Daily Archives: August 28, 2014

Top 10 new Android games this week: Tiny Tower Vegas, Strike Wing

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

Tiny Tower Vegas

Description: Tiny Tower is back, and this time we’re going to Vegas, baby! – Build and manage your own hotel & casino filled with shopping, dining & entertainment floors! Amass a fortune of bux by betting chips in a multitude of casino games! Earn chips when your friends visit and play the games in your tower!

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

Strike Wing

Description: Strike Wing is a single player space combat simulator that combines sharp controls, beautiful graphics and adaptable missions to create an unique space combat experience for mobile devices.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

Max Gentlemen

Description: Max Gentlemen is an arcade-style extreme manners simulator about stacking hats, inspired by a spam email for male enhancement. Challenge your friends. Prove once and for all who is the most gentlemanly.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

Armies of Dragons

Description: Defend your kingdom from rampaging hordes in this new kind of strategy and fortress defense game! Summon the power of the four elements, and elementally charge your armies before sending them to defend three lanes! 

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

Z Steel Soldiers

Description: In the bloody aftermath of ‘Z’ comes Z: Steel Soldiers. All your favourite strategies and gameplay from the classic version, with graphics that have powered into the 21st century, vivid 3D landscapes, and a state of the art engine that brings your game to life. Meet the new breed of robots, with a taste for war and a warped sense of humour. Z: Steel Soldiers – you’ve never had it so good!

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

Five Nights at Freddy’s

Description: Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food as far as the eye can see! The main attraction is Freddy Fazbear, of course; and his two friends. They are animatronic robots, programmed to please the crowds! The robots’ behavior has become somewhat unpredictable at night however, and it was much cheaper to hire you as a security guard than to find a repairman.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

Deep Under the Sky

Description: FLING, JET, GRAPPLE and ROLL your way through 80 levels of physics fun. Time your bursts just right to explore every cleft and cranny of the floating beasts inhabiting the mysterious DARK SIDE of Venus.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

They Need To Be Fed 3

Description: “They Need To Be Fed” is a platformer game in which you can walk in all directions: 360 degree gravity ensures you can never fall off. The series has received very positive reviews so far, and is even bigger now!

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

Appointment with F.E.A.R.

Description: Travel back to the 1980s as a superpowered defender of justice in this all-new edition of Steve Jackson’s Appointment With F.E.A.R.! This dynamic edition is stylized as an interactive graphic novel. Your choices guide you towards new villains, super dilemmas, and ultimately, the Titanium Cyborg himself!

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

Back To Bed

Description: Back to Bed is a 3D puzzle game set in a unique and artistic dream world, wherein you guide the sleepwalker Bob to the safety of his bed. To achieve this, you must take control of Bob’s subconscious guardian named Subob.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

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Google’s Smith Is Top Candidate for U.S. Chief Technology Officer

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Google’s Smith Is Top Candidate for U.S. Chief Technology Officer
Smith, 49, is a top candidate for the CTO role, according to people with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified because the matter is private. She would become the third person to fill the job, after Aneesh Chopra and Todd Park, who recently resigned and is returning home to California this month.

August 28, 2014 at 6:54PM
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Verizon launches the Razr M as the Motorola Luge for prepaid

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You can’t say Verizon and Motorola aren’t doing their part to keep device saturation down to a minimum. Released today on Verizon’s website, the low-end Motorola Razr M has been rebranded and made available for prepaid customers as the Motorola Luge.

The Motorola Luge has the same exact specs and physical appearance as the two year old Razr M, kevlar back, 4.3-inch qHD display, 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 1GB RAM, 8MP rear camera, 2,000mAh battery, 8GB storage, micro SD slot, Android 4.4.2 and all.

You can buy the Motorola Luge for $199 with service, or $299 without. But if we’re being honest, you probably shouldn’t do that. We wouldn’t.

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Video: check out Sony’s IFA teaser video

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We’re going to be closing out the week here at Android and Me with what will undoubtedly be a ton of IFA news. Which is going to be nothing compared to next week. This year’s IFA feels like one of the most significant in recent memory, with Samsung, Sony, LG and more all releasing big hardware this year.

Posted on the official Sony YouTube channel, Sony has revealed a video trailer teasing what the company has in store for us at this year’s IFA. The video doesn’t show any type of hardware teaser whatsoever. But if we were to guess that what they are showing can be taken as some kind of hint, we would guess Sony is going to release something centered around fitness, physical customizations, long battery life and powerful hardware. That’s not a whole lot to go on, but it has us excited nonetheless.

Sony’s presser kicks off on September 3, just under a week away now. Keep it locked it to Android and Me for more IFA coverage as the event starts just next week.

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LG Germany outs pricing, release info for G Watch R

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Announced just last night with no release or pricing information attached, the LG G Watch R looks like its going to be the new Android Wear smartwatch to beat. The question on everyone’s mind, at least everyone at LG, is how much will you be willing to pay for the G Watch R once it finally does launch? Thanks to LG Germany, we may have an idea just how much that will be.

According to the LG Germany press release for the G Watch R, the smartwatch is going to be released in October, just a couple months from now, at 299 euros. If that’s true, we may end up seeing a price along the lines of $300-$350 in the US, putting the G Watch R some $50 to $100 more than the often leaked $250 price tag for the Motorola Moto 360.

We won’t know the exact price of the G Watch R until LG puts it on sale later this year, but there’s a good chance it’s going to cost more than the G Watch and Moto 360. If it does, would you be willing to pay the premium? Until we can get our hands on both of this years most anticipated round Android Wear powered smartwatches, that’s going to be a tough call to make.

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