you might want to try your hand at ebooks or other products. Writing isn’t going away anytime soon on the internet.

2 – Proofreading.

Yes, you can actually make money proofreading! With all the software out there that claims to do proofreading, nothing beats good ol’ fashioned human eyes and knowledge. The best companies in the world make sure their copy is proofread by a human being. This is why companies fan out to find people who are professional proofreaders. Once you get the clientele you can expect an avalanche of copy to proof. It’s a big responsibility though as any mistakes could be disastrous. It all depends if you’re the last line of grammatical defense regarding a project.

1 – Ebay.

There are so many people on Ebay it’s phenomenal. It’s one of the easiest ways to make money on the internet that millions do it daily. Why? Because anything laying around in your basement could probably be sold on Ebay. Some people do nothing all day but find objects to sell on Ebay. They scour flea markets, discount stores, garage sales and more just to snag up items they figure are in demand somewhere on Earth and in most cases they’re right! A smart shopper can spot a deal a mile away and it doesn’t take hundreds of Ebay sales to make a good income. Sometimes just a few a year can do the trick. With an Ebay store you can control it from home or even a smartphone. Set up your shipping and you’re good to go.

Tekken Card Tournament (iOS/Android) review

2013-04-08T13:13:00.000-05:00

Tekken Card Tournament is a new iOS and Android game from Namco Bandai’s European arm. It’s available now as a free download from the App Store and Google Play, and carries numerous in-app purchases.

As the title suggests, Tekken Card Tournament is a digital collectible card game based on Namco’s popular and long-running fighting game series Tekken. Players make use of decks of virtual cards themed after characters from the Tekken franchise, and then take the fight to either computer- or human-controlled opponents in live online turn-based one-on-one battles.

The fighting gameplay in Tekken Card Tournament makes use of a “rock, paper, scissors” system whereby each player may pick one of three actions on each turn. Choosing to “Focus” allows you to draw a card into your hand, up to a limit of five. Choosing “Strike” allows you to attack with all the cards in your hand and also destroys the first (oldest) card in your opponent’s hand if they choose to Focus. Choosing “Block,” meanwhile, blocks the first two cards from an opponent’s hand if they choose to “Strike,” but otherwise has no effect. The challenge of the game primarily consists of determining what the opponent is likely to do next based on the cards they have in their hand — except under special circumstances, both players’ hands are visible to one another — and then taking the optimum course of action. Play is kept pacy thanks to a time limit for each turn and a mechanic which obliterates both players’ hands completely if they both block for more than two turns in succession.

Between games, players have the opportunity to manage their decks in several ways. The initial tutorial sequences provide the player with a couple of extra cards with which they can customize their first deck, but beyond that booster packs of cards must be purchased using either soft or hard currency. The booster packs offered for soft currency contain three cards randomly selected from all the characters’ decks, so there is no guarantee the player will get a card they can use — in order to start using a new character, they must have at least 15 cards to make a new deck. The hard currency packs, meanwhile, also offer three cards , but still not for specific characters — instead, they are “themed” packs that offer cards for three of the available characters. There is also a more expensive “Ultra Pack” available for a larger amount of hard currency — this offers five cards from the complete collection, guarantees a rare card and offers increased opportunities to get “Elite” and “Super-Rare” cards that are typically more powerful.

This isn’t the only way to get new cards, however — unlike most online card games, Tekken Card Tournament embraces the “trading cards” aspect with an online market where players may both buy and sell cards from their collection. This can be a good means of making profit, as some cards sell for a high price — but purchasing an individual card for a specific character typically costs well over ten times the amount a single soft currency booster pack costs. Cards may only be bought and sold for soft currency.

Once the player hits level 4, they are also able to make use of a “fusion” system to fuse cards together and power them up. This provides yet another means of acquiring more cards, though it is something of a grind to reach level 4 with the basic cards available, because there’s a bit of a problem with price balancing in the game — booster packs are incredibly expensive, making it extremely difficult for new players to acquire new cards without paying or spending a significant amount of time grinding. For those who wish to grind their way to a larger collection, further insult is added to injury thanks to a rather stingy “stamina” system that restricts the number of battles which can be indulged in in a single session — and this bar doesn’t refill upon level up. Stamina is occasionally offered as a reward for successfully completing a battle, but otherwise it is either a case of expending hard currency or waiting an extremely long time for it to regenerate with no on-screen indication of how long this will take.

