Posted by Comments We hope you grabbed the top Android apps Google has on sale from the past three days (checkout day one, day two, and day three lists)! Here’s 10 Android apps all for a dime today only, we’ve included convenient one-click tools below to help you downloading them: Updating... You must be logged in to post a comment. Read More

Today marks the fourth day in Google’s 10 days of 10 premium apps for 10 cents promotion. Once again, the community has found all of the applications before Google has managed to update their page on the Android Market. Here’s what will be offered for a dime today: There are a few gems in there, including a few we haven’t really heard of. One thing’s for sure; if any of these titles interest you, you should go ahead and hit the Android Market by clicking any of the links above and download them for yourself. Read More

Kairosoft has slashed prices on a number of its highly addictive management sims. Owners of Android and iOS devices will both find bargains to be had from their respective app vendors. There’s no word on how long any of these reductions will last, so act fast if you you’re keen on cutesy management sims and helpless addiction. A full list of the reductions follows: iOSGrand Prix Story – 69p/99c (down from £2.49/$3.99)Mega Mall Story – £1.49/$1.99 (down from £2.49/$3.99) Hot Springs Story - £2.99 (20 per cent off normal price) Grand Prix Story - £1.49 (50 per cent off normal price) Game Dev Story - £1.60 (40 per cent off normal price) Pocket League Story - £1.49 (50 per cent off normal price) Read More

After recovering from the shock of the fact that we are, indeed, half-way through 2011 already, my next thought when devising this article was "how on earth am I going to narrow down the Android selection to just ten games?" We’ve seen some cracking iOS ports, as you might expect, but also some genuinely great Android exclusives, which is hopefully a sign that the platform has truly begun forging its own gaming identity away from 'that' rival platform. Needless to say, there’s going to be a fair few great titles that I’ll have missed off this list, so please do join in on the comments at the end of the article. Game Dev StoryKairosoft - Review - Buy Just about sneaking into this top ten (because our review went live on the 4th of January), Game Dev Story is the original Kairosoft management game. Although others, such as Grand Prix Story, Read More

So you’ve brought your struggling games development studio up from a stable of no-hopers to an award-winning, console producing powerhouse in - what’s the next step to feed this breezy management sim addiction you’ve developed? Taking control of a Japanese spa in Hot Springs Story of course. Okay, so it doesn’t sound like a logical next step, but it is the next game that’s been released on the Android Market by Game Dev Story maker Kairosoft. Hot Springs Story follows a similar template to Game Dev Story in terms of presentation style and menu layout, but this time the customers are inside your building, using your water, and looking for a good time (rather than sending fan letters about Call of Gluten VI) The iOS release managed to pick up a Pocket Gamer Silver Award a few months back thanks to the hard-to-put-down nature of the gameplay, so we expect the Android Read More

You may have upgraded your Lincoln Logs for SimCity, but that doesn’t make you any less creative. Self-expression comes in many forms, and there’s something both fun and revealing about building things, even if it’s only a bridge in an Android game, required to advance levels. Here are some fun Android games that tap into your constructive creativity. See what wonders you can build with limited materials and a gaping chasm. For each level of the X Construction game, you must build a bridge strong enough for a train to pass over the valley. This Android game has a free edition, but grab the full version for less than $1.50 to enjoy free build mode, transcending the dozen levels that come with the game. Space Physics is another brain boiler, building colorful workarounds for every obstacle you encounter. With this free-form game, your finger becomes a construction tool, drawing out the Read More

I don’t know how it took me so long to discover Game Dev Story. Apparently it’s been big on the iPhone platform for a while, and snuck onto the Android Market about two months ago. I found it this week, downloaded it, and gave it a whirl. Read on for impressions. If you’ve never heard of Game Dev Story, it’s very much what you might expect: A sim game that puts you in control of a game development company. You start out with just a few employees and small cash reserves, but by taking contracts and developing a few hit games you will steadily increase your capital and get your name out there. If your games are successful, as time passes you will be able to hire more skilled employees (and more of them), take on larger contracts, move to bigger offices, and release some truly blockbuster games. Eventually, you can Read More

The best Android apps of all time are a hard bunch to pick: after all, there’s now an estimated 230,000 different Android apps and games on the Android Market alone to choose from, and that’s not even the only repository for programs that’ll run on Google’s mobile OS. But pick them we did, and you can see them – and download them – right from our epic guide right here. Grab your Android phone, make a cuppa and read on for the best Android apps of all time: Top 100. There’s no statistical procedure for making the cut: these our simply the 100 best Android apps as decided by Electricpig’s staff, who live and breathe Android. These are the ones we use day in, day out, and have earned a vital place on our Android phones’ all too limited internal storage. We’ve not included core Google apps that come preloaded, like Read More

I have a number of games on my Milestone, but I don’t use it as a serious gaming device. It’s nice to have something in the case of a long commute or a quiet moment between classes, though. I’ve taken advantage of Angry Birds and it’s free license, and engage my puzzle-craving side with Frozen Bubble. However, a recent Android release, Game Dev Story, has achieved something that those other games never have: it has made me contemplate uninstalling it based on how addicting it is.   I have a long and storied history with simulation games: I love them, and many hours of my childhood were spent on Rollercoaster Tycoon and The Sims. While I still can’t build a decent SimCity, I can appreciate quality where I see it. Game Dev Story is a recent Android convert, coming to us from Japanese developer Kairo Park. While that fact that GDS Read More

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There’s something strange about tycoon style games that never makes sense to me. On paper these games are just about the most boring thing imaginable: there’s no action, the goals are arbitrary and a some of them give you little more interaction than you’d find in Progress Quest. But for whatever reason tycoon games are incredible: Theme Park, Sim Tower, Transport Tycoon; all incredible games to name but a few. Game Dev Story might not be as deep as those games mentioned, but it isn’t any less addicting. Just like in real life: Game ctirics are jerks In Game Dev Story you have twenty game years  to build up a video game development company from a small two person business into a six person studio, you’ll attend trade shows, hire staff, put out advertising and of course, make games. The development process is totally hands off, after picking the basics such as platform, genre and Read More

All of our iPhone-owning, former video game industry work colleagues were going absolutely MAD FOR Game Dev Story a few months ago, so here’s a quick run through of what it actually looks like now the game has launched on Android. We’re running Game Dev Story on the in-house Android 2.2 HTC Desire, which manages the thing perfectly. No glitches spotted so far. And away we go. We’ll be aiming to create amazingly cheap. low quality products and sell them for lots of money to idiots, seeing as that’s how the actual games industry of today seems to operate. Game Dev Story is basically an asset management game with silly music, only massively simplified so it works on a touchscreen – and you can plough through the year-long development cycle of a “product” in about ten minutes. And save your progress at any time. Don’t worry about quality, team! Just get Read More