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When Gamevil released Zenonia on the Android Market, it was the first real action rpg game that graced our plattform. Nearly every gamer knows this title, since it is one of the most successful Android game series available (at the time of this writing, Zenonia 2 ist still #6 and Zenonia #19 in the top paid gaming charts).
Today Gamevil will release the third chapter in the series and according to their Twitter account, this time the whole game will be free.
The first two Zenonia already have a fake “free” version, you know, a mislabeled Demo that only shows the first 15 minutes of the game, so we’ll stay sceptical until the release, we will update this post, when we get our hands on the game later today. A few posts down they say it has in-app billing, so we’ll wait and see if this is really free.
Update It’s out now and it really is free, I played through the first dungeon and the first town until the game opens up. The only place where you can spend money is in the in game shop, where you can buy gold, transport scrolls, special armor etc.
Market Link
Here’s a flyer, that will give you an overview over all new features in the game:
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Be ready for a hot title for Android, because with Burn the Rope comes a game where you can play with fire. In this game movement, skill and concentration is required of you, so it’s not for the lazy gamers among you. Read my review and decide for yourself, I like it and I hope I can “infect” you, if you get the joke, you’ve already won something xD.

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The game Uncle Pumpkin’s Journey is a great free game in the 2-D perspective from the manufacturer rpg90. I have played the game for a while to find out, if it is worthwhile for you to invest your time and since we don’t talk about bad games at Androidpimps, you know now it is worth a look.

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This morning we have a very special treat for all Om Nom lovers, the official version of Cut the Rope is now finally available for Android.
GetJar managed to snap up another exclusive for a while and while we usually wait until the android market release of a game, we are so happy about the release, that we can even see past the lousy mobile web interface that doesn’t recognize the N1 and that it doesn’t even work with the quick download code, because the mobile page loops with the message that the phone is not recognized. But the download over the website works, even if it is a little slow because of the heavy demand.

The game includes 7 Level boxes with 25 Levels at the moment and more are already teased in the game.

Here’s the link to GetJar and also a video that demos the game on Android for all the people, that don’t already know this very famous iPhone puzzler, you’ll love it.

Download at GetJar

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FGOL just released the third part of the Hungry Shark series for Android. It’s pretty much more of the same in a new environment (so you can just check our review of the first part for gameplay infos) and with a new endboss, but since Hungry Shark is still one of my favorite tilt based games, that’s good enough. Sadly the price is still nearly five times higher then the iPhone counterpart of the same game. Let’s hope that they will have some sort of promotion on Shark week like they had last year, which will start on 31th July.

Here is the trailer for Hungry Shark 3, still weird as ever.

Market Link

Popularity: 4% [?]

According to the Android Market until now “Contract Killer” has already between 1 and 5 million installations and since I’m hooked on the game for the last two weeks, there needs to be a review!
I hope you’ll find my first review interesting.

Oldschool gamer will remember the line of First Person-Arcade Shootergames, where you just navigate a crosshair per mouse and then you just shoot around. Be it human enemies in war, Aliens or some items like cans. Contract Killer has a lot of similarities with these shooters, but it’s not a rail shooter like the arcade ports of the Operation W*lf-, House of the Dead- or Time Crisis-series. The levels or better said the areas in Contract Killer are not scrolling, because the player is a sniper. As a professional sniper you hide and don’t go in guns blazing like an action hero. From the window a sniper only has a limited view on the surrounding area.

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When I did a review on Burning Tires a while ago I already mentioned that I was really looking forward to Galaxy on Fire 2 on Android. I was a little disappointed, when they told me at MWC that the standard version is Xperia Play exclusive and that the advanced Tegra Version is of course only available for Tegra devices, so I planned to postpone to play it until I upgrade my handset (which will be when Google releases a worthwile successor to the Nexus One).
Then Chainfire3D was released and while some games worked with it on the Nexus One, I doubted that Galaxy on Fire 2 would run.
But with the newest version of Chainfire3D Pro and reduced texture quality, the game runs nearly flawless!
Of course the game looks even better on Tegra devices, but to play this advanced version on a N1 is something you should have seen.
So here are the first 30 minutes + the Chainfire 3D settings in a video demonstration, all of this still takes place in the free part of the game, so everyone who has a Android device that works with Chainfire3D can check out how it runs on their device for free themselves.

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Fishlabs just released their popular Sci-fi shooter Galaxy on Fire 2 for Tegra devices. This version of the game has 4 times as much details in the textures and a higher polycount, which enhances this already great game with cutting edge visuals on Tegra devices. You can download the game for free, but to unlock the full version, you will have too pay $14.99 / €11,99 / £8.99 via in-app purchase.

Here’s the market link and a video of the Tegra Version I shot at MWC, you can find the full press release in german below.

Market Link
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Hyperbees just published a new physics game called Shaky Tower, it is a physics puzzler with a lot of different gameplay mechanics from a new developer called Mobilness.
You stack towers, roll around per accelerometer or do both at once. The game has a lot of content (6 Worlds, 2 game modes and over 100 Level, a level editor and more levels are coming soon) and it is available for free on the Android market.
However, it has in app purchases to get rid of the ads and you can buy more currency to unlock other features like a level skip, new levelpacks etc.

They were so kind to provide us with 20 promo codes, that will get rid of the ads for you and they will credit you some extra virtual currency.

To get one of the codes, send me a mail with the subject line Giveaway to … and I will reply with the code.

All of the codes are gone now.

How to use them:
In the game go to the shop, tap “Get *”, then tap Enter promo code.
Key in promo code, tap “OK”. You will get 25 Stars. Please note this
works for Android 2.0+ only. Each code can be used only once by one
person. The code is associated with player’s Google account.

Market Link

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Square Enix just released a new kind of manga/game hybrid in the Android market and after playing the first episode, I’m absolutely hooked on the concept.
The story starts in a variation of Paris, you follow a guy named Cid and his partner Ciela, who have a device called PAD that let’s them imagine stuff and create it out of thin air. They fight monsters that someone else imagined up and travel through different worlds. In the first part, they fight a huge monster at the Eiffel Tower and meet another group of people, that can also imagine up stuff. The whole story feels like the first chapter in a Manga series and will hopefully make more sense further down the road, but the first chapter is more focused in showing you the concept instead of developing a solid background story.

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