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Review: Door 6’s “Vacuum: The Global Competition”

Door 6, developers of “The Training Mission,” an Android game that finished in the TOP 20 games in ADC2, will soon have something new for Android gamers to try out. “Vacuum: The Global Competition” is scheduled for release on March 20, and offers more incentives for winning than your typical high score entry. Apparently, Door [...]

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How does it feel to be an ADC2 $50,000 winner?

Florian Heft knows. Florian is the developer of Graviturn, a game that just won 2nd place and $50,000 in the Games: Arcade/Action category of Google’s ADC2 awards. Florian is also a 21 year old college student from Mühlacker, Germany, a small city of 26,000 people in the southwest portion of the country. He currently majors [...]

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Review: A World of Photo (ADC2 “Entertainment” Co-winner)

In case you didn’t know, A World of Photo recently won one of the top prizes in the ADC2 “Entertainment” category. The concept is simple: You see a big map of the world, you spin your phone, a random user is picked in the direction your phone is pointing, and that user has to send [...]

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Review: Call of Duty Modern Warfare: Force Recon

Oh man. At this point in time, I’m pretty sure you’re well aware that a video game came out a couple weeks ago. It was a pretty big hit. And with any kind of smash-hit like Modern Warfare 2, I guess everyone and their cousin should have realized some kind of spin-off was due. Maybe [...]

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Chess for Android app available in the Market

In a topic that does not often get mentioned, here on Androinica or in terms of Android in general we have news of a game. The game is called Chess for Android, and is currently available in the Android Market, it was also recently given a good review by AndroidTapp. The good news here is that [...]

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App Review: Speed Forge 3D looks dynamic, plays decent

Speed Forge 3D has put Android game designers on notice: low-quality graphics simply won’t cut it. Few Android games have created a world that is as visually appealing as Speed Forge, which has full 3D graphics that look great. I can’t loft similar praise on the game play… yet. As advanced and smooth the graphics of [...]

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App Review: The “Oid” NES, SNES, and Genesis suite is almost classic

Retro gaming on Android is something that many might hold dear. It is a welcome dose of nostalgia to play Nintendo games on Android or play Sega Genesis games on Android. And while technology may have made video games far more advanced than most could have imagined, it’s still a blast to fly in Super [...]

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Android now offers Mafia RPG with M:Mafia

America loves gangsters, at least when it comes to entertainment. That bodes well for Moblyng Games’ M:Mafia Android app. Myspace and Facebook users have been wrapped-up in Mafia style role-playing games, and M:Mafia seeks to take that experience to Android as well. M: Mafia is a crime-centered RPG that can be played on Facebook or an [...]

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Apps: Ex Reversi brings classic game to Android

Cronus Crown has released Ex Reversi, a Google Android version of a board game with nearly 230 years of history. The object of the game is to take an assigned color on a two-sided disk – one side light, the other dark – and fill up a board with more disks showing that color than [...]

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Apps: “Retro Defense” game attacks boredom

Retro Defense is an Android game that is tough to review. Not because it’s hard to describe, but because it’s difficult to pull myself away from playing it. Even when I know I should be writing about this tower defense game from Larva Labs, I’m too busy trying to ward off rounds of menacing invaders. [...]

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