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Sunday, July 7, 2013

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Weekend Gaming: Slydris – a puzzle game with a twist

Posted: 06 Jul 2013 01:09 PM PDT

For your gaming this holiday weekend we wanted to find something a little unique, and fun, that you can enjoy for hours and hours. We stumbled across Slydris, a highly entertaining Tetris-like game for iOS. The popular iOS developers RadianGames have begun bringing their awesome titles to Android, and this is their latest one. If you love a good puzzle game, it’s worth checking out.

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At one point Slydris was rated the #1 Puzzle game on iOS last year, so it certainly sounded promising. It will run you $1.99, but after hours of gameplay the past few days we feel it’s worth the quick pennies. The last few weeks we’ve features explosive action games, so this week wanted something a little more casual.

Slydris is a tetris-like puzzler, that will have you thinking and taking your time instead of trying to beat the clock with falling bricks. The touch controls were the best aspect, aside from pretty nice and simple graphics, and makes the entire game just easy to play and enjoy. For a quick look at gameplay, and to see their title work on old small Android smartphones, all the way to 1080p HD tablets take a peek below.

As you see above Slydris offers a tetris-like experience where the user can slide to maneuver the tiles on the bottom of the display. You can slide them around to create combos, drop em when ready, and get bonus points and more. It’s a casual puzzle game, that’s for sure. There’s tons of specials and levels ups, three different game modes, and they even offer a dark background theme to preserve battery if you’d like.

Again, Slydris will run you $1.99 and it’s available from the link below. If you’ve been looking for a good puzzle game on Android, give it a try today.

VIA: Play Store

Moto X leaks again with custom white front panels

Posted: 06 Jul 2013 11:48 AM PDT

The details on Google and Motorola‘s Moto X smartphone are still a bit of a mystery. While the information continues to leak out, we’re still left wondering exactly what the internal specs are, and what exactly Google has planned. However, this week we learned a lot from Motorola’s own sign up page, and the leaked rear custom color plates.

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We know the Moto X will be highly customizable. Rumors with that detail have been seen for months. Motorola confirmed their “Made in the USA” completely customizable smartphone will be available soon, but we’re still left wondering when. This week we learned they’ll offer custom engravings, up to 16 different pastel colored rear panels covering the battery, and special color trim options as well.

However, now today another round of leaks is giving us a look at the front fascia of the Moto X. We’re seeing it in both white and black, with and without the Motorola logo. Likely the Moto logo we’ve been seeing is only for internal testing, and the front will be absent of any logo as we see in the image above.

The jury is still out on the final specs, but latest details that have followed these leaked images states a 1.7 GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 Pro. As a reminder that’s a slightly faster Galaxy S III. So still a powerful and speedy device, just not top-tier. Moto X should have a 4.7-inch HD display, and it appears that Google and Motorola are going for the mass market with this well rounded smartphone.

We should be learning more soon, and we’ll keep our eyes peeled for additional leaks and information. Latest reports suggest a July 11th reveal.