The best Android games this week - Magazine Mogul, Icebreaker, and RBI Baseball 14
Gotta buy 'em all
Every Friday, Pocket Gamer offers hands-on impressions of the week's three best new Android games.
Magazine Mogul
By Kairosoft - buy on Android (£2.99 / $4.99)
Japanese sim studio Kairosoft has let us run a football team, a stable, a luxury cruise ship, a sushi restraurants, an apartment block, and a tropical island filled with monsters.
Its latest game puts you in charge of a local news rag. You'll send reporters out into the field, brainstorm story ideas, and, uh, help the mayor with urban planning, I guess?
Do especially well and your staff will win awards and your magazine might just be able to survive the ceaseless rise of free online journalism before you're all laid off and forced to write Top 27 best Miley Cyrus moments GIFsticles for Buzzfeed.
We'll have a full review soon. But I think we can safely assume it will be fun, if a bit familiar.
Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage
By Nitrome - buy on Android (69p / 99c)
Most Android puzzlers focus on a single idea. Cut the rope to drop sweets into a monster's mouth. Throw birds at pigs. Match up coloured candies. Rinse, repeat, and hope no one complains.
But the brilliant Icebreaker refuses to stick to one mechanic. Sure, you break up glaciers to rescue lost a Viking pals, but you also cut ropes, deal with chickens, play with troll snot, use explosives, and tickle a Kraken's uvula.
We gave the iOS edition a Gold Award and said, "witty, varied, challenging and gorgeous to look at, Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage is one of the finest physics-based puzzlers on iOS".
R.B.I. Baseball 14
By MLB.com - buy on Android (£2.99 / $4.99)
From RPG-infused ball-thwackers like Baseball Superstars to Billy Bean sims like Out of the Park, there are no end of baseball games, of all shapes and sizes, on mobile.
But if you want something that is just pure arcade fun, look no further than this 2014 reboot of ancient NES relic RBI Baseball.
You don't have to worry about training players, managing your team, upgrading your stadium, or choosing how salty the fries are on the concessions stand. All you need to do is hit a ball with a stick. And hit it hard.
We haven't had a chance to review this one, yet, but take a look at what our friends at 148Apps had to say about the iOS edition.