This overly-aggressive monetization strategy — which a number of App Store reviewers have commented negatively on — is a bit of a shame, because aside from this it’s a very good game. The interactive online battles have considerably more depth than many other card battle games on mobile platforms, the game is presented well with decent (if slightly dated-looking) 3D graphics and high-quality sound, and there’s certainly plenty to do. It’s just a pity that so much of the game is clearly designed to force the player in the direction of the in-app purchases rather than letting them decide how much they’d like to invest in the game for themselves.

It’s also worth noting that the Tekken name’s high profile has caused a significant amount of demand for this game, and this has caused some problems. On Android, for example, the in-app purchase facility is completely unavailable, and on iOS it is unreliable. The developers also had to temporarily disable the ability for players to compete against one another as the game’s matchmaking facility was unable to cope with the strain. According to an in-game news post, this feature should be re-enabled today, but at the time of writing it was still impossible to fight against a live opponent.

On the whole, Tekken Card Tournament shows a significant degree of potential, but the combination of its broken features and overly-aggressive monetization make it a title to be cautious about. Hopefully these situations will improve over time and make a better game as a result, but for the moment this game still needs some work.

Top 10 Android game releases this week: Into the Dead, Epoch, Rockpocalypse, Ice Rage

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Into the Dead

Description: In a world overrun with the Dead, you have survived… but for how long? Into the Dead throws you into the gruesome world of the zombie apocalypse where there are no second chances. Do what you have to in order to stay alive, keep moving as fast as you can, and protect yourself by any means necessary. When the Dead are rising, run!

Into the DeadFreePIKPOKPLAY

EPOCH

Description: Follow the echoes of a lost civilization in a visually-stunning post-apocalyptic world where only robots survive to fight a never-ending war. Control your character with intuitive finger swipes. Make split-second tactical decisions, take cover, select targets, dodge incoming fire, utilize special abilities, and launch countermeasures! Battle escalating waves of robots in arena-style combat, and upgrade yourself with pieces torn from your fallen enemies! Configure your robot with dozens of weapons, armors, boosters and counters.

EPOCH$5.22Uppercut Games Pty LtdPLAY

Badayer Racing

Description: Play the toughest off-road racing game on your device, where boost is your only friend. Bring your mad skills to the game and get beaten before you learn how to beat the game. The name of the game is Boost Boost Boost! Work your way on a career mode against tough opponents to become a pro. Win championship, unlock cars, while acting as an undercover agent and helping a champion racer in a story. Play against your real friends online and show them who is the boss. Challenge them to fast and furious driving events.

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Recess Riot

Description: From the creators of the cult hit game Super Mega Worm, comes a new and fresh arcade game. Recess Riot is an unique and challenging Action/Arcade game comprised of multiple game modes. Jump mode is a timing based jump rope game with a twist. Ropers will change rope speed and patterns. Ropers will also shift left and right to keep the players on their toes. Advance stages will require players to jump rope and dodge incoming objects simultaneously.

Recess RiotFreeDeceased PixelPLAY

Frederic Resurrection of Music

Description:

Step into Frederic Chopin’s shoes, and go on a magical journey. Accompany Chopin in his amazing journey full of humorous events. Battle your opponents in musical duels. Laugh till your stomach hurts with an hour of animated comic. Play through nine catchy arrangements of Chopin’s greatest classics. Practice your skills until perfection.

Frederic Resurrection of Music$0.98Forever EntertainmentPLAY

Ice Rage

Description: Ice Rage brings ice hockey into the 21st century, whilst paying tribute to 1984’s Hat Trick. Players face off across a ice rink, in a hockey duel – one player and one keeper one each side. Play is rapid and rough, with players spending as much time eating the ice as on their feet. There are three different single player modes (Tournament, Quick Match and Deathmatch) and a single-device multiplayer.

Ice Rage$0.92HeroCraft LtdPLAY

Nimble Quest

Description: From the creators of Tiny Tower, Sky Burger and Pocket Planes comes Nimble Quest! Lead a conga line of heroes to glory against hordes of enemies across an endless number of stages. How many enemies can you defeat? Swipe to steer your unstoppable (seriously, you can’t stop) party as they cut a path of destruction through levels filled with different enemies and power-ups. Unlock and level up heroes to increase the size of your party and make them more powerful. Can your party make it from the tranquility of the Forest to the fire and brimstone of the Depths?

