New Android apps and games November 10-16, 2013 (Updated all week)
Posted by: Timothy Tibbetts on 11/16/2013 07:32 AM
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Here are some of this weeks trending or best rated games and apps for your Android device. Updated all week when something cool shows up. We also just posted The 7 best apps for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2013 so you can easily get the latest, and best, app for the upcoming shopping season.
SPIN AND WIN! MONOPOLY Slots combines big casino wins with the beloved world of MONOPOLY. Take a spin and be a winner every day on your Android smartphone or tablet.
- FAST, FUN, FREE
- Play through a variety of MONOPOLY-themed slot machines. Double your luck with Twins, triple it with 3x3, or take it up a notch with 3x5 slots. Celebrate the big payouts while Mr. MONOPOLY cheers you on!
- MORE WAYS TO WIN BIG
- Play bonus mini games to make it rain money or take a Chance to “Double” or “Quadruple Up”!
- GO WILDER!
- Score big bonuses with Mystery Wilds, Stacked Wilds, Free Spins, and 2X Multipliers.
WANT MORE?
- Level up to unlock even more FREE slot themes, with new ones added regularly!
- Don’t miss the winning-est slots game on Google Play!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.ea.game.monopolyslots_na
Traffic Racer
Traffic Racer is a milestone in the genre of endless arcade racing. Drive your car through highway traffic, earn cash, upgrade your car and buy new ones. Try to be one of the fastest drivers in the global leaderboards.
KEY FEATURES
- Stunning 3D graphics
- Smooth and realistic car handling
- 17 different cars to choose from
- 4 detailed environments: suburb, desert, snowy and city night
- 4 game modes: Endless, Two-Way, Time Trial and Free Ride
- Basic customization through paint and wheels
- Online Leaderboards and Achievements
GAMEPLAY
- Tilt or Touch to steer
- Touch gas button to accelarate
- Touch brake button to slow down
Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skgames.trafficracer
FCC Speed Test
The FCC Speed Test app accurately measures your mobile broadband performance and displays an in-depth view of its factors (e.g. download and upload speed, latency, and packet loss). APK download available.
Learn about your mobile broadband performance in one click. Track it over time.
No personally-identifiable information is collected whatsoever. Testing is totally anonymous.
Still curious? Read below for more detail.
Mobile broadband has become part of our everyday infrastructure. We hope the app helps provide greater clarity about your mobile broadband performance.
Once installed, the app will run periodically in the background. It will automatically perform tests when you aren’t using your smartphone. Aggregated, anonymous data will also help us build a map of mobile broadband performance across the country.
Privacy is paramount. The FCC has taken significant measures to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of volunteers for this program. Using privacy measures developed and reviewed by a diverse team of privacy experts, any data that could potentially identify specific smartphones is analyzed and processed to ensure privacy protection.
How does this help you?
• Access real-time performance data on your device.
• Historical results available at the touch of a screen.
• Be a volunteer! You can help the FCC’s Measuring Broadband America program in developing the first open and transparent information on mobile broadband performance in the United States.
• Tests run automatically, you don’t even have to think about it.
• Run manual tests on Download Speed, Upload Speed, Latency and Packet Loss.
• Additional passive metrics collected such as Cell ID, Signal Strength and GPS location.
• By default, testing is limited to 100 MB per month--always consider your broadband usage carefully on limited data allowance plans.
• Raise your data cap to see more performance data.
• Lower your data cap and set a date to reset data caps so you don’t go over the limit on your plan.
Download: http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/fcc_speed_test.html
Fanatical Football
Fanatical Football delivers the #1 realistic football experience to date on Android. Pick and lead your team through exhibition and season matches all the way to final victory!
Fanatical Football makes you feel the pulse of the NFL season. Build your team and run the show on offense and defense with new and improved touch controls and game modes! Score touchdowns by running, passing, and making big hits on D with intuitive tap and swipe controls. Thanks to immersive graphics and sounds, enjoy revamped crowd and environmental effects, making your Football experience more authentic than ever!
Game Features:
- Awesome graphics featuring you with incredibly detailed players in the most impressive setting ever seen
- Quick Game mode and Championship mode
- Build and upgrade your team and equip special power-ups
Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wordsmobile.nfl&hl=en
Ice Rage Free
#1 Sports Game on smartphone in the US and 70 other countries. Over 2 million players! Ice Rage brings ice hockey into the 21st century, whilst paying tribute to 1984’s Hat Trick. Players face off across a ice rink, in a hockey duel – one player and one keeper one each side. Play is rapid and rough, with players spending as much time eating the ice as on their feet. There are three different single player modes (Tournament, Quick Match and Deathmatch) and a single-device multiplayer. There are also tons of unique characters to choose from such as lightning fast Antero or heavy-hitting Enviro-Bear. Team them up with crazy goalies like Santa and you’re sure to get the upper hand.
