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New(ish) Game: Lost Temple II is a Temple Run 2 knockoff, but still a fun time

New(ish) Game: Lost Temple II is a Temple Run 2 knockoff, but still a fun time

On your mark, get set, GO! If you are a fan of Temple Run-esque endless running games, you may want to take a look at M-GAME’s virgin release the Google Play Store, called Lost Temple II — which I assume is the sequel to an original Lost Temple, but can’t find any trace of it to reference. In the tradition of this style of gameplay, your goal is to see how far you can get your ch... »

Achievement Unlocked: Phonechievements puts an XBOX 360 spin on your day-to-day device usage

Achievement Unlocked: Phonechievements puts an XBOX 360 spin on your day-to-day device usage

Phonechievement brings XBOX 360-like achievements to your mobile device Anyone who has ever played an XBOX 360 game is familiar with the satisfying feeling that accompanies an unlocked achievement. Now, thanks to XDA Forum Member slackydroid of PixelMark, you can get that same satisfaction by completing specific tasks on your Android device with an interesting new app, called Phonechievements. Sim... »

Samsung Reveals the Galaxy SII Plus

Samsung Reveals the Galaxy SII Plus

Samsung’s best-selling Galaxy SII is about to get a bit of a face-lift and tummy tuck. After sliding out the ace-up-their-sleeve of announcing that the original Galaxy SII would be receiving a manual Android 4.1 Jellybean update, Samsung has now shown the rest of their hand. Say hello to the Galaxy SII Plus. The Galaxy SII Plus, powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, will be running Androi... »

[How-to] Unlock Your Samsung Note 2 or S3

[How-to] Unlock Your Samsung Note 2 or S3

Do you want to unlock your nice shiny Note 2 or Galaxy S3 but don’t want to pay your carrier to do it? Thanks to an enterprising developer over at the XDA forums now you can do just that via a hidden Samsung menu. This will work on the N7105, N7100 and some of the S3 variants but not all of them. Your phone MUST be running Jelly Bean 4.1 or upwards or the menu choices you need won’t be... »

Toolkits surface for a slew of Nexus devices to make your life much easier

Toolkits surface for a slew of Nexus devices to make your life much easier

Toolkits are now available for the Nexus 4, Nexus 10, Nexus S, and Nexus S 4G, thanks to the never-resting minds over on XDA who have made it their mission to take all the guesswork and issues out of rooting and installing a custom recovery and making the process simple, even for those with no experience in Android hackery. If you’re like Keyan and want to learn how to do things manually, ju... »

New MMORPG: Spacetime Studios unleashes Arcane Legends for free on Google Play

New MMORPG: Spacetime Studios unleashes Arcane Legends for free on Google Play

Heads up Android gamers! If you’re looking for something new to occupy your time and the attention of your fingers for a while, you might be interested to learn about the launch of Spacetime Studio’s newest free title, Arcane Legends. The game is touted by Joystiq as a smash Legends hit, so if you’re familiar with any of Spacetime’s previous offerings and you liked them, yo... »

Angry Birds Star Wars available now on Google Play

Angry Birds Star Wars available now on Google Play

Angry Birds Star Wars, the latest installment to Rovio’s bread-and-butter franchise series, is now available for Android smartphones and tablets. In this edition, it’s pretty much the same old story of the birds against the piggies, with a Star Wars theme and a few new gimmicks and gadgets to keep players busy for another week or so. Have a peek at the details from the Play Store below... »

[Review] Picture Password Lockscreen by Twinblade: bugs make it miss the mark

[Review] Picture Password Lockscreen by Twinblade: bugs make it miss the mark

Picture password lockscreen by Twinblade is an app designed to securely lock your screen down and prevent anyone from being able to gain access to your phone. After having seen a glowing write up on it earlier I decided to give it a try. It works by having you choose a picture from your gallery and then draw a dot, a line and a circle on it. Since you choose where to draw these it makes it very di... »

Code found in CyanogenMod that logs device unlock patterns, already removed in latest nightlies

Code found in CyanogenMod that logs device unlock patterns, already removed in latest nightlies

A quick public service announcement for those of our readers who’re running CyanogenMod on any of their devices: If you haven’t already installed the latest nightly build, you might want to do so in the near future. This evening, we caught wind of a controversial line of code found in the project by CM developer, Gabriel Castro. The line in question causes the device’s unlock pat... »

[Game Review] Beat Hazard Ultra Beta: Asteroids on Music acid

[Game Review] Beat Hazard Ultra Beta: Asteroids on Music acid

My roommate and I have been testing some beta apps lately, and we just recently both got the chance to try out Beat Hazard Ultra for Android. It’s a direct port from the desktop version, but has been long overdue thanks to the way Android handles certain files. Here’s our joint review on the beta we received. Say hello to Beat Hazard Ultra. This is an arcade shooter where you control a... »

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