Another week sends us out looking for the coolest new apps and games. always free, never any affiliate links or scams. By popular demand we are now adding links to iTunes when available! These are either new or recently updated apps you might like.


Castle Rush - 5 Stars
(Android only) In Castle Rush two kings fight for the dominance in their territory. They can expand their kingdom by capturing areas around their own castle. Turn by turn they extent it more and more.

The one with the greater territory wins. Tatical reflections, experience and talent leads to victory.

In tricky missions your castle needs to be expanded more and more. On the one hand an important point on the map has to be reached and on the other hand very specific areas need to be captured.

Alone or against an enemy you have to achieve the goal in as few steps as possible. This tactical puzzle game based on the famous floodfill principle where you can capture one field type per round.

*** Features ***
- Mission Mode with different goals
- Singleplayer Mode
- Multiplayer Mode (against AI and your friends)
- Different game fields with almost unlimited possible fillings
- Smartphone and tablet support

Download:
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.pacdec.castlerush&hl=en

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Greed for Glory: Dragon Cities - 4.8 Stars
(Android only) Wage war in a game where "Free to Play" ACTUALLY MEANS free to play!

Prepare for Glory….and DRAGONS! Build up a mighty army and use strategy to defeat your enemies in this brilliant expansion for the hit free-to-play game Greed for Glory. Raid, destroy defenses, and steal resources in glorious and fun 3D battles. Defeat dragons in an all new campaign, and receive fun new items and additional resources.

Greed for Glory is an addictive city defense game that combines strategic building with fast-paced, epic battles. Join a kingdom and battle thousands of other players while leading a mighty army in tactical online wars.

** Features **
- Free to Play!
- All new dragon campaign!
- Kingdom vs Kingdom Battle! Join a kingdom with your friends and go to war
- Prove your kingdom’s glory by climbing the rankings
- Turn your small village into a massive impenetrable fortress
- Progress your empire through ten technological ages
- Construct and upgrade towers, gold mines, iron quarries, wall mazes, and trebuchets
- Recruit Elves, Knights, Dragons, and other creatures to battle in catastrophic crusades
- Employ countless strategies of defensive and offensive tactics to surpass your rivals

Download:
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.perblue.greedforglory.dc

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Doodle Reverse - 5 Stars
(Android only) Defeat the gravity and stay in the air as long as you can.

Keep landing on the bars not to fall down and collect the fruits from them.

Beware of the bombs otherwise you will explode!

The higher you survive, the higher you score!

Tilt your device left and right to move.

Features:
- Nice Graphics
- Share score with your friends
- Leaderboard








Download:
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.twist.DoodleReverse

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Gibbets 2 - 4.1 Stars
Tired of always losing at Hangman? Now it's time to get your own back on that noose-wielding bully!

Gibbets 2, the sequel to the Flash and iPhone smash hit, gives you chance to save the poor victims before they run out of breath! A truly innovative arcade puzzler where you'll have to aim your bow and arrow carefully to cut the hangman's rope without causing the victims further injury!

Use all manner of bonuses and pick ups, warps and teleports, to help you on your quest. You'll gain bonus points for rescuing multiple people with one arrow so try and gain the perfect score on each level. Accumulate even more points with the vulture blasting bonus round, then upload your high scores to challenge your friends!

Can you the handle the frantic pace and save the innocent before they take their final breath?

• Draw back your bow in this truly unique game of skill.
• Save the innocent people from hanging in over 50 challenging levels.
• Master the use of portals and pick ups across the colourful detailed landscapes.
• Unlock awards and achievements for your expert bowmanship
• The sequel to the million selling hit PC and iPhone game Gibbets

Download:
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.herocraft.game.free.gibbets2
iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gibbets-2/id540348847

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Learn Spanish with Lingorami - 4.7 Stars
Over 5 different learning games and 30+ Spanish lessons created by Ivy League graduates.

One of the best new Spanish learning games of 2013! Explore fun and silly adventures on your way to Spanish fluency!

Learn Spanish with Lingorami is a unique Spanish learning game. Instead of tedious lessons, learners play fun, arcade style games each teaching different skills like vocabulary, visual learning, spelling, and rapid recall. Each game challenges players with fun gaming mechanics. Talk about better than flash cards! We reward learning with achievements, unlocking mini-games, and unlocking funny comics to encourage learning.

The application includes over 30 lessons designed by Ivy League graduates with thousands of words and phrases. Each lesson include clear audio pronunciations for each word spoken by a native Spanish speaker as well as high quality image for each word or phrase for facilitating retention through visual learning.

At the core of the app, we use two proven language learning techniques, Interval Training and Active Recall, where user learns through short intervals of actively remembers words and phrases. Studies show that we remember pictures ridiculously well and pictures with words are even more memorable than pictures alone. Lingorami uses both translation and images along with spoken audio to create an immersive, rapid learning experience. Put simply, the Spanish learning games are not only fun but are proven to teach you new words and phrases fast.