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Mega Run

Description: From the creators of the #1 hit Mega Jump! Redford’s brother and sister have been kidnapped by a mysterious monster and taken far away! Join Redford on an amazing adventure across multiple worlds and dozens of challenging stages. Find Redford’s lost family and discover new worlds to explore by following the trail of stolen coins and Forest Gems!

Mega Run - Redford's AdventureFreeGet Set Games Inc.PLAY

After Burner Climax

Description: Take to the skies and experience blazing speeds in the World’s fastest fighter jets! After Burner Climax is fast and frantic arcade-style action, putting you in the cockpit of the world’s fastest fighter plane. Dodge planes, rockets and bullets while trying to target multiple on-screen enemy aircraft. Built for all skill levels, everyone will be able to take to the air and blaze through a branching storyline of over 20 stages.

After Burner Climax$2.99SEGA of AmericaPLAY

Rockpocalypse

Description: Studio 51, Hollywood, CA. The Rock is on set filming his latest movie when suddenly everything goes terribly, horribly wrong. People on the lot are changing – becoming infected with a mysterious pathogen that turns them into violent, angry beasts. The Rock knows he is the only one who can end it and end it now – but to do so he must battle his way though the different sound stages to get to the source of the problem and save us all.

WWE Presents: RockpocalypseFreeWWE, Inc.PLAY

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Best Paid Android games in 2013

2013-04-03T16:20:00.001-05:00

Android Paid Games are worth buying ? It will be compatible for my device ? This may be the questions of an average app buyer in every android device . Unlike Apple there is no guaranty the particular app or game run perfectly on your device ! But in google play you can ask for refund if you are not satisfied with the product you downloaded . So with peace of mind we can buy any games or apps id it is not running properly, or you don’t like the product suddenly you can ask for a refund ! In this post I am going to pick the TOP PAID Android Games! That i like most. Asphalt Heat 7 was the best game ever but after releasing Need for Speed Most wanted That became my favorite game ever . It is running smooth on all of my devices. And amazing graphics i ever see on a portable device like mobile phone / Tablet .

Temple Run: Oz

One of the best-looking endless runner games. Temple Run: Oz – a brand-new endless runner inspired by Temple Run 2 and the film Oz the Great and Powerful. Play as Oz and outrun the shrieking flying baboons as you turn, jump and slide your way across the land. Begin your exhilarating adventure now and see how far you can run! New features include, stunning environments inspired by the film – explore them all, Fly in a hot air balloon – earn even more coins., explore different locations in Oz – follow sign posts,the environment changes as you run – test your reflexes, compete in weekly challenges – beat your friends.Game is very entertaining, and one of the best, I’ve got on my tablet.

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Asphalt 7: Heat

A good way to challenge friends on a WI-Fi network and have some fun with them during free time. A must game. Drive 60 different cars from the world’s most prestigious manufacturers, like Ferrari, Lamborghini and Aston Martin, including the legendary DeLorean. The completely revamped multiplayerlets you take on up to 5 of your friends locally or online. Keep track of who’s the best with the new Asphalt Tracker that lets you compare stats, show off achievements and challenge rivals. You can also find new online opponents with the matchmaking system. Every car and track are more beautiful than ever thanks to graphics that push the limits of your device.

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Where’s My Water

This is a great time killer, engaging puzzles that aren’t frustrating, make you think but not boil your brain. Where’s My Water? is a challenging physics-based puzzler complete with vibrant graphics, intuitive controls, and a sensational soundtrack. To be successful, you need to be clever and keep an eye out for algae, toxic ooze, triggers, and traps. 3stories,3 separate games , more than 400 total puzzles , free updates. Go with the flow! Swipe, slosh, and splash to guide fresh water, dirty water, and ooze through increasingly challenging scenarios. A refreshing puzzler filled with good clean gaming fun!.

