Top 10 new Android games this week: Bik, Time Tangle

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.

Tap Sports Baseball

Description: Lead your team to victory! Step up to the plate for Tap Sports Baseball, a unique and exciting baseball game for casual fans and hardcore stat addicts featuring real players from the big leagues!

 

King of Dragon Pass

DescriptionA unique mix of RPG and strategy: everything in King of Dragon Pass is about choice and control. Choose your counsel carefully, sign diplomatic agreements or declare war on nearby clans.

 

Time Tangle

DescriptionOh, snaps! Finn broke the Time Totem and junked up all of time. Now there’s only one way to save the day… PUNCHING! Send your fists flyin’ to restore order to the Land of Ooo.

 

Bik

DescriptionBik is a retro-style adventure game that takes inspiration from classic point-and-click adventure games like King’s Quest, Space Quest, Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Full Throttle, The Dig, The Longest Journey, and the list goes on.

 

Gravity Duck

DescriptionAs the Gravity Duck you will flip gravity to help you reach the goal while avoiding obstacles in this silly puzzle platforming game!

 

Granny Tap

Description: Help Granny use a keyboard and find out what she’s typing!

 

Incoming! Goblins Attack TD

DescriptionIncoming! The goblins are coming. Defend yourself against hordes of incoming monsters. Choose the right combination of towers and reinforce your defenses with magical spells. Countless levels in different worlds await you. Take command and defeat your enemies wave after wave!

 

Surgeon Simulator

Description: Take urgent care of the world’s unluckiest patient, Bob, with your very own shaky hands. As the would-be surgeon Nigel Burke, perform all kinds of crazy surgeries to try to save his life — or fail hilariously in the process while poor Bob… Well, dies.

 

Unpossible

Description: Unpossible will test your skills, your reflexes, and even your memory. It will make you smile. It will probably make you scream. You will die often and it will always be your fault. Fight to learn the obstacles…they already know how to fight you. Relentless. Thrilling. Unpossible!

 

Manuganu 2

DescriptionManuganu is back with lots of action and brand new features for new adventures. Help him in his quest to rescue his best friend.

 

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Mark Zuckerberg Would Rather Drench Himself than Give $100 to Charity


Mark Zuckerberg Would Rather Drench Himself than Give $100 to Charity
A new viral sensation is sweeping our nation’s billionaire technologists: Daring their rich friends to either donate $100 to ALS research, or dump a bucketful of ice water over their heads. The latest mogul to save a hundred bucks is none other than our frugal friend Mark.

August 14, 2014 at 4:09PM
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AT&T Moto X now receiving 4.4.4 update, get it now!

Right on the heels of the Android 4.4.4 soak test starting its rollout for the Sprint Moto X, AT&T has released the Android 4.4.4 update to its own model of the Moto X. But you don’t have to be a participant of the soak test program to get it, because it’s available to everyone!

The update is not very significant. There’s not much included other than the security and backend fixes that are a part of the Android 4.4.4 update, though Motorola did include the option to turn off the carrier name in the status bar. That will be useful for those of you who hate seeing “AT&T” in the of your display.

If you want this update, it seems that the rollout is very wide. I got the update on my Moto X immediately, and you might too. Go to Settings > About phone and check for updates, you may very well get it on your first shot. It’s a bit big, so there might be something cool waiting for us as well. Let us know how it goes!

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Sprint Moto X receiving Android 4.4.4 soak test

It appears that Motorola’s insanely quick update pace has slowed down as of late. While KitKat is abundant on the company’s more recent devices, updates to the very latest — and insignificantly different — versions of Android have slowed down. However, Sprint and Motorola have one for us now.

If you’re the owner of a Sprint Moto X and are part of the Motorola Feedback Network, you should soon be getting an update to Android 4.4.4 KitKat. You really won’t notice much of a difference from 4.4.3, if any at all, but it’s always good to be on the latest version of Android. Plus, the security and backend fixes in 4.4.4 are worth it.

Despite these Android versions being very small changes, it’s definitely good to see Motorola keep focusing on updates. Hopefully the update to Android L will be quick whenever the OS launches. For now, download Android 4.4.4 to your device and tell us how you like it!

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Possible Samsung Galaxy Note 4 specs leaked, QHD screen and all

A lot of people are excited about the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 4. As the owner of the Galaxy Note 3, I can’t wait to see the successor in all of its glory. We haven’t heard much about the device, though we have seen some potentially real leaked photos of it. Now thanks to a leaked spec sheet, we may know what will be inside the next Samsung flagship.

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 leaked specs

Indonesian smartphone retailer Erafone has posted the product page for the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 with a full spec sheet for us to drool over. The device may keep the 5.7-inch Super AMOLED display of its predecessor, but will bump the resolution up to 2560×1440. There will also be a Snapdragon 805 or Exynos 5433 processor, depending on your location, 4GB of RAM and a microSD slot to complement the 16, 32 or 64GB of memory.

None of this seems at all unbelievable, so we’re tempted to believe it. However, everyone thought the same about the Galaxy S5 before the launch, so don’t get your hopes up too high. I just know that I’m excited for the next Galaxy Note and hope that the specs are at least similar to what’s being shown here.

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ASUS may be bringing its new Android Wear watch to IFA Berlin

Android Wear has been out for a few months now and is on its way to becoming a big player in the wearables market. We still don’t see people walking around with a Samsung Gear Live or an LG G Watch, but that could change soon as more interesting watches will be released. We’re looking at you, Moto 360.

Another smartwatch may enter the game very soon. ASUS, who was listed as a partner for Android Wear when the operating system was announced, may be unveiling its own Android Wear watch at IFA Berlin. Though we have no details on the device, we’re inclined to believe that it’ll be awesome and fairly cheap (like many ASUS products).

IFA Berlin starts on September 5, so we have less than a month to wait before finding out if this rumor is true. Hopefully ASUS reveals something interesting to get people talking about Android Wear, as it doesn’t quite seem that regular people are all that interested in smartwatches at this point. What would you like to see from the ASUS watch?

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