Try the new way to learn a language today. Give your mind a snack and try Learn Spanish with Lingorami today.

German, French, Portuguese and English are also available at their website, Lingorami.com.

Editor's note: iTunes does not yet have enough ratings yet. 4.7 is based on Google Play.

Download:
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lingorami.spanish&hl=en
iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bb-beyond/id495955880

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App Ops 4.3 / 4.4 KitKat - 4.7 Stars
(Android only) This is the newest way to launch the native App Ops on your Android 4.4 KitKat phone and tablet, or (for rooted users) of installing the extended version of App Ops!
App Ops X Installer will install an eXtended version of AppOps on your Android 4.3 or 4.4 (KitKat) phone. It's the same App Ops you know, only recompiled and with new features slowly being added. This installer is required because the actual app (App Ops X) needs to be copied into your phone's /system/app folder and this kind of install is not natively supported by Google Play.

App Ops X PRO features - in-app purchase (requires ROOT to install, root not needed afterwards):
- notification that shows revoked permissions to the current foreground app
- batch grant/revoke a permission to all apps that requested it at once
- rules - automatically disallow permissions of your choosing to newly installed apps (like READ CONTACTS)
.. with more to come!

Known issues:
- doesn't work on PAC man ROM. Don't know what that is ? Then you have nothing to worry about!
- the list of apps won't load if you have multiple user accounts on your device, but we're working on a fix for AppOps X (it's a system bug and only Google can fix the native version of AppOps)

What is App Ops:
App Ops is a system settings app which allows you to revoke permissions on a per-app basis on your phone or tablet. This app was included by default on Android 4.3 but hidden, and then completely made unaccessible in Android 4.4. We've recompiled this app, added a few improvements like a search button (with more to come later) and now you can install it on your device too.

Download:
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.colortiger.appopsinstaller

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Bed Bath & Beyond - 4.7 Stars
Take the Bed Bath and Beyond shopping experience with you on the go!

Shop 100,000+ items using your mobile phone for anytime, anywhere access to your favorite brands and products.

Scan items in store, create and manage wedding & gift registries, view product availability, and order online pick-up in store…all in the palm of your hand.

You never know what you may find and our app makes shopping on the go convenient and easy.

Editor's Note: While the app gets 4.7 stars on Google Play, iOs users seem less than happy with it. At the time this was posted, 3 users made 3 separate complaints about the app including crashing, not finding local stores and no coupons. Not so sure about those reviews, so it;s up to you.





Download:
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digby.bedbathbeyond
iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bb-beyond/id495955880

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Stickman Soccer - 4.7 Stars
Experience pure soccer fun with fast paced gameplay, an astonishing atmosphere, stunning smooth animations, simple controls, insane action and tons of replay value. Choose your national soccer team and rank up while playing various seasons in spectacular stadiums or simple dominate in street soccer style matches. Decide whether you want full control over your players with manual running and shoot timing or use the automatic running mode where you have control over precise pass timing and watch your players tackle your opponents. Choose your favorite national soccer team from more than 32 different skilled teams and lead them to glory!

• #1 Soccer Game in various countries
• Stickman Soccer is now MOGA Enhanced! Available at major retailers, carrier stores and online at http://www.MOGAanywhere.com
• From the makers of various top hits like Stickman Downhill, Stick Stunt Biker, Stickman Tennis, Stickman Cliff Diving, Stickman Base Jumper, Rope'n'Fly and more...

FEATURES
• Quick Game, Seasons and Training Mode
• Bonus Street Soccer mode
• MOGA Game Controller support for Stickman Soccer
• 11 vs. 11 and 4 vs. 4 game modes
• Complete Seasons to challenge in
• Various stadiums and configurable game time
• 3 difficulty levels for longterm motivation (easy, medium, hard)
• Simple yet powerful touch controls with timing control
• Automatic or Manual Running
• 32 different soccer teams to choose from
• Match statistics
• Smooth animations with 60 frames per second
• Compete with your friends with the integrated world ranking leaderboard

Download:
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.djinnworks.StickmanSoccer
iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stickman-soccer/id725176312?mt=8

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reddit sync - 4.7 Stars
(Android only) Majorgeek says: I looked at most of the reddit apps and it is as simple as this: This one works about as good as it gets. All the others had glitches or terrible interfaces which is counter to the purpose of having this. If you want a reddit app, you're search is over. Updated Monday.

reddit sync is a great new way to enjoy reddit on the go. Easily sync your favorite subreddits for later offline viewing. Reddit Sync aims to bring you the fastest mobile reddit experience out there.

Introducing the brand new reddit sync! Featuring:
- Cards UI
- Multi user support
- Sidebar subreddit navigation
- Multireddit support
- Re-written from the ground up
- Remember what posts you've read with reddit gold
- And much more

Please note: this version is ad funded. To remove the ads, please upgrade to pro.
Head on over to http://reddit.com/r/redditsync for news and discussion on the app!

