As the school holidays lurch to an agonising conclusion, allow our Best Android Apps of the week run-down to take away those blues.
We’ve got some awesome games to sample, as well as a couple of cool applications that are sure to become ever-present features in your phone’s internal memory banks.
Cut the Rope and Angry Birds are being made into board games – but it’s far from a new idea. What about other games made into board games? We’ll we’ve got a packed list right here, complete with pics of each.
Suffice to say you may be surprised at some to be given the desktop treatment…
It’s been a while since we saw a Kinect hack that suprised us (alright, a week or so) but this one is great: 3D Tetris!
Created by YouTube user Keysosaurus as part of his Computer Science course work at Trinity College, Dublin, it combines a Wiimote with Kinect to create augmented reality Tetris. The Wiimote rotates the pieces while you use your hands to move them around the grid. Check it out on video after the break. We want a full on Kinect Tetris game now!
Matching the EA blow out sale on iOS games currently underway, the gaming empire has spread the holiday spirit by offering the same deal for Android users. Popular titles such as ‘The Sims 3’, ‘Tetris’, ‘Fifa 10’ and ‘Need for Speed Shift’ are now just 99 cents.
Morning, morning. It may be another Monday, but don’t get too down: we’ve got all the latest tech news to pick you up right here. Get the digest in your techie breakie!
Sure, you’ve got the rocket to blast off at the end of Tetris on the Game Boy, but how good are you at Tetris, really? World class? You could soon get the chance to show your mettle when it comes to breaking those blocks, as Tetris founder Alexey Pajitnov is planning to turn the puzzler into a professional sport.
In possibly the weirdest story this week – Tetris can prevent the formation of memories and could be harnessed to prevent Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, say medical researchers.
The T-Mobile G1‘s already been out for more than 24 hours, and if you’re anything like us, you’ll have blitzed through all of the Android apps available right now for free already. Bored from all that social networking? Fizzled out from all that photo sharing? Don’t worry, there’s still plenty left to entertain you.
Fire up your thumbs, and start racking up high scores with these top Android games instead!