Superb animation and charismatic characters make this a game you won’t forget in a hurry. We dare you to take on the championship or challenge your friend in the most intense single-device multiplayer you've ever experienced.
• Music and sound FX from the audio designer of Alan Wake & Max Payne.
• Single-device multiplayer for 2 people
• Awesome 3D graphics
• Tournament mode: Can you defeat the legendary Skar?
• Over 2 million players can’t be wrong!
• The best single-player Hockey game around.
Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.herocraft.game.free.icerage
Start
Looking for a lockscreen app? Forget anything you know about lock screens. Download Start and get ready to be amazed!
Start is a next-generation start screen. Start gives you quick access to everything that matters to you from your start screen. Start connects with facebook, twitter, flickr, Youtube, local weather forecasts, photo gallery, and a host of news providers using RSS feeds to make your start screen really yours.
It’s easy, it’s cool and it saves you a lot of time. To make Start even more fun, we have designed hundreds of FREE themes for you to choose from.
We know how much you care about your battery life so we’ve designed Start not to drain it. To give you maximum peace of mind, Start works perfectly with your native phone security.
With Start you can:
- Enjoy excellent performance with no delays
- Easily launch up to 24 apps of your choice or just let our smart algorithm set it automatically for you
- On Screen quick access configuration with a long press
- Stream your social media feeds with a single swipe
- Launch the camera and any related app
- Call/text/email your friends and family without unlocking your phone
- Get your favorite content from hundreds of sources
- Select your favorite theme or use your own personal picture as a background
- Chose and configure our widgets e.g. date, time and battery meter
- Switch between ring/vibrate/mute and unlock your phone with cool sliders
Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.celltick.lockscreen
Cute'n'Angry Bubble Trouble
Bubble your way into fun by playing this cute, colorful touch arcade game!
Bounce into the world of Cute'n'Angry and join them in their amazing adventures! These two are always up to no good and this time they’ve gotten themselves into some bubble trouble. Release the power of cuteness and burst some anger to help them throughout their fun, bubbly journey in Bubble Land. Join Cute, Angry and their friends Grumpy and Sneaky in their quest to blast fun. Have a fantastic time completing the missions by playing tag with the Candy Fairy and escaping Bum, the fierce dragon.
Features:
- amazing adventures across a deliciously colorful Bubble Land
- fast-paced touch arcade game
- 6 fun, cute and colorful characters
- thrilling animations and playful sounds
- stunningly beautiful graphics that take you into a magical world
- easy to learn but challenging to master
- share your amazing score with your Facebook friends
- improve your focusing abilities
- unleash your competitivity in the survival mode
- challenge your imagination and improve eye-hand coordination
Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.agplay.cutenangrybubbletrouble
Bubble Shooter
The most fun and addictive easy-bubble shooting game!
Bring out the fun from your android device. One of the most amazing time killers ever.
Clear all the bubbles from your screen and clear various levels as you go!
Features:
- Puzzle Mode,use the limited bubbles to clear all the bubbles on the screen.
- Arcade Mode,clear all the descending bubbles.
- Having 300+ different and challenging levels.
- Fun and addictive gameplay
Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bubble.shooter.adventure.ixogame
If you are into bubble poppers another game is trending called Bubble Popo and can be downloaded at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blaze.bubble2
One Clue
One Clue is the best word puzzle game on Googe Play! We show you 1 letter and an interesting clue and it's up to you to unscramble 1 word. There are hints are your disposal that will help you if you ever get stumped. We're created hundreds of word puzzles for you to show your word recognition skills.
Your search for the best word puzzles on Google Play is over! Get One Clue today!
Free to play anytime and anywhere
HIGHLY ADDICTIVE
Pure, simple, addictive fun!
REVIEWS
"12 out of 10 stars!"
"If you love crosswords and word search puzzles, you'll love this!
Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bonfiremedia.one.letter.one.word
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
The world’s most popular anti-malware technology has now gone mobile! Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Mobile protects your phone or tablet from malware, infected apps, and unauthorized surveillance.