Please note, reddit sync is an unofficial app. reddit and the reddit alien logo, trademark and trade dress are registered trademarks owned by reddit Inc. and are used under license

Download:
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.laurencedawson.reddit_sync

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FIFA - 4.3 Stars
Download the most comprehensive football app on the planet and unlock the world of football. Hundreds of competitions, thousands of goals and over a million minutes of football every single week!

From the Bundesliga to the Barclays Premier League, MLS to La Liga, the World Match Centre provides unrivalled coverage of 197 leagues across the globe. Personalise your World Match Centre with national teams, competitions, and clubs ensuring you never miss kick-off, the final whistle or any action in-between ever again.

Get ready for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™! Be the first to discover the fate of your national team by following the Final Draw LIVE on December 6th! After the Final Draw is finished plot the path to glory with our World Cup match schedule, exclusive destination guide and team profiles.
Need to know where your national team is placed in the FIFA Coca-Cola World Ranking? Now you can check men's and women's national team rankings wherever you are, 24-7.

FIFA News brings you closer to the world of football than ever before with breaking stories, galleries from Getty Images, videos from the FIFA TV Studio and FIFA archives.

Explore FIFA brings to life FIFA's passion for developing the game and building a better future. Travel through each journey to discover our worldwide projects, the people they reach and share incredible stories of the lives they change.

Download the official FIFA app and never miss a moment in football again!

Want to find out more? See what FIFA Club members and other football fans say:

Download:
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fifa.fifaapp.android
iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fifa-official-app/id756904853?mt=8

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Burger Shop - 4.7 Stars
Make burgers, shakes and more in this Android™ version of this exciting food-making game that has been enjoyed by millions of fans on the PC/Mac and online. After receiving a set of strange blueprints in the mail, you build an extraordinary food-making contraption and open a restaurant. Your goal? Make tasty food and satisfy your customers as you try to discover the truth behind the mysterious blueprints. Burger Shop® is a fun and addicting time management game that features endless play.

Get ready for food-making fun with Burger Shop!

This Free Version of Burger Shop lets you play 20 levels of Story Mode and 2 restaurants in Challenge and Relax mode. If you enjoy the game, you can upgrade this game to the Full Version with a one-time payment!

FULL GAME FEATURES:
• 80 Story Levels and 80 Expert Story Levels!
• Challenge Modes and Relax Modes!
• 8 different restaurants!
• Over 60 different food items!
• 96 trophies to earn!
• Unlimited play!

Burger Shop offers endless play with four different play modes!

GAME MODES:
• Story Mode - Build your Burger empire and discover the secrets behind the mysterious BurgerTron!
• Challenge Mode - Play lightning fast one-minute rounds - but don't lose a customer or it's all over!
• Relax Mode - Serve food without any pressure or stress. Customers are infinitely patient.
• Expert Story Mode - So, you think you are the Burger Master? Put your food-making skills to the test!

Available in 12 languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese.

Download:
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gobit.burgershop
iOS iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/app/burger-shop-hd-free/id731642227?mt=8
iOs iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/app/burger-shop-free/id731052980?mt=8

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Battleship 2 - 4.7 Stars
(Android only) Battleship 2 is a board game everybody loves since childhood but with new options! Online multiplayer! Fight against the players from all over the world! You have a wide arsenal in your disposal: battleships, destroyers, bombers, mines, anti-aircraft defense, radars and other stuff. Place your ships of different size on the battlefield, launch the aircraft for massive bombshells and try to sink the rival ships.

By combining different positioning of your ships, aircraft, anti-aircraft defense and mines you can develop your own strategy for the game and leave no chances for your opponents!
Battleship 2 is a game with elaborate squared notebook graphics and effects, which make the game original and create a special atmosphere!
Game’s special features:

ONLINE FIGHTS:
Fight against opponents from all over the world over the Internet!
PLAY VS ANDROID:
Choose the difficulty level and try to beat Android. Earn points!
PLAY VIA BLUETOOTH:
Arrange battles against your friends and colleagues via Bluetooth.
PLAY WITH YOUR FRIEND ON ONE DEVICE:
You want to play with your friends on one device? Not a problem anymore! Place your ships, aircraft, mines, AAD and radars each in his or her turn and fight!
POINTS FOR VICTORIES:
Earn points by winning and buy aircraft, mines, AAD and radars and other stuff!
CHOOSING AND SETTING GAME MODES:
Choose the classic or advanced game mode. Change your arsenal any way you want.

Download:
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.byril.battleship2

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Traffic Racer - 4.7 Stars
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
- Rich types of NPC traffic including trucks, buses and SUVs.
- Basic customisation 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

TIPS
- The faster you go the more scores you get
- When driving over 100 kmh, overtake cars closely to get bonus scores and cash
- Driving in opposite direction in two-way mode gives extra score and cash

Download:
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skgames.trafficracer
iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/app/traffic-racer/id547101139

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