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Petrol-laced Offroad Legends 2 is not your ordinary racing game

Ever tried driving off road? I bet you haven’t because the geek in you is too afraid to get rough and dirty. But hey, you can still live this dream by playing games such as the Offroad Legends 2. It’s still as thrilling and heart-stopping like the real thing. (Of course, no one is stopping you to buy that dream monster trucks of yours…)

The Offroad Legends 2 is a new racing adventure by DogByte Games. Experience driving 4 x 4 offroades, desert trucks, and monster trucks of your choice. With the impressive graphis and ground-breaking physics featured on the mobile game, you’ll experience your adrenaline pumped up with excitement.

This is the second iteration of the game and its grachics and physics are more complex and detailed than ever as described. It now has more than 48 amazing tracks to beat and features 12 vehicles to unlock and drive. The Offroad Legends 2 is multiplayer so you can play with other gamers via the Google Game Services. Other features include controller support, playground for the kids, vehicle turning, and real world car sounds and weather effects for a complete racing game experience. You can choose from among the four game modes available: Lava Jump, Racing, Transporter, and Destruction.

Download Offroad Legends 2 from the Google Play Store

How to Set Up Trusted Locations in Android Lollipop

Having a PIN code or pattern to protect your device makes a lot of sense, but it's also annoying. Thankfully, the new version of Android lets you automatically turn off this security layer when you're at home or the office or anywhere else you regularly go. Here's how to set it up.

RPG standout The Witcher arrives on Android as board game

The app is called “The Witcher Adventure Game” and it is a digitized version of the board game based on the standout RPG game made by CD Projekt Red. It’s a multiplayer game that allows you play as one of four heroes who wander around the game territory, battling monsters, and gaining experience and glory. Sounds fun right?

The twist of the game is that choosing any of the heroes will force you to play the game with a different strategy, as each of them have different methods progressing in the game. One uses combat skills, the other magic, the other charm, and the other one diplomacy. So there is a potential of playing the game differently every time.

The board game features over 200 cards, and then it also allows for online multiplayer gameplay. If playing alone, the game also has a human vs. AI game. The art design of the digital board game will be very familiar to those who have played the RPG on console or PC.

It’s another one of those themed games that should be popular for a specific group of people, mainly the ones who have played “The Witcher” before. But if you are new to the franchise, the casual nature of the game allows you to learn it just as fast as any other digital board game out there. It is available via the Google Play Store for USD$5.99.

SOURCE: Google Play Store

Peter Molyneux’s Godus now on Android, all you mortals despair

Peter Molyneux, one of the preeminent British game designers of our day, has received a lot of deserved recognition for another one of his “play god” games – this most recent called “Godus”. The game has spent a lot of time on Steam and iOS, but now it’s finally out on Android.

The genre is easy enough to learn, Godus allows you to become a creator – you can build and build, or you can destroy. You can control islands, make them either rise or fall. Essentially, you can become the deity of your own little universe. How you are as a creator will dictate how many followers you will have. If you are a likable creator deity, pretty soon you will have lots of mortals following you.

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Reviews for the game have been on the warm side, although there are some who are just not into it. We say it’s definitely worth a try – give it a spin and see how you are as a creator. If you’re having a particularly bad day, this is your chance to hurl meteors at people just because you can.

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The app is free to download, with in-app purchases. Give it a try and tell us what you think about it. Who knows, you might be better at this than your day job. Check out the source link via Google Play Store.

SOURCE: Google Play Store

Air Dock 2.0 brings more mounting options, new Qi transmitter

If you wanted to support their previous crowd-funded product but were unable to do so, now is your chance to do so. The makers of Air Dock, the wireless mobile device charging station built for your car have now come up with an updated version with more mounting options and better features as well. Unsurprisingly, it's called Air Dock 2.0, and it's once gain asking for your support through IndieGoGo.

If this is the first time you've heard of Air Dock, it's a device that you mount on your car and uses Qi inductive charging technology that transfers energy between your smartphone and the dock itself. For mounting purposes, it uses nano suction foam so there is no need for clamps or wires to attach your phone. You simply place it on the dock. For version 2.0, there are now four mounting options. You have a standard mount for smooth surfaces, another one for textured surfaces, a long flexible mount that can be bent into many positions, and a CD mount, for when your car's CD player is useless and instead you can use it to mount the Air Dock.

There are other changes in Air Dock 2.0 and that includes a new Qi transmitter that lets you use thicker phone cases because it now has a longer charging range. It is now also NFC-enabled so you can now trigger events on your smartphone using the Air Dock. Design-wise, it also has several improvements like relocating the USB port and making it thinner.

There are 57 days left in their campaign where they have to reach $85,000 to start the production of the Air Dock 2.0. The earliest estimated delivery date is February 2015, so if you want your car to have this charging dock by then, better support this project through IndieGoGo.

SOURCE: IndieGogo

CyanogenMod outs official CM11 nightlies for Verizon LG G3

There have been a lot of unofficial CM11-based/CM11-like ROMs for the Verizon LG G3, but finally we have an official one – this is the official CM11 ROM for the Verizon LG G3 (together with nightlies). We got wind of this via the XDA developers forum. If you want some of this, dig in.

In case you were wondering CM11 is an open source, community built version of Android 4.4.4 KitKat – it’s not quite Lollipop yet – based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). The firmware is designed to increase overall performance of your device with some tweaks to Android that can only be found in CM11.

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If you want to go ahead and treat your Verizon LG G3 to some Kitkat lovin’ before the Lollipop flavors ultimately take over, head on to the official thread (check the source link). We need to tell you that flashing your smartphone with CM11 will need a rooted system and custom recovery installed.

If you haven’t done that yet, then we suggest it’s time for you to go ahead and test the waters if you can handle tweaking your device that way.

SOURCE: XDA

Android 5 for Xperia Z Ultra and Ouya? LG G3 Oversharpening Fixed! – XDA TV

Android 5.0 Lollipop lands on the Sony Xperia Z Ultra! That and much more news is covered by Jordan when he reviews all the important stories from this weekend. Included in this weekend’s news is the announcement of a Android TV port for the OUYA gaming console and be sure the check out the article talking about the LG G3 Oversharpening fix! That’s not all that’s covered in today’s video!

Jordan talks about the other videos released this weekend on XDA TV. XDA TV Producer RootJunky shows you how to write a batch file. XDA TV Producer rirozizo released a video talking about installing and using MultiROM. And if you missed it, be sure to check out Jordan’s Review of the Nvidia SHIELD Tablet.. Pull up a chair and check out this video.

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