11/10/2023 0 Comments Repix for computer![]() ![]() Quip is a much-talked-about new word processing app for Android that – from this week – is available in the UK as well as the US. ![]() It's a ball-based puzzler where you tilt to move through 19 levels, with lots of obstacles and enemies trying to impede your progress. It's another good week for Android games, with this a sequel to developer Free Lunch Design's first episode of Dark Nebula HD. This new Flick Kick Field Goal game focuses on American Football kicking, as you flick your balls (so to speak) to get as high a score as possible. I've had to uninstall the Flick Kick Football game several times after it got in the way of work, and developer PikPok has a good record with making other sports just as addictive too. Aimed at two year-olds, it's a colourful train-based game where they build their own trains, bridges and then drive around them. More Lego, but this time it's the company's toddler brand Duplo providing the entertainment. Impressive graphics and plenty of depth help this stand out from the hordes of rivals. Siegecraft Defender is the latest, from developer Crescent Moon Games, and it's very good indeed as lizardmen battle knights in the world of the Siegecraft games. Your Android device is surrounded by an army of tower defence games, edging in from every angle. As on other Skylanders games, children can also scan in the physical toys to play with them in the game. Skylanders Cloud Patrol (£1.28)Īnd in more parental-spending-warning news, here's the latest Skylanders game from Activision: a shooty action game that gets kids to blast troll characters and string combos together to boost their score as high as possible. It's used as a touchscreen controller for the various robots (Ev3rstorm, R3ptar, Track3r, Spik3r and Gripp3r) that you can build from the kit, including the ability to create your own commands. Parents! If you've got £299.99 spare for the new Lego Mindstorms EV3 robotics kit for your children (or, indeed, for yourself) you'll be wanting to get the companion Commander app too. But you can't yet play that here in the UK, so Monster Match is worth a look. The inspiration is fairly clear: Puzzle & Dragons, currently one of the most lucrative mobile games in the world. It sees you finding and battling more than 225 beasties by matching gems, with plenty of nuances in balancing the various abilities and levelling up. Monster Match got me hooked on holiday last week with its combination of match-three puzzling and Pokemon-style monster-collecting. Filters, yes, but also "handcrafted effect brushes" to touch up your shots with more than 30 effects, and simple cropping and adjustments tools. Repix (Free)Īnother photo-sharing app? Well, this is more about photo-editing: the emphasis with Repix is on what you do to your photos before sharing them to various social services. As before, it sees novice pointyhat Simon dealing with "goblins, dwarves, swamplings, stupid wizards and sleeping giants". Now it's been revived for modern-day Android devices, with controls tweaked for touchscreens. Simon The Sorcerer (£2.70)Ī generation of gamers has fond memories of adventure game Simon the Sorcerer, which first came out 20 years ago. Its app is one of a number jostling for position as replacements for Google Reader, enabling you to hoover up RSS feeds and share stories to social networks. ![]() Web 2.0 veteran Digg has been reinvented in recent times, promising to serve up "the most interesting and talked-about stories on the Internet", from blog posts to videos and social networking updates. For now, read on for this week's Android selection (and when you've finished, check out previous Best Android apps posts). ![]()
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