Dungeon Hunter 4 tops Android Games of the Week

As a fan of high productions values, I'm rejoicing this week as Gameloft has a new title hanging out in the Google Play store. I like Android games with graphics worth drooling over. No, graphics don't really matter that much. But sometimes I just want to look at something beautiful, and Dungeon Hunter 4 fits the bill.

This week in gaming took me back to my childhood, but not because we have a new port of an old game. Rather, it's a new spin on an old formula. Beyond that, we've got a game that is tangentially about pirates, a game about murder and a popular mobile game franchise takes on time travel. How exciting!

Dungeon Hunter 4 (Free)

The Dungeon Hunter franchise continues to run with a freemium model, and the fourth entry i n the franchise is the prettiest thing I've seen on Android in a long time. It's a mishmash of art styles, with cell shading being the most prominent, but it's a bit astonishing to see this kind of visual love going into a mobile experience. In general, the best looking mobile games tend to look like late-era PS2 titles, which is fine, but they don't do much to stand out from each other. Dungeon Hunter 4, on the other hand, does. Beyond the visuals, this game is pretty standard hack and slash, and it's got a legitimate story as one would expect from a Gameloft effort. MOGA owners will be disappointed to learn that the game doesn't yet support the Bluetooth controller, but expect that to change soon.

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Aces of the Lu ftwaffe (Free)

If you remember old PC games like Raptor, you'll be right at home with this top-down airplane-shooter. You fly a plane duringWorld War II, and as you move forward through the skies, huge waves of enemies come at you, kinda like a non-static version of Galaga. The games experience is enhanced by upgrades you pick up from defeated foes, and sometimes you can even gather some wingmen to help you out. By the end of a level, you spray bullets all over the screen, as your enemies are everywhere, which makes for a good old time. A note about the controls, since the game doesn't explain them at all: you hold your finger down on the screen to fire, and you drag it around to move.

Knife That Guy ($0.99)

I'll be honest, I don't really know what sort of message this game is sending, but I know there has to be one. In Knife That Guy, you are a guy in a big square room full of other guys, and you must find your target and knife him, as the title indicates. But you have to be careful not to knife all the wrong guy, which can be quite difficult to do as things ramp up. I even had one Other Guy sprint right into me, killing himself at one point. If you knife too many of the Wrong Guys, or if you take too long knifing That Guy, you will end up knifing yourself in the chest. In ant event, the game is ludicrously entertaining and rather difficult.

Pirate Dash (Free)

So this is a game in which you are a pirate, and you are flying upward somehow, and you must kil l monsters and stuff by changing your trajectory downwards and slashing them in half. You tilt to the left or right to position yourself above a target, and then you tap it to fly down. This is more difficult than it sounds, as it can be pretty easy to miss despite careful aiming, and if you miss a few times your game will end. Also, you have to account for those baddies that grow spikes on their backs; while you can still kill them, they'll hurt you, and your health is limited. I like Pirate Dash mostly because it provides an honest-to-god challenge even for seasoned gamers, and it introduces a host of new gaming mechanics mobile.

Cut the Rope: Time Travel (Free, $0.99 for HD)

Unlike Cut the Rope: Experiments, which I felt was mostly more of the same Cut the Rope experience with a few rudimentary tweaks, Time Travel actually changes up the formula in an important way. Here, instead of one little green guy to feed candy to, you have two of them . Having to account for two pieces of candy as you do your slashing and hacking is much more engaging than any of other Cut the Rope games. Cut the Rope has always been a bit of a puzzle game, but Time Travel seriously ups the ante. If you're a fan of the series, this one is an absolute must-own.

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New Android apps worth downloading: Proven Job Search, DJ space, House of the Dead Overkill: LR

Start the week by giving your employment prospects a boost with Proven Job Search, which brings lots of job resources to your Android device and even helps with the application process. We've also got DJ space, a music mixing app that uses celestial bodies to represent samples and tracks, and House of the Dead Overkill: LR, a first-person zombie shooter with plenty of gore and a B-movie vibe.

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Proven Job Search (Free)

Whats it about? Use your smartphone or tablet to search for a job, no matter w here you are with the help of Proven Job Search.

