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Guns n’ Glory shoots up the Wild West [Game Reviews]

September 2, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Guns n’ Glory is a tower defense game that requires adaptive strategy as well as shooting. Players control bandits who kill settlers on foot, horseback, in wagons, and in gold-carrying trailers. Some bandits…

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UAE4Droid Brings Amiga Awesomeness to Your Android

September 1, 2010 | by Lars Aronsson

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We recently reviewed the Commodore 64 emulator Frodo C64 here on Androinica, and now it’s time to take a look at the C64’s spiritual successor: the Amiga 500. In the early 90s, I was personally dumbfounded by the…

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Gameloft offers a try-before you buy on Android HD games

August 24, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Gameloft makes incredible games, but not a lot of people know that because the company has decided against distributing its newer high-quality games in the Android Market. Further complicating matters is th…

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Grab all the 8-bit Computer Nostalgia You Can Handle with Frodo C64 [App Reviews]

August 20, 2010 | by Lars Aronsson

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The iconic 8-bit Commodore C64 was manufactured for an impressive 12 years between 1982 and 1994, and it’s the best-selling single personal computer model of all time. It featured 64KB of RAM, a 1MHz processor…

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Wordfeud Free brings a multi-game Scrabble clone to Android [Game Reviews]

August 13, 2010 | by Chris Smith

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One of the hottest games on the iOS platform right now is Words with Friends, mostly because of the interaction with people you know and the ability to play a long-term game of scrabble with them. Social gaming is…

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How to Set Up and Configure the PlayStation Emulator psx4droid

August 4, 2010 | by Lars Aronsson

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I think we’ve all played a PlayStation at one point or the other. And since July 25th, we can play it on our high-end Android phones as well, thanks to the efforts of coder extraordinaire ZodTTD. Now that his psx4d…

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Bistro Cook: Don’t Burn the Fries

July 28, 2010 | by Jorge Parrales

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If you have yet to discover the addictive game of Bistro Cook, get ready to put on your digital apron and go download this application from the Android Market. The concept is simple, the game play is straightforw…

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psx4droid brings PlayStation One emulation to your Android, not without problems

July 26, 2010 | by Chris Smith

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If you are a gamer and have a “high performance” Android your day just become brighter with the announcement and availability of psx4droid, a functional PlayStation One emulator. The app has a bu…

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Skies of Glory lets Android and iPhone gamers duke it out in airplane battles

July 16, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Skies of Glory lets Android and iOs gamers battle with airplanes Back at Google I/O 2010, we showed you a quick preview of an app called Skies of Glory. “Skies” is popular on the iPhone that developers SGN were in t…

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FIFA 10 for Android is fun but may be relegated for performance [Video App Reviews]

July 5, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Android users have long waited for FIFA 10 to arrive on their devices, so it’s fitting that EA Sports delivered this $6.99 game while the world is watching the World Cup. They may not be excited for too long…

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Sorority Life game makes jump from Facebook to Android

June 18, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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The “social gaming” trend isn’t going anywhere any time soon, evidenced by the popularity of games like Farmville, Mobster, and now Sorority Life, which was just released for Android. So…

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Market Millionaire is a stock market with virtual money, real-world stats [App Reviews]

June 9, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Everyone thinks they’ve got the secret to playing the stock market, but that’s obviously not reality. Otherwise, we’d all be rich. Anyone with an Android device can test just how effective they c…

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Line Up is an Android game for reformed Tetris junkies [Video App Reviews]

June 4, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Android has an influx of 3D games on the way, but the simple ones can still provide entertainment. Line Up is a free game from LabPixies that allows simple to make sense. Line Up has plenty of puzzle-centered fun t…

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Heavy Gunner 3D shoots down enemies, shoots up fun [Video Reviews]
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Heavy Gunner 3D shoots down enemies, shoots up fun [Video Reviews]

May 25, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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The premise is something that we’ve seen before: aliens are invading the galaxy and you’ve been tasked with shooting those freedom-hating hordes of warriors out of the sky. That familiar concep…

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Skies of Glory airplane fighter game hands-on [VIDEO]

May 20, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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The sky is about to get less friendly now that Skies of Glory is coming to Android. The popular iPhone app has been ported to Android, and it looks beautiful. The company behind the app is showing off Skies of Glory…

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Need for Speed Shift Android racing preview [VIDEO]

May 20, 2010 | by Andrew Kameka

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Need For Speed Shift was originally promised for June based on comments made by Sprint CEO Dan Hesse at last week’s HTC EVO launch event. However, I spoke with a representative from EA Sports who says that…

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