Software

Grow Your Own Weed, But Not On An iPhone

Five of the 20 best-selling casual game apps in Android’s Marketplace involve illegal drugs. Virtual illegal drugs, of course! Guess how many are available for the iPhone? Yep, zero.


August 30, 2011
Software

Lunchtime Deal: Good Times For Android Users

Gizmodo AU

Dy-No-Miiite! Sorry, I just had to. Anyway, it’s not always the iPhone users who get the sweet games deals, although it might seem that way. Gameloft’s latest offering — which runs through to midnight on Friday — is that any Android games purchase you make automatically gets you another free game of your choice.


August 9, 2011
Gaming

Two-Player iPad And Android Game Olo Is Finger-Flickin’ Fun

Proving that sometimes the best games are the simplest, the boules-like game Olo works in the browser for iPad and iPhone thanks to CSS3 and HTML5, but Android users can also download it here. [Olo via SwissMiss]


July 12, 2011
Gaming

Official Scrabble For Android Is Here

After battling the buggy Words With Friends, I might just jump ships to the official Hasbro Scrabble game now it’s come to Android. Like WWF, it’s cross-platform so Android users can play against iOS and Facebook gamers.


May 24, 2011
Gaming

Finally, A GTA San Andreas-Style Game Is Coming To Android

Games on Android kinda suck. I’m forever scrolling through the Market or reading our Android apps roundups, hoping for something – anything! – to whisk me away from Words With Friends hell. Upcoming GTA San Andreas-clone 9mm, from Gameloft, definitely looks hopeful.


April 27, 2011
Gaming

The Latest WikiLeaks Game Isn’t Just Scandalous, It’s Fun

TrickyLeaks is more than just another attempt to jump on the fading infamy of WikiLeaks and founder Julian Assange’s troubled rise to fame. It’s also a fairly fun game… [Kotaku]


March 19, 2011
Gaming

Turbo Grannies Proves The Swedish Have Iffy Taste In Mobile Games

I’ll admit, the biggest hook Turbo Grannies had for me was when their PR guy mentioned that it was about to beat Angry Birds in the Swedish iTunes App Store. I wasn’t exactly champing at the bit to play another Excitebite clone. [Kotaku]


March 10, 2011
Gaming

Kart Racer That Addicted One Third Of Korea Coming To Your Phone

One of the world’s most popular Kart racing games is coming to Apple portables and Android devices soon, and no it’s not the one created by Nintendo.


February 25, 2011
Gaming

MLB At Bat 2011 Comes To Play For Android And iOS

Spring is in the air, position players have reported and that means a new MLB At Bat is available to download. MLB At Bat 2011 is the most excellent sports app around and makes it easy peezy to keep track of America’s past time.


February 15, 2011
Gaming

Words With Friends On Android

It took forever, but Words With Friends, the Scrabble clone, finally gets to Android. If your iPhone-having friends haven’t ditched the game already, like mine have, you can do some cross-platform word-making. [Android Market]