- Detects and eliminates malware, including spyware and Trojans
- Scans your apps for malicious code
- Stops unauthorized access to your personal data
- Scans your Android device for security vulnerabilities
- Identifies applications that are tracking your location
Take your anti-malware protection to go
Make your smartphone smarter
Choose what you keep private
Close the security holes
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Mobile automatically recognizes security vulnerabilities in your Android device’s settings. Then it makes recommendations on how to close those holes.
Download: http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/malwarebytes_anti_malware_for_android.html
True Launcher
True Launcher is a unique new launcher focused on organization, customization, and speed! Where most launchers lump all of your applications together in alphabetical order in the app drawer, True Launcher aims to organize your apps according to the categories they were matched to in the Google Play Store. True launcher also includes a built in search function and tons of customization options making it a great, free home screen replacement!
Stop swiping and get organized! Try True Launcher today!
App Drawer Features:
- Separation of pre-installed apps and apps downloaded from the Play Store using the new My Play tab in the App Drawer
- Group Play Store apps either Alphabetically or by Play Store Category
- Sort apps based on installation time
- Hide unwanted apps from the app drawer - no more clutter!
- Use the built in app search function to find the app you are looking for quickly
- View your App Drawer as a list OR as a grid - your choice!
- Change the background color in the app drawer - no more boring black!
Homescreen Features:
- Icon and Theme support - Customize your device with hundreds of themes and icon sets from the Play Store
- Make any homescreen widget resizeable!
- Lock function prevents unwanted changes to the homescreens
- Increase or decrease the number of homescreens as well as the number of apps on each screen
- Customize settings for the dock - more settings for the apps you use most!
- Customize the background and other features of folders!
Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trueteam.launcher
CalculatorNg
Free scientific calculator with intelligent user interface
From basic arithmetic to trigonometry, this calculator offers all the features you need in everyday life and much more. Nevertheless, it takes advantage of the possibilities your smartphone offers to make the usage particularly easy and fast.
Extras:
- The expression can be edited freely - tap into any position of your expression and insert, delete or update numbers, operators and functions
- Shake the device to clear the input (optional)
- the results are displayed instantly
- History - you'll never need to type the same calculation twice again
- swipe the keypad to the left to access advanced functions
- Useful Landscape Mode with even more functions
- Swipe to delete in the history
This is the ad supported version of the Calculator. A pro version without ads will soon be available.
Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.chriweb.calculatorng
Got a great app you want to share with your fellow geeks? Drop an email to tim @ majorgeeks or leave a comment below and we will look into it.
SPIN AND WIN! MONOPOLY Slots combines big casino wins with the beloved world of MONOPOLY. Take a spin and be a winner every day on your Android smartphone or tablet.- FAST, FUN, FREE
- Play through a variety of MONOPOLY-themed slot machines. Double your luck with Twins, triple it with 3x3, or take it up a notch with 3x5 slots. Celebrate the big payouts while Mr. MONOPOLY cheers you on!
- MORE WAYS TO WIN BIG
- Play bonus mini games to make it rain money or take a Chance to “Double” or “Quadruple Up”!
- GO WILDER!
- Score big bonuses with Mystery Wilds, Stacked Wilds, Free Spins, and 2X Multipliers.
WANT MORE?
- Level up to unlock even more FREE slot themes, with new ones added regularly!
- Don’t miss the winning-est slots game on Google Play!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.ea.game.monopolyslots_na
Traffic Racer
Traffic Racer is a milestone in the genre of endless arcade racing. Drive your car through highway traffic, earn cash, upgrade your car and buy new ones. Try to be one of the fastest drivers in the global leaderboards.KEY FEATURES
- Stunning 3D graphics
- Smooth and realistic car handling
- 17 different cars to choose from
- 4 detailed environments: suburb, desert, snowy and city night
- 4 game modes: Endless, Two-Way, Time Trial and Free Ride
- Basic customization through paint and wheels
- Online Leaderboards and Achievements
GAMEPLAY
- Tilt or Touch to steer
- Touch gas button to accelarate
- Touch brake button to slow down
Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skgames.trafficracer
FCC Speed Test
The FCC Speed Test app accurately measures your mobile broadband performance and displays an in-depth view of its factors (e.g. download and upload speed, latency, and packet loss). APK download available.Learn about your mobile broadband performance in one click. Track it over time.
No personally-identifiable information is collected whatsoever. Testing is totally anonymous.
Still curious? Read below for more detail.
Mobile broadband has become part of our everyday infrastructure. We hope the app helps provide greater clarity about your mobile broadband performance.
