![]() Ikaruga (£5.62)īest known in recent years for its Xbox Live Arcade incarnation (and in the past for its Dreamcast and GameCube versions), Ikaruga is an excellent-looking shoot 'em up with all the ships, enemies and bullets you could wish for on a smartphone. It sees you sinking balls in practice, 1-vs-1 and tournament modes, with a level and ranking system ensuring you're matched against similar opponents, competing for virtual currency to upgrade your skills. Now Android gamers have the chance to test it, as the game is available on Android. Miniclip reckons this is "the world's best multiplayer pool game", which is quite a claim. Standard-definition streams are free, but it charges for HD feeds. It promises to enable anyone to stream live TV channels from the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia. Online video service FilmOn has been controversial in the past, and its new Android app could cause a stir too. It ties into the existing Smart Data service. This is interesting from MasterCard: an app to help people keep better track of work expenses, taking and uploading photos of receipts, tagging them with date, amount and description details. The watch connects to this app using Bluetooth, enabling it to show incoming calls, emails and messages on the watch. Pebble is the companion app for the Pebble smart-watch, which has just started shipping to the people who crowdfunded its $10.3m Kickstarter campaign. The app pulls in friends' updates from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare and LinkedIn, tying it to real-world places to show you who's where. ![]() ![]() Social app Banjo has been around for some time on iPhone and Android, but it's just got a dedicated tablet version. ![]() The link above is for Android smartphones, but the separate tablet version is here. ESPN X Games (Free)ĮSPN's extreme-sports X Games events have their own Android app now, offering video highlights, news, results, schedules and a "TrickTrack" feature that gives more data on the tricks that athletes are pulling off during the competitions. Super Hexagon has a devoted fanbase on iOS, where its super-tough "minimal action" gameplay and pulsating chiptune soundtrack have been keeping gamers occupied. Social travel service Gogobot wants to help you discover interesting places to holiday based on other people's experiences, with an app to browse their virtual "postcards" and reviews, scout out more than 60k destinations and then book hotels to stay in. As explained in our full review, this sequel bumps up the graphical quality and adds more depth to the original endless runner, as you swipe to jump, slide and turn your way through the scenery to escape an angry giant monkey. For now, here's this week's pick of new Android apps: Temple Run 2 (Free)Ī week after its iOS release (and more than 20m downloads of that later) Temple Run 2 makes the leap to Android. ![]()
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