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hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy and welcome back to Google Play weekly so did anyone else notice that the new YouTube update lets you reply to comments now that made me a happy panda also this week we're going to talk about some Google Play legal problems a new angry birds game that's in the mix and the potential return of flappy bird if you've been in the market for some cloud storage then Google Drive just became a much larger target on your radar it was announced earlier this week that Google drive's cloud storage will be taking quite the price dive the new prices are 100 gigabytes for a dollar ninety-nine one terabyte for 999 and more than 10 terabytes for just short of a hundred dollars of course as per the norm you can still get your customary 15 gigabytes of storage for free permanently just for signing up these are spectacular prices for cloud storage and they officially plunge google drive into the race for being the cheapest cloud storage available today if you take into account their many drive oriented office tools and the remarkable web and mobile apps it's really hard not to take Google up on this deal so far the reception has been universally positive his friends ro bo is at it again with another angry birds game this time instead of racing or flinging birds it's going to be an RPG the new game is called Angry Birds epic and according to kotaku the game will be out in a limited capacity in Canada and Australia sometime at the end of the week or early next week with a full release coming down the road so far all we know about this game is that it is coming it is in fact an RPG and it will be released to Android iOS and Windows Phone oh and there will also be in app purchases we don't know much else other than that because the only video rovio has released is a visually boring teaser of a bird in a suit of armor and along with a couple of screenshots frequent viewers of the Google Play weekly show note just how much i love a good RPG so I'm excited to see Rovio's likely light-hearted spin on the genre thanks to rovio's last title and their penchant for using ridiculous in-app purchases my expectations are actually quite low so it may turn out to be pretty decent so by now pretty much everybody knows what quizup is it's a wildly popular quiz game that came out of practically nowhere it was released not even a week ago and it already has garnered over 500,000 downloads and rocks a solid 4.5 rating in the google play store since its release it's already been updated once to allow for art supports improve stability and slightly different UI layouts it's been all over social media and we wouldn't be surprised to see this get several million more downloads we won't talk about it too much here because I did a review of quiz up a few days ago and you can find that on the android authority YouTube channel we also did a sort of let's play where Josh Vergara and I went head-to-head in a few rounds and we'll have that video linked up here at the end of this video it was a lot of fun so keep an eye out for more of those kinds of videos as well so yeah flappy bird might actually be coming back over the last week flappy bird developer dog nuin sat down with Rolling Stone magazine to talk about his life his future flappy bird and other games he's currently working on of course the news that everyone picked up on right away was the hint that dog may be re-releasing flappy bird to the google play store and the Apple App Store now that we have the bad news part of this story out of the way dog went on to talk about how he's working on three other games including a cowboy-themed shooter a vertical flying game and an action chess game thanks to his budding stardom we've no doubt that all three of these games will get prime coverage when they eventually come out and one is scheduled for release later this month so keep an eye out for that and our last bit of news this week in Northern California mom is suing google because her kid went nuts with some in-app purchases okay so here's what happened a kid in California ended up spending a total of sixty five dollars and ninety-five cents on in-app purchases and Marvel run jump smash the child had a 30-minute window after the app was downloaded where a password didn't need to be entered to make purchases and of course the kid took full advantage of the freedom to spend based on this the mother decided to sue google to remove that 30 minute window there was a heated debate for a couple of days about whether or not the lawsuit held any water apparently google thought it did because the new update to the google play store that's rolling out right now not only has a few UI changes but also makes it easier to remove that 30 minute window so even if the quote responsible unquote woman was in the wrong by letting her kid play with the phone while unsupervised it is a problem that should now go away so who's ready to see some trending applications as usual if you want to check any of these applications out you find the links in the written companion which is in the video description below first up this week is the minimum keyboard it has officially left beta with the release of version 2 point 0 for those who may not remember or don't know minimum is a unique spin on a keyboard where you can type a little more sloppy and the app knows what you mean to say the 2 point 0 update comes with bug fixes visual improvements reduce lag and more consequently talent for twitter has also been updated to version 2 point 0 and with that has come a lot of new features and improvements among them are a boatload of bug fixes and performance improvements better stability more tweets for tweet marker a new widgets visual improvements and fixes and a whole lot more it hasn't hit its Twitter token limit yet and it's a great third party Twitter app if you're looking for one the answer is a new social network that's kind of a mix between IRC and AOL Instant Messenger it's a completely anonymous social network where you chit chat with people who have similar interests as you their app for Android is now available and aside from a few early day jitters it appears to be somewhat solid people are reporting that battery drains quickly and there are a few features that are missing from the websites but it is usable if you want to try out an old premise wrapped in a new skin dead llings is a new side-scrolling platformer available for android and it's actually pretty unique it boasts a more loose and fun style of gameplay and provides a goofy atmosphere that isn't meant to be taken too seriously there are over 100 levels for different zombies to play and one touch controls it's fun and it's free with in-app purchases so it can't hurt to check it out you know just don't hand it off to a kid for half an hour threes is a new game for android that copies the concept of the popular iOS game called vibes in this game you're given a grid with a few tiles filled in with ones and twos your job is to push those together to make threes and then the threes into one another to create six is then you push the six together to create 12 and so on and so forth this continues until you can no longer make any more moves and the game then ends it's an addictive little puzzle game that a lot of people seem to be enjoying it for a limited time you can get it for 30 three-point-three percent off which puts it at a dollar ninety-nine once again I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy and this has been Google Play weekly don't forget to check back next week for an episode and don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel if you want to follow android authority myself or the rest of our awesome youtube team you can find our social media links in the video description below if you're hanging out for a minute we have a couple of Awesome videos for you to watch right over there including a review of the clips earbuds and Josh pagaras and my's head-to-head battle in quiz up finally don't forget to check out the written companion in the video description below for all the source links and all of the download links as always thank you for watching and have a wonderful day