Once installed, the app will run periodically in the background. It will automatically perform tests when you aren’t using your smartphone. Aggregated, anonymous data will also help us build a map of mobile broadband performance across the country.
Privacy is paramount. The FCC has taken significant measures to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of volunteers for this program. Using privacy measures developed and reviewed by a diverse team of privacy experts, any data that could potentially identify specific smartphones is analyzed and processed to ensure privacy protection.
How does this help you?
• Access real-time performance data on your device.
• Historical results available at the touch of a screen.
• Be a volunteer! You can help the FCC’s Measuring Broadband America program in developing the first open and transparent information on mobile broadband performance in the United States.
• Tests run automatically, you don’t even have to think about it.
• Run manual tests on Download Speed, Upload Speed, Latency and Packet Loss.
• Additional passive metrics collected such as Cell ID, Signal Strength and GPS location.
• By default, testing is limited to 100 MB per month--always consider your broadband usage carefully on limited data allowance plans.
• Raise your data cap to see more performance data.
• Lower your data cap and set a date to reset data caps so you don’t go over the limit on your plan.
Download: http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/fcc_speed_test.html
Fanatical Football
Fanatical Football delivers the #1 realistic football experience to date on Android. Pick and lead your team through exhibition and season matches all the way to final victory!Fanatical Football makes you feel the pulse of the NFL season. Build your team and run the show on offense and defense with new and improved touch controls and game modes! Score touchdowns by running, passing, and making big hits on D with intuitive tap and swipe controls. Thanks to immersive graphics and sounds, enjoy revamped crowd and environmental effects, making your Football experience more authentic than ever!
Game Features:
- Awesome graphics featuring you with incredibly detailed players in the most impressive setting ever seen
- Quick Game mode and Championship mode
- Build and upgrade your team and equip special power-ups
Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wordsmobile.nfl&hl=en
Ice Rage Free
#1 Sports Game on smartphone in the US and 70 other countries. Over 2 million players! Ice Rage brings ice hockey into the 21st century, whilst paying tribute to 1984’s Hat Trick. Players face off across a ice rink, in a hockey duel – one player and one keeper one each side. Play is rapid and rough, with players spending as much time eating the ice as on their feet. There are three different single player modes (Tournament, Quick Match and Deathmatch) and a single-device multiplayer. There are also tons of unique characters to choose from such as lightning fast Antero or heavy-hitting Enviro-Bear. Team them up with crazy goalies like Santa and you’re sure to get the upper hand.Superb animation and charismatic characters make this a game you won’t forget in a hurry. We dare you to take on the championship or challenge your friend in the most intense single-device multiplayer you've ever experienced.
• Music and sound FX from the audio designer of Alan Wake & Max Payne.
• Single-device multiplayer for 2 people
• Awesome 3D graphics
• Tournament mode: Can you defeat the legendary Skar?
• Over 2 million players can’t be wrong!
• The best single-player Hockey game around.
Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.herocraft.game.free.icerage
Start
Looking for a lockscreen app? Forget anything you know about lock screens. Download Start and get ready to be amazed!Start is a next-generation start screen. Start gives you quick access to everything that matters to you from your start screen. Start connects with facebook, twitter, flickr, Youtube, local weather forecasts, photo gallery, and a host of news providers using RSS feeds to make your start screen really yours.
It’s easy, it’s cool and it saves you a lot of time. To make Start even more fun, we have designed hundreds of FREE themes for you to choose from.
We know how much you care about your battery life so we’ve designed Start not to drain it. To give you maximum peace of mind, Start works perfectly with your native phone security.
With Start you can:
- Enjoy excellent performance with no delays
- Easily launch up to 24 apps of your choice or just let our smart algorithm set it automatically for you
- On Screen quick access configuration with a long press
- Stream your social media feeds with a single swipe
- Launch the camera and any related app
- Call/text/email your friends and family without unlocking your phone
- Get your favorite content from hundreds of sources
- Select your favorite theme or use your own personal picture as a background
- Chose and configure our widgets e.g. date, time and battery meter
- Switch between ring/vibrate/mute and unlock your phone with cool sliders
Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.celltick.lockscreen
Cute'n'Angry Bubble Trouble
Bubble your way into fun by playing this cute, colorful touch arcade game!Bounce into the world of Cute'n'Angry and join them in their amazing adventures! These two are always up to no good and this time they’ve gotten themselves into some bubble trouble. Release the power of cuteness and burst some anger to help them throughout their fun, bubbly journey in Bubble Land. Join Cute, Angry and their friends Grumpy and Sneaky in their quest to blast fun. Have a fantastic time completing the missions by playing tag with the Candy Fairy and escaping Bum, the fierce dragon.
