What happens when you package up four of Android’s über popular games and give someone the option of paying whatever they want for them? It’s called Humble Bundle. They’ve teamed up with app developers to give people the option of getting the best games, while also donating to helpful children’s charities. Awesome, right? Buy Anomaly, Osmos HD, and Edge for a certain amount, and then get World of Goo thrown in for free as long as you donate just $4 and some change. In the long run, you’re saving money on the games and you’re even able to have all the proceeds go to the charities. 

Well, you asked and Valve listened. The Steam app for Android is now open to everyone with a Steam account, so you can download it and start chatting it up with your buddies on your phone. The app is still under construction in some areas but I get the feeling that this will be getting frequent updates to fix all the problems.

In a bit of “I am not surprised” news, it seems that any apps offering the Steam functionality that were not licensed by Valve have been disappearing from the Market. Steam actually had an API available to the public so that they could make apps if they pleased, and there were a few pretty decent ones. However it seems that now Valve is in the game officially they would like you to kindly use theirs.

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If there was one concern that rooted users continue to bring up whenever a new OTA update is on the horizon, it’s whether or not it will break root. Just so you know, almost all updates break root and this question has become sort of a running joke at this point. But for those that are still worried, we wanted to turn you on to an app called Voodoo OTA RootKeeper that we have yet to feature for some reason.

The app makes a “protected backup” of your phone’s root that can be restored after updating your phone. So the next time your phone prompts you to update, be sure to load up RootKeeper, create that root backup, then apply the update, and then restore root. 

Talk about games that I can get excited about coming to Android. When Capcom recently announced their newest upcoming game, Ace Attorney 5, they also dropped the bomb that the first three games in the series would be getting re-releases with updated graphics. Ace Attorney 1, 2 and 3 will be coming to “Android devices.”

Mums the word on release date or what devices those will be but we will hear when these games get closer to releasing. The Ace Attorney HD games will cost you about $7.80 a piece or you can buy the trilogy for around $15.60. The Ace Attorney games are a cult classic and if you have not had the chance to play one before I would highly suggest trying one when they do release, they are great games.

Via: Siliconera

Cheers Rob!

While it’s not a fully functional toggle that will switch LTE on or off without having to leave a home screen, this will act as a shortcut to get you quickly into the “Mobile network settings” menu on the DROID RAZR, MAXX, and Bionic. It’s also free and the only option you really have right now for Motorola devices.

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Cheers evltwn!

Sick of the old standard weather apps? You may want to give 1Weather a try, as it not only matches up perfectly to the styling of Ice Cream Sandwich, but it also packs a punch on the functionality and features fronts. Brought to us from the folks behind TweetCaster and BaconReader, you won’t find many apps in general that look this nice.

Through 1Weather (which is free by the way), you get current weather, forecasts, warnings, precipitation levels by day, view sun and moon charts, photos of current weather, tweets by location, can set up a variety of your favorite cities or towns, and then add them as widgets. Is this the best weather app available? It might just be. 

When we got the email informing us that an app called Formspring was now available on Android, we had to take to Twitter to figure out what the heck it was. Thanks to our awesome followers, we have been able to figure out that Formspring’s purpose is to be a community based around teenagers posting half naked pictures of themselves questions that are either asked anonymously or to a connected profile. Want to ask questions, post pictures that you will regret in 5 years, or answer some that have to do with music, technology, or even some of your hobbies? Then Formspring might be a nice place to start.

Description from the press release:

The new design will reflect Formspring as it is today – a place where members can not only ask their friends questions, but also discover new people around their interests, interact with favorite celebrities, musicians and publications and participate in a global conversation around a single question.

With the official application, you will be able to handle your profile on the go and of course, answer and ask questions wherever you happen to be. Does anyone here use Formspring? Let us know what you think of it.

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