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Need for Speed Most Wanted

Downloaded this game a week ago , yesterday I played it 5 hours , it is irresistible , no mistakes , amazing graphics , amazing speed , good control and ….. , really no mistakes and worth every penny Graphics are beautifully. This is one of the best game in NFS series for Android. The main features are , Drive and customize over 40 of the world’s most exciting cars, Race the way you want! By popular demand, you can now touch or tilt to steer, Use Mods to enhance your car and get ahead of the pack in style, Experience the action with mind-blowing graphics and intense full-car damage, Earn Speed Points to unlock new cars, Trick out your phone with an exclusive Most Wanted live wallpaper.

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Grand Theft Auto III

Grand Theft Auto II hasVisually stunning updated graphics, character and vehicle models, HD quality resolution, Gameplay optimized for touch screen devices, Custom controls for the mobile platform, Countless hours of gameplay, Gamepad Support for select USB controllers, Integrated with Immersion Haptic Vibration Feedback, Tailor your visual experience with new video display settings. Languages Supported: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Japanese. With stellar voice acting, a darkly comic storyline, a stunning soundtrack and revolutionary open-world gameplay, Grand Theft Auto III is the game that defined the open world genre for a generation.

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Angry Birds Space Premium

Angry Birds Space features 150 interstellar levels on planets and in zero gravity, resulting in spectacular gameplay ranging from slow-motion puzzles to lightspeed destruction. With regular free updates, brand new birds, brand new superpowers, and a whole galaxy to explore.Other features are, Regular free updates, Brand new birds, new superpowers, Zero-gravity space adventures, Trick shots using planets’ gravity, Hidden bonus levels, detailed backgrounds. My favorite angry birds and works great like all of them on nexus 7.

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Fruit Ninja

Fruit Ninja is a juicy action game. Fruit Ninja features three packed gameplay modes – Classic, Zen and the new Arcade, featuring powerups including Freeze, Frenzy and Double Score! The bonus Dojo section includes unlockable blades and backgrounds, and you can also unlock achievements and post scores to the online leaderboards with Openfeint. Extremefun, addictive, and enticing! It’s such a fun challenge to unlock new blades and background. Worth buying.

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Chaos Rings II out now on Android

2013-03-15T12:06:00.000-05:00

In this direct sequel to the RPG hit, Chaos Rings, The Destroyer has fractured the seal that holds him at bay and threatens the Earth once more. Moments from the brink of destruction, The Creator freezes time, allowing for the Rite of Resealing to be performed so that The Destroyer can be locked away permanently - but not without a cost.

Playing as Darwin - a kind-hearted mercenary in the Ornian Guard - you find the fate of the world and your friends rests in your hands. Saved by your brother, but forced to kill him by The Creator, you become The Nominator. You alone will have to choose who must live and who must be sacrificed so that the world can be saved. How do you choose between saving those you love and the damnation of the world? An impossible decision, but one you alone will be forced to make.

Chaos Rings II Features:

A Revamped Battle System - Every attack will power the Charge Gauge. Once it’s full you can unleash powerful skills such Awakenings and Advents. Awakenings allow you to tap into your character’s special abilities, while Advents allow you to summon sacred beasts to do your bidding.

Multiple Story Paths – The Rite of Resealing will take place, but the consequence of your actions and who you choose to sacrifice will determine how events unfold.

Custom Parties – Choose from several different characters to play, each with their own unique skillsets. From Darwin’s High Jump to Marie’s Mystic Action, each character will allow you to choose your own unique way to play.

Chaos Rings II is available from Google Play for £10.99/$15.99/€14.49. Also, to celebrate we're holding a sale on the previous titles until March 21. Grab Chaos Rings and Chaos Rings Omega for £2.79/$4.18/€3.22.

15 Android games and apps you should know about

2013-03-15T11:58:00.000-05:00

Timbre (Beta)

Timbre is a free, location-based band discovery app that finds local music and shows for you! Set it to your current location, or check out the music scene in San Francisco, New York City, or any other location you can dream of. Timbre was designed with the belief that your ears know best. Instead of tedious searching by genre or artist, Timbre automatically locates artists performing near you and starts playing their music. FREE

Instant Cover

Facebook allows you to upload a profile pic and one cover photo. Instant Cover enables you to put those images to maximum effect by letting you create your own unique look using multiple photos and hundreds of effect combinations. It takes the design of your Facebook Timeline to a whole new level! Create a fun montage of pics from your latest vacation. Celebrate the love of your life. Show off your adorable pets. Whatever you choose, you’ll make a big impression with Instant Cover! FREE

