Broken Sword II Smoking Mirror (£2.99)Īndroid gamers may be having a busy weekend, given the blitz of big releases this week. Exclusive to Amazon's Appstore and Kindle Fire tablet for now, it sees your children cutting, dyeing, washing and blow-drying the barnets of four cartoon characters. Swedish studio Toca Boca has made a collection of marvellously playful children's apps on iOS, but this is its first effort for Android. Sports Interactive's feted football management game is back for a second season on Android, offering 14 countries to ply your trade in, fully licensed players and teams, deep tactics and training strategy, and now in-app purchases to unlock power-ups and extra tests for the game's supplemental Challenge Mode. Like Instagram, too, it acts as a self-contained social network with a feed of videos from friends and celebrities. The app involves shooting short video clips, applying visual filters and music, then sharing on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Tumblr. Social videos app Viddy has been an enormous hit on iPhone, and now it's followed Instagram's (late) path onto Android. It's a lovely piece of work too: The Snowman and Snowdog swoop across the countryside while you tap on snowflakes and items, before flying over London landmarks towards the North Pole. The Snowman and the Snowdog (Free)Ĭhannel 4 is screening the sequel to The Snowman this Christmas, with a free game available in advance to whet the audience's appetite.

The game's release celebrates the original game's 10th anniversary. Its signature free-roaming gameplay is intact, with reworked controls and LOTS of bad shirts. Here's this week's roundup of brand new Android releases: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (£3.74)Ī week after the iOS version touched down, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City has made its 80s-inspired way onto Android. Remember too that prices quoted here are for the initial download: 'Free' often means 'freemium' with in-app purchases. IOS gets its own roundup, which will be published later in the day.

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