Having been a huge fan of Hollywood director Steven Spielberg, I kind of adopted his fascination towards aliens as seen in most of his classic movies such as E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Those movies feature harmless aliens that eventually morph into a cool, intergalactic buddy than a spatial, antagonistic abductor. Spielberg action flicks such as War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones 4 are an entirely different matter because the aliens there are horrific and CGI-crazy!

I’m used to seeing aliens in movies as the ultimate nemesis but recently, I came across an app where the aliens look miserable and helpless, and I couldn’t help but be curious and try the app. is a little puzzle game for Android which will make you think very, very hard of ways on how to save the tiny aliens from captivity and misery.

And because the tiny aliens in this app don’t look anything like the villains ready to bring chaos into the world, you’ll find yourself becoming more engaged with its mind-boggling gameplay. Ready for some puzzling alien action? Try out Tiny Aliens Escape and see if you can help them “phone hooooome.” Read more

I was beyond ecstatic when I found out that Disney—who recently acquired Lucasfilm and Star Wars—was planning to release another trilogy to the phenomenal Star Wars saga. This is definitely one of the best news of 2012 because the return of the Jedi (literally!) definitely uplifts every fanboy’s Jedi rage. I am one of the million Star Wars fans who are very much looking forward to the return of George Lucas’s singular and unique intergalactic characters such as Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Chewbacca, C3PO, and my childhood hero, Han Solo.

I don’t care who’ll be playing who, or if the older actors will retain their old big screen alter-egos, or if the producers are planning to just leave the old ones to their happily-far-far-away-galaxy-ever-afters, I will still be one of the first fans to stand along a long queue of troopers who are manically kneeling at the altar of George Lucas.

Coinciding with this very good news was the release of Rovio Entertainment Ltd’s much-antipicated intergalactic version of the awesomely-received iOS and Android app, Angry Birds, called Angry Birds Star Wars. Whoa there, fanboys! Yes, Rovio came up with an app that isn’t only packed with smashing features and considerable replay value; they also managed to stay true to the Star Wars franchise by imprinting some of the beloved characters’ signature traits and armaments to Angry Birds’ set of courageous birds.

No one could even possibly envision my delight when I finally got to the stage where the Han Solo character, together with his rad blaster, had finally joined my army of rebel birds and started blasting off pigtroopers! And also, to see the Millenium Falcon do her thing again and explode the enemies of the Rebellion is such a good darn sight! It’s very nice of Rovio to use the actual Star Wars settings such as Anakin’s desert of a motherland called Tatooine, the Death Star, and Dagobah. This game is definitely one of those games where any players, Star Wars fan or not, will unlikely mutter Star Wars’s standard punch line, “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.” No, actually, I think most players will. Read more about this app review to know why. Read more

I’m one of those kids who is sometimes more excited for Halloween than for Christmas. I know, there are so much that people can get from Christmas and stuff. But, the idea of playing dress-up and coming out roaming in the streets in Halloween frocks and character costumes can be so much fun. Add to that, the crazy amount of candies that you can gain just by showing up in the front porch of some random stranger’s old Califa house—Halloween is truly, frighteningly charming.

And because ‘tis the season to bring out the cauldrons and harvest the pumpkin patch, we are here to serve you, kiddies, some apps that will supply your daily dose of seasonal scare. After designing and carving your own ideas of a perfect pumpkin with Pumpkin Pal, you can test your reflex and memory with this Android app called . Read more

The app market has an insane abundance of defense games after smash hits like Plants. Vs. Zombies championed the gamers’ preferences. Available on the Google Play Store now is

Even though the game play of Fish vs Pirates is somewhat a bit stale and too familiar, the addicting element will still keep you going. There’s already a multitude of this type of game that Android gamers have grown accustomed to. But with the very vivid underwater graphics and mellow scoring of Fish vs Pirates, defense game fans will certainly be left avast and thinking of their next strategies. Savvy? Read more

There is just no escaping math, ain’t it? Every where you go, every twist, and every turn, there are numbers. It’s an age-old fact. But as numbers are there for millions and millions of years, it’s also a given fact that a huge percentage of the human race would want nothing to do with math—or the hard ones at least. Mathematics is a piece of cake if you’re pertaining to the four basic operations but come the extreme-looking ones (say hello to algebra, geometry, and trigonometry!) we hide behind our eyelashes with our tails tucked between our legs. And have you heard about the Euclidean Plane? Gosh! Math has some serious people-pushing issues! When math becomes a person, he’ll surely be a Sheldon Cooper.

Think that mobile applications are full of games? Well, think again. Applications catering to number-problem-solving individuals are sprouting in the app market, people! Math has no intention to hide and leave everything untouched! Even Applatter has been previously kissed by it! I have always treated math as an eye-sore but I’ve come to accept that dealing with it is the best form of coping rather than taking flight whenever it’s in front of me.

So, get your mathematical gears ready for two math applications compatible with your Android devices! No more stalling and pencil tapping because will surely make your number aversion disappear!

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