Hushed Disposable Phone & SMS

Give your phone or tablet an unlimited amount of portable phone numbers so that you can send text messages or make voice calls from around the world. Hushed is the ultimate long distance phone app for disposable phone numbers. Now you can easily get as many low cost local or international phone numbers that you can dispose of at any time. Attach the numbers to any android device and make calls from our app and hide your real phone number with a “Hushed” disposable phone number. FREE (service plans req’d)

CameraAce

In addition to offering numerous photo effects and frames, we allow users to create preset ‘themes’ which can be launched and applied and the tap of a button. Each time a user takes a picture with a preset theme, it will automatically apply all of their custom effects, and then save it to a specific folder. Users can then view their pre-organized galleries as a beautiful slideshow with accompanying music of their choice. FREE

Earn to Die

Drive your way through a zombie apocalypse! Are you ready to drive for your life? The hit online game series that has enjoyed OVER 200 MILLION PLAYS has been revamped and re-engineered for your mobile and tablet, bigger and better than ever before! You’re stranded in a desert surrounded by zombies. With only a run-down car and a small amount of cash at your disposal, your mission soon becomes clear – to drive through hordes of zombies in order to escape… alive! ($1.19 )

Sharpee

Sharpee brings you the world of art over Behance network of creative people. Find your inspiration through millions of projects and collections. Share your favorite projects with your friends over facebook, twitter and bunch of other apps. Use Sharpee as your pocket portfolio and show your art whenever you go. Upload your works to Behance.net (soon will be possible over Sharpee too) and get it instantly on your smartphone or tablet. FREE

Rivals at War

RECRUIT an elite team of combat soldiers and shooters who are ready for duty anytime and anywhere. TRAIN your soldiers and upgrade your weapons for each mission. ATTACK the enemy and watch epic head-to-head battles unfold. CONQUER rival teams from around the world. Fight for VICTORY and become the elite of the elite! FREE

RemotePlay

Piddas21 RemotePlay not only allows friends, family, acquaintances and colleagues to share content across devices, it also allows them to see what applications and devices other users are using, giving them more context to consider before sending content or choosing how to interact – enabling the same interactivity as approaching someone in-person based on what book they are reading. FREE

Atlantis: Pearls of the Deep

Atlantis: Drop colorful orbs and let gravity do the rest, as the pearls crash and clink their way through ramps, platforms, and spinning gears. Match 3 or more pearls of the same color and watch them disappear while surrounding pearls fill the void! Earn Achievements and Stars depending on how fast and efficiently you clear the screen, then use those Stars to purchase explosive power-ups! Play through 45 exciting and challenging levels! Then unlock Zen Mode to play again and again at your own pace! FREE

Twist

Twist alerts your friends, family or colleagues when you are almost there and if you are running late. Whether you are driving , walking or taking public transit, Twist accurately calculates your arrival time to a specified destination and privately shares your ETA with only those that you choose. FREE

Pop the Fruit 2

Pop The Fruit : Puzzle Bubble; a match 3 bubble pop game. Blast fruits out of the tree and collect the acorns!
Move bubble gun by swiping and let go to fire. Match 3 or more of the same bubbles to release the fruit and score points. Drop acorns to buckets below to complete level. Use power ups to get further quicker. Each level costs 3 energy points to play. Energy points refill every 20 minutes. FREE (Amazon)

FileHopper File Sharing

FileHopper file sharing & backup is the easiest way to store and share your files for FREE! Drop a file into FileHopper and access it on your mobile device, your desktop and any web browser from our secure cloud storage based servers. File sharing has never been easier. Show off photos! Work from home! Backup files!FREE

Bounty Monkey

Get ready to test your reflexes in this action-packed endless runner! Put on the jacket of the Pirate Captain’s renegade pet monkey while you flee for your life with your master’s loot! Run, jump and ride unique flying mounts while satisfying your craving for shiny gold coins, precious gems, and invaluable Goldfish. Spend your earnings in power ups, upgrades and additional flying mounts to boost your performance! FREE

Zombie Master World War

A war of 7 billion people to protect the honor of their countries broke out! Join the world war of 7 billion people where people fight under the banner of their national flag every 7 days! Cleanse the earth that has been contaminated with zombie viruses and stop the endless attacks from other teams! The champion of the great war of 7 billion people! It could be you. FREE