Features:
- amazing adventures across a deliciously colorful Bubble Land
- fast-paced touch arcade game
- 6 fun, cute and colorful characters
- thrilling animations and playful sounds
- stunningly beautiful graphics that take you into a magical world
- easy to learn but challenging to master
- share your amazing score with your Facebook friends
- improve your focusing abilities
- unleash your competitivity in the survival mode
- challenge your imagination and improve eye-hand coordination
Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.agplay.cutenangrybubbletrouble
Bubble Shooter
The most fun and addictive easy-bubble shooting game!Bring out the fun from your android device. One of the most amazing time killers ever.
Clear all the bubbles from your screen and clear various levels as you go!
Features:
- Puzzle Mode,use the limited bubbles to clear all the bubbles on the screen.
- Arcade Mode,clear all the descending bubbles.
- Having 300+ different and challenging levels.
- Fun and addictive gameplay
Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bubble.shooter.adventure.ixogame
If you are into bubble poppers another game is trending called Bubble Popo and can be downloaded at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blaze.bubble2
One Clue
One Clue is the best word puzzle game on Googe Play! We show you 1 letter and an interesting clue and it's up to you to unscramble 1 word. There are hints are your disposal that will help you if you ever get stumped. We're created hundreds of word puzzles for you to show your word recognition skills.Your search for the best word puzzles on Google Play is over! Get One Clue today!
Free to play anytime and anywhere
HIGHLY ADDICTIVE
Pure, simple, addictive fun!
REVIEWS
"12 out of 10 stars!"
"If you love crosswords and word search puzzles, you'll love this!
Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bonfiremedia.one.letter.one.word
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
The world’s most popular anti-malware technology has now gone mobile! Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Mobile protects your phone or tablet from malware, infected apps, and unauthorized surveillance. - Detects and eliminates malware, including spyware and Trojans
- Scans your apps for malicious code
- Stops unauthorized access to your personal data
- Scans your Android device for security vulnerabilities
- Identifies applications that are tracking your location
Take your anti-malware protection to go
Make your smartphone smarter
Choose what you keep private
Close the security holes
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Mobile automatically recognizes security vulnerabilities in your Android device’s settings. Then it makes recommendations on how to close those holes.
Download: http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/malwarebytes_anti_malware_for_android.html
True Launcher
True Launcher is a unique new launcher focused on organization, customization, and speed! Where most launchers lump all of your applications together in alphabetical order in the app drawer, True Launcher aims to organize your apps according to the categories they were matched to in the Google Play Store. True launcher also includes a built in search function and tons of customization options making it a great, free home screen replacement!Stop swiping and get organized! Try True Launcher today!
App Drawer Features:
- Separation of pre-installed apps and apps downloaded from the Play Store using the new My Play tab in the App Drawer
- Group Play Store apps either Alphabetically or by Play Store Category
- Sort apps based on installation time
- Hide unwanted apps from the app drawer - no more clutter!
- Use the built in app search function to find the app you are looking for quickly
- View your App Drawer as a list OR as a grid - your choice!
- Change the background color in the app drawer - no more boring black!
Homescreen Features:
- Icon and Theme support - Customize your device with hundreds of themes and icon sets from the Play Store
- Make any homescreen widget resizeable!
- Lock function prevents unwanted changes to the homescreens
- Increase or decrease the number of homescreens as well as the number of apps on each screen
- Customize settings for the dock - more settings for the apps you use most!
- Customize the background and other features of folders!
Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trueteam.launcher
CalculatorNg
Free scientific calculator with intelligent user interfaceFrom basic arithmetic to trigonometry, this calculator offers all the features you need in everyday life and much more. Nevertheless, it takes advantage of the possibilities your smartphone offers to make the usage particularly easy and fast.
Extras:
- The expression can be edited freely - tap into any position of your expression and insert, delete or update numbers, operators and functions
- Shake the device to clear the input (optional)
- the results are displayed instantly
- History - you'll never need to type the same calculation twice again
- swipe the keypad to the left to access advanced functions
- Useful Landscape Mode with even more functions
- Swipe to delete in the history
This is the ad supported version of the Calculator. A pro version without ads will soon be available.
Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.chriweb.calculatorng
Got a great app you want to share with your fellow geeks? Drop an email to tim @ majorgeeks or leave a comment below and we will look into it.
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