If you follow the indie game development scene you've probably heard of Her Story, if only in passing. It's an incredibly unique game where you play a homicide investigator trying to solve a murder. But unlike most games with that description, Her Story doesn't task you with running around a noir-inspired city or shooting hundreds of criminals. Instead you have a series of police interview videos, all delivered in live action by actress Viva Seigert, which you must organize and decipher to solve the case.
Read MoreReservations For The Ultra-Secure Turing Phone Are Now Open, Starting At $610 - No Billing Just Yet
If you've heard about the Turing phone, you're probably either extremely interested or extremely indifferent. (Is it possible to be indifferent to an extreme degree? Anyway.) The somewhat bombastic company has been showing off a device with a unique design and lofty claims of being "unhackable." It's more than vaporware, though - working prototypes have been shown at trade events, and now Turing is taking phone reservations via its website.
That's a very carefully chosen word, "reservations" - not pre-orders. This is because the Turing isn't actually asking for any money upfront. No, entering your contact information after selecting colors (black and purple, "Beowulf," red and blue, "Pharoh," or white and red, "Cardinal") and storage capacity (16GB for $610, 64GB for $740, or 128GB for $870) is more or less a statement of interest than any commitment to buy the phone on your part.
Read More
Drupe Gives Boring Phone Contacts A Contextual Gesture-Based Makeover
Drupe would like you to think that contacts on Android, and on mobile in general, are broken. They're not - phone makers and developers have been doing this for a while, after all - but that doesn't mean that they can't be improved upon. Drupe is a "floating" app that puts contacts, and the means to do all sorts of interesting things with them, in a unique overlay accessible from any other app. Check it out in action in the video below.
To activate Drupe, just tap the translucent triple-dot activation point in any app. A list of your favorite contacts (or groups of contacts) will appear along the left side of your phone's screen, with a list of communication apps on the right.
Read More
New Platformer Spoiler Alert Makes You Play The Game Entirely In Reverse
Spoiler Alert begins on the last, and paradoxically easiest, level in the game, where you defeat the final boss and then rescue the princess in familiar but not quite copyright infringing fashion. At that point you play the game in reverse, going backwards through hundreds of levels that the tiny chili pepper hero has played, but you haven't. It's an odd approach to a platform game, and one that has to be played to be fully understood. In lieu of that, watch the video below.
While "playing backwards," you'll have to revive all the enemies that have been killed by "jumping" on them in reverse, replace all the coins that have been collected by running over them again, et cetera.
Read More
[New Game] Shapes & Sound Brings Style And Surprising Depth To Asteroids-Type Shooters
With its monochromatic palette and tinkly music, you might confuse Shapes & Sound for a "chill" game. Not so: it's inspired by the twitchy vector shooters of yore, like Asteroids and Tempest. But while those titles offered no more complexity than a rising difficulty curve, Shapes & Sound combines some simple yet appealing graphics with deep gameplay.
The core of the game is simple: tap around your shape to shoot at those flying towards you. But be selective, because corresponding shapes (of any size) don't hurt you. When you've absorbed enough projectiles, you can unleash a special attack that will usually clear the screen.
Read More
From The Creator Of Tweet Lanes: Chris Lacy's Action Launcher Now In The Play Store
Chris Lacy, developer of the gorgeous, widely lauded Tweet Lanes, has finally brought his latest creation to the Play Store – Action Launcher.
As the name would suggest, Action Launcher is a custom launcher with an emphasis on its ever-present action bar. The action bar allows users to quickly open a side-panel app drawer which, in Lacy's words, "aims to allow you to load any app in one second from your home screen." The bar also features Search and Play Store shortcuts, along with an action overflow.
The action bar, as you can see in the video above, is not the only trick Action Launcher has up its sleeve.
Read More
CyanogenMod Has Now Been Installed On Over 2 Million Devices, Doubles Install Numbers Since January
It's amazing what a new look can do for a platform, isn't it? Back in January, we reported that CyanogenMod, the most popular third-party Android ROM, reached one million unique installs. Now, a little more than four months later, that number has doubled, according to CM's stat tracker. This is huge.
For those who are curious as to how the stat counter works, here's a more detailed explanation. The short version is that unique hardware is counted, so reflashes and reinstalls don't count towards the total. From CM's site:
"The data sent includes an non-reversible encrypted hash of your IMEI or MEID, allowing us to track unique devices without compromising privacy."