SnipSnap (Beta)

SnipSnap is the first app that lets you take a picture of a printed coupon and save it to your smart phone and solves that all too regular occurrence of realizing your coupon is back at home and you’re ready to checkout. No coupon? No problem! Tap the ‘Discover’ tab and search the 10,000′s of coupons snipped by other users. On average, active users save 40 bucks a week. FREE (BETA)

Android Game Sale Round-up: Jet Set Radio, Sonic CD, GTA III and more

2013-03-15T11:49:00.000-05:00

It is time for another round-up of sales going on right now for Android games and today is an especially good round-up of limited time sales, most likely due to the fact St. Patrick's Day is this weekend. Whatever the reason is though, there are some pretty awesome games on sale in order to entice you to spend some of those pennies you've been saving up.

We've already told you about Gameloft who has Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour on sale for a buck but now it is time to tell you about all the other games that have been discounted, most of which have had their prices slashed by about half. We have also already mentioned that Square Enix has put Chaos Rings and Chaos Rings Omega on sale as well but we've included those to in this list again anyways.

Current games on sale for a limited time. Just click on their names to head on over to Google Play:

- Grand Theft Auto III by Rockstar Games: On sale for $1.99 (Regular price $4.99)

- Let's Create! Pottery by Infinite Dreams: On sale for $1.99 (Regular price $4.99)

- Jet Set Radio by Sega: On sale for $2.99 (Regular price $4.99)

- Sonic CD by Sega: On sale for $2.99 (regular price $4.99)

- Chaos Rings by Square Enix: On sale for $4.18 (regular price $8.99)

- Chaos Rings Omega by Square Enix: On sale for $4.18 (regular price $8.99)

- World Conqueror 2 by EasyTech: On sale for $0.99 (regular price $2.99)

- Real Steel HD by Jump Games: On sale for $0.99 (regular price $2.99)

- Stand O' Food by G5 Entertainment: On sale for $1.99 (regular price $2.99)

- Mahjong Artifacts by G5 Entertainment: On sale for $2.99 (regular price $4.99)

- TurboFly HD by Osaris Game: On sale for $0.99 (regular price $1.99)

- Star Defender 3 and Star Defender 4 by Awem Games: On sale for $0.99 (regular price $1.99 each)

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2013-03-08T15:05:00.000-05:00

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44 Best (And 2 WTF) New Android Games From The Last 2 Weeks (2/21/13 - 3/6/13) fourth part

2013-03-07T13:05:00.000-05:00

Pixel Dungeon

Ah yes, another rougelike. That means crippling difficulty, ascending levels, and permanent player death - so watch your step. The interface in inspired by ye olde PC RPGs, as are the pixelated graphics.

Pixel Dungeon is a traditional roguelike game with pixel-art graphics and simple interface. Explore the depths of Pixel Dungeon, collect useful items, fight fierce monsters to find Amulet of Yendor (surprise.) - the ultimate artifact of this game world. This is a beta and it's going to stay beta for some time, but it's fully playable. For now there're 15 levels, but I'm going to add 4-5 more levels with new monsters and items in every major release.

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Soldier vs Aliens

Have you ever played Plants vs Zombies only to wish that it had a lot more in common with Starcraft? Well here ya go. Shoot aliens while wearing space armor, instead of pushing up daisies.

You are the last man standing. One soldier against a swarm of violent aliens. Hold your position fighting off wave after wave of invaders and clear the area of aliens. Switch off your brain and grab your weapons: rifle, shotgun, railgun, laser, grenades, flame thrower You have only one obligation: to kill everything... It’s going to be a carnage and that's exactly what you need.

Soldier vs Aliens

Briquid Free

Briquid tasks its players with transporting some strangely angular water to a separate space. Yup, it's just like Where's My Water and Where's My Perry with bricks, but won't make you feel like a kid when playing it. $4 is a bit steep for a "me too" title, but there are plenty of levels, and the game gets extra points for a passable Russian accent in the trailer.

A new puzzle sensation has arrived and it’s called Briquid. Build bricks, remove them, or change the direction of gravity to get the water to the reservoir. All you need is the touch of your finger and lots of brainpower to complete all 100 fun and challenging levels.

