Christmas themes began to sneak their way into the Android charts this week, with apps from DualBoot Games and Dancing Squirrel capitalizing on the season and climbing the charts. Russian developer Game Insight also got into the spirit of things with a seasonal update to My Country that added special quests and items for Christmas and New Years. While games were the genre to beat, utilities and other apps also represented, showing up on every chart this week. World of Goo – Independent developer 2D Boy’s innovative puzzle game continues to perform well on Android, moving from the paid app charts to the #6 position on the top grossing charts. Originally released on PC, World of Goo went on to win multiple awards for its innovative gameplay and technical excellence and was eventually ported to the Nintendo Wii. World of Goo costs $4.99 and has now seen almost 100,000 downloads according Read More

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

Posted by Comments Get ready for the round up… the best Android apps & games our expert review ninjas thoroughly evaluated in the month of September 2011 that must be downloaded to your phone or tablet! There are 20 apps listed along with convenient one-click tools below to easily download these top app picks: In top Android news, check out these headlines you may have missed: Updating... You must be logged in to post a comment. Read More

Holy moly. I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I downloaded this game. I've got this nice, shiny Thrive to check out tablet apps on, and this was featured, so I figured "Why not?" Lemme tell ya, as far as Android games go, one of the best decisions I could have made. In Spirit (HD optional), you control this little ghost-looking guy, presumably a spirit via touch. He's a deceptively powerful little guy, creating black holes/vortexes/scary holes that swallow stuff whenever he makes two points of his movement trail touch. This is the key to your victory. The reason he can make these portals is out of sheer defense, because there's shapes (yes, shapes) of various colors and abilities that are out to hurt you. One touch, boom, you're done. It feels very Geometry Wars in terms of aesthetic, but fortunately, the gameplay differs. What I noticed Read More

While the big box consoles take their bizarre summer hiatus (do people really stop playing Xbox 360 / PS3 games in July?), the Android scene has been flooded with quality releases. There were no indispensable, Gold Award-winning games reviewed by the Pocket Gamer team during this month, just a steady downpour of solid titles covering the gamut from ultra-fast racing titles to languorous boardgames best served with a chilled glass of Chenin Blanc. So, choose your relaxing beverage of choice, fire up the Android Market, and make your selection from July’s finest vintage. If you’re lucky, or solvent, enough to own an NVIDIA Tegra-powered device, then last month’s highlight was undoubtedly jet ski racer Riptide GP. With the team behind XBLA hit Hydro Thunder Hurricane at the helm, we knew Vector Unit’s title would have something to do with racing really fast over water, but we didn’t know just how spectacular Read More

Spirit HD is a fun app with a trippy art style, developed by Jakyl. It combines interesting game play with neon colored enemies and environments to create an interesting experience. It definitely bears an extremely strong resemblance to Geometry Wars, and by that, I mean the background grid and several of the enemies are blatantly lifted from one game to the other, but the game play is completely different, and a lot of fun. By dragging your spirit around the screen, you must avoid enemies and create vortexes to swallow them up. When your spirit is moving a certain speed, it will leave a trail in its wake. By looping around and connecting the trail to itself, you create a vortex. You can choose to wrap enemies up or make smaller vortexes and lead them inside. There is a surprising amount of variety in the enemy types, and you'll often be Read More

Welcome to the weekly roundup of the best new Android applications, games, and live wallpapers that went live in the Market or were spotted by us in the previous 2 weeks or so. This post only features games - apps are coming soon in a separate post and tablet apps were posted earlier today. Please wait for this page to load in full in order to see the AppBrain widgets, which include ratings and pricing info. Looking for the previous roundup editions? Find them here: Today's game roundup is sponsored by Solitaire Challenge (Online) from Lasting. The game puts a social spin on the good old Solitaire, adding live online competition against other players trying to solve the same Solitaire layout. Solitaire Challenge (Online) takes the "solitary" out of "Solitaire."   This Tower Defense game with excellent polish and graphics is our pick of the week (see the review above). -- Read More