Whats cool? Proven Job Search aggregates a number of job search resources and makes them available to you on your Android device. You can use it to quickly search through listings on Craigslist, SimplyHired and Beyond, and you can also store and manage your resume so you can quickly fire it off when you find a job that meets your requirements. You can also share jobs you find with others through SMS and email, create multiple versions of your resume and cover letter, and sync your account with Proven.com for greater control over your search.

Whos it for? If you're looking for a job and could use some help making it a bit easier, try Proven.

Whats it like? Check out Job Search Engine for an alternative way to search for potential employment, and Resume Builder Pro to help make sure you make a good impression.

DJ space (Free)

Whats it about? DJ space is a bit of a weird take on your common music mixing app it actually enables the creation of solar systems and places planets in orbits to create sounds.

Whats cool? There are a few apps in the Google Play store that help musicians make and mix music, but with DJ space, presentation is everything. Instead of adding and adjusting samples on a grid or a mixing board, the game presents you with a view of space filled with stars. Samples are represented by planets, and you can place those planets around stars to create mixes. Adding more planets adds to a section of the track, and adding more solar systems adds to the overall track to create a galaxy that represents the whole song. When you' re done, you can export what you've made as a .wav file.

Whos it for? Fans of making their own electronic music, with an astronomical theme, should check out DJ space.

Whats it like? DJ Control and Mixify are two more mixing apps that are worth your attention.

House of the Dead Overkill: LR (Free)

Whats it about? Blast hordes of zombies in House of the Dead Overkill: LR, a mobile version of the Sega classic series that has graced many arcades.

Whats cool? House of the Dead was originally born as an arcade game in 1997. In the game, players use light guns, those gun controllers you can actually aim at the screen, to take down zombies. T he mobile version takes the same approach you play in a first-person view with zombies staggering toward you. House of the Dead embraces a sort of B-movie style with plenty of goofy zombies (including zombie strippers, yikes), and has three different play modes of zombie-shooting mayhem.

Whos it for? Fans of zombies and shooters should try House of the Dead Overkill: LR, but it's not an appropriate selection for kids, as its gratuitously violent and gory.

Whats it like? Check out Dead Trigger and Into the Dead for some great first-person zombie action.

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Android lacks quality apps for legally streaming sports

We live in a compelling day and age, certainly, thanks to everything our smartphones can do. Furthermore, cable TV, once seen as a necessary fixture in the home, is starting to fade as the streaming business takes off. Right now, there are two things on cable we can't live without: sports and HBO. And that's about it.

HBO, unlike our sports services, is smart. A subscription to HBO, on cable or satellite service, comes with complimentary use of HBO GO, the network's streaming platform, where you can find pretty much all of their original programming plus the movies in the current rotation. Last year, I watched all of the second season of Game of Thrones on my tablet while sitting on my porch at night. It was a precious weekly ritual.

Go-to sports streaming apps

< p>ESPN does something similar with WatchESPN. If you have cable or satellite service with a select provider, you can have live access to all content that plays on the ESPN family of networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN Classic and regional ESPN-sponsored broadcasts like the SEC Network). If you've cut the cord, you can watch any of that content that starts outside of primetime (6pm to midnight on weekdays and noon to midnight on weekends) as well as online-exclusive ESPN3 content, of which there is a lot. WatchESPN is an incredibly handy service. Having it means when you want to watch more than one game at a time, as I always do during college football season, I can put one game on the TV, one on my iPad and one on my Galaxy Nexus. And if I have an extra TV, I can stream a fourth game through Xbox Live. ESPN on ABC events, however, are not available on WatchESPN.

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CBS makes a pretty half-hearted attempt at keeping up. Through the CBS Sports Android app, you can stream live college sports events that are broadcast on CBS proper. The CBS Sports Network gets no love. When the NCAA basketball tournament comes around, though, the March Madness app allowed for streaming of every game. That's been a huge boon for many, as a lot of folks were at work during many of the games.

Finally, the standalone subscription service NHL GameCenter has an Android streaming app, and MLB.com at Bat offers games MLB.TV Premium for $19.99 per season.

Overabundance of sports riches

And that, my friends, is the exten t of legal sports streaming on mobile devices. Yes, there are some Android apps that hook you into bootleg online feeds of pretty much anything that's on TV anywhere in the world. Considering the number of ads that pop up on these feeds, I imagine that broadcasting your own cable feed is a bit of a moneymaker. These feeds are typically pretty low resolution but also reliable, making them feel like a viable option when you're trying to figure out how you're going to watch all the football games that are starting at 3:30 EST on any given Saturday, or if you're watching at a bar that doesn't get the Pac-12 Network.

What I'm getting at is this: in our golden age of outstanding media, there's little reason for anybody who broadcasts live sporting events to not offer streams of those events, even if said streams would be tied into a cable subscription. The network heads might argue that these streams aren't super lucrative, but I'd bet they're more lucrative than the bootl eg streams that pay nothing to the broadcasters. The fact is that there is just so much sports to watch on cable, thanks to four ESPNs, CBS Sports, 20+ Fox Sports regional networks along with Fox Sports Net and the newly announced Fox Sports One, budding college conference networks, pro league-specific networks, part-time sports dabblers like TNT, and so on.

There's so much of it, that it's more than one or two TVs can handle. We must be able to bring our phones and tablets into the mix so we can see all that we want to see. There are a lot of sports fanatics in this country, and the networks are not serving us as well as they should. They need to make us love them, but only ESPN is succeeding at that, at least in terms of live games (their afternoon programming leaves something to be desired).

I can watch every movie available digitally on my phone. I can watch the complete run of The Wire on my phone. I can play online games with my friends on my p hone. I can buy anything that exists from my phone. But I can't legally watch any sporting event broadcast in the US on my phone. And that's embarrassing.

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New Android apps worth downloading: Kindle update, Notif, Iron Man 3 - The Official Game

Amazons Kindle app update adds features for navigating through your e-books, as well as new books for purchase. Up next is Notif, which specializes in custom notifications in Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. Finally, we've got Iron Man 3, an endless runner in the vein of Temple Run 2 with great graphics and much bashing of Marvel villains.

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Kindle update (Free)

Whats it about? Amazons Kindle turns Android devices into e-readers with which you to purchase books to read and send them to your device.

Whats cool? You can download books and sync the books you purchase on Amazon.com with the app automatically, and it tracks the things you read across multiple devices, which allows you to keep track of where you are in any e-book on whatever device youre using. The apps latest update simplifies browsing through your books and new titles, and provides new samples you can download for free.

Whos it for? If you like reading books on your Android devices, Kindle is a great app to have.

Whats it like? Try Barnes & Nobles e-book competitor, Nook, and Ebook Reader from ebooks.com.

Notif (Free)

Whats it about? Notif adds notifications to your device in the pull-down menu at the top of your screen, allowing you to leave custom notes and lists.

Whats cool? Notif allows you to put notifications in the notifications shade included in Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. Notifications can stick around as long as you want or be timed, and they can be single text-based items, photos pulled from your gallery, or full lists (like what to buy at the grocery store). Just keep in mind that you'll need Jelly Bean for the app to work, and that there's currently a bug that deletes notifications when the app is updated. So switch off automatic updates for Notif if you're using it heavily.

Whos it for? Anyone who could use dedicated notifications in Android instead of being housed in another app or notepad should try Notif.

Whats it like? You might also be interested in ReNotify and Tasker for more note-taking and task reminder capabilities.

Iron Man 3 - The O fficial Game (Free)

Whats it about? Get psyched for the release of Iron Man 3 in theaters with an endless runner based on the Marvel character and his archenemies.

Whats cool? It doesn't really follow the story of Iron Man 3, but the latest Iron Man game from Gameloft does make use of his myriad weapons and flying ability in an endless runner format. Players controls Iron Man from a behind-the-back viewpoint and must avoid obstacles like oncoming traffic, and shoot down deadly robots with his energy beam weapons. The game features 18 suits to unlock, great graphics and high production values.

Whos it for? Players who enjoy 3-D endless runners and are fans of the Iron Man films will be engaged by Iron Man 3.

Whats it like? Iron Man 3s game mechanics are a lot like Temple Run 2, and The Amazing Spider-Man offers more Marvel superhero action.

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Best Android Tablet Computers - Tips On Purchasing A Quality Slate PC

When you buy an Android tablet computer, according to several factors such as screen size, the operating system of internal memory, connectivity and battery life will help you choose a quality WiFi or 3G pill. We look at these factors and the 3 best Android tablet computer.

Screen Size
7-inch and 10 inch Slate PCs are the most common. Example 7 inch Android Tablet PCs include color ignite the fire, deaf and Tablet Kobo Vox. These devices are more like e-readers (for a fee of colors) and are popular with children and bookworms because their smaller screen and easily makes them ideal for reading books.

10 inch Tablet PCs are ideal for watching movies, playing games, Internet browsing and reading major publications such as newspapers and magazines.

Android vs. Apple Tablet PC
When you buy an Android tablet computer Android have the option and Apple tablet. If you plan on using the website blush best to buy a slate PC slate computer are free. This is because they are flush support while Apple tablets.

If you are looking to buy a cheap desktop PC, Android Tablet PCs are a better option, because you get a wide selection to choose from both high and cheap prices. Apple tablet on the other hand are premium products and so are expensive, but very reliable.

internal memory
Most Android Tablet PCs come with 16 MB of internal memory as standard. From the aforementioned 12GB of internal memory available for user content. If you want more memory than the one that comes on board device. Provide WiFi or 3G Tablet PC you buy has a microSD memory card podršku.MicroSD memory card will allow you to increase memory, 8GB, 16GB and 32GB.

together with the internal memory purchase slate computer with a USB port will allow you to store content on an external USB flash drive.

Linking
If you are frequently traveling or simply want to present all veze.Uređaj with 4G or 3G mobile broadband is recommended. This is because it will save you the trouble of having to search for a hotspot or stolen SIM card, and on the road.

Wi-Fi only Android tablet computer that require near a hotspot to connect, but they have the advantage of being cheaper than those that have a 3G or 4G mobile broadband.

Battery
WiFi or 3G Tablet PC capable of giving you a battery life of more than seven and a half hour's worth considering. Some of the best Android tablet computer, such as the Asus Eee Pad Transformer and Samsung Galaxy Tab will give you more than nine and a half hours of battery life in normal use.

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Hire Professional Android Apps Development Company For Android Applications Development Services

the most important breakthrough Android is Linux based Operating System (OS) developed by the Open Handset Alliance led by Google for mobile devices, especially smartphones and Tablet PCs. Interestingly, Google announced an additional codes to Android as an open-source under the Apache License provides a large community of programmers who write applications ("application"), great opportunity to customize Android powered mobile phones and tablet PCs. Today, Android has gained great popularity among the masses as the best selling platform around the world use a variety of well-known manufacturing companies involved in the core business of mobile phone and tablet computer such as HTC, Samsung, LG, Intel, Motorola, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, Huawei Technologies Sony Ericsson and many more.

You have a free operating system (OS) enabled mobile phone or a tablet PC and want to extend the functionality of your device with custom applications? If the answer is YES, then hiring professional services for the custom is a good way to go ahead and create great applications for your device. Continue reading this article, in case you're interested in knowing the significant importance of hiring a reliable professional service tvrtke.Glavna taking advantage of the expert guidance of professional services that will be offered with an affordable and custom application development services leading to cost and time benefits.

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Non-Disclosure Agreement Exclusions: What You Can't Android App Developers To Keep Secret

For anyone who has or is hiring Android app developers, equip-disclosure agreement or NDA is essential to protect the app idea and all other intellectual property from theft. However, without disclosure agreement can not protect everything. In fact, most if not all of the NDAs have the details on what is excluded from the agreement.

Typical non-disclosure agreement has five or six "build-out" - trade secrets and other confidential information not covered by this Agreement. Technically, any information can be excluded from the NDA, although the following information is what is often accepted is carved:

• Public information and known information already made ​​public before the agreement intentionally or unintentionally. The information is published automatically usually carved out of the NDA, even if the information is classified publishing meetings, if it is already publicly Android app developers are no longer obliged to keep confidential.

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