Briquid Free

Robo5

We featured Robo 5, a vertical platformer in the vein of Q*bert, in our last gaming roundup. Now it's out of its Amazon exclusivity and available on the Play Store, like all God-fearing apps should be.

Robo5 is a 3D action puzzle game that gives you control of a tiny robot climbing a fearsome mountain of boxes in a strange decaying future world. Play it now on your Android device. Enjoy hours of mind-bending fun as you help Robo #5 escape from the freezing cold lab where our mechanical hero begins his adventure. Marvel at the steampunk charm as you guide Robo on a journey of self discovery and puzzle-solving.

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Ivory Tower Defenders

"The Ivory Tower" is a usually derogatory metaphor applied to academia and the culture of higher learning. In this game, the metaphor collapses somewhat. Most of the time it's pretty hard to get students to come to class, but these teachers seem to be actively discouraging it, through the subtle use of thrown textbooks. It's a standard tower defense game with professors and TAs used offensively - you know the drill.

TAs, Professors, and Deans, oh my. All the epic drama of college in one strategy game. The Ivory Tower is being overrun by hordes of students. It's up to you to defend the University by placing Ivory Tower Defenders in key locations on campus - the Lecture Hall, the Library, the Seminar Room, and at the Graduation Ceremony. Each beautifully rendered location requires a different strategy as your Defenders launch blue books, dissertations, and academic suspensions at wave after wave of incorrigible students.

Ivory Tower Defenders

Word Up Dog

Your tolerance for this game will be directly proportional to your ability to watch Flavor Flav for extended periods of time. Get past the hip-hop meets Puppy Surprise theme, and you'll find a mix of Dig Dug and Speak'n'Spell, most definitely aimed at kids. The app gets extra points for offering its mechanics in four different languages: French, German, "Queen's English" and "Hip-Hop English."

A lost puppy finds himself stuck underground, and must dig his way out while spelling words with the letters he finds. Find your way to the bottom of 7 unique levels, collecting items and bonuses and meeting a crazy cast of hip-hop slang-slinging animals along the way. Think you got what it takes, Dog? You ain't gonna know till you try. Word up.

Word Up Dog

DarkHunt HD: Brutality

Hunting at night is illegal in most of the United States. Luckily, when creating a Duck Hunt rip-off, one doesn't necessarily need to follow the rulings of local municipalities and game wardens. In DarkHunt, you've got a shotgun and a flashlight, and a sky full of ducks to kill. This is the "brutal" version - if you want a more tame interpretation, check out the standard game.

Duck hunting game like you've never seen before (and not only because it's hard to see in the dark ;)). Point and shoot with your flashlight-equipped shotgun, survive whole night, buy upgrades, beat the best online score. [ This brutal version of DarkHunt is recommended for adult players. For children take a look on our original DarkHunt HD. :) ]

DarkHunt HD: Brutality

The Rolling Dead

You like marble games. You like zombies, or at least you like killing them. And you like lots and lots of blood. This game is for you.

“The Walking Dead” meets tilt gaming in this insane splatter fest of zombie killing mayhem. When the zombie apocalypse first struck, the residents of Tilt Labyrinth constructed traps to try to kill them, brought out the heavy weapons to try to blow them away, and invented complicated doors and switches to try to confuse them. Nothing worked. Everyone is a zombie now. Everyone except our hero, Rebound. Now Rebound has to escape while fighting hoards of Zombies and navigating through all the failed traps that were left behind.

The Rolling Dead

Ball vs. Zombies

Is there an echo in here? This one's more of a marble game and less of a top-down shooter, but you get the idea.

"Roll the ball and break some zombie bone." Tilt your device to accelerate heavy stone ball and crush incoming zombies before they steal your lives. Fast-paced action game with accelerometer-powered controls, physics engine, HD graphics, 3D parallax effects, and the last but not the least - crossplatform online score. Will you be able to beat iOS players?

Ball vs. Zombies

Ark of the Ages

The XSEED series of console RPGs has been a sleeper hit with the right kind of gamer, and their entry on Android is nothing if not ambitious. Full 3D graphics and a mobile-friendly control scheme are commendable. But just like EA, the developers of Ark of the Ages seem to think that "mobile" means "pay for everything," with long-standing RPG conventions like maps and transport spells costing real money. The game isn't even free.

Ark of the Ages, a fully 3D action RPG, is now available to download and play. Featuring a fun touchscreen-based battle system, an enchantment system using photos to power-up characters, and a companion system where strength is increased with the number of friends, the game is loaded with new and innovative features. Challenge the Tower of Magic and claim the legacy of the Great Mage Sorienz.

Ark of the Ages

Real Racing 3

Android Police coverage: [New Game] EA's Real Racing 3 Arrives In Play Store For Some Countries With Insane In-App Purchases

The inclusion of Real Racing in this list is by no means a recommendation, it's more of a cautionary tale. Yes, the graphics and gameplay are pretty great - with the nigh limitless resources of EA, that's not surprising. Of course, EA has to get those resources somewhere, and that's where things get ugly. In Real Racing 3, you'll have to wait after nearly every race to repair your car, change the oil, or even get gas... or you can pay up real money to power your fake car. The level of greed on display in this game is almost disgusting, and it shows that EA won't stop until you're paying ten cents a bullet in Crysis 5. If you're outside North America and so inclined, you can download the game here. But don't. Please.

Hyper-realistic. Pure fun. And FREE. Real Racing 3 sets a new standard for mobile racing games – it really must be experienced to be believed. Trailblazing new features include officially licensed tracks, an expanded 22-car grid, and over 45 meticulously detailed cars from makers like Porsche, Lamborghini, Dodge, Bugatti, and Audi. Plus, racing with friends gets kicked into another dimension with the reality-bending Time Shifted Multiplayer™ (TSM) technology.

Real Racing 3

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Dynamite

If you've seen the Happy Tree Friends series of animations or TV shows, you know what you're getting into here. There's enough gory, psychopathic violence in those happy little critters to make Eric Cartman cringe. Note: This app serves up all kinds of unwanted ads, even on your homescreen. Most users probably won't appreciate this. Consider yourself warned.

Happy Tree Friends + Dynamite = Good Times. I promise.

Dynamite

Election Thief

I honestly don't know what this thing is. A political statement? A bad webcomic gone wrong? A Black Panthers recruitment drive? You be the judge.

Objective: Catch the thief. The Election Thief. Control Omu, the ordinary citizen, to track down and catch the Election Thief. Jump from platform to platform in pursuit of the fleeing bad-guy who has stolen the votes during an election. Find out what will happen to the Election Thief. Will you catch him? Or will you let him get away?

Election Thief

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80 best free Android games 2013

1. Angry Birds

2. Bebbled

3. Red Stone

4. Newton

5. Angry Birds Star Wars

6. Drop

7. Frozen Bubble

8. Replica Island

9. Gem Miner

10. ConnecToo

11. Titres

12. Trap!

13. Jewels

14. OpenSudoku

15. Abduction!

16. The Great Land Grab

17. Brain Genius Deluxe

18. Coloroid

19. Cestos

20. Air Control

21. GalaxIR

22. Graviturn

23. Alchemy Classic

24. ActionPotato

25. Scrambled Net

26. Dropwords

27. Barrr

28. Tetronimo

29. Wordfeud

30. Friction Mobile

31. Geared

32. Meganoid

33. Cordy

34. Angry Birds Rio

35. Grave Defense Holidays

36. Words with Friends Free

37. PewPew

38. Angry Birds Friends

39. Beats, Advanced Rhythm Game

40. Pinball Deluxe

41. Winter Walk

42. Colosseum Heroes

43. Stardash Free

44. Scramble With Friends Free

45. Dead on Arrival

46. Stick Cricket

47. Draw Something Free

48. Fragger

49. The Sims FreePlay

50. Super Bit Dash

51. Chrono&Cash Free

52. Autumn Walk

53. Meganoid 2

54. Pitfall

55. Bad Piggies

56. Pocket Planes

57. Neon Blitz

58. Agent Dash

59. Whale Trail Frenzy

60. Radiant Defense

61. Temple Run 2

62. CSR Racing

63. Mini Golf MatchUp

64. SongPop Free

65. Dead Trigger

66. Cut the Rope Full Free

67. Lexulous

68. Pac-Man + Tournaments

69. Scrabble

70. Blip Blup

71. Doodle Jump

72. Super Stickman Golf 2

73. Real Racing 3

74. Gunslugs

75. Nun Attack: Run & Gun

76. Guardian Cross

4. Newton