Cyanogenmod has been in development for years and only reached the million install mark, which included official and unofficial installs (KANGs), just a few months ago.
Read More
[Hands On] 4gency Releases Node.Hack, An Awesomely Unique Action Game That Offers Players A Chance To "Hack The World"
Giving us perhaps one of the most unique games I've ever played, 4gency released Node.Hack to the Play Store today. The game poses the player as "a digital warrior on the front lines, cracking the world's toughest computer systems for profit." Indeed, the object of the game is to hack through individual nodes to accrue thousands upon thousands of dollars and escape before being destroyed by enemy AI.
The first thing I noticed about Node.Hack was of course its visual style. The graphics in this game are obviously very simple, but that simplistic art style is extremely well-suited to the gameplay.
Read MoreThe Best Of AP
Latest Deals
-
3
[Update: Back] Satechi's 75W multi-port USB-C PD and Quick Charge 3.0 charger is down to $48
-
7
Get a Nest Hello doorbell cam for $164 ($65 off), watch Amazon manhandle your deliveries
-
18
The dual-SIM Note10 and Note10+ are as low as $776 and $900, respectively
-
2
25 temporarily free and 82 on-sale apps and games for the weekend
-
18
Grab a refurbished 128GB Pixel 3 in black for $400 ($200 off) on Amazon
-
3
Latest Poll
Loading ...Recent Reviews
-
17
The Motorola One Action gives the Moto G a run for its money
-
46
The Nest Hub Max is the best smart display, but not the best security camera
-
7
Form AR goggles review: The coolest and most accurate swimming tracker
-
1
Jackery Supercharge 26800 PD is the mid-range gold standard for a portable charger, but it's a bit expensive
-
11
Jaybird Vista true wireless earbuds are perfect for outdoorsy fitness buffs
-
17
Latest Roundups
-
21
Use these apps to keep that beach bod through the winter — or get one for next summer
-
0
18 best new Android games released this week including This Is the Police 2, Slender Man Dark Forest, and inbento
-
2
17 new and notable (and 1 WTF) Android apps from the last two weeks including Automatic Dark Theme for Android 10, Vivaldi Browser Beta, and Disney+ (8/31/19 - 9/14/19)
-
188
The best web browsers for Android
-
7
24 best new Android games released this week including NBA 2K20, Tropico, and Fist of the North Star
-
21
Recent Apps and Games
-
7
All the Android games and phones that support high frame rates (90/120FPS)
-
21
Use these apps to keep that beach bod through the winter — or get one for next summer
-
0
18 best new Android games released this week including This Is the Police 2, Slender Man Dark Forest, and inbento
-
8
Chrome 77 broke printing for Google Calendar, but there's a workaround
-
2
17 new and notable (and 1 WTF) Android apps from the last two weeks including Automatic Dark Theme for Android 10, Vivaldi Browser Beta, and Disney+ (8/31/19 - 9/14/19)
-
7
Blast from the Past
-
63
1 Year Ago Today
Edge Action turns the edge of your screen into the most useful part of your phone [Sponsored Post]
-
31
2 Years Ago Today
Google Motion Stills v1.1 adds new editing buttons [APK Download]
-
89
3 Years Ago Today
Pokémon Go Plus accessory now available for $34.99 at several retailers
-
158
4 Years Ago Today
Google App v5.3 Is Rolling Out To Finally Enable Google Now On Tap For M Preview 3 Devices [APK Download] [Update: Brings Android M UI To Google Now Launcher Too]
-
335
5 Years Ago Today
An Exclusive Early Look At The Google Play Store's 5.0 Update
-
48
6 Years Ago Today
JSS15R Update Rolling Out To WiFi 2013 Nexus 7, No Changelog In Sight
-
51
7 Years Ago Today
[Weekend Poll] Will You Be Buying A New Kindle?
-
12
8 Years Ago Today
America Invents Act Now Law, Brings Biggest Changes To US Patent Law In Over 50 Years
-
5
9 Years Ago Today
Samsung Galaxy Tab Officially Headed To All Four Major US Carriers (UPDATE: No 4G On Sprint's Version)
-
63
