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Mar

[New App] ESPN Fantasy Baseball 2012 Is Out Now, Manages Your Pre-Existing Fantasy Baseball Teams

Posted by Eric Ravenscraft in Apps/Games, News

With spring rapidly approaching, there's one very big question on everyone's mind: How much longer until The Avengers comes out?! Since that's a question that's easily answered by Google, though, we'll answer another burning question instead: How can I manage my Fantasy Baseball team and ignore my family at the dinner table at the same time? Easy! ESPN's new Fantasy Baseball 2012 app!

Here are all the things you can do with the app:

Team Management: Start/bench players, add, drop, and claim players off waivers, propose, accept or reject trades with other managers
FantasyCast Live Scoring and Stats: Real-time scoring and detailed information for all your matchups.

Feb

[New Game] Baseball Superstars 2012 Brings "The Ultimate Smart Baseball Experience" To Android

Posted by Liam Spradlin in Games, News

Gamevil Inc. has done it again, bringing the latest entry in its Baseball Superstars series to the Android Market today. The game invites users to "step up to the plate for the best baseball experience on the Android Market," and offers the same vivid, dynamic animation and gameplay players have come to expect.

In Baseball Superstars 2012, players will enjoy a variety of improvements, including gesture and tilt controls, "smart AI teammates," and total control over team management and customization. The game also allows players to train for skill points, special moves, and to work their way up from rookie to baseball superstar.

Jan

[Best Of 2011] 50 Awesome Games From 2011, Part 1: Racing & Sports

Posted by Brandon Lancaster in Best Apps/Games/LWPs Of The Week, Games

Last Updated: January 7th, 2012

2011 has officially come to an end, and the past year has seen some incredible new games. So, if you're looking for awesome titles for that shiny new Android device you received over the holidays, then check out this list of fine gems worthy of being brought into the new year. No matter your preference on gameplay, you're bound to find something you like below.

We'll start off the series with racing and sports games.

For more Best Games Of 2011, see Part 2: Action & Adventure and Part 3: Puzzle & Casual.

Racing

Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD

Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD is a fast-paced, arcade racing game that is hard to put down.

Oct

Calling All Baseball Fans, Follow Your Favorite Team With The MLB At Bat 2011 Tablet App

Posted by Abhiroop Basu in Applications, News

Baseball fans rejoice, MLB has released an Android App that provides an easy and fun way of keeping track of your favorite team as it progresses through the 2011 Postseason. The MLB.com At Bat 11 for tablets is chock-full of enough stats, information, schedules and live ball-by-ball coverage to keep even the most rabid fans satiated during the Postseason.

This app features a number of interesting and innovative features, including:

Information from every Postseason game, including series scoreboards, previews, recaps and schedules
Home and away radio broadcasts
Gameday pitch-by-pitch tracking features, including realistic ballpark renderings from all 30 MLB parks in partnership with MLB 11: The Show
U.S.

Oct

Bring Your Wallpaper Alive With Bubbleator

Posted by Ian G. Clifton in Applications, Apps/Games

One of my favorite features of Android is being able to have widgets on my device. With just a few widgets, my important information can be a quick glance away. Unfortunately, widgets typically offer a limited set of information (e.g., the last five messages) and the lack of animation on the majority of widgets makes them feel more static than they really are. Even Honeycomb's widgets are fairly limited. Fortunately, Android's live wallpapers allow for a far more engaging experience and the Bubbleator live wallpaper takes advantage of that.

Full disclosure: Bubbleator is made by ARO, and I have recently been hired on as a developer at ARO.

Aug

OneLouder Releases SportCaster - Live Scores And Twitter Commentary On The Go

Posted by Liam Spradlin in Applications, News

If you've been looking for a sports app that gives you up-to-the-minute scores, stats, and live commentary from hundreds of people in the know, you're in luck. OneLouder, the developer behind TweetCaster and FriendCaster, has just released SportCaster - an app that allows you to follow a variety of sports from your mobile device, and view a constant stream of tweets from players and experts as well as all the info you need about what's happening in the game.

Like any new app it has a few areas for improvement, but it's definitely worth checking out if you don't want to miss the game or if you want to keep track of the score from a single app.

Apr

9 Innings Baseball Brings Awesome, Statistically Correct Gameplay To Your Phone

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Games, News

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a huge fan of baseball. Naturally, I don't spend a lot of time digging through the Android Market looking for the next great baseball game to spend some time with. However, every once in a while someone will share an app with me that catches my attention, regardless of what it's about. That's exactly what happened this weekend with Com2Us's 9 Innings: Pro Baseball 2011. Initially, I thought it was some sort of fantasy baseball style game, until I watched the video, which actually really surprised me. Check it out:

9 Innings strays away from the mundane, typical style of virtual baseball and offers three modes of play - Exhibition, League, and Homerun.

Apr

Fret Not, Sports Fans, The GO Dev Team Has Your Back - Meet GO Score

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Applications, News

The same team that brought us GO SMS, GO Launcher, GO Weather, and a figurative myriad of other goodies are back again - this time with an offering for all the sports fans out there. The aptly titled GO Score brings almost real-time soccer and basketball scores to your mobile, with a multitude of others sports in the works.

GO Score offers some really outstanding features, such as user defined audio/vibration notifications, game analysis, current and past scores, odds from multiple sources, and live chat with no prior registration required.

This app is still in its early stages, and the GO Dev team are asking for comments to make it better, so if you notice something that you don't like, or think of something you'd like to see, make sure to drop them a line.

Mar

Ticketing Marketplace StubHub Gets Punched Into The Android Market

Posted by Will Shanklin in Applications, News

Say you have some extra tickets to next week's A Flock of Seagulls concert that you want to unload, but you don't particularly want to stand outside of the gate four hours early, calling out "Need tickets?". Starting today, your Android phone can save you the time and humiliation. StubHub, the world's largest ticketing marketplace, has released an app into the Android Market.

Bought by eBay in 2007, StubHub is an online venue for buying and selling second-hand tickets. The popular website has been around for over 10 years, and thankfully, the new Android app does exactly what you would expect it to.

Feb

USA Today Joins The Slate Club, Releases Tablet-Optimized Android App

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Applications, News

CNN is not the only news organization with a tablet-optimized Honeycomb app - USA Today today (ooh, 2x "today"s in a row, it must be your lucky day) jumped on the same bandwagon with their own take on what a tablet news app should be like. News, Money, Sports, Life, Tech, Travel, Photos, and Weather sections are available, and... well, there is not much else to say about this - it's a news app on a larger screen. You can find the download links towards the bottom of the page.

Press Release

MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- USA TODAY, the nation's top-selling print newspaper, today announced the USA TODAY Android 3.0 App for Motorola